{"id":167,"date":"2016-11-18T17:18:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:56:00","slug":"definition-of-credit-hour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/instruction\/definition-of-credit-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"2.5 Definition of Credit Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>(Adopted 7-12-2010)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>91ԭƬ measures units of coursework by the semester credit hour. The semester credit hour is a recognized unit for college credit coursework and is used to determine degree requirements and course equivalency in transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Procedures <\/strong><em>(Revised 6-14-2021)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.5.1&nbsp; Traditional Coursework<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a traditional face-to-face lecture course, the Carnegie unit and state regulations determine a semester credit hour value (i.e. a minimum of 750 minutes of instruction or \u201cseat time\u201d per credit hour per semester period).&nbsp; For non-lecture courses (i.e., science laboratories, studio coursework, career technical courses, music activities) additional instructional time per credit hour is necessary to achieve the learning outcomes determined for the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.5.2&nbsp; Distance\/Web-Based\/Hybrid Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the College\u2019s distance learning courses (i.e., online and hybrid), the credit hour value is based on the learning outcomes determined in the traditional model of the coursework.&nbsp; Students will be required to spend an amount of time comparable to that in a traditional course to achieve the desired learning outcomes.&nbsp; To earn the credit hour value assigned to the course, students must demonstrate achievement of the course-based learning outcomes at a satisfactory level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adopted 7-12-2010) 91ԭƬ measures units of coursework by the semester credit hour. The semester credit hour is a recognized unit for college credit coursework and is used to determine degree requirements and course equivalency in transfer. Procedures (Revised 6-14-2021) 2.5.1&nbsp; Traditional Coursework For a traditional face-to-face lecture course, the Carnegie unit and state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[13],"class_list":["post-167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions\/2060"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcentral.edu\/board-policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}