What you need to know about course activities

This page is intended to answer many of the practical questions you may have about the course activities. Use the table of contents to quickly navigate the page.

 

This page does not replace the curricula, which still constitute the regulative basis for the individual study programmes.

 

1. How do I find out which courses to attend?

2. How do I register for the courses I need to attend?

3. What if I regret my registration?

4. How will I be informed if I do not get a place on a course?

5. What is CampusNet – and how to access it?

6. Where can I find practical information about a course?

7. How are the courses evaluated?

 

 

1. How do I find out which courses to attend?

All curricula contain a number of compulsory courses. Check your curriculum to see which courses are compulsory for you.

 

In addition to the compulsory courses, nearly all curricula require that you participate in a certain number of elective study activities. If you choose to meet this requirement by attending courses at the Faculty of Life Sciences, you must choose between the courses that are offered in the academic year concerned. In the BSc programme you can choose between BSc courses and joint courses, and in the MSc programme you can choose between joint courses and MSc courses. The course description specifies whether a course is at BSc, joint or MSc level.

 

It is your own responsibility to ensure that you comply with the terms in the curriculum when you choose a course or apply for exemption at the relevant study board. Do not expect everything to be okay even if your course registration is granted status as “approved” at sb.kvl.dk, as the matter will not yet have been considered so early on in the process.

 

You can base your choice of courses on the course description, which contains information about the competence areas, purpose and contents of the course as well as practical information about the location of block and week modules and exam method. You can use this information to put together your own academic profile. The Student Counselling Office can also help you prepare an education plan, and they advise on the many alternative ways to meet the requirement for elective study activities.

 

 

2. How do I register for the courses I need to attend?

Courses must be registered on a block-by-block basis. The deadline for registration is three weeks into the preceding block, however, the deadline for block 1 is 31 July. View the exact deadlines at student homepage to see the exact deadlines. If a course runs for more than one block, you should only register for the first block.

 

In the first year of the BSc programme you will automatically be registered for the compulsory courses. If you want to attend courses other than the compulsory ones due to credit transfer etc., you must register for them yourself ( view deadlines).

 

Registration also takes place automatically for the differentiated part of the veterinary study programme. If you want to change the order of the courses relative to the regular study plan, you must apply to the veterinary exercise planner using this paper form.

 

You can generally attend courses giving a total of 15 credits per block.

 

Once courses with a limited number of participants and any course cancellations have been dealt with (see section 3), change of registration will be possible – typically two weeks before teaching starts. The deadline for change of registration is one week into the block in question.

 

 

3. What if I regret my registration?

You can cancel one course registration and register for another, but you should do so as soon as possible in deference to the departments’ planning schedule. Cancellation must take place at sb.kvl.dk no later than one week into the course’s first block.

 

 

4. How will I be informed if I do not get a place in a course?

A course may be cancelled if less than 10 students register for it. If this happens, the Study and Students' Affairs will notify you as soon as possible by sending an email to your dsr address.

 

Some courses are only open to a limited number of participants. If the number of students registering for the course exceeds the available number of places, the Study and Students' Affairs will prioritise among the students who have registered on time. Prioritisation takes place according to a number of objective criteria which are described in section 4.2 of the curriculum. If you do not get a place on the course, the Study and Students' Affairs will notify you by sending an email to your dsr address. Any later registrations for courses with a limited number of participants will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

 

5. What is Absalon – and how to access it?

Absalon is a communication tool used for communication between teaching staff and students. It is usually the place to find up-to-date information about courses. It is also where you can find additional course materials and information about current meeting times and places, and courses are also evaluated on Absalon.

 

You will get access to the course in Absalon, when your registration has passed the automatic rule check and you have been assigned to a class. Study and Students' Affairs will handle the class assignment for all registrations that are made within deadline. If you register within the Late registration deadline you will register for the class along with the course registration on KUnet > Self Service > Enrolment, Courses and Exam. Most courses will consist of only one class.

 

At the end of the course, it will no longer be visible on your course list in Absalon. After this point, you can find the course under the menu Archive. 

 

6. Where can I find practical information about a course?

Information about the location of a course in the blocks and in the week structure can be found in the course description. Information about lecture rooms can be found at the student homepage. If the department’s own facilities are used entirely or partly for the course, it will be published on Absalon where you can also find other information.

 

 

7. How are the courses evaluated?

All courses are evaluated by students in the electronic course evaluation system on Absalon. The evaluations are an important tool to assessing and improving the teaching at the Faculty of Life Sciences, and we therefore urge you to participate actively in the evaluation of all your courses. 

 

Final evaluations take place via Absalon in the last half of the seventh and all of the eighth week of the block in which the course is completed. Evaluations take place electronically, and it takes about 5 minutes to complete the evaluation forms for a course. The evaluations contain questions about the form and contents of the course, an assessment of the performance of teaching staff and suggestions for improvements, among other things.

 

The course evaluations are subsequently reviewed by the students and teaching staff who serve on the department’s teaching committee. The teaching committee then provides feedback to the teaching staff and/or the course responsible, for example in the form of advice and guidance on how to improve teaching methods or further develop the written material being handed out to students. Some of the problems that may occur in connection with a course are also dealt with by the relevant study board.