[datadrivenangel]

It was common to get at least a book's worth of reading a week for the humanities oriented classes at my undergrad. Always fun seeing the freshman morale sink a few weeks in when they realized they had to either skim aggressively or do ~10-20 hours of reading.

Of course, those suckers got to avoid the hard science lab time, so good for them.

[superhuzza]

Certainly not a sustainable amount if every class is giving a similar workload.

Crime and Punishment alone is over 500 pages.

With 5 classes assigning a book each, that's 2500 pages a week, or 357 pages every single day.

I certainly did not read that much during my undergrad nor my master's degree.

[7402]

Rule of thumb for my college classes was 3 hours of outside work for every hour in class. So 3 hours of lecture per week = 9 hours of problem sets, reading, etc. That was 50 years ago.