Establishment of a programme course on first or second cycle
A new course at first and second cycle to be given within a programme must be established a full academic year in advance. The reason for this is that the course must be included in the programme syllabus for the current programme, which is established one year before the start of the programme.
The last date for establishing a new course is 15 October, one year in advance. Please note that the process below must be followed before documents are submitted to the school's syllabus reviewing committee no later than 1 September. This is so that the course has time to be anchored and processed before the school's faculty board makes a decision to establish the course.
Process for establishing new course within a programme at EECS
Intended course coordinator and director of studies:
1. The intended course coordinator defines the course content, education cycle, prerequisites and student target group.
2. The course coordinator makes sure that the programme director for the programme, who is the target group for the course, is notified.
3. The course coordinator then ensures that the director of studies for the department to which the course will belong is notified. The responsible director of studies/head of directors of studies announces, in turn, the proposed course to the head of the department in charge.
4. The proposal for a new course is processed by the school's group of directors of studies and the group of programme directors.
5. The intended course coordinator initiates the process of establishing the course in Ladok by navigating to the Course information tab and selecting Course, First-cycle or Course, Second-cycle. Then select New course with guide and follow the instructions in step 1.
Information on how to formulate specific prerequisites, examples of module codes, and more is available on KTH's intranet .
6. The director of studies reviews the information and completes step 2 in Ladok by adding details on the course code, course offering unit, subject group, field of education, and main field of study. The director of studies then marks the step as complete and forwards the course syllabus to step 3, no later than 1 September.
The course syllabus reviewing committee, the school's office of student affairs and the school's faculty board:
7. The course syllabus reviewing committee checks that the course does not overlap with existing courses at the school, examines the texts, adds potential standard texts for the school (such as a link to the code of honour), works with the course coordinator and finalises the text.
8. Once the syllabus has been processed, the course syllabus review committee submits the decision documentation to the director of first and second cycle education, who prefers the course proposal to the school's faculty board for decision.
9. Once a decision has been made, the school's office of student affairs registers the decision in Ladok.
10. The course syllabus is published in the course and programme directory at kth.se.