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The course is full. Twenty students are enrolled. Count<br \/>\nup the weeks and you get thirteen total (forgive me for flexing those<br \/>\nunderutilized math skills, but this number is alarmingly relevant, as you will<br \/>\nsee in a moment).<\/p>\n<p>Syracuse offers this course in other formats: a six-week Summer I<br \/>\ncourse that meets on campus, a six-week Summer 2 course that meets on campus,<br \/>\nand a 12-week summer course that meets online. Sections following the<br \/>\nsix-week on-campus format remain open. They have seats available, that is.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered, &quot;Why on earth would students so clearly prefer the thirteen-week<br \/>\nversion, which includes a Friday evening session at the end of next week, when<br \/>\nthese other options are available to them?&quot; I floated this question in the WP<br \/>\noffices and heard about how great a preference many students have for actually<br \/>\nmeeting a person. Might be exactly right. This falls into what I<br \/>\nthink of as the &quot;metaphysics of presence&quot;-based critique of classes that meet<br \/>\nexclusively online: they&#8217;re too virtual, too dependent upon writing and only<br \/>\nwriting, too far removed from the material commonplaces of fluorescently lit<br \/>\nbodies slumped over in badly designed deskchairs, classroom style. [I can&#8217;t make<br \/>\nup my mind about which emoticon to insert here.]<\/p>\n<p>I accept that some students might be drawn to an online section where they<br \/>\nget to meet the instructor for a few face-to-face sessions. When I logged<br \/>\nonto MySlice this week to check the class roster, I found another reason that<br \/>\ncould explain the attraction to this section, a section with a bonus week over<br \/>\nand above its 12-week online-only counterpart (other than the &quot;metaphysics of<br \/>\npresence&quot; shtick or the named instructor):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/maymester.jpg?resize=500%2C113&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"113\"><\/p>\n<p>The class is listed as meeting <i>only<\/i> during Maymester. For half<br \/>\nof Maymester, actually: one week, instead of two. Ten hours total. I<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t be able to confirm this suspicion until next week, but that crucial<br \/>\nqualification, Maymester <i>Blended or <\/i>Maymester <i>+12<\/i>, does not show<br \/>\nup in the online enrollment system. That&#8217;s&#8230;*gulp*. 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Blended, in this case, means that the course meets in person, on campus for the second week of Maymester for two hours each evening, Monday through Friday, before shifting to twelve weeks of online interchange and coordination via Blackboard. 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