Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (2011)

Re:Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses... by Swizec on Monday July 07, 2014 @11:38PM (#8002888)

I don't remember what I was told in orientation, but most classes ended up having 2-3 hours of lectures and 2-3 hours of tutorials per week. You were expected to take 5 classes per semester. This gives you a minimum of 5(2+2) = 20 and a maximum of 5(3+3) = 30 hours of classes per week.

Which means my original estimate was wrong, but coupled with holes in schedules, potentially taking extra classes in a semester (I think the max I ever did was 7) you easily ended up spending 30-40 hours a week at school if you were going to all your classes.

That's how it was at my run-of-the-mill European public University. But I did always get the impression studying in the US was much easier.

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Re:Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses... by hueving on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @12:42AM (#8003032)

Sounds about the same. You are just including tutorials which aren't usually included in regular credit hours in the US. Those would be in the "2-3 hours per hour in lecture" block.

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Re:Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses... by Swizec on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @01:59AM (#8003191)

Well when you have mandatory presence at tutorials you tend to count them :)

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