Class Repeats for Undergraduate Students

Failed Courses

Nursing students will be given only one repeat attempt per failed course (with the exception of NURS 220 or NURS 492), and only two failed courses within the pre-licensure Nursing programs may be repeated. Dental Hygiene students may repeat no more than two failed general education courses. Each failed course may be repeated only once. Furthermore, no courses within the Dental Hygiene core curriculum (DHYG courses) may be repeated (see Dental Hygiene Program Grade Requirements section of the catalog). A student may receive financial aid even when repeatedly failing the same course.

Courses Passed, but not Successfully Completed

When a student receives a passing grade in a course (C, D, etc.), but the grade is not adequate for the course to be considered successfully completed due to the grade requirements for courses in the program, the student may receive financial aid only for the first repeat of the course. However, if a student passed a class once then receives financial aid for retaking it and fails the second time, the student may not receive aid for retaking the class a third time.

Withdrawal from Course being Retaken

A withdrawal is not considered a course passed nor is it considered successfully completed. If a student retaking a course withdraws before completing the course for which he or she has received financial aid funds for re-taking, then that is not counted as his or her one allowed retake for that course.

Retaken Courses and GPA

When the student repeats a class for which he/she initially earned a failing grade and receives a passing grade, that grade will replace the failing grade and the new grade will be used to calculate the final cumulative grade point average (CGPA). All attempted coursework will be reflected on the student’s official transcript. All credits resulting from repeated courses are included in determining student’s satisfactory academic progress standing for rate of progress.