Credit load

• A full-time student is one who is registered for at least 12 credits.
• Students planning to take 19 or more credits in a semester must obtain the written permission of the appropriate academic deans in their declared programs of study.
• CCBC encourages students who are employed part time to take reduced credit load so they can successfully pursue both school and employment.
• Those who are employed on a full-time basis are encouraged to take no more than two courses in a regular semester.

Credits and class meetings
Normally, a one-credit unit is granted for courses that meet the equivalent of one 50-minute period per week over a 15-week semester. A three-credit course will normally meet the equivalent of three 55-minute periods each week for a 14-week semester. Classes generally meet one, two or three times a week.

During the winter and summer sessions, courses meet additional times each week so that the total class time is the same as in a regular semester. Three to five periods of laboratory or field experience are equivalent to one lecture period.

Course Overload

Overload requests must first be submitted to Records and Registration. Overload requests will be forwarded to Deans/Designees only when they relate directly to CCBC operations or sound academic considerations (class cancellation, wrongly cancelled for non-payment/financial aid; changing course level in the same disciplines, e.g., switch from English 101 to 102, etc.). Only limited Records and Registration staff (Director, Registrar, and/or Registration Manager/Supervisor) will have authority to determine which students will be sent to Deans/Designees for permission to overload classes. The Deans should consult with each faculty member prior to the beginning of the term to determine the degree to which overload is feasible in his/her courses.