The University of Montana-Missoula

Summer Semester Scheduling Meeting with Faculty Senate

Thursday, May 5, 2005

 

What are the current scheduling practices for summer semester?

 

-          Standard Five Week Session:  3.0-credit summer semester course meets 90 minutes, M-F

-          Ten-Week Session

-    Special Sessions:  Sessions that fall outside the two five-week sessions

-          Fine Arts  [Creative Pulse]

-          Education

-          College of Arts & Sciences [Field Courses, Montana Geography, Foreign Languages, Immersion Workshops, etc.]

-          Business:  Weekend MBA courses

-          Most lab courses

-          Courses offered for fewer than or more than 3.0 credits

-          Five week 4.0-credit courses with daily course periods longer than 90 minutes [must be scheduled at 12:30 p.m. or later, or during evening hours, to avoid conflicts with other regularly scheduled morning courses]

 

-     Over-all, every course must have a minimum of 750 contact minutes per academic credit.

 

-     The following table reviews courses by session for summer of 2005: 

 

 

# of Courses

% of Total

Special Session

185

33.3%

10-week

90

16.2%

5-week (+/- 3 cr)

34

6.1%

Subtotal

309

55.6%

5-week (3 cr)*

247

44.4%

Total

556

100.0%

 

 

 

*Follow traditional M-F, 90 minute format

 

What are we proposing for summer semester 2006?

 

-          We want to add a four-day week option to faculty members who are teaching in summer, as per the attached chart

-          Nothing else will be changed of the above, including the standard 5-day week schedule, except for later starting times

 

How will we make this option available?

 

-          If this proposal is accepted, meetings with each dean and department chair will be held in May to review procedures

-          In September, the annual Call for Courses will include specific instructions for deans and department chairs