January Term
January Term is an intensive, month-long session featuring a unique blend of opportunities on and off campus. You'll have the opportunity to make an in-depth, accelerated exploration of topics like intensive Japanese, enterpreneurship, or young adult fiction. January Term classes have contributed to the rebuilding of New Orleans, explored the continuing effects of apartheid in South Africa, critiqued movies at the Sundance Film Festival, and explored the biodiversity of South America.
Your on-campus January Term class meet at least as often as a full-credit class during the regular semester, and many travel courses meet over three times as often. Because of the lack of other classes vying for your attention faculty members expect more from you, and tend to increase the pace of instruction. January Term courses usually require broader reading, more reflection, careful writing, more thorough preparation for class meetings, and greater individual initiative. Students are expected to do at least two hours of preparation for every hour of class or at least five hours of work for every regularly scheduled day of class.
Submit a 2009 Jan Term proposal! Deadline for submissions is Monday, April 7th.
January Term Podcast
David Blanchard, Sue Fallis, Thomas Cooney
