What exactly is a credit hour?

[RESmonkey]

?

 

[moshquerade]

it's a unit of money

 

[venkman]

based on a burrito standard

 

[lyssword]

It's one hour times 33 hours

 

[Eeezee]

It's usually equal to 1 hour per week of lecture or 2-3 hours per week of lab.

There are some exceptions, I once had a 3-hour lab that was worth 2 credit hours (but it was an advanced lab, I guess).

If you have a 4-unit course, it might have 3 lecture hours per week + a lab or discussion section

It's a way of measuring how much time has been put into coursework via lecture/lab hours.

 

[krotchy]

The way my school did it was exactly as Eezee described it

1 Credit hour = 1 Hour of Lecture per week
1 Credit hour = 1 hour of recitation per week
1 Credit hour = 2 hours of lab per week (with some exceptions)
Also credit hours can sometimes be applied to work credit (every 6 hours of a Co-op job = 1 credit hour or something)

Also they say for every hour in class each week you should be spending 2 hours outside of class a week on the class, though that rule of thumb is crap. Some teachers pile it on, some dont do much, its just how it goes.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
It's usually equal to 1 hour per week of lecture or 2-3 hours per week of lab.

There are some exceptions, I once had a 3-hour lab that was worth 2 credit hours (but it was an advanced lab, I guess).

If you have a 4-unit course, it might have 3 lecture hours per week + a lab or discussion section

It's a way of measuring how much time has been put into coursework via lecture/lab hours.

my labs are only worth 1/2 credit per hour

4.5 hr class = 3hrs of lecture + 3 hours of lab :|

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: krotchy
The way my school did it was exactly as Eezee described it

1 Credit hour = 1 Hour of Lecture per week
1 Credit hour = 1 hour of recitation per week
1 Credit hour = 2 hours of lab per week (with some exceptions)
Also credit hours can sometimes be applied to work credit (every 6 hours of a Co-op job = 1 credit hour or something)

Also they say for every hour in class each week you should be spending 2 hours outside of class a week on the class, though that rule of thumb is crap. Some teachers pile it on, some dont do much, its just how it goes.

For me its:

1 hour of lecture = 1 credit hour
recitation gets no credit hours
a 1 hour lab gets 0 credit hours, but a longer one will get 1 credit hour

I'm currently taking 15 hours of classes.
15 hours of lecture
3 hours of recitation
2 hours of lab

Not too bad this semester.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: Eeezee
It's usually equal to 1 hour per week of lecture or 2-3 hours per week of lab.

There are some exceptions, I once had a 3-hour lab that was worth 2 credit hours (but it was an advanced lab, I guess).

If you have a 4-unit course, it might have 3 lecture hours per week + a lab or discussion section

It's a way of measuring how much time has been put into coursework via lecture/lab hours.

my labs are only worth 1/2 credit per hour

4.5 hr class = 3hrs of lecture + 3 hours of lab :|

That's more than what's standard at my school. 3 hr lecture + 3 hr lab = 4 credit hours

 

[CycloWizard]

I'll sell you some of mine for $25 each. I have a couple hundred sitting around and I'm not really using them for anything.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
it's a unit of money

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