The minimum length for organized courses offered by public, general academic senior and junior institutions, and Texas State Technical Institutes shall be as follows.
- (1) All shortened courses shall consist of the same number of class contact hours as similar courses offered in a regular session or summer session; that is, normally 45 to 48 contact hours. Courses shall also have the same objectives, requirements, and quality of instruction as regular length courses.
- (2) Students may not carry more courses at a time in a shortened format than will give them total credit of one semester credit hour per week of instruction.
- (3) No three-credit-hour course shall consist of fewer that nine days of classes offered over not less than three weeks.
- (4) All requirements for three-credit-hour courses shall apply proportionately to courses for one, two, four, or other credit hour values.
- (5) The commissioner of higher education is authorized to permit exceptions to this section for research purposes, to determine the efficacy of teaching a specific course in a shortened format.
Source Note:The provisions of this §5.7 adopted to be effective November 10, 1987, 12 TexReg 3959.