@toowonderful, in NSB at Tisch, studio credits don’t correspond to hours. Every week this semester my daughter has 5 hours and 40 mins of dance related classes, 5 1/2 hours of voice/music related classes, and just shy of 9 hours of acting related classes. In total, eleven separate classes/instructors with only one that meets more than once a week. All of that for the low low NYU Tisch discount of 8 credits!
Then she has 7 1/2 hours in three non studio classes (all of whom are theatre, audition or screen acting related) and I do think those hours do sort of correspond to credits better so I sort of get where you are coming from in the normal world. Fourteen separate classes in total this semester and it’s not her record and I’m not even touching rehearsal time which is over and above. My son in contrast, has six classes including two labs. This major is not for anyone who cannot juggle their time.