FULL-TIME STATUS
(required for most financial aid and scholarships):
Graduate Assistant: Six hours minimum
All Others: Nine hours minimum
GRADES AND ACADEMIC STANDING
GOOD ACADEMIC STANDING 3.0 average
SECOND GRADE OF C Review by the Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Department of English
THIRD GRADE OF C Termination from program; reacceptance conditional upon appeal to the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
GRADE OF F Termination from program; reacceptance conditional upon appeal to the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
INCOMPLETE (X) In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of the instructor of record in a course and the Chair of the Department of English, a student may take an incomplete. He or she receives a grade of X for the term. The student must complete the requirements for the course by the end of the next long semester; otherwise, the grade of X will be changed automatically to an F, imperiling the student’s academic status. (Both summer sessions are considered the equivalent of one long semester.) A student in a thesis course (ENGL 6098 or ENGL 6099) may not take an incomplete.
GRADES OF CREDIT (CR) AND NO CREDIT (NC) A thesis student who successfully completes ENGL 6098 (Thesis I) or ENGL 6099 (Thesis II) receives a grade of CR (Credit) for the course and three credits; the grade does not affect the student’s graduate GPA mathematically. A student who does not complete the requirements for ENGL 6098 receives a grade of NC (No Credit); this grade does not affect the student’s graduate GPA mathematically, but the student may not continue on to ENGL 6099 until she or he passes the Thesis I course.
COURSE IN PROGRESS (IP) A thesis student who does not complete ENGL 6099 (Thesis II) in a given term receives an IP (In Progress) and continues to enroll in the course until completing the thesis, at which time she or he is awarded a final grade of CR (Credit) and the remaining three credits for the six-hour thesis; this grade does not affect the student’s graduate GPA. A student must enroll continuously in ENGL 6099 every long term until the project is completed. (Both summer sessions are considered the equivalent of one long semester.) A student who drops out and then later resumes the course must pay back-tuition for any missed terms.