Curricular requirements approved by the faculty for the Doctor of Pharmacy specify the required courses, their sequencing and prerequisites, which in the faculty's judgment represent an optimal educational plan for students to develop the capabilities expected of our School's graduates. Individual aspects of the student's background, current academic progress and/or career plans may lead him/her to inquire if an individual exception or modification of this general curricular plan might provide an acceptable alternative means of achieving the School's educational intent for that particular student. The Dean of the School, or his/her designee, with advisory input from the faculty, is responsible for administering the School's professional programs and thus, ultimately, approving or disapproving individual student requests for exceptions to the curricular requirements. For such decisions to be made consistently, with the student's educational and personal circumstance interests in mind, guidelines and procedures for students, academic advisors and administration to follow in dealing with student requests have been developed. Procedures established by the Faculty for handling student problems and/or requests for exceptions to the curricular requirements:
B. Prerequisites for required courses
1. Monitoring student satisfactory completion of prerequisite courses. As a matter of routine, at the time grades are submitted to the Registrar, instructors of required courses should also submit to the Assistant/Associate Dean for Internal Affairs a list of those students failing that course. Prior to the beginning of the next semester, the Office of Student Services will work with those students who have not passed courses that are stated prerequisites of a required course to ensure the students are enrolled in the appropriate course work.
2. Student request for waiver of prerequisite to a required course. Requests to obtain a waiver of prerequisite(s) for a required course must first be submitted by the student to his/her advisor. If that individual approves, the request is forwarded for approval to the course instructor, and then to the Assistant/Associate Dean for Internal Affairs. No waivers may be granted unless each of these approvals is obtained and a document testifying to this fact has been deposited in the student's permanent file.
C. Substitution of an "equivalent" or higher-level course for a required course.
A student desiring to substitute for a required course in the curriculum another "equivalent" or higher-level course (taught on this campus or another campus) should receive prior approval from the Assistant/Associate Dean for Internal Affairs that the course will be accepted in lieu of the School-taught courses. In reaching this decision, the Assistant/Associate Dean for Internal Affairs will consult with the instructors of the required course, or if a required, non-major course is involved, the faculty liaison for that course, to determine the "equivalency" of the proposed course substitution. The course instructor should sign a suitable note to be placed in the student's permanent file. The Registrar’s office must be notified.
Please note: A student enrolled in pharmacy at The University of Findlay who elects to take a required course elsewhere and transfer it to The University of Findlay must meet the B average requirements of The University of Findlay School of Pharmacy. This B average must be met at each individual school in which classes are taken for any individual semester.
Students who transfer in from other schools and have completed either freshman chemistry or organic chemistry at the other school and it is sufficient to transfer as 130 or 310 will be allowed to substitute that for 140 or 320.
If the student was at UF in some other major than pharmacy and took 130 or 310 before the higher numbered courses existed, they will be allowed to substitute those courses for the 140 or 320.
Students who are at UF must take 140 or 320. We will not accept an equivalent to 130 or 310 in transfer for them.
D. Establishing credit by examination.
1. To establish credit in a pharmacy required course, the student should petition the instructor of the course who will present this petition with his recommendation to the Dean for consideration and action.
2. To establish credit in a non-required course, the student should petition the instructor of the course. Upon approval, the petition will be forwarded to the Dean of the School for approval. The instructor will develop and administer the examination.
E. Academic difficulty in a required course
1. A student in academic difficulty in a given required course should take responsibility to discuss the difficulty with the course instructor and, identify approaches to improve performance.
2. The student should then confer with the advisor to assess underlying reasons as the student understands them and determine a suitable course of action.
F. Dropping a course
In the event of a voluntary or required decision to drop a course, the student should see his/her advisor to discuss the reason for dropping.
G. Out-of-phase
A student who becomes out-of-phase with the required curriculum should meet with the advisor as soon as possible to develop an alternate plan of study which, in the absence of course scheduling conflicts, indicates the most efficient sequence of courses to complete the curriculum. This alternate plan of study agreed upon by the student and advisor should be signed by both with a copy sent to the Office of Student Services for placing in the student's file.
