January tests are often taken by special education students, students who have failed before and students completing semester-length courses.
"Unlike the typical experience in which students advance by completing semester-long, multicredit courses, students in College for America have no courses or traditional professors.
He said that the 10 campuses across the state would provide their own recommendations for how to complete the semester.
It is theirs to keep so long as they complete 12 semester hours of instruction over the next two years.
After a series of delays, students moved in last week and will complete the semester aboard the ship while crews clean their dormitories on land.
Full-time M.B.A. students at the University of California's Haas School of Business at Berkeley, for example, must complete 51 semester units of course work.
Classes were scheduled to resume on Monday, but Mark G. McNamee, university provost and vice president for academic affairs, said that the university planned to offer students a number of ways to complete the semester.
He said he might actually report to Boise State in July and complete a semester before beginning his mission.
The curriculum emphasizes writing; students are required to complete a semester project each term on a topic chosen in conjunction with an advisor, and are required to complete a research paper during their third year.
Barney, who grew up in Indio, was told she could complete the semester but would be barred from enrolling in future classes "until the [honor code] issues are resolved".
