Repository: UIHistories Project: Student Regulations - Undergraduates - 1947 (Jan) [PAGE 17]

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45* No Transfer Credit in Courses Patted Here A student who has passed .t course at the University of Illinois may not be given credit by transfer for the same course taken elsewhere. 46. Correspondence Courses Credit for correspondence work taken with institu tiona in Claaa A may be allowed, but only on the approval of the Dean of the College concerned. After matriculation a student may count toward his degree aa much as sixty semester hours of credit earned in correspondence study in subjects passed with grades of C or higher. 47. Undergraduate Credit for Service and for Education in the Armed Forces I. Credit in military science equivalent to basic R.O.T.C (4 semester hours), required physical education and hygiene, will be approved when a person, honorably discharged, presents evidence of not less than six months of active service. Additional credit in military science equivalent to advanced R.O.T.C. (12 semester hours) may be granted where in the judgment of the Committee the service record warrants such action. Extended overseas service, earning a commission while in active service, or other prolonged meritorious service involving substantial responsibility, will be considered by the Committee in awarding this additional credit. 2. The Committee will recognize for credit the general educational placement examinations and the aminations in special fields given by the Armed Forces Institute, upon receipt of official certification from the Institute. The Committee urges men in the services to take advantage of the correspondence study courses of college grade offered by the Armed Forces Institute, and before demobilization to take the various tests for competence in college fields which the Institute will make available in all the services. A student who has not taken the tests of the Armed Forcea Institute before demobilization may take these or similar tests at the University of Illinois. 3. Work satisfactorily passed while on active duty in a unit of the Army or Navy (including the Marine Corps) College Training Program will he accepted for college credit in so far as it is applicable to the student's chosen curriculum. Certification of this work should be made by the institution where it was taken* exactly is is other transferred credit. 4. The Committer will erant credit for educational ai hicrftnieiit in specialized and technical training pro grains offered by the armed services on the basis of pfoflciency examinations given by the proper depart men! of the University; or it may grant such credit without formal lamination where equivalence of credit can he determined in other ways.