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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.
...the summer term. 2. 'semester'. At a British college or university, each year is also divided into three terms. At an American college or university, it is divided into two semesters, three trimesters, or four quarters.The first semester starts in three weeks.emester-one of two divisions of an academic year. academic year, school year-the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying. academic session, academic term, school term, session-the time during which a school holds classes; they had to shorten the school term.