Structure of the Programmes

KVL's bachelor’s degree programmes are built up around a common structure, where students start with a compulsory basic module of one year, after which they can choose between a number of core modules which also run for a year. The bachelor’s degree programmes include optional elements for 3/4 of the year and conclude with a bachelor’s project in the final ¼ year. The individual core modules qualify students for admission to one or more master’s degree programmes.

 

Structure of the academic year

The academic year is divided into four blocks, each of nine weeks, equivalent to 15 credits. One or two courses can be taken in each block, and the examination is an integral part of the block.

 

There is an interim week between the blocks which, apart from studying, can be used for re-examination or study-related activities within careers and study counselling, policy or social activities, intensive course programmes and other activities.

 

The academic year (block 1) begins on or about 1 September, depending on how the weekdays are placed in the calendar.  There is an autumn holiday in week 42 and two weeks holiday at Christmas. Block 3 commences on or about 1 February.

 

The placing of blocks and holidays varies from year to year. An overview of the actual dates of blocks and holidays within the individual academic year is available on www.kvl.dk.

 

The veterinary medicine curriculum may deviate form the above structure.

 

Week structure

A block consists of either one 15-credit course or two 7.5-credit courses.

 

Courses worth 7.5 credits are placed in a week module system in which the week is divided into three groups A, B and C. The placing is given in the course description. Each group covers three half-days in each week. Certain courses may, however, e.g. because of numerous practical classes, run over more than one module.

 

Courses of 15 credits do not necessarily follow the week module system. The course responsible will indicate the placing of the teaching. Certain 15-credit courses run over two blocks and will be placed within a week module.

 

The veterinary medicine curriculum may deviate from the week structure.

 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesd	Thursday	Friday
Morning 8 - 12	C	B	C	A	B
Break
Afternoon 13 - 17	A	B	C	A	-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Descriptions of competences

The curricula for the individual degree programmes contain descriptions of competences for the programme. The descriptions of competences comply with the intentions in “Qualifications Framework” and the report "Mod en dansk kvalifikationsnøgle for videregående uddannelser”, which has been endorsed by the Bologna follow up group, but with the descriptions of competences as adapted to the faculty's circumstances as a faculty with both pure and applied science objectives.

 

The descriptions of competences highlight the skills obtained by students in their degree programmes and make it possible to see the individual course’s relationship to the full range of skills acquired in the programme. Competences for the individual courses have also been described.  

 

An assessment of whether students gain the skills specified in the description of competences is an important part of the evaluations of KVL's degree programmes and of the evaluations of the individual courses.