The minimum length for organized courses offered by public, general academic senior and junior institutions, and Texas State Technical Institutes shall be as follows. (1) All shortened courses shall consist of the same number of class contact hours as similar courses offered in a regular session or summer session; that is, normally 45 to 48 contact hours. Courses shall also have the same objectives, requirements, and quality of instruction as regular length courses. (2) Students may not carry more courses at a time in a shortened format than will give them total credit of one semester credit hour per week of instruction. (3) No three-credit-hour course shall consist of fewer that nine days of classes offered over not less than three weeks. (4) All requirements for three-credit-hour courses shall apply proportionately to courses for one, two, four, or other credit hour values. (5) The
commissioner of higher education is authorized to permit exceptions to this section for research purposes, to determine the efficacy of teaching a specific course in a shortened format.
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