4.6.01 Length of Classes
A. Generally, three-hour courses meet for 160 minutes per week, either
for one three-hour period (including 20 minutes of "break"
time, given in two 10-minute breaks or one 20-minute break), or for
two 80-minute periods with no break.
First-year required courses and courses tested on the Ohio Bar Exam
in the day division meet for three 55-minute sessions each week. First
and second-year required courses in the Evening division meet for two
80-minute sessions each week. Two hour required courses in the first
year day and evening division either meet in two 55 minute sessions
each week or one 110-minute session each week..
B. Two-hour courses ordinarily meet once a week for two hours, including
a 10-minute break.
C. Instructors in regular classes do not habitually release students
from class an undue amount of time prior to the expiration of the allotted
time, or "hold over" the students for more than a few minutes.
D. The above does not apply to seminars, practicums, and clinics where
the quality of individualized instruction is more important than the
length of class meetings.
4.6.02 Class Cancellation by the Instructor
A. Regularly scheduled classes are not cancelled or postponed except
for very compelling reasons.
B. If it is necessary for an instructor to cancel a class, he or she
notifies the Registrar, who ordinarily will notify the students in the
course.
C. Credit hours for courses depend on the number of hours a course
meets. Thus cancelled classes are almost always made up, at a time when
other classes are not meeting or at a time when no student in the cancelled
class has another class.
D. Because evening students usually work full days from Monday through
Friday, canceled evening classes usually must be made up on a Saturday.
E. If an instructor will miss more than one (1) week of classes, the
instructor should notify the Dean so that a substitute can be considered.
4.6.03 Class Attendance
A. The American Bar Association standards for accreditation require
law schools to ensure that students regularly attend class. Therefore,
regular and punctual attendance is expected of all Capital law students.
Class instructors are expected to cooperate.
B. Soon after the commencement of a semester or summer term, the Registrar's
office will provide the instructor with a class roll, containing an
alphabetized list of enrolled students and "boxes" for each
class meeting. The instructor circulates this class roster during every
class or uses some other method of recording class attendance.
C. The taking of attendance at every class is required. United States
Department of Education regulations pertaining to financial aid require
that the law school maintain accurate attendance records of all students
receiving federally subsidized or guaranteed financial aid.
D. If an individual student is not regularly attending class, the instructor
is to notify the Registrar, who will communicate with the student. If
the attendance problem continues, the Dean or Associate Dean will talk
with the student.
E. Faculty members have the authority to lower grades for failure to
attend class or prepare course assignments. (See
Section 4.7.04(A)).
F. Faculty members are required to submit class attendance records
to the Registrar's Office at the end of the semester.
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