Let's see; a one semester class is 3 hours/week, 15 weeks, or 45 hours of lectures. The semi-official ratio was to expect 2-3 hours of work in addition to the l

Let's see; a one semester class is 3 hours/week, 15 weeks, or 45 hours of lectures. The semi-official ratio was to expect 2-3 hours of work in addition to the lectures (haha, yeah, I slacked off a lot), so that would be 135-180 hours. The books chosen sound appropriate. Sounds about right to me. This was UT Austin, which may or may not, now or ever, be an "elite US college", and it was 30 years ago. (Holy crap, where's my walker?)