[Magdalen] US Higher Education

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 18:19:25 UTC 2015


It depends largely on the course and the professor.

> On Jan 11, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> I am nearing the end of a book (on Kindle) considering the US Higher Education system.  The author says so many credits are required for a degree, a concept I can understand.  However he then suggests that credits are obtained by attending so many hours of lectures and implies that there is no real test of what has been learned during the course.
> 
> Is this really the case - turn up and you get the credits with minimal testing?
> 
> Roger


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