Academic Year and Semester Unit of Credit (Undergraduate)

The undergraduate program of the Wisconsin Prison Initiative offers courses year around, with a fall and spring semester of approximately 16 weeks (plus breaks), and a summer term of 8 weeks.  Full semesters are divided into parts (e.g. Fall 1, Fall 2, Spring 1, Spring 2), with eight week courses in each subterm.  A semester unit of credit represents one class period (fifty minutes) per week, with two hours of preparation for each class period.