CGU faculty will help you to go through the registration progress. In my case it is Jeannie. You just need to send Jeannie an email to tell her which courses you will take in RSM. Also you need to tell Jeannie if you want to choose Letter Grade or Pass/Fail Grade when RSM transfer your grade back to CGU.
RSM will ask all students to take 6 elective courses. Each elective course is equal to a 2 units course in CGU. Therefore, you will take 12 units, which is equal to the minimum requriement from CGU. You may take one more elective course in RSM, but you need to ask RSM's faculty and there's no guarantee for approval.
Q: Should I choose Letter Grading or P/f Grading?
The majority of the students studying abroad choose the p/f grading due to the difference in the grading scale used by our exchange partners. For example, in RSM, professors are asked to give grade based on learning curve distribution. Only top 10% of student can get 4.0, "A" letter grade. Following you can see the detailed info:
Letter Grade / GPA / Tiers
A / 4 / Top 10%
B/ 3.5 / Following 25%
C / 3 /Following 30%
D / 2.5 / Following 25%
E / 2 / Last 10%
F / Failed
You can choose whatever you want and change to another one when you come back to CGU. For example, you can choose letter garde first, then change to p/f grade when you come back. However, you'll need to submit a petition to the Dean of Students to request that the grades be changed to p/f and there's no guarantee that it will be approved.
Q. How would I know which elective courses I can choose and whether those course is good?
Again, You will get an email from RSM with your user credentials for Blackboard and RSM email address. Blackboard is a IT system similar to Sakai in CGU. In blackboard, you can see the information about the courses list, individual syllabus for each course, and the evaluation results for each course from the last year students. You will have full access to those information to help you to choose elective course. It is somethat competitive to choose a "hot" course because RSM uses a "bidding" system for the registration.
(In the next article, I will give my own evaluation for your reference.)
Q. What is the bidding system?
Each student will have 1200 points to do the bidding for 6 courses. You need to allocate those points by yourself. It is all confidential before the end of bidding period. Then in the end of bidding period, people with higher points in the course will be enrolled in that courses automatically. For example, if "A" course only allowa 35 students to take, but there are 50 students putting their points on "A" course, at the end of bidding, the 35 students who put the highest points will get A course.
There are totally two period for bidding, and some specific rules if you want to choose EMBA course. You will get the full information in the email.
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