Courses
- 2022-2023 Course Offerings
- Course Petitions/Pre-Approval
- Global Exchange - Study Abroad
- UPS/Concurrent Enrollment
Please upload your course petitions/pre-approvals and other forms to our Petition submission form. Petitions and pre-approvals take 3-4 weeks for review. You will be informed of the decision via
**Please refrain from submitting the same petition request multiple times. Submitting as such will not expedite the review process. We process these requests in the order we receive them, as timely as we can. If you are concerned that your original submission did not go through, please send us a message on the Virtual Advising Center (VAC) and our team can confirm the submission.**
You may wish to take courses outside of the University for a variety of reasons. You must complete the majority of your upper-division (UD) requirements at UC San Diego, but it is possible to transfer both upper- and lower-division requirements from another two-year or four-year institution. A syllabus is required for each course, as is a separate petition form. Courses from departments outside Psychology must be petitioned with their corresponding department (for example, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, Philosophy, or Computer Science).
To pre-approve courses before taking them elsewhere (required for students going abroad or taking courses not listed on assist.org):
To fill out the Petition form for a Psychology or Statistics course:
All course syllabi must include the following in order for the course to be evaluated