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Academic Handbook – Biology Study Program – Biology Deartment - 2013
CHAPTER II EDUCATION SYSTEM
Brawijaya University UB has an education system named Semester Credit System SCS which was determined by Rector Regulation number 22SK1976 on May 3
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, 1976. It was decided by considering the Regulation of National Education System number 2 year 1989, Government Regulation
number 60 year 1999 declaring about high education and Ministry of National Education number 232U2000 stating about handbook of writing for high education curriculum and evaluation of student
achievement, number 045U2002 declaring about main curriculum of high education and University. UB also considered the guideline of credit system application for high education, guideline of high
education process which is based on the basic of semester credit system and guideline for lecturer in the education application system which is based on SCS, so the University published the handbook of the
semester credit system process.
University as a high education institution always pays attention on six factors as follow: 1.
Each student naturally has differences in terms of talent, purpose and academic skill. 2.
The necessary of excellent teacher in society. 3.
The rapid development of science and technology 4.
Education facilities such as class room, library, and laboratory. 5.
The administration staffs influence the process of academic activities. 6.
Lecturer is the one who teaches students based on the SKS influences education process. Thus, good education system is the one which optimally cares and considers those six factors. One of
the factors which is viewed as the proper aspect is SKS.
2.1 Definition of Semester Credit System SCS 2.1.1 General Goal
To increase the quality, the university needs various and flexible education programs. Those programs let the students decide and manage their study easily so they will reach a good achievement.
2.1.1 Specific Goal
a. To give opportunity to students to finish their study in short period.
b. To give chance to students to take courses suitable with their talent, purpose and skill.
c. To apply education system having multiple input and output.
d. To take easy the change of curriculum that is based on the rapid development of science and
technology today. e.
To make easy the evaluation of learning system f.
To make possible the transfer of credit among study programs or faculties in one university or other universities.
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Academic Handbook – Biology Study Program – Biology Deartment - 2013 g.
To make possible the transfer of student from inter-university and inter-study program to in certain university.
2.1.3 Semester Credit System SCS
SCS is a system of education that uses semester credit unit to explain the study load of student, workload of lecturer, study experience and program load.
a. Semester is a unit of study period that runs for 16 to 19 weeks of lecture or other scheduled
activities and also the additional activities including 2 to 3 weeks of evaluation program. b.
Semester credit unit is an appraisal for one-semester study with scheduled activity per week that runs one-hour lecture or two-hour laboratory work, four-hour internship and each of them has one-
or-two-hour structural activity and one-or-two-hour independent activity.
Characteristics of semester credit system: •
In every semester, there are some courses and every course has load that is explained in semester credit unit based on the curriculum made by a faculty.
• The number of credit for the different course is not necessarily same.
• The number of credit for each course is decided based on the effort to do assignments in
lecture, laboratory work, internship, etc.
2.2 Load and Study Period
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