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Re: Credibility... (Was: Re: Support for Creationism (was Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!"))
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Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:08:28 GMT
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David Eaton wrote:
> Actually you're totally right. I admit I had never heard of credit 'hours'
> until the day after I posted, at which point I asked someone if they were
> indeed what I thought they were, since 60 credit hours seemed trivially
> insignificant. And on that note, I'll just go FURTHER off topic and say who
> came up with such a dumb way of denoting credit? Why call them "credits"
> instead of "credit *hours*" if they have nothing to do with the actual hours
> you spent? Anyway, suffice to say from hearing my friends assumption about
> credit hours, it sounds like 60 credit hours is about 20-30 courses, which
> is about 2 or 3 years worth-- a much more significant chunk than I had
> thought previously. So, I withdraw my previous conclusion :)
Well, "credit hours" made a certain amount of sense at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute where I attended. A 3 credit hour class (which was
an "average" class) had 3 hours of lecture per week (courses with labs
didn't reflect the lab time in the credit hours, courses split into a
large lecture session and a smaller session [where homework was reviewed
and quizzes taken] counted the hours of both sessions - these were
usually 4 credit hour classes, 2 hours of lecture per week and 2 hours
of smaller class]).
--
Frank Filz
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