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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
by datadrivenangel 2y ago
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.
- 7402 2y agoRule 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.
- superhuzza 2y agoCertainly 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.