Academic quarter (class timing)

The academic time are an alternative representation of a time. These are particularly prevalent at universities ( Academic quarter of an hour or academic quarter or academic quart).

As an academic quarter is called the quarter of an hour, a lecture at a university later begins as indicated in the course catalog. For example, begins a lecture, the 9- clock c. t. (Latin: cum tempore = " with time " ) is specified, actually getting started at 9:15 clock. If an event is scheduled to begin on time at 9:00 clock, the time is usually at 9 clock s t. (Latin: sine tempore = " no time " ) specified. The information c. t. s and t. may be omitted in the course catalog if the university practice of each institution is governed known and uniform.

During the academic quarter is customary in Switzerland, Austria and Scandinavia, starting in most other countries, the lectures at exactly the announced date. In Germany there are both universities where the academic quarter is common, as well as those that basically sine tempore begin. There are no systematic studies about which approach is now common.

Meaning of " Academic Quarter "

The Academic quarter of an hour to allow teachers and students a short break between lectures, which are always entered in the course catalog on the hour. In this pause, you can change the room and just prepare for the forthcoming lecture.

Origin

For many centuries, the classes took place in the private rooms of the professors, which were scattered in the university town. The essential measure of time in certain cities after the stroke of tower clocks and later hours of the stroke the wall clocks. After the hour strike, the students still had time to travel the path to the courses.

In some courses, the recap was added, so the repetition of the substance of the last lecture before the new material has been introduced. This allowed students who had heard the previous lecture already attentive and the repetition is not required to appear independently fifteen minutes later.

Notation using the example of 9 clock

  • 9 clock sine tempore (Eng. without time) ( abbreviated .: 9 clock s t or 9 h st ) = 9:00 Clock
  • 9 clock cum tempore ( dt with time) ( abbreviated .: 9 clock c t or 9 h ct. ) = 9:15 Clock
  • 9 clock magno cum tempore (English with plenty of time ) ( abbreviated: 9 clock m c t or 9 h mct. .. ) = 9:30 Clock
  • 9 clock maximo cum tempore (English with the greatest time) ( abbreviated: .. . 9 Clock mm c t or 9 h MMCT ) = 9:45 Clock

The last two entries are found today only rarely in practice. The shape here, however, also frequently used " magna cum tempore " and the rare " maxima cum tempore " are grammatically incorrect because " tempus " neuter the consonantal declension, and the ablative of " magnus " and " maximus " therefore just " magno "or" maximo "is.

Extension of the concept

In the German university life, the academic quarter of an hour has also been established for two other things:

  • An event usually ends a quarter of an hour before the date indicated in the directory. This shortens the duration of theoretical two-hour events to 90 minutes. The break for the next event to increase to 30 minutes.
  • In case of delays or unannounced absence of the teacher and at least one quarter of an hour to wait before the students leave the room again.

In some universities, it is also customary to turn in the event of 90 minutes, a break of 15 minutes, which is the end of the event guaranteed at the specified time. However, this break is at the discretion of the teacher or, increasingly, students.

The population is also jokingly denounced the supposedly reliable tardiness of academics, citing the academic quarter.

In the south of the German-speaking area, the Academic Quarter called a drunk by students " Viertele " wine.

Probably due to this full academic experience and embossing is regularly maintained even at the hearing before the German courts 15 minutes on the appearance of the duly summoned parties and only after this quarter of an hour, an application of the appearing party to issue a default judgment against the non- appearing party, accepted. However, there is no written legal basis for this practice.

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