Guidance for Peak/Non-Peak Course Distribution and Scheduling Non-Standard Meeting Pattern Lectures
Guidance for Moving Lecture Courses Taught During Peak to Non-peak
It will be up to each academic unit that needs to shift lecture courses from peak hours to non-peak hours to determine how best to schedule and staff non-peak courses. Guidance for facilitating these changes include the following:
- Look for openings during non-peak afternoon hours on TTh (8:00am-9:15am, 2:00pm-3:15pm, 3:30pm-4:45pm, 5:00pm-6:15pm).
- Take advantage of new non-peak afternoon MW 75-minute meeting patterns being
- Schedule some core or required courses during non-peak
- Schedule a mix of courses before and after peak
- Rotate non-peak teaching assignments among instructional personnel. Early morning and later afternoon spots may be more viable for some instructors than Again, it is up to each academic unit to determine how best to schedule and staff non-peak courses.
Guidance for Scheduling Non-Standard Meeting Pattern Lectures
Block-scheduled courses are those lasting more than 75 minutes scheduled on a single day of each week. The duration of block-scheduled courses at UNC ranges from 80-180 minutes. Block-scheduled courses often result in poor utilization of classrooms on the remaining days of the meeting pattern.
- There are no restrictions on block courses offered 6pm or later on MWF and 6:30pm or later on
- Academic units should have compelling pedagogical reasons (see Common Exceptions) for offering block courses earlier than these times, especially if being scheduled in GPCs.
- For academic units that manage any of their own classrooms (non-GPCs), every attempt should be made to schedule block courses in those classrooms before scheduling a block course in a GPC.
- Block courses should not be scheduled in any GPC designated as an active learning See the current list of GPCs designated as active learning classrooms.
Single day courses are those with a standard duration (50-75 minutes) that meet only one day per week.
- Single-day 60-minute or 75-minute lecture courses should be offered on either Tuesday or Thursday, not on MWF.
- Single-day 50-minute lecture courses should be offered on MWF, not on T or
- Academic units that schedule multiple single-day lecture courses should strive to schedule them across the week at a common time and For example, if a single-day 75-minute lecture course is scheduled on Tuesday at 12:30pm in Graham Memorial 123, the department should schedule another one of its 75-minute single-day sections on Thursday at 12:30pm in the same classroom.