Substitution of Courses and Transfer of Credits

Substitution of Courses and Transfer of Credits

Substitution of Courses

Courses may be substituted on the following grounds:

1. When a student is following a curriculum that has been superseded by a new one and the substitution tends to bring the old curriculum in line with the new;
2. When there is a conflict of hours between two required subjects; or
3. When the required subject is not offered during the semester when the student needs it.
   

A substitution shall be valid when:

1. The courses involved are within the same program, or the two courses are allied to each other.
2. The course being used as a substitute has credit units equal to or greater than the credit units of the required course.

All applications for substitution must be submitted to the Office of the Dean concerned before 12 percent of the regular class meetings have been held. Any petition submitted thereafter shall be considered for the following semester.

No substitution shall be allowed for any course prescribed in the curriculum where the student has failed or received a grade of 5.0 except when in the opinion of the Program offering the prescribed course; the proposed substitute covers substantially the same subject matter as the required subject.

All applications for the substitution shall be acted upon by the Dean concerned. In case the action of the Dean is adverse to the recommendation of the Adviser and the Program Chair concerned, the student may appeal to the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, whose decision shall be final.

Transfer of Credits

Applicants must accomplish the following for crediting of courses that are equivalent to the courses to be taken in the MIS Program:

• Accomplish the application for transfer of credits form (http://our.upou.edu.ph/student/pdf/APPLICATION_FOR_TRAN SFER_OF_CREDITS.pdf).
• Submit the completed form and a photocopy of a transcript of records to the Learning Center or provide your Faculty Secretary a soft copy of the documents.

Please make sure also that what you submitted to the Office of the University Registrar (OUR), particularly to the Admission Section is an updated, valid and original copy of your previous TOR. Otherwise, the OUR will not encode your evaluated application for transfer of credits.

Prof. Joyce Manalo

Secretary to the Faculty

Faculty of Information and Communication Studies fics-secretary@upou.edu.ph

Faculty website: http://fics.upou.edu.ph/ 

http://toc.joycemanalo.com/

● The FICS will provide you with the result of your application through email or by sending you the original copy. The OUR, specifically the EDP Section will encode the evaluated document and consequently be shown in the Student Portal for viewing by the students.

● For courses taken more than 5 years ago from the time of application, you are required to take the validation exam. Please coordinate with the Faculty Secretary for the details of the examination.

● For UP Transferees – a maximum of 9 units earned in another UP unit may be eligible for transfer of credits. The final grades earned must not be lower than 2.0 and must be taken within the last five years from the time of application; otherwise, the student must take and pass validation exams.

● For non-UP transferees – a maximum of 9 units earned in another school, college or university may be eligible for transfer of credits. The final grades earned must not be lower than 2.0 and must be taken within the last five years from the time of application. A student must take and pass a validation exam for every course for which s/he is requesting transfer of credits

A formal application for transfer of credits must be submitted before the first semester of admission.

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