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OSEA Course Credit Equivalency Chart

Classroom Standard Hours*
15 Wk Sem. 		Actual Contact Hrs/ Equivalents § Credit Hours OSEA Classroom Hours OSEA Experiential Learning Hrs OSEA Fieldwork Research Hours OSEA Credit Hours
15 12 / 12.5 1 12 18 24 1
30 23/25 2 24 36 48 2
45 35/37 3 36 54 72 3
60 47/50 4 48 72 96 4
75 58/62.5 5 60 90 120 5
90 70/75 6 72 108 135 6


* Classroom Standard Hours are based on a 15 week semester course valued at 3 credits that meets 3 times a week for 50 minutes each period (150 minutes) or two times a week for 1 hour & 20 minutes each period (140 minutes).

§ Actual Contact Hours range from 140 to 150 minutes (2.34 to 2.5 hours) for every 3 hours of weekly classroom time, based on a 3 credit course meeting for 15 weeks.

_ OSEA Classroom Hours are actual hours of contact; there is a ratio of 1.25 Classroom Standard Hours to every 1 OSEA Classroom Hour.

_ OSEA Experiential Learning Hours are calculated at the rate of 1.5 experiential learning to classroom hours. Experiential Learning includes hours spent in the field doing practicum, on-site learning, field trips, and other related activities based in interactive learning outside of classroom; these hours are based in the interactive exchange of information between students and professor or other qualified knowledge specialist or expert practitioner who may or may not be an academic.

_ OSEA Fieldwork Research Hours are based on an equivalence of 2 Fieldwork Research Hour to 1 Classroom Standard Hour. OSEA has established a standard expectation of six hours of fieldwork a day during periods of independent research. These hours include both direct contact and non-contact time; this does not include time necessarily given to general cultural adaptation and immersion. Every hour of actual contact time during ethnographic fieldwork entails a variable amount of non-contact fieldwork which consists of writing and indexing of fieldnotes; transcribing interviews and verbal data; organizing, cross-indexing, analysis, and tabulation of collected data. Experts in the field estimate that ethnographers spend 3 to 12 hours of such non-contact fieldwork per one hour of contact fieldwork in these ancillary activities; the amount varies according to factors such as research context as well as the media and technologies of data collection and documentation. OSEA establishes a standard 3 hours of non-contact for every 1 hour of contact fieldwork.