3.4 General Regulations:  Pre-Master's

Admission
Graduates of bachelor degree programs with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 in the last two full years of university study will be considered for admission to a pre-Master's program. These are the minimum requirements of the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Departments may specify higher or additional criteria. Admission to a pre-Master's program does not guarantee future admission to a Master's program. Courses taken as part of the pre-Master's program may not be transferred to a Master's program at a later date.

Academic Performance

1. The department head or designate is responsible for assigning the courses and monitoring the progress of each student.

2. A minimum grade point average of 3.0 with no grade below C+ must be maintained for continuance in pre-Master's study. Students who fail to maintain this standing will be required to withdraw unless a departmental remedial recommendation (as below) is approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.

3. Students deficient in 6 hours of credit or less may be permitted to write a supplemental examination (when offered) in courses in which a grade of C or less was obtained.

4. Students deficient in 6 hours of credit or less with a grade of C, D, or F in a course or courses may be permitted, if the overall average is C or better, to write one supplemental examination in each course (when offered), to repeat the courses, or to take equivalent substitute courses.

A student may be permitted to repeat the pre-Master's year only once, and to remove deficiencies in grades by writing supplemental examination or repeating courses only once for each course to a maximum of 9 credit hours of course work.

If a course is repeated or a supplemental examination is written, the highest grade obtained in that course will be used in the determination of the GPA.

The GPA is cumulative in a pre-Master's program if more than one year is required to complete the course requirements.

All action taken administratively is to be reported in summary form to the Faculty of Graduate Studies Executive Committee.