{"id":6715,"date":"2016-09-21T14:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=6715"},"modified":"2016-09-21T14:46:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:46:47","slug":"draft-class-schedule-spring-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/draft-class-schedule-spring-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DRAFT Class Schedule \u2013 Spring 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Dean Mulroy:<\/p>\n<p>Dear students,<\/p>\n<p>I hope classes are going well. \u00a0We have written a\u00a0<strong>DRAFT<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Spring 2017 class schedule. It is posted\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/law\/documents\/spring2017draftgrid.pdf\">here<\/a>. Please review the schedule.\u00a0 If you have suggestions or comments, please relate your suggestions or comments to a student leader (an SBA representative or an officer in any registered student organization).\u00a0 Please do this by <strong>9 a.m. <\/strong>\u00a0<strong>this <\/strong><strong>Monday September 26.\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Please\u00a0<u>do not<\/u>\u00a0give your individual comments one at a time to me, or to \u00a0Registrar Jamie Johnson, or to Cheryl Edwards.\u00a0 Registrar \u00a0Johnson and I will be meeting with student leaders at noon on Mon. Sept. 26 to discuss fully your comments and suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we again made a special effort to minimize conflicts among upper-level courses, especially required, menu, and bar-related courses.\u00a0 We also made a special effort to\u00a0 minimize conflicts involving clinic, externship, and seminar courses.\u00a0 To this end, we \u00a0placed clinic courses together, externship courses together, and seminar courses together on the schedule.\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<p>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.\u00a0 The most useful comment would propose an alternative rather than simply noting a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Your input is valued, and we look forward to your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dean Mulroy: Dear students, I hope classes are going well. \u00a0We have written a\u00a0DRAFT\u00a0Spring 2017 class schedule. 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