THE MANUAL OF THE IRVINE DIVISION OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE
CHAPTER I: General Requirements
Section 3: Scholarship Regulations
420. Standard of Scholarship (Graduate)
(A) Normal Progress Requirement (Graduate)
Both degree and non degree Graduate Division students must maintain satisfactory progress according to the criteria determined by their respective academic units.
(B) Grading (Graduate)
In courses applicable to graduate degrees, only the grades A, A-, B+, B, and S represent satisfactory scholarship, that is, they are acceptable in satisfying the requirements for an advanced degree. A course in which the student received a grade of B- is acceptable if the student's prior overall grade point average is at least 3.0 in courses applicable to the degree. Two types of exceptions may be made:
(1) Individual Exceptions--With approval of a student's Graduate Advisor and the Dean of the Division of Graduate Studies and Research, a course in which the student received a grade of B-, C+, C, or P may be accepted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for an advanced degree.
(2) Academic Unit Exceptions in which the grades of B-, C+, C, and P were assigned will be accepted in partial satisfaction of degree requirements in the case of those graduate programs in which the faculty has adopted and the Graduate Council has approved a special grading standard to that effect. (Am 1 Jun 78)
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