EXPLANATION OF THE SCHEDULE

The following general guidelines were used when this schedule was developed:
- courses to be offered during the full 5-day schedule, recognizing that individual faculty are not required to teach five days per week every semester
- full use of facilities and student access to courses - 1st priority
- maintain current model of multiple sections of courses in order to keep course capacities low
- departments required to spread the course offerings across the weekly schedule each semester: a second course may not be offered in a time slot unless all time slots have been used

The schedule includes the following features:
5 50-minute 3 times per week slots
6 75-minute 2 times per week slots.
After 1:30 in the afternoon, slots can be combined to create 3-hour seminar slots

Wednesday afternoons are designated as the preferred Senior Seminar meeting day, however, other afternoons can be used.

After 1:30 in the afternoon, faculty can choose additional two-day combinations for 75 minute meetings.
Monday/Thursday; Tuesday/Friday have priority for access to facilities.
Tuesday/Thursday and Monday/Wednesday have next priority.
Monday/Tuesday, Monday/Friday, Thursday/Friday have next priority.

Science departments can begin labs as early as 12:30 if they choose.

First-Year Seminars will meet 10:30 MWF, 10:30 TTh, or 1:30 MTH.

Workshop science courses, studio art courses and other courses meeting on a two-hour time slot can co-exist with this schedule.

The official course schedule ends earlier in the day, providing students with greater ability to schedule courses with sports practice/matches.

8-9 Tuesday and Thursday mornings are not class meeting times. These times are open for meetings.

In recognition of the 'lunch crunch' in the Dining Hall, the schedule runs through the time for serving lunch to help spread out the demand in the Dining Hall.

Because of the additional 2-day/wk 75-minute time slots, the 12:00-1:15 Tuesday/Thursday slot has been removed. The Common Hour occurs on Thursday (beginning Fall 2005). The Tuesday slot is open for departmental programming, departmental meetings, presentations by majors, opportunities for informal gatherings of faculty to share their research, etc.