Curriculum Revisions Requiring Formal Petition
- Last Modified: Jan 17, 2025
- Sponsor(s):
- Responsible Office(s): Council on Curriculum
Policy Statement
- To waive a required vacation block
- To modify required confirmed clerkships, electives or courses
- To modify curriculum in response to academic failure
- To request a summer Arts and Science campus
Some revision(s) in a student curriculum may be considered without a petition. Any such revisions will be made and approved only by the Associate Dean of Curriculum. The following are the circumstances in which a student’s curriculum may be revised without a petition:
- Illness or injury to the student; illness, injury or death in the student’s immediate family which would compromise the student’s ability to fully participate in the scheduled course(s)
- Administrative Leave of Absence granted by Council on Evaluation
- When it is evident that the student needs additional basic science course-work, due to failure or withdrawal from the course
- Revised curriculum plan due to insufficient performance on CBSE (refer to Step I Policy (PDF))
- Revised curriculum plan due to failure on Step 1 (refer to Step I Policy (PDF))
- Other emergency circumstances as determined by the Associate Dean of Curriculum