Glossary
Independent study: the part you drive
Out of 25 hours of work per credit, 15 are independent study. Reading, exercises, production: this is the time you place in your week, and it is announced up front. The matching weekly load is published on every programme page.
The part you carry alone
Independent study covers the hours you drive outside sessions: reading the material, redoing the exercise, moving the project forward, preparing the question you want to ask. The catalogue allocates 15 hours per credit and states, on every page, the matching weekly load. That figure is what decides whether a programme fits alongside your job.
- 15 hours of independent study per credit
- The real weekly load is displayed on every programme page
- Independent study means actual work, not connection time
Weekly load, programme by programme
The Business Intelligence and Steering programme states its weekly load in hours of actual work. You place those hours where you can: early morning, evening, Saturday. Taught sessions, by contrast, land in the calendar. That clean separation is what makes the programme workable while holding a job.
| Programme | Hours per week | Stated pace |
|---|---|---|
| Business Intelligence and Steering | 20 h | 2 years |
| Community Management | 8 h | 2 months |
| Computer Science programme — Bac+3 level | 20 h | 3 years |
| Certificate in Leading Distributed Teams | 12 h | 4 months |
Two paces, two loads
2 catalogue programmes put “Independent study” to work: 124 credits and 1240 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.
| Programme | Level | Duration | Volume | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Intelligence and Steering | Bachelor's degree | 2 years | 120 credits · 1200 taught hours | 5 000 000 GNF per year |
| Community Management | Short course | 2 months | 4 credits · 40 taught hours | 1 000 000 GNF in total |
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