Semester Hour (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of academic credit; one hour a week for an academic semester.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- Most undergraduate courses are three semester hours and meet for three hours a week.
- She needed 12 semester hours to qualify for a scholarship.
- The graduate program requires 36 semester hours of coursework.
- The university awards three semester hours of credit for each AP exam passed.
- He took 18 semester hours his first semester of college.