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The primary goal of the Academic Scheduling Procedure is to maximize the probability that all students receive their choice of main campus full-term courses required for graduation on a timely basis (within the prescribed number of semesters) by providing a conflict-costless resources environment (staff, space, and courses) which minimizes operating and capital costs.

Full general Policy Regarding the Academic Scheduling Process.
- The policy for class scheduling is established by the Part of the Provost and implemented past the Office of The University Registrar.
- The term "section" refers to the scheduling unit.
- Full general objectives in building the Schedule of Classes include providing workable schedules for students by departments, ensuring access to courses by students, making efficient apply of classrooms and laboratories/special laboratories, and minimizing overhead associated with Schedule of Classes assistants.
- All classes are scheduled to start at the hour or half-60 minutes.

Scheduling Axioms.
- The length of the academic calendar week and variations in time patterns used in amalgam a schedule of classes play of import roles in the effectiveness of the bookish schedule.
- When courses are concentrated at one time, students have minimum course selectivity and no scheduling flexibility. Maximum staff and space resources are required.
- When courses are distributed over all time periods, students take complete course selectivity and scheduling flexibility since whatever combination of courses may be taken. Staff and space resource needs can be minimized.
- The probability of a student obtaining a disharmonize-free schedule can exist greatly increased when the courses are distributed throughout the hours of the day and the days of the week.
- Information technology is highly desirable to distribute course offerings evenly over an academic calendar week, thus providing for the largest number of non-conflicting fourth dimension patterns.

Scheduling Strategies:
- Departments must strictly adhere to the approved standard prepare of time patterns. The standard meeting patterns for 3-hour daytime classes are as follows:
  - Monday, Wednesday, Friday (MWF):
    - 8:00 a.m. – 8:50 a.yard.
    - 9:00 a.grand. – 9:l a.m.
    - 10:00 a.m.– ten:50 am.
    - 11:00 a.m.- 11:50 a.yard.
    - 12:00 p.thousand. – 12:50 p.1000.
    - 1:00 p.1000. – 1:50 p.m.
    - ii:00 p.grand. – ii:50 p.thousand.
    - 3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
    - 4:00 p.g. – 4:50 p.m.
  - Tuesday, Thursday (TR)
    - 8:00 a.m. – nine:fifteen a.m,
    - 9:30 a.m. – x:45 a.m.
    - 11:00 a.thou. – 12:15 p.m.
    - 12:thirty p.m. – one:45 p.yard.
    - 2:00 p.thousand. – 3:15 p.k.
    - iii:thirty p.m. – iv:45 p.one thousand.
- Departments must schedule all multiple lecture and laboratory/special laboratory sections so that student grade enrollments will exist distributed approximately equally between mornings and afternoons and between the different meeting patterns (TR vs. MWF).
- Since the goal is to provide all students with the largest number of opportunities to annals for every bit many courses as possible, departments should make efforts to schedule courses during non-peak hours. Meridian hours are betwixt nine:00 AM and 3:00 PM.
- Considering the standard meeting lengths are in 50- and 75-minute time blocks, non-standard sections should be offered in multiples of these times to avert end times that forestall students from registering for courses that may follow the non-standard department.
- Full general usage of classrooms will begin two weeks prior to established deadlines for the schedule. This borderline is typically identical to that of the printed schedule of classes. Departments/colleges will accept the ability to schedule in rooms they manage commencement. After this, the Registrar's office will utilize all available classrooms to assist other departments in demand of space. All departments involved in the optimization process will exist notified by the Registrar's office.

Required Class Meeting Length:

# Semester Credit Hours	Meeting Sequences	Required Length of Each Form Meeting
For iv hour class	MTWR	fifty min
For 3 60 minutes class	MWF	50 min
For 3 hr class	MW*	ane hr fifteen min
For 3 hour form	M or T or W or R or F*	2 hours 50 min
For 3 hour class	TR	1 60 minutes 15 min
For 2 hour class	MW or MF or TR or WF	50 min
For 1 hour grade	M or T or Due west or R or F	l min

* Courses may only exist scheduled using these sequences after 3:00 pm.
- Exceptions: Labs and Clinical or Practicum Courses
- Other Exceptions include didactic courses taught in conjunction with clinical or practicum classes.
- Lectures that accept recitation times may run into on the MW format. However, all attempts should be made to schedule the recitation time in the same fourth dimension cake on the respective solar day in the pattern. For example, HY 101 has a lecture on MW from 9-nine:50 AM. Recitations should be scheduled, when possible, on F from 9-9:50 AM. When this is impossible, the recitation sections may only be scheduled at non-peak hours (before 9 AM or after 3 PM). This will lessen the affect on student's schedules and room utilization.
- Graduate courses, taught during peak hours (9AM-3PM), are exempt from this policy provided they see in a room with a chapters of 15 or less. Graduate courses taught at non-peak hours are exempt regardless of their room capacity.
- The scheduling policy is not in effect for summertime terms.