Credit System and Students' Workload

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All students must take at least is 40 credits equal to 60 ECTS within four semesters or two years. Detailed information about total credits and study period is available in Academic Regulations published by the Graduate School UNY.

The courses in the curriculum are structured under three categories. First, the scientific foundation courses are offered to all students at the graduate levels. The expertise courses are those back-boning the study program. Finally, three elective concentration courses are offered to the students depending on their interests, namely: language teaching, literature education, and translation.

  1. Scientific foundational courses (7 credits or 10.5 ECTS) offered and organized by the Graduate School UNY.
  2. Compulsory expertise courses (23 credits or 34.5 ECTS) are set and organized by the respective Master’s program. These are the key courses in the program to provide students with the basic competencies required to cope with the demands of occupational profiles.
  3. Elective courses (10 credits or 15 ECTS out of 30 credits or 45 ECTS) are offered to facilitate student’s interest and grouped into three concentrations: foreign language education, literary education, and translation.

Rector Decree No. 1/2019 about UNY Academic Regulations set the students’ workload as follows:

  1. The courses in graduate programs are conducted in the form of lectures and research.
  2. Students must attend at least 75% of total meetings for every course.
  3. One credit (the so-called SKS) consists of:
  1. 50 minutes for face-to-face or online meetings
  2. 60 minutes for individual or group assignments.
  3. 60 minutes for self-study.
  4. Graduate Thesis (6 credits) includes the whole research activities from research proposal to report writing. Referring to the Academic Regulation, 1 credit for the thesis is equivalent to 170 hours/week so the total workload for Graduate Thesis is 1.020 minutes or 17 hours per week.
  5. Graduate students must finish their study at most eight semesters (4 years).
  6. They are allowed to write a thesis after completing 34 credits of theoretical courses with a minimum GPA of 3.00 without grade C or lower