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Transfer credit for graduate students

A student may transfer up to six hours of graduate credit from another accredited college or university. Appropriateness of work proposed for transfer credit will be determined by the Registrar in consultation with the appropriate Program Director, who in turn will consult with the chairs of the Education, English, or History Departments if necessary. Occasionally, work from a foreign university may be accepted if it meets the accreditation requirements of a professional accrediting body responsible for free-standing institutions within a specialty, or acceptance of credit for military education. Credit will not be given for portfolio or experiential learning that occurs prior to admission to the graduate program at Emory & Henry College.

Grades and Grade Points for Graduate Studies
Final grades for graduate course work are assigned as follows:

Letter Grade Grade Points per Semester Hour

A	4.00
A–	3.67
B+	3.33
B	3.00
B–	2.67
C+	2.33
C	2.00
C–	1.67
F	0
W (Withdrawn)	No credit/no penalty

Requirements for Graduation with a Master’s Degree
Graduate students should select courses in their desired track in consultation with the appropriate Program Director or their advisor. Students can reasonably expect to complete the degree within a three-year period, including enrollments in fall, spring, and summer terms. Thirty (30) total semester hours are required for completion of the Master’s degree. All students are expected to complete the degree within a six-year period. Students who go beyond this time limit may have to take additional courses, as determined by the Program Director.

When students have completed 24 semester hours of course work, they will be required to take a written comprehensive examination of three to four hours, followed by an oral interview with faculty.

Although the M.A.Ed. is a teaching degree rather than a research degree, a culminating writing project will be required. Students will write a comprehensive paper in which they will analyze what they have learned, how they have learned these things, and the implications of their discoveries for what they expect to happen in their classrooms. This paper will be completed during the final course, which will ordinarily be Education 505 or 600.

Satisfactory progress requires a 3.00 GPA. Any student in the graduate degree program whose GPA falls below 3.00 after attempting nine or more semester hours of course work will not be in good standing and will be placed on academic warning. If, at the end of the first semester of academic warning, or any subsequent semester, the student again does not attain minimum satisfactory academic progress, he or she may be placed on academic warning a second time. If a student fails to raise his or her GPA to a 3.00 after two semesters on academic warning, he or she will be dismissed from the program.

Students dismissed from the graduate program may apply for readmission after one semester. Students seeking readmission after having been dismissed must provide evidence of an attempt to improve academic performance during their time away from the graduate program. A non-refundable fee equal to the initial admission fee must accompany the application for readmission. Students who are readmitted to the program two semesters or more after academic dismissal must meet the requirements of the graduate catalog in force when they are readmitted. Students who have been academically dismissed twice from the graduate program will not be readmitted to the program. Applications for readmission should be directed to the Neff Education Center and will be reviewed by faculty and an admissions committee.

Emory & Henry College
P.O. Box 947
Emory, Virginia
24327-0947
276.944.4121