<p>I'm trying to figure out how many "credits" would be given for a course taken at Harvard. Harvard classes are (or were, in my day) either a "course" (full year) or a "half-course." They are all worth the same. But for purposes of, say, teaching credentials, one needs 30 "credits" in the specific field of study. I have no idea how to count Harvard courses.</p>
<p>Has anyone transferred from Harvard to a school that measures in "credits"? How many credits did you get for a half-course at Harvard?</p>
<p>Can I know why you’re transferring out from such a prestigious university in the U.S?</p>
<p>I’m not. This is for post-graduate purposes.
(I graduated 25 years ago.)</p>
<p>its still the same system. And i guess half courses would transfer easily</p>
<p>But is a “half-course” a 3 credit course? A 4 credit course? </p>
<p>For a teaching certificate you need 30 credits in the subject.
This could be 10 half-courses (I don’t think I even had that in my major) or maybe 7 and a bit if they give 4 credits/half-course. </p>
<p>I’m trying to figure out how many additional credits I need to make up the difference.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure a “half-course” actually computes to 5 credits… meaning a “full-course” is 10. </p>
<p>I could be wrong though. I’d say your best best is by contacting the postgraduate institution and asking them.</p>
<p>Check the back of your transcript. If there isn’t information about credit conversion there, pick up the phone and call the Registrar’s office at Harvard. If a normal course load was only four courses each semester, chances are that they transfer as 4 semester hours for a one semester course, and 8 for a full year course.</p>
<p>I know this isn’t the point but I know a Harvard and a Stanford transfer here at Cornell.</p>
<p>DeskPotato, somewhere on your transcript, or in the course catalogue, or somewhere, Harvard says that for purposes of equating Harvard courses to courses at other institutions, a half-course should be considered worth 4 credit hours.</p>
<p>This is, of course, preposterous. Latin AAB, accelerated Latin, which met daily and more than an hour a day, or Chem 20, with hours of labs, counted the same as Heroes for Zeros.</p>
<p>I’m quite sure the equivalence is based on nothing more than the fact that Harvard College considers four half-courses to be a full load, and colleges that count credit hours consider 15 credits per semester to be a full load.</p>