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    2025 YSS Programs Abroad Credit/D/Fail Conversion Request Form

    Yale Summer Session Programs Abroad
    This form is for Yale Summer Session Programs Abroad. See this form for Yale Summer Session courses in New Haven and online. Processing of Credit/D/Fail Conversion Request Forms by Yale Summer Session can take 5-7 business days. Please complete this form only one time for a given request. Duplicate forms can result in delays.
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    Regulations on Credit/D/Fail
    Please review carefully the regulations on Credit/D/Fail, available on the Yale Summer Session website and the Yale Study Abroad website.

    Due to their academic structure, few Yale Summer Session Programs Abroad have courses eligible for the Credit/D/Fail option in Yale Summer Session. To be eligible for the Credit/D/Fail option in a Yale Summer Session Program Abroad, a student must be enrolled in at least two concurrent courses of the same length, at least one of which, representing at least one credit, must remain at all times for a letter grade.

    For example, a student enrolled in a Yale Summer Session Program Abroad with a single 1.5-credit course followed by another single 1.5-credit course is not eligible to convert either to Credit/D/Fail. Similarly, a student enrolled in a Yale Summer Program Abroad with a single two-credit course is not eligible to convert it to Credit/D/Fail. In contrast, a student enrolled in a Yale Summer Session Program Abroad with two one-credit courses running at the same time is eligible to convert one such course to Credit/D/Fail, so long as the other remains for a letter grade. Applying this logic, Yale Summer Session will allow a student enrolled in an eight-week, four-credit Yale Summer Session Program Abroad—consisting of (a) two consecutive four-week, 1.5-credit language courses and (b) one eight-week, one-credit culture course, which runs concurrently with the two four-week courses—to convert the one-credit culture course to Credit/D/Fail, but neither of the 1.5-credit courses, which must remain for a letter grade.

    Yale College students are not permitted to convert a course to Credit/D/Fail where they will exceed the overall limits on Credit/D/Fail in Section B of the Academic Regulations in the Yale College Programs of Study. If a Yale College student is later found to have exceeded the limits on Credit/D/Fail, the relevant Credit/D/Fail conversion will be administratively rescinded. Courses taken as Credit/D/Fail in Yale Summer Session count toward the overall four credit limit on Credit/D/Fail in Yale College and not as one of the two additional opportunities which expire if unused during the first two terms of enrollment.
    2025 Qualifying Courses and Deadlines
    The below courses in Yale Summer Session Programs Abroad are eligible for the Credit/D/Fail option. Please ensure that you submit this form before the relevant deadline below. For consistency and fairness across all Yale Summer Session students, deadlines are stringently enforced.
    • Friday, July 18, 2025, at 5:00pm EDT is the deadline for:
      • ITAL S152 History, Culture, and Film in Tuscany (Siena)
      • ITAL S235 Tuscany Between Past and Present (Siena)
      • SPAN S148 Spain, 1936 to the Present (Bilbao) 
    • Friday, July 25, 2025, at 5:00pm EDT is the deadline for:
      • RUSS S244 Georgia, Russia, and the Caucasus in Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts (Batumi)
    • Friday, August 1, 2025, at 5:00pm EDT is the deadline for:
      • HIST S299 History of Southeastern Europe (Dubrovnik)
      • SOCY S286 | GLBL S211 | ER&M S281 Culture of Southeastern Europe (Dubrovnik)
    • Friday, August 8, 2025, at 5:00pm EDT is the deadline for:
      • PORT S352 Introduction to Brazil (Paraty and Rio de Janeiro) 
    Course to Convert to Credit/D/Fail
    You may select only one course below. Forms that select two or more courses will be denied and must be resubmitted before the relevant deadline above.
     
    You may select only one course below. Forms that select two or more courses will be denied and must be resubmitted before the relevant deadline above.
     
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    I certify that the information I provided on this form is correct and that I have reviewed and am in compliance with the regulations on Credit/D/Fail above and on the Yale Summer Session website and the Yale Study Abroad website.

    Once a student submits a Credit/D/Fail Conversion Request Form, that decision cannot be reversed by the student, even if that action is sought before the deadline or before Yale Summer Session has processed the request and even when additional information becomes available about a student’s performance or grade in a course. For this reason, Yale College students are advised to consider carefully how a Credit/D/Fail conversion could affect their fulfillment of distributional and major requirements. Visiting students should also consider carefully, in close consultation with their home institutions, whether converting a Yale Summer Session course to Credit/D/Fail could negatively affect their eligibility to transfer the credit or to apply the course toward a degree or other requirement, now or in the future. Ineligibility to transfer the credit or to apply the course toward a requirement is not grounds to rescind a Credit/D/Fail conversion.
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