Exactly. Full-time college itineraries are based roughly on a full-time 40-hour work week. Each credit represents three hours of study time. One in-class and two out of class. A fifteen-credit itinerary should eat up 45 hours of time. Fifteen in class, 30 of independent study.
Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
At some level, college is supposed to be about teaching yourself.
That said, professors are supposed to help.
modus@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Professor here, maybe 1% of my students ask for help. About 15 % don’t show up to class to a course run around manuscript discussion, do poorly. Why bother? Save tuition and stay home, because even if they do get a piece of paper after 4 years they will fail in any professional environment with those habits.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Is that why it’s 10s of thousands of dollars, or more?
OwOarchist@pawb.social 15 hours ago
Nah, that particular part of it is because of:
Maintaining college’s role as a personal economics gatekeeper, keeping the poor and unprivileged away from the good jobs.
Administrators deciding that administration needs more money, causing incredible levels of administrative bloat.
To some degree, financial aid (both scholarships and subsidized loans) enables increased prices because it allows them to increase prices more without affecting demand as much as it otherwise would.