Scheduling Courses in the Term

Lecture or Seminar Course

Credit-to-contact ratio is 1:1, which means each 1 credit hour of the course should have 1 nominal hour (50 minutes) of faculty/student contact a week in a full (15-week) semester.

Course
credit
hours
Total
nominal
hours *
Total contact
minutes
(hours)
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
full semester
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
8-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
7-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
5-week course
1 15 750 min
(12 hr 30 min)
50 min 94 min
(1 hr 34 min)
107 min
(1 hr 47 min)
150 min
(2 hr 30 min)
2 30 1500 min
(25 hr)
100 min
(1 hr 40 min)
188 min
(3 hr 8 min)
214 min
(3 hr 34 min)
300 min
(5 hr)
3 45 2250 min
(37 hr 30 min)
150 min
(2 hr 30 min)
281 min
(4 hr 41 min)
321 min
(5 hr 21 min)
450 min
(7 hr 30 min)
4 60 3000 min
(50 hr)
200 min
(3 hr 20 min)
375 min
(6 hr 15 min)
429 min
(7 hr 9 min)
600 min
(10 hr)

Laboratory or Studio Course

with out-of-class assignments that normally average one hour of out-of-class study to prepare for or follow-up the laboratory/studio experience

Credit-to-contact ratio is 1:2, which means each 1 credit hour of the course should have 2 nominal hours (100 minutes) of faculty/student contact a week in standard 15-week semester.

Credit
hours
Total
nominal
hours *
Total contact
minutes
(hours)
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
full semester
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
8-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
7-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
5-week course
1 30 1500 min
(25 hr)
100 min
(1 hr 40 min)
188 min
(3 hr 8 min)
214 min
(3 hr 34 min)
300 min
(5 hr)
2 60 3000 min
(50 hr)
200 min
(3 hr 20 min)
375 min
(6 hr 15 min)
429 min
(7 hr 9 min)
600 min
(10 hr)
3 90 4500 min
(75 hr)
300 min
(5 hr)
563 min
(9 hr 23 min)
643 min
(10 hr 43 min)
900 min
(15 hr)

with little or no out-of-class study

Credit-to-contact ratio is 1:3, which means each 1 credit hour of the course should have 3 nominal hours (150 minutes) of faculty/student contact a week in standard 15-week semester.

Credit
hours
Total
nominal
hours *
Total contact
minutes
(hours)
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
full semester
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
8-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
7-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
5-week course
1 45 2250 min
(37 hr 30 min)
150 min
(2 hr 30 min)
281 min
(4 hr 41 min)
321 min
(5 hr 21 min)
450 min
(7 hr 30 min)
2 90 4500 min
(75 hr)
300 min
(5 hr)
563 min
(9 hr 23 min)
643 min
(10 hr 43 min)
900 min
(15 hr)
3 135 6750 min
(112 hr 30 min)
450 min
(7 hr 30 min)
844 min
(14 hr 4 min)
964 min
(16 hr 4 min)
1350 min
(22 hr 30 min)

Combined Lecture/Laboratory Courses

Credit hour is awarded on the same basis as lecture and laboratory and dependent on how the credit hours are allocated for each instruction. For example, a 5-credit lecture/lab that allocates 4 credits for lecture and 1 credit for lab with no out-of-class study would be broken down in the following way:

Course
Credit
hours
Total
nominal
hours *
Total contact|
minutes
(hours)
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
full semester
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
8-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
7-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
5-week course
Lecture
4 60 3000 min
(50 hr)
200 min
(3 hr 20 min)
375 min
(6 hr 15 min)
429 min
(7 hr 9 min)
600 min
(10 hr)
Laboratory
1 45 2250 min
(37 hr 30 min)
150 min
(2 hr 30 min)
281 min
(4 hr 41 min)
321 min
(5 hr 21 min)
450 min
(7 hr 30 min)
Total for Course
5 105 5250 min
(87 hr 30 min)
350 min
(5 hr 50 min)
656 min
(10 hr 56 min)
750 min
(12 hr 30 min)
1050 min
(17 hr 30 min)

Note: One way to know how many credits a lecture/lab course has allocated to each instruction is to view the breakdown of contact hours in the course description in FlashLine, see example:


Example

BSCI 11020 - FOUNDATIONAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY II
3.000 Credit hours
2.000 Lecture hours
3.000 Lab hours

The lecture and lab contact hours listed are in weekly nominal terms for a 15-week course. Therefore, by looking at the total nominal hours in the charts above, 2 nominal hours (100 minutes)for lecture (2x15=30 total nominal hours) and 3 nominal hours (150 minutes)for lab (3x15=45 total nominal hours) means that 2 credits have been allocated to lecture and 1 credit allocated to lab for this course.

Course
Credit
hours
Total
nominal
hours *
Total contact
minutes
(hours)
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
15-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
8-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
7-week course
Contact minutes
(hours) per week
5-week course
Lecture
2 30 1500 min
(25 hr)
100 min
(1 hr 40 min)
188 min
(3 hr 8 min)
214 min
(3 hr 34 min)
300 min
(5 hr)
Laboratory
1 45 2250 min
(37 hr 30 min)
150 min
(2 hr 30 min)
281 min
(4 hr 41 min)
321 min
(5 hr 21 min)
450 min
(7 hr 30 min)
Total for Course
3 105 3750 min
(62 hr 30 min)
250 min
(4 hr 10 min)
469 min
(7 hr 49 min)
535 min
(8 hr 55 min)
750 min
(12 hr 30 min)

* One nominal hour is equivalent to 50 minutes.