Course Process
An academic year at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University Faculty of Communication consists of two semesters called fall and spring. Courses are held for 14 weeks of a 17-week academic semester, end-of-term exams are held for 2 weeks, and make-up exams are held for 1 week.
This article, which details the Course Process, which is the third phase of the fall and spring semester educational activities, has been prepared to inform our stakeholders.
Determination and Announcement of Mid-Term Course Schedules;
The course schedule schedule is prepared by the committee assigned by the relevant Department Head. The schedule, which is prepared to cover all weeks in the active education-training semester, includes the day-hour-hall data on which the courses to be taught will be taught. It is announced by publishing it on our faculty's website before the course registration process.
The courses are taught between 10:00 and 18:00, on the days and hours specified in the schedule. There are no classes on weekends, religious, official, administrative holidays.
The duration of a course hour is 45 minutes. 15-minute breaks are given between consecutive courses.
The courses included in the curriculum of our undergraduate programs are taught as a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 course hours per week. (Course hours vary depending on the course.)
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Courses
• Theoretical courses of our undergraduate programs are taught in our 60 to 90-person capacity classrooms and 120 to 160-person capacity lecture halls located in our faculty's 4-story classroom building. All of our classrooms and lecture halls with a fixed double row arrangement have a natural gas central heating system, an online connected presentation computer, and a projection device, which contribute to the ideal environment for educational activities.
• In the courses held in our faculty's classrooms, educational activities are carried out by combining the lectures of the lecturer in charge of the course, student presentations, debates, and interactive educational methods.
• Courses are taught using materials such as books, articles, etc. announced to students by the lecturers in charge of the courses at the beginning of the academic semester.
• According to the relevant law, Turkish Language I, Turkish Language II, Atatürk's Principles and Revolution History I, Atatürk's Principles and Revolution History II, English I, English II courses, which are in the category of compulsory courses to be taught in higher education programs, are taught online within the scope of the distance education program. Students registered for these courses must mark the course code in the "My Courses" menu in UBYS and participate in the courses online via Microsoft Teams from the link left here. Since these courses are taught online, students do not need to be present at the faculty. The exams of these courses are held in our faculty's classrooms.
• The application courses with the data written below are not taught in classrooms. (Seminar I and II), (Graduation Thesis I and II), (Physics Department: Grudation Project I), (Research Project I and II), (Grudation Project I and II). The subject of these application courses is determined by the student, advisor and responsible faculty member at the beginning of the academic semester, and the work carried out by the student is reported and presented to the responsible faculty member of the course in the middle and at the end of the semester.
• Except for the above mentioned practical courses and distance education program courses, other theoretical courses are taught in our faculty classrooms with the face-to-face education method.
• Within the scope of the “Eduroam” system implemented in universities that are members at an international level, wireless internet access is provided to our students free of charge in the common use and activity areas of our faculty.
• Those who engage in any kind of discrimination-inducing statements and actions within the areas and periods where educational activities are carried out, those who disrupt the course order, those who record and broadcast via visual and audio devices without the permission of the faculty member in charge of the course, those who share these areas in written and visual press or virtual environment tools or social media accounts are subject to the relevant provisions of the Student Disciplinary Regulation.
• The national credit value of the courses in the curriculum of our undergraduate programs is equal to the course hours taught. Students are obliged to attend the courses, practices, and laboratory courses they are registered for on the day, time and hall specified in the course schedule.
• Absenteeism is applied on a course basis. The maximum absence hours are calculated separately for each course, based on the weekly course hours taught, the number of weeks in the academic semester and the maximum absence percentage.
• Attendance is monitored with attendance records created by the course instructors who register for the course and have students who participate, according to the course student lists that the instructors in charge of the course obtain from the University Information Management System. Students who are determined to have exceeded the maximum absenteeism rate in the course they are registered for are given an absence grade (DZ/NA) by the instructor in charge of the course. Students can monitor their attendance from the “Student Attendance Status” menu on the University Information Management System portal.
• The make-up exam for the course for which an absence grade is defined cannot be taken.
• Students with a health report are treated as absent during the periods they cannot attend classes.
• Students who are not registered for the course will not be admitted to the course, practices and exams.
• Provided that the attendance requirement has been met before, the Faculty Board of Directors decides whether the attendance requirement will be required for the repeated course.
 
• In the active education semester, the attendance requirement rate for theoretical courses is 70%. Students who do not attend 8.4 hours for two-credit courses, 12.6 hours for three-credit courses, 16.8 hours for four-credit courses, 21 hours for five-credit courses and 25.2 hours for six-credit courses are given an absence grade (DZ/NA). The maximum number of hours of absence for theoretical courses is shown in the table below.
Maximum Absence Rates in Theoretical Courses
Weekly Lesson Hours X Number of Weeks in the Academic Term = Total Semester Lesson Hours Maximum Absence Percentage Maximum Absence Hours
2 x 14 = 28 30% 8.4
3 x 14 = 42 30% 12.6
4 x 14 = 56 30% 16.8
5 x 14 = 70 30% 21
6 x 14 = 84 30% 25.2
These rates may vary depending on the number of weeks in the active education semester.
• In the active education semester, the attendance rate for practice and laboratory courses is 80%. A student who misses a two-credit course for 5.6 hours, a three-credit course for 8.4 hours, a four-credit course for 11.2 hours, a five-credit course for 14 hours, and a six-credit course for 16.8 hours will receive an absence grade (DZ/NA). The maximum number of absences for practice and laboratory courses is shown in the table below; Maximum Absence Rates in Practice and Laboratory Courses
Weekly Lesson Hours X Number of Weeks in the Academic Term = Total Semester Lesson Hours Maximum Absence Percentage Maximum Absence Hours
2 x 14 = 28 20% 5.6
3 x 14 = 42 20% 8.4
4 x 14 = 56 20% 11.2
5 x 14 = 70 20% 14
6 x 14 = 84 20% 16.8
These rates may vary depending on the number of weeks in the active academic term.