<p>I was looking at my son's schedule for his upcoming term. WPI is on a weird schedule - they have 7-week terms (4 per year) and they generally (I guess) take 3 classes per term. He is in scheduled class time 18 hours per week. Is that about what your student, who is carrying a NORMAL load, has for scheduled class time? Thanks.</p>
<p>My daughter is at a college with a standard semester schedule.</p>
<p>She initially signed up for 17 credits, plus required PE. That added up to 19 and a half hours of class per week. Later, she dropped one course and is now carrying 14 credits plus PE. She is now in class 15 1/2 hours per week. She has no laboratory classes in this term's schedule, so I think she is in class fewer hours than many other students are.</p>
<p>^ Which is the "normal" load, 17 credits or 14? Thx</p>
<p>One of my kids' "normal" class load of required classes is approx. 31 hours of class time per week. She is not in a BA program, however. I believe the credits are considered 18 credits/semester.</p>
<p>Currently I only have 6 to 7 hours a week in class (British schedule). :) A normal load at Duke would be 10-16 hours per week, assuming 4 courses and 1 or 2 labs. Courses are usually 2 1/2 hours each week; labs are another 3 hours per week.</p>
<p>All told, about 15-16 hours in a classroom. She also has an online class, which involves watching an online lecture, which is another 1-2 hours/week. Also, her Spanish class involves a lot of homework done online (including watching lectures in Spanish...ugh as part of the homework).</p>
<p>A normal load is an average of 15 credits per semester, with a range of from 12 (the minimum required for full-time status) to 18 (the maximum allowed for freshmen). So both my daughter's original 17-credit schedule and her current 14-credit schedule are "normal."</p>
<p>I should add that like SpringfieldMom's daughter, mine is taking a foreign language class that involves listening to extensive online recordings. She also has to attend required movie screenings for that class every two weeks and then write about the film (all in the foreign language, of course). I didn't count any of that as class time.</p>
<p>A typical 3 credit class at S's school is 1 hr. 15 min, 2 times per week. Many of these classes will also have a 1 hr. recitation once a week.</p>
<p>I think he has 16 hours of class time and is taking 16 credits.</p>
<p>5 classes, 3 - 50 minute classes that meet 3 times a week. 2 -75 minute classes which meet twice a week. That is 15 hours in college time for 15 credits. Then there are the 5 cultural event she must attend this semester for one class, and the 3 psych experiments she must participate in for another class. Usually students need permission to take more than 18 credits a semester and the tuition rises. I agree that anything between 12 -18 is norma.</p>
<p>I also was ONLY counting time IN class and not all the other many required hours involved in her program.</p>
<p>Chicago is on the quarter system, so we have three 10-week terms. Students can take either 3 or 4 courses a term (fewer classes since less time to cover the same amount of material as a semester school). The most basic schedule would be three hours per class a week, making a total of 9-12 classroom hours. A typical schedule, though, involves sciences and/or languages which go beyond the standard 3 hours/week. (Lab sciences and languages are required for all students.)</p>
<p>I am taking four courses, and I have 16 classroom hours a week. That obviously doesn't include things that aren't scheduled for once a week, such as required fieldtrips, but it does include any weekly required sessions outside of the "normal" class.</p>
<p>A normal amount of time in a classroom at MIT was 12-16 hours/week, maybe a bit less if you're taking lab-heavy classes. Again, this doesn't include all the time spent doing work out of class - a "normal" courseload was considered 48 hours/week, including classroom time, lab time, and expected homework/study time.</p>
<p>15 hours in class + 15 hours of required practice and games for varsity sports team = 14 credits</p>
<p>Why are you adding required practice/games for varsity sports? If I added in my kids' required hours for college varsity sports and theater rehearsals to the hours for class, the number would be humongous.</p>
<p>^ Yeah. I'm just talking about CLASS time. No practicing or studying etc. Obviously that's huge.</p>
<p>Thanks for your suggestions. It looks like he's in the ballpark. I'm still trying to figure out how WPI 7 week terms work out to be a whole regular semester! For instance, let's say they'll finish 12 courses in a year. (On average I'm talking here - 3 per term.) In a (two( semester college that would be 8 to 10 a year? In a trimester college that would be, what, 9 to 12 a year?</p>
<p>Just thought the OP was looking for required time spent. I split it out so you could read either way as you see fit. Take whatever piece interests you and have a nice day</p>
<p>Sorry but I don't think she was asking about required time spent. She was asking about IN CLASS time spent. My kids have requirements to the wazoo and I don't even want to add up those hours as they are an insane amount. I was just referring to class time (one of my kids has at least 31 hours of class time alone IN class), but recognized that these students, including you, orjr, have many more REQUIRED hours beyond those.</p>
<p>In terms of JUST her sport, which is not the only activity she has weekly commitments for.....in off season, there are 11 hours per week required. In season there are 15 hours midweek and then the entire weekend from 4 PM on Friday until about 8:30 PM on Sunday required every weekend out of town. That is just ONE required commitment she has. However, I believe the OP was talking about class time.</p>
<p>S has a total of 16 hours per week, counting mandatory sections and two film viewing sessions (he's taking a film class). The semester lasts 13 weeks not counting exams. For a class that meets 3 hours per week, he would be attending class 39 hours over one semester. That is probably the best yardstick to use to figure out whether a course can cover the same amount of materials when taught over a different number of weeks.</p>