Lecturers should, in consultation with their Director of Studies, determine the distribution of lecture hours to spread the teaching load as well as possible over the period.
Lecture hours
Lecturers should, in consultation with their Director of Studies, determine the distribution of lecture hours to spread the teaching load as well as possible over the period. The following guidelines apply to the total number of contact hours per week for the student:
- Bachelor year 1: 14 hours a week
- Bachelor year 2 and 3: 12-14 hours a week
- Master: 12-14 hours a week*
*NB: research training and thesis are for the greater part individual components.
Credits and study load hours
The study load of a course is expressed in credits, in line with the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). A credit represents 28 study load hours. The total volume of studies is 1680 hours (60 EC) per year. The study load amounts to an average of 42 hours per week.
Standard reading norm
A lecturer takes the number of study load hours for his or her block as the point of departure for determining the quantity of reading that can be required. Before beginning this calculation, the hours for the lectures and the examination are subtracted from the total number of hours.
The guideline to be applied by lecturers is as follows:
- 8 pages per hour for Dutch literature
- 6 pages per hour for English literature
- 5 pages per hour for literature in a language other than Dutch or English
- 5 pages per hour for statistics/mathematics
In the case of readers, the pages from the original edition apply (hence not the page numbering in the reader). The standard reading load forms a guideline. Lecturers should thus not only take the standard into account, but also the position of the block in the curriculum, the degree of difficulty of the book and the level of detail in which students must master the material.