Teaching

While attending all courses, first-year students should take and pass a number of exams among the full set offered so to totalize a minimum of 8 credits in order to be admitted to the second year. Exams on each course consist either of 'homework' assignments (exercises, essays, etc.) given during the course or of an oral exam at the end of the course or a combination of the two.

Students have the option to define an individual study programme including courses given within other PhD programmes of SISSA. Such individual study programs need to be approved by the Scientific Board, which will deliberate on the number of credits to assign to courses external to the PhD.

Exams should be given in one of these sessions:

  • First session: January 7 - January 21, 2013
  • Second session: April 8 - May 3, 2013
  • Extraordinary session: before July 15, 2013
The extraordinary exam session is intended for exams taken in one of the two ordinary sessions, which were not passed or which the candidate intends to repeat.

A complete list of the courses of the current academic year together with information regarding the syllabuses, credits, duration and relative schedule is avalaible in the section Courses.