COLLEGE REGULATIONS
(1) The Session-Hour.—All courses are measured in terms of the session-hour
as a unit. A session-hour is one hour a week throughout the session
of lecture or recitation, or two hours a week throughout the session of laboratory
work.
(2) Maximum and Minimum Number of Session-Hours.—Each college
student is required to undertake each session courses aggregating at least 15
session-hours (with the exception noted under Probation below). This number
may be increased in the following cases:
(I) Any first-year student may take 18 session-hours, provided he is
credited with 6 session-hours of advanced standing.
(II) A student not in his first year in the College of Arts and Sciences
may take 18 session-hours, provided he (a) has passed in the preceding session
or in the third term thereof courses aggregating 15 session-hours, or (b) is in
his graduating year and needs 18 session-hours for his degree.
(III) A student not in his first year may take 21 session-hours provided
he passed in the preceding session or in the third term thereof courses aggregating
18 session-hours.
(IV) Any student whose term grade (or class grade, if the term grade
is not available) for the first or second term is at least 75 per cent. in each of
his courses, may take 3 additional session-hours for the ensuing term.
Physical Education is not counted in the maximum and minimum requirements
detailed above.
Exceptions to the above regulations will be allowed only by special permission
of the Committee on Rules and Courses.
(3) Grade.—The grade of a college student in any course either for a
term or for the session, is determined by his class standing and his examination
grade, combined in such proportion as the professor in charge of the course
in question may decide. Class standing in any course is determined by the
regularity of the student's attendance upon the lectures (and laboratory or
other similar exercise) of the course, and by the quality of his work, as indicated
by his recitation grades, written tests, laboratory work, etc. For passing
in any course in the college a grade of 75 per cent. is required.
(4) Exclusion from Courses, Probation and Suspension:
(I) Exclusion from Courses:
1. A student who is evidently making no real progress in a course, may,
at any time during the session, be excluded from the course by the Dean upon
recommendation of the instructor concerned.
2. A student whose term grade in a course is less than 50 per cent., or
who discontinues the course without permission of the Dean, or who is absent
without excuse from the term examination, will be excluded from the course.
(II) Probation and Suspension:
1. Probation is a state of warning, involving withdrawal from the student
of certain privileges enumerated below. Suspension means forced withdrawal
from the College.
2. A student will be placed on probation if, in any term, he does not pass
on 6 hours of work; and, if he shall be excluded from a course or courses, he
must, in order to avoid probation, pass on a number of hours 6 in excess of
the number from which he is excluded.
A student will be suspended if, in any term, he does not pass on 3 hours
of work; and, if he shall be excluded from a course or courses, he must, in
order to escape suspension, pass on a number of hours 3 in excess of the number
from which he is excluded.
3. A student on probation must carry at least 12 hours of work or be
suspended. A student not on probation must carry at least 15 hours of work
or be placed on probation.
4. No student may remain on probation for more than two terms in his
entire college course. If his record is such as to invoke probation a third time,
he will be suspended. No student suspended a second time may re-enter the
College.
5. No student on probation may be a member of any student organization
which publicly represents the University, such as an athletic team, a musical
club or a student publication.
6. Suspension, if imposed during the session, applies to the remainder of
the regular session; if imposed at the end of the session, it applies to the whole
of the subsequent session.
7. Probation or suspension may be absolved by the completion of 3 session-hours
of work in one term of the Summer Quarter.
8. A student who is permitted to withdraw from the University during the
session will be re-admitted only on probation if, at the time of his withdrawal,
he was on probation. A student previously suspended will be re-admitted only
on probation.
9. The application of these regulations is automatic. A student may, however,
appeal in writing to the Committee on Rules and Courses for relief from
their application. The Committee will not accept remediable defects of vision
or outside remunerative work as excuses for failure. A student is expected to
have visual defects corrected, and, if much outside work is done, to carry a
reduced schedule of courses.
(5) Absence from Examinations will not be excused except for sickness
on the day of examination, attested by a physician's certificate, or for other
cause which the Faculty by special order may approve. An unexcused absence is
counted as a total failure.
A student excused from more than one-half of his term examinations on
account of illness may not be a member of any student organization which publicly
represents the University, such as an athletic team, a musical club, or a
student publication, until he has taken his examinations.
No student may remain in the College if he misses all the examinations of
two consecutive terms on account of illness.
(6) Special Examinations.—A student whose absence from an examination
is excused, in accordance with (5) above, is entitled to a special examination
on a date during the regular session to be arranged between himself and
the professor in charge of the examination.
(7) Re-Examinations.—A candidate for an academic degree who fails
on only one of his courses during his final session of candidacy is entitled to
a special re-examination on the work of that course before the final day, provided
that he average at least 65 per cent. on the work of the three terms,
and provided the professor in charge recommends that the candidate be granted
a re-examination. The professor in charge is to decide whether the candidate
is to stand a re-examination upon the whole course, or upon some portion or
portions of the course. No fee is charged for such re-examination.
It should be carefully noted that no student is entitled to more than one
re-examination on a given course without repeating the course, and that no
re-examination may be taken on a course for which the student was not registered
during his final session of candidacy for a degree.
(8) Reports.—Reports are sent at the end of each term to the parent
or guardian of each College student.
In addition to the above, a report on the standing of each first-year student
in the College is sent to the students parent or guardian early in November.
(9) Voluntary Withdrawal.—Voluntary withdrawal from the University
requires the written consent of the Dean, as well as the consent of the student's
parent or guardian, if he is a minor. Any student who withdraws without permission
will be recorded as having been suspended. A student who withdraws
immediately before an examination period, except for providential reasons, is
not permitted to re-enter the University for the succeeding term.
(10) Enforced Withdrawal is inflicted for habitual delinquency in class,
habitual idleness, or any other fault which prevents the student from fulfilling
the purposes for which he should have come to the University. See also Suspension,
above.
(11) Change of Studies.—No change can be made in a student's program
of studies except with the written consent of the Dean, together with
official notification by the Registrar. No permit for change of courses will be
issued after the end of the first week of each term. Any student who drops
a course without permission will receive a grade of zero in that course; and
no credit may be received for any portion of a course attended before formal
permission has been granted as outlined above.
(12) Absence from Lectures may be excused by the Dean, but only for
sickness or other imperative cause. Any explanation of an absence which a
student has to offer must be made in writing to the Dean within one week
after the absence. But no excuse for an absence may be submitted after the
beginning of an examination period.
Any student not on probation is allowed 2 absences without penalty each
term in each course, and a student who passed, in the preceding term, on all
courses taken, aggregating not less than 15 term-hours, is allowed 4 absences
without penalty each term in each course. But the performance of written work
and laboratory work is not affected by the allowance of absences without
penalty.
Each unexcused absence (in excess of absences without penalty) from a
class exercise in any term will cause one point to be deducted from the student's
term grade.
A total of more than 10 unexcused absences (in excess of absences without
penalty) in any term will cause a student to be placed on probation. Probation
imposed for absences is called "attendance probation," and it carries the
penalties of probation imposed for failure in courses. If a student incurs attendance
probation while on probation for failure in courses he will be suspended.
No student who was, for any reason, absent from more than 50 per cent.
of the lectures of a course in any term can receive a grade on the course in
that term. This regulation does not apply to students on the Dean's List or to
holders of Intermediate Honors.
The laws relating to absence from the University of members of athletic
teams are found in the General Catalogue. The same regulations apply, mutatis
mutandis, to members of other student organizations.
(13) The Dean's List.—Any student who passed, in the preceding term,
on all courses taken, aggregating not less than 15 term-hours, with an average
grade on all courses of at least 85 per cent., will be placed on the Dean's
List.
A student on the Dean's List is not subject to the regulations limiting absence
from classes, nor does absence from any class entail on such student any
penalty, affecting class standing, imposed for absence alone. But the performance
of written work and laboratory work is not affected by these regulations.
(14) Physical Education Requirement.—All first- and second-year students
in the College of Arts and Sciences, except professional students of
Architecture, are required to take the course in Physical Education unless excused
on a physician's certificate.
