Stanford Summer College

marlgirl
Wed, 31 May 2006 00:11:55 +0000

Units (in theory) indicate the amount of work you need to do for a particular course. In theory it is 2-3 hours/unit/week of homework for each class outside of lectures. Some of the especially difficult freshman courses (like chem, physics, PWR to an extent, at least in terms of workload) are only 4 units. There’s really no way to tell how much work you’ll have just from the number of units. Some 3 unit classes are much more work than 5 unit classes. (If a class is only 1 or 2 units it should be much less work than a 3-5 unit class… but I’ve heard stories of 1 unit classes that take 10 hours/week of work, so you never know!)