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Guided Individual Study (GIS)

Guided individual instruction (correspondence courses) is individual instruction online or by mail. It is intended primarily for students who cannot come to campus for study. Students may apply a limited amount of correspondence work toward your degree. Correspondence courses do not count toward your official class load. The course hours are not counted in the enrolled hours needed for full-time status, Dean's List, or James Scholar minimum load. Before enrolling, students should become fully acquainted with the regulations.

Information about correspondence courses is available from the LAS Student Academic Affairs Office or from the University's Guided Individual Study Office. If you are enrolled for courses in residence, you must obtain the approval of the dean of the college to enroll concurrently in correspondence courses. If you are on drop status, you may enroll in a correspondence course only with the written permission of an LAS dean. You may take correspondence courses as credit/no credit, if you are already eligible to do so under current credit/no credit guidelines.

Credit for GIS Courses for Undergraduate Students

After matriculation and with the approval of the college's dean, students may count toward their degree as much as 60 semester hours of credit earned in extramural courses and/or correspondence study, provided that:

• they complete all remaining requirements for the degree in residence at the University, or
• they present acceptable residence credit for work done elsewhere and complete the requirements needed for their degree in residence at the University.

In all cases, 21 advanced hours and 60 total hours must be completed in residence at the University. Correspondence and extramural courses count toward satisfying the minimum residence requirement toward graduation.

Credit for correspondence work taken from fully accredited institutions may be allowed, if approved by the dean.