(Pardon my wording here) The length of how often we have to go to classes everyday are broken down into the following groups: Quarters, semesters, and intercessions. What is/are the difference(s) between the three?
2007-11-16 02:05:53 · 2 answers · asked by Jonathan 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
A semester is half an academic year. Strangely, a quarter is one third of an academic year. The intercessions are the periods between semesters or quarters.
2007-11-16 02:54:12 · answer #1 · answered by jack of all trades 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went through all of my own education on the quarter system, and most of my teaching career on the semester system. A semester system usually offers two 15-week semesters per year, while a quarter system offers three 10-week quarters during the school year (there is usually a summer quarter as well, and in the semester system, summer school is offered too). The advantage to the quarter system is that you can often fit more different classes in, and if you truly hate a class, it is over more quickly. The disadvantages are that there is no down time at all (if you get sick for a week or so, you are in real trouble), and that there are many kinds of projects you can't do because by the time students have learned enough to start working on them, there isn't enough time left to finish them. This has bothered a lot of schools, and while I haven't heard of many schools switching TO the quarter system lately, I've heard of a number who changed back FROM the quarter system in the past few years.
2016-05-23 09:42:30 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋