At least 25
percent of the credit hours required for an undergraduate degree are earned
through instruction offered by the institution awarding the degree.
x Compliance o Non-Compliance o Partial Compliance
UL Lafayette
offers 100% of the instruction in all of its undergraduate degree programs.
There are no consortial undergraduate degrees. Articulation agreements and transfer pathways with community colleges
stipulate that no more than 60 hours or 50% of the credits can apply to the
degree.
At least 25% of
the credit hours required for an undergraduate degree must be earned through
instruction offered by UL Lafayette. Residence requirements for the
undergraduate degree stipulate that a student “shall be required to earn the
last 30 hours, applicable toward the degree, in residence as a major in the
academic college from which the degree is sought.” In addition, the Catalog stipulates that “In no case may a student earn a baccalaureate
degree from the University unless at least 25% of the required degree hours are
earned at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.”
Advisors and
transfer coordinators within each college, as well as the Office of the Dean of
the college monitor compliance with these rules when students complete their
degree plans prior to graduation. The
following are representative of the degree check process:
·
Anthropology
Degree Check Sheet
·
Chemical
Engineering Major Checklist
UL Lafayette
identifies any external credits earned, as well as the external institution that
granted the credits, at the beginning of the official academic transcript. Institutional credit (i.e., credit earned at UL Lafayette) is
identified following the external institution information.
The RN to BSN
program offers students who have been prepared as registered nurses (RN) in
Associate’s Degree programs the opportunity to complete a Bachelor’s degree in
Nursing (BSN) at UL Lafayette. RNs who have successfully completed a minimum of
28 credit hours of Nursing courses at the Associate degree level are eligible
to enroll and to apply these 28 credits toward their BSN degree. This credit is
awarded based on the student’s previous acquisition of knowledge related to
direct patient care, as verified by the conferral of an Associate’s Degree, in
areas such as pharmacology; care of the pediatric, maternity, and adult
patients; and fundamentals of nursing. Upon transfer of these RN credits, students
may enroll directly in courses needed specifically for a BSN degree, which
focus on topics such as research, leadership, genetics, community health, and
nursing informatics.
A requirement for
admission to the RN to BSN program is that students receive their Associate
Degree from a nursing program accredited by the Accreditation Commission for
Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission for Nursing Education
Accreditation (CNEA). In addition, Associate Degree granting universities must
be accredited by one of organizations recognized by the Council for Higher
Education Accreditation (CHEA): the Higher Learning Commission, the Middle
States Commission on Higher Education, the New England Commission of Higher
Education, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, or the WASC Senior
College and University Commission.
Upon completing NURS
354 (Transition to
Professional Nursing for RN to BSN) at UL Lafayette, RN to BSN students are
also retroactively granted 12 credits corresponding to four foundational,
practice-based courses (NURS 104, 204, 208, and 310). The completion of NURS
354 serves as verification that students have mastered the learning objectives
of the four foundational courses. NURS 354 must be taken and successfully
completed before a student can enroll in any other nursing course. An
additional requirement for admission into the program provides another
verification of previously acquired competencies: applicants must have passed
the NCLEX-RN© licensure exam, a standardized exam that each
state Board of Nursing uses to determine if a candidate is prepared for
entry-level nursing practice.
In addition to
these 40 credits (28 transferred, 12 retroactively granted), RN to BSN students must earn 30 more credits in Nursing courses, as well as 50 hours of
General Education and elective courses at UL Lafayette.
Anthropology Degree Check Sheet