Types of Educational and Study Activities

Types of educational and study activities are expressed on each course form and the curriculum chart devised for each degree and non-degree programme you will find in the following pages. The explanations below follow the order of the columns, designated by the letters of the alphabet, which you will find in each curriculum chart and course list in this catalogue.

Column A: The credit system locally used at İYTE is one based on contact hours. Along with the ECTS system, the student will find the İYTE credit system expressed in course catalogues and electronic information systems. For example, the credit value of a course will be stated as: (2 + 0) 2. The first digit in the parentheses will indicate the hours the student of the course spends attending lectures or seminars in which theoretical subject matter is transmitted in lecture or seminar form. The second digit in the parentheses will indicate the number of formal hours the student spends in practicing and applying theoretical subject matter under guidance. The digit outside the parentheses will indicate the credit value of the course.

Column B: The number in this column expresses the ECTS credit value of a course.

Column C: The type of educational activity expressed here indicates the transmission and assimilation of theoretical subject matter. This column contains hours per week spent in formal lectures or seminars that are institutionally and collectively organised in the form of contact teaching under the supervision of qualified academic teaching staff.

Column D: The type of educational activity expressed here indicates the practicing and guided applying of theoretical subject matter. This column contains hours per week spent in formal, institutionally and collectively organised seminars, practice sessions, exercises, team- or individual tasks performed under the supervision of qualified academic teaching staff.

Column E: The number in this column expresses in hours per week the study time needed by the average student to succeed in the educational and study activities required by the course.

Column F: The number in this column expresses the total of columns C, D and E and indicates the total hours a student spends per semester (ca. 4 months) in order to succeed in the course.