Credit Hour Institutional Definition

The President of the University, who has ultimate responsibility for the academic integrity of curricula, programs, and course offerings, exercises that responsibility through the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. The provost ensures that the credit hour benchmark, or its equivalent, is applicable to all programs and courses that award academic credit at the institution.

Alabama State University uses semester credit hours/units as the measure to represent evidence of satisfactory completion of student work in a course. The institutional benchmark definition of one credit is one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and two hours of out-of-class student work each week for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester, or its equivalent for courses that have a different format or delivery method, such as, but not limited to, laboratory work, internships, and studio work.