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The credit amounts listed above are used to determine a student's enrollment status for loan deferments, immunizations, medical insurance requirements, and verifications requested by other organizations. All enrolled doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and in the Carroll Graduate School of Management are considered full-time. Graduate students, excluding Graduate School of Social Work and Law School students, registered for less than a fulltime course load may be considered full-time if they are Graduate Assistants for academic departments, Teaching Fellows, or Research Assistants. Graduate students are considered full-time if they are enrolled in a full-time Nursing Clinical Practica, Student Teaching Practica, or Internship. Graduate students registered for Interim Study, Thesis Direction, Doctoral Comprehensives, Qualifying Exam (School of Social Work), or Doctoral Continuation are considered full-time. Courses also flagged as full-time are BI 801, ED 950, ED951, ED 988, EC 900, EC 901, HS 997, LL 856, NU 901, NU 902, PY 941, SW 929, SW 939, SW 949, SW 996, and SW 997. External Courses Undergraduate After admission to Boston College, the only courses that a student may apply towards a degree will be those offered at Boston College (through the Carroll School of Management, College of Arts and Sciences, Lynch School of Education, and Connell School of Nursing) in a regular course of study during the academic year. Any exceptions to this rule must be approved in writing by the Associate Dean before the courses are begun. Exceptions may be granted by the Associate Dean for official cross-registration programs, the International Study program, certain special study programs at other universities, courses in the Woods College of Advancing Studies, and summer school courses including those taken at Boston Colleges Summer Session. A student must earn a grade of C- or better to receive credit for any course taken at another university. In some instances, the Associate Dean may stipulate a higher grade. After the course has been completed, the student should request that the registrar at the host university forward an official transcript to the Office of Student Services at Boston College. Final Examinations The final examination schedule for most courses is set before classes begin; it is available to the public and students are responsible for consulting it. A student who misses a final examination is not entitled, as a matter of right, to a make-up examination except for serious illness and/or family emergency. No student should make travel arrangements to return home which are at odds with his or her examination schedule. Students who schedule a departure without so clearing their schedules risk failure in the final examination. Courses with multiple sections may have common departmental final examinations at a date and time determined by the Office of Student Services. Students with three final examinations scheduled for the same day are entitled to take a make-up exam at a later date during exam week. If one of the three exams is a common departmental exam, this is the exam that is taken at the later date. In the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, seminars and teacher-training courses may or may not have a semester examination at the discretion of the instructor. Semester examinations are given in all other courses. Foreign Language Requirement Undergraduate All students in the College of Arts and Sciences and Carroll School of Management must, before graduation, demonstrate proficiency at the intermediate level in a modern foreign language or in a classical language. The Lynch School of Education and the Connell School of Nursing do not have a language requirement. In the College of Arts and Sciences students may demonstrate proficiency as follows: By successful completion of the course work for second semester intermediate level in a modern or classical foreign language, or one course beyond the intermediate level. By achieving a score of 3 or above on the AP test or a score of 550 or better on the SAT II reading exam in a modern foreign language. Students who entered prior to the fall of 2005-06 can demonstrate proficiency with a score of 3 or better on the AP exam or a score of 500 or better on the SAT II reading exam in a modern language. By achieving a score of 4 or above on the AP test or a score of 600 or better on the SAT II in a classical language. By having a native language other than English. The student should provide documentation of this native proficiency, or be tested by the appropriate department. By passing one of the language tests given by the Boston College language departments (for languages other than Romance Languages). Carroll School of Management students may demonstrate proficiency as follows: By successful completion of the course work for second semester intermediate level in a modern or classical foreign language, or one course beyond the intermediate level. By achieving a score of 3 or above on the AP test or a score of 550 or better on the SAT II reading exam in a modern foreign language. Students who entered prior to the fall of 2005-06 can demonstrate proficiency with a score of 3 or better on the AP exam or a score of 500 or better on the SAT II reading exam in a modern language. By achieving a score of 4 or above on the AP test or a score of 600 or better on the SAT II in a classical language. By having a native language other than English. The student should provide documentation of this native proficiency, or be tested by the appropriate department. By passing one of the language tests given by the Boston College language departments (for languages other than Romance Languages). By passing four years of high school language study (which need not be the same language, e.g., two years of Latin and two years of French would fulfill the language requirement). By taking one year of a new language or by completing two semesters of an intermediate level language if the Carroll School of Management student enters Boston College with three years of a foreign language. Language courses will count as Arts and Sciences electives. Students with documented learning disabilities may be exempt from the foreign language requirement and should consult with the Associate Dean. Fulfillment of the proficiency requirement by the examinations listed above does not confer course credit. THE UNIVERSITY: POLICIES AND PROCEDURES The Boston College Catalog 2005-2006 39

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