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At the Faculty of Law, all courses are awarded with credits using the ECTS system.
What the ECTS means.
The abbreviation ECTS is short for the European Credit Transfer System. The ECTS is basically the system of awarding credits for courses according to the criterion of students' workload per each course during one semester in compliance with common principles. In this way, comparison with individual courses among different institutions of higher education is possible. The ECTS also facilitates the access to information about different systems of study, programs of courses, as well as other requirements and conditions of study, necessary for getting an insight into them and making comparisons.
The abbreviation ECTS is short for the European Credit Transfer System. The ECTS is basically the system of awarding credits for courses according to the criterion of students' workload per each course during one semester in compliance with common principles. In this way, comparison with individual courses among different institutions of higher education is possible. The ECTS also facilitates the access to information about different systems of study, programs of courses, as well as other requirements and conditions of study, necessary for getting an insight into them and making comparisons.
The purpose of the ECTS.
The ECTS has originally been introduced to enable and facilitate the transfer of students from one faculty or university to another, including transfers to foreign universities. The ECTS enables the students to participate in the regular program of another study (faculty) for one or two semesters, the requirements satisfied at the other faculty being recognized by their home faculty. Such transfers are neither ad hoc nor improvised, but presume certain institutional structure and evaluation of the suitability of transfer by the ECTS commissioners at both home and guest institutions. The student interested in studying for one or two semesters at another faculty or university applies at the intended university or faculty. The ECTS commissioner at the institution at which the students applies examines his or her application and the program of study at his or her home faculty and, having evaluated whether the student's level of knowledge is adequate for the continuation of study at the intended faculty, decides on the acceptance or rejection of the student's application. Furthermore, the ECTS commissioner at the institution from which the student applies evaluates whether the intended institution is credible enough in order that the examinations passed at that institution can be recognized at the home institution and decides on the acceptability of the student's transfer. The student's transfer is agreed upon between the two ECTS commissioners and the student in the form of an individual study contract signed by all the three parties. This contract ensures that the examinations passed at the student's home faculty will be recognized by the "guest" faculty and vice versa, that the examinations passed at the "guest" faculty will be recognized by the student's home faculty upon his or her return.
The ECTS has originally been introduced to enable and facilitate the transfer of students from one faculty or university to another, including transfers to foreign universities. The ECTS enables the students to participate in the regular program of another study (faculty) for one or two semesters, the requirements satisfied at the other faculty being recognized by their home faculty. Such transfers are neither ad hoc nor improvised, but presume certain institutional structure and evaluation of the suitability of transfer by the ECTS commissioners at both home and guest institutions. The student interested in studying for one or two semesters at another faculty or university applies at the intended university or faculty. The ECTS commissioner at the institution at which the students applies examines his or her application and the program of study at his or her home faculty and, having evaluated whether the student's level of knowledge is adequate for the continuation of study at the intended faculty, decides on the acceptance or rejection of the student's application. Furthermore, the ECTS commissioner at the institution from which the student applies evaluates whether the intended institution is credible enough in order that the examinations passed at that institution can be recognized at the home institution and decides on the acceptability of the student's transfer. The student's transfer is agreed upon between the two ECTS commissioners and the student in the form of an individual study contract signed by all the three parties. This contract ensures that the examinations passed at the student's home faculty will be recognized by the "guest" faculty and vice versa, that the examinations passed at the "guest" faculty will be recognized by the student's home faculty upon his or her return.
The credit system according to the ECTS.
The "credit system" consists of adding a certain coefficient to each course of study according to the criterion of students' workload per each course during one semester. The ECTS does not mean the evaluation of the importance of individual programs (courses), but the evaluation of the requirements regarding the workload of each program (course) during one semester of the academic year. Each semester has 30 credits that are distributed to all courses; in other words, credits are not assigned to each course and then added to each other, but the total of 30 credits is distributed to all courses without the remainder. Since each semester has a different structure of courses and students' workload, it is possible to compare only courses within the same semester, but not courses in different semesters. The academic year consists of two semesters, which means twice 30 credits, 60 credits in total. Credits are expressed by full numbers or by halves and not by quarters or smaller fractional numbers. Credits are assigned to all courses – compulsory and optional (elective), as well as to diploma essays. They can also be given for students' activities that are considered to be within the scope of their study (e.g. participation in research projects, teaching assistance, some other exceptionally successful forms of studying, etc.). Students earn credits upon passing the examination or after some other kind of verification of their activity according to the required program. The requirements for entering the following academic year or semester are determined by the number of credits. In order to fully satisfy the requirements for each semester, the student has to earn 30 credits. In case of earning "excess" credits by, for instance, attending more optional (elective) subjects than required, such credits can be recorded in the descriptive Diploma Supplement, but they are not included in the required total of 30 credits. The ECTS has been introduced into the program of study at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb since the academic year 2002/3.
The "credit system" consists of adding a certain coefficient to each course of study according to the criterion of students' workload per each course during one semester. The ECTS does not mean the evaluation of the importance of individual programs (courses), but the evaluation of the requirements regarding the workload of each program (course) during one semester of the academic year. Each semester has 30 credits that are distributed to all courses; in other words, credits are not assigned to each course and then added to each other, but the total of 30 credits is distributed to all courses without the remainder. Since each semester has a different structure of courses and students' workload, it is possible to compare only courses within the same semester, but not courses in different semesters. The academic year consists of two semesters, which means twice 30 credits, 60 credits in total. Credits are expressed by full numbers or by halves and not by quarters or smaller fractional numbers. Credits are assigned to all courses – compulsory and optional (elective), as well as to diploma essays. They can also be given for students' activities that are considered to be within the scope of their study (e.g. participation in research projects, teaching assistance, some other exceptionally successful forms of studying, etc.). Students earn credits upon passing the examination or after some other kind of verification of their activity according to the required program. The requirements for entering the following academic year or semester are determined by the number of credits. In order to fully satisfy the requirements for each semester, the student has to earn 30 credits. In case of earning "excess" credits by, for instance, attending more optional (elective) subjects than required, such credits can be recorded in the descriptive Diploma Supplement, but they are not included in the required total of 30 credits. The ECTS has been introduced into the program of study at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb since the academic year 2002/3.
