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Changing Courses While Abroad

Once grade completion forms are approved by Northwest professors, students are discouraged to change courses.  However, if unforeseen circumstances take place, such as class being cancelled, professor got sick, low enrollments, etc.; students will be permitted to change courses and change grade completion forms.

It is the student’s responsibility to seek course approval IF and WHEN a course changes.

The process for changing grade completion forms will be the same as what you followed prior your departure, this time it will be done by email communication.
Once a course is approved, the Study Abroad Office will send a new grade completion form for the NW professor to sign and we will keep it in your file to be processed once we receive your transcript.

THESE ARE THE STEPS THAT YOU MUST FOLLOW:

  1. Select a new course from yourhost institution and obtain a course description for the course.
  2. Revise the Northwest Catalog to see what Northwest course is equivalent to the one from your host institution.
  3. Access the CatPaws course schedule to see who the Northwest professor who teaches the class is.  If the class is not being taught that same semester, contact the chair person from that department (contact information listed below)
  4. Send the new course description by e-mail to the Northwest chair or Northwest professor who would be transferring the class, and request authorization to transfer the course as a Northwest course. Explain why you are emailing instead of doing this prior to departure. Professors are used to dealing with this type of cases in person; they need clarification as to what happened with your enrollment and why it changed. Explain how time sensitive this is, and why you need a prompt response from him/her.
  5. Once the professor approves the course let the professor know that the Study Abroad Office will be sending documents for him/her to sign
    You need to send an email to JPURIEL@nwmissouri.edu with the following information:

Subject line: Course enrollment changed – request for new grade completion
Text: My enrollment changed. Professor: name and last name has agreed to transfer the following:
Name of the course abroad: ____________ # of credits: ____________
For
Northwest course number: ______________ Northwest course title: __________
Northwest credits: __________

**If a course is not approved you will have to select another course at your host institution and start this process all over.

Department Chairs

Accounting/Econ/Finance
Dr. Mark Jelavich
CH 2110
Phone: 660.562.1763
E-mail: MJELAV@NWMISSOURI.EDU 		Agriculture
Dr. Arley Larson
VLK 102
Phone: 660.562.1161
E-mail: admiral@nwmissouri.edu
Art
Dr. Kim Spradling
FA 106A
Phone: 660.562.1314
E-mail: kwsprad@nwmissouri.edu		 Biology
Dr. Gregg Dieringer,
Garrett-Strong 2610
Phone: 660.562.1814
E-mail: greggd@nwmissouri.edu
Chemistry/Physics/Science
Dr. Rafiq Islam
Garrett-Strong 2647
Phone: 660.562.1210
E-mail: islamr@nwmissouri.edu		 Communication/Theatre/ Languages
Dave Oehler,
WH 148
Phone: 660.562.1279
E-mail: oehler@nwmissouri.edu
Computer Science/Info Systems
Dr. Phil Heeler
CH 2260
Phone: 660.562.1200
E-mail: pheeler@nwmissouri.edu		 Curriculum and Instruction
Dr. Barbard Crossland
BH 139
Phone: 660.562.1776
E-mail: Barbara@nwmissouri.edu
Educational Leadership
Dr. Joyce Piveral
BH 211
Phone: 660.562.1064
E-mail: piveral@nwmissouri.edu		 English
Dr. Michael Hobbs
CH 2860
Phone: 660.562.1285
E-mail: MHOBBS@NWMISSOURI.EDU
Family and Consumer Sciences
Dr. Deborah Lewis-Favel
AD 311A
Phone: 660.562.1168
E-mail: dfravel@nwmissouri.edu		 Geology and Geography
Dr. Greg Haddock
GS 1372
Phone: 660.562.1719
E-mail: haddock@nwmissouri.edu
HEPRD
Dr. Terrance Robertson
LAC 135
Phone: 660.562.1781
E-mail: Doc_tr@nwmissouri.edu

History/Humanities/ Philosophy/Political
Science Dr. Michael Steiner
TR 212
Phone: 660.562.1288
E-mail: MSTEINE@NWMISSOURI.EDU

Marketing/Management
Dr. Chi Lo Lim
CH 2620
Phone: 660.562.1758
E-mail: CHILOL@NWMISSOURI.EDU 		Mass Communications
Dr. Jody Strauch
WH 238
Phone: 660.562.1333
E-mail: jody@nwmissouri.edu
Mathematics and Statistics
Dr. Dennis Malm
GS 1617
Phone: 660.562.1208
E-mail: Drmalm@nwmissouri.edu		 Music
Dr. Ernest Woodruff
FA 106B
Phone: 660.562.1317
E-mail: ewoodru@nwmissouri.edu
Psychology, Sociology 
and Counseling
Dr. Carla Edwards
CH 2360
Phone: 660.562.1236
E-mail: EDWARDS@NWMISSOURI.EDU