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ACADEMIC POLICY AND INFORMATION
Birmingham-Southern College Catalog 2016-2017
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summer term. There is an additional tuition charge for any extra units beyond 4.75 units
in a regular term. During the fall and spring terms, a student may register for an
additional half-unit beyond normal load without the written permission of his or her
academic advisor. No overload is permitted during the Exploration term.
Registration
A student who was not enrolled in the College during the previous term is expected to
register on the specified registration day for the fall, Exploration, spring, or summer term.
After the end of the second week of classes, no student may register for credit.
Near the end of each term, currently enrolled students register for the following term.
Students register for the summer and fall sessions during the spring term prior to those
terms; students register for the Exploration and spring terms during the fall term prior to
those terms. Students are required to confirm their registration on the confirmation date
for that term. Any student who fails to confirm may be dropped from the courses for
which he or she registered.
A student who contracts an Exploration term project or an individualized study must
obtain his or her advisor’s approval of the project; obtain approval of the faculty member
who is to direct the project and that faculty member’s department chair; and submit the
contract form to the Office of Exploration Term and Contract Learning.
Audited Courses
With the approval of his or her faculty advisor and the instructor teaching the course, a
student may audit a course instead of taking it for credit. Students are required to attend
class meetings and fulfill all course requirements. If the student does not meet these
conditions, the course will not be entered on his or her transcript. A fee of $500 is
charged per audited unit.
Non-Graded Courses
College or university coursework applied toward general education requirements or
major or minor requirements must be graded. Under certain circumstances, students may
elect to have other coursework evaluated as satisfactory or unsatisfactory (“S” or “U”) in
lieu of receiving letter grades. The letter grade equivalent of “S” is “C” or above. All
credits evaluated as “S” count in the total required for graduation, but both “S” and “U”
evaluations are disregarded in any computation of quality points. All elections outlined
below must be exercised by the applicable deadline for adding a course. Once such an
election has been made, it may not be reversed.
Certain Exploration term projects may be evaluated as “S” or “U.” Any Exploration term
project used to satisfy general education requirements must receive a letter grade. Senior
Exploration term projects in the major must receive a letter grade.