To attempt an apples-to-apples comparison of 12 credit hours with a year's experience, one might multiply 12 by 3 (hours in and out of class per week), then by 15 (weeks in a semester, more or less) for a total of 540 hours. While significantly shorter than the number of hours in a year of "experience," it's at least in the same ballpark. That's like devoting 10-12 hours a week (every week) for a year. Put that way, the comparison is probably not that unreasonable.
Yes, this definitely clears the matter, "not unreasonable" sounds much better than "totally absurd" D .
The only issue (if any) remaining is that - at least from the "level" shown by some posters here that revealed being on their last year or just graduated, the education they get at Uni could be better, but this is an alltogether different thing.
Thanks for clarifying the matters.
jaclaz