The University requires students to reregister and pay tuition whenever repeating a course. Instructors may not alter the "I" or any other letter grade previously reported by allowing students to repeat courses without reregistering. Unless students formally apply to repeat a course as described below, both the first and second (repeated course) grades are computed in the cumulative grade point average (GPA).

Effective Winter Quarter 1999, undergraduates may repeat five (5) courses, not to exceed fifteen (15) credit hours. When students complete the repeated course, the most recent grade--not the original course grade--is computed in the GPA. Both the original course and repeated course are marked on the student transcript as "repeated" but only the last grade applies to the cumulative grade point average.

To repeat a course, students must complete a Course Repeat form and submit it to the College office responsible for the course no later than the fifty-eighth (58th) calendar day of the quarter. This approval process ensures that the previous course's content is identical to the new course. Course Repeat forms are available in College offices and may be submitted as soon as students receive confirmation of class registration.

After the 58th calendar day, the option to repeat courses is irrevocable unless students withdraw--permitted through the twenty-first (21st) calendar day. If students withdraw after that deadline, the course counts as one of the students' five (5) courses they may repeat but the "W" does not replace the original course grade.

Students retaking a course under the Course Repeat Policy cannot simultaneously enroll in that course on a pass/fail or an audit basis.

If students repeat courses prior to Winter Quarter 1999, both grades will be computed in the GPA. Beginning Winter Quarter 1999, students may repeat a course taken before that quarter to negate the earlier grade in GPA computation.

Students who have graduated may also repeat a course, but decisions based on the recorded GPA at the actual time of graduation remain "frozen" and are not subject to change. Examples of unchangeable earlier decisions or actions are: graduation with Latin honors, departmental honors, Phi Beta Kappa, class rank, and probation on students' records on the date of graduation.

Students who repeat a course after graduation in order to raise the GPA for application to a professional school should be advised that transcript compilation services and admissions committees will disregard the UC forgiveness policy and apply their own quality point formula.