<p>I am applying for an internship and they ask how many semester hours I have completed. My college does course units where each course is 1 cu and each lab is 0.5 cu. How do I convert from cu’s to credit hours? First semester I took two classes that met 3 hours a week, two that met 4 hours a week, and one lab that had a 1 hour lecture and 3 hour actual lab time. How many credit hours does that get me? Thanks for the help</p>
<p>I would give both the credit unit and the semester hours, and measure the semester hours as you did above, by totaling how much time you actually spent in class–lecture or lab. Going between units and credit hours can be confusing, so I think this would be the best way.</p>
<p>credit hours would be the easiest i think. all you have to do is tally up how many credits you have so far. because credits are given according to the amount of time spent in the classroom/lab per week. since that isn’t an option i guess you have to go tally it up yourself. why doesn’t your school use credit hours? where do you go?</p>
<p>I’m at Penn. I know several schools that go by a credit unit system. I don’t know why Penn does it like this, but they do.</p>
<p>I’d probably calculate it by comparing credit units required for graduation to credit hours required for graduation. I’m accustomed to a system where a BA means you’ve completed (at least) 120 credit hours and it takes 30 hours to move from freshman to sophomore status and then another 30 to become a junior, and so on.</p>
<p>So if x credit units = 120 credit hours, then 1 credit unit = (120/x) credit hours.</p>
<p>Now, if you can make a good case that your school requires more (or less) of you than a school that works the way my schools do (as described above), that may not be appropriate. But that’s how I’d start.</p>
<p>Alternately, if given a chance to expand on my answer, I might give an answer like, “[My school] requires x credit units to graduate, and I will be going into my junior year this fall, having completed a little more than half of that.”</p>