College of Science & Health (CSH)

Policy for Granting Exempt Status from the College Core Requirements

approved May 2019

Starting the fall semester of 2019, the CSH College Committee will adopt the following policy in granting programs exempt status from the College Core requirements:

A program may get exempt status from the College Core requirements if it falls under one of these two criteria: 

1. A program that has a credit load requirement which prevents typical students from satisfying the College Core, general education requirements, and the major within four years. 
2. A program whose major requirements would otherwise satisfy the College Core as specified in the catalog.*

*The second criterion is meant for programs that would have satisfied the College Core requirements with their required courses outside of their home department (like Chemistry with a Business Concentration, Biology Education, Clinical Lab Science, Radiation Therapy, etc.), but because those courses from outside of their home department are required for their program, they can't currently use them to satisfy the College Core. However, a program that can satisfy the College Core requirements within 4 years through proper advising will NOT be eligible for the exempt status.

Note: Starting in the fall semester of 2019, the CSH College Committee will require any revisions of programs with exempt status (from College Core requirements) to get approval from the CSH College Committee. A check-box in the CIM form will be added that will require new programs or revisions of existing programs that want to be exempted from the College Core requirements to secure the approval of the CSH College Committee. This will not affect programs that already have exempt status. In other words, programs currently in the exempt status list will remain in that list unless they go through a revision that impacts the criteria above. The CSH CC chair has the option to approve changes that do not impact the exempt status without the approval of the CSH College Committee.