Pass/Not Pass Regulations

The Pass/Not Pass option is intended to provide students an opportunity to pursue specialized or outside interests without penalty or reduction of grade point average. It allows students a greater degree of participation in those courses than the audit system permits. Students earning a passing grade in courses for which they were enrolled on a Pass/Not Pass basis are given a “P: grade; those failing will receive a grade of “NP”. Pass and Not Pass grades are not used in calculating grade point averages. To place a course on Pass/Not Pass, students must complete a form in the Office of the Registrar, Carrington Hall 320, anytime prior to the “W” grade deadline for that course.

Caution: Prerequisite requirements of other courses may not be met with a course completed on a Pass/Not Pass basis. The decision to take a course on a Pass/Not Pass basis cannot be reversed. 

Students may take courses on a Pass/Not Pass basis under the following conditions:

1. Courses taken under the Pass/Not Pass option cannot be used to satisfy general education, major, minor, professional education, or specific degree requirements.
2. Honors classes cannot be taken on a Pass/Not Pass basis.
3. The Pass/Not Pass option is not available to repeat courses in which the student earned a D or F grade prior to Fall 2009.
4. The Pass/Not Pass option is not available to graduate students for graduate-level courses (600 or above). Departments may elect to offer certain non-didactic graduate courses (e.g., readings, special problems, independent study, clinical internships, research and thesis) on a Pass/Not Pass only basis.
5. Courses which are graded Pass/Not Pass only are exempt from the limitations otherwise imposed upon students by Pass/Not Pass regulations.