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'''Registration credit''' or '''R''' is a [[grades|grade]] by which get credit but no actually letter grade or P/F grade.
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'''Registration credit''' or '''R''' is a [[grades|grade]] by which get credit but no actually letter grade or [[P/F]] grade.
  
Students apply for R credit when their internships require that they receive college "credit."
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Students apply for R credit when their internships require that they receive college "credit".
  
[[Category:Registrar]]
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It is also used extensively in graduate school. In many language departments, students have to take something like 70% of their classes for a grade. This usually means writing a paper, so if they don't want to do that, they take the class for R credit. It creates a lot of awkwardness in 4000-level classes.
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Seniors in [[Columbia College]] can petition to take a class for R credit if it is over and above the credits required for graduation.
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Latest revision as of 22:51, 27 December 2007

Registration credit or R is a grade by which get credit but no actually letter grade or P/F grade.

Students apply for R credit when their internships require that they receive college "credit".

It is also used extensively in graduate school. In many language departments, students have to take something like 70% of their classes for a grade. This usually means writing a paper, so if they don't want to do that, they take the class for R credit. It creates a lot of awkwardness in 4000-level classes.

Seniors in Columbia College can petition to take a class for R credit if it is over and above the credits required for graduation.