Types of Courses

 

The Department of Philosophy offers a variety of different courses.

Differentiation of course types is based on the assessment criteria. The two basic types are:

  1. Courses with non-continuous assessment, and
  2. Courses with continuous assessment

 

Although recommended, 1) courses with non-continuous assessment (German: “nicht prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltungen”, abbreviated “n-pi LVen”. also: "n-pi courses") commonly don’t require attendance and feature one examination about the entire course content. These courses are – if not explicitly stated otherwise – usually not limited regarding the number of attending students.
An example of this course type is the lecture (German: “Vorlesung”, abbreviated “VO”).
Students need to sign up for n-pi courses via u:find to gain access to the Moodle e-learning platform of the corresponding n-pi course. The examination requires an extra registration via u:find/u:space.

2) Courses with continuous assessment (German: “prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltungen”, abbreviated “pi LVen” or "pi courses") feature compulsory attendance and a partial performance mode, i.e. partial assessments amounting to a final grade. Grading is based on at least two assessments (e.g. an examination and a presentation, or a presentation and a report or paper, etc.). Generally, these courses require registration via u:space, and the number of participants is limited (e.g. to 25 students).
The seminar (German: “Seminar”, abbreviated “SE”) is among the most common courses of this type.

 

Information on legal matters and study law in regard to examinations can be found in the University Statutes (currently available in German only).

 

 

 Course type "n-pi"

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STEOP
EV-L
VO
VO-L
GV
VO-GKL

 Course type "pi"

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VU
PS
LPS
SE
KU
IK
UE
UE-GKL
FS
SE-MA