How does the Quarter System map to Semesters?
Because PSU is on the quarter system (10-week courses) and many of our high schools are on the semester system (15 weeks), there are a variety of ways we have worked with high schools to determine how to cover course material-e.g., superimpose three quarters onto two semesters, match up a quarter with a semester, teach one quarter over the course of an entire academic year. The decision is based on the high school’s needs and interests. For example, foreign language courses are taught through Challenge exactly as they are taught on campus-in three sequences taught in three quarters (fall, winter, and spring). But our math classes are typically taught at the high school in two semesters. Therefore, if your student takes PSU Spanish and PSU calculus, s/he will enroll and pay three times in the course of a year for Spanish (and earn 12 credits) and two times in the course of a year for calculus (and earn 8 credits).
