{"id":77,"date":"2018-06-21T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T09:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:21:08","slug":"credit-based-course-unit-selection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/credit-based-course-unit-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Based CU Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently a credit is defined as fifty (50) notional hours as per the latest version of credit calculation\u00a0given by Sri Lanka Qualification Framework (SLQF). Notional hours include teaching, discussions,\u00a0tutorials, practicals and self-study engaged in by students. At present, each CU is given three (03)\u00a0contact teaching hours per week. Majority of the CUs offered in the Faculty are weighted as three<br \/>\n(03) credits. However, there may be course units offered by ceratin Departments\/Units with different\u00a0credit weights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minimum number of credit requirements for the first year in Arts is thirty (30). Hence,\u00a0when you successfully complete 10 to 11 CUs, you obtain thirty (30) or more credits. Currently, all\u00a0CUs offered by the Faculty of Arts are worth three (03) credits. Therefore, students are advised to\u00a0follow the MCUR\/MCR guideline given in Table 2 to complete the first year workload successfully.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Plans are underway to implement a fully-fledged credit-based system in the Faculty of Arts in the\u00a0near future in line with the latest of SLQF. Such a system would include CUs with different credit\u00a0values. Students will be able to select different combinations of CUs with less credit values and\/or\u00a0CUs with more credit values to fulfill the minimum credit requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently a credit is defined as fifty (50) notional hours as per the latest version of credit calculation\u00a0given by Sri Lanka Qualification Framework (SLQF). Notional hours include teaching, discussions,\u00a0tutorials, practicals and self-study engaged in by students. At present, each CU is given three (03)\u00a0contact teaching hours per week. Majority of the CUs offered in 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\/77"}],"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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/idc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}