No, the Intersession term is available for any and all faculty members and instructors to use to experiment with innovative teaching and learning ideas.

INSPIRE is responsible for championing the future directions of Intersession, but we in no way, shape, or form own the semester. Like other academic terms at McMaster, Intersession is not owned by any one program or unit, but rather a space for any academic offerings to be added to the calendar.

As per McMaster’s budget model, both the costs and revenues associated with delivering a course are borne by the department or academic unit that offers the course.

For example, if a department in the Faculty of Social Sciences were to offer a course during the Intersession term, the administrative home of the course would be responsible for hiring costs and other administrative resources associated with offering an academic course. Similarly, any revenues generated from the course offering would flow through to the administrative home of the course and follow the same processes as other course revenues follow.