Both on campus and abroad, Wofford’s Interim still harkens to the late 1960s and the original Interim proposal. The month is still designed to give “both teacher and student the liberty to explore, to experiment, to try new approaches, and in doing so, to run risks that cannot be run during the regular semester when the emphasis is different. … The Interim program has as its keynote innovation and experiment.”

This year students traveled the world, completed internships and research experiences, shadowed physicians and attorneys and explored topics on campus that ranged from kitchen chemistry to nonverbal communications. Usually, Interim is graded with honors, pass or fail, but during January 2020, the college also offered several introductory or general education courses that carried traditional grade points and letter grades.