Special Education Catalog - graduate studies at assumption college

12
Graduate degree program in special education
Waiver of Required Courses
The Special Education Program Director will grant a waiver of a
required course if the following conditions are met:
1. If the student has taken an equivalent graduate course at
another college or university within the past five years and has
passed the course with a grade of a B or higher, a waiver of a
required course may be granted. It is the student’s responsibility
to demonstrate that a course taken elsewhere is, in fact, equivalent
to the required Assumption College course (e.g., course
description, syllabus). The request for the waiver and/or
transfer should be submitted to the faculty advisor, who will
formally submit the request to the Special Education Program
Director for consideration. If the student requests transfer of
credits, written approval of the advisor, and the Dean of the
Graduate School is required. In some cases, departmental
approval of the waiver or credit transfer may be dependent on
the student’s completion of additional reading or the submission
of a paper or other materials to ensure competencies have
been successfully met.
2. If for any other reason a student requests a waiver of a course or
required program components, the student must document in
writing the reasons for the request and present the request to
the faculty advisor. The advisor will then take appropriate steps
to submit the request to the appropriate faculty and Special
Education Program Director. In some cases, a waiver exam, oral
or written, at the faculty member’s discretion, may be requested
by the faculty member primarily responsible for teaching the
course for which is waiver is sought.
3. Undergraduate courses are not construed as equivalent to graduate
courses. In exceptional circumstances, if a student thinks
that he or she has taken the equivalent of a graduate course, he
or she may follow the appropriate procedure as outlined above.
4. The student who is successful in obtaining a waiver for one or
more courses must still complete the required number of course
credit hours in order to obtain the graduate degree.
Special Student Status
Special Students are those who are either considering applying to
the Special Education graduate program or who have applied and
are awaiting review of their application status. Special Students
may take up to two (2) Special Education graduate courses.
Special Students must submit a copy of their undergraduate
transcript for review by the Program Director and must obtain
permission from the Program Director to register for any course.
Students must complete their application for admission before
registering for any additional courses. Permission to enroll in
graduate courses as a Special Student does not guarantee an
individual admission to the Special Education program nor
does it guarantee that all of the course taken will be accepted in
fulfillment of degree and/or licensure requirements.
An individual who is not seeking admission to the degree
program must obtain written permission from the Special
Education Program Director and the Dean of the Graduate
School to take more than two (2) courses as a Special Student.
Permission will be contingent upon the individual demonstrating
prerequisite knowledge for courses requested.
International Students
Those applicants who have attained a level of education officially
considered as equivalent to a bachelor’s degree from an American
institution of higher education are eligible for admission to the
program. An official course-by-course transcript evaluation, and
translation if necessary, is required to determine if the degree
obtained is equivalent to an American bachelor’s degree.
Applicants whose native or official tongue is not English are
required to provide evidence of English profciency through the
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or International
Language Testing System (IELTS). Information about these tests
are available from TOEFL at www.toefl.org, Box 899, Princeton,
NJ, 08540 or from IELTS at www.ielts.org, IELTS Inc., 100 East
Corson Street, Suite 200, Pasadena, CA, 91103.
All international students must also complete Assumption
College’s International Student Information Form (I-20)
concerning their financial resources or financial support. Forms
and information are available from the Office of Student Life
at 508-767-7401.