UTH Florida University measures its programs in the equivalent of “semester credit hours”. Typically, a “semester” lasts 15-weeks and credits are awarded at a rate of one credit hour for every 15 hours of formal instruction such as lectures, independent study, and online study. In the 15-week academic period, each unit of credit requires 30 hours of additional homework or independent research.
At UTH Florida University courses are taught in eight-week academic periods, which deliver the same instruction in half the time and thus require an adjustment to the workload of a traditional 15-week academic period. Each unit of credit at UTH Florida requires 2 hours of formal education per week to achieve the same 15 hours of formal instruction in the traditional 15-week semester. Additionally, homework or independent study hours increase to 4 hours per week to achieve the same 30 hours in a traditional 15-week semester.
As such, the expected amount of work for a 3-credit hour course requires a weekly workload of 6 hours of formal instruction and 12 additional hours of homework. Students typically enroll in two 3-credit courses per eight-week academic period and thus are expected to carry a weekly workload of 12 hours of formal instruction and 24 hours of homework.