Standard Operating Procedure
Department: Office of the Registrar Procedure Title: Five-day Course Schedule
Scheduled courses are to be evenly distributed throughout the 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM time blocks on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and on Fridays from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
Deans, Associate Deans, Chairpersons, and the Office of the Registrar will build the five-day course schedule with consultations from faculty members. With consultation from the Office of Academic Affairs and the Office of Finance and Business Administration, the Dean has the final decision on course offerings, including modality, days, and times. Curriculum ladders and the five-year course schedule will be used as guidance to determine which courses will be built and offered for the respective semester or session.
C. KSU 118 - Introduction to University Learning courses must be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM.
Tuesdays or Thursdays between 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM may be used for assemblies and convocations. A notice will be sent from either the Office of the President or the Office of Academic Affairs requesting courses scheduled during a Tuesday or Thursday to be excused for student participation in our institution’s assembly or convocation.
It is recommended that KSU 186 – Navigate the Tech World is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM, but course schedule days and times are flexible to accommodate faculty schedules to complete instructors' workloads.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are NO LONGER reserved for meetings, professional development, research, and other things. Fridays after 2:00 PM ET are reserved for committee meetings, professional developments, research, and other things.
One-hundred-level Mathematics, English, and Communication courses have priority selections after KSU 118 and 186 courses.
Other one-hundred-level courses will be built to minimize conflicts in student schedules. Deans, Associate Deans, Chairpersons, and the Office of the Registrar will consult the approved curriculum ladders to identify which courses are needed and select days and times to permit student registration goals. The goal is to ensure undergraduate students can register for at least fifteen credit hours per Fall and Spring semesters.
After one-hundred-level courses are established, two-hundred-level courses will be built into the schedule. Two-hundred-level courses must be scheduled to minimize conflicts with undergraduate students who also register for one-hundred-level courses.
Three-hundred-level program core courses will be built into the schedule after two-hundred-level courses. Three-hundred-level courses will adhere to the course offering identified in the published program curriculum ladder per semester. Three-hundred-level courses must be scheduled to minimize conflicts with undergraduate students who also register for electives or minor courses as published in the program’s curriculum ladder.
An exception is if the three-hundred level course is determined to be a low-enrolled course, the three-hundred level course may be re-scheduled in a