OTHER CLASS STRUCTURES

Not all classes are three credit hours. Remember, it depends on the amount of “seat time.” Let’s try to compute this Chemistry class.


You can see this course meets 4 times a week. It meets for 50 minutes on those days, or a total of 3 hours and 20 minutes per week. We can use the shortcut again.

First, round up each day to the nearest hour. Next, add up all the seat time. When we do that, you can see that Chemistry 121B (the second semester chemistry lecture class) should be be worth 4 credits.

If we checked CougarNet, we would find that CHEM 121B is, in fact, a 4-credit class.