{"id":13923,"date":"2016-05-27T08:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=13923"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:28:28","slug":"ten-years-of-maymester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=13923","title":{"rendered":"Ten years of Maymester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maymester Celebrates 10 Years at Carolina\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mmdj77-BUYs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Most courses at Carolina take about four months to complete. But once a year, the University offers a way to finish a three-credit-hour class in three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its 10th year, Maymester, which usually begins the Wednesday after Commencement, gives students the opportunity to earn course credit before summer officially begins.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 50 courses offered during Maymester meets for about three hours, five days a week, allowing students to focus on one particular subject. Maymester has tripled in size \u2013 both in the number of students signing up for courses and the number of courses offered \u2013 since it began in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>For students like Megan Hardy, a senior taking an anthropology course, Maymester provides a condensed and immersive way to take a class without the pressures of managing the workload from several courses at the same time. And that\u2019s not the only feeling she\u2019s taking away from her Maymester course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou feel so accomplished at the end of it that you learned a whole semester\u2019s worth of material in three weeks,\u201d Hardy said. \u201cIt\u2019s so great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>By Rob Holliday, UNC Office of Communications and Public Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in its 10th year, Maymester, which usually begins the Wednesday after Commencement, gives students the opportunity to earn course credit before summer officially 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