International Student Guide - Det Juridiske Fakultet

Study Load and ECTS-credits
A full-time study load at the Faculty of Law corresponds to three (3) courses per term and
totally six (6) courses during an academic year, which is also the maximum number of
courses allowed to take.
All courses have the duration of one term and consist of 34 contact hours. Each course is
valued with 10 ECTS-credits (European Community Course Credit Transfer System: 10
credits). For more information about ECTS, please look at the paragraph concerning
ECTS.
For one term 30 ECTS-credits are required for a full-time study load and 60 ECTScredits
per academic year.
The students are required to prepare a considerable amount of reading before each class.
Synopsis
An oral examination in a Master Level course may be conducted on the basis of a
synopsis.
The purpose of an examination based on a synopsis is to give the students the possibility
of elaborating upon a specific course within a larger course matter of the course. When
the examination is based on a synopsis, it is expected that the lecturer will provide the
class with a collection of source material, expectations as to the content and form of the
synopsis, and the oral examination itself.
The synopsis may be prepared individually or in groups. At the oral examination each
student will be questioned individually.
The synopsis must be a summarise of the selected course prepared by the individual
student or the groups. Contributions or quotations taken from works of others; i.e. books,
articles or the like must be stated clearly in foot notes or by way of mentioning the
sources in the synopsis. Lack of source references when using works of others may
dismiss the student from the examination, as it will be considered as cheating.
The examination must be initiated on the basis of the synopsis. The synopsis should
influence the type and level of difficulty of the oral questions asked during the initial part
of the examination, but not necessarily the evaluation of the student’s performance. The
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