{"id":4842,"date":"2023-10-06T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/?page_id=4842"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:50:09","slug":"sat-grades-gpa-requirements-for-health-sciences-capstone-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/current-students\/undergraduate\/sat-grades-gpa-requirements-for-health-sciences-capstone-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"SAT Grades &#038; GPA Requirements for Health Sciences CAPSTONE COURSES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        SAT Grades &#038; GPA Requirements for Health Sciences CAPSTONE COURSES\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"sat-grades\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">SAT Grades<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">A notation of <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">SAT (Satisfactory)<\/strong> means that a student has successfully completed a course and will receive credit for the course.\u00a0<em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">If you request a notation of SAT instead of a letter grade for a course, the original letter grade will remain accessible to the University for internal purposes but will not appear on your transcript.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<b><i>-Carleton University<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"sat-grades-gpa-requirements-for-health-sciences-capstone-courses\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">SAT Grades &amp; GPA Requirements for Health Sciences CAPSTONE COURSES&nbsp; <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Health Science will use the <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">original letter grade<\/strong> to determine whether you meet the GPA requirements to register in the following courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">1) HLTH 390X &#8211; Emerging Issues in Health Sciences Seminar Course<\/strong> (prerequisite for HLTH4909 &amp; HLTH4910)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">2) HLTH 4909 &#8211; Field Placement &amp; Research Project <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">3) HLTH 4910 &#8211; Honours Individual Research Thesis <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">*Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee enrollment in HLTH4909 OR HLTH4910.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><b><i>&nbsp; -Department of Health Sciences, 2023<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"gpa-requirements\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">GPA Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">1) HLTH 390X &#8211; Emerging Issues in Health Sciences Seminar Course <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(prerequisite for HLTH4909 &amp; HLTH4910)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*overall CGPA of at least 8.5, third-year standing or above in the BHSc program<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">2) HLTH 4909 &#8211; Field Placement &amp; Research Project <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*overall and major CGPA of at least 9.0 (as per the <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.carleton.ca\/calendars\/2022-2023\/undergrad\/undergradprograms\/healthsciences\/#courseinventory\">2022-23 Academic Calendar<\/a>), approval of faculty advisor\/placement site<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">3) HLTH 4910 &#8211; Honours Individual Research Thesis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*major CGPA of at least 10.0, approval of faculty advisor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">The above courses require <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">permission of the Department of Health Sciences<\/strong>.\u00a0 Permission will depend, in part, on capacity, such that meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee enrollment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAT Grades A notation of SAT (Satisfactory) means that a student has successfully completed a course and will receive credit for the course.\u00a0If you request a notation of SAT instead of a letter grade for a course, the original letter grade will remain accessible to the University for internal purposes but will not appear on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4831,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-4842","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4842\/revisions\/5868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}