Course Selection Terms
Course Selection Terms
Course Selection Terms
A course is a credit-rated which indicates a distinguishing block of learning. For a 3-credit course, students shall spend 45 contact hours per a fifteen-week semester in class and are expected to allocate 90 hours outside class for independent study. Both contact hours and hours for independent study for the course are around 135 hours.
Pre-requisite courses must be passed before a student can be registered on a subsequent course study path. Students who are waiting to re-sit are eligible to register for the following courses.
Co-requisite courses mean that a student is required to take another course simultaneously with enrollment in the course (s). Students knowing the information presented in the co-requisite is necessary for meeting the success criteria in the courses.
Other Terms Relevant to Course Resources
Classroom: an essential interactive stream of daily or weekly uploaded course material and assignment guidelines and deadlines to supplement your study management and progress. It is also a platform for uploading an electronic copy for your work for feedback and final submission. The Course instructor shall provide you with a Pin Number to become a member of the Classroom set for the course. With your University email account, you can subscribe to classroom application at the following address: https://classroom.google.com.
Course Catalogue: a listing of the courses with their codes and type category as well as a number of credit value that the university has approved to be run and delivered by the faculties and their departments. You may find that the Course Catalogue includes Course Description.
Course Description: a brief explanation of the aims, content, contours and expectation of the course and their role in meeting the major requirements. Typically, the description.
Course Guides: An indispensable resource that provides you with a breakdown of the semester, indicating the expected delivered week by week lecture and seminar topics, coursework requirements, as well as the suggested primary and secondary reading lists. Typically, the Course Guides also provide a list of all study materials in light of the context of the course in question. The course instructor () distributes the Course Guide in the first week of teaching. The Guide should provide a final statement on the course content and structure as well as how the course is assessed in any given year. If there is a discrepancy in between it and any other source, the statement of terms in the course guide must be accounted as the final source.
General Requirement Courses
Regardless of the Major selected in the Faculty of MCFA, you are expected to join other students from other faculties in lecture rooms and labs sessions for those courses that are classified as General Education Requirements (GER). The total credits for this type of courses are 30 (21 + 9 credits).You should be reminded that the Liberal Art Electives (GEE) are part of the GER, however they are distinguished by the fact that you have a choice of selecting any of three courses, bearing nine credits, from any of the courses that may be on offer in a particular semester by any of the three university faculties.
You should be reminded that the Liberal Art Electives (GEE) are part of the GER, however they are distinguished by the fact that you have a choice of selecting any of three courses, bearing nine credits, from any of the courses that may be on offer in a particular semester by any of the three university faculties.
For the GER, the Faculty of Business Administration delivers the MIT 200, and MAT210, whilst the Faculty of Religions and Humanities delivers ARB201, ARB202, and CST200. However, you have wider options of courses for GEE to select from. You need to contact your Advisor for further assistance and information about the best choice available for a particular semester.