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I have been teaching long enough that I have gone from semesters to
quarters and back to semesters again.
Most of the courses I teach are year-long courses. If you switch from
two 15-week semesters to three 10-week quarters, or vice-versa, it makes
practically zero difference. If your course meets five days a week each
week under semesters, it is a 5-semester-hour course, and for the year
the students get 10 semester-hours of credit. If the same course meets
five days a week each quarter, then it is a 5-quarter-hour course, and
for the year the students get 15 quarter-hours of credit. Credit-wise
this is the same; 15 qtr-hrs equals 10 sem-hrs. Yes, with quarters
there is an extra start-up and an extra grading. I believe that is a
minor perturbation.