2000-2001 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705

Academic Policies

1. Repeatable courses: Certain courses are eligible for repeat for credit and grade. These courses are advanced art studio courses, music ensembles, special topics courses (281, 481) if the topic is different, and other specifically designated courses.

2. D and F grades:

1. Repeat with replacement: Undergraduate students are permitted to replace the grades and quality points for courses in which they receive a D or F grade by repeating that course at IUP and filing a repeat form with the Registrar's Office. Only six repeat-with-replacement attempts are permitted during a student's entire undergraduate career. In calculating GPA, the new grade and quality points earned will replace the old. However, the transcript continues to document all academic work, and repeated courses are not deleted from the visual record.
2. Repeat with averaging: In addition to the six repeat-with-replacement options, undergraduate students my repeat other courses in which they receive a D or F grade. In these other repeat attempts, the new grade is averaged with, instead of replacing, the prior D or F grade; the credit for the D repeat counts only once. The transcript continues to indicate all repeated courses.
3. Course transfers: Students seeking to replace or average D and F grades must repeat these courses at IUP. If an IUP course in which a student received an F is repeated at another institution, the credit will transfer to IUP, but the original F will continue to count toward the IUP GPA. If an IUP course in which a student received a D is repeated at another university, neither the grade nor the credit will transfer.

This policy also applies to transfer credit. Students receiving transfer credit for an IUP course may not repeat that course at IUP. Similarly, students who have already earned a passing grade in an IUP course may not subsequently receive transfer credit for that same course.