The catalogue of Optional courses that allow you to get first-year free choice
credits is published in the Curriculum. Optional courses start two weeks after
the beginning of the second semester and they last totally 12 weeks; 4.5 hours
a week are dedicated to lectures, which take place on Wednesday and Friday
afternoons.
Each course has approximately 150 places, except for courses with limited seats
due to the need to use equipped classrooms. Video lessons do not have any
limitation. A certain number of seats (10% of available places) is reserved to
the students of the degree programmes of the Architecture area.
Furthermore, for each course, 5 seats are reserved to potential foreign
mobility students.
You can choose your Optional courses from the catalogue of FREE CHOICE
CREDITS – FIRST YEAR only if you have passed the exam of Mathematical Analysis
I during the winter session of your first year. In this case you will be
enabled to express your preferences for Optional courses from 2nd to
6th March 2018.
Alternatively, you can choose from among the courses and activities listed in the catalogue of FREE CREDITS, with the following possibilities:
If you have not passed Mathematical Analysis I in the winter session of the second
semester, you will have to take the remedial course and you will be able
to choose your free choice credits starting
from the next academic year.
If you have already been validated one Optional course after a transfer,
a career credit recognition or an internal transfer, you do not have to express
another preference.
If you are enrolled as a part-time student, you are allowed to express your
preference only if you had previously purchased the free choice credit module
for your first year when you enrolled at Politecnico and completed your APSP.
How to choose your Optional
courses:
You can choose your Optional courses from your personal page of the
Teaching Portal, through the section called
Compila Piano Carriera e Carico Didattico / Fill in PSP and APSP.
You must select your Optional courses from the page and put them in order of preference, by either using the arrows located on the side of each course, or by dragging and dropping them in the desired position. In order to complete this operation, you must confirm your choice. A message will appear on the screen (Scelte effettuate in precedenza/Choices previously made). The order of preference can be modified by logging again until the deadline for the choice of Optional courses (deadline: 6th March 2018).
Creation of the ranking list and allocation of courses
At the end of the first-semester examination session, the Division of
Student Affairs prepares a merit ranking list, based on the results obtained by
every student in the exams. The ranking list is used to allocate Optional
courses to students.
The ranking list is created on the basis of students’ scores. Every
student is assigned a score, which is calculated by multiplying the number of
credits of Mathematical Analysis I, Chemistry and Computer Science by the grade
obtained in the exam.
Desired optional courses are offered to students following the order
established in the ranking list and taking into account the preferences
expressed by every student , until all places in the classroom are occupied.
It might happen that several students with the same position on the
ranking list choose the same Optional course, but available places are not
sufficient to satisfy all the requests. In this case the course will be offered
to those students who have the highest number of exams passed with honours;
subsequently, remaining places will be randomly allocated by a computerized
draw.
At the end of this process, in the event that some courses still have
available places, these can be offered to latecomers.
Therefore, if you have not chosen your Optional courses within the
deadline, you can go to the Office of Student Services (located at Cittadella
Politecnica -1st floor) from 16th to 23rd
March 2018 and check if there are any residual places.
Special cases:
Offers for Optional courses are made taking into account the
participation into special degree programmes/projects and considering the type
of student.
1. If you are a student of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Automotive
Engineering entirely taught in English, you will be granted a place in the
“Automotive Evolution” course, provided that you have selected it as your first
choice.
2. If you have applied for the “Italian-Chinese Campus” project, you
need to express your choices for Optional courses following the above mentioned
procedures; but, in the event that you are selected for the project, you will
be automatically assigned to the Chinese Language course, instead of the Optional
course you had chosen;
3. If you are connected to any SDSS (Strutture Decentrate di Supporto agli Studenti / Decentralized Facilities for Student Support), you will be granted a place for the streaming course, provided that you have selected it as your first choice.
5. If you are a part-time student and you are offered an Optional course, you need to pay the fee for the corresponding number of credits by 9th March 2018. Failure to pay will cause the elimination of the course from your Annual Personal Study Plan.
COMMUNICATIONS TO STUDENTS
You will receive a message into your institutional mailbox when
all Optional courses have been allocated - and in any case at least two days
before the beginning of classes. You will have to check which course you have
been assigned to. Course schedule and classroom information will be available
on your personal page of the Teaching Portal.