Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students line up to fill Haas Pavilion during orientation at the University of California, Berkeley last August. (Paul Kuroda/For ...

Credit hour is the unit by which an institution measures its course work. The number of credit hours assigned to a course quantitatively reflects the outcomes expected, the mode of instruction, the ...

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Most UC campuses use quarters, put into place to accommodate a tidal wave of baby boomers enrolling in the 1960s. UC is studying whether to move to semesters, already used at Berkeley and Merced. The ...