Grading
Adult non-traditional and graduate student grades at Roberts Wesleyan College reflect assessment by the instructor of key course components. The following grades are assigned:
A - indicates that a student has grasped the subject matter of a course and has made it his or her own by thinking about it and reacting upon it. It represents industry, thoroughness, and correctness of detail, but also originality, natural ability, and considerable of insight.
B - indicates that a student has intelligently fulfilled the requirements of a course, assimilating the subject matter with thoroughness and correctness and some understanding of its implications, without distinctive ability and insight in reacting upon the subject.
C - indicates fulfillment of the minimum essentials of an undergraduate course (for graduate courses please refer to individual program requirements).
D - indicates barely passing work (does not meet the requirement for coursework in the major), work that is inferior to the average both in quantity and in quality. It manifests low potentiality, the lack of initiative and/or a sense of responsibility.
F - indicates failure
I - is a temporary grade indicating that not all requirements for the course have been completed. The course instructor may grant the “I” at the request of the student if participation requirements have been met. The instructor has the right to refuse a request. When the instructor and student have agreed upon a completion plan, a contract must be completed and signed by the instructor, student, and program director (the completed contract needs to be sent to the Registration Office). The outstanding work must be completed within six weeks from the final day of the course. When the course work is completed and the final grade received, the “I” grade will be replaced. If the work is not completed by this date, the “I” is converted to a permanent grade of “F” on the record. Students will not be permitted to carry more than one incomplete grade at a time.
W - indicates withdrawal from a course during the third through twelfth week of a semester or between the second day and last three days of a time-shortened course. Although the grade is noted on the transcript, it has no effect on the GPA. PLEASE NOTE: Withdrawing from any course may affect your financial aid for the semester. Contact the Financial Services Office regarding your specific situation.
Grade Changes
A student must file an appeal for a grade within six months of the end of a course. To appeal a grade, a student must follow the Academic Grievance Policy.
Credit Hour Standards
Student credit loading for 15-week face-to-face lecture course:
3-student-credit course: 37.5 hours (150 minutes x 15 weeks = 2250 minutes/37.5 hours*) in class; 75 hours of out-of-class work.
Student credit loading for 5-week time-shortened face-to-face lecture course:
3-student-credit course: 20 hours (normally 4 hours x 5 weeks*) in class; 100 hours of out-of-class work.
Student credit for 5-week online lecture course:
3-student-credit course: 120 hours (24 hours x 5 weeks) of work.
*Student credit hours are based on the relevant contact hours/not weeks of class. For example, a student earns 3 credits for 37.5 contact hours in a traditional, face-to-face, non time-shortened lecture course regardless of whether these 37.5 contact hours are spread over 15 week during a regular semester or over 4 weeks during a summer term. And a student earns 3 credits for 20 contact hours in a time-shortened, face-to-face course regardless of whether these contact hours are spread over 4 or 5 weeks.