1. TALLINN UNIVERSITY Politics and Governance BA, RIPGB16
Orientation Day

2. Asking for information and advice
About technical matters of studies:
Study Consellor– Piret Miller, room M-576 Reception hours for students M-F  ja  NB! Please book time for the reception.
About substantive matters of studies:
Head of Programme
Leif Kalev,
Information can be found from tlu.ee/en

3. Study year Study year consists of two semesters:
Autumn semester
Spring semester
One semester consists of:
Semesters’ pre-week
First study period (7 weeks)
Intermediate week
Second study period (7 weeks)
Exam session (3 weeks)

4. Academic Calendar Autumn Semester 29.08.2016-22.01.2017:
until 5:00 p.m. Deadline for registration to courses via ÕIS
Intermediate Week (exams, intensive courses)
Start of exam session
Christmas Holiday
Spring Semester’s timetables are made public
Exam session continues
End of the Autumn Semester

5. Academic Calendar Spring Semester 23.01 - 30.06.2017:
Online registration in the Spring Semester courses
Intermediate Week (exams+ re-exams and re-assessments)
End of the right to take 2016/17 study year autumn semester courses’ exams
Exam session
End of the Spring Semester
Summer Holiday
Autumn Semester’s timetables are made public
Detailed Academic Calendar is available on the web page

6. Curriculum 180 ECTS Nominal duration of the studies is 3 years
Your study programme code is RIPGB/16
To study as a full-time student and graduate in standard
period of time you should pass:
In each semester approximately 30 ECTS
In each study year approximately 60 ECTS
Not less than 45 ECTS per year
1 ECTS= 26 hours of work (about 8 hours of lectures&18 hours of independent work)

7. Curriculum University-Wide courses: 18 ECTS Core courses: 55 ECTS
Elective Modules: 58 ECTS Elective module: Politics 24 ECTS Elective module: Governance 24 ECTS Elective module: Economics and Management 24 ECTS Elective module: International Relations 24 ECTS Other elective courses: 10 ECTS
Module of Compulsory Method Courses: 15 ECTS
Traineeship: 6 ECTS Practical Work: 6 ECTS

8. Curriculum
Open elective courses: 16 ECTS Bachelor’s thesis: 12 ECTS

9. Graduation requirements
Complete the curriculum in determined load,
e.g. pass all compulsory courses and the elective
courses in the load determined by the curriculum
and defend Bachelor`s thesis;
From 2016/2017 there are no additional graduation conditions stated by the Tallinn University Study Regulations:
 BEFORE: student had to acquire English skills at level C1.2 in accordance with the European language study framework document
NOW: student of Estonian language programmes have to acquire professional foreign language skills at certain level. Student of English language programmes can take any language courses as Open elective courses

10. Study Regulations
As a first year student you must register for studies worth at least 23 ECTS credit points in the first semester by the deadline set in the academic calendar and pass at least 15 ECTS by the end of this semester. If you don’t follow these rules you will be deleted from the matriculation register.

11. Study Regulations Full-time and part-time studies
In full-time study, a student shall complete curricular subjects a
minimum of 45 ECTS credits per study year. If a student has less
than 45 ECTS he/she will be transferred into part-time study. As
a part-time student you won’t get any grants.
In part-time study, a student shall complete curricular subjects
a minimum of 30 ECTS credits per study year. If a student has
less than 30 ECTS he/she will be deleted from the matriculation
register.
At the end of each study year, the University shall determine
the study load of the student for the following study year, based
on the results of the previous study period.

12. Study Regulations
You have the right to be admitted to Autumn semester courses’ exams and pass/fail assessments up to two times till the end of spring semesters’ intermediate.
You are allowed to take exams only at the time of exam period!
When taking exam or pass-fail test, you must register yourself through Study Information System (ÕIS)! You can register for examinations or pass/fail assessments only if you do not have any unpaid tuition fees.
If you have registered yourself for the exam or pass-fail test, but for some reason you cannot go, then you must unregister. You must do that at least 24 hours before the exam or test takes place!
If you don’t pass the course after second time, you must re-take the whole course.
After re-taking and still not passing the course you will be deleted from the matriculation register.

13. Do this week:
TU user account and address because we send the information only there
Register yourself for autumn semester courses and look at your timetable
By registering student undertakes to sit an exam or pass/fail evaluation for the respective course.
When you decide that you don’t want some course then it’s important to cancel the registration on time (latest until 5:00 p.m.), because you cannot register yourself more than 38 credit points in case you have not passed more than one course from your previous studies
Don’t leave registration for the last minute because the ÕIS will be overloaded!
Visit our webpage!

14. How to register
Take your study plan from our homepage: tlu.ee/en/School-of-Governance-Law-and-Society
Log into ÕIS
Study plans
My study plans
Click
Agree to start your study plan
Search for a course by course code
Add
When you have finished electing your courses, click SUBMIT
After that you can see your timetable in ASIO by clicking
My timetable

15. Thank you for listening!