Outside Courses
Boston College Sociology graduate students may cross-register for one course each semester at Boston University, Brandeis, or Tufts, or through the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at MIT.
For students interested in consortium courses:
- Discuss with your advisor
- Reach out to the instructor to ask about availability
- Download the Petition for Cross-Registration form
- Fill out the top part of the form and insert your signature
- Get all the signatures on the Ҵý (lower-left) side of the form. Please note that the part where it says “Ҵý Dean’s” signature should actually be signed by the Director of Graduate Studies
- Get signatures from the host (lower-right) side (instructor, then registrar)
- Send the completed form to Ҵý student services
If you are taking a class in the Women’s Studies consortium, you also need to .
- (follow instructions below):
- Navigate toAcademics
- Navigate toUniversity Class Schedule
- Select desired semester, e.g. FALL 23 (Fall 2023)
- Under the option "Search by: Class Number" select GRS (the code for graduate school) and then under "Dept" enter "SO" for Sociology. Then click "Go" to get a current listing of ongoing courses, times, days, etc.
- for Current Semester (Tufts has no graduate sociology courses).
- Courses numbered 1-99 are for undergraduate credit only; those numbered 100-199 are for both undergraduate and graduate credit; those numbered 200 and up are for graduate credit only.