Interterm limits educational options
Campus Times
November 13, 1998
cartoon by Stephanie Lesniak
January Interterm is a session through which University of La Verne
students can fulfill general education (G.E.) requirements within a month.
But for various reasons, students' chances of getting the classes they need
are slim this year.
One reason students cannot fulfill this requirement is due to the fact
that less than 50 G.E. classes are offered this January. This is because
professors, like students, want to take the term off. But for the ULV student
who wants to graduate on time, the term offers limited pickings in the G.E.
market. As of yesterday afternoon, six general education courses have already
been closed for the term. Therefore, sophomores and freshmen, primarily,
had little or no time to register for these classes.
For those students who want to take up to five units, few options to
do so are available. With most classes offered being three or four semester
hours, students are restricted to one class. The only courses that can be
taken in conjunction with a three-unit course are either Feature Writing
or Computer Data Analysis, both two-unit classes. So making more two-unit
courses available should be taken into consideration next January when professors
submit their list of classes offered.
With the increase of students at ULV, one would think that the University
would offer more classes during Interterm. In previous years, students could
take up to five units to take care of the G.E.s they needed. Perhaps fewer
classes are offered in order to encourage students to vacation for a month.
The combination of a thin January class list and a large increase in
the student population makes it seem like the University planned to have
fewer students here during January. Instead of preventing problems, the
lack of classes has created new ones. On the other hand, at least parking
may not be a big issue during January 1999; but that is opening up an entirely
different can of worms.
