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Recommendation to The Graduate Council From the Academic Standards Committee
Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory Grading Option for Graduate Students
Background Currently, graduate students are not allowed to take courses on a satisfactory-unsatisfactory basis. Graduate students have asked that this policy be modified to allow them to take courses on a satisfactory-unsatisfactory basis that are not required by their academic programs, but which would enhance their studies and research. The Academic Standards Committee began discussion of this issue last spring and completed it at the beginning of this semester. The Committee agreed that the current option of auditing courses would not achieve the same goal as taking a course with a satisfactory-unsatisfactory option. The issue of taking language courses to support graduate study and research was also discussed. Although many of these courses are offered at the undergraduate level (300 level and below), the committee considered them appropriate to include in this proposal.
Proposal The Academic Standards Committee supports the proposal for instituting a satisfactory-unsatisfactory option for graduate students, and makes the following recommendations to the Graduate Council: 1. The satisfactory-unsatisfactory option will apply to all graduate students, pre-candidates and those who have reached candidacy. 2. Using the satisfactory-unsatisfactory option, a student may take a graduate-level course that is related to his/her major field or dissertation. 3. A student may take up to two courses on a satisfactory-unsatisfactory basis. 4. A student must complete a Request for Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory Grading permission form (see attached) each time he or she applies to take a course using the satisfactory-unsatisfactory option; the form will include a statement provided by the student as to why it is desirable for him/her to take the course on a satisfactory-unsatisfactory basis. 5. The form will be signed by the professor who teaches the course, the student’s advisor, the graduate director of the unit in which the student is enrolled, and the Graduate School. 6. The student who chooses to take a course using the satisfactory-unsatisfactory option may not change grading status after he or she has registered for the course. 7. If the student is receiving tuition remission from a source other than the University of Maryland, he or she must be given permission by the Principal Investigator or the granting source prior to registering for a course using the satisfactory-unsatisfactory option.
FORM
The Graduate School
Request for Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory Grading in a Course Related to but not in your Academic Program
Student ID: Date: Name
Address
Telephone Email:
Graduate Program (College) Director of Graduate Studies Degree Sought Date entered graduate program Advanced to candidacy (if yes, date)
Course number, name
The following people must approve this request before it will be considered by the Graduate School.
1. Advisor (sign & date) Print name:
2. Course instructor (sign & date) Print name:
3. Director of Graduate Studies home program (sign & date)
Source of tuition remission
Graduate School representative: ¨ Granted ¨ Denied Date:
Attachments 1. A short statement explaining why you are making this request. 2. A short statement from your advisor explaining the relationship of the course to your degree program
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