Each graduate student is responsible for understanding and complying with the rules and procedures of the UMES Graduate School and all applicable departmental graduate program requirements which govern individual programs of study.
Prerequisite courses (e.g., 100 to 400 numbered undergraduate and selected 500 or 600 numbered graduate) may be required to satisfy conditions of provisional admission status or for preparation and understanding of advanced graduate level courses (500 or 600 and above numbering sequence). Prerequisite courses may be satisfied before or after enrollment in the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, but if after enrollment, must be completed within the first academic year of admittance.#N#Prerequisite courses provide no graduate credit (if undergraduate numbered) and do not count toward the course credits required to graduate from a graduate degree program at UMES.
A grade of S/U should be used instead of an ‘I’ grade for 799, 899 and similar research credit courses (500 to 798 series) which are offered/carried over or continued over semesters or sessions, usually with variable credit hours, and whose objective is the long‐term development of a thesis, dissertation, Master’s project, or research project. In these instances a ‘Satisfactory’ (’S’ grade) completion of the required research credit hours satisfies only part of the graduation requirements.
Any course (s), workshop (s) or seminar (s), planned to take place in a span of time less than a normal academic semester or a winter/summer session , and offering graduate credit to participants, must meet the following criteria:
An ‘A’ is calculated at 4 quality points, ‘B’ at 3 quality points and ‘C’ at 2 quality points. The grades of ‘D’, ‘F’ and ‘I’ receive no quality points. Courses taken with ‘A’ to ‘F’ letter grades will be used in calculating the Grade Point Average.
Those who have not completed the required number of credit hours of Dissertation Research (899) must register for a minimum of one credit of dissertation research each semester. Doctoral candidates whose demands upon the University are greater than that represented by a minimum registration, will be expected to register for the number of graduate credits which reflect their use of UMES resources.
While matriculated at UMES, a graduate student who earns a grade of ‘F’ or ‘D’ in residence may not advance his/her credit hours earned toward a UMES degree by repeating the course at another institution.
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Faculty will select one of the following loan periods for each physical item placed on Course Reserves: Materials are borrowed for two-hour periods and must be used in the library. They do not circulate overnight. Materials are borrowed for two-hour periods and may be taken outside the library.
Physical materials are located at the Gleeson Library Circulation/Reserves desk and are checked out for the loan period selected by the faculty member. Students are required to present their valid USF ID card when borrowing Course Reserves material. Students may borrow up to two Course Reserves materials at one time.
If students need Course Reserve materials on a specific day or time, they may book them. Bookings on materials can be done over the phone or in person at the Circulation/Reserves desk. If a booked item has not been picked up within 15 minutes of the booking time, the item may go to another student.