Almost 12,000 Iowa students stay on campus each summer to take courses that vary from three weeks to six or eight weeks in duration. These courses can supplement major courses, fulfill special interests, or make it possible to stay on track for graduation in four years. For four years, The University of Iowa has offered the three different sessions with different goals for the student. The three-week session begins immediately after the close of examination week in the spring. Students can't let work slide because they couldn't catch up.
Every day equals a week in normal schedules.
Brooks Landon, professor and head of the English Department, says the three-week intensive courses work well with some subjects but not well at all for others. But they can read seven to eight short stories a night, so in a three-week period, starting at a blistering pace and keeping it up for 14 days, you can cover 100 short stories. I tell the students that they simply cannot miss a class in a three-week course. Evaluations of his three-week courses have convinced Landon that they're worthwhile. Students say they do better in three-week courses because they're able to focus only on one course.