Academics

Academic Performance

Each student is expected to try her best to maintain a record of successful academic performance. The following guidelines are reminders of the basic requirements that need to be conformed to in order to allow for the student’s maximum success in her educational venture.

Classroom Conduct

As a contributing, respectful student, each member of the student body is expected to arrive promptly to all class sessions, remain for the full duration of the session and to refrain from distracting or disturbing behaviour. A variety of popular behaviours that are perfectly acceptable outside of a formal classroom environment must be refrained from during a lecture. Activities such as eating, chatting and even davening during a class are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

Academic Honesty

All work is expected to be the result of the student’s own efforts unless properly acknowledged to be the work of someone else. Academic dishonesty is a very serious offence and includes submitting another student’s work as your own, cheating on examinations, and plagiarism in all forms. Students must give credit for ideas or materials taken from another source. Any passage, no matter what length, from an article or book should be enclosed in quotation marks and appropriately footnoted.

Judaic Studies Core Requirements

Regardless of the program of study chosen, Talpiot insists that all students must maintain an adequate ratio between their Judaic Studies and their secular courses. For the regular full time student this means that they are required to successfully complete a minimum of five Judaic Studies courses in order to obtain credits in secular areas of study.

This condition may be waived for married or mature students. Please speak to the Office of the Registrar for more information.

Transfer Credit

Students, who enrol in Talpiot with transcripts from recognized post-secondary institutions, including pre-approved seminaries throughout the world, are able to transfer their credits into a Talpiot degree program. Those students coming from programs that do not have prior approval will be dealt with on an individual basis, subject to the absolute discretion of Talpiot.

Please note that: Talpiot does not allow for the transfer of any grade of D or lower that appears on a student’s seminary transcript. The maximum amount of seminary credits that can be transferred into a Talpiot degree is 36 credits, regardless of the duration of the seminary program.

Transcripts

Students have one semester following the completion of a course to inform Talpiot of any error in their transcript that they believe has occurred. Students may request that an official copy of their transcript, including all academic work completed at Talpiot, be sent to a designated recipient. Students will only be given a student copy of their transcript.

Make-up Examinations

Any student who does not have prior approval from the Registrar’s office to be absent for any examination will be required to pay a $25 fee before a make-up examination is scheduled and administered. Any student who does not take her make-up examination will receive a failing grade on the examination. There are no exceptions to this rule without approval from the Registrar’s Office.

Dean’s List

Each semester, full-time students who have achieved a scholastic average of 3.50 or higher are cited on the Dean’s List. This award will be recorded on the student’s file, as well as a notation being entered on the student’s Talpiot transcript.

English Proficiency

All students are required to be proficient in English. Students must have satisfactorily completed either a Talpiot English Language equivalency standard or passed an independent test of proficiency such as the CLEP exam in English Composition with Essay.

Evaluation Procedure

Talpiot uses a letter system of grading. The final grade for each course is a result of the compilation of the course components and an assessment of the final examination. Grades A through D are passes, and F marks failure. Failed course may be retaken.

The specific grade/percentage mark break down is as follows:

A+:90-100 A:85-89 A-:80-84
B+:77-79 B:73-76 B-:70-72
C+:67-69 C-:63-66
D+:60-62 D:50-59
No Credit:0-49

Grade Values
A = 4 A- = 3.666 B+ = 3.333 B = 3 B- = 2.666 C+ = 2.333 C = 2 C- = 1.666 D = 1 F,FW = 0