Course Repetition

• Students will be prevented from registering for a course in which a grade of C or higher has been assigned.
• Undergraduate students are limited to 42 quarter units of course repetition through regular enrollment or Extended Education.
• Courses repeated prior to Fall 2009 that are included in the calculation of the GPA (not forgiven) will not contribute to this limit. However, units of courses taken prior to Fall 2009 that have been "forgiven" will contribute to this 42-unit limit.
• Undergraduate students may attempt to improve their GPA by repeating a course.
• Only grades of C-, D+, D, D- F, WU or IC may be repeated and forgiven (excluded from GPA calculation).
• The course can be repeated no more than two times for a maximum of three attempts. The number of repeats of individual courses prior to Fall 2009 will contribute to this 2 repetition (3 attempts) limit.  
• Withdrawing from a class and receiving a W grade is considered an attempt.  Such attempts will be taken into account when determining how many times a student has taken a course, and in the calculation of the 42-unit course repetition limit.
• This policy is applicable to all Extension courses offered at Cal Poly Pomona.
• Grades received in courses taken through Extended Education in excess of the 42-unit limit can be used to satisfy content and prerequisite requirements, but will not be used in GPA calculations. These courses will appear on the student's transcript.
• Students may request waivers of this policy. A waiver will be granted only to students with a minimum overall GPA of 2.0 and documentation of demonstrated effort.
  • Students must submit a General Academic Petition with the necessary approval signatures to the Office of Academic Programs.
• Courses explicitly designated as repeatable in the University Catalog are not included in this policy.

Grade Forgiveness

Students may seek Grade Forgiveness through course repetition. When a grade is forgiven due to course repetition, the grade and units for the excluded course work will not be used in the calculation of the grade point average and the units will not be used to satisfy the requirements toward graduation. The excluded course work will remain on the student’s permanent record, but will be annotated as excluded from the grade point average through grade forgiveness. This policy is not automatically invoked when a student repeats a course. It is the student’s responsibility to seek grade forgiveness by submitting this form to the Registrar’s Office.

• Grade Forgiveness through course repetition is limited to 16 units.
• Grade Forgiveness can be applied only to courses taken for undergraduate credit and before awarding of a bachelor’s degree.
• Students may seek grade forgiveness through course repetition for a maximum of 16 quarter units. These 16 units contribute to the 42-unit limit for course repetition.
• Units of courses where grade forgiveness has already been applied prior to Fall 2009 will contribute to the 16-unit limit.
• Grade forgiveness shall not be applicable to courses for which the original grade was the result of a finding of academic dishonesty. For advisement purposes, the letter J will be affixed after the grade awarded to the student in the class in question, e.g. D+J for a grade of D+. The suffix J will not appear on official transcripts.
• A waiver will be granted only to students with a minimum overall GPA of 2.0 and documentation of demonstrated effort.
  • A waiver process will be developed. Until that time, students must submit a General Academic Petition with the necessary approval signatures to the Office of Academic Programs.
• A Cal Poly Pomona course may be used to forgive the grade of a course taken at another institution if the two courses are determined to be equivalent by the chair of the department offering the CPP course. Courses taken at other institutions cannot be used to forgive the grade of a course taken at Cal Poly Pomona.
• A Challenged Course cannot be used as a repetition of a regularly enrolled course. 
• Students and advisors will be able to view on BroncoDirect the number of units repeated and forgiven.

• Effective Fall 2009, the grade forgiveness policy will be applicable to IC grades.