Course Policies
Class Participation
You are expected to attend all classes in person.
Absence policy
Please note that due to the very specific nature of studying abroad at NYU Global sites, our absence policies may vary from what you are used to at your home campus.
Absences are only excused if they are due to illness, Moses Center accommodations, religious observance or emergencies.
Students are responsible for making up any work missed due to absence. This means they should initiate email and/or office hour discussions to address any missed lectures and assignments and arrange a timeline for submitting missed work.
Absences for medical reasons
- Same day absences: contact your professor as well as Academic Director Vanda Thorne and your RA on duty. Your absence must be corroborated by a member of staff who must come and see you in person on the day of your reported absence during the day or the dorm duty rounds (10 -11 pm) at the latest.
- Absences longer than a day: We require a doctor’s note for any absences due to medical reasons longer than a day. Please send the doctor’s note to Academic Director Vanda Thorne as soon as possible after your appointment.
- Students with housing exemptions, i.e. students living outside of NYU Prague housing are obligated to provide a doctor’s note for any medical absence (even for a single day absence).
- Medical emergencies
Absences for religious reasons
To be excused for religious observance, you must contact the instructor and the Assistant Director for Academic affairs via e-mail one week in advance of the holiday. Your absence is excused for the holiday only and does not include days of travel associated with the holiday.
Unexcused absences
Unexcused absences will be penalized with a 2% deduction from your final course grade for every week of classes missed.
Adding and Dropping a Course
Students have the first two weeks of the semester to change their course schedules. During this time period they may add a course or drop a course without any penalty. Please remember that 12 to 18 credits constitute a full time academic schedule. No student may be enrolled in less than 12 credits while studying abroad.
Waitlists
The waitlist is a temporary measure. It exists only during the first week of classes. During the first week of the add/drop period, it functions as an objective method of placing potential students into a fully enrolled class. It is not a guarantee of entrance into a fully enrolled course. Students should have alternate classes in case they are not enrolled via ALBERT into the waitlisted class. Students who are on waitlists KNOW it is their responsibility to check to see if they have been enrolled in the previously waitlisted class. If for some reason a student no longer wants to be in a course, s/he will need to take the appropriate steps to drop the course within the proscribed deadline dates. At the end of the first week of classes, waitlists “dissolve”. After that time ALBERT will no longer automatically enroll students into classes that were once full. Professors cannot give students permission to enroll in their courses. If you have questions about this, please see the Assistant Director, Vanda Thorne, on the third floor of the Blue Building (Malé náměstí 2).
Special Accommodations
All students requiring academic accommodations including mental health related ones have to be registered with the Moses Center prior to arriving to Prague.
You can also get in touch with the Assistant Director for Academics for advice.
Grading
The following grade policy is from the College of Arts and Sciences 2010– 2012 Bulletin.
“Students may obtain their final grades for each semester via ALBERT. The following symbols indicating terminal grades are used: A, B, C, D, P, F, and W.
The following symbol indicates incomplete work: I.
Only grades of A, B, C, D, or F earned while matriculated in the College, or earned in any of the College’s courses (A/V prefixed courses) while matriculated in another division of New York University, are computed in the average.
The following grades may be awarded: A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, F.
In general, A indicates excellent work, B indicates good work, C indicates satisfactory work, and D indicates passable work and is the lowest passing grade. F indicates failure. The weights assigned in computing the grade point average are as follows: A = 4.0, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B = 3.0, B- = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, C = 2.0, C- = 1.7, D+ = 1.3, D = 1.0, and F = 0.0.”
“Not included in the undergraduate grade point average are…
P: The grade of P (Pass) indicates a passing grade (A, B, C, or D) in a course taken under the pass/fail option. It is also used to indicate non-graded courses. The grade of P is not computed in the average.
F: The grade of F under pass/fail option is computed in the average.
W: The grade of W indicates an official withdrawal of the student from a course.
[Please contact Vanda Thorne for more information regarding withdrawal from a class].
I: The grade of I (Incomplete) is a temporary grade that indicates that the students has, for good reason, not completed all of the course work, but there is the possibility that the student will eventually pass the course when all of the requirements have been completed. A student must ask the instructor for a grade of Incomplete, present evidence of illness or the equivalent and clarify the remaining course requirements with the instructor. The Incomplete grade is not awarded automatically. It is not used when there is no possibility that the student will eventually pass the course. If the course work is not completed after the statutory time for making up incompletes has elapsed, the temporary grade of I shall become an F and will be computed in the student’s grade point average.”
[Students who are unable to complete a course may request an extension from his/her professor. Please note that the policy in most schools at NYU is that an incomplete can be extended only to those students who are passing the course at the time of the request. An incomplete form signed by the professor and student must be submitted before the last day of the semester. Please consult Vanda Thorne (vt21@nyu.edu) for more information regarding incompletes, as the policy varies from school to school.]
“Computing the grade point average: The grade point average can be obtained by determining the total of all grade points earned (quality points) and dividing that figure by the total number of credit hours completed (quality hours).”
Disputing Grades
If you would like to discuss your grade or ask for clarification, please contact your professor directly. If you wish to make a formal request for the grade to be changed at the end of the course, your professor will ask you to fill out a grade challenge form, available from Vanda Thorne, Assistant Director for Academics.
After we have received the official grade dispute form, a review can take place. In order to review any grade, please note that it is the obligation of the student to keep all of his or her work from the course. In the absence of the work on which the grade is based, no review can take place.
In adjudicating the matter, the Director may consult any person he deems to be appropriate in making a final judgment, including the department in New York which ‘owns’ the course. The Director will consult the professor as well. Typically, the piece of work in dispute receives a second, independent reading. Please note that if a disputed grade leads to a review process, your grade may be adjusted in either direction after review. A student must contest a grade within the first month of receipt of the official grade report by the student. This process will serve as the final appeal.
Transcripts
Requests for official transcripts require the signature of the student requesting the transcript. Currently, NYU registrar is not accepting transcript requests by email. A transcript may be requested in writing by either faxing a signed letter to (212) 995-4154, or by sending a signed letter to:
Office of the University Registrar,
Academic Records
P. O. Box 910
New York, NY 10276-0910
You must include all of the following information:
1. University ID
2. Current Name and any name under which you attended NYU
3. Current Address
4. Date of Birth
5. School of the University attended and for which you are requesting the transcript
6. Dates of Attendance
7. Date of Graduation
8. Full Name and Address of the person or institution to which the transcriptis to be sent
There is no limit for official transcripts issued to a student. You can indicate in your request if you would like us to forward the transcripts to your home address, but we still require the name and address of each institution. There is no charge for academic transcripts.
Plan Ahead Make your transcript requests early and be sure to follow the instructions on this page.
Unofficial transcripts are available on ALBERT (www.albert.nyu.edu)
Questions? Email NYU registrar at transcripts@nyu.edu
Requesting an Official Copy of Your Grades
Grades are posted on ALBERT at the end of each term as they are received from the instructor of the course or the academic department offering the course. A printed record of a term’s grades may also be requested on ALBERT.
Academic Honesty/Plagiarism
As the University’s policy on “Academic Integrity for Students at NYU” states: “At NYU, a commitment to excellence, fairness, honesty, and respect within and outside the classroom is essential to maintaining the integrity of our community. By accepting membership in this community, students take responsibility for demonstrating these values in their own conduct and for recognizing and supporting these values in others.” Students at Global Academic Centers must follow the University and school policies.
NYU takes plagiarism very seriously; penalties follow and may exceed those set out by your home school. Your lecturer may ask you to sign a declaration of authorship form and may check your assignments by using TurnItIn or another software designed to detect offences against academic integrity.
The presentation of any improperly cited work other than your own, as though it is your own, including words, ideas, judgment, images, data, or AI-generated work (like ChatGPT or Google Bard), whether intentionally or unintentionally, constitutes a breach of academic integrity. It is important that all work submitted for this course is your own. It is also an offense to submit your own work for assignments from two different courses that are substantially the same (be they oral presentations or written work). If there is overlap of the subject of your assignment with one that you produced for another course (either in the current or any previous semester), you must inform your professor.
For guidelines on academic honesty, clarification of the definition of plagiarism, examples of procedures and sanctions, and resources to support proper citation, please see: