Summer Class Scheduling

Summer Specific Information

Student Registration and Guideline Statements:

The Provost recommends that Departments and Deans give serious consideration to offering classes in all sessions of the summer term. The primary purpose of the multiple session format is to allow greater flexibility in the scheduling of classes, with the intent of expanding course offerings during the Summer.

Potential strategies to keep in mind when meeting these goals:

1. Don’t load up on first four or eight week classes.
2. Identify sequential courses that can be offered in back-to-back sessions.
3. Identify courses that would be open to freshman and transfer students.
4. Required major courses.
5. Courses normally only offered in spring or fall (allow students an opportunity to get back on track)
6. Popular transfer courses.

• Students may enroll in a combination of four and eight week courses pursuant to maximum hour regulations.
  
  
• REGISTRATION. Students who wish to take the second four-week session (July) will be allowed to enroll during the normal registration periods up to the beginning of classes. Any advisement or permission requirements will remain in effect.
  
  
• ADD/DROP REGULATIONS. Because of the intensive format of  the summer parts-of-term, students will be allowed to add courses only through the second day of classes for that particular session, unless given permission by the instructor and student's dean to enroll later.
  
  
• REFUND REGULATIONS. The refund period for four week courses is the first three days of classes. The refund period for eight week courses is the first five days of classes.
  
  
• In order to meet State Regents' contact hour regulations the summer session calendar will contain 19 class days of instruction for four-week classes and 38 days of instruction for eight-week classes. Courses such as thesis and dissertation will be listed for the eight-week block (June/July).