To complete the process, submit the e-mail request to the Records office as specified above and copy the designated advisor for processing.

Students who have one of the curriculum codes below and who wish to be admitted to either CFPCA or Liberal Arts & Science must apply through University Admissions.

• Non-Matriculated, Interdisciplinary Studies, L69
• Post-Bachelor's Certificate

To initiate a change of college/curriculum for a student who was admitted to Lifelong Learning, the advisor must first determine the student's curriculum, Admission Status, and the term for which full admission was granted. The following information is based on the assumption that the student was admitted in or after the Spring / Summer Term of 1982.

Matriculated, Interdisciplinary Studies, Lower Division, Spring / Summer 1982 through Spring / Summer 1993

A student who was admitted to this curriculum of CLL between Spring / Summer 1982 through Spring / Summer 1993 will have an Admission Status of either "AR" (Admit Regular) or "AH" (Admit Hold). A student who has an "AR" status and who was admitted prior to Fall 1993 may change college/curriculum at any point since this status means he or she presented at least 30 transferable hours and at least a 2.00 GPA or was fully admissible on the basis of either high school credentials or test scores.

A student who was admitted prior to Fall 1993 and whose status is "AH" ("Admit Temp" in the old dialect) must earn 30 semester hours at WSU with at least a 2.00 GPA to be eligible to transfer out of CLL. Credit earned elsewhere does not apply toward this 30-hour requirement. After earning the minimum credit and grades, the student goes to the UAC for a Change of College/Curriculum.

For students who have been granted credit for work completed at other schools, the advisor must determine whether Transfer Credit Evaluation needs to examine the original credit evaluation. The transcripts of students who were admitted to this category prior to Spring / Summer 1994 were evaluated by CLL and may require re-evaluation by Transfer Credit Evaluation.

Matriculated, Interdisciplinary Studies, Lower Division, Fall 1993 or later

Students admitted to this curriculum of CLL in Fall 1993 or later with an "AH" status have a file in University Admissions that is incomplete. They will have an Admissions Hold. To clear the Hold, they must first complete their file in Admissions, at which point their status is changed to regular admission.

All students admitted to this curriculum in or after Fall 1993 have a status of "AR" (Admit Regular) if their file in University Admissions is complete with official transcripts from all previous schools. An "AR" status for students admitted Fall 1993 or later does not necessarily signify eligibility to transfer within WSU. To distinguish between a student who is eligible and one who is not, the advisor must find in the student's academic records, which may include WSU as well as other schools, at least 30 semester hours of coursework (transferable course work if taken at another school) with a minimum GPA of 2.00.

MAT 1110 and 1120 offer no credit in the Colleges of LAS/FPCA. Remember to deduct this credit when processing a Change of College for students transfering from the College of Education to one of these colleges. 

A Change of Curriculum is to be used only when a student is changing programs within the same college. The request should be submitted to the Records Office via an e-mail request to recordsmaintenance@wayne.edu. Please include the student's name, PID, curricululm code and effective term.

Students who have one of the curriculum codes below and who wish to change to a program in Liberal Arts & Science must apply through University Admissions.

• Non-Matriculated, Interdisciplinary Studies, L69.
• Non-Matriculated, Lifelong Learning Limited, L70.

For any of a variety of reasons, an instructor may change a student's final grade or mark. Whether the student requests the change or the instructor initiates the procedure, the process requires the instructor to complete a Change of Grade form, available in the academic departments, indicating the old and new grade/mark as well as the reason for the change and send it directly to the Grades Coordinator of the student's college.

The deadline for completing work to convert the mark of "I" to a grade is one calendar year from the time the "I" was submitted. An additional year may be granted upon written request from both the student and instructor. An instructor may set a deadline shorter than that of the university.

A Change of Grade form is the appropriate document for an instructor to use in the case of a student having been given an "E" for a course during a term in which the mark of "X" was available as long as the student received the "E" as the result of not attending class. A memo from the instructor stating that the student received the "E" due to lack of attendance must accompany the Change of Grade form. 

Students who take more than one introductory Chemistry course, such as 1020, 1220 and 1410 will not receive degree credit for both. This rule also includes CHM 1050 and 1070. For example, a student who completed 1020 and then completed 1220/1230 receives full credit for 1020, but only 3 degree credits for 1220/1230. Credit is not deducted from the student's total on the transcript, so the excess credits need to be added to the number of credits required to graduate. In the example above, the student would need to complete 122 credits to graduate, rather than 120. Please refer to the chart for specific credits earned.

Civilizations and Societies Requirement

A course within the Civilizations and Socieities category is required for students earning degrees from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Approved courses may be found on the curriculum sheet for the college. The Junior Year in Germany experience also meets this requirement. A course that appears as meeting a group requirement and is also listed for the CS requirement, cannot be used to satisfy both requirements.

Transfer courses may be approved for this requirement if they adhere to the focus of the category on a case by case basis by an advisor.

Guidelines for CS courses include a focus on folklore, religious studies, culturally oriented courses offered in departments of languages and literature, or interdisciplinary studies in the humanities. Designed to stress the inter-relatedness of the humanities and culture, this course will emphasize the position and importance of the arts, philosophy and literature in society. 

See Professional School Credits in LA&S/CFPCA. The University Advising Center may approve 8 credits of cognate (professional school) credit. The major department must approve any additional credits, for a total of 16 credits.

Caveats:

• A CLEP exam may not be re-taken within a 6-month period
• No credit is awarded for CLEP in a foreign language
• Credit will not be awarded for CLEP scores on the basis of their appearance on the transcript of another institution

CLEP transcripts may be requested from:
CLEP Transcript Service
P.O. Box 6600
Princeton, NJ 08541-6600
(609) 771-7865

NOTE: Students may not receive General Education credit for both European and American History, or for both American Government and Comparative Politics. When completing Group Requirements, a subject area code may not be used more than once.

Co-Major

Co-majors in the following areas are offered and must be officially delcared in conjunction with a stand-alone major program.

• Chicano-Boricua Studies; requires a minimum of 33 credit hours of approved course work
• Peace and Conflict Studies; requires a minimum of 32 credit hours of approved course work
• Women's Studies; requires a minimum of 32 credit hours of approved course work
• University Honors; requires a minimum of 36 credit hours of Honors course work

Combined Degree

Students may complete a "combined degree" when they wish to teach at the secondary level in a subject area such as foreign language or any other subject area considered a teachable major (ex. English, Chemistry). The student declares his/her major in the academic discipline, completes all general education requirements for the college that offers the major, and applies to the College of Education to complete the methods courses and student teaching. The student is granted the degree from the academic college, and is qualified for a teaching certificate by the College of Education.

Competency Requirements are basic skills included in the University General Education Requirements. These requirements include Written Communication (including Basic Composition, Intermediate Composition, English Proficiency, and Writing Intensive Course in the Major), Mathematics Competency, Oral Communication, Computer Literacy and Critical Thinking. These requirements should be fulfilled early in the student's undergraduate career.

The manner in which they may be satisfied will depend on the student's program and will depend also on when the student was first admitted and enrolled at Wayne State.

A General Education Competency "Hold" will be placed on the record of a student who has earned 90 hours or more and who has not met the Competency Requirements as well as UGE 1000 (Introduction to the University and Its Libraries), the latter requirement applying only to FTIACs and to transfer students who bring 12 or fewer credits to Wayne State. The Writing Intensive requirement is not subject to a registration "Hold" since it is meant to be an upper-division requirement.

Students who plan to earn concurrent degrees or concurrent majors must fulfill the Writing Intensive requirement for both programs. 

To earn concurrent degrees, a student must complete at least 150 semester hours, fulfill all university, college and departmental requirements, complete and submit two separate degree applications (the student pays for only one) and must receive both degrees at the same time.

Within either CFPCA or Liberal Arts &Science a student may earn two degrees by declaring both majors, meeting the requirements of the college and each major, and earning at least 150 semester hours.

If one degree is to be from CFPCA and the other from Liberal Arts & Science the student must be reminded of the differences in General Education requirements between those colleges and the requirement to meet those of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

To pursue two degrees in each of two different colleges listed above, the student should be coded in the college that offers the more specialized of the two programs.

To pursue a degree in either Liberal Arts, FPCA, Science, or ULMA and a second degree in a professional school or college, the student must first be accepted by and enrolled in the professional school, then must see an academic advisor for a "Program Change Form" which the advisor must complete by checking the "Dual Degree" box and circling "ADD", writing the name of the second major, and signing. The student must go to the department for a plan of work and signature for the second major before submitting to Records. This informs Central Records that the student plans to declare a major in a college in which he or she is not coded, that the UAC approves for the Dean's Office, and that the student is to remain coded in the professional school. 

A student may earn one degree with what is commonly referred to as a "double major" by completing requirements of the college and each department, including the Writing Intensive courses for each major, and earning a minimum of 120 hours. If both majors are within the same college (FPCA or Liberal Arts & Science), the Declaration of Major procedure is the same as it is for one major. If two colleges are involved, indicate the college with the most comprehensive general education requirements as the primary major on the first line of the "Program Change Form" and add the second major in the "Dual Majors" section of the form. Please note that regardless of whether the student earns one degree with concurrent majors or earns two degrees, he or she must meet all college and departmental requirements. The basic requirements of Liberal Arts & Science exceed those of CFPCA and, for some requirements, are defined differently.

Conversion of quarter hours to semester hours may be accomplished by dividing the number of quarter hours by 1.5 and, if necessary, rounding up to the next integer.

The policy on repeating courses, which was implemented beginning in the fall quarter of 1969, allows a student to raise his or her GPA by repeating a course and thereby having the original Points and Hours Attempted subtracted from the Honor Point Fraction. The following stipulations apply:

1. The original grade must be a form of A,B,C,D, E or F.
2. A repeat override must be set in Banner using SFASRPO to permit the student to register for the repeated course.
3. If the same course no longer exists, the student should contact department to request approval to use a substitute course.
4. The course may be repeated only at Wayne State.
5. If the same course still exists, it must be that course which the student repeats. If the course number has changed, an email should be sent to Records. If the same course no longer exists, the department must authorize a substitute course.
6. The original grade and hours attempted are subtracted from the student's Honor Point Fraction.
7. After a student has graduated, repeating a course that was taken as an undergraduate will not result in the value of the original grade being deducted from the Honor Point Fraction.

Students who earn a low grade in a course at Wayne State should be warned against repeating a similar course elsewhere: if the student's original grade was a "D," the equivalent course taken elsewhere will not transfer to WSU since he or she already has credit for it; if the original grade was an "E," the equivalent course taken elsewhere will transfer to WSU but the original grade will remain on the WSU transcript and in GPA calculation.

The student's signature is required on the repeat form but no other signature is required unless the course number has changed.

A maximum of 32 credit hours may be earned within the following combinations:
CLEP, AP, IB, and credit by special exam (see below).

Credits taken by exam will satisfy appropriate competency or group requirements. In the case of PS and LS, if both requirements have been satisfied by exam, the laboratory requirement will have been met (M.D.Dykes memo of August 1996).

Credit by exam (including CLEP) is not permitted for foreign language. Students should be directed to the Department of Classical & Modern Languages, Literature, and Culture for a foreign language exam to meet the Foreign Language requirement for Arabic any of the Romance languages. Students should be directed to the department for the policy on other languages taught at WSU.

Credit by Special Exam

Upon recommendation of the department chairperson and with the appropriate college or school office, a student may earn credit in a course in which s/he has not been regularly enrolled in the university, but which is offered by the department by passing a special examination. Credit by special exam is restricted as follows: 

1. Not more than 16 credits may be earned in any one subject.
2. Not more than 32 credits may be included in the minimum credits required for graduation.
3. Credit will be recorded with grade to indicate the level of performance in the examination but will not be considered in computing grade point average.
4. Credit by exam does not interrupt residency, nor does it count towards the required 30 credit hours in residence required by a WSU degree.
5. To be eligible to earn Credit by Special Examination, a student must have been regularly admitted or have attended with guest status, have enrolled for one semester and have completed as least one course.

Students who intend to transfer to other schools are cautioned the Credit by Special Examination at one institution is infrequently accepted for transfer credit by another institution.