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Alternative Grading Option

Pass/Fail

The Faculty wants capable upper-year students to feel free to enrol in elective/free-choice courses without fear of jeopardizing their grade point average. For this reason, students may take a limited number of such courses for full degree credit on an ungraded basis. Courses taken on this basis are listed on the transcript as "Pass" or as "Fail". Neither of these two grades is calculated into the student's grade point averages. The course director forwards a written evaluation of the student's work in the course to the student and to the Office of the Registrar. The following regulations apply to courses taken as a Pass/Fail Alternative Grading Option.

• Only students who are not under Academic Warning or Debarment Warning may take such courses.
• Students may apply to take such courses only after they have successfully completed 24 credits.
• Courses taken on a Pass/Fail Alternative Grading Option may not be used for courses taken to satisfy major, minor, General Education, Certificate requirements, or 1000-level Science courses.
• Students registered in an Honours BA program may take a maximum of 12 credits as a Pass/Fail Alternative Grading Option.
• Students registered in a BA program may take a maximum of 6 credits as a Pass/Fail Alternative Grading Option.
• Students who wish to designate a course as Pass/Fail Alternative Grading Option must do so within the first two weeks of the term in which the course begins; they must first obtain the signature of the course director on the form available for this purpose from the Office of the Registrar. The completed form should then be returned to the Office of the Registrar.
• Students who elect to complete a course as a Pass/Fail Alternative Grading Option can switch back to a graded basis until the last date to drop a course without academic penalty.

Credit/No Credit

The notations "Credit" and "No Credit" will be used when an entire course is being offered on an ungraded basis. "No Credit" will count as an earned failing grade of F in the grade point average.