Academic Policies

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• Registration, Attendance, and Grading 
  
  
  • Academic Calendar 
  • Academic Load 
  • Registration Procedure 
    (Prerequisites and corequisites, changing registration, canceling registration, repeating a course, auditing a course)
  • Special Registration Procedure 
    (Advisor’s permission to register, permission to study elsewhere, permission to register as a graduate student, graduate course enrollment by undergraduates, special registration for nonenrolled students, enrolling for credit without grade points, Academic Common Market, University Consortium)
  • Withdrawal 
  • Attendance Policies 
  • Final Exams 
  • Grading System 
    (Additional grade notations, midterm reports, final grades, transcripts, GPA, change of grade, grade appeals)
• Undergraduate Policies 
  
  
  • Student Classification 
  • Academic Advising  
  • Academic Standing 
    (Academic period, good academic standing, student retention categories, termination from the major, academic suspension, academic dismissal, academic performance and credit limit, academic standing and student activities, academic clemency)
  • Requirements for Undergraduate Programs 
    (Declaration of major, requirements for bachelor’s degrees, second bachelor’s degree, minors, undergraduate certificates, change of academic program, credit for more than one undergraduate major)
  • University Honors 
  • Dean’s List 
• Graduate Policies 
  
  
  • Student Classification 
  • Full-time Classification 
  • Academic Advising 
  • Student Status 
    (Change from nondegree status, removing provisional qualifier, permission to re-enroll, voluntary resignation from graduate academic program)
  • Credit by Exam or From Other Institutions 
    (Credit by external exam, transfer of credit, reduction of credit, permission to study elsewhere)
  • Graduate Grading 
  • Graduate Academic Standing 
    (Academic warning, academic termination, academic dismissal)
  • Combined Bachelor’s and Accelerated Master’s Degrees 
  • Requirements for Graduate Certificates 
  • Requirements for Master’s Degrees 
  • Requirements for Doctoral Degrees 
• Degree Application, Conferral and Commencement 
  
  
  • Application for Degree 
  • Degree Conferral 
  • Commencement 
• Research 
  
  
  • Human Subjects Research 
  • Animal Use in Research