Regulations
Basis:
(1) The Warsaw University's Code for Rules and
Regulations,
(2) The Warsaw
University's Code for
Rules and Regulations of financial support for full-time students.
Students can appeal to the dean of the faculty of Modern languages against every decision of the Director of the IFS.
I. GENERAL RESOLUTIONS
1. The Rules and Regulations concern full-time students in Bachelor's degree (three years, six terms) and in M.A. (5 years).
2. In all matters non stated in these Regulations the
University's Code for Rules and Regulations is to be applied.
II. EXAMINATIONS AND ORGANISATION OF THE SESSIONS
1. The students may pass their examinations in the winter session, the summer session and the repeat session (in winter and in autumn), as well as in so-called pre-sessions (sesja zerowa) in terms proposed by the teachers. A pre-session term is treated as the first term, which means that an absence implies the loss of one term.
2. If allowed by the Director for students' affairs, a student may pass an examination in another term that given above, especially if he has to compensate for programme differences.
3. Each examination may be passed two times, i.e. in the first term and in the repeat term. This does not apply to students who have lost one term for different reasons (credit for a matter granted only during the session running, absence on the first term).
4. A positive note (from 3 until 5+) is final; the examination may not be repeated.
5. An absence on an examination in a given term automatically involves the loss of this term. If the absence is due to an illness, the student may demand its restoration. Other reasons for absence should be signalled to the Director for students' affairs, who then takes an appropriate decision.
The demand of restoring an examination term (including the medical confirmation of a sick leave) should be submitted within ten days from the given day of the examination.
6. The students have the right to appeal within seven days to the Director of the IFS against a decision concerning examinations, if he can prove partiality or another breaking of rules during the examination; the Director can grant a commission evaluation. The commission examination should take place within fourteen days from the submission of the appropriated application.
III. CREDITS FOR A STAGE OF STUDIES
1. The credit period is one academic year. A credit for the academic year includes examinations and mentions of credit for matters non ending by an examination, conforming to the programme for a given stage of studies.
2. To get a credit for a stage of studies a student must collect a minimum of 60 ECTS points, with exception only for programme changes.
3. The students may collect credits for a given matter in another faculty or another university, if allowed by the Director for students' affairs, who takes a decision concerning the credit and establish the number of ECTS points (according to the University regulations).
4. A student who was abroad on an Erasmus (or other) scholarship submits the credits collected abroad to the Dean's plenipotentiary for the Erasmus programme.
5. The students have to account for his academic year within the deadline term given by the Rector. To do so, they submit credit books to the year's tutor. If a student fails to this duty without a sufficient reason, he is struck off the students' list.
6. A student who has failed to submit a thesis (for the degree of bachelor or M.A.) cannot get a credit for the respective seminars.
IV. CONDITIONAL REINSTATEMENT
1. Every student who has failed to maximum two examinations (or to get maximum two credits), with the exception of French in practice (PNJF), may apply for a conditional reinstatement.
2. The conditional reinstatement is granted only if the deadline for the student to pass the required examinations or to collect the required credits is given and respected.
3. If the conditional reinstatement requires a repeating of one or two subjects, a fee is to be paid; its amount is established each year by the Rector on a motion of the Faculty Council.
The Director for students' affairs, together with the teacher concerned, decides in each case whether the students should repeat a course or not.
4. If the condition is not fulfilled, i.e. the students does not collect the credit or pass the examination, he is bound to repeat a year of studies.
V. REPEATING OF THE YEAR AND REPEATING OF THE TERM
1. A student who failed to pass the examination or to get a credit for the French in practice or for more than two courses is required to repeat a year of studies. In order to be allowed it, he has to submit to the year's tutor an application addressed to the Director for students' affairs.
2. Before deciding for a student to repeat a year, the Director for students' affairs may consult the teachers responsible for the credited and the non credited courses.
3. Repeating the first year is granted only in exceptional cases.
4. A student who repeats a year is due to pass all the examinations and to collect all the credits for the year in question, as well as to compensate for programme differences, if the programme was changed meanwhile.
5. The repeating of the year is subject to a fee; its amount is established every year by the Rector on a motion of the Faculty Council.
6. Repeating a year more than once is allowed only in exceptional cases; the decision is taken by the Director for students' affairs.
7. A student who repeats a year may, if allowed by the Director for students' affairs, participate in selected courses of the next year of studies, to take credits and to pass examinations.
VI. STRIKING OFF THE STUDENTS' LIST
1. A students is struck off the students' list in the following cases:
a) non taking up the studies or giving the studies up;
b) such is the decision of the disciplinary committee;
c) non submission of a thesis, absence or failing in an examination for the degree of Bachelor or M.A. in the given term (the end of a given studies' stage);
d) failing to progress, especially if the students has already repeated an academic year;
e) failing to get a credit for the given year of studies in the prescribed period;
f) failing to pay the required fees.
The appropriate decision is taken by the Director for students' affairs.
VII. LEAVES
1. The student may apply for a leave in case of:
a) health problems (illness or handicap),
b) giving birth to a baby and care for the infant,
c) studying on another faculty, university, or abroad,
d) other exceptional circumstances.
The appropriate decision is taken by the Director for students' affairs, basing on submitted documents.
VIII. REINSTATING
1. A students who was struck off the list of t full-time students and applies for reinstating may be accorded a place as a non-full time student.
2. If the resuming of the studies takes place after an interruption more than two years, the student is due to repeat the last examination in French in practice (PNJF).
3. A student who resumes studies has to compensate the differences in the programme. The Director for students' affairs may exceptionally dispense with that obligation.
4. The student must submit a written, duly motivated application for reinstatement in minimum fourteen days before the beginning of the academic year.
IX. Completing the studies
1. The students receives a mention of completed studies (absolutorium) if he collects the required number of ECTS points, all the required credits, passes all the examinations and if he fulfils all the obligations stated in the programme of the studies.
2. A student is allowed to apply for an examination for the degree of bachelor if he has received the mention of completed studies (absolutorium).
3. The examination for the degree of Bachelor covers an important, or easily separated, part of one of the domains in the first stage of studies: linguistic, literature, culture or methodology of teaching foreign languages.
4. The note given for the first stage of studies is calculated as follows:
a) the average of the notes for examinations and the notes in courses non ending with examinations - 0,7 of the whole,
b) the note for the examination - 0,3 of the whole.
5. A student is allowed to apply for an examination for the degree of M.A. if he has submitted a M.A. thesis, at latest fourteen days before the term of the studies' completion.
6. The note given for the 5-years studies is calculated as follows:
a) the average of the notes for examinations and the notes for courses non ending with examinations - 0,7 of the whole,
b) the note for the M.A. thesis - 0,2 of the whole,
b) the note for the M.A. examination - 0,1 of the whole.
6. The studies are completed the very day of passing the M.A. examination.
X. TRANSFERS
1. The transfer from another university is possible from the second year of the studies.
2. The transfer from another university is possible only for students of French philologies.
3. The Director for students' affairs decides whether admit a student coming from another university, taking into account the limit of places established by the Faculty Council and the following criteria:
a) the average note obtained by the candidate,
b) the difference of programmes, described by the number of the courses to be compensated for (maximum four),
c) the accuracy in respecting the term, i.e. the deadline of the 30th of June.
XI. THE EQUIVALENCE OF THE COURSES
The equivalence of the courses is established by the Council of the Institute for French Studies, noting the differences between the courses' descriptions.
XII PARALLEL STUDIES
1. The modality of admission and the limit of places are established by the appropriate resolution.
2. A student taking up parallel studies from the second year of the studies, is obliged:
a) to define one of the faculties / universities as primary, which results in conforming themselves to its rules,
b) to compensate for the differences in programmes before the term established by the Director for students' affairs.
Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski,
Director for students' affairs