diff --git a/docs/features/availability-management.md b/docs/features/availability-management.md
index 85392a6..0839711 100644
--- a/docs/features/availability-management.md
+++ b/docs/features/availability-management.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Instructors access **My Availability** in wp-admin (`?page=us-availability`).
 - Add a weekly series: tick weekly repeat and choose the number of weeks
 - Delete a slot: only allowed if `is_booked = 0`
 - Bulk delete: the list view has a checkbox per unbooked slot (with a select-all header checkbox) and a **Delete selected** button (`usc_action=bulk_delete`, `slot_ids[]`); each id is ownership-checked, and booked slots are refused at the repository level
-- Current slots can be shown as a **list** or a **weekly calendar** (`usc_view=week`, navigated with `usc_week=Y-m-d`); the grid honours the site's `start_of_week` option via `Availability\WeekCalendar`
+- Current slots can be shown as a **weekly calendar** (the default, navigated with `usc_week=Y-m-d`) or a **list** (`usc_view=list`); the grid honours the site's `start_of_week` option via `Availability\WeekCalendar`
 
 ## Public Calendar
 The front-end booking shortcode renders open slots from `GET /availability`
diff --git a/src/Availability/AvailabilityController.php b/src/Availability/AvailabilityController.php
index 089f7cb..b6036de 100644
--- a/src/Availability/AvailabilityController.php
+++ b/src/Availability/AvailabilityController.php
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class AvailabilityController {
 		// View-state query params only (which view, which week) — nothing is
 		// mutated from them, so no nonce applies.
 		// phpcs:disable WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
-		$view          = 'week' === sanitize_key( Val::string( wp_unslash( $_GET['usc_view'] ?? '' ) ) ) ? 'week' : 'list';
+		$view          = 'list' === sanitize_key( Val::string( wp_unslash( $_GET['usc_view'] ?? '' ) ) ) ? 'list' : 'week';
 		$requestedWeek = sanitize_text_field( Val::string( wp_unslash( $_GET['usc_week'] ?? '' ) ) );
 		// phpcs:enable WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
 
diff --git a/templates/admin/availability.php b/templates/admin/availability.php
index 11f6350..7f65adc 100644
--- a/templates/admin/availability.php
+++ b/templates/admin/availability.php
@@ -84,24 +84,24 @@ $deleteForm = static function (\Unsupervised\Schedular\Availability\Availability
 
     <ul class="subsubsub" style="margin-bottom:12px;">
         <li>
-            <a href="<?php echo esc_url($baseUrl); ?>" <?php echo 'list' === $view ? 'class="current"' : ''; ?>><?php esc_html_e('List', 'unsupervised-schedular'); ?></a> |
+            <a href="<?php echo esc_url($baseUrl); ?>" <?php echo 'week' === $view ? 'class="current"' : ''; ?>><?php esc_html_e('Week', 'unsupervised-schedular'); ?></a> |
         </li>
         <li>
-            <a href="<?php echo esc_url(add_query_arg('usc_view', 'week', $baseUrl)); ?>" <?php echo 'week' === $view ? 'class="current"' : ''; ?>><?php esc_html_e('Week', 'unsupervised-schedular'); ?></a>
+            <a href="<?php echo esc_url(add_query_arg('usc_view', 'list', $baseUrl)); ?>" <?php echo 'list' === $view ? 'class="current"' : ''; ?>><?php esc_html_e('List', 'unsupervised-schedular'); ?></a>
         </li>
     </ul>
     <div class="clear"></div>
 
     <?php if ('week' === $view) : ?>
         <p>
-            <a class="button" href="<?php echo esc_url(add_query_arg(['usc_view' => 'week', 'usc_week' => $prevWeek], $baseUrl)); ?>">&lsaquo; <?php esc_html_e('Previous week', 'unsupervised-schedular'); ?></a>
+            <a class="button" href="<?php echo esc_url(add_query_arg('usc_week', $prevWeek, $baseUrl)); ?>">&lsaquo; <?php esc_html_e('Previous week', 'unsupervised-schedular'); ?></a>
             <strong style="margin:0 12px;">
                 <?php
                 /* translators: %s: date of the first day of the displayed week */
                 echo esc_html(sprintf(__('Week of %s', 'unsupervised-schedular'), (string) mysql2date('M j, Y', $weekStart)));
                 ?>
             </strong>
-            <a class="button" href="<?php echo esc_url(add_query_arg(['usc_view' => 'week', 'usc_week' => $nextWeek], $baseUrl)); ?>"><?php esc_html_e('Next week', 'unsupervised-schedular'); ?> &rsaquo;</a>
+            <a class="button" href="<?php echo esc_url(add_query_arg('usc_week', $nextWeek, $baseUrl)); ?>"><?php esc_html_e('Next week', 'unsupervised-schedular'); ?> &rsaquo;</a>
         </p>
         <table class="wp-list-table widefat fixed">
             <thead>
diff --git a/tests/Unit/Availability/AvailabilityControllerTest.php b/tests/Unit/Availability/AvailabilityControllerTest.php
index 8c7b94d..87f3f2a 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/Availability/AvailabilityControllerTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/Availability/AvailabilityControllerTest.php
@@ -99,8 +99,24 @@ class AvailabilityControllerTest extends TestCase
         $this->render();
     }
 
+    public function testDefaultsToWeekView(): void
+    {
+        $slot = new AvailabilitySlot(instructorId: 3, startDt: '2026-07-08 09:00:00', endDt: '2026-07-08 10:00:00', id: 5);
+
+        $this->repository->shouldReceive('findByInstructor')->once()->with(3)->andReturn([$slot]);
+
+        $html = $this->render();
+
+        // Week of Monday 2026-07-06 (start_of_week = 1, today = 2026-07-06).
+        self::assertStringContainsString('Week of', $html);
+        // The list table (with its bulk-delete form) is not rendered by default.
+        self::assertStringNotContainsString('id="usc-bulk-delete-form"', $html);
+    }
+
     public function testListViewRendersBulkCheckboxesOnlyForUnbookedSlots(): void
     {
+        $_GET['usc_view'] = 'list';
+
         $unbooked = new AvailabilitySlot(instructorId: 3, startDt: '2026-07-08 09:00:00', endDt: '2026-07-08 10:00:00', id: 5);
         $booked   = new AvailabilitySlot(instructorId: 3, startDt: '2026-07-08 10:00:00', endDt: '2026-07-08 11:00:00', isBooked: true, id: 6);