General Academic Guidelines

Students can expect to spend a minimum of ONE hour each day preparing for each course, thus about four hours of homework a night. In the Al Akhawayn system, instructors expect language students to submit homework regularly. All writing assignments must be submitted using a word processor (e.g. Microsoft Word). Instructors expect students to be prepared every day and to volunteer and participate actively in class. Students placed in the super-intensive program will have to double the effort to meet the LC requirement in one semester. Thus, they are expected to work on their own a minimum of 15 hours per week.

Instructors may give announced and unannounced tests on material for the day to see whether or not students have prepared the material well; it is also usual for instructors to give 2 to 4 in-class tests per semester, to review.  This is in addition to the two official exams: a mid-term exam and a final exam for each course.