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Chapter IV: Academic Policies and Procedures

The policies and procedures described in this chapter govern the conduct of academic matters affecting students enrolled in the College. Exceptions to these policies may be granted only upon written petition to the Academic Standards Board. Honors students petition the Honors Academic Board; Residential College students petition the RC Counseling Office.

General College Policies and Procedures

Residence Policy

At least 60 of the 120 credits required for a degree must be earned in residence. Residence credit is granted for courses elected on the Ann Arbor campus or at off-campus sites but directed by Ann Arbor faculty present on the site and for a maximum 15 credits earned through Honors Summer Independent Reading.

At least 30 of the last 60 credits for the degree must be earned in residence.

No more than 60 credits may be earned through Advanced Placement, credit by examination, extension and correspondence courses, transfer credit from other institutions, and off-campus independent study, except that 90 credits may be transferred from other schools and colleges on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. Cross-campus transfer students may receive credit for a maximum of 90 credits from the previous college or school. No more than 60 credits of these 90 may have been completed at other institutions. LS&A residency requires that a student earn 30 credits in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Students who transfer from a junior college are permitted 60 transfer credits (62 if an Associate's degree requiring 62 credits has been completed). Students who have completed 60 credits toward an LS&A degree cannot earn degree credit for courses elected at a two-year college.

Up to 60 credits may be transferred from the Flint and Dearborn campuses of the University of Michigan, and courses completed at these campuses are defined as out-of-residence credit (effective September 1, 1976), even though they carry Michigan Honor Points.

Credit cannot be transferred from another school if that credit is also being counted toward another baccalaureate or graduate or professional degree. The programs described in Chapter V under the heading "Special Joint Degree Programs" are exceptions to this policy.

Even if a course is transferable, credit is not allowed if the final grade earned is "C-" or lower. This includes all transferable credit earned outside the University of Michigan.

Students interested in electing out-of-residence credit should consult in advance the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (where an information sheet is available) about transfer equivalencies and an academic advisor about the appropriateness of the intended elections.

Tables of transfer equivalencies are available on the Students Academic Affairs website at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/saa/transfer/admissions/. If credit elected out-of-residence is to be included in a concentration plan, approval should be obtained in advance from a concentration advisor. The language requirement cannot be fulfilled by out-of-residence credit which is elected after the student has begun degree enrollment in LS&A unless the appropriate language department has approved that plan in advance.

LS&A students who elect courses which duplicate Advanced Placement credit or courses completed elsewhere and transferred to LS&A as credit toward an LS&A degree will receive degree credit and honor points (for graded courses) for the LS&A election while credit for the duplicated Advanced Placement or transfer courses will be deducted. The only exceptions to this policy are those cases in which the courses transfer from another school or college on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. In these cases, courses elected in LS&A which duplicate such transfer courses are posted on the academic record as "repetitions" or "not for credit" elections. The original course elections continue to appear on the academic record for degree credit, and grades earned in these courses continue to be computed in the grade point average. Students electing courses in LS&A which are prerequisites for credits already awarded via Advanced Standing will have the transferred credits deducted, and the credits and honor points earned by the LS&A elections will stand. This might mean losing credit for several courses while retaining credit for only one, (for example, having transfer credit for three terms of basic foreign language deducted because of completing the first term of that language subsequently at the University of Michigan).

Students who want their out-of-residence credit evaluated must have an official transcript of the completed work sent to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Seniors planning to elect the final portion of the senior year out of residence should contact the LS&A Academic Auditors prior to leaving campus for information about special procedures; otherwise, a student risks delay of graduation.

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