Hayes School of Music

Students must meet all residency requirements to earn a degree from Appalachian State University

A previously enrolled Appalachian student who plans to re-enroll and has not attended the university during a fall or spring semester due to withdrawal or suspension must be readmitted.

Physical Education Credit Limitation

Non-physical education majors are not allowed to count more than six semester hours of PE activity courses towards their required number of hours for graduation.

PE Wellness Literacy Modules

Pass/Fail

The Pass/Fail option may only be taken by a full-time undergraduate student with sophomore standing or above who is in good academic standing.  Students may elect to take one course per semester (up to 6 in their academic career) under the pass / fail grading system.

The following rules apply to the Pass/Fail option:

A student can, without limit or penalty, add courses, drop courses, or change the sections of courses through the published "Drop-Add" period—i.e., through the first five days of a fall or spring semester.  An undergraduate student is allowed to drop a cumulative total of no more than four (4) courses after the published "Drop-Add" period.  (The phrase "cumulative total" should be understood to mean a total of four drops over the student's undergraduate career at Appalachian, excluding summer terms.)  A student who wishes to drop a course after the published "Drop-Add"

The University College Academic Advising Center will notify all students who have completed 30 semester hours (including RC 1000 and UCO 1200) with a 2.0+ grade-point average that they should declare a major.  This is an on-line process.  Instruction on how to declare your major can be found at https://advising.appstate.edu/current-students/declare-your-major.  Although music students technically are not admitted to the School of Music until the m

A student who carries 12-14 semester hours of work on which grade points may be computed and who attains a grade-point average of 3.45 or better is placed on the School of Music Dean's List of honor students for that semester.  A student who carries 15 or more semester hours of work on which grade points may be computed and who attains a grade-point average of 3.25 or better is placed on the School of Music Dean's List of honor students for that semester.  The Chancellor's List provides higher recognition to those full-time students who receive a grade-point average of 3.85 or hi

Repeats

You may only earn credit hours ONCE per course, regardless of the number of times the course is taken.  (A few courses are repeatable for credit if the content changes.  These are indicated in the Undergraduate Bulletin course descriptions.)  If you repeat a course that you originally passed and fail that repeat, you will lose ALL credit for the course.  If you already have credit for a course at ASU, you cannot take the course again at another institution and transfer it to ASU.

Attempted Hours

Attempted hours are defined as all hours accumulated throughout a student's career at an institution (including all passed courses, failed courses, repeated courses, courses dropped after drop-add period, summer courses and transfer work).

For example, a student who:

The Office of the Registrar will notify all seniors ostensibly eligible to graduate (i.e., those enrolled for a sufficient number of hours to meet the University requirement) at the beginning of each term.  Notification will include information concerning the graduation procedure and deadline date.  Students have until the end of the "drop" period (i.e., the first five weeks of class) to apply for graduation.  Applications for graduation are filed with the Office of the Registrar.