Dean's Directive No. 13/2018 ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Title: Revision of Dean's Directive No.15/2017: Rules Governing the Recognit To implement: Art. 3 Par. 5 of the Code of Study and Examination of Charles Univers Date of effect: 1 August 2018 [amended by Dean's Directive No. 19/2020 [ URL "FHSENG-1113.html "] with effect as from 9 ****************************************************************************************** * Revision of Dean's Directive No.15/2017: Rules Governing the Recognition of Study Obliga during Study Stays Abroad ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Article 1: Subject Matter *========================================================================================= This Dean's Directive No. 13/2018 amends and supplements Dean's Directive No. 15/2017 date 2017. *========================================================================================= * Article 2: Specific Amendments and Supplements to Dean's Directive No. 15/2017 *========================================================================================= 1.In Art. 3 Par. 1 the text of the first sentence in Letter c) is amended by replacing "ba master's thesis" to "master's thesis" to read as follows: "If students plan to work on their master's theses during their Stay and their superviso fact to the Faculty’s International Office by the time the Study Plan is amended in line Par. 1 at the latest, the minimum number of credits may be reduced to 15." 2.In Art. 3 Par. 1 the text of Letter c) is amended by inserting a second sentence at the paragraph to read as follows: "Once students have returned from abroad, their supervisor must re-confirm the fact that question worked on his or her thesis during the Stay. If the supervisor fails to do so, to reduce the minimum required number of credits shall cease to exist." *========================================================================================= * Article 3: Final Provisions *========================================================================================= 1.This Directive enters into force on the day of its signature. 2.This Directive takes effect on 1 August 2018. In Prague, 23 July 2018 Ing. arch. Mgr. Marie Pětová, Ph.D. Dean *========================================================================================= * ************** FULL TEXT ************** *========================================================================================= *========================================================================================= * Dean's Measure No.15/2017 as amended by Dean's Measure No. 13/2018 *========================================================================================= Title: Rules Governing the Recognition of Study Obligations Fulfilled during Implementation: Art. 3 Par. 5 of the Code of Study and Examination of Charles Univers Effective as of: 21 December 2017 (Dean´s Measure No. 15/2017 as amended by Dean´s Measure No. 13/2018 *========================================================================================= * Full text of Dean's Measure No.15/2017 as amended by Dean's Measure No. 13/2018 *========================================================================================= *========================================================================================= * Rules Governing the Recognition of Study Obligations Fulfilled during Study Stays Abroad *========================================================================================= *========================================================================================= * Article 1: Introductory Provisions *========================================================================================= 1.In accordance with Art. 3 Par. 5 of the Code of Study and Examination of Charles Univers Rules for the Organization of Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, this measure that governs the rules for the recognition of study obligations fulfilled d stays abroad. 2.A study stay abroad (hereinafter "Stay") shall be understood to mean a stay at an instit (hereinafter "Foreign Institution") undertaken as part of students' study at the Faculty Charles University (hereinafter "Faculty") mediated by the Faculty's International Offic particularly stays undertaken under the Erasmus+ programme, interuniversity agreements, subsidised by the Faculty or Charles University). 3.Students remain enrolled at the Faculty throughout the Stay and are obligated to respect study regulations dictated by the Faculty and Charles University (hereinafter "Universit particular the regulations dictated by the Code of Study and Examination of Charles Univ Rules for the Organization of Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. 4.Students must also abide by the rules of the programme under which their Stay takes plac acquaint themselves with these rules. 5.Students must ensure that before they leave for abroad they will have fulfilled any mand related obligation that might otherwise lead to a decision to terminate their study at t Faculty reserves the right to grant scholarship to students under the condition they ful related obligations in line with the recommended study plan. *========================================================================================= * Article 2: Study Plan *========================================================================================= 1.Before their Stay begins, students must prepare their preliminary study plan at the fore (hereinafter "Study Plan"). The Study Plan must correspond to the degree programme the s enrolled in and meet the minimum requirements indicated in Art. 3. 2.For Erasmus+, the Study Plan is to be filled out in the corresponding University website For any other type of stay, the Study Plan is to be filled in using the form provided by International Office. 3.On the basis of a remit issued by the Faculty's Dean, the Study Plans are approved by: a.Vice Dean: for undergraduate degree programmes for bachelor's degree students, b.head of the corresponding department / research and teaching unit: for master's degree c.guarantor of the corresponding degree programme: for doctoral students. 4.For Erasmus+, the Faculty Erasmus+ coordinator is tasked with signature of Learning Agre include the corresponding Study Plan. 5.Upon request, students must provide course syllabuses and other materials including nece information on the instruction at the foreign institution to responsible persons indicat Par. 3. 6.Courses that are materially incompatible with students' degree programmes and courses de quality will not be approved. 7.Implementation of the approved Study Plan is binding. *========================================================================================= * Article 3: Study Plan: Minimum Requests *========================================================================================= 1.The minimum requirements for the number of credits acquired during students’ Stay are as a.Students must prepare their Study Plan so that the courses included in it make up for credits per semester. b.If students have obtained a sufficient number of credits during their study at the Fac they plan to continue to fulfil their study obligations at the Faculty during their St minimum number of credits to be obtained shall be reduced to 20. c.If students plan to work on their master's theses during their Stay and their supervis fact to the Faculty’s International Office by the time the Study Plan is amended in li Par. 1 at the latest, the minimum number of credits may be reduced to 15. Once student from abroad, their supervisor must re-confirm the fact that the student in question wo her thesis during the Stay. If the supervisor fails to do so, the entitlement to reduc required number of credits shall cease to exist. d.If the Stay spans over a period of one year, the minimum number of credits shall be ad semesters. e.Doctoral student Stays are governed by requirements designated by the Doctoral Board o corresponding degree programme. No minimum number of credits is designated. *========================================================================================= * Article 4: Equivalents *========================================================================================= 1.An equivalent shall be understood to mean an elective course—exceptionally also a mandat that is included in the Study Plan of the degree programme a particular student is enrol Faculty, whose content and scope are comparable to a course the student plans to take at institution (hereinafter "Foreign Institution Course"). If students complete such a Fore Course, the Faculty shall recognize it as an equivalent. 2.Students may select equivalents as follows: a.bachelor's degree students can select Equivalents only from among the list of elective b.master's degree students must select equivalents based on requirements designated by t department / research and teaching unit. c.Doctoral degree students do not select equivalents. Study-related obligations designat their individual Study Plan at the Faculty may usually not be recognized as equivalent Institution Courses. 3.A study-related obligation that has already been fulfilled may not be recognized as an e repeated completion of the course is permitted. 4.From the available list of Foreign Institution Courses, students shall preferably select have recognizable equivalents at the Faculty. To a single Foreign Institution Course, on several equivalents may be selected as long as the sum of credits awarded for such equiv exceed the number of credits awarded for the Foreign Institution Course in question. 5.If the content and the scope of a Foreign Institution Course do not fully correspond to selected, recognition of such an equivalent may be conditioned on students' partially co equivalent at the Faculty. Specific conditions are designated by the responsible person Art. 2 Par. 3. 6.For Erasmus+, equivalents are not matched with individual Foreign Institution Courses in but rather with a group of Foreign Institution Courses whose content is similar. 7.The sum of credits for all equivalents may not exceed the total number of credits for Fo Institution Courses. *========================================================================================= * Article 5: Changes in the Study Plan during the Stay *========================================================================================= 1.Students may change their original Study Plan within 30 days from the day on which they at a foreign institution. This means, they may remove courses they do not intent to comp add other courses to the Study Plan. Similarly, they may remove and add equivalents. 2.Having made changes, students shall send the corresponding form as indicated in Art. 2 P Faculty's International Office that will ensure signature by a responsible person as ind Par. 3. 3.Only changes that have been reported in time, in an appropriate manner, and those that h approved in line with Art. 5 Par. 1 and 2 shall be considered valid. Other changes shall invalid. *========================================================================================= * Article 6: Recognition of Study Results *========================================================================================= 1.After their Stay, students must submit a Transcript of Records to the Faculty's Internat They must do so within 10 days from the day the Foreign Institution issued such a docume of the academic year in which the Stay took place, at the latest. 2.In accordance with Art. 8 Par. 16 of the Code of Study and Examination of Charles Univer Faculty's International Office records the recognized study obligations using the Studen follows: a.Foreign Institution Course shall be recorded along with the 'KZ' or 'Z' examination ty the study result without credits. (The International Office converts study results to classification scale.) Credits for Foreign Institution Courses shall be indicated only equivalents are recorded for the student in question. b.Equivalents shall be recorded with the corresponding number of credits and the 'U' cod 'recognized') in place of study results. c.Should students obtain more credits than the number of credits recognizable for equiva their Stay, the remaining credits shall be recorded as a sum of optional course credit ECTS credits obtained for optional courses at educational institutions abroad). d.For doctoral degree students, foreign Institution Courses shall be recorded with no cr 'P' certification. 3.Only courses that have been duly approved in students' Study Plan, or on the study plan form whose completion may be supported by students' Transcript of Records from Foreign I be recorded. *========================================================================================= * Article 7: Failure to Fulfil the Study Plan *========================================================================================= 1.If students do not submit the documents indicated in Art. 6 Par. 1 1 within the deadline fulfil the minimum requirements in line with Art. 3, the Vice Dean for International Rel assess the overall benefits of the Stay and may recommend that the Faculty Dean impose a Whether the sanction will be imposed depends on the decision of the Faculty Dean. 2.If the fact indicated in Art. 7 Par. 1 occurred due to Force Major, i.e., due to an unex extraordinary situation or an event that students had no control of which occurred due t neglect on their part, students shall submit a written explanation to the Faculty's Inte based upon which the Vice Dean for International Relations may reconsider the recommenda sanction be imposed. 3.A sanction in accordance with Art. 7 Par. 1 shall be understood to mean a request to imm back the entire amount of scholarship, or a portion thereof, that had been allocated for *========================================================================================= * Article 8: Final Provisions *========================================================================================= 1.This measure enters into force on the day of its signature. 2.This measure takes effect on 1 January 2018. 3.As of the day of on which this measure takes effect, Dean's Measure No. 6/2015 shall be In Prague, 21 December 2017 Ing. arch. Mgr. Marie Pětová, Ph.D. Dean Dean's Measure No. 15/2017 as amended by Dean's Measure No. 13/2018 is effective as of 1 A