Survey Says?
Prof. Swift just sent an e-mail asking all Boalties to take a survey about proposed Academic Calendar changes. The link is here. I don't like ANY of the options under review. Instead, I suggested that Committee adopt the Max Power proposal articulated here on N&B. If you recall, MP suggested that we increase the unit classroom time from 50 minutes to 55 minutes to give us an extra week of vacation...either in the winter or summer. Take your pick. But this way, we still get to keep our review sessions and reading period.
I'm REALLY opposed to getting rid of either of those. When our entire grades depend on a single exam covering a wealth of material from 15 weeks, I think it's not too much to ask for a couple of days to put everything together. Anyway, I've filled out the survey stating my opposition to all of the options and I added my preference to the comment. If you think it's a wise idea, now's your chance to air it out.
UPDATE: Prof. Swift kindly points out that the 55 minute change has been brought up but the faculty are not really in favor of it because it would cut into the class-free lunch period. Thought I'd point that out.
I'm REALLY opposed to getting rid of either of those. When our entire grades depend on a single exam covering a wealth of material from 15 weeks, I think it's not too much to ask for a couple of days to put everything together. Anyway, I've filled out the survey stating my opposition to all of the options and I added my preference to the comment. If you think it's a wise idea, now's your chance to air it out.
UPDATE: Prof. Swift kindly points out that the 55 minute change has been brought up but the faculty are not really in favor of it because it would cut into the class-free lunch period. Thought I'd point that out.
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posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 12:15 PM
6 Comments:
I strongly support the Max Power Plan as well.
Classes always go 5 minutes overtime anyway - funny how the profs don't complain about that cutting into lunch.
Will note this on the survey.
comign from the working world, i found christmas break long enough. i loved it, but didnt feel it needed to be a week longer. much better a longer summer to give more options there.
I don’t' see why it has to cut into lunch, as the lunch is a fixed point in the day, and classes can be extended earlier and later, and not by much.
We have to take 85 units, divided by 6 semesters = ~14.2 (units / semester). 14.2 units * 5 (minutes / (unit * week)) = 71 (minutes / week) / 7 (days / week) = 7.1 (minutes / day)
Seriously, 7.1 minutes per day? That's a lot less than a lunch break. Now I now that's going to vary widely, with some shmo out really likes having 18 units but class only 3 days a week. However, that doesn't seem the norm.
I really think it's possible to have 55 minute / unit classes and still have a lunch break. It would be one thing if every class had to start and stop within a certain period, but that's certainly not the case. Classes start and stop and overlap by big and small amounts all over the place.
However, if there is some real reason behind this, I'd definitely vote to keep it how it is rather than get an extra week break during winter. Cutting into summer job time / bar study time would be bad. Eliminating the days for study sessions would be worse. This is not to say study sessions are always useful, but cutting into the already ridiculously short period of time we have to get outlines finalzed / do fully integrated studying after the finalization of new material would be horribly demoralizing.
Two points:
1) A seven day exam period is ridiculous. The exam period is short enough as it is. We should have a proposal for a longer reading and exam period. We also should be shooting down the policy that forces students who want 24 hours for their take-homes to take them by the last Wednesday of exam period. The last call for uploading take-homes should be on the Friday. I predict a truncated exam period would make sustained excellence much more difficult. On a redistributive level, though, students might get luckier in the fog of a hurried exam period as the random factor increases. Perhaps the administration wants that. An even more condensed exam period will frustrate students, turning them off from exam preparation.
2) If the lunch hour is so sacred that we can't make classes longer, we should look toward more Friday classes. Other law schools use their Fridays for classes - our law school does so sparingly. If classes met an additional day on Friday (or some Fridays), we'd shave off the length of Boalt's semester while retaining a 10 day exam period plus a reasonable reading period.
I have yet to have a class that doesn't keep me 5 minutes late nearly every day. The faculty seriously need to realize that they're already doing this anyway.
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