Course Attendance at First Class Meeting - Policy for Graduate Students

Students are required to attend the first class meeting of structured courses, 5000 and above, for which they registered prior to the first day of the term.

Names of student who register prior to the first day of the term are printed on the first class roll for each course section. The first class roll is used by professors to drop students who do not attend the first day of class (either online or in person). Students having extenuating circumstances beyond their control and who are unable to attend the first class meeting must notify the instructor or the college prior to the end of the first class meeting to request a waiver of the first class attendance requirement. Students who add courses or late-register during the first week of classes will not be on the first class roll and, therefore, will not be dropped for non-attendance by the instructor. Please note that the Registrar's Office does not add students whose names are handwritten on the first day class rolls to courses, and these students are required to add the course by OASIS. To avoid fee liability and academic penalty, the student is responsible for ensuring that he/she has dropped or been dropped from all undesired courses by the end of the 5th day of classes.

This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEES Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.) Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation 6C4-4.0101:

http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm).

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