Yeshiva / Seminary Credits
How to Receive Yeshiva Transfer Credit at Brooklyn College During Covid?: The Necessary Steps for the Judaic Studies Dept. and the Transfer Office
1A. You must send your official signed and sealed yeshiva transcript to Transfer Evaluation Office.
Transfer Evaluations Office
306 West Quad
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
1B. The yeshiva must also send an official letter to the Transfer Evaluation Office stating that the student was a full time student during the period listed on the transcript.
Transfer Evaluations Office
306 West Quad
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
2. In addition, the student must e-mail a copy of this transcript/letter to Transfer Evaluation Office at eTCE@brooklyn.cuny.edu. Students should also send a copy of the transcript to Professor Flatto in the Dept. of Judaic Studies at sflatto@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
3. Once Transfer Evaluation Office has received your official paper work they will coordinate with the Judaic Studies Department to be the course work validated and evaluated by Professor Flatto. If you are eligible for more than 8 transfer credits, you will need to take a Judaic Studies capstone class. The student must pass the capstone class with a grade of “B” or higher in order to receive their yeshiva transfer credits (a maximum of 27 JUST credits can be granted). If the student receives a B- or below, the student must re-take the capstone
4. When the paperwork is evaluated and the student has obtained the necessary capstone grade, the Judaic Studies Department will authorize the Transfer Evaluation Office to post the credits on CUNYfirst. (Degree Works will automatically update in three days from the posting of credits.)
5. If students have specific questions about this process, they should contact tcevaluation@brooklyn.cuny.edu or Christine Holloway-Pinkney at ChristineHP@brooklyn.cuny.edu, the Judaic Studies’ Office Manager.
6. The accepted yeshiva classes and seminary credits will be deemed as elective Judaic Studies courses and designated as JUST 1000E. In this way, they will not interfere with courses required for a student’s major. *However, students who are considering minoring or majoring in Judaic Studies should speak to Professor Flatto before she evaluates their credits. (This minor or major will not be that cumbersome since 3 of the yeshiva / seminary transfer credits would count toward the 12 credit Judaic Studies Minor, and 9 transfer credits would count toward the 30 credit major. These credits would count as specific college courses and not as Judaic Studies electives.) Yet, if a student only decides later in his/her career to minor or major in Judaic studies, this process can be re-done retroactively.
7. When the above steps are satisfactorily completed, the Judaic Studies office manager, Christine, will send an e-mail to convey the number of credits awarded.
*Please keep in mind that a student can only receive yeshiva / seminary transfer credits if they attended as a full time yeshiva student. We will also only accept credits that were earned during standard Fall and Spring terms. According to BC regulations, this means that a student took no more than 8 college course credits while simultaneously studying at yeshiva.
