Are all undergraduate courses required to have a written final exam?
UC Systemwide Academic Senate Regulations 770 and 772 stipulate that all undergraduate courses require a written (when practicable) final exam [SR 770 & 772]. However, these regulations also stipulate that exemptions from these regulations for individual courses may be approved by each campus’ Committee on Courses of Instruction (COCI). Until now, the campus procedures to approve an alternative form of final student assessment (such as a final paper or project), or elimination of a final assessment altogether for some courses, were arguably tedious and archaic. Many instructors were not aware of these regulations or chose to ignore them. Lack of compliance with campus policy resulted in many uncertainties and scheduling conflicts for students, and rooms that could have been used for other courses stood empty during final exam periods. The Joint Task Force on Exams, with input from key Academic Senate committees, recommended that campus procedures for approving alternative forms of fina
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