Wow ok, i guess we're wimps down here. Around 15 is about normal for me. You need special permission to take more than 18 credits at my school.Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
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Wow ok, i guess we're wimps down here. Around 15 is about normal for me. You need special permission to take more than 18 credits at my school.Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
12 is full time here and 18 is the max unless you have special permission. They only charge for the first 15 where I attend so I always take as many as they will allow. As long as I keep my GPA up they allow me to take as many as I want. I usually take between 18 and 21. I did 24 once, but it was hard on my kids.
wait... you guys only do between 12 and 20 hours a week in classes? did i get that right?
When i was in college classes started a 9am and finished at 5pm. If you were lucky you might get a couple of free hours during the day. Fridays we finished at one.
I think it is 40 here. My course was odd in that it was 20 hours contact time and 20 hours self study ecxpected. but ifyou dont have 15 hours contact time ou dont even qualify for a student rail card! :eek:
When I was at university, we were given around 18 hours a week. To be able to take more classes, one needed special permit, like some mentioned above, which meant that you were expected to have "proved" yourselves; i.e., a regular honour student etc. By the time I graduated I had about 25 extra credits but now looking back to it, I cannot help wondering what good that do for me as we were not allowed to take certain classes earlier so early graduation was out of question.
Less idle hours, more lectures to attend, more assignments and exams to prepare for. Bleh.
Niamh> I think college and university hours are different because at university they expect one to one contact-study hour if I remember correctly (similar to what Night mentioned).
At the moment, I am working 21 hours a week (14 teaching hours) and my advisor at university suggests I study about 6 hours a week... which leaves very little time for a social life. Hence, long live LitNet! :D
HEY! The Litnet IS a social life :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I'm not sure if our systems are very similar or not...Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I went to an IT so not really certain about the Big Uni's and Colleges, but most of my week were Lectures and tutorials. Any college work was mainly done outside of hours the same was as homework in school.
I did a small FETAC course about a year after i dropped out, and that required two full days (14 hours) in classes and two days doing research in the National Library and the National Archives (12 hours) for the Local history side of the course. so that was still 24 hours excluding projects that needed to be done for all other classes, and that was considered a part time course because we were only in classes two days a week.
I'm still going to be doing a 40 hour working week and studying on top of that. :sick: I'm glad classes are few and far between though!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Yes it is! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
That sounds so crazy to me! When do you study and do homework and projects? I would say that I spend an average of 35 hours a week on homework. The hours I'm talking about are hours spent in the classroom. Three hours for English Comp each week for 16 weeks = 3 credit hours. 12 hours is considered full time. When I started I was told to expect to spend 3 hours out of class for every one hour in class. There have been several classes I didn't have to spend any time out of class studying for, but there have been some classes that have taken me 15+ hours a week. I find that my on-line courses take a lot more time and effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I can't believe we've had this thread up for so long and this hasn't come up sooner.
Do you mean contact time =lectures and labs, self study= homework?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Man, I didn't even include study time! I've been told by profs that I should be spending roughly 12 hours a week on each class, including lecture, labs, and homework/studying.
The normal course load is 5 classes, and one can do up to 6 with special permission. Hours per week varies depending on which classes you're taking as almost all classes have about three hours of lecture time per week, but they vary in the amount of scheduled/ non-scheduled lab and seminar time. So yes, I suppose about 15 hours per week of lecture, but most of my classes have lab work as well.
My semester is fairly light because one of my classes doesn't have any lab work, and two of them only have one hour of scheduled lab time per week, which is pretty unusual. Most of my classes typically have three hours of scheduled lab time per week.
I'm taking two classes this semseter, both are 3 credit hours which means I'm spending 6hours in class per week.
12 hours is normal, 18 is the maximum, I'm taking 15. So that's five 3-hour courses.
Those were my hours too, Niamh, and some extra-long days finished at six and we didn't finish early on Fridays. But that was way back when, in the dear dead days beyond recall known as the Sixties (of which it is said if you can remember them, you weren't there....)
In my first year my classes were broken up in to two semester
Semester 1
Physical Landscape
Computers(lectures and tutorials)
Irish Social History
Mentor
film Studies (lectures and Tutorials)
Theatre Studies( Lectures and Tutorials)
Communications
(seven classes three with tutorials)
Semester 2
Man Made Lanscape (archaeology)
Multimedia (lectures and Tutorials)
Irish Social History
Management of cultural enterprises
Film Studies (lectures and Tutorials)
Theatre Studies (Lectures and Tutorials)
(six classes three with tutorials)
I think both Film and Theatre Studies had five or six hours of classes and tutorials each, Computerss1/multimedia S2 had four and everything else had three... about 26/27 hours of classes a week. free time between classes and after classes was used to do projects and study... well in theory.... it was mainly used to go to the pub. :p
In comprehensive school we spent more hours at school per week when we got older. In elementary school (grades 1-6) there were first about 20 hours of school per week, later about 25. In grades 7-9 we had five periods each year, and each period had a different schedule. I had a couple of periods with 28 hours and a few with 35, the normal amount of hours being around 30.
In upper secondary school there were again 5 periods each years during which you took different courses. One course would be 5 hours a week, and I usually took 6 or 7 courses in a period, which means 30 or 35 hours of school. I had maybe a couple of periods with 5 or 8 courses during my time in upper secondary school.
At university, however, we have less classes and more independent work (I don't mean we didn't have homework in comprehensive school or upper secondary school, just that it didn't take up as much time then). In my first year at university I sat at school for about 27 hours a week in the autumn semester and a bit less in the spring. I made 80 credits that year, when 60 is the recommended amount. On my second year I did 65 credits, sat at school maybe 15-20 hours a week, but spent twice as much time with homework as I did on my first year. I still don't know what my schedule will look like this year, I just hope I won't be constantly as tired as I was last year.
I have to say it sounds like I've got it easy!