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Course Timelines
Important
Dates
The one page Quick Start Syllabus you received by mail has your personal important dates on it. Please review them now.
Your Start date and your End of Enrollment
date are 16 weeks apart. That's the length of a normal semester, and the time in which you are expected to complete this course.
Your Last Refund date is the last day you can withdraw from this course and receive a refund of the tuition. Your
first deadline is Week 5. You
must have completed your first essay and received a grade for it by then or I'll
have to withdraw you from the course. That means that you must have
submitted and received my approval for your thesis and your first draft and have
received a grade for the finished essay by week 5.
Your Last Withdrawal date is the last day you can withdraw from this course.
If you
have not completed the first two required essays in this class by your withdrawal
date, I will have to withdraw you from the class. If you have not
completed the course by your end-date, you may ask for an incomplete in the
course if you have already completed half of the coursework by that
date. In this class you must have written and posted final copies of the three
genre essays and have taken 1 exam
to qualify for an incomplete. If you have not done so, you are ineligible for an incomplete in
the course.
Please refer to the Course Progress
section of ELI Policies and Procedures for additional information. Suggested Schedule of Units
ELI courses are designed for students with busy and often irregular schedules. Therefore, I do not require
all assignments to be completed by fixed due dates. However,
you must complete the first essay (thesis, draft, and final) within 5 weeks of
your start date.
16-Week
Timeline of Units
The schedule below is designed to help you space the work so that you can finish
the course in 16 weeks.
Research shows that students are most successful with distance education when they start their course work immediately and make steady progress. To help you do this, I suggest that you try to follow the timeline below. Base the weeks on your specific enrollment dates shown on the first page of the Quick Start Syllabus that was mailed to you.
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