To aid in assigning student credit hours uniformly to courses in the curriculum, the UOCC inventories the amount of student engagement in a course using the Student Engagement Inventory.
Departments preparing course proposals are to complete the SEI on CourseLeaf when deciding how many SCH units to request for a proposed course.
| Undergraduate courses | graduate courses |
|---|---|
| Under the UO quarter system, each undergraduate credit reflects approximately thirty hours of student engagement. Therefore, a 3-credit course would engage students for approximately 90 hours total among the activities listed below, whereas a 4-credit course would entail approximately 120 hours of activities in which students are actively engaged in learning over the course of the term. | Graduate students are expected to perform work of higher quality and quantity, typically with forty hours of student engagement for each student credit hour. Therefore, a 3-credit graduate course would typically engage students approximately 120 hours; a 4-credit graduate course may be expected to entail approximately 160 hours for the average student for whom the course is designed. |
EXAMPLE: Please identify the number of hours a typical or average student would expect to spend in each of the following activities:
| Educational activity | hours student engaged | Explanatory comments (if any): |
|---|---|---|
| Course attendance | ||
| Assigned readings | ||
| Project | ||
| Writing assignments | ||
| Lab or workshop | ||
| Field work, experience | ||
| Online interaction | ||
| Performances, creative activities | ||
| TOTAL HOURS: |
Definition of terms:
| TERM | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| Course attendance | Actual time student spends in class with instructor or GTF |
| Assigned readings | Estimated time it takes for a student with average reading ability to read all assigned readings |
| Writing assignments | Estimated time it takes for a student with average writing ability to produce a final, acceptable written product as required by the assignment |
| Project | Estimated time a student would be expected to spend creating or contributing to a project that meets course requirements (includes individual and group projects) |
| Lab or workshop | Actual time scheduled for any lab or workshop activities that are required but are scheduled outside of class hours |
| Field work, experience | Actual or estimated time a student would spend or be expected to spend engaged in required field work or other field-based activities |
| Online activities | Actual or estimated time a student would spend or be expected to spend engaged in online activities directly related to the course, separate from online research required for projects or writing assignments |
| Performance, creative activities | Actual or estimated time a student would spend or be expected to spend outside of class hours engaged in preparing for required performance or creative activity |
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Revision History: From “UOCC Procedures for Curricular Changes” - Revised August 2009; updated March 6, 2015 (see page 19); updated August 2017; Minor corrections Jan 2018 for consistency; updated for US18/19-09 Feb 2019.
Original Source: UOCC Procedures for Curricular Changes - https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/c/13569/files/2019/02/Procedures-for-Curricular-Changes-Winter-2019-revised-1sc8dfx.pdf