Skills - quantity and level

[coliver988]

my undergraduate degree was probably 3+ hours / hour of class (programming degree, so there was a lot of programming). My graduate degree was probably 5-10 hours homework per hour of class at a minimum, but it was liberal arts - a LOT of reading (sometimes a number of thick yet interesting tomes per class meeting).

So it really depends on the learning you are wanting, I would think. Something concrete and with a well-defined scope (shooting/maintenance of guns*) may not be too bad, but something more esoteric or less-well defined** (Aslan philosophy of Trading) may take a lot longer.

*this comes from someone with no gun knowledge other than knowing which way the bullet comes out, so I could well be wrong.

**and you can't get more 'less well defined' than a liberal arts degree - it can be anything (in my case, the human condition, and my thesis was the ethical considerations of artificial intelligence. So I blended my BS with my MLA...)

 

[rust]

So it really depends on the learning you are wanting, I would think.

This is my experience, too. The more "technical" the subject (e.g. Bookkee-
ping), the less homework, while "esoteric" subjects (real nightmare: Medieval
Philosophy - one is expected to read about one library per week) can require
an almost incredible amount of time.
On the other hand, there are subjects where homework is hardly required, of-
ten even impossible, for example Nursing.