Fillable ihss recipient designation provider form. STATE OF CALIFORNIA - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES IN-HOME SUPPORTIVE SERVICES IHSS PROGRAM RECIPIENT DESIGNATION OF PROVIDER INSTRUCTIONS Use black or blue ink.
The conversion from credits (that is, semester hours) to units was made assuming that 1 unit = 3.5 credits/semester hours. This means: 1  1-credit/semester hour courses will be equal to .29 units.  2-credit/semester hour courses will be equal to .57 units.
A semester (one-half of a full year) earns 1/2 a Carnegie Unit. The Student Hour is approximately 12 hours of class or contact time, approximately 1/10 of the Carnegie Unit (as explained below).As it is used today, a Student Hour is the equivalent of one hour (50 minutes) of lecture time for a single student per week over the course of a semester, usually 14 to 16 weeks.er its original definition, the Carnegie Unit is 120 hours of class or contact time with an instructor over the course of a year at the secondary (American high school) level. Strictly speaking, this breaks down into a single one-hour meeting, on each of five days per week for a total of 24 weeks per year.