Enrolment regulations

As a general rule, students must have passed the minimum number of credits required for the initial stage in the School’s curriculum in order to process the enrolment of compulsory or optional subjects from other curricular areas. However, this restriction will not apply the first time students fail to pass the minimum number of credits within the deadline established for the initial stage for the purposes of continuance, providing they have no more than 18 ECTS credits (equivalent to two subjects at the FIB) left to pass in order to fulfil this minimum requirement.

Students who avail themselves of the above provision must enrol for all of the subjects required to complete the initial stage, including those subjects for which they have obtained a grade of 4.0 or more. They may top up their enrolment with compulsory or optional subjects from the following curricular area, subject to the following conditions:

- Students who need one subject to complete the initial stage may enrol for a maximum of two subjects.

- Students who need two subjects to complete the initial stage may only enrol for one subject.

In line with the structure of the curriculum for the bachelor’s degree in Informatics Engineering, the list of compulsory subjects in the third semester and their prerequisites are as follows:

Databases	Programming I, Programming II
Probability and Statistics	Mathematics I, Mathematics II
Structure of Data and Algorithms	Programming I, Programming II
Computer Interfaces	Physics, Introduction to Computers, Structure of Computers
Operating Systems	Introduction to Computers, Structure of Computers

Part-time students may enrol for an additional maximum of 18 ECTS credits per semester.

Students may enrol for a maximum of 36 ECTS credits per semester.

If you have applied for a grant this year, remember that you must enrol for at least 30 ECTS credits (or the maximum number of credits you are allowed to take).

The list of subjects in the fourth semester, their prerequisites and pre-corequisites are as follows:

Inter-subject requisites

To enrol for a course on the curriculum, a set of requisites must have been fulfilled. There are four types of requisite:

• Prerequisite. If a subject A is a prerequisite to another subject B, this means that subject A must have been passed to enrol in subject B.
• Corequisite. If a subject A is a corequisite to another subject B, this means that subject A must have been passed to enrol in subject B.
• Pre-corequisite. If a subject A is a pre-corequisite to another subject B, this means that you must have been enrolled in subject A for at least one semester before you enrol in subject B. In the case that there is a chain of pre-corequisites (A is a pre-corequisite of B, and B a pre-corequisite of C), you may not enrol in subject C unless you have passed subject A.

 

	Prerequisites	Pre-corequisites
Business and the Economic Environment
Introduction to Software Engineering	Databases	Structure of Data and Algorithms
Computer Networks		Operating Systems
Programming Projects	Structure of Data and Algorithms	Databases
Computer Architecture	Structure of Computers, Operating Systems	Probability and Statistics

If students wish to complete a course in the current academic year but are yet to enrol for a number of credits equal to or below the maximum number for which they may enrol in an academic year, and one of the prerequisites prevents them from completing them in this period, such prerequisites should be considered as corequisites. This concession may not be applied if it is clear that by enrolling for these credits students will have no realistic chance of completing the course in this academic year.

·         In any event, prerequisites that apply to subjects that are not taught because they belong to a curriculum that is to be phased out will not be taken into account. The same applies to subjects from curricula on which students have obtained a grade of 4.0 or more.

Changing prerequisites to corequisites: Applications to enrol for subjects that require students to have passed a prerequisite subject must be signed by the lecturer who teaches it, stamped for approval by the department concerned and submitted to the secretary’s office before enrolment.

Applications to take subjects with requisites
Students who are taking their final semester are not required to submit applications to take subjects with requisites. Permission to do so is automatically granted, providing all credits remaining to complete a course are taken.

You are reminded that you are allowed to take a maximum of 40.5 credits per semester and 45 credits if you have to re-sit a subject, or if you are enrolling for all of the credits to finish your course (including the final project).

Notwithstanding the above, on 7 February 2000, the Teaching Committee adopted an agreement to limit the enrolment of certain students whose academic performance in the last semester was below 0.5. If this applies to you, the limit set in your case can be found in the Racó. Under no circumstances will this limit be below 22.5 credits or above 45.

If you have applied for a grant this year, remember that you must enrol for at least 33 credits (or the maximum number of credits you are allowed to take).