Several courses will not be held in the upcoming fall semester, including some that have been offered for the past several years.
Classes available for enrollment each semester at the University are always changing. Several are offered exclusively in either the fall or spring semester, but there are other reasons as to why certain courses are not scheduled for fall 2016.
PHIL 3150, “17th Century Philosophy,” has been offered six out of the last seven fall semesters, but will not be available in fall 2016.
Philosophy Prof. Antonia LoLordo said in an email statement that this is due to faculty availability and other courses that must be taught. This course will be offered in the spring semester rather than the fall for the upcoming academic year.
Faculty availability also was part of the decision to not hold ENEC 3110, “English Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century,” English Prof. John O’Brien said.
“When we were planning courses for next year, it was clear that we were hampered in the number of courses in eighteenth century literature that we could offer,” O’Brien said in an email statement. “So we revived a course that had not been offered in quite a while, ENEC 3130, ‘Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century,’ which essentially covers the entire period of writing in English from 1660 to 1800.”
While the course will be more compressed than the two-semester sequence that has previously been offered, O’Brien said he has enjoyed teaching the shorter, semester-long course in the past.
Interest in a particular course is also a factor in whether it will be offered again.
Diane Whaley, Curry professor and Lifetime Physical Activity program director, said student interest factored into not offering KINE 1820, “Lifeguard Training Class,” in fall 2016, despite it having been available the last two fall semesters.
“Sometimes it’s about having a qualified instructor,” Whaley said in an email statement. “We hire graduate students, and sometimes U.Va. staff to teach the classes … Sometimes we just switch in another class that is more popular or has been requested. In this case, our enrollment was low the last two years. We may offer it in the spring instead, but I don’t know that for sure yet.”
Some classes have much simpler reasons for not being offered next semester.
ITTR 2260, “Dante in Translation,” is not available because Italian Prof. Deborah Parker will be on leave for the fall semester.
Additionally, Math Prof. Andrew Obus said MATH 4657, “Bilinear Forms and Group Representations” is “only intended to be offered once every other year, which is why it is not offered next year.”
Other courses have merely gone through a name change and appear differently in SIS and on Lou’s List. This is the case for COMM 2610, “Startup.”
“The class is simply being offered as ENTP 1010 rather than COMM 2610,” David Touve, Commerce assistant professor and Galant Center for Entrepreneurship director, said. “And, all sections are full — demand exceeded supply by about 40 percent!”
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