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Roger noted:
Joel, I was going on weeks based on three 50 min. lecture periods per week.
Under that system 1 sem. hr. credit transfers as 1.5 quarter hrs. of credit
at the places that I am acquainted with
Here we have three 50 min lectures a week under the semester system, but we
start in early september and we get 41 or 42 lectures total. the quarter
system school I went to had four 50 minute lectures a week for ten weeks =
40 lectures. These numbers are for the standard courses, I've ignored the
extra semester hour our students get for the laboratory portion of the
course. Perhaps we are an extreme case, but even in the school I got my
Ph.D from (semesters) which started in late August, you couldn't cover the
same material in a year. I admit that if our introductory sequence were 3
semesters as is the case at many schools, my arguement wouldn't apply.
Joel