<p>Okay, if colleges have Tuesday-Thursday classes for and hour and fifteen minutes, then why not have monday-wednesday classes like that and have Fridays off??</p>
<p>In my experience from many moons ago the reason given was … </p>
<p>The classes given in three 50 minute blocks (MWF) were set up that way because it was believed the students had a better chance to absorb the information and to work through examples and homework if the information was delivered in three smaller bites … these tended to be classes like math classes or engineering courses that were very homework set intensive.</p>
<p>The classes given in two 75 minute blocks tended to be courses like history or economics where allowing an thought/discussion to be played out longer was considered the better approach.</p>
<p>And the classes fell on different days because it worked out much easier to schedule classes that was (the 75 minute classes did not typoically end half way through a 50 minute class).</p>
<p>25 years later, I still remember my three-hour statistics class on Monday nights (in grad school). That gave me a whole week to absorb and (try to) apply the information!</p>
<p>Many colleges do offer MW extended classes…</p>
<p>The community college classes I am doing through this year do a Monday through Thursday schedule, with most classes being about an hour and a half long. The schedule works perfectly, and I love it, because it gives me a chance to work longer hours on Friday, do homework, and catch up on my other classes.</p>
<p>my school has MW classes like that… actually a lot of schools do the m/w or t/h courses and have fridays off. it just depends on where you apply. I had fridays off last semester, and fridays off this next semester as well.</p>
<p>Lots of sections are held on Fridays. Language classes meet everyday. And quite a few regular classes are held three days a week so that more materials can be covered at a less frantic pace.</p>
<p>Back in the dark ages at Georgia Tech, my freshman year we had Mon-Wed-Fri classes and Tues-Thurs-Sat classes. But the Saturday classes ended at noon, so we could have one-an-a-half-day weekends. I also had evening labs on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I swear that they were trying to cram a five-year program (engineering) into four years.</p>
<p>some classes at my school are offered MW</p>
<p>Fridays aren’t weekends anywhere else, why should they be in college? By the same token you could ask why aren’t all classes 3 hours one day a week? Then you could have class for 15 hours on wednesday, and nothing at all any other day!</p>
<p>my school offers some classes MW…both semesters Is’ve been here I’ve actually had fridays off…it’s amazing.</p>
<p>oh yeah one of my friends is crazy taking only TR classes doing 9 hours each of the two days. So no classes for him on S, M, W, F, S!!!</p>