<p>Stupid question: are semester hours calculated simply by adding the total amount of time spent in a class? (i.e. spending three hours/week in a particular class = three semester hours)</p>
<p>Or is there some kind of more complicated system?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>See your school catalog. It is usually not that simple.</p>
<p>Pretty much, but usually 50 minutes = 1 credit. But it gets all funky with courses that only last part of the semester, classes longer than 50 minutes, and classes with labs and recitations.</p>
<p>Yes but not necessarily. I have 4.0 credit hour classes that have built-in labs (2 hours) and 4 hours of lecture, so the labs don't count.</p>
<p>In general physics/bio/chem labs are usually a second class that get their own credit hours.</p>
<p>^
Agree</p>
<p>Check your school</p>
<p>My math courses are 1 credit hour, but they are two times a week for an hour and 15 minutes each time. Of course in my book that does not equal 1 credit hour, it equals 2.</p>