Terms & Abbreviations
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- Terms & Abbreviations
- Undergraduate Student Load
- Graduate Student Load
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- Auditing a Class
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- Directed Study
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- Electives
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- Prerequisites and Corequisites
- Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid
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- Other Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Terms Used at Tech
Academic Load
The academic year at Tech consists of two semesters. A class hour is 50 minutes in length; ordinarily, a laboratory period is about three times as long. One class hour or laboratory period a week through a semester gives one credit hour.