Here in Europe a typical course could be 5 CP, equalling 150h of work. One semester should average you 30 CP or 900h of work.
In CS, we regularly had courses worth 300h in a semester, fe. analysis, system architecture or software engineering.
In CS, we regularly had courses worth 300h in a semester, fe. analysis, system architecture or software engineering.
In practice, students start to complain once a course tries to enforce their full "hour contingent".
Related: one of the faculties here recently announced the introduction of a threshold grade. If you were bad at school, you are not taken into consideration, even if there are available places.