The Carnegie unit is the common means of calculating learner contact hours. It is based on a sixteen-week term and is equal to a minimum of three hours of work per week for a semester. The three hours of work per week includes 1 hour of lecture plus two hours of homework (or three hours of lab), which equates to sixteen hours of lecture and thirty-two hours of homework or forty-eight hours of work over the term per credit. For a three-credit course, you would have 144 hours of workload (48 × 3). Your program more than likely has calculated contact hours for the curriculum, so you will want to
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