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RETAKING COURSES POLICY

Graduate students may retake courses under certain circumstances. It is important for students to understand that 鈥渞etaking a course鈥� and 鈥渞epeating a course鈥� mean very different things at 秘密研究所. These differences are explained in the procedure.

PROCEDURE

At 秘密研究所, 鈥渞etaking鈥� a course is different from 鈥渞epeating鈥� a course. Each action is described fully below.

RETAKING COURSES

Graduate students may, without any additional requirements, retake once聽a course they already took regardless of whether they passed or failed it. If the course was previously聽passed, the student must submit a Request to Retake a Course Form in the Office of the Registrar before registering for the course

Any student who would like to retake a course聽more than once聽may do so only with the permission of the Academic Dean of the School that offers the course. (Note: If a student retakes a course, the course credits may only be counted once toward fulfilling degree requirements. Therefore, the credits issued for the course when it was originally taken must be subtracted from the 鈥渆arned credit鈥� column on the transcript and degree evaluation, and only the credits issued when the course is retaken will count as 鈥渆arned credit.鈥�)

The decision to retake a course is left to student discretion except when a student has earned a grade lower than what is established by the program for a prerequisite course, if applicable, or an 鈥楩鈥� in a program-required聽course. When this occurs, the failed course must be retaken in order to successfully complete all degree requirements.

Retaking a course will affect the student鈥檚 transcript and grade point average (GPA) in the following ways:

1. When a student retakes a course,聽all聽courses and聽all聽grades earned appear on the transcript.
2. When a student retakes a course,聽补濒濒听grades earned are included in the calculation of the student鈥檚聽肠耻尘耻濒补迟颈惫别听GPA, but only the聽best聽grade earned is included in the calculation of the student鈥檚聽尘补箩辞谤听GP

REPEAT COURSE GRADES

Repeat course grades are not an option in graduate programs.

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