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Studying and Presenting

Course
2022-2023

Admission requirements

Not applicable.

Description

Starting your studies is not easy! This course will help you get settled at LIACS, shows you how to best approach your studies, and introduces you to several important academic skills.

Course Objectives

  • Students get to know the university environment

  • Students learn basic skills needed for a computer science study program

  • Students learn to present

  • Students learn to search for literature and refer to sources

  • Students learn academic writing

  • Students learn about academic fraud and plagiarism

Timetable

The most recent timetable can be found at the student-website:

You will find the timetables for all courses and degree programmes of Leiden University in the tool MyTimetable (login). Any teaching activities that you have sucessfully registered for in MyStudymap will automatically be displayed in MyTimetable. Any timetables that you add manually, will be saved and automatically displayed the next time you sign in.

MyTimetable allows you to integrate your timetable with your calendar apps such as Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and other calendar apps on your smartphone. Any timetable changes will be automatically synced with your calendar. If you wish, you can also receive an email notification of the change. You can turn notifications on in ‘Settings’ (after login).

For more information, watch the video or go the the 'help-page' in MyTimetable. Pleas note: Joint Degree students Leiden/Delft have to merge their two different timetables into one. This video explains how to do this.

Mode of instruction

  • Lectures

  • Workshops

  • Practical assignments

Assessment Method

The course Studying and Presenting will be completed with four assignments (see Assignments), all of which are graded with fail, pass, or good.

All four assignments need to be submitted, and out of these four at least three need to be graded with a pass in order to pass the course. Do you want to receive a good for the course? Then you need to receive a good for at least three assignments.

Reading List

Material will be placed on Brightspace

Registration

From the academic year 2022-2023 on every student has to register for courses with the new enrollment tool MyStudymap. There are two registration periods per year: registration for the fall semester opens in July and registration for the spring semester opens in December. Please see this page for more information. An exemption is the fall semester for 1st year bachelor students, the student administration will enroll this group.

Please note that it is compulsory to both preregister and confirm your participation for every exam and retake. Not being registered for a course means that you are not allowed to participate in the final exam of the course. Confirming your exam participation is possible until ten days before the exam.
Extensive FAQ's on MyStudymap can be found here.

Contact

Education coordinator LIACS bachelors

Remarks

Not applicable.