It may sound strange to you but we do want to show you the effort calculation for this course. The reason for this is that we want you to understand very clearly how much effort we expect you to put into this course. This effort does not exceed the norm, and thus it is perfectly reasonable. You are at a university here, you are not on vacation!
This is a 4 ects course. Each ects represents 28 hours of work. The total number of hours you are expected to spend on this course is 112. This course is set up in such a way that we give you close to 112 hours of work and the exam is such that you need to spend close to 112 hours on this course in order to pass.
This course has 9 weeks of 2 hours lecture or colstruction and 2 hours of labsession. This makes up 18 plus 18 hours, for a total of 36 hours with guidance by a tutor.
We expect you to spend on average 3 hours per week studying part of the book or other material we provide. We expect you to be able to fully understand the amount of reading required in 3 hours time. The total study time is thus 27 hours.
We give you enough homework to give you 5 hours of work each week, or 45 hours in total.
The exam takes 3 hours, and if you have prepared yourself well you do not need any additional time before the exam.
All these numbers add up to 111 hours. In the past we have had complaints from students that this course required an excessive amount of work. We give you this calculation to make you realise that 8 hours of studying and homework per week for this course is the normal amount of work we expect and this is perfectly reasonable.