u/rbpl

At Rice, all language classes meet for 150 minutes a week (either 50 min on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday or 75 min on Tuesday and Thursday). At nearly all other schools, classes meet for 200-300 minutes per week, with harder languages (like Arabic or Chinese) meeting on the higher end of that range.

For an unknown reason, ALL language classes (and most other classes) are capped at 150 minutes per week. This means you may move at HALF the pace of your peers at other universities.

I’m a chem major studying Arabic. Feel free to dm if you have questions.