this Tuesday, October 6.\u00a0 <\/strong>Please do not<\/u> give your individual comments one at a time to me, or to Jamie Johnson, or to Cheryl Edwards.\u00a0 Registrar Jamie Johnson will be meeting with student leaders soon to discuss fully your comments and suggestions.<\/p>\nThis year, we made a special effort to minimize conflicts among upper-level courses, especially required, menu, or bar-related courses.\u00a0 We also made a special effort to\u00a0 minimize conflicts between\u00a0lecture courses, \u00a0and clinic, externship, and seminar courses.\u00a0 To this end, we created several \u201cblocks\u201d in the schedule:\u00a0 a seminar block, a clinic block, and an externship block.\u00a0\u00a0 We also made adjustments to try to regularize start times for classes and eliminate as far as possible instances where classes overlapped by only 15 minutes or so. However, given other constraints (e.g., faculty workload, avoiding having students take too many courses in a row without a break in between, etc), a certain amount of conflicts proved unavoidable.\u00a0 This spring\u2019s schedule is part of a longer-term process over the next several semesters in which we hope to continue to revamp the schedule to meet these goals.<\/p>\n
Please note that we cannot possibly accommodate 340+ individual work, family, vacation, or worship schedules. So while we welcome your feedback, a comment such as \u201cdon\u2019t schedule Administrative Law on Monday afternoons because I work\u201d is not a useful comment. Please note that the ABA requires us to schedule classes on Fridays. We are most interested in comments that relate to class conflicts.\u00a0 For example, if Elder Law and Family Law conflict but a large number of students want to enroll in both courses, we will consider amending the schedule.<\/p>\n
Finally, please be advised that one or two courses might be added to this schedule before it is finalized.\u00a0 If that happens, they will be scheduled \u00a0in such a way as to minimize conflicts with other courses.\u00a0 \u00a0 We will finalize these details as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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