Course Waivers

EDP students may apply for waivers from one or more courses required by their program. The goal is to allow students who have taken prior graduate courses that are the equivalent of courses required by their program to be excused from taking these again. EDP strongly recommends students submit waivers before Orientation, as course advising takes place during Orientation.

To be eligible for waiver, a previously-completed course must:

Be graduate level coursework
Have been completed with a grade of B or better
Substantially duplicate the content of the course or requirement for which you seek a waiver. Note: if the content of the EDP course you are requesting to waive was covered across multiple courses, you may use those in your waiver request.

Special Waivers

EDP 380C.2 Fundamental Statistics

Fundamental Statistics Waiver Requirements:

Beginning Fall 2020, waiver requests will be allowed for EDP 380C.2 Fundamental Statistics (replacing the prior Proficiency Exam process). EDP 380C.2 Fundamental Statistics is the prerequisite course for all Quantitative Methods courses. Waivers for Fundamental Statistics should be submitted to the Quantitative Methods Area Chair. To submit a waiver for this course:

Student must have a minimum of 1 advanced graduate-level statistics course completed with a B or higher within the last 3 years. The only undergraduate course that may be counted is EDP 371 Introduction to Statistics, competed within the last 3 years with a B or higher.
The course must have covered all of the following topics at minimum:
- Scales of measurement
- Statistical notation
- Frequency distribution of scores
- Measures of Central Tendency
- Measures of Variability
- Z scores
- Sampling distributions of sample means
- One-sample hypothesis testing
- The t-statistic
- Confidence intervals
- Two-sample hypothesis testing
- Related samples t test
- Analysis of Variance
- Correlation
- Simple Linear Regression
- Chi-square test of goodness of fit
- Chi-square test of independence

Coursework Older than Six Years: If you want a course to fulfill an out-of-specialization requirement for an en-route master’s degree, that course cannot be older than 6 years, and cannot have been used to fulfill degree requirements at your previous university. The Graduate School currently has a separate waiver process for courses older than 6 years.

Waiver Process

View your Program of Work to see what courses are required for your degree
Course descriptions can be found in the UT Catalog
Previous course instructors can be found in the UT Course Schedules. If you are not certain of a course instructor, contact your Area Chair.
Complete the Waiver Form
Include as much supporting documentation as possible (required documentation is listed on the form).
Follow the submission instructions on the waiver form.
Students will be notified in writing by the Graduate Coordinator of the waiver decision status.
Completed waivers will be filed by the Graduate Coordinator in your Program of Work folder in UT Box.
Note: it is recommended you keep a copy of all approved waiver forms in case you need them for in the future (particularly for students planning on obtaining licensure, e.g. as a licensed psychologist.