Pharmacy Students
PharmD, PharmTox, and Graduate Student Resources

Course Information

Auditing a Course

Students may audit a course that is not required for graduation with approval from the course instructor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs or an academic advisor.

Students auditing a course are expected to attend class regularly and complete assigned work. Participation in class activities and exams is allowed with instructor permission.

Audited courses:

  • Do not earn degree credit.
  • Are not assigned letter grades. The only grades recorded are S (Satisfactory) or NR (No Report).
  • Do not count toward the credits required for full-time enrollment.
  • Do count toward tuition and fee calculations.
  • May affect financial aid eligibility.

Students receiving financial aid should consult the Office of Student Financial Services before auditing a course.

  1. The deadline to change a course from credit to audit, or from audit to credit, is listed on Office of the Registrar’s website.
  2. To request a change, students must submit a Course Change Request through their MyUW Student Center.
  3. The completed form must be saved and permission from the instructor must be emailed to the academic advisor for final approval.

IF Grades

The IF grade is a temporary administrative grade used when a student has earned an F in a didactic course but is eligible for remediation. The IF grade remains on the transcript only until a final grade is reported. When the deficiency is corrected, the final grade cannot be higher than a D.

  • If the course is successfully remediated, the grade of IF will be replaced with a grade of D
  • If the course is not successfully remediated, the grade of IF will be replaced with an F
  • Remediation criteria and eligibility are at the discretion of the course coordinator
  • Students can remediate one course per semester, up to two times total during the PharmD program.

I (IN for CR/N Courses) Grades

A temporary grade used when work is not completed during a term. An Incomplete may be reported for a student who has carried a subject with a passing grade until near the end of the semester and then, because of illness or other unusual and substantiated cause beyond their control, has been unable to take or complete the final examination, or to complete some limited amount of term work. An Incomplete is not given to a student who stays away from a final examination unless the student proves to the instructor that they were prevented from attending as indicated above. In the absence of such proof the grade shall be F; even with such proof, if their work has convinced the instructor that they cannot pass, the grade shall be F. 

After a certain period of time, an unresolved Incomplete grade will lapse (change) to an F, as outlined in Policy UW-1094: Undergraduate and Special (NonDegree) Student Lapsed Incomplete Grades.

All Incomplete grades awarded to PharmD students in Fall Term 2025 or later will lapse to Fs on the Friday of the eighth week of the following spring or fall term. 

 

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