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Glossary

Semester: how the calendar is cut

A semester is half a teaching year, closed by its assessments. It gives a programme its rhythm: units that start together, are worked together and are validated together. Each period carries its share of credits, keeping progress readable at any moment.

Half a year, closed by its assessments

A semester gathers the course units of one period and closes with their assessments. A 3-year programme has six; a two-year programme, four. Each semester carries its share of credits, so you always know where you stand against the total and what remains to be validated.

  • Six semesters on a 3-year programme, four on a two-year one
  • Each semester carries its share of credits and its assessments
  • Cross-cutting units run over several semesters and say so

The calendar of a long programme

On the Computer Science programme, the teaching year appears on every unit. Units marked with a range — the cross-cutting foundations, the project — span several semesters, because that is genuinely how they are worked. The cohort calendar sets the opening and closing dates of each period.

  1. 01

    1 — Opening

    The semester's units open together, each with its syllabus, its hours and its session calendar.

  2. 02

    2 — Production

    Submissions are staggered, each marked and commented before the next: progress shows from one to the next.

  3. 03

    3 — Assessment

    The period closes with its assessments. The semester's credits are earned on validation and stay earned.

  4. 04

    4 — Review

    An individual review situates your progress in credits and sets the priorities for the next semester.

Programmes paced by semester

2 catalogue programmes put “Semester” to work: 300 credits and 3000 taught hours in total. The official rule holds throughout — one credit stands for 25 hours of work, 10 of them taught. Every line below is recomputed from the programme page: level, duration, credits, taught volume and fees in Guinean francs appear exactly as filed in the official catalogue.

ProgrammeLevelDurationVolumeFees
Computer Science programme — Bac+3 levelBachelor's degree3 years180 credits · 1800 taught hours5 400 000 GNF per year
Finance and Accounting programme — Bac+5 levelMaster's degree2 years120 credits · 1200 taught hours6 800 000 GNF per year
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