University of California 2009 Accountability Report

Indicator 7.9
Student Credit Hours by Course Level and Faculty Appointment, 2003-04 to 2006-07

Data visualization. please download the source data for accessible information.

Student credit hours (SCH) is one measure used to assess faculty teaching activities.

SCH is defined as the number of enrollments in a course times the number of units. A four-unit class of 50 students would generate 200 SCH; a two-unit class of 15 students would generate 30 SCH. In this respect, SCH is a measure of the amount of teaching faculty do across classes of different size and intensity.

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Source: University of California Annual Report to the Legislature on Faculty Instructional Activities.

Senate faculty includes regular rank, recalled faculty, senate lecturers and health sciences faculty teaching general campus courses; lecturers refers to Unit 18 lecturers; other includes graduate student instructors and miscellaneous faculty. Data reported are for general campus classes only and exclude health sciences courses.

You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.