2003-2005 - Graduate School - The University of Alabama

106 The University of AlabamaFIELDS AND COURSES OFINSTRUCTIONCOURSE-NUMBERING SYSTEMUnder no circumstances will graduate credit be given for courses below 400. Coursesnumbered 400–499 are primarily for advanced undergraduate students. Graduate studentsmay use 6 hours of 400-level courses for graduate credit only if the followingconditions are met:(a) The department offering the courses also offers a graduate degree.(b) Prior approval is obtained from the student’s graduate adviser and the GraduateSchool.(c) The course is taught by a member of the graduate faculty.(d) The course is not offered at the 500 level.(e) Graduate students in such courses are required to do appropriate extra workand demonstrate a higher level of mastery.General guidelines for how re quire ments of these courses should differ for graduatestudents are as follows:1. Graduate students should submit additional papers that require more analysis,synthesis, evaluation, and application of knowledge.2. Graduate students should complete additional, higher-level readings.3. Graduate students’ oral and written work should demonstrate greater depth ofthought.4. Graduate students should attend additional meetings with the professor to discusscourse content in greater depth.Courses numbered 500–599 are primarily at the master’s level. A maximum of 6 semesterhours of 400-level course credit may be accepted for a master’s degree programif approval has been obtained in the semester prior to taking the 400-level coursework.No 400-level credit (except the 6 hours accepted toward a master’s degree) may beaccepted for a doctoral degree program.Courses numbered 600–699 are primarily at the doctoral level.Courses with numbers connected by a colon (e.g., “EN 533:534”) are courses forwhich credit is given separately for each semester. In some cases, credit is given forthe fi rst semester separately, but not for the second semester unless the fi rst semesterhas been previously completed.Unless otherwise indicated, all statements of numbers of hours included in the coursedescriptions refer to semester hours of credit. In the case of courses connected by acolon, the credit indicated is for each semester.