Spring Semester 2020-21 Exempted Courses for Grading Policy
A flexible, alternative grading system as well as additional adjustments to key academic policies for Spring Semester 2020-2021 are approved. The alternative grading system has an expanded range of grading options and applies to spring semester undergraduate courses, regardless of their original modality — online, hybrid, or face-to-face — unless a course is exempted from this option (see Course Exemptions section below). An FAQ regarding the grading policy for Spring Semester 2020-21 is available online.
Course Exemptions for Spring Semester 2020-21
Departments or schools may exempt some courses from the S/NC system if traditional A to F grades are essential for programmatic accreditation, licensure, or similar reasons. The list of approved courses exempted are below:
| Subject | Catalog Number | Title | 
| ACCT | 1010 | Foundations of Accounting | 
| ACCT | 1020 | Decision Making with Accounting | 
| ACCT | 3040 | Financial Accounting and Reporting I | 
| ACCT | 3050 | Financial Accounting and Reporting II | 
| ACCT | 3100 | Managerial Accounting | 
| ACCT | 3400 | Introduction to Federal Income and Tax Planning | 
| ACCT | 4200 | Assurance Services and Internal Controls | 
| ACCT | 4400 | Single-Entity Accounting and Tax Planning | 
| ACCT | 4600 | Multiple-Entity Accounting and Tax Planning | 
| ACCT | 4700 | Data Analytics for Accounting | 
| AVN | 1100 | Private Pilot Ground School | 
| AVN | 3100 | Instrument Pilot Ground School | 
| AVN | 3500 | Commercial Pilot Ground School | 
| BA | 1500 | Intro to Business Communication and Professional Skills | 
| BA | 2500 | Strategic Business Communication | 
| BA | 4905 | Seminar in Business Administration | 
| BA | 4920 | International Business Experience | 
| BIOS | 1700 | Biological Sciences I | 
| BIOS | 1705 | Biological Sciences I Lab | 
| BIOS | 1710 | Biological Sciences II | 
| BIOS | 1715 | Biological Sciences II Lab | 
| BIOS | 3100 | General Genetics | 
| BIOS | 3200 | Fundamentals of Animal Cell Biology | 
| BIOS | 3300 | Principles of Evolution | 
| CE | 2010 | CE Computational Techniques | 
| CE | 2100 | Elements of Land Surveying | 
| CE | 2160 | Construction Engineering and Management | 
| CE | 2220 | Civil Engineering Graphics | 
| CE | 3110 | Route Engineering | 
| CE | 3410 | Hydraulics Laboratory | 
| CE | 3420 | Applied Hydraulics and Hydrology | 
| CE | 3800 | Civil Engineering Materials | 
| CE | 4001 | Societal Concerns in Civil Engineering | 
| CE | 4280 | Experimental Methods in CE | 
| CE | 4330 | Structural Design in Steel | 
| CE | 4911 | Sr. Design - Env./Water Resources | 
| CE | 4912 | Sr. Design - Structures and Found | 
| CHE | 2000 | Mass and Energy Balances I | 
| CHE | 2010 | Mass and Energy Balances II | 
| CHE | 3600 | Mass Transfer and Separations | 
| CHE | 3700 | Chemical Reaction Engineering | 
| CHE | 3800 | ChE Modeling and Application Calculations | 
| CHE | 4120 | Unit Operations Lab II | 
| CHE | 4310 | Chemical Engineering Process Design II | 
| CHEM | 1500 | Concepts in Chemistry | 
| CHEM | 1510 | Fundamentals of Chemistry I | 
| CHEM | 1520 | Fundamentals of Chemistry II | 
| CHEM | 3050 | Organic Chemistry I | 
| CFS | 2000 | Fundamentals in CFS | 
| CFS | 2100 | Fund Child Life and Ped Settings | 
| CFS | 2700 | Intimate and Family Relations | 
| CFS | 2710 | Individual Family Lifespan | 
| CFS | 2720 | Aging and Family Rels. Mod Society | 
| CFS | 3920 | CFS Practicum | 
| CFS | 4602 | Prof. Assess and Helping Skills | 
| CFS | 4910 | CFS Internship | 
| CS | 2401 | Introduction to Computer Science II | 
| CS | 3610 | Data Structures | 
| CS | 4561 | Software Design and Development II | 
| EDPL | 3600 | Field Experience | 
| EE | 2104 | Circuits I | 
| EE | 2213 | Instrumentation Laboratory | 
| EE | 4963 | ECE Capstone Design II | 
| ET | 1100 | Engineering Graphics Fundamentals | 
| ET | 2200 | Statics | 
| ET | 2220 | Strength in Materials | 
| ET | 2240 | Dynamics | 
| ET | 3200 | Engineering Thermodynamics | 
| FIN | 3000 | Introduction to Corporate Finance | 
| FIN | 3200 | Financial Statement Analysis and Financial Modeling | 
| FIN | 3270 | Financial Markets and Institutions | 
| FIN | 3310 | Risk and Insurance | 
| FIN | 3410 | Investments | 
| FIN | 4100 | Personal Financial Planning | 
| FIN | 4140 | Cases in Financial Planning | 
| FIN | 4460 | Fixed Incomes and Futures | 
| FIN | 4470 | Equity and Option Valuation | 
| FIN | 4480 | Portfolio Management | 
| FIN | 4510 | Intermediate Corporate Finance | 
| FIN | 4550 | International Finance | 
| FIN | 4580 | Applied Corporate Finance | 
| ISE | 3200 | Engineering Statistics | 
| ISE | 3210 | Engineering Probability | 
| ISE | 4150 | Information Systems Engineering | 
| ISE | 4170 | Lean Manufacturing and Service Systems | 
| ISE | 4311 | Applied Systems Engineering | 
| ISE | 4192 | Senior Capstone | 
| JOUR | 1330 | Precision Language | 
| JOUR | 2311 | Multiplatform Reporting | 
| JOUR | 3100 | Communication Law | 
| JOUR | 3200 | Ethics, Mass Media, and Society | 
| JOUR | 4130 | Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media | 
| MGT | 2100 | Introduction to Management and Organization | 
| MGT | 3730 | Entrepreneurial Business Consulting | 
| MGT | 4800J | Business Strategy | 
| MIS | 2020 | Business Information Systems | 
| MIS | 2200 | Systems Analysis and Design | 
| MIS | 2800 | Business Intelligence and Information Management | 
| MIS | 3200 | Systems Development | 
| MIS | 3800 | Enterprise Systems Implementation | 
| MIS | 4200 | Information System Consulting Project | 
| MIS | 4580 | Advanced Business Intelligence | 
| MIS | 4800 | MIS Capstone | 
| MKT | 2400 | Introduction to Marketing Management | 
| NRSE | ALL | All Undergraduate Nursing Courses | 
| NURS | ALL | All Undergraduate Nursing Courses | 
| NUTR | 1100 | Intro to Food Systems | 
| NUTR | 2100 | Lifespan Nutrition | 
| NUTR | 2250 | Principles in Food Science | 
| NUTR | 2990 | Prof. Development Food Nutrition | 
| NUTR | 3000 | Nutrition Metabolism | 
| NUTR | 3100 | Medical Nutrition Therapy I | 
| NUTR | 3300 | Principles of Quantity Food Production and Purchasing | 
| NUTR | 3350 | Intro to Food Production | 
| NUTR | 3600 | Nutrition Counseling | 
| NUTR | 3921 | Dietetic Field Experience | 
| NUTR | 4000 | Nutrition in the Community | 
| NUTR | 4050 | Advanced Nutrition | 
| NUTR | 4100 | Medical Nutrition Therapy II | 
| NUTR | 4200 | Experimental Foods | 
| NUTR | 4320 | Diabetes From Bench to Bedside | 
| NUTR | 4901 | Food Nutrition Senior Seminar | 
| NUTR | 4920 | Nutrition Counseling Practicum | 
| QBA | 1720 | Intro to Information Analysis and Descriptive Analysis | 
| QBA | 2720 | Business Analytics | 
| QBA | 3720 | Predictive Analytics | 
| QBA | 4720 | Prescriptive Analytics | 
| SASM | 4500 | Senior Seminar in Sport Management |