Displaying the Learning Agreement

The Learning Agreement is an individual agreement between student and tutor or doctoral student and the supervisor of the doctoral thesis.

Students can plan which courses they will complete in the subject areas relevant to their degree programme. The choice of courses may deviate from the study achievements specified in the Course Catalogue. In these cases, the tutor or the supervisor of the doctoral thesis or, in certain cases, the study administration must approve this courses.

The Learning Agreement is structured according to the subject-specific categories of the respective study regulations with the compulsory subjects.

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Displaying Learning Agreement

The programme regulations and the supervisor (tutor or mentor) are displayed. The thesis supervisor is not displayed here.

The changes required by the tutor are displayed here after the Learning Agreement has been submitted.

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Change requested in the submitted learning agreement

If the programme regulations contain information on the Learning Agreement, it will be displayed here in the respective language.

The categories of the programme regulations that belong to the Learning Agreement are displayed.

Number:

The code of the course unit is displayed.

Title:

The title of the course unit is displayed. For mobility subjects the external title and external university are shown.

Using a traffic light system, it is displayed whether a course is registered, passed or not offered anymore (no more available).

White: Not registred

Yellow: Registred

Green: Passed

Red: Repetition failed (failed twice)

Black: Not offered anymore in the Course Catalogue

Orange: Failed once

The two most recently released semesters in which the subject is or was offered are displayed.

A: Autumn Semester

S: Spring Semester

The planned credits in the Learning Agreement and the required credits defined in the programme regulation are displayed.

At the category level the missing credits (difference) are displayed in red.

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Learning Agreement with missing credit points

It will be declared how compulsory courses will be or have been completed.

Yes: In the programme regulation

No: Not planned in this programme regulation

Doctoral studies

Yes: In the extended doctoral studies

No: Replacement course has been agreed

Bachelor: In the Bachelor or another ETH programme regulation

Other university: At another university

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Learning Agreement with compulsory courses completed in the Bachelor's degree and not regular courses

It is indicated whether the category assignment is Not regular. Such course units are not regular courses of the respective degree programme or the selected specialisation.

The following course units are always marked as “Not regular”:

  • Exchange courses completed at another university.
  • Course units that are not intended for this degree programme.

Note: The categorisation in the Learning Agreement does not correspond to the information in the Course catalogue.

The changes that have been made since the Learning Agreement was last submitted are displayed.

New: Newly added

Moved: Moved to another category

Modified: Text modified, for external course units only

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Changes in the Learning Agreement

By clicking on the Button Edit the Learning Agreement can be edited.

The Learning Agreement can be printed using the Print function.

The Learning Agreement can be deleted by clicking on the Delete button. A Learning Agreement can be deleted until it is submitted.

If an already submitted Learning Agreement should be deleted, the study administration must be contacted. It may be necessary to delete a submitted Learning Agreement in case the degree programmes or the programme regulations are changed.

The Learning Agreement can be submitted for approval by clicking on the Submit button.

The tutor or thesis supervisor (or in some cases the Study Administration on behalf of the tutor) receives an e-mail with the request to approve the Learning Agreement.

The Learning Agreement must be discussed with your tutor or thesis supervisor before it is submitted.

Complete Learning Agreement

If the degree programme requires a complete Learning Agreement, sufficent credits must be planned in each category. The Learning Agreement can only be submitted if it is complete.

Incomplete Learning Agreement

If a complete Learning Agreement is not a prerequisite for a submission, the Learning Agreement can be submitted incomplete. However, the Learning Agreement must be complete and approved by the time of the degree request at the latest.

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Incompletely submitted Learning Agreement

Learning Agreement in the status Approved

After the Learning Agreement has been approved it can still be changed and resubmitted for approval. Changes are displayed in the “Changes” column and the table “Deleted course units”.

After the Learning Agreement has been approved, it can still be changed and then resubmitted for approval. Changes are displayed in the column “Changes” and the “Deleted course units” table.

Learning Agreement in the status Definite

The Learning Agreement can no longer be edited and resubmitted in the status “Definite”. If changes need to be done to a Learning Agreement in the status “Definite”, the Study Administration must be contacted.

The table Deleted course units contains course units, which have been deleted from the Learning Agreement since the last submission.

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Deleted course units in the Learning Agreement
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