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Each term, the Athenaeum lists the weekly schedule, the course offerings and the course descriptions for the current and/or upcoming term. During the 2012-2013 academic year, the Athenaeum continues to utilize its quarter calendar. However, the Athenaeum will move from its current quarter calendar to a semester calendar beginning in autumn 2013.
Athenaeum president Fr. Benedict D. O'Cinnsealaigh decided to make this change during the last calendar year. During summer 2012, members of the Athenaeum Senate Educational Affairs Committee worked on the conversion of Athenaeum degree programs from quarter credits to semester credits. The Athenaeum applied to the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools for permission to make this change, and has now received that permission. No current students will need to spend more time or money to complete their degree program as a result of this change.
The Ohio Board of Regents has asked that all state institutions of higher learning use the semester calendar by 2017. Use of the semester calendar will bring the Athenaeum’s calendar into conformity with that of most state institutions and almost all Catholic seminaries in the United States. This will facilitate cross registration with other member schools of the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities (GCCCU).
On the semester calendar not all courses will extend throughout the 15-week semester; for example, there will be two-credit courses that are 10 weeks long and one-credit courses that are 5 weeks. The courses that do extend throughout the semester will be able to explore course topics more thoroughly and permit students to work on papers and other assignments for a longer time. It is hoped that the semester calendar will facilitate a contemplative approach to theology and greater theological reflection and integration.
Two documents have been developed - one for the Lay Pastoral Ministry Division and one for the Special Studies Division - to help answer Frequently Asked Questions about the conversion to semesters:
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Bookstore notice for Pastoral Counseling students
