Graduate student taking an undergraduate course policies:
Graduate students may take undergraduate courses as appropriate prerequisites to their chosen field of study, but the courses may not be used to satisfy graduate program requirements or carry graduate units. On exceptional occasions, a 400-level course may be taken for graduate credit, under certain conditions, with Graduate School approval: the student must provide a justification for taking an undergraduate course for graduate credit. (For example: that the course curriculum is important to the student's program and not offered in a graduate course.); the course instructor must be a UB faculty member and must provide a description of the nature and extent of the extra work to be assigned to the student to earn graduate credit. The Director of Graduate Studies or department Chair of the student's graduate program must also approve. A maximum of 2 undergraduate courses can be petitioned for graduate credit. In all cases, the petition must be submitted prior to the start of the semester in which the student will enroll in the course; no requests for retroactive approval will be considered.