Regular Sessions
The full-time teaching assignment at the University of Delaware is twelve
credit hours. In practice, however, the University adheres to a policy of
"administered" teaching loads. Under this arrangement department
chairpersons and deans are encouraged to vary the teaching loads of
individual faculty members so long as the total teaching obligations are
met with the teaching personnel available. This flexible arrangement makes
it possible for the chairpersons to make assignments of individual faculty
members on a semester-to-semester basis to stimulate research and
scholarship or to provide for unusually heavy committee assignments.
This administered teaching load is made possible by increasing efficiency
in instruction without loss of quality or effectiveness through the
development of innovative teaching methodologies such as common lectures,
programmed learning, combined sections, and variable-credit options.
March 23, 1995