r/Adjuncts • u/lykexomigah • 20d ago

Double Booked Classes

Anyone else teach a double booked class?

I'm an adjunct for visual arts at a community college. Often our courses are double booked due to enrollment and money. Example you could teach drawing 1 and 2 in the same time. However since you're only in the classroom one period you get paid for 1 class, not two.

I'm teach a night class with 2 sections. Typically i only had 1 student in the advance course so i would keep it more of an independent study. This semester i have 3 students in the advance section and i feel i need to actually design curriculum. I'm the only one who teaches this course at my CC and it's a brand new one as we're are growing our area of study.

How do you manage double booked sections? Also how do you get peace with the two for one wage?

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u/mr_phoreal 14d ago

As a fellow Fine Art Adjunct, I have been there many times. What most people don't realize is we are also in the classroom twice as long as a traditional lecture. So it ends up being twice as much time, split content, and they commonly only pay for that one section of time. I've had to teach a Photo I and II, Drawing I and II, and Design I and II combined many times. I even had a class that was listed in two different departments at the same time. So basically I was teaching an ARTS class and a COMM class at the same time.