{"id":2665,"date":"2015-06-09T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:04:24","slug":"creditdfail-what-is-it-and-should-i-take-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2015\/06\/09\/creditdfail-what-is-it-and-should-i-take-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit\/D\/Fail &#8211; what is it and should I take them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You may only take <\/span><i>unrestricted elective<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0courses<\/em> for Credit\/D\/Fail grading &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Credit\/D\/Fail is NOT permitted for required courses or restricted electives in LFS.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please note that Credit \/ D \/ Fail can also affect your eligibility for scholarships, awards, and\/or funding, or your admissibility to other professional or graduate programs later on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>It is recommended that you check with an advisor before taking a course as Credit\/D\/Fail.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more information about Credit \/ D \/ Fail, please check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/students.ubc.ca\/enrolment\/courses\/creditdfail-grading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UBC Students website<\/span><\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendar.ubc.ca\/vancouver\/index.cfm?tree=3,42,0,0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UBC Calendar<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may only take unrestricted elective\u00a0courses for Credit\/D\/Fail grading &#8211; Credit\/D\/Fail is NOT permitted for required courses or restricted electives in LFS. Please note that Credit \/ D \/ Fail can also affect your eligibility for scholarships, awards, and\/or funding, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2015\/06\/09\/creditdfail-what-is-it-and-should-i-take-them\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722149,1330],"tags":[748864,1227,748865,748851,748854],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-lfs","category-news-events","tag-creditdfail","tag-first-year","tag-grading-practices","tag-new-to-lfs-2","tag-registration-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6889,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/6889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}