<p>I am applying for an internship and they ask how many semester hours I have completed. My college does course units where each course is 1 cu and each lab is 0.5 cu. How do I convert from cu's to credit hours? First semester I took two classes that met 3 hours a week, two that met 4 hours a week, and one lab that had a 1 hour lecture and 3 hour actual lab time. How many credit hours does that get me? Thanks for the help</p>
<p>I would give both the credit unit and the semester hours, and measure the semester hours as you did above, by totaling how much time you actually spent in class--lecture or lab. Going between units and credit hours can be confusing, so I think this would be the best way.</p>
<p>credit hours would be the easiest i think. all you have to do is tally up how many credits you have so far. because credits are given according to the amount of time spent in the classroom/lab per week. since that isn't an option i guess you have to go tally it up yourself. why doesn't your school use credit hours? where do you go?</p>
<p>I'm at Penn. I know several schools that go by a credit unit system. I don't know why Penn does it like this, but they do.</p>
<p>I'd probably calculate it by comparing credit units required for graduation to credit hours required for graduation. I'm accustomed to a system where a BA means you've completed (at least) 120 credit hours and it takes 30 hours to move from freshman to sophomore status and then another 30 to become a junior, and so on.</p>
<p>So if x credit units = 120 credit hours, then 1 credit unit = (120/x) credit hours.</p>
<p>Now, if you can make a good case that your school requires more (or less) of you than a school that works the way my schools do (as described above), that may not be appropriate. But that's how I'd start.</p>
<p>Alternately, if given a chance to expand on my answer, I might give an answer like, "[My school] requires x credit units to graduate, and I will be going into my junior year this fall, having completed a little more than half of that."</p>