Academic and Advising Updates

As part of academic transformation, the foreign language requirement for Eberly Bachelor of Arts degrees has been removed. During the Fall 2023 semester, the Registrar updated DegreeWorks so the requirement no longer populates in the degree audit.

Typically, degree programs utilize the most recent attempt a student has made in a course. The most recent attempt will also populate in a student’s DegreeWorks audit. Before this policy update, if the student earned a poor grade on a subsequent attempt at the course, the student could experience setbacks, delay of progression through the major and other consequences. For example, if a student had an earned grade of C- in MATH 126, chose to take the course again and subsequently earned a D, the student would not be able to progress further along the math path without taking the course for a third time and earning at least a C- again.

Dual Degree updates of note for academic year 2023-2024

Here is a quick list of new programs students will have access to beginning Fall 2024. Remember, current students seeking to add new minors or majors to existing curricula may need to update the catalog year. Changing catalog year may have an impact on requirements for programs students are already completing, so check all the implications before adding additional programming.