Policy

Credit and Contact Hours

The College records credit for academic work in semester hours (SHC). One SHC is awarded for one contact hour of classroom work, two or three contact hours of laboratory, three contact hours of clinical/shop or ten hours of work experience per week for a term of sixteen weeks or the equivalent. A contact hour is the actual class time that a student attends class, laboratory, clinical, or shop per week. This information is given for each course in the Course Descriptions section of the General Catalog.

Schedule Overloads

The minimum number of hours required to qualify as a full-time curriculum student is twelve (12) semester hours. No student may take more than twenty-one (21) semester credit hours without permission of the Vice President for Academic Affairs & Workforce Development. Students enrolled in two or more segments of a condensed course sequence must obtain written permission to register for more than fourteen (14) credit hours.

Legal Reference:  1D SBCCC 400.1

Adopted:  June 7, 2022