Credit Hour

A credit hour is an amount of work represented by intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally-established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than: (1) one clock hour (50-60 minutes) of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work each week for approximately fifteen weeks or (2) at least an equivalent amount of work as previously defined in paragraph (1) for other activities such as laboratory work, internships, practica, studio work, and other academic work leading toward the award of credit hours.

Courses offered in alternative modalities from the traditional credit hour definition will have syllabi that demonstrate how the instructional activities are appropriate for the number of credits for the course learning equivalents.