CHCS Student Handbook 2019-2020

Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences—Department of Occupational Therapy 2019–2020 187 The progress of each student throughout the entire curriculum requires continuous satisfactory academic performance from one term to another. No student may advance to the next term without satisfactorily completing courses offered in previous terms. When applicable, students who fail a course will be required to suspend his or her studies and request in writing to the program director and/or department chair for permission to retake the course when it is offered the next academic year. There are no course remediations offered in the Department of Occupational Therapy. A course failure may significantly extend the length of the program of study, which is typically 40 months (36 in the new curriculum). A course may be repeated only once. Students will be dismissed from the program after two course failures. Grading Policies and Procedures Grading for Doctor of Occupational Therapy (O.T.D.) students is based on a scale of 0–100 percent. P or Pass 75 percent or above for all courses F or Fail Below 75 percent for all courses Grading for all OTD prefix courses is based on an alpha scale as shown. Alpha Grade A B C F Quality Points 4.0 3.0 2.0 0.0 Percent 90–100 80–89 70–79 0–69 Remediation/Retake Policy, if Applicable The O.T.D. Program abides by the CHCS Remediation Policy. Review the Academic Standing section of this handbook for details. A student who receives a failing course grade may be offered an opportunity to remediate the course through the appropriate mechanism, which may include taking and passing a comprehensive reexamination for that course. The opportunity to remediate an individual course is dependent upon the discretion of the course professor. Remediation examination must occur within five business days after the course ends, unless a justifiable exception necessitates adjustment to that timeline. Justifiable exceptions, such as a student appeal process or semester breaks, may necessitate an adjustment to that timeline. Written remediation examination may occur at the Tampa Bay Campus or online in a proctored environment and at the cost of the student. Practical remediation reexamination must occur at the Tampa Bay Campus. The student is responsible for any associated cost for returning to the regional campus for this purpose. The courses listed as Occupational Therapy Interventions I, II, III (OTD 8271, OTD 8272, and OTD 8273), all include didactic coursework as well as Level I fieldwork experiences (FWE-I). The student must pass the didactic portion of the corresponding intervention course in order to progress to the FWE I placement (e.g., a student who fails the didactic portion of an intervention course will not begin