I'm taking 20 credit-hours, my roommate is taking 25 this semester. 25 credit hours is hard, at least at my college along with the very demanding athletic team for which he has daily practice. My 20 amounts to 6 courses, 4 on one day 2 the next day. This is considered an average load at my school for freshmen. I also haven't picked a major yet, which will increase my mandatory courseload to graduate, and increase my credit hours, but i will also have knocked out the core courses that fill up my schedule before declaring a major, so I hope to stay balanced around 23 per semester maximum for the rest of my undergrad. I didn't even know about ECTS beforehand so I can't offer an opinion on that conversion ratio, but if 51 ECTS is really around 30 credit-hours, that is beyond fucked and I hope for the sake of your sanity that it is not the case.
so 51 hours of just lectures/practicals/labs. Others things amounts to about 4-5 hours? So 56 hours a week? On top of all the other things you listed before, you are well over 60 hours of just school related work every week? Is that how that works? If that's the case that seems a bit wild to me.
That's about what I was at most of junior and senior year of undergrad if you include all the library time. Reading and research takes time, and I'm not going to set any records for writing speed. Sometimes more, sometimes less depending on deadlines.So 56 hours a week?
I mean towards the end of my college career, and good portions of my early college career I worked 25-30 hours a week, was in lectures for at least 15-18 hours a week, and then library. I still had time to hang out though. I'm just more surprised that 51 of Devac's hours are solely dedicated to in-class related stuff. I mean that doesn't include any library time really. That's the only part that really surprises me.
If I googled correctly that Swedish course is quite advanced. Where and why are you studying Swedish?
This is awesome. And thanks for sharing your courses, it's really interesting to look at. As War pointed out in this post thread, it's highly likely that different colleges have different ways of assigning credits. In other words, "credit-hours" may not be as universal in the U.S. as I imagined. Therefore I still have no way to compare your courseload with a unit of measurement, but based on the quantity and kinds of courses you're taking, I'm just going to wish you the best of luck and imagine you're some kind of Jimmy Neutron motherfucker.
Those are very good reasons. I'm myself terrible at learning languages but currently fluent in two so that's nice. I'm always fascinated when someone outside Sweden learns the language. There's that sense seeing your hometown pop up in the news.