Happy Friday everyone (and to those of you taking the comprehensive exam, good luck :-) )
The department has recently come up with a tentative schedule for Spring, Summer and Fall semesters from 2013 to 2016! You can see the tentative schedule here: http://umbapling.ning.com/group/theclassroom/page/tentativeschedule
You can also discuss the tentative schedule in the Classroom Group discussion boards here: http://umbapling.ning.com/group/theclassroom
This schedule represents where we want to be in the next few years, especially with regard to electives! I am a big advocate of choice, so I tried to propose as many electives as possible in the next few years (especially in the summer).
Now, having said this, this schedule is only tentative, it's not etched in stone. We still have to figure out instructor assignments so that these courses can run, and if courses don't have sufficient enrollments, or if we can't find an instructor to teach a specific (elective) course, it may get cancelled. If you are really excited about a specific elective take the opportunity to talk about it in the classroom group. Obviously if enough students are interested in a specific elective we can figure creative ways of getting faculty (especially people not already on our staff) to come teach those courses :-)
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