Office of the Registrar - Michigan State University
University Curriculum and Catalog (UCC): Academic Policies and Procedures
- ACADEMIC PROGRAM TERMINOLOGY
- Academic Program Terminology (October 2008) (.pdf)
- UCC Announcement: Elimination of Options - Availability of Choice to List Concentrations on the Michigan State University Transcript (August 10, 2007) (.pdf)
- CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
- Graduate Certificate Programs, Policy and Procedures for (May 2009) (.pdf)
- Policy Change - Allow a maximum of 9 credits to be transferred from the Graduate Certificate (GC) level to a Master’s degree program with an exception for the College of Education to allow 12 credits (December 23, 2008) (.pdf)
- New Policy - Allow a combined maximum of 9 credits to be applied to a Master’s degree program from transfer courses, Lifelong Education enrollment status, and the Graduate Certificate level with no more than 9 credits from each category, except for 12 graduate certificate credits permitted in the College of Education (December 23, 2008) (.pdf)
- Redefinition of the Policies and Procedures for Graduate Certificates (December 23, 2008; REVISED March 10, 2009) (.pdf)
- CONSORTIUM AGREEMENTS AND ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS, INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL LINKAGE AGREEMENTS
- COURSES
- Course Numbers (.pdf)
- Courses Offered at the Same Time - January 17, 2006 (.pdf)
- Course Offerings and Number of Class Sections, Minimum Standards for (.pdf)
- Courses Available for Variable Numbers of Credits and/or Reenrollment (September 26, 1997) (.pdf)
- Course Scheduling (April 10, 2007) (.pdf)
- Courses Where Credits Exceed Contact Hours, Guidelines for (September 26, 1997) (.pdf)
- Interdepartmental Courses: Definition and Procedures (September 26, 1997) (.pdf)
- Interdepartmental Courses within a Single Department/School (.pdf)
- Recommended Background Proposal - Spring 2001 (.pdf)
- Regulation for the Deletion from the Catalog, Courses Not Taught in the Preceding Four Calendar Years (.pdf)
- Subject Codes Procedure (January 2008) (.pdf)
- Transfer Credit Administrative Forms System (November 11, 2005) (.pdf)
- Transfer Credit Policy and Practice; Transfer Credit and Integrative Studies (January 27, 2006) (.pdf)
- Transfer MSU Replaces ACTS IV (November 21, 2005) (.pdf)
- W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Clarification of Meaning of "Given at" (.pdf)
- DUAL DEGREES, JOINT DEGREES, LINKED BACHELOR'S-MASTER'S, AND DUAL MAJORS
- Dual Degrees, Joint Degrees, and Dual Majors, Guidelines for (June 2007) (.pdf)
- New Policy - Allow a maximum of 9 approved credits from the Undergraduate Level to be applied to a Linked Bachelor’s-Master’s degree program (December 23, 2008) (.pdf)
- ENROLLMENT
- Enrollment Limitations for Undergraduate Programs and Requests Related to Admission (September 23, 1987) (.pdf)
- Policy Change - Reduction of the credits earned in Lifelong Education enrollment status eligible to be applied to a Master’s degree program from 10 to 9 credits (December 23, 2008) (.pdf)
- INTEGRATIVE STUDIES
- Implementation of the University's INTEGRATIVE STUDIES Requirement for Bachelor's Degrees (September 26, 1997) (.pdf)
- Principles and Criteria for Integrative Studies (.pdf)
- Arts and Humanities (.pdf)
- Biological and Physical Sciences (.pdf)
- Social, Economic and Behavioral Sciences (.pdf)
- Implementation of the Integrative Studies Policy: Requests for ALTERNATIVE TRACKS in General Science (September 26, 1997) (.pdf)
- Request for Alternative Track to Integrative Studies in General Science (.pdf)
- Integrative Studies Policy (January 10, 1991) (.pdf)
- Guidelines for College of Natural Science (.pdf)
- Integrative Studies in General Science, Change in College Requirements and Alternate Tracks (November 18, 2000) (.pdf)
- Integrative Studies: Standard Operating Procedures (February 8, 2008) (.pdf)
- Diversity Distribution Requirements (May 16, 2007) (.pdf)
- LEAD ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT
- MATHEMATICS REQUIREMENT, UNIVERSITY
- MINORS
- Minors, Policy and Procedures (February 2009) (.pdf)
- Policies Relating to Unique Content in a Minor and Eligibility to Enroll in a Minor (October 28, 2008) (.pdf)
- Policy Change - Enable departments to offer a minor in a field of study where no major is offered and eliminate the requirement that the minor must carry the same field-of-study name as the major (February 27, 2009) (.pdf)
- NAME CHANGES
- SPECIALIZATIONS
- STUDY ABROAD
- MSU Co-Sponsored Study Abroad Programs, Memorandum to Deans, Directors, and Chairs (May 22, 2003) (.pdf)
- MSU Co-Sponsored Study Abroad Programs, Definition and Review Criteria (October 27, 2003) (.pdf)
- TIER I and TIER II WRITING
- Implementation of the University's TIER I Writing Requirement for Bachelor's Degrees (September 26, 1997) (.pdf)
- Implementation of the University's TIER II Writing Requirement for Bachelor's Degrees (September 26, 1997) (.pdf)
- Report of the Joint Comittee on Writing Requirements (January 8, 1991) (.pdf)
- Writing Across the Curriculum: A Selected Bibliography (.pdf)
- RCAH Writing Courses to Fulfill Tier I Writing Requirement - Clarification and Notice of Change (January 27, 2008)(.pdf)
- TIER II College Specific Criteria
- Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (.pdf)
- College of Arts and Letters (.pdf)
- College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (.pdf)
- Eli Broad College of Business (.pdf)
- College of Communication Arts and Sciences (.pdf)
- College of Education (.pdf)
- College of Engineering (.pdf)
- College of Human Ecology (.pdf) - College dissolved August 19, 2006
- James Madison College (.pdf)
- Lyman Briggs College (.pdf)
- College of Music (.pdf)
- College of Natural Science (.pdf)
- College of Nursing (.pdf)
- College of Social Science (.pdf)
- College of Veterinary Medicine (.pdf)