What are the teaching duties at Rose-Hulman?
Rose-Hulman Mathematics: Rose-Hulman has three academic quarters each year (10 weeks instruction, 1 week for exams). The expected course load at Rose-Hulman is three four-hour courses each quarter or 3-3-3. The typical schedule is to meet the students Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. In Mathematics that is complicated somewhat by the fact that Calculus meets 5 days a week, and so the three courses might be more than 12 hours. Therefore, to reduce the load for untenured faculty, it is our practice to assign some permutation of 2-3-3 to untenured faculty. We are working with our new president to hire additional faculty to get the course load down to 8 courses/year for all members of the department. In addition, the load can be further reduced by volunteering to teach a 1 hour course as a part of the regular load. There are never more than two preparations unless one of the preparations is a one hour course.
