Winter intersession classes provide opportunity for students, incentives for professors

Class enrollment nearly doubles from last year

Meghan McNamara / Staff Writer / mm164705@ohiou.edu

For many Ohio University students, the winter break is an opportunity to make some spending money, but for Katie Moorehead, the six-week intersession will earn her four credit hours in addition to some extra cash.

The junior history major spends 30 to 40 hours each week working in her hometown of Zanesville and completes the reading assignments for her online Women and Gender Studies course on the side.

The online course is one of 39 winter intersession classes, both classroom and online,

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