OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

70 Sip Ave., 4th Floor, Jersey City, New Jersey 07306 | 201-360-4010 | academicaffairs@hccc.edu

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Courses are recorded in terms of semester hours. Normally, one semester hour of credit is earned for one hour of class attendance per week for a semester. The semester hours of credit assigned to a course are not necessarily determined by the number of class hours per week. Lab hours, for example, are calculated on the basis of two hours of lab time for one semester hour of credit. In general, a semester consists of 15 weeks of regularly scheduled, student-faculty instructional activity, which includes final exams. HCCC also offers Quick Term courses, which are 12 weeks long, and half-term, which are 7 weeks long. Certain select programs are taught on different schedules.