Student guide 2016 - 2017 (ord. D.M. 270/04)

COURSES SUGGESTED BY THE DEGREE PROGRAMME:
If you are interesed in attending a course suggested by the degree programme and indicated in the Teaching portal (see the Curriculum - Manifesto degli Studi - Free Credits), when you define your Annual Personal Study Plan, you will insert the code of the course you wish to attend, since such courses are not assigned on the basis of merit rankings.

SPECIALIZING WORKSHOPS (allocation on the basis of merit)
Specializing workshops for the Master’s degree programmes of the Collegi of Architecture, Design, Urban Studies and Planning are assigned on the basis of merit, taking into account the preference order expressed by each student and the number of places available for each workshop. We remind you that procedures for the choice of specializing workshops will be activated before the beginning of second semester. In order to be able to express your preferences, upon definition of your Annual Personal Study Plan, you must have inserted the names and generic codes of each course you wish to attend, within the deadlines illustrated in the academic calendar.

Exams that have been anticipated from the Master’s degree programme will not count towards the calculation of the average grade.
Calculation of the merit score:

(overall weighted average of the Bachelor’s degree * 180) + [(V1 * CFU1) + (V2 * CFU2) + (Vn + CFUn)] ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Number of semesters from first enrolment in the university system

The number of semesters is calculated starting from the first enrolment in the university system. The score is calculated taking into account only those exams that were recognized and validated by Politecnico di Torino.

The calculation of the merit score is based on the exams passed within the September 2016 examination session.

You are allowed to express your preferences only if you have inserted the generic code “01RQDPO - Specializing Workshop “ in your Annual Personal Study Plan.

When to express your order of preference for specializing workshops Master’s degree students:

from 16^th to 23^rd February 2017 (first phase – merit ranking list)
from ~~28^th February~~ 1^st March at 10.00 a.m. until 7^th March 2017 (second phase - selection of courses with available seats)

(Aggiornamento effettuato in data 16/01/2017)

How to express your order of preference

Course allocation on the basis of merit
Log into your personal page of the Teaching Portal, go to the section “SEGRETERIA ON-LINE”, then select “ACCEDI/ACCESS” from the box named “COMPILA PIANO CARRIERA – CARICO DIDATTICO/FILL IN YOUR PSP /APSP”. You will be redirected to a new page offering a wide range of choices related only the generic codes in your Annual Personal Study Plan. You can establish the order of preference using the arrows or dragging and dropping the course names, as illustrated in picture no.1:

You can repeat this procedure until the closure of the period dedicated to the definition of the Annual Personal Study Plan.

Choice of courses with residual seats (after the allocation on the basis of merit)
If, for any reason, you haven’t chosen your free credits by the deadline, you will be offered the possibility to choose a single preference among the courses with residual seats.

Log into your personal page of the Teaching Portal, go to the section “SEGRETERIA ON-LINE”, then select “ACCEDI/ACCESS” from the box named “COMPILA PIANO CARRIERA – CARICO DIDATTICO/FILL IN YOUR PSP /APSP”. The system will show the list of courses with residual seats, as illustrated in picture no.2:

In this phase you should pay careful attention to the course you are selecting. In fact, once you confirm your choice, it cannot be modified.

DESIGN WORKSHOP

Social communication workshop – Social design workshop

Students enrolled in the Master’s degree programme in Systemic Design and in the Master’s degree programme in Ecodesign, who have insterted in their Annual Personal Study Plan the codes 01PCRPO Social communication workshop – 01PCQPO Social design workshop, will be able to choose among the workshops offered by their degree programme.

You cannot attend in the same academic year the two workshops: 01PCRPO Social communication workshop – 01PCQPO Social design workshop. As a consequence, such generic codes must be inserted one in first year and one in second year, respectively.

Therefore, since these workshops are offered in the same period, you cannot attend more than one workshop during each academic year. Please note that Design workshops are capped (limited to a restricted number of students): when the maximum number of students is reached, you will be able to choose only workshops that still have available places.

How to choose design workshops

In the hompage of the Teaching portal, tab “MAIN” or “LA MIA DIDATTICA”, you will see the picture shown below:

When you click on “Visualizza elenco workshop” / See the workshops list, the system wil, redirect you to a workshops table which illustrates available workshops and places.

Select the Design workshop you are interested in:

After you have selected the Design workshop you are interested in, the registration procedure will be enabled:

Click the button "Continua"/ "Continue" if you wish to confirm your registration, or click on "Indietro"/"Back" to return to the workshops list

Considering that these workshops are not allocated to students on the basis of merit, you must pay attention to the Design workshop you choose. In fact, once you confirm your choice, you will no longer be able to modify it.

When to choose Design workshops
News related to the periods when you can choose these workshops will be published in the on-line Notice Board, together with the publication of the course catalogue.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY
The rules for the acquisition of free credits through external training activities are published in the Course catalogue, Curriculum, under the section “Training activities outside the University”.

COMPETITIVE SPORTING ACTIVITIES (3 CFU)
If you play a sport at a high competitive level while you are studying at the university, you can ask for the recognition of this activity at any time of your career. The request shall be submitted from your personal page of the Teaching Portal.

STUDENT TEAM ACTIVITIES
If you participate in the activities of a student team, you can ask for the recognition of this activity. The request shall be submitted from your personal page of the Teaching Portal. The team leader will have to certify the nature of your activity and the amount of time you have dedicated to it. On the basis of such information the Supervisor of your degree programme will decide whether to accept your recognition request and evaluate the number of credits you will be assigned (3 or 6 credits). Further information on Student teams are available on: https://didattica.polito.it/team_studenteschi.html

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