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Over twenty years ago, when the WPI Plan was conceived, it was
decided to
require full time students to take only three courses at a time
(at other
schools four or five are a full load). The rationale was that
students should
be more responsible for their own learning, and therefore should
put in
the time required to be full-time learners outside of class. The
figure quoted
was that students should spend (on average) seventeen hours per
course.
I feel that seventeen hours per course is a fair figure for students
taking only three
courses, and I expect you to put in that amount in MA 2612, on
average.
(By ``on average'' I mean a class-wide average. Some of you are
fast learners and will average less than seventeen hours per week;
some of you
are slow learners and will average more.)
Joseph D Petruccelli
3/10/1998