ACADEMIC INFORMATION
REPEATING COURSES
A student may repeat courses to improve his/her grade point average.
The grade earned after the first enrollment of a course will replace
the grade originally earned when calculating the student's grade
point average, provided that the repeat grade is higher than the
original grade. All grades earned after the first repetition of
a course will be included in the calculation of grade point average.
(It is recommended that courses for which a grade of D or F was
earned be repeated.) A student may not repeat for credit a 100-
or 200-level language course once he/she has received credit for
another course at a higher level in the same language and may
not repeat for credit the lower-level course of any subject in
a hyphenated sequence once he/she has received credit for the
higher-level course. Once a student has completed, either successfully
or unsuccessfully, a course at Francis Marion University, he/she
may not repeat at another institution that course for transfer
credit to Francis Marion University. However, a student may be
permitted to repeat for additional credit a course he/she took
for credit ten or more years previously.
A student may not repeat an Honors course in order to raise his/her
grade point average. In order to improve the grade point average,
a student may repeat in a regular section a course that he/she
took as an Honors section, but the new grade will carry no Honors
credit.
When a student repeats a course, all grades appear on the transcript.
Grades of CO and W are not used in the calculation of grade point
average. These grades also are not counted in the repeat regulations.
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