[bakuninsbart]

Here in Europe a typical course could be 5 CP, equalling 150h of work. One semester should average you 30 CP or 900h of work.

In CS, we regularly had courses worth 300h in a semester, fe. analysis, system architecture or software engineering.

[fho]

And, to finish your calculations, 30CP/900h are basically a full time job.

In practice, students start to complain once a course tries to enforce their full "hour contingent".

[interactivecode]

indeed because the deadlines are rigid and the work load estimates are inaccurate.

[fho]

We have this discussion basically every new semester, honestly it's tiring. On the one hand we _are_ removing more and more content from our courses, not because we want ease the load on the first year students, but because we have to catch a increasingly large portion of students up to speed on topics that should have been covered in school.

Related: one of the faculties here recently announced the introduction of a threshold grade. If you were bad at school, you are not taken into consideration, even if there are available places.