Class Repeats for Undergraduate Students
Students who receive a grade that is defined as not successfully complete the course under the program grading scale must repeat that course.
Failed Courses
Nursing students may not receive more than two non-passing grade (as defined in the University catalog grading scale). On receipt of the second, non-passing grade the student will be dismissed. An Unsuccessfully completed course may only be repeated once (with the exception of NURS 493).
Dental Hygiene students may repeat no more than two failed general education courses. Each failed course may be repeated only once. Furthermore, no courses within the Dental Hygiene core curriculum (DHYG courses) may be repeated (see Dental Hygiene Program Grade Requirements section of the catalog).
A student may receive financial aid even when repeating a previous unsuccessfully completed course.
Courses Passed, but not Successfully Completed
When a student receives a passing grade in a course (C, D, etc.), but the grade is not adequate for the course to be considered successfully completed due to the grade requirements for courses in the program, the student may receive financial aid only for the first repeat of the course. However, if a student passed a class once then receives financial aid for retaking it and fails the second time, the student may not receive aid for retaking the class a third time.
Withdrawal from Course being Retaken
Please see the Fall I Term 2014 Addendum for the current Withdrawal from Course being Retaken policy.
A withdrawal is not considered a course passed nor is it considered successfully completed.
Students in the BSN or LVN to BSN program who previously withdrew from a course (general education or core nursing course) may not subsequently withdraw from the same course. In addition, a student who fails a course may not subsequently withdraw from the same course. In either case, if a student chooses to withdraw from a course being repeated before successfully completing the course, the student will receive a grade of “F” in the course.
If a Dental Hygiene student retaking a course withdraws before completing the course for which he or she has received financial aid funds for re-taking, then that is not counted as his or her one allowed retake for that course.
Retaken Courses and GPA
When the student repeats a class for which he/she initially earned a failing grade and receives a passing grade, that grade will replace the failing grade and the new grade will be used to calculate the final cumulative grade point average (CGPA). All attempted coursework will be reflected on the student’s official transcript. All credits resulting from repeated courses are included in determining student’s satisfactory academic progress standing for rate of progress.