Potential Solutions to the Proposed Problem

1. Classes can be reordered to accommodate the excessive amounts of material. For example; General Chemistry 1 and 2 can be reordered to make three classes.
2. The credits awarded to each overstuffed class can be increased to allow for more weekly class times and a smaller total of classes taken each semester per student.
3. The minimum credit hours needed to be a full-time student (currently 12) can be decreased to allow students to take fewer classes without compromising their financial aid status.
4. The length of the fall and spring semesters can be increased to allow more time to teach the material. The summer semester can be shortened to the length of approximately Summer A.
5. Research can be done into finding what the optimal amount of material that students are expected to learn per semester is.
6. The instructors and professors can be surveyed to determine which classes, in their opinion, contain too much material.
7. Research can be done to find how excessive academic expectations have an adverse effect on students' health through increased stress, lack of social interaction, etc.
8. Research can be done to find how the negative effect that overstuffed classes have on the students at UF indirectly and adversely affects the university as a whole, i.e. how the image of the university is affected by lower grades and lack of enthusiasm for classes, and how employers of UF graduates view employees who learned how to get through classes rather than actually learning material.
9. Fliers can be drawn up and handed out to students to raise awareness of how good study habits will help them cope with their course loads. The fliers should also contain specific advice on how to manage classes with overstuffed curricula.
10. A petition calling for a revising of the curricula of overstuffed classes at UF can be drawn up and signed by students, instructors and professors alike and presented to the administration governing class curricula at UF.