Transfer credit review — Jordan Ellis (Application #24815) · Riverside Community College · 26 semester credits presented
All eight courses on the Riverside Community College transcript are matched below against our current course catalog in the Knowledge Center. Five map cleanly to a direct equivalent, one comes in as natural-science elective credit, and two need a faculty look before anything posts. Every row here is a proposal — the registrar makes the final call.
| Incoming course | Suggested equivalent | Credits | Match basis | Status |
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| ENGL 101 — English Composition I | ENG 105 — College Writing I | 3 | Learning outcomes and workload align across the full course — high confidence | Direct equivalent |
| ENGL 102 — English Composition II | ENG 106 — College Writing II | 3 | Research-writing sequence matches our second-semester requirement — high confidence | Direct equivalent |
| MATH 150 — Calculus I | MATH 121 — Calculus I | 4 | Same topic coverage and lab hours; already on our existing Riverside articulation list — high confidence | Direct equivalent |
| PSYC 100 — Introduction to Psychology | PSY 101 — General Psychology | 3 | Standard intro survey; satisfies the same social-science core slot — high confidence | Direct equivalent |
| HIST 110 — U.S. History to 1877 | HIS 201 — American History I | 3 | Period and scope line up with our first-half survey — medium-high confidence | Direct equivalent |
| BIOL 120 — Environmental Science | Natural-science elective (lower division) | 4 | No single catalog course covers it, but it clearly meets our lab-science elective rules — medium confidence | Elective credit |
| COMM 115 — Interpersonal Communication | COM 210 — Communication in Organizations | 3 | Roughly two-thirds topic overlap; the group and conflict units differ enough that I would not post it as a direct match — low confidence | Faculty review |
| BUS 210 — Principles of Management | MGT 300 — Management & Organizational Behavior | 3 | Content maps well, but MGT 300 is an upper-division course with a prerequisite this lower-division course may not satisfy — low confidence | Faculty review |
That clears 16 credits as direct equivalents and 4 credits as elective credit right away — 20 of the 26 presented. The remaining 6 credits sit in faculty review.
The two held courses are held for different reasons. COMM 115 only partially overlaps COM 210, so the Communication department should decide whether the gap is small enough to grant the equivalency or post it as elective credit instead. BUS 210 lines up with MGT 300 on content, but MGT 300 is upper-division; Management needs to confirm whether a lower-division course can carry it or whether it should transfer as a general elective. I have flagged the specific units in question for each so the reviewer is not re-reading the whole syllabus.
