Guidelines for Scheduling Courses

Office of the Provost, Queens College

The guidelines below describe good practices in designating rooms, schedules, and mode of instruction for courses. Following these guidelines will ensure a schedule that uses available classroom space efficiently and that facilitates program completion for students.

Time slots in assigned rooms that are not scheduled by departments revert to the Registrar after schedules are submitted.

Rooms:

Departments and programs must schedule classes in the rooms assigned to them.
Do not schedule TBAs. If for some reason it is necessary to schedule a section without an associated room, please submit a request to coursescheduling@qc.cuny.edu.

Please bear in mind that TBA requests need to be flexible in course times; if space can’t be found at the time requested, another time and the available space will be suggested.

For classes that meet in internal department space, departments should indicate which space is being used.

Schedule:

All courses must follow the scheduling matrix.
Departments should balance offerings, by:

scheduling courses both early (including offerings at 8:00 AM and 9:25 AM) and late in the day,
scheduling three hour evening classes with equal numbers of early and late sections (for example, the number of sections starting at 7:10 should be the same as the number starting at 4:30), and
balancing three hour sections on M T W or Th with another three hour course (for example, a Monday morning 9:00 AM -12:00 PM class should be balanced by a Wednesday morning 9:00 AM -12:00 PM class).

Departments offering courses which satisfy General Education requirements (English 110 and other Pathways courses, writing-intensive courses) should schedule these courses throughout the day and week so that students with time constraints will be able to complete their programs.

Mode of Instruction – CUNY Definitions

Modes of Instruction-CUNY Definitions