Forms and Petitions
Forms
If you are a CU Boulder student in the College of Engineering, Business, ENVD, Music or CMCI, you can apply to transfer to the College of Arts and Sciences or declare a major using the intra-university transfer (IUT) process. For questions about this process, please contact the Arts and Sciences Academic Operations team at asoperations@colorado.edu or call (303) 735-5591. IUT applications are generally processed within 2 weeks of submission.
Check to see if it will transfer before you take it!
- First check Transferology to see if the classes you’re considering have already been evaluated.
- If your class is not in Transferology, use this form to request for the class to be reviewed.
All undergraduate students at CU Boulder have a Primary Major. For students with multiple majors within the College of Arts and Sciences, the Primary Major is the major that was declared first. Students with more than one major in the College of Arts and Sciences can use the Primary Major Designation form to change the order of their declared majors, updating which major is designated as their Primary Major.
Note: A Primary Academic Advisor is assigned to every Primary Major. Primary Academic Advisors play a central role in supporting student success, including serving as a primary conduit for key personalized academic advising communication and graduation certification.
A Letter of Intent to Graduate is an official letter that provides proof a student has applied to graduate. This letter indicates the term the student intends to graduate along with their intended degree and major(s)/minor(s). The letter also specifically states that, degree completion cannot be confirmed at this time.
Please click the button to the form below.
Letters of Completion are provided to students in the College of Arts and Sciences who have applied to graduate, have completed all degree requirements and need proof of their degree. The letter will be generated during the interim period when all grades are posted, and the degree audit is complete, but degrees have not yet been posted to transcripts.
Important: Once degrees are posted to transcripts, the college no longer provides Letters of Completion for that term. At that time, you must request transcripts or a degree verification from the Office of the Registrar to show proof of degree. You may request those here: www.colorado.edu/registrar/students/transcripts
www.colorado.edu/registrar/alumni/request-degree-verification
Please click the button to the form below to see if you qualify for a Letter of Completion.
Mandatory Reporting and Petitions
CU Boulder has a responsibility to provide a safe and nondiscriminatory environment. If you disclose having been impacted by sexual misconduct, protected-class discrimination or harassment, intimate partner violence, stalking or related retaliation, we are required to share that information to the CU Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance (OIEC) for outreach regarding support and reporting options. You are not required to respond to OIEC. If you are in need of support, here is a list of resources, including confidential assistance.
If you have questions before you want to submit this type of information, please contact the confidential Office of Victim Assistance.
Additionally, please note that the university takes disclosures around threat of harm to self or others seriously and when information of this nature is received, it will be shared with the appropriate offices to offer additional support and resources.
Petitions
Late drop petitions are requests to drop a class beyond the withdrawal deadline, which can be found on the Office of the Registrar’s website. The petition is used only for unforeseen extenuating circumstances which prevented the student from dropping the class by the posted deadline.
This petition may only be used for students solely enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences. Students enrolled in multiple programs or colleges must adhere to their primary college of record’s policies.
Filling out the petition does NOT result in automatic approval.
Students are expected to keep attending classes and submitting work until they have received the official outcome of their petition.
Petitions will be accepted until 5 p.m. (MT) on the last day of classes for full session fall and spring classes, or by the withdrawal deadline for any Continuing Education or special session classes. For questions about this process and potential impacts on degree progress, please consult with your academic advisor. For other questions about this process, please contact the Arts and Sciences Academic Operations team at asoperations@colorado.edu or call (303) 735-5591. Late drop petitions are generally processed within 2 weeks of submission of complete petition.
- If you aren't registered in the class, ask your instructor for permission to add.
- Write the department who is teaching the class (e.g. if it is an English class, go to the English department).
Is it the last week of the term or has the semester just ended?
- If you have completed a class but mistakenly were not registered for it, please complete the retroactive add petition below.
- Print the petition and ask for your instructor's help, as they will need to fill out part of it and sign it!
- Electronically submit your petition to ascurriculum@colorado.edu or bring your completed petition to the Curricular Affairs office in Old Main 1B90 or send it via campus mail UCB 275.
- If your petition is approved, your instructor will then submit a change of record form to add the class to your record.
If you have taken coursework outside of the CU system and your cumulative GPA from CU combined with your grades and credits taken at another institution after your suspension is higher than a 2.000, you can submit this petition.
For questions about this process, please contact the Arts and Sciences Academic Operations team at asoperations@colorado.edu or call (303) 735-5591. Reinstatement petitions are generally processed within 2 weeks of submission of complete petition.
For information on credit hour limitations, please see the Registrar's "Get Ready to Register" section. To see the impact on tuition, please see the Bursar's "Tuition and Fee Rate Sheets" page. Credit overload petitions are generally processed within 2 weeks of submission of complete petition and will be reviewed during open enrollment for the requested semester.
- For more information on arts and sciences' policy on pass/fail credit limitations, visit the CU Boulder Catalog's A&S "Requirements" page, click "Credit Limitations," and scroll down to the "Pass/Fail Credit" section. Do have a conversation with your advisor before electing to take a class pass/fail.
- If you are taking a class pass/fail that is not allowed to be pass/fail, please complete the Pass/Fail-to-Graded petition.
- Note: You cannot petition to change a class from graded to pass/fail.
For questions about this process, please contact the Arts and Sciences Academic Operations team at asoperations@colorado.edu or call (303) 735-5591. Pass/Fail-to-Graded petitions are generally processed within 1 week of submission of complete petition.
Declaring a Major or Minor in the College of Arts & Sciences
Current Arts & Sciences students are encouraged to meet with an academic advisor before changing or declaring an Arts & Sciences major and minor. You can meet with an academic advisor through Buff Portal Advising.
If you are ready to declare a new major or minor now, please click the appropriate link below.
Financial Impact Note (only applies to major changes):
- Major change requests submitted by noon (12 p.m. MT) on the third Friday of fall and spring semesters (census date), will be effective for the current semester and will reflect on the tuition bill for the current semester.
- Major change requests submitted after noon MT on the census date will be processed. However, it will not impact the tuition bill until the following semester.
Updating major(s) may have financial implications including, but not limited to, tuition charges, financial aid changes and scholarship eligibility. Please visit the Bursar's Office website to confirm the corresponding tuition rate for your request.