It seems that university term scheduling is broken. Why are summer terms relegated to second tier status if they are even included at all? With a standard 14 week plus one week break university semester you can comfortably fit in 3 equal terms and even have space left over for 5 one-week intensive miniterms if you wish.
Every professor need not teach a class every term, but can spread existing course-load over a wider array of options.
Even better would be 6 seven week terms where you attend class twice as much per week but take half as many classes at a time. The tradeoff here, of course, is that you have less time for extended projects and papers, and less time to bring up to speed students who fall behind before the final.
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Break (Actually move for easter)
- One Week Intensive MiniTerm[1. That is a one week class in which you complete all of your readings by the first day, you attend 8 hours a day for 6 days, you take your midterm on monday and you take your final exam on saturday with your term paper/project due X weeks after the class.]
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring
- Spring-Finals
- One Week Intensive MiniTerm
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Break (actually move for july 4)
- One Week Intensive MiniTerm
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer
- Summer-Finals
- One Week Intensive MiniTerm
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Break(actually move for thanksgiving)
- One Week Intensive MiniTerm
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall
- Fall-Finals
- Christmas
- Christmas