Bachelor EER (OER) 2013-2014 DRAFT - School of Business and ...

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- Programme (or Study programme): the bachelor’s programme referred to in
Chapter 2, Article 5.2 of these regulations and referred to in Article 7.3 of the
Act/WHW.
- Propaedeutic phase (or first year bachelor’s exam): the initial period for the
bachelor’s programme with a study load of 60.0 credits, coinciding with the
bachelor’s programme year 1, the first year bachelor’s exam. The student does
not have to sit an exam at the end of the propaedeutic phase and will not receive
a Bachelor Diploma.
- SBE: abbreviation for ’’School of Business and Economics’’ of Maastricht
University, before September 2009 referred to as the Faculty of Economics and
Business Administration (FEBA).
- SBE Board: the faculty board of the SBE referred to in Article 9.12 of the
Act/WHW.
- Semester: a temporal unit of the academic year, starting 1 September and
ending 31 January, or starting the 1st of February and ending 31 August and each
comprising of two (2) course periods and one (1) skills training (period).
- Skills training: an educational unit referred to in Article 7.13 sub section 2 d of
the Act/WHW, carried out in one of the following ways:
- writing a thesis;
- writing a paper, creating a technological design or performing another written
assignment;
- performing a research assignment;
- participating in field work or a field trip;
- completing an internship;
- participating in an activity intended to develop certain skills;
- other.
- Skills training period: a temporal unit as defined in the academic calendar,
equal to the duration of the educational activities and subsequent examination of
a skills training period.
- Specialisation: a combination of courses that students choose during their
Bachelor’s programme and that lets them specialise within a subdomain of their
programme.
- Student: a person who is registered in a university degree programme for
education and/or examinations or assessments and the exam of the study
programme.
- Study Abroad/Exchange: an arrangement by which students temporarily study
in another country.
- Study material: literature, hardware, software and other sources of information
made available to the student for educational purposes.