Grades
Grades are reported to the Office of the University Registrar at the end of each academic period according to the deadlines published in the academic calendar.
In arriving at these grades, faculty members are obliged to utilize the same criteria for all students in a course, and are at liberty to consider any and all components of the student's work in a course: attendance, written work, classroom participation, recitations, laboratory technique and reports, special reports or research and all examinations. Grading in full-year courses is cumulative so that spring grades take into account the fall semester work and replace the midyear grades. The following grades will be used with plus or minus where appropriate:
A High Distinction
B Distinction
C Satisfactory
D Passing, but Unsatisfactory
E Failure
The letters "S" (Satisfactory) or "U" (Unsatisfactory) may be used as the midsemester grades for undergraduates. At midyear there must be a regular letter grade, even in full-year courses. The only exception is that "EI" (excused incomplete) may be used in a full-year thesis course (usually numbered 99D).
The numerical equivalents of the grades as determined by the faculty are:
A+ or A 4.00
A- 3.67
B+ 3.33
B 3.00
B- 2.67
C+ 2.33
C 2.00
C- 1.67
D+ 1.33
D 1.00
D- 0.67
E 0.00
Final grades are available to students through the registration system upon posting by the University Registrar after the end of each academic period.
Certain courses, for example ENG 19a, ENG 79a and b, ENG 109a and b, ENG 119a and b, ENG 139a and b, MUS 80a through 87b, MUS 111a and b, MUS 112a and b, MUS 116a and b, and PEER 94a do not utilize letter grades. For pedagogical reasons, the grades assigned in these courses are either Credit ("CR") or No Credit ("NC"). These grades do not factor into the computing of grade point averages, however they are included in assessing a student's academic standing and satisfactory academic progress.