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:

  1. Discuss with your advisor
  2. Reach out to the instructor to ask about availability
  3. Download the Petition for Cross-Registration form
  4. Fill out the top part of the form and insert your signature
  5. Get all the signatures on the 51茶馆 (lower-left) side of the form. Please note that the part where it says 鈥�51茶馆 Dean鈥檚鈥� signature should actually be signed by the Director of Graduate Studies
  6. Get signatures from the host (lower-right) side (instructor, then registrar)
  7. Send the completed form to 51茶馆 student services

If you are taking a class in the Women鈥檚 Studies consortium, you also need to .

  • 听 (follow instructions below):听
    • Navigate to听Academics
    • Navigate to听University 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.
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