PAGE (Plan for Alternative General Education)
Story (Director), Ailes, Al-Nsour, Bakhash, Bitler, Brandenburg, Brawley, Brear, Broome, Butler, Carbonneau, Censer, Clark, Crouch, De Nys, Dick, Deshmukh, Dumont, Emsley, Fitzgerald, Foreman, Francescato, Gabel, Gaffney, Giberson, Gilbert, Golomb, Hazen, Hecht, Hodges, Holt, Horton, Hung, Irvine, Jacobs, Jann, Jones, Kaplan, Karlson, Keaney, Kelso, Kolker, Kruck, Kuebrich, Kulchitsky, Lankford, Lavoie, Mandes, Melosh, Metcalf, Miller, Mones-Hattal, Montecino, Mushrush, Nadeau, Nash, Nelson, Neuschatz, Oates, O'Brien, Owens, Rader, Radner, Regan, Rosenzweig, Rothbart, Rutledge, Slayden, Sypher, Taylor, Thaiss, Travis, Trefil, Vandergrift, Warner, H. Williams, M. Williams, Wilson, Wood, Yocom, Zoltek
The PAGE Program will not be accepting new students in fall 1997. PAGE courses will be available through May 1998.
The PAGE faculty offers all course work designated PAGE in the Course Descriptions section of this catalog.
Students in PAGE are subject to university policy on admissions, transfers, and failure as stated in this catalog. In addition, students in PAGE (a special curriculum within this university structure) are subject to certain academic policies and procedures that are unique to this sequential program.
Not a major in itself, PAGE fulfills a core of general education requirements for every major. Specific requirements of the departments in regard to their majors are available in the PAGE office and in the department offices.
Within George Mason--Because of the sequential and integrative nature of the program, PAGE courses do not correspond exactly to the general education courses in the traditional programs. A list of equivalencies is available in the College of Arts and Sciences section of this catalog, in the PAGE office, and in the offices of the deans.
Outside George Mason--The PAGE program meets the general education requirements at other universities. As in all transfer situations, however, the general education requirements of one institution may not precisely match those of another.
In addition to the university's policies on unsatisfactory work (grades of D or F) and on incompletes, the following apply to students in PAGE:
- If a student is placed on "Notice" in both semesters of the freshman year and then receives failing grades in five or more hours in PAGE in the first semester of the sophomore year, that student is dropped from the program.
- Failing grades occurring in the second semester of the sophomore year do not lead to immediate dismissal from the program; however, students must realize that failing grades received at this time most likely mean a delay of at least two semesters before they can complete the PAGE program.
- Unless they receive special permission from the director, students must retake the PAGE courses they failed in the next semester in which these courses are offered. In exceptional cases, the PAGE office may allow a student to substitute a similar course, offered elsewhere in the university, for the PAGE course a student failed.
- Students may appeal to the director the policies stated above. Academic counseling is provided for all students failing courses in PAGE.
Like all other students in the university, PAGE students are bound by university policies governing good academic standing. Students should become familiar with these policies as they are stated in this catalog.
Students dropped from the PAGE program for reasons of failure must meet the traditional general education requirements of the university. A list of equivalencies between PAGE courses and courses in the traditional general education program is available in the PAGE office and in the offices of the deans. Special requirements of the departments in regard to their majors are available in the PAGE office and in the department offices.
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