- Majors and Minors
- Departments and Units
- Courses
- LSA Degrees
- LSA Requirements
- LSA Academic Policies
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- Credit Limits
- Special Kinds of Credit
- Transfer Information
- Registration and Enrollment
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- Accuracy of Schedule
- Class Time Conflict Policy
- Closed Course, Waitlist, and Override Information
- Course Credits and Contact Hours
- Class Attendance
- Final Exams
- Full Time vs Part Time Status
- Pass/Fail
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Drop/Add
- Withdrawal from the College
- Class Standing
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Dual Enrollment
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Returning Students
- Auditing Courses
- Your Academic Record
- LSA International Travel Policy
- LSA Student Commitment to the Wolverine Culture of Care
- Dates and Deadlines
- Academic Integrity
- Engaged Learning
- STEM
- What Will You Do with an LSA Degree?
Course credit is based on contact hours (time spent in class with the instructor) for all LSA courses. This means one contact hour per credit for Lectures, Discussions, Recitations, and Seminars. Students do not get credit for homework, field trips, film screenings, or reading and writing assignments. For each credit earned, students are expected to spend in three hours of work each week outside of class. The same rule also applies to Experiential and Independent Study courses.
Labs that meet in an actual laboratory classroom such as used in Biology and Chemistry must meet for at least two hours for each credit earned. When departments schedule a “lab” for the purpose of film screenings, for example, this is just a scheduling tool to ensure students set aside that time for required class activity. In this case the instructor need not be present and therefore this time is not considered a part of contact hours for the course.
In the case of Discussions, students are spending time with the instructor (or GSI) to deal with more complex or detailed course content. This is considered a part of contact hours, so students earn one credit for each hour of discussion.
