The phrase "a course load" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the number of courses or credits a student is taking in a given academic term.
Example: "This semester, I have a heavy course load, with five classes and a lab."
Alternatives: "academic workload" or "class schedule".
While the average faculty member makes anywhere between $60,000 to $198,000 a year (frequently for a course load of two or three courses per semester) most adjuncts are paid somewhere between $2,500 to $4,000 per course.
The students weren't required to take a course load that was big enough to let them graduate in four years.
Cramer, a psychology major, balances football and his job with a course load that includes classes like child pyschopathology.
A sophomore at Stanford, she earned A's and B's, she said, while carrying a course load that included a "killer" engineering class and a Korean drama class.
For Jackson, a lanky young man with handsome braids and an engaging smile, the routine of applying for scholarship aid and loans, in bits and pieces, will be a course load of its own.
With a course load that includes honors courses in Spanish, math and chemistry as well as English, global studies, health, sculpture, band and chorus, it is not surprising that her only free period is at the end of the day.
The anomaly is ski cross, a chaotic mad dash to the finish down a course loaded with jumps and bumps.
Bob Sweeney, president of a counselors' association in the Hudson Valley, said that many guidance departments are now advising students to strike a balance between a rigorous course load and a healthy lifestyle.
Members of the faculty and staff suddenly have extra roles: in addition to teaching a full course load, a chemistry professor might also have to supervise and mentor student workers.
Their visits are generally no longer than four or five hours because Lola, a senior, has a full course load and also works 40 hours a week at two low-wage jobs.
The award means a lighter course load this year, a salary increase and financial support for a new production, this one involving Purchase students.
