ACADEMIC COURSE AUDIT REGULATION

Students may audit classes when the following criteria have been met:

1. Students must be eligible for regular admission and enrollment.
2. Students must meet the prerequisite for the class(es) they audit.
3. Priority in class enrollment shall be given to students desiring to take the course for credit toward a transfer program, degree, or certificate.
4. In these cases, auditors can only enroll during the second class meeting and only after the course instructor has authorized the acceptance of the student to the class. Instructors will sign the audit registration form, which will be submitted by the student to the Enrollment Services Office.
5. No student auditing a class shall be permitted to change his or her enrollment in that course to receive credit for the course or to switch from credit to audit status. No audit request will be approved after the last day to add or drop a course. Exceptions to this provision may be approved on a case-by-case basis for extenuating circumstances by the Director of Enrollment Services, or the Campus Vice Presidents.
6. The fee to audit a course is $15.00 per unit. No refund will be made on the $15.00 (per unit) audit fee. Retired faculty as well as retired classified staff of the district are entitled to the waiver of the audit fee for one course per term.
7. Students enrolled in classes to receive academic credit for 10 or more credit units in a given term will not be charged a fee to audit three or fewer credit units in that same term.
8. Audited courses will appear on students' transcripts and be retained as part of the permanent student record.
9. Students auditing a course will not be counted toward minimum class sizes for purposes of determining whether a course will be retained.
10. Classroom attendance of students auditing a course shall not be included in reporting the apportionment (FTES) due College of the Redwoods.
11. Other appropriate fees associated with attendance (e.g. health fees, parking fees, etc.) must also be paid for courses to be audited.
12. Audit fees will be accounted for within the student fee database and deposited into the District's unrestricted funds.
13. Instructors shall determine the level of a student's participation in the course being audited.

Adopted by Board of Trustees: June, 1986
Amended: May, 1989; September, 1992; May, 1993; November 6, 2001; June 3, 2003; August 5, 2003