{"id":272,"date":"2012-03-22T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/paracollege\/"},"modified":"2016-10-26T15:29:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T20:29:55","slug":"paracollege","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/paracollege\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Olaf College Paracollege"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>From 1969-2000 the Paracollege provided an alternative program of study toward the B.A. degree at St. Olaf College. The program was committed to student-centered learning and characterized by innovation, individualization, and integration. \u00a0Much of students\u2019 academic work took place in student initiated tutorials or in interdisciplinary seminars within the Paracollege, though all the academic resources of St. Olaf were available to them. Fulfillment of competency-based graduation requirements was tracked through the Paracollege in place of the college\u2019s general education system. Rather than fulfilling requirements for a standard major, Paracollege students designed and implemented their own senior concentrations.<\/p>\n<p>The concentration, most often interdisciplinary in character, served as a focus of the undergraduate career. The student worked with a committee of faculty examiners to develop a series of comprehensive examinations and an independent senior project that demonstrated both breadth and depth of knowledge. The comprehensive exam and senior project each received a written evaluation and grade that are the third page of the student\u2019s transcript. These grades are not included in the student\u2019s St. Olaf GPA.<\/p>\n<p>The following are items unique to Paracollege students\u2019 transcripts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cParacollege Full-Time\u201d appears on students\u2019 permanent transcripts for each semester they were enrolled in the Paracollege, unless they were also participating in an off-campus study program.<\/li>\n<li>All Paracollege work \u2013 tutorials, seminars, workshops, and colloquia \u2013 received a narrative evaluation; narratives are often accompanied by an indication of pass (P) or no credit (N). However, Paracollege seminars that fulfilled general education requirements received a grade (A-F) and a narrative evaluation.\u00a0 Paracollege work, as stated above, receives one St. Olaf credit (4 semesters credits) each unless otherwise indicated on the Paracollege page of the transcript.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Narrative evaluations are included in a student\u2019s permanent academic record as a part of their St. Olaf transcript. (if requested by the student)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Unfortunately, Paracollege Evaluations are no longer available for a number of students in the 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975 graduating classes. Their evaluations were destroyed during an office move in the 1980s.\u00a0 We apologize for this loss.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paracollege graded work is not included in the St. Olaf GPA; The GPA is calculated only on the basis of courses taken in the general college. Nor did the Paracollege grant honors to its students.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions regarding Paracollege please email <a href=\"mailto:registrar@stolaf.edu\">registrar@stolaf.edu<\/a>, or call (507)-786-3015.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1969-2000 the Paracollege provided an alternative program of study toward the B.A. degree at St. Olaf College. The program was committed to student-centered learning and characterized by innovation, individualization, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-272","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/registrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}