Winter Session 2025
New! Eligible students can use spring financial aid to pay for Winter Session classes with fee deferment.
With Winter Session you can earn up to four units during winter break and apply credit toward your degree. Open to all.
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About Winter Session
What is Winter Session?
Take advantage of Winter Session to make progress toward your degree — or take a class that sparks your interests:
- Earn up to four units during winter break.
- Apply credit toward your degree.
Winter Session is Open to Everyone
Winter Session enrollment is open to everyone — matriculated SFSU students, prospective students, visitors and the Bay Area community. Winter Session classes offer an excellent opportunity to meet the faculty, get to know the campus, and get acquainted with other students. The credit you earn may count toward your degree.
Winter Session 2025 Dates
Classes Posted
October 14, 2024
Registration Starts
November 1, 2024
Winter Session
January 2, 2025 - January 21, 2025
Winter Session 2025: Academic Credit Classes
Attention Students: Some deadlines have changed. Please read carefully.
| - | Academic Credit Semester Length |
|---|---|
| Dates | 1/2/25 - 1/21/2025 |
| Registration open for all students | 11/1 |
| Payment Due Dates: Register between 11/1 - 12/7 | 12/8 |
| Payment Due Dates: Register between 12/8 - 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Payment Due Dates: Register between 1/2 - 1/5 | payment due in 1 day |
| Instruction Begins (actual start dates may vary from class to class) |
1/2 |
| Last Day to Drop for Full Refund | 1/5 |
| Enrollment only possible with permission number from instructor | 1/2 - 1/5 |
| No refunds for classes dropped on, or after this date | 1/6 |
| Add/Drop Deadline, Audit Deadline | 1/5 |
| Withdrawal petition required to withdrawal | 1/6 - 1/21 |
| CR/NC Deadline | 1/14 |
| Instruction Ends | 1/21 |
| Grades available | 1/24 |
| Transcripts available | 2/7 |
Holidays:
11/11: Veterans Day. Online registration and payment systems are open.
11/25 - 11/29: Fall recess (Thanksgiving holiday). Online registration and payment systems are open (no classes; campus closed 11/28 - 11/30).
12/24 - 1/1: Campus closed for winter break. Online registration and payment systems are open.
1/20: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday (no courses held).
Fees
Winter Session 2025 course fees are $360/unit. Clinical Lab Science fees are $400/unit.
Fee Deferment
Eligible, matriculated SFSU students may now request a deferment of their fees. See Winter Session Fee Deferment below.
CSU makes every effort to keep student costs to a minimum. Fees listed in published schedules or student accounts may need to be increased when public funding is inadequate. Therefore, CSU must reserve the right, even after fees are initially charged or initial fee payments are made, to increase or modify any listed fees. All listed fees, other than mandatory systemwide fees, are subject to change without notice, until the date when instruction for a particular semester or quarter has begun. All CSU listed fees should be regarded as estimates that are subject to change upon approval by the Board of Trustees, the Chancellor, or the Presidents, as appropriate. Changes in mandatory systemwide fees will be made in accordance with the requirements of the Working Families Student Fee Transparency and Accountability Act (Sections 66028 - 66028.6 of the Education Code).
Transfer Credit and Degree Applicability
Within SFSU:
For matriculated SFSU students, Winter Session course credits are transferable and degree-applicable, as in any other term.
Non-matriculated students may apply up to 24 units toward a bachelor's degree and six units toward a master's degree, with the approval of the relevant department chair, should they matriculate into an SFSU degree, credential, or credit certificate program.
External Institutions:
Students who choose to apply for transfer credit at other institutions should recognize that the receiving institution makes decisions about the applicability of transferred courses to a particular degree program.
Grades
Students receive letter grades (A - F) for academic credit courses unless the course is audited or taken for credit/no credit (CR/NC). Some academic courses are available for letter grade only, others for CR/NC only. In a course where CR/NC grading is optional, students must indicate the desire to be graded on a CR/NC basis on the SFSU Gateway website. This must be done by the deadline published in Important Dates. Students may not change from letter-graded to CR/NC status or vice versa after the deadline.
CEU courses are graded on a credit/no credit basis and appear on SFSU transcripts when students earn a grade of credit. Grade reports and transcripts are not available for noncredit courses.
Grade availability dates are listed in Important Dates.
Grades are available online through the SFSU Gateway.
Audit
Students wishing to audit a course must register and pay the same fees as students enrolled for credit. An auditor may be required by the instructor to participate in any or all classroom activities. Auditors may not obtain credit by examination for audited classes or repeat audited classes for credit at a later date.
To request an audit status, students should complete an audit request form, obtain instructor's signature, and submit the form to the College of Professional & Global Education by the deadline published in Important Dates.
Students may not change from audit to credit status after the second week of instruction. Only students enrolled in academic credit courses can audit a class.
Incomplete
At the initiation of the student or the instructor, an incomplete grade (I) may be assigned by the instructor when the student is unable to complete the course requirements within the official period of the course. An incomplete must be made up within one calendar year from the end of the course or the grade of "I" will be automatically changed to a failing grade for academic unit courses. For CR/NC courses, if an incomplete is not made up within one year, the course is deleted from the student's record.
Transcripts
Official transcripts are available from the SFSU Registrar. Transcript availability dates are listed in Important Dates. Check the Registrar's Office Transcripts page, for instructions on how to request a transcript. The fee for transcripts is $8 per copy. If the transcript is to show the results of the current semester's work, the request should specify "Hold for Grades."
Unofficial transcripts and grades are available online by accessing student’s SFSU Gateway account after the semester ends.
Withdrawal
Students may withdraw from courses that earn academic credit (units) after the Drop Deadline and receive grades of "W" by following the guidelines on the Registrar's Office Dropping and Withdrawing page. Do not put a stop payment on a check or credit card charge to drop or withdraw from a course. This results in a financial obligation to SFSU for the course fee, plus an additional $20 charge. Failure to withdraw officially from a course generates a failing grade of "F" or "WU."
Winter Break 2025: December 24 - January 1
Registration Help
Email: sfsucel@sfsu.edu
Phone: (415) 405-7700
Phone Hours: M - F, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Office Hours: M - F, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Canvas Support
Website: Canvas
Hours: M - F, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: (415) 405-5555
Email: at@sfsu.edu
Location: LIB 220
Library
The J. Paul Leonard Library will not have any open hours for faculty or student use during winter break. They are offering all remote services, as well as supporting loaner laptops for eligible students and requests for delivery of books from their collection or using interlibrary loan.
Please see the J. Paul Leonard Library website for information on hours, resources and services. See Library Services by Patron Type for service eligibility.
Winter Session Fee Deferment
New! Use Your Spring Financial Aid for Winter Session
Deadline: December 13, 2024
Pay your Winter Session fees later, using your spring financial aid funds. If you are a matriculated SFSU student with sufficient financial aid, you can request a fee deferment. Get the details and make your request using the Winter Session 2025 Fee Deferment Request (PDF) form.
FAQ: Fee Deferment
Follow the instructions on the form to check your financial aid disbursement and costs. Please read the form carefully.
Submit your completed form by December 13, 2024.
We will notify you by email by December 20, 2024.
If your fee deferment request has been approved, you will have until February 21, 2025 to pay your Winter Session fees.
If your deferment request was approved, and your classes were dropped for non-payment, email us at sfsucel@sfsu.edu.
Email sfsucel@sfsu.edu.
News & Events
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San Francisco State University will be closed on Monday, March 31, 2025 in observance of César Chávez Day.