Provisional Courses - Some students are provisionally admitted to EKU. Their enrollment is contingent on satisfying preliminary requirements to fill college enrollment.

• Pre-College Curriculum (PCC) Courses - All Kentucky public colleges require their students to complete a pre-college curriculum while they are in high school. (You are exempt from PCC requirements if you are at least 21 years old during the term of first enrollment, or transfer in at least 24 credit hours with a minimum 2.0 GPA.) If you do not meet those requirements, you are admitted with the provision that you complete specified PCC courses at EKU during your first 24 hours of enrollment (not including any developmental course work). PCC courses below the 100 level do not count toward graduation and do not factor into your cumulative GPA. Any PCC requirements will be noted on your CARES Report.

• Developmental Courses - Full admission to EKU, or any Kentucky public institution, is contingent on demonstrating basic proficiencies in English, mathematics and reading. Students who do not meet these requirements must take developmental courses during their initial semester(s). These courses do not calculate into your GPA and they do not move you toward graduation. However, they ensure that you have the foundational skills to be successful with college-level work. Any developmental course requirements will be listed on your CARES Report.

• New, first-year students - proficiency is initially determined by ACT/SAT test scores. ACT sub scores of 18, or higher (or equivalent SAT scores) in English, mathematics and reading indicate proficiency in that subject area.

• Transfer students with fewer than 24 transferred hours - are required to submit ACT/SAT scores. They may meet proficiency requirements one of two ways:

1. ACT sub scores of 18, or higher (or equivalent SAT scores) in English, mathematics and reading indicate proficiency in that subject area.
2. A transferred passing grade in English composition, equivalent to EKU's ENG 101, or higher, demonstrates proficiency in English. A transferred passing grade in mathematics equivalent to EKU's MAT 105, or higher, demonstrates basic proficiency in that subject. Transferring a minimum of 12 hours of college credit and a GPA of at least 2.0 demonstrates proficiency in reading.

• Transfer students with 24, or more transferred hours - are encouraged, but not required, to submit ACT/SAT scores. They may meet proficiency requirements one of two ways:
  1. ACT sub scores of 18, or higher (or equivalent SAT scores) in English, mathematics and reading indicate proficiency in that subject area.
  2. A transferred passing grade in English composition, equivalent to EKU's ENG 101, or higher, demonstrates proficiency in English. A transferred passing grade in mathematics equivalent to EKU's MAT 105, or higher, demonstrates basic proficiency in that subject. Transferring a minimum of 12 hours of college credit and a GPA of at least 2.0 demonstrates proficiency in reading.

  
  For more information on developmental courses and other placement testing options please go to the Developmental Education web page.

• General Education Courses - All degree-seeking students take "gen. ed." courses designed to help them develop as educated persons and citizens. General Education is broken into six broad areas encompassing 21 categories, as follows:

• Major Courses - These courses provide the knowledge and skills specific to a particular major. There is a separate section on your CARES Report showing these requirements (if you are undeclared you will see only your general education requirements).

• Core Courses - Some majors have several options or concentrations, but share a common core of knowledge and skills. There is a separate section on your CARES Report showing these requirements, if applicable.

• Option or Concentration Courses - Clusters of majors that share a common set of knowledge and skills may provide course work to become more specialized within a focused area. This is referred to as your area of concentration. There is a separate section on your CARES Report showing these requirements, if applicable.

• Supporting Courses - These are courses outside the major that provide foundational skills to support later course work within the major. (For example, anatomy [BIO 171] is a supporting course requirement for nursing majors.) There is a separate section on your CARES Report showing these requirements.

• Elective Courses - These are additional courses either within or outside the major. EKU sets specific minimum requirements for a degree (128 credit hours for baccalaureate degrees) and elective courses make up any difference between the requirements of your major and the University's minimum. There is a separate section on your CARES Report showing these requirements.

• Courses Unused Toward Specific Program Requirements - You may have taken courses, which do not apply to any of the requirements of your current major, as stated above. In such cases, these courses will be listed on your CARES Report in this section.

Special Course Considerations

• Repeated Courses - Undergraduate students are allowed to repeat up to six courses (one repeat each) with the goal of replacing a low grade with a higher grade in that course. Students may only repeat a course in which they got a grade of 'C,' or lower. Permission to repeat a course for a third time, or to repeat more than six courses is granted only under unusual circumstances. This is done through the dean of the college of your first major (Director of Advising for undeclared majors).

• UWR - All baccalaureate degree students must take the University Writing Requirement (UWR) in the first semester after completing 60 credit hours. Students transferring with more than 60 hours must take the UWR during their first semester of course work at EKU. While the UWR is not a course you will register for as if it were a course. The UWR is a one-hour, pass/fail writing exam. You will be provided with a prompt and will write an essay in response to the prompt. There are UWR preparation materials available at the University Bookstore. Students with more than 100 credit hours who have not taken the UWR will be blocked from registering for the next semester's classes. If you encounter this situation you need to contact the dean's office of the college of your first major (Director of Advising for undeclared majors).