1989-1990 Academic Catalog

44 Academic Information Adding and Withdrawing from a Course To add or drop courses, a student must complete a fonn provided by the Academic Records Office. 111e fom1 is to 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. No courses may be added after the end of the first full calendar week without the approval of the academic vice president and faculty members teaching the courses. Courses may be changed from credit to audit before the end of the fourth week. Courses may be changed from audit lo credit, with pennission of the instructor, before the end of the fourth week of the quarter. Failure to properly drop a class will result in a grade of"WF'. When a course is dropped, the action is recorded as follows: Week Course Is Dropped: Action: Before the end of the No record on transcript first calendar week Second full calendar week "W" (Withdrawn) through fourth After the fourth week and before the week offmal examinations "WP" or "WF" (Withdra\vn Passing or Withdrawn Failing) uPassing" is defined as having a course average of"C-" or better. Course changes are not complete until tl1e Academic Records Office receives the completed drop/add fonn. The effective date of the course change is the date when the completed fonn is received by the Academic Records Office. Refund infonnation is listed in the Financial Infomrntion section. Withdrawing from College No student should leave Cedarville College without following proper \Vithdrawal procedures. In withdra\ving, a student n1ust secure an official withdrawal form from the Academic Records Office and follow the proce– dures prescribed on the fom1. Refund requests should be submitted at least three days prior to withdrawing. A $5 withdraw fee will be added if the proper withdrawal procedures are not followed. 111e ID card must be retumed to the Academic Records Office on the student's last day on carnpus. Transcripts of withdrawn students will be marked as follows: withdrawal through the fourth week-"W"; withdrawal after the fourth week (but be– fore the \Veek of fu1al exarninations)-"WP" or "WF". Course Numbers and Designations 111e course numbers are designed to be of help to the student in selecting courses at the appropriate level. 111e following system is used: I. 111e first number indicates the year in which the course usually is taken. Freshmen nonnally take JOO level courses; sophomores, 100 level or 200 level courses; juniors, 200 level or 300 level courses; ru1d seniors, 300 level or 400 level courses. Courses beyond the student's classification should be taken \vith the consent of the instn1ctor and academic advisor. 2. 111e second digit usually indicates the area within the depru1ment. 3. The third digit generally indicates the sequence followed in offering the course. A zero typically indicates that the course will be offered every quru1er. 4. 111e course numbers listed in sequence and separated by hyphens repre– sent courses that rnust be scheduled in the order sho\vn. TI1e course nun1- bers separated by commas indicate courses that may be taken as individual units and not necessarily in the sequence sho\vn. 5. The alphabetical prefixes in the course designations indicate content divisions \Vithin acadentlc depru11nents. For exa1nple 1 the prefix "BETH" indicates that the course is a theology course in the Department of Biblical Education. 111e quarter that the course is offered is shown in italic letters follo\ving the course title as follows: A-Autumn; W-Winter; Sp-Spring; and Su-Sum– n1er. 111e nu1nber to the right of the course title is the credit given in quruter hours. 111e College reserves the right to offer or withhold any of the courses listed.