<p>I will gladly stand corrected. I had managed to click on the sign-up link for the Fall 2011 360 about meditation, which looks AWESOME but is 3 courses plus a required independent study credit and trips abroad that are not specified as being over break, though perhaps they are. Probably other 360 programs are less all-encompassing.</p>
<p>My post was misinterpreted, I think. By “time commitment,” I meant the fact that 4 credits of 360 courses would constitute an entire academic semester, not any judgment of workload. And, of course you would get credit for a course in your major/minor department, just like any study abroad program. But it seems difficult to plan ahead to use a 360 to fulfill distribution requirements, since first-year students are not accepted (at least for the meditation program) and there’s no guarantee that you will be accepted into the program for a given semester. In that sense, 360 courses could very well end up as simply elective credits–which is fine, but it’s still good to know that a given 360 might require you to take a full semester load of electives.</p>