Your syllabus is the material (texts, theory, etc.) you will be reading for classes and exams in a course. You will find your syllabus at Brigthspace.
Your syllabus is connected to the course you have followed and is valid until the course* is offered again.
This means that your syllabus remains valid after the teaching on your course has finished – until the ordinary exam and the re-examination.
If a re-examination is offered in the following semester’s exam period, your syllabus is also valid for this re-examination.
If you take the re-examination in later semesters, the syllabus will usually follow the most recently offered course.
* Special rules apply for the reuse of syllabuses in connection with courses with changing topics (both compulsory and elective) and courses in academic regulations being phased out. Please see below.
The general principle is that you can reuse your syllabus until the course is offered again. The 'course' is defined as the topic of each course offered.
Example 1: You followed the course 'General Topic: Christian IV built the Round Tower’ in spring 2020 and are registered for the re-examination in summer 2021. Teaching has not been offered in ‘General Topic: Christian IV built the Round Tower’ since you completed the course. You must therefore reuse your syllabus from spring 2020.
Example 2: You followed the course 'General Topic: Christian IV built the Round Tower’ in spring 2020 and are registered for the re-examination in summer 2021. Three different 'General Topic' courses were offered in spring 2021, and one of these courses was called 'Christian IV built the Round Tower'. Your re-examination will therefore follow the syllabus from spring 2021, as this is the syllabus that was offered most recently.
Regulations regarding the reuse of syllabuses for elective courses follow the same principles described above.
Example 1: You followed the internationalisation elective course 'Cognitive Aesthetics' in autumn 2020 and are registered for the re-examination in winter 2021. Teaching in 'Cognitive Aesthetics' has not been offered since you completed the course. You must therefore reuse your syllabus from autumn 2020.
Example 2: You followed the internationalisation elective course 'Cognitive Aesthetics' in autumn 2020 and are registered for the re-examination in winter 2021. Teaching in 'Cognitive Aesthetics' was offered in autumn 2021. Your re-examination will therefore follow the syllabus from autumn 2021, as this is the syllabus that was offered most recently.
If your academic regulations is being phased out, your syllabus will follow the most recently offered course in your academic regulations. This also applies if the new academic regulations includes a course with the same title.
Example: You followed a compulsory course in spring 2021, and this was the last time the course was offered in the 2016 academic regulations from 2016. You are registered for the re-examination in this course in summer 2022. In the new academic regulations from 2020, there is a new course with the same title, which will be offered in spring 2022. It does not affect your syllabus that there is a new course with the same title in a more recent academic regulations. Your re-examination will therefore follow your syllabus from spring 2021 and not the syllabus from courses in the most recent academic regulations.