Need help with obtaining course information (Future exchange student)

VeridisQuo
Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:14:30 +0000

Hello everyone, I’m a Student from the National University of Singapore. I have been approved for an exchange program to UVA for the semester starting January 2013. My school requires me to find course/modules from UVA to map to the modules in my university, so that I can convert the credits I earned in UVA back to NUS.

However, I have a hard time finding detailed information about course. I need to know the number of lecture/tutorial/lab/etc hours per week.

So far I have found the Course catalog [here[/url].
A screenshot from the catalog:
http://img.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/v488/Loner1337/uvacat.jpg](https://sisuva.admin.virginia.edu/psp/epprd/EMPLOYEE/PSFT_HR_CSPRD/c/COMMUNITY_ACCESS.SSS_BROWSE_CATLG.GBL?TAB=TEST&FolderPath=PORTAL_ROOT_OBJECT.UV_HC_SSS_BROWSE_CATLG_GBL3&IsFolder=false&IgnoreParamTempl=FolderPath%2CIsFolder)

Under [Days and times] is ‘MoTuWeThFr 10:30AM - 12:45PM’. Does this mean that there are 5 slots of lectures of which you have to choose from? If so, how many slots do I have to choose? Or does it mean that you have to go for all lectures?

I have also noticed that there seems to be only lecture information for Computer Science courses. Which is strange, because usually there will be practicals/labs for some courses in Computer science.

I have tried to apply for cross-mapping of course in my current university, and have been rejected due to insufficient information about the workload of UVA courses.

I am starting to wonder if there is a better source for this kind of information. I do not know anyone who has went to UVA before, and have no one to turn to. Any advice would be really appreciated!