Semmelweis University Organizational and Operational Regulations
– Part III. Student Standards –
Chapter III.2. Study and Examination Regulations
4. Basic Concepts of the Credit System
Article 6 [Course Syllabus]
(1) The course syllabus is prepared and/or modified by the course coordinator using policies based on Student Evaluation of Teaching (OMHV) surveys, and by taking the opinion of the Students’ Union into account. The course syllabus should be published at the beginning of the academic year in the study regulations, in the given Faculty’s usual procedure, to be accessible to all students in the faculty; furthermore, it shall be published electronically as well. The educational-research unit in question should publish the information included in the study regulations regarding all subjects taught at the given unit on their website or otherwise that is usual at the given unit; furthermore, the information shall be published in the NEPTUN at the basic data of the subject. The contents of the study regulations cannot be changed or deviated from during the given academic period. The Faculty Council has the power to draft and modify a course syllabus, at the initiation of the head of the specific educational-research unit and after approval by the Dean.
(2) The course syllabus includes:
- the code of the subject, its full and any abbreviated name, its name in English and in German,
- the number of lessons per week (per semester) (divived into lecture + seminar + lab practice + clinical practice),
- the frequency with which the subject is announced,
- a list of programs in which the subject is compulsory or optional, and the number of semesters for the subject, recommended by the curriculum of the given program,
- the type of assessments (signature, term grade or examination grade),
- the credit value of the subject,
- the name of the educational-research unit responsible for the subject, the name of the lecturer or instructor, as well as the prerequisites for registration to the subject,
- the purpose and the task of acquiring the professional content of the subject in order to achieve the aim of the training,
- the description of the content of the subject and its syllabus in such a way that it enables decision-making on credit transfer at another institution, including the knowledge, the (partial) skills and (partial) competences and attitudes to be acquired, reflecting the program and outcome requirements of the training.
- the grading method; the conditions for getting the signature; the number, topic(s) and date(s) of the end-of-term assessments (reports, term tests), and the process in which they contribute to the final grade; and the possibility of their retake or their upgrading retake,
- if applicable, the type of examination and its requirements (list of topics, test pool, expected obligatory parameters, figures, concepts, list of calculations, practical skills),
- the requirements regarding the participation at the lessons and the possibility of compensating for absences; the accepted means of justification in the event of absence,
- written material, recommended literature, relevant technological and other material, study aids,
- the number and type(s) of the student’s assignments to be completed by individual work, and the deadline of their submission,
- a list of the essential notes, textbooks, manuals and literature that may be used to acquire the syllabus; with exact description about which of them is required to acquire which part of the syllabus (e.g. description based on topics),
- in case of a multi-semester subject, the standpoint of the educational-research unit on the concurrent subject registration and on the requirements of permission thereof,
- the possibility and requirements of an offered grade.