The various MA options, allow students, under very specific conditions, to take a limited number of advanced (3000 or 4000) undergraduate courses for graduate credit. This is intended to give students the opportunity to take a class that focuses on a topic that is important to their program, but is not offered in the graduate curriculum. Students should ONLY take an undergraduate course for graduate credit when it is necessary to meet this specific need. Otherwise, they should fulfill all of their elective requirements by taking regularly scheduled graduate courses.

Graduate MA students who take an undergraduate course for graduate credit must first obtain the permission of the instructor and of the Graduate MA Advisor. They will then be cleared to enroll in a 5390 section corresponding to the instructor of the course. They will attend the course and do all the work required of undergraduates in the course, as well as additional work assigned by the instructor in order to justify graduate level credit.

To receive graduate credit, students must enroll in the appropriate section of 5390. Students cannot enroll directly in an undergraduate course and receive graduate credit for their work.

Students can only take an advanced undergraduate 5390 course if it is taught by a member of the Graduate Faculty.

Independent Study courses (5391) are generally not available as replacements for regularly scheduled graduate courses.