POLICY ON HALF-SEMESTER
COURSES
(Proposal
4-00)
(Proposal
10-03)
Senate Policy 305.1
Half-semester length courses are those courses offered in either the first or the last half of a semester. In order to avoid inefficient use of classrooms and scheduling problems for students, half semester courses will be approved only for one of the following purposes:
RULES
To ensure that half-semester courses do not negatively impact students' progress toward
their degrees by either limiting the number of credit hours they can earn during one
semester or requiring them to take excessively heavy loads of credits for half-semesters,
the following rules will apply:
All other University policies and procedures for adding courses remain in effect for half-semester courses.
Proposal 4-00:
Adopted by Senate: 10 November 1999
Approved by Administration: 20 January 2000
Proposal 10-03:
Adopted by Senate: 12 February 2003
Approved by President: 18 February 2003