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Spring Term

Spring Term, a three-week May term, offers students the opportunity to enroll in a course not offered during the regular semesters. Each Spring Term course has an interdisciplinary, creative, or innovative focus, and some involve national or foreign travel. Spring Term is required for all baccalaureate degree-seeking freshmen or sophomores who enroll full-time in two regular semesters in the same academic year. The following conditions apply to Spring Term:

1. The Spring Term requirement may be met by taking an honors course or service learning course during Spring Term.
2. Students may be allowed to count Spring Term courses toward the major or minor at the discretion of the dean or chair.
3. The Spring Term requirement must be fulfilled within the student's first two years. Transfer students with 60 or more hours in transfer credit are exempt from the Spring Term requirement.
4. Students failing to meet the requirement within the first two years will be required to take three additional hours in the general education core to fulfill this requirement, thus increasing the graduation requirement from 124 to 127.