Graduate Studies Forms
GS-1A: Transfer Course Level Evaluation
[FORM DISCONTINUED; now completed via GET. Consult with your faculty graduate advisor regarding this.]
GS-5: Course Substitution
[FORM DISCONTINUED; now completed via GET. Consult with your faculty graduate advisor regarding this.]
GS-8: Graduate Student/Post-Baccalaureate Status Change
[FORM UNDER REVISION; contact gradstudies@calstatela.edu for instructions]
GS-10: Advancement to Candidacy Form
GS-12: Request for Thesis or Project Committee and Title
GS-13: Approval Page for Graduate Thesis, Project Report, or Dissertation (link)
GS-14: Approval of Thesis or Project
GS-16: Course validation by exam
Contracts, Petitions & Other Documents
GWAR Substitution Petition (formerly WPE Waiver)
[FORM DISCONTINED due to Graduate Writing Assessment Requirement changes.]
General Academic Petition for Graduate Requirements
Request for Graduate Credit for Undergraduate Work
Related Forms
Petition for Student Leaves of Absence (Records & Enrollment, Office of the Registrar)
Graduate students are granted a leave for a maximum of 2 semesters, subject to renewal. Continuing students' allowed absence of 1 semester is included in these maxima. Summer and winter terms are not included in these totals.