GENERAL REGULATIONS

ADMISSION TO CANDIDACY

Graduate degree students who seek the M.S. degree in Applied Psychology must be admitted to candidacy. To be admitted to candidacy, a student must complete the following steps:

1. Be fully admitted as a graduate degree student.

2. Have completed 23 graduate semester hours in an approved program of studies.

3. Have a 3.0 cumulative grade point average on all graduate studies (see exceptions under Repeating Courses and Time Limit).

4. Have an approved program on file with the student's adviser.

5. Have submitted an Application for Candidacy to the Department of Psychology and Sociology. Applications are available in the department.

All of these steps must be completed before a student can be recommended for candidacy by the department and approved for candidacy by the Graduate Advisory Committee.

COURSE REPETITION

Only a grade lower than B can be raised by repetition of the course; a re-examination is not permitted. Any course that is repeated must be retaken at Francis Marion University. A course may be repeated only once. Psychology graduate students may repeat only one course. That one course may be repeated only with written approval from the department chairperson. Only the higher grade of the repeated course will be counted in the calculation of the grade point average.