Students take only one course per block and professors teach only one course per block.
Implemented in 1970, the Block Plan allows for intensive study with no interruptions from other academic obligations, extended laboratory and on-location field work, and independent study. Faculty Student-faculty ratio is 11 to 1. Another 50 visit annually to teach one special topics course. Curriculum and Majors Double majors are available. 30 other departmental and thematic minors are available.