Reminder: Winter Session 2023 Guidelines

To: Departmental Executive Officers
From: Cornelia Lang, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
RE: Reminder: Winter Session 2023 Guidelines

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As you have seen, the planner is now open for Winter 2023 courses. As a reminder, Winter Session 2023 runs from Monday, December 18, 2023, to Friday, January 12, 2024, (note that the session starts right after the Fall 2023 semester ends and the session ends right before the start of the Spring 2024 semester). There are classes scheduled over four weeks but several university holidays within the time frame as well, so there are fewer than 20 instructional days.

Goal: The goal of CLAS offerings in winter session is to provide online CLAS Core courses to a population of students who may be wanting to make progress toward graduation in Spring 2024 or Summer 2024 and also to stay on track with their program of study.

  • Courses should provide a mix of synchronous and asynchronous learning modules.
  •  Courses should be 3 s.h. and help students progress along their program of study plan.
  • Course that fulfill one of the GE CLAS Core area requirements and courses that often have long wait lists during the semester are preferred.
  • Courses will be stand-alone sections; courses that typically have labs or discussions will not be offered in that format during winter session.

Instruction: Winter session courses may be taught by Instructional Track Faculty, Visitors or Adjuncts.

Enrollment: Winter courses are required to have a minimum enrollment cap of 30; maximum of 100. Historical offerings show that many courses do well with enrollments set to 40. Please reach out to AD Lang with questions related to course enrollments.

  • The college reserves the right to cancel courses with enrollment less than 20.
  • The course planner is open for winter session and closes on June 9, 2023.

If your department has a course and instructor that meet the criteria outlined above for Winter Session 2023, please email the information to AD Lang for permission to add it to the planner by Friday, May 19 (cornelia-lang@uiowa.edu). Final decisions will be made and communicated to departments by Friday, May 26.

  • Once you have permission to add it to the planner, please enter in all course information to meet MAUI offerings planner deadlines. CLAS Finance will provide the final winter session approved budget to those departments that have approved courses.
  • CLAS offered 18 CLAS Core winter session courses during winter 2022; we plan to offer between 15-18 courses for the 2023 session.

Questions? Please contact AD Cornelia Lang at cornelia-lang@uiowa.edu.