Catalog of Abilene Christian University, 1997-1998 Page: 17
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Academic Information 17
Courses taken by ACU students through intercollege
enrollment count toward degree requirements provided
approval has been secured in advance. It is the student's
responsibility to make certain that courses taken through
this arrangement will satisfy their individual degree requirements.
Course work in a given major must be approved on
an intercollege enrollment form by the academic adviser and
the ACU department chair. In an area in which ACU has
no department, the intercollege enrollment form should be
approved by the ACU registrar.
Concurrent Enrollment Policy
ACU students are generally expected to take their courses
at ACU. Only in exceptional circumstances, approved in
advance in writing, may ACU students receive credit for
courses, including correspondence courses, taken
concurrently.
By government regulations, only those courses from the
Abilene University Consortium and Abilene Intercollegiate
School of Nursing can be accepted for financial aid
eligibility. Courses from other colleges or universities will
not count as hours enrolled for financial aid eligibility.
Transfer and Post-Admission Transfer Credit
All course work from any institution, completed prior to
enrollment at ACU, will be evaluated according to the
policy published in the ACU catalog for evaluation of
transfer courses (see Transfer Admission) or according to a
specific transfer articulation agreement with the prior
institution. How transfer credit is applied toward an ACU
undergraduate degree depends on an evaluation of each
course to determine its equivalence in content and semesterhour
credit to a corresponding ACU course or degree
requirement. When no equivalency is found, the course is
counted as an elective. A course which carries more credit
than the corresponding ACU course or requirement is
counted as equivalent; the additional hours are counted as
elective credit.
Certain courses or blocks of courses at ACU are followed by
proficiency or exit tests. Students who take these courses at
other schools will be expected to pass the required tests
when they return to ACU.
Grades for transfer courses outside the Abilene University
Consortium are not included in the student's GPA at ACU.
Transfer Course Application
An ACU student may receive credit for courses taken
concurrently or during a summer term at another university
or college, subject to the following restrictions:
1. If an ACU student intends to take a required course at
another institution, he or she must first obtain written
permission on a Transfer Course Application form from
the chairman of the ACU department which normally
offers the course. If comparability is not established
through TCA approval prior to enrollment in the course, the
transfer credit may count as elective credit only.
2. After being classified as a junior, a student may take nomore than six hours at a junior college.
3. After enrolling at ACU, students may take no more
than one general education (University or Degree
core) required course in English or history at another
institution. Due to the special nature of the science
core curriculum courses (e.g., BIOL 120, AENV or
ITEC 130) and mathematics core curriculum course
(MATH 120), students may not find an equivalent
course at another institution. Students who have been
approved to take a mathematics course at another
institution will be required to take a departmental
examination before the transfer course is accepted.
4. A Transfer Course Application must be completed for
transfer courses to meet degree requirements.
5. Credit hours transferred toward a degree in art shall not
exceed one-half of the credit hours within the major. A
minimum of 24 of the total advanced hours in studio
areas required for the BFA must be done at ACU.
6. A student not in a cooperative degree program must
earn his last 24 hours in residence at ACU before
graduation. He or she must also earn in residence a
minimum of 24 semester hours of upper division work
including 9 hours in his major.
7. Evaluation of transfer work intended to meet specific
ACU degree requirements is the responsibility of
department chairs.
8. Only grades of C or higher are accepted for credit.
9. Only work for courses equivalent to or comparable to
those offered by ACU are accepted. Comparable U.S.
courses must be credited in college credit hours. ACU
does not offer college credit for vocational/technical
training or for workforce education courses.
10. Students on academic suspension are ineligible to
take transfer work without special permission from
their dean.
11. Grades will be posted when an official transcript(s)
reaches the ACU Registrar's Office from the issuing
university's Registrar's Office.
Auditing Courses
Students who wish to audit a course should see the chair of
the department involved on the first day of classes in order
to get approval to audit and register for the course. The fee
for auditing a course is generally one-half tuition. However,
there are exceptions. Students wishing to audit a Bible
course should check with the College of Biblical and Family
Studies to determine current audit fees. For all other
courses, check with the Registrar's Office. Some courses
are never available as audit courses. In all cases, the request
to audit a course must be submitted to the Registrar's
Office by 4 p.m., Friday of the second week of the long
term or the equivalent time of a shorter term.
Students must complete a Withdrawal From Class form
when dropping an audit course. The form must be
submitted to the Registrar's Office. Audit refunds will
follow the regular credit-hour refund schedule.
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