Enrollment Terminology

Daytona State offers college credit and vocational courses as well as college preparatory courses. Students may attend full-time or part-time.

  • Academic Calendar Year Definition – An academic calendar year starts with the fall term and continues until the end of the next summer term.
  • Advanced Registration – Typically a three-day period which allows currently enrolled students to enroll into classes for the following semester on a priority order, based on credit hours earned (successfully completed) or if a Veteran. College Credit may not be combined with Vocational Contact Hours (VCH) or vice versa.(parameters; US Military/Veterans/45+credits/900 VCH first day of advanced, 30+/600 VCH second day of advanced registration, 15+/300 VCH third day of advanced registration)
  • Audit – Students who do not want to earn college credit for a course or have taken the course before and received a grade of "C" or better may audit a course prior to the class start date. College preparatory courses may not be audited. All requisites apply when auditing a course.
  • College Credit – Courses that typically lead to a bachelor's or associate degree or college credit certificate and may transfer to other regionally accredited institutions.
  • College Preparatory Courses – Courses are designed to help students achieve a specific skill level. Credits earned in preparatory courses will not transfer and are not calculated in a student's grade point average (GPA). Students may not audit a preparatory class.
  • Course Requisites – Some courses require students to satisfy one or more enrollment requirements, known as requisites, before or during enrollment. Requisites are established through the College curriculum approval process and are published in the College Catalog and class schedule.

- Prerequisite: A course or other requirement that must be successfully completed with a final grade of C or better before enrollment in another course.


- Co-requisite: A course that must be taken concurrently with another course unless otherwise specified in the approved curriculum, and must be successfully completed with a final grade of C or better before enrollment in another course.

 

Students are responsible for maintaining eligibility for all registered courses. If a prerequisite or co-requisite is not met or is no longer satisfied—for example, because a required co-requisite course is dropped, withdrawn, or administratively removed—the College may administratively remove the student from the associated course(s). Students are responsible for any academic or financial consequences resulting from changes to their enrollment.

In limited circumstances, an academic department may approve an exception when permitted by College policy and curriculum requirements.

  • Full-Time Status – A student enrolled in 12 or more credit hours during any semester is considered full-time. A student may combine hours for all sub-sessions within the semester to establish full-time status. Enrollment status may be calculated differently for financial aid and veteran's; benefits.
  • Half-Time Status – A student enrolled in six to eight credit hours during a semester. A student may combine hours for all sub-sessions within the semester to establish half-time status. Enrollment status may be calculated differently for financial aid and veterans’ benefits.
  • Less Than Half-Time Status – A student enrolled in less than six credit hours during a semester. Enrollment status may be calculated differently for financial aid and veterans’ benefits.
  • Open Enrollment – The earliest date for new or returning students (and those who did not register into classes during the Advanced Registration period) who can begin enrolling into classes.
  • Semester – A 15 or 16-week (also two seven-week sub sessions) period during the fall and spring when classes are in session. Multiple summer sessions are offered starting at various times.
  • Semester Hours – The number of credits assigned to a specific course. The number of hours per week of class varies.
  • State Employee Registration – State employees as identified by the Florida Accounting and Information Resource website may enroll and have their tuition waived for a maximum of six hours per semester. NOTE: Students who are using their State Waiver cannot enroll into classes until the very first day of class, at the earliest, otherwise the waiver is void.
  • Three-Quarter-Time Status – A student enrolled in nine to 11 credit hours during a semester. A student may combine hours for all sub-sessions within the semester to establish three-quarter-time status. Enrollment status may be calculated differently for financial aid and veterans’ benefits.
  • Vocational Credit – Courses that typically lead to a certificate and do not transfer to other postsecondary institutions.