Remember that all courses taken during a semester count towards your registration limit - excessive hours require approval from either your advisor or college dean. It is the student s responsibility to confirm that courses taken at Blinn will transfer as courses applied to an INST degree. Accordingly, students must request and be sure that official transcripts are sent to TAMU - Office of Admissions and Records. For more information about correspondence courses, students may go to Heaton Hall and request course packets and registration material from institutions offering correspondence courses. In the event that a student fails to receive written departmental permission to register for a correspondence course, the Office of Undergraduate Academic Advising is under no obligation to apply course credit toward the completion of an INST degree.
Students have ONE year or until their student teaching semester to finish correspondence courses.
Students with incomplete courses will not be permitted to student teach. Academic advisors will not give permission for students to enroll in a correspondence course the semester before student teaching. All students MUST request that an official transcript for a correspondence course be sent to the Office of Admissions and Records. Until the grade is officially posted in the University s computerized record system, the Office of Undergraduate Academic Advising assumes that the course is unfinished. Correspondence courses can be an effective way to complete course work in some circumstances.