Pass/No credit
The purpose of the Pass/No Credit option is to allow you to
take courses outside of your normal curriculum or minor program
which you might otherwise not consider taking because of grade
considerations. Please note that the Pass/No Credit
option is not available to graduate students or nonmatriculated
students.
Submission procedures and deadlines
If you wish to take a course with the Pass/No Credit
designation, you must file an approved Pass/No
Credit Form, with the Registrar's before deadline date
specified in the academic calendar. Similarly, if you have
elected to take a course on this basis, you must choose to
drop the Pass/No Credit designation by filing a
Remove Pass/No Credit Designation Form by the same
deadline. Please refer to Rensselaer's academic
calendar for specific dates by which you must add or remove
Pass/No Credit designations.
Undergraduate students may elect to take courses on a Pass
or No Credit basis, for which the grade is either “P” (Pass) or
“NC” (Fail). In general:
- You may take no more than 12 credit hours of courses
designated as Pass/No Credit courses, and no more than six
credits of these may be Humanities and Social Sciences
courses used to satisfy the requirements of the undergraduate
courses in these fields. You cannot use a pass/no credit
course in the H&SS depth requirement.
- You may not use the Pass/No Credit designation for any
courses which you have previously failed, or for any courses
which are specifically required by name or which are required
to be chosen from a list of named courses in your curriculum
or minor.
- You may not take any courses at the 6000
level on a Pass/No Credit basis.
- Communication Intensive courses cannot
be taken as Pass/No Credit. (effective for students who enter
Fall 2010 or later)
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