{"id":22,"date":"2017-03-16T07:20:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T07:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-09-22T06:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:47:03","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo, implemented the Course Unit System (CUs) in 1998. There are many benefits to the students such as extended lecture hours per unit in both semesters, flexibility in designing one\u2019s own study programme and increased transparency in relation to course outlines and evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>The Academic Year and Semesters<\/p>\n<p>The academic year is divided into two semesters \u2013 Semester I and Semester II.\u00a0 The Calendar of Dates for the academic year provides information regarding the duration of the semesters, period of study leave and examinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo, implemented the Course Unit System (CUs) in 1998. There are many benefits to the students such as extended lecture hours per unit in both semesters, flexibility in designing one\u2019s own study programme and increased transparency in relation to course outlines and evaluations. The Academic Year and Semesters The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}