CWU Department of Geological Sciences

CWU Department of Geological Sciences
Teaching Load Calculations Form
Faculty Policy as it applies to Geology Department Courses: Fill out one form
for each course for each quarter! Please complete Undergraduate Research Mentoring form also. 02/02

BASIC INFO
Faculty member:

Faculty email:

Course Number & Section:

Course Name:

No. of Credits:

Quarter taught:

Enrollment: If you teach more than one section of this course, list enrollment for each section separately.
  Section #1:   #2:   #3:   #4:
  Total Student Credit Hours (SCH):

FOR COURSES
taught during the 10 week quarter

Note: Standard load of 15 hours per quarter corresponds to full-time 10 week effort. Of this, 80% is typically assigned to instruction (12 hours). Rule of thumb: One contact hour approximately equals 30 hours of preparation time, class time, office hours, and grading time during given quarter, or three hours per week.
For Lectures:
Lecture hours per week:		* 1 =
For Labs:
Lab time spent lecturing (per section, per week):		* 1 =
Other scheduled lab hours (per week):		* 1 =

subtotal per lab section:
Number of lab sections during quarter:		* subtotal =
For field trip run outside of scheduled class time (week-ends, etc.):
Total field lecture hours:	(	* 1) / 10 weeks=

Total field activity/informal instruction hours: (See below for explanation*)	(	* .375) / 10 weeks=
Total load points:

FOR FIELD COURSES
taught outside the regular 10 week quarter, for which students
register during an academic year quarter

Total number of formal lecture hours during the course (include formal field lectures):	(	*1) / 10 weeks=
Total number of field lab instruction hours during course (this should include mapping, field instruction, field trip time; exclude long, interstate driving where little or no instruction takes place or excess driving during the day)*	(	*1) / 10 weeks=
Total number of field activity hours during the course (this should include, for example, van time where informal instruction takes place; exclude long, interstate driving where little or no instruction takes place or excess driving during the day)*:	(	* .375) / 10 weeks=
Total load points:

FOR INDIVIDUAL STUDY SUPERVISION AND RESEARCH
All courses titled Thesis or numbered 296, 396, 495, 496, 595.

Undergraduate: number of student credit hours
Student #1: #2: #3: #4:	/8=
500 level: number of student credit hours
Student #1: #2: #3: #4:	/6=
600-700 level: number of student credit hours
Student #1: #2: #3: #4:	/3=
Thesis committee member (non-chair): number of committees
	/6=
Total load points:

FOR COOPERATIVE EDUCATION
All courses titled 490.

For students participating in formal, cooperative education internships: Defined by the number of student credit hours
SCH:	/ 30 =
Total load points:

COMMENTS
Any comments you have, such as course sharing...

GRAND TOTAL FOR ENTIRE FORM: