2007-2008 Catalog (PDF) - Colorado State University-Pueblo

Academic Policies
Failure to submit Appeal Letters within this prescribed
time line will result in academic suspension for two
consecutive semesters (excluding summer).
CLASS HOURS AND CREDIT HOURS
A class hour consists of 50 minutes. One class hour
per week of lecture or discussion for a semester earns
a maximum of one credit hour. Two or three class
hours a week of laboratory activities for a semester
earn a maximum of one credit hour. The number of
credits awarded for a given course is determined by
the number of lecture or laboratory hours spent each
week in class and is authorized in accordance with
guidelines of the Colorado Commission on Higher
Education.
POLICY ON AWARD OF CREDIT
Instructional activity is broadly categorized into three
categories: Type A, Type B and Type C by the
Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) as
published in its Policy for Reporting Full-time Equivalent
Students.
1) Type A Instruction
Type A instruction is defined as consisting of
“those methods in which the consumption of
faculty resources is reasonably concrete and
measurable.” In these instances, the criteria are
established in terms of a faculty Base Contact
Hour. The Base Contact Hour is a minimum of 750
minutes (this translates into a 50 minute period for
15 times). Type A instructional activities are audit;
private instruction; lecture; recitation, discussion,
and seminar; laboratory (vocational and technical;
academic and clinical); physical education and
recreation activity courses; studio (art and music)
and field instruction.
2) Type B Instruction
Type B instruction is defined as consisting of
“those methods where the measurement of faculty
resource consumption by students is less
definitive and will vary depending on the activity.
The activities occurring in these areas are,
therefore, defined in a “contractual relationship”
between faculty and students.” Examples of Type
B instruction are independent study/special or
independent project; Master’s thesis research
project and practicum, student teaching, internship,
and cooperative education.
3) Alternative Delivery Methods
These are courses delivered in non-traditional
formats, including but not limited to, telecourses,
self-paced instruction assisted by educational
technologies, interactive video, telephone lines,
computer based or computer assisted instruction,
correspondence, videotapes or CD-Rom, Internet
or Intranet, multimedia, etc... The credit hours for
courses utilizing these alternative delivery
methods shall be assigned based upon the
equivalency or similarity of the course content’s
scope and depth and the course’s evaluation
methods to the same or similar courses currently
offered at CSU-Pueblo. Lecture courses delivered
on-campus and also delivered via interactive
video to approved off-campus sites are subject to
Type A contact hour requirements for the lecture
course and shall be counted as Type A
Instruction.
4) Type C Instruction
These are activities that may generate credit, but
the credit cannot be reported for FTE reimbursement.
The activities involve relatively little faculty
resource consumption or are considered as a
student service. Included in Type C instruction is
credit by exam and credit for prior learning of life
experience.
COURSE LOADS AND OVERLOADS
Enrollment in more than 18 credit hours in a given
semester is defined as an overload. Both resident and
extended studies (continuing education) courses are
counted in the credit-hour total.
Students who have earned 15 or more semester credit
hours and have a grade-point average of 3.000 or
greater are eligible to enroll for an overload.
Overloads must be authorized by student’s faculty
advisor and department chair (or dean if the advisor is
the department chair). Both signatures are required.
Appeals may be made to the dean of the college of the
student’s major. Under no circumstances may a
student enroll for more than a total of 25 semester
credit hours in a single semester.
CREDIT BY EXAMINATION
A student may earn a maximum of 30 hours of credit
by examination towards the minimum semester hours
required for graduation regardless of the source type,
(i.e., CLEP/DANTES, International Baccalaureate,
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