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Part I:

1. ECTS system - introduction

In 2006/2007 Lodź Academy of International Studies introduces the European Credit Transfer System /ECTS/ in the Department of International Relations.The objective of the system is to calculate the amount of students work, meaning the time reąuired to achieve all the marks in all obligatory and optional subjects and, at the same time to achieve graduation from the university.Various forms of teaching are taken into account. They are: lectures, workshops, conversation classes, seminars, assignments and student placement. ECTS includes the activity of all students during the classes, their homeworks, their work in the university library, creative placement and apprenticeship. In consideration of developed cooperation with foreign countries ECTS is to enable the students to travel abroad and visit various universities in Poland. During bachelor degree studies whoch last three years, the students are obliged to collect 180 points. Master-degree studies lasting five years reąuire the total number of 300 points. Two-stage study system 3+2 introduced in WSSM necessitates adeąuately 180+120 ECTS points for graduation. In order to graduate from extramural bachelor degree studies student needs 120 points. In case of master-degree studies the number of points adds up to 200 (120 + 80) ECTS credits. The amount of work done by extramural students eąuals to two thirds of time of work reąuired from daily students. ¹ The other teaching matters may be presented in the following order:

•    ECTS for the Department of International Relations was introduced in part II.

•    The courses end with an exam or a graded assignment.

•    The students discuss their syllabus at a partner university on the basis of Leaming Agreement, which specifies the subjects and the time of students’ stay at the partner university.

•    To credit the exchange students or the transnational exchange ones with a course - one expects the number of 30/60 points. In case of a smaller number of points or significant programme differences, the students have to make up for the courses at their own universities to achieve the reąuired number of points. The students will get an assignment if they deliver the Transcript of Records.

•    Morę detailed information can be found in the Regulations of Socrates/Erasmus on WSSM internet page:

http://www.wssm.edu.pl/img/fields/File/regulamin.doc

•    The students are not charged for anything by the host university.

•    The students are reąuired to pay tuition fees at their home university (see University Regulations)

•    During the stay at a partner university students may benefit from social or scientific grants.

•    The period of student’s residence at the partner university lasts from three months to one academic year.

ECTS defines the principles of studying in Poland and abroad by means of precise reąuirements of assignments and offers the possibility of comparing the curricula

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   T. Saiyusz Wolski, System Akumulacji punktów ECTS jako metoda zarządzania elastycznym modelem

studiów. Warszawa 2004.