Re: CHAT: University Advice (was Re: A bit of advice)

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> The theory in my day (1980-85) was that every credit hour represented
> 1 hour of class time (obviously) and 2 hours of non-class time.
> What is the figure now?
I suspect it depends on the college and the kind of class.  That figure
seems pretty close for the average Cornell non-seminar history class.
For the 1st 2 years of calculus I'd say it depends on the person: a
four-credit class wouldn't took me more than 4-6 hours of homework time.
OTOH honors analysis was 4 credits and took something like 20 hrs a week,
whereas honors algebra this semester isn't taking me more than 10 hrs (if
that much)--but then, I'm a lot better at algebra than analysis.  :-/

I took a 1-credit transition-to-Java (from Dylan; I'd had Java in intro
programming, but the intervening class used Dylan, which is related to
LISP/Scheme) that took 4-5 hours, and let's not even get into programming
courses.

YMMV.

YHL