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Admission to a Course
Admission to any course is subject to approval of the department offering the course in order to ensure that students are adequately prepared for the course level and content. Students should pay careful attention to published course prerequisites and other relevant information in this catalog. Decisions of the department may be appealed to the Academic Committee. |
Explanation of Course Numbers
Courses are identified by subjects and four-digit numbers. The first digit indicates the level of a course. A “1” indicates first-year or entry level, while “3” and “4” indicate upper-division and typically presume prior completion of courses beginning with “1” or “2.” The second digit indicates the number of credit hours earned for successful completion of the course. The final two digits indicate the departmental sequence. Thus, Chemistry 1341 is a first-year chemistry course carrying 3 credit hours, and Chemistry 1141 is a first-year course carrying 1 credit hour. These two courses are lecture and lab for first-year General Chemistry and together total 4 credit hours. |
Credit Hours
The unit of measurement for academic work is the credit hour, representing fifty minutes of class lecture or contact time per week for one semester. Two to four laboratory clock hours are usually required for earning 1 credit hour in a laboratory course. |
Semester Load
The minimum load an undergraduate student must carry to be considered full-time is 12 credit hours in each regular (fall or spring) semester. There is no minimum load for summer sessions.
The maximum load for an undergraduate student is 19 credit hours in each regular semester and six credit hours (seven if a course carries a laboratory requirement) in each summer session. A student with a cumulative institutional GPA of 3.00 or higher may request permission to take an overload of not more than three credit hours per semester. Permission must be recommended by the student’s academic advisor and approved by the dean of the appropriate school. |
Adding, Dropping, Changing Courses
Students wishing enrollment changes, such as adds, drops, change of section, change of level (upper and lower division), or change of grading basis (graded, audit, and pass/fail) must follow the deadlines published in the academic calendar for the current semester. All such changes require an Add/Drop Form available from the Registrar’s Office.
Requests to add courses or to change grading basis must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office no later than the deadline for 100% refund.
For fall and spring semesters, courses officially dropped through the 17th class day are not recorded on the transcript. From the 18th class day and ending with the last day of the 9th week of each semester, official drops are recorded as “W,” a grade not computed in the GPA. |
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