student’s academic advisor. The registration access code may
be utilized by the academic advisor to complete the student’s
registration during the advising process, or the advisor may
give the code to the student to enable the student to complete
the registration process from another computer. After the online
registration process has been completed, the student’s confirmed
schedule becomes an active registration in the administrative
computer system.
To finalize their registration, students must make financial
arrangements for payment of the amount due listed on their billing
invoice (see the financial section of the catalog for information
concerning costs and payment plans).
Adding and Withdrawing From a Course
Students are responsible to verify the accuracy of their course
registration at the beginning of each semester. All registrations
must be finalized by the end of the second week of the semester.
No courses may be added after this time unless approval is
granted from the course instructor, and the associate/assistant
dean or chair of the department that offers the course. In the
absence of the associate/assistant dean or department chair, the
dean of undergraduate studies may approve a late registration. A
late registration fee of $50 will be charged to process a registration
or add a course after the deadline.
Changes in a student’s course schedule must be made through
the drop/add process. This may be completed online within three
calendar days after courses begin. After this time, a drop/add form
is required to complete a schedule change. Forms for course
changes are available in the Office of the Registrar and must be
signed by both the course instructor and the student’s academic
advisor. The student is required to make up any work missed due
to late entrance. Changes in a schedule caused by cancellation of
courses will not result in financial penalty.
When a course is dropped, the action is recorded as follows:
Week Course Is Dropped
Action
Before the end of the first full
No record on transcript
calendar week
During second full calendar week W – Withdrawn
through ninth calendar week
10th and 11th calendar weeks
WP – Withdrawn Passing
or
WF – Withdrawn Failing
Week 12 through the end of
Drops not permitted
the semester
Course changes are complete when the Office of the Registrar
receives the completed drop/add form. The effective date of the
course change is the date the Office of the Registrar receives the
completed form. Failure to properly drop a course will result in a
grade of “Z”, which counts the same as an “F”.
Refund information is listed in the financial information section
of the catalog. This information is also available on the Registrar’s
webpage.
Auditing
Auditing involves attending and participating in a course without
earning credit. A course may be changed from credit to audit
before the end of the first full week of the semester. Courses may
be changed from audit to credit, with permission of the instructor,
before the end of the first full week of the semester. A student may
not test out of a course already audited. Registration to audit a
course will not be processed until the first day of the semester to
accommodate students requiring regular registration status.
Independent Study
Independent study allows students to develop a high degree of
independence in their ability to choose and investigate problems.
The objectives of the program include providing opportunities to
explore areas not covered in normal course structure, recognizing
foreign travel experiences, rewarding self-motivated students, and
encouraging joint study by faculty and students on specialized
projects.
Individual students and faculty members develop the specific
criteria that must be met for the successful completion of specific
independent study projects. However, the following guidelines
govern the independent study program:
1. Only one independent study project may be undertaken in
an academic term, unless permission is granted from the
department chair or the associate/assistant dean of the
school of the student’s primary major.
2. The maximum credit that may be earned for an
independent study project is three semester hours.
3. The faculty member supervising the independent study,
the student’s advisor, and the associate/assistant dean or
the department chair must sign the student’s independent
study form. Registration for the independent study must
occur at the beginning of the semester in which the work is
to be completed.
4. No more than six semester hours in independent study
may be counted toward the major field, no more than three
semester hours toward a minor field, and no more than
12 semester hours toward graduation. Independent study
taken outside major and/or minor fields must be approved
by the associate/assistant dean or the department chair of
the supervising faculty member.
5. Supervising an independent study is a privilege a faculty
member may extend to a student. It is not a right that a
student has.
6. Supervising faculty members determine the grade (letter
grade or credit/no credit) for the independent study.
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