The academic calendar includes 14 weeks of formal class meetings rather than 15. Does this mean less course material can be covered?
NEW In principle, no, if instructors were following the 1984 and 1991 Academic Senate guidelines that no new course material be introduced in the 15th week of classes. Under the new RRR week calendar, there are now 14 weeks of in-class instruction and one RRR week each semester. The number of days of in-class instruction is the same for both spring and fall semesters. UC Berkeley has 68 days of in-class instruction per semester, or 136 days of in-class instruction per academic year. For comparison, the University of Michigan has 135 days of in-class instruction per academic year, MIT has 130, Princeton has 129, and Harvard has 125. [Back] • When is the “last day of instruction”? The last “day of instruction” corresponds to the last day of the RRR period, since RRR days are counted as days of instruction by the state legislature and in federal financial aid guidelines. The academic calendar now includes a notation for the end of formal classes as well as for the “last day of instruction
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