Ordinarily, students shall be considered full time if they are registered for 8 hours of credit (fall, spring, and summer terms) and their programs of study meet with the approval of the departments. Courses taken as an auditor may not be counted in the definition of “full-time study”; however, courses taken to remove undergraduate deficiencies for admission may be counted. Students holding appointments as associate instructors, gradu­ate assistants, or research assistants must ordinarily be regis­tered for 6 credit hours during each full semester.

Students may take no more than 16 hours of credit in any semester or more than a total of 16 credit hours in all the summer sessions in any one year without permission of their graduate advisor. Students are advised to take into account the demands that such activities make on their time and to reduce their course loads accordingly.