The basic unit is the quarter hour credit, or simply the credit. It is equivalent to one class period per week for one quarter.

This class period may be one hour recitation, a one hour lecture, (or a combination of the two), or a three hour laboratory. In any case, one credit is designed to require four actual hours of a student's time, on the average, per week for one quarter.

Proposal Defeated by Senate: 14 May 1969