Academic
Calendar

The academic year at UATX is divided into three terms. Each term consists of two five-week half-terms, broken up by a reading week without any classes.

Winter break is six weeks long and runs from the Monday of the week of Thanksgiving to the Friday following or corresponding to New Year’s Day. Spring break is one week long in late March or early April. Summer break is twelve weeks long and includes all of July and August.

Just as each full term is broken up by a reading week, so also each teaching week is broken up by a reading day. Wednesday mornings and afternoons are reserved for long-form work such as reading, writing, coding, painting, sculpture, and filmmaking. Late afternoons on Wednesdays are reserved for common lectures. Students, faculty, staff, and the larger UATX community reconnect with each other, socialize, hear a lecture by a guest speaker, and enjoy an opportunity to ask questions.

In the distribution of reading weeks and reading days, designed to accommodate the rhythm Paul Graham describes as “the maker’s schedule,” the mathematically inclined may note the resemblance to a Cantor ternary set.