Credits

		Credit Hour Definition
The Elmira College credit unit is the credit-hour, which is equivalent to the semester hour at other colleges. Earning 1 credit requires at least seven hundred fify minutes of instruction and another 1,800 minutes of supplementary assignments.

Contact minutes for 12 week courses
credit hours awarded	mimimum contact minutes/week	minimum instructional time for 12 weeks	minimum out of class student work/week	minimum out of class student work/week for 12 weeks	Total instructional contact time
1 credit lecture format	60	720	150	1800

3 credits lecture format	180	2160	450	5400	7560

3 credit studio art	190	2280	475	5700	7980


Contact minutes for 6-week courses
credit hours awarded	mimimum contact minutes/week	minimum instructional time for 6 weeks	minimum out of class student work/week	minimum out of class student work/week for 6 weeks	Total instructional contact time
1.5 credit lecture format	180	1080	450	2700	3780

3 credits lecture format	380	2280	950	5700	7980

6 creduts lecture format	760	4560	1900	1140	15,960

The table below shows the contact hours for Elmira College's Nursing program


Course	Credits	Theory	Laboratory* (Hours)	Clinical* (Hours)
Course	Credits	Theory	Laboratory* (Hours)
NSG 2010	3	3
NSG 2510	2		2 (72)
NSG 2520	3		3 (108)
NSG3115	2		2 (72)
NSG 3110	3	1.5		1.5 (54)
NSG 3111	3	1.5		1.5 (54)
NSG 3112	6	3		3 (108)
NSG 3210	3	3
NSG 3900	3	1.5		1.5 (54)
NSG 4009	3	1.5		1.5 (54)
NSG 4011	3	1.5		1.5 (54)
NSG 4120	6	3		3 (108)
FEX 4510	6			6 (240)
Total	46	19.5	7 (252)	19.5 (726)
* Laboratory and clinical hours have a credit to contact hour ratio of 1:3.