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 |