Credit/No Credit Grading

Courses which are not taken to satisfy all-college requirements and are outside the requirements for the major may be taken for credit/no credit grading by sophomores, juniors, and seniors in good standing with the following provisions:

1. Not more than one course in a semester and not more than two courses per academic year may be taken for credit/no credit; the maximum number of courses is six.
2. The work of a student enrolled on a credit/no credit basis is treated in all respects like the work of regularly enrolled students.
3. The student must authorize credit/no credit grading for a full-semester course in the first eight class days of the semester or in the first four days for a seven-week course. He or she may cancel the authorization at any time up to the final day of classes in the semester or half-semester and receive the earned letter grade. If the authorization is not canceled, grades of A, B and C are recorded on the transcript as CR; grades of D and F are recorded as NC. A student who receives a grade of D in a course where credit/no credit grading has been authorized may elect to have the D recorded on the transcript in place of the NC within 30 days of receiving the grade report.
4. The number of courses permitted on a credit/no credit basis is exclusive of any courses offered on a credit/no credit basis only. Further, any student, including first-year students, may also register for one-credit physical education activities on a credit/no credit basis. Such courses taken on a credit/no credit basis may be used to fulfill graduation (but not all-college) requirements.
5. Internships and other individualized courses (directed study, directed readings, directed research, independent study) may be taken to fulfill the J-term II requirement on a credit/no credit basis, without effect on the number of other electives a student may choose to designate as credit/no credit in any given academic year.

Applications for authorizing credit/no credit grading are available at the Registrar's Office website, http://www.luther.edu/registrar/ (http://www., http://www.luther.edu/financialaid/consumer, http://www.luther.edu/registrar).