Guide for the calculation of credits
Credit calculation is based on the following:
One day (0900–1600) = 6 teaching hours. One-day courses are granted 2 sp (credits) with documentation, 0 sp (credits) without documentation. Documentation submitted includes work with the required reading for the course – see the table below. Two-day courses = 1 sp (credit). All documentation will be granted 2 sp (credits). This means that a two-day course with documentation is granted 3 sp (credits). If a maximum number of pages of literature is required, the documentation requirement may be reduced (and vice versa). Based on this, the following may serve as a guiding model:
| Days of teaching | All dokumentation | Courses with dokumentation | Courses without dokumentation |
Approximate scope of required reading |
Total number of weeks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One day course | 2 sp | 2 sp | 0 sp | 200 pages | 1.5 - 2 weeks |
| 2 days = 1 studiepoeng (sp) | 2 sp | 3 sp | 1 sp | 200- 300 pages | 2 weeks |
|
3 -4 days = 2 sp |
2 sp | 4 sp | 1 sp | 300- 400 pages | 3 weeks |
| 5- 6 days = 3 sp | 2 sp | 5 sp | 1 sp | 400- 500 pages | 4 weeks |
| 7- 8 days = 4 sp | 2 sp | 6 sp | 1 sp | 500- 600 pages | 5 weeks |
The calculation of credits can be related to the advice regarding workload per credit in the international ECTS scale and the national guidelines (Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions), which state that 1 credit corresponds to a normal workload of 25–30 working hours.
The documentation requirement will differ between the different courses. The forms of documentation normally include exercises, course assignment, essay, report, popularized/ scientific article, presentation of own paper / prepared oral academic presentations or other academic contribution to courses, oral or written accounts.