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Policy On Accelerated CoursesThis policy is based upon the following general principles: - The University is committed to giving faculty the flexibility to deliver instruction in a variety of traditional and nontraditional formats.
The University provides and supports the traditional semester credit courses of 15 weeks of instruction during the fall and spring semesters, eight weeks of instruction during the fall and spring, and courses of varying lengths during the summer sessions. Accelerated courses are defined as credit courses provided in a shorter time frame and must meet the following guidelines.
- Guidelines
- Accelerated courses should be clearly the academic equivalent of courses
taken on the normal semester schedule.
Traditional lecture courses require students to spend approximately two hours of preparation, research,
or writing time outside of class for each one hour of class time. Laboratory courses usually require less out-of-class time, but the in-class time
is greater, usually twice as many contact hours as would be expected in a
lecture course.
- No more than one semester credit can be earned in a week or weekend of
instruction if the entire work of the class is contained in that week or weekend.
Under unusual circumstances, and only upon the approval of the Dean of the college, two hours of credit may be offered in a single week or weekend. - The chair must provide the Dean with the proposed syllabus, a written evaluation of the proposed accelerated course comparison with the same or similar course that is conducted during the usual time-frame, and other evidence of its suitability for acceleration. Other evidence to be provided includes the following.
The course is of a highly intensive nature and the students admitted
to the course are carefully picked for ability to handle such an intensive
program, or The course required graded work done prior to or subsequent
to the week or weekend of classroom instruction so that the total amount of work required
for the course is the clear equivalent of the same number of semester hours
during a regular session.
If any request is submitted for offering a course at a rate of more than
two hours of credit per week or weekend of class sessions, prior approval of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs is required. Such approval will only be given upon clear evidence that substantial work is required of the student outside of the week or weekend of classroom instruction and that the course is clearly equivalent to similar courses offered in the regular session. In cases of dispute, appeal may be made to the Provost and Vice
President for Academic Affairs. The decision of the Provost and Vice President
for Academic Affairs is final.
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