Chapter 5
CREDIT BY EXAMINATION
(Except for the Advanced Placement
Program of the College Entrance Examination Board)
Section 1. General Regulations
A. Regularly admitted and currently
registered students may take examinations described in this section
in courses offered by the University to gain credit:
- For independent study.
- For work completed with private
teachers.
- For work completed in unaccredited
institutions if a formal examination is deemed necessary by the
chairperson of the concerned department(s). Provision for validation
without an examination is included in Volume
Four, Part III, Chapter 1, Section 6, Acceptance of Transfer
Credit.
B. No one may take a credit examination
for a course in which he or she has received credit.
C. All credits secured by examination
shall be counted as extension credit and shall be included in
the 90 extension credit maximum allowed toward the bachelor's
degree. No credit shall be allowed by examination with a grade
less than 2.
D. No student shall receive credit
by examination for a course for which the student would not be
eligible to receive credit if the course were taken in residence.
E. No student shall be permitted
to repeat any examination for credit.
F. No student shall receive credit
by examination for lower-division courses in the student's native
language.
G. Credit by examination is not
acceptable toward an advanced degree in the Graduate School.
H. The procedure for authorizing,
formulating, and conducting credit by examination shall be as
follows:
- A student who wishes to qualify
for credit by examination shall apply to the Registrar for a
certificate of eligibility. After this certificate has been approved
and signed by the Registrar, the student shall present it for
signed approval to an instructor responsible for the course in
which the examination is to be taken, to the chairperson of the
department concerned, and/or to the dean of the college or school
concerned. If such approvals are granted, the student shall then
pay the established fee per course to be gained by examination.
- The department or school shall
prepare appropriate examinations and transmit them to the Registrar.
The department or school shall submit with each examination any
necessary list of authorized supplementary material. Each such
list shall be issued to the examination proctors and to the student
taking the examination.
- The chairperson of the department
or dean of the school or college shall approve the examination.
In general, examinations shall be of sufficient scope to occupy
the qualified student a minimum of three hours and a maximum
of four hours in a test for a three-, four-, or five-credit courses;
and a minimum of two and a maximum of three hours in a test for
a one- or two- credit course.
- The Registrar shall designate
a time in each quarter during which all approved examinations
shall be given. Such examinations shall be supervised by the
Educational Assessment Center.
- No student shall be permitted
to take more than two examinations in three-, four-, or five-credit
courses, or more than three examinations in one- or two-credit
courses in one day. Should the student plan to take more examinations
in that quarter, an additional day may be permitted and arrangements
will be made with the Educational Assessment Center.
- Completed examinations shall
be transmitted to the proper college, school or department for
grading. Grade reports signed by the instructor and chairperson
or dean involved shall be sent to the Registrar for recording.
- Nothing in this section shall
apply to the allowance of credit under the Advanced Placement
Program of the College Entrance Examination Board, separate rules
for which follow in Chapter 6.*
* For information on a
1970-73 trial of the College Level Examination Program, call
Dr. Thomas Hodgson, Evaluative and Counseling Services.
I. Credit granted through examination
is not included in the student's cumulative grade-point average.
S-B 93, May 1964; S-B 116,
April 1971; S-B 127, December 14, 1976: all with Presidential approval; BR, February 1971; AI, March 1966; AI, March 1972