1996-1997 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
Academic Policies
A student may take courses on a pass-fail basis to a total of 15 semester hours throughout his/her university career. The student is limited to one pass-fail course in any given semester during the sophomore, junior, and senior years. All courses in the student's Liberal Studies program and in his/her major and minor fields are excluded from this prerogative.
The student must declare his/her intent to choose pass-fail in a specific course no later than six weeks after the beginning of the semester or the equivalent timespan in a summer session. Once declared, this pass-fail option may not be revoked. Instructors will not be notified of the identity of pass-fail students in their courses; identification will be handled by the Computer Center through an appropriate coded control.
A student shall be given academic credit without quality points for a course taken pass-fail upon receiving a passing mark in the course. The semester hours successfully completed under pass-fail ( passed ), within the overall 15-semester-hour limitation, shall be recorded as counting towards the total semester hours earned for graduation but not towards the semester-hours-attempted data used in calculation of the cumulative quality-point average. However, if a student fails a pass/fail course, he/she will receive the F grade and the corresponding quality-point average. An F earned under the pass/fail option may be repeated only under the graded option to provide the quality points to correspond to the hours attempted incurred with the F.
The summer sessions, collectively or in any combination, shall be considered a unit similar to a spring or fall semester for pass-fail purposes. Hence, a student is permitted to take only one course during the summer on a pass-fail basis.
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