Time requirements for one of Dr. G's courses

Assumptions

• Real learning comes at a cost. The costs are
  • Time
  • Awareness and "effort"

Time

• 5 three-unit classes = 15 units = full-time job = 40 hours/week
• 1 three-unit class = one-fifth of full time job = 8 hours / week 
  • 2.75 hours in class (lecture and lab)
  • 5 hours out of class (reading, homework, studying)
• Compare this breakdown to typical high school study (in which the majority of time is spent in class)

Awareness and effort

• Real learning comes through a change in intellectual capacity
• Change in intellectual capacity means you have become smarter
• To become smarter, you have to question your current assumptions (about yourself and others)
• You also have to value intelligence as a worthy personal characteristics