Together, the schedule type and instructional method reflect the educational technology and the use of facilities, materials, and equipment.
Schedule Type
Schedule types are set up according the way the course was approved for the course catalog and exist for the purposes of identifying and reporting information about academic scheduling.
- Activity (A): A course or educational procedure designed to stimulate learning via first-hand experience (e.g., reading and conference, athletics, tutorial).
- Discussion (D): Those sections associated with a lecture course that are used to facilitate consideration of a question or topic in open and informal debate.
- Experiential / Cooperative Education (E): A course providing supervised training, practical applications, or exposure to a discipline or profession (e.g., internship, externship, practica).
- Independent or Special Study (I): A course of organized instruction or research determined solely by a student and his/her instructor.
- Individual Research (N): A course designed for:
- the discovery or creation of new knowledge, art, or scholarly work; and
- the revision of accepted theories or practical application in a particular subject area (e.g., thesis, dissertations, projects and studios).
- Laboratory (B): That part of a course set aside for experimental hands-on observation or practice in a field of study.
- Lecture (L): A course where the primary delivery of instruction is by the instructor's presentation of academic subject matter.
- Seminar (S): A course for students studying under the direction of an instructor for the purpose of presenting and exchanging scholarly ideas or research findings.
Instructional Method
Instructional method is the delivery method for a specific section of a course. See Definitions and Coding for Teaching Modalities for instructional method codes.