The Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) has established the following policies on double-counting coursework for all students in the full-time (Homewood) programs and the part-time Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals (EPP). If an individual program adopts double-counting policies more strict than these, the program's policies override the school-wide policies. Students are encouraged to refer to individual program policies.
(Approved by the WSE Graduate Committee on 11/17/06;
Approved by the WSE Department Chairs on 1/30/07)
Coursework applied to a bachelor's degree:
Students either in a WSE concurrent (bachelor's/master's) program or seeking a WSE master's degree after having earned a WSE or Krieger School of Arts and Sciences bachelor's degree may double-count two advanced graduate courses (600-level or higher) to both programs with the permission of the master's faculty advisor. WSE master's degree candidates may not double-count courses applied to a bachelor's degree earned at a different institution. Individual graduate programs reserve the right to enforce stricter policies.
Coursework not applied to a bachelor's degree:
For students who are either in WSE concurrent bachelor's/master's degree programs or have already earned a Whiting School of Engineering or Krieger School of Arts and Sciences bachelor's degree and are seeking a WSE master's degree, any graduate-level coursework (as defined by the WSE graduate program) not applied to the undergraduate degree may be applied to the graduate degree, regardless of when that course was taken (i.e., before or after the undergraduate degree has been conferred) with the permission of the master's faculty advisor.
For students who earned an undergraduate degree outside of the Whiting School of Engineering or the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, no coursework completed before the undergraduate degree was conferred can be applied to a WSE master's degree, regardless of whether that course was applied to the undergraduate degree.
Coursework applied to a master's degree:
Students pursuing (1) a WSE master's and a master's from any JHU school simultaneously, (2) a WSE master's after having earned a master's from any JHU school, or (3) a WSE master's degree after having earned a master's degree from another institution, may double-count either two semester-length courses or three quarter-length courses across two master's programs, as long as the courses are at the graduate level (the equivalent of 600 or higher in WSE full-time graduate programs). The student must receive approval from both master's degree program faculty advisors if both sets of degree requirements will be completed at the same time. For a student to double-count coursework from two master's degrees whose requirements are met at different times, the student must obtain only the approval of the faculty advisor in the program to be finished second. Individual graduate programs reserve the right to enforce stricter policies.
This policy will be applied to all students entering a WSE master's program in Fall 2007 and beyond. Any student who has entered a WSE master's program before then will be exempt from this policy and should follow the course arrangement made with his/her advisor, provided it is in compliance with departmental, school and university requirements.
WSE master's students wishing to double-count courses must submit these courses to the WSE master's program for approval. If it is learned that a student has double-counted a course for the WSE master's degree without permission of the WSE master's program, this program reserves the right to revoke the degree
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