UCC Academic Policy on Credit Weightings for Courses

UCC Academic Policy on Credit Weightings for Courses

At UCC, undergraduate-taught courses may be assigned 0, 1, 2 or 3 credit(s). Credits are assigned to courses on the basis of contact hours (theory and laboratory/ practical/ field work) as follows:

1. A zero-credit course is a course which does not attract any credit

2. A one-credit course is a course which has either one contact hour theory class per week for one semester, or two or three contact hours laboratory/ practical/ field work per week for one semester

3. A two-credit course is a course which has either two contact hour theory classes per week for one semester, or one hour of theory and two or three hours of laboratory/ practical/ field work per week for one semester

4. A three-credit course (a full course) is a course which has either three contact hour theory classes per week for one semester, or two contact hour theory classes and two or three hours of laboratory/ practical/ field work per week for one semester.

Credit Weightings for Experiential Training

1. A full semester’s experiential training programme together with project work should earn a maximum of 15 credits (i.e, 12 credits for experiential training and three (3) credits for project work)

2. A six-week supervised industrial attachment which culminates in the writing and submission of a report should be assigned a maximum of three (3) credits

3. A four-week supervised experiential training culminating in the writing and submission of a report should attract a maximum weighting of three (3) credits

4. A minimum two-week supervised field trip undertaken by students with the submission of a report should be assigned a maximum weighting of one (1) credit

5. All student project reports/dissertations (undergraduate) should attract a maximum weighting of three (3) credits irrespective of duration of the project.

Credit: UCC