Crashing Policy

If a student does not attend the first class meeting of the semester and is not present at the start of the second meeting, the instructor may give that space to another student. However, if this occurs the student must still take the necessary formal steps to drop the course.

Students should have completed all course prerequisites before they will be considered eligible to crash. Students must verify prerequisites at the request of the instructor.

Students will be added to available spaces in Art courses using the following criteria:

1. Declared art majors will be given priority over all other crashers.
( Major codes include 10021, 10031, 10090, 10091 and 02031.)
*Students enrolled through Open University are not matriculating students and are therefore not considered "art majors" for crashing purposes.

2. Graduating seniors who verify their status by providing a copy of their Graduation Evaluation will be added first, based on total units completed.

3. Declared art minors will be taken after all art majors are accommodated.

4. Crashers will be taken in the order of the number of units they have completed, as verified from one of the following:

A current transcript or evaluation.
The grade report from the previous semester.
From the notation of units completed printed on their enrollment confirmation or unofficial transcript.

5. After all Art majors are accommodated as crashers, the priority listed in #3 and 4above will be used for non-majors to determine crashing priority.

In the case of any "ties" between crashers, faculty can choose a lottery or portfolio review process to break the tie.

The above policy applies to spaces available up to the established course size limitation. Once the course has filled to that number of students, crashers may be admitted at the discretion of the course instructor. The procedure for selection of the students who constitute an overload will also be at the discretion of the instructor.