im a senior working on my college applications right now, and i have so many questions about how college actually works.
when students talk about how they are constantly skipping class or have attended barely attended class, how is it that you can still graduate or get credit for this class or even pass the class without hearing the lectures? i dont understand that concept because speaking from a high school perspective attending class is most of work you have to do, its where we recieve our assignments and where we learn everything and it would be near impossible to pass without attending class
what do lecture hours mean, when it says u need 15 lecture hours to pass a semester does that quite literally mean you need to be in person in class for 15 hours in total by the end of the semester?
how many lectures are there for each class every week? with a semester being a few months long 15 total hours of class time sounds short unless each class only meets bi weekly or something
if a student wanted to could they attend every single lecture? or is that something that virtually no one does
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Other than exams, many college courses will post copies of all assignments on an online course page (often Infrastructure’s Canvas, D2L, or similar platform). This is especially so in a post pandemic world where many professors are used to offering a hybrid instructional style.
Credit hours referred to by the school are usually an approximation of the length of instructional time per week. For example a 3 credit hour lecture course will often either meet 3 times a week for an hour, or 2 times for 90 minutes. (Lab sections are usually just a single credit hour despite much longer in person time requirements)
Personally, for general education classes and a few introductory courses, it could be possible to get by skipping an occasional lecture and self studying the material. When you get into upper division classes though, losing out on instructional time can quickly become fatal.
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