2006 Curriculum: Cluster Programs
About the Making Connections Curriculum:
- The new curriculum will be implemented for all first year students in fall 2006, sophomore transfer students in fall 2007, and junior transfer students in fall 2008.
- Transfer students enrolling in health-professions programs must fulfill 5 of 9 Connections requirements, 2 of which must be Experiential Education and Global Issues.
General rules about transfer credit:
- The University will accept a maximum of sixty-four (64) semester hours of transfer credit from accredited two-year colleges. Students who have earned sixty-four (64) semester hours of college credit including any combination of transfer credit and UNC-Chapel Hill credit (including by-exam or placement credits) cannot transfer additional credit hours from a two-year institution.
- The University will accept a maximum of seventy-five (75) semester hours of transfer credit from accredited four-year institutions (or any combination of two-year and four-year institutions) since a minimum of 45 hours must be earned in UNC-Chapel Hill courses in order to receive a degree from UNC-Chapel Hill (even if all degree requirements have been met).
- The University will award transfer credit hours for courses from other accredited institutions when the student has made a satisfactory grade ("C-" or equivalent) and when the University offers similar courses.
- Students must take at least half of their major course requirements at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- Students must take at least nine (9) hours of their minor course requirements at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- Students transferring credits in their major field must earn grades of “C” (not “C-”) or higher in at least three-fourths of the credit hours from courses in the major that are taken at UNC-Chapel Hill. The maximum number of UNC-Chapel Hill major credit hours requiring grades of “C” or higher is eighteen (18) [or twenty-one (21) for History majors].
- Under most circumstances, a student with a baccalaureate degree cannot earn a second baccalaureate degree at UNC-Chapel Hill. The only exception is for a student with a degree in academic affairs who is admitted into a degree program within Health Affairs (for example, Nursing). In this circumstance, the student who has already earned a bachelor degree from another institution of higher education will be regarded as having met all General Education requirements, including Foundations, Approaches, and Connections.
- A student who receives transfer credit for a physical activity taken before transferring to Carolina will be regarded as having completed the Lifetime Fitness Foundation requirement. In this circumstance, no academic credit hours will be awarded for the physical activity transferred to UNC-Chapel Hill.