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Report Abuse. Well a semester is half a year for starts. Semester hours is the amount of credit hours a student takes in a semester, usually for a college or university to count towards a degree. So in other words, 8 Semester hours is 8 credits in half a year.
Best Answer: On a semester time frame Fall is August to December give or take a week or so.(different schools start on different days) The next is the Spring which is january to the end of May or beginning of June. Summer starts mid- to end-of June most of the time.(two to three weeks after the last day of Spring term) If you mean quarter time frame then you will have about ten weeks a week or two off then ten more weeks. All that is like one semester. i.e.: 4 quarters = 1 year and 2 semesters = 1 year.