Credit/No Credit Option

To encourage greater breadth in course election, the College allows a student to elect courses on a credit/no credit option. No more than one such option may be exercised in any given semester. Graduate and professional schools generally look with disfavor on the use of this option in coursework considered crucial to the graduate field.

The credit/no credit option is subject to the following rules:

1. Unless instructors ask, they will not be informed which students are taking a course using the credit/no credit option.
2. Students must inform the registrar of their intention to declare or remove the credit/no credit option no later than the sixth Wednesday of the fall semester and the sixth Friday of the spring semester.
3. Concentration or minor requirements may contain additional restrictions regarding credit/no credit courses.
4. Courses taken credit/no credit may not be used to fulfill the Writing Intensive or Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning graduation requirements.
5. To qualify for credit (with a recorded grade of CR), a student must earn a C- or better. The grade will not enter into the computation of the overall average, but the course will be counted in the student’s total units.
6. If a student earns a grade of D+, D or D-, the transcript will show the designation NC. No credit is earned for a “NC” grade and the grade will not enter into the computation of the overall average.
7. If a student earns a failing grade, the transcript will show an F, no credit will be earned for the course, and the grade will enter into the computation of the overall average.

The maximum combined number of full-credit satisfactory/unsatisfactory and credit/no credit courses that an individual student may have on a transcript is four.

Courses Evaluated Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

In certain courses, students may be evaluated “satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory.” The description of the course will include the notation “Evaluated Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory,” which will apply to all students registered for the course. The recorded evaluation (S or U) will under no circumstances be convertible to a conventional grade.

Courses that are evaluated satisfactory/unsatisfactory may be counted, but may not be required, for the concentration or minor. The maximum combined number of full-credit satisfactory/unsatisfactory and credit/no credit courses that an individual student may have on a transcript is four.