Siklus Kegiatan Akademik
- Academic activity is known as a students’ learning activity cycle that commences from students’ admission process until students accomplish their study. To support learning process implementation in the bachelor degree, a system called Semester Credit System (Sistem Kredit Semester - SKS) is set. Learning process in the 1st semester starts with study planning and concludes with the issuance of Study Result Card (Kartu Hasil Studi - KHS). This process is repeated each semester.
Diagram 1 Academic Activity Cycle
Normal Study Period
1st semester, 2nd semester, and so on
Admission & Registration
Study Evaluation I
Study Evaluation II
Study Time Limit
Note: S1= 1st Semester, S2= 2nd Semester, and so on
Diagram 2 Detail of Activity per Semester
Lecture I 7 weeks
Midterm Exam 2 weeks
Lecture II 7 weeks
Final Exam 2 weeks
Study Card (Kartu Studi - KS) is issued
Study Result Card (KHS) is issued
Period to Propose Temporary Study Discontinuance (Berhenti Studi Sementara - BSS)
Period to Propose Temporary Study Withdrawal (Mundur Studi Sementara - MSS)
Semester Credit System (SKS)
SKS is an educational coordination system in which the student study load, the lecturer workload, and the conduction of educational institutional programme are defined in credit units. Semester is the smallest time unit to express the length of educational programme in an educational level.
One (1) academic year consists of fall semester (semester gasal), spring semester (semester genap), and remedy programme lecture. One semester is equivalent to 22 studying weeks that the implementation consists of:
In the transition from Fall Semester to Spring Semester, the faculty conducts remedy programme lectures. This aims to assist student to re-take some failed subjects during the semester holiday.
- Student academic administrative activities: 3 weeks
- Curricular and extracurricular activities: 14 weeks
- Silent week/Recess: 1 week
- Examinations: 4 weeks
The remedy programme is conducted in 4-5 weeks which equivalent to 10 effective weeks of lectures in the regular semester.
SKS is a unit used to express student study load, acknowledgement of student effort, and success of cumulative effort of certain program. SKS or can also be called credits can also express education implementation effort for higher education especially for lecturers.
The general objective of implementing SKS in Ubaya is to enable Ubaya to be more adaptable in facing global challenges, implemented by delivering a range of study programmes which are more flexible, so that permits students to earn academic degree required in facing the global challenges.
In particular, the implication of SKS offers various advantages of:
- enabling students who possess outstanding academic achievements to finish their study earlier, prior to students’ normal study period
- enabling students to choose and take courses that suitable with their self interest, aptitude, and ability facilitate
- ensuring the education system using input and output can be carried out properly
- facilitating and smoothing the curriculum development process aims to guarantee that the curriculum is always adaptive to the rapid development of technology and scientific knowledge
- ensuring the study evaluation system for the students can be carried out properly
- enabling the credit transfer/student mutation from one study programme to another study programme within the university
- enabling the student transfer from other Higher Education Institution to Ubaya and vice versa ease
2. Credit Units
Every subject in semester credit system is valued by credit unit. The amount of credit unit for each subject is defined based on the amount of effort to accomplish tasks that takes form in lecturing programme, laboratorial work, practical work, and other tasks.
The determination of unit and load of one (1) SKS is explained as follows:
Value of one 1 SKS is determined based on the load of 3 types of activities per week for 1 semester, they are:
Fifty (50) minutes of scheduled face-to-face activity with lecturers, e.g. in form of lecture
Sixty (60) minutes of structured academic activity, i.e. study activity that is unscheduled but planned by lecturers, e.g. problem solving, tutorial activities, etc
Sixty (60) minutes of independent academic activity, i.e. activity that should be done by students independently to explore, prepare or other purposes of an academic assignment, e.g. in form of reading reference books.
2.2 Laboratorial work
Value of 1 SKS is equivalent to assignment load in laboratory for 2-5 hours per week for 1 semester.
Due to the variety of laboratorial work, the equivalency of 1 credit value concerns with: activity implementation time and intensity (physic and psychic), so that the determination of time for laboratorial work/subject “x” for “y” hours has a clear foundation.
Internship consists of fieldwork/apprenticeship in industry/company/institution/ department’s laboratory or so.
In principle, internship should be carried out within 1 semester. Yet, as the industry/company/institution may be unable to provide facility that is similar to campus condition, it is necessary that each Head of Department determines the “minimal time” limit.
2.4 Research, Thesis, and Final Project
The value of 1 SKS is equivalent to assignment load for 3-4 hours for 1 month, and 1 month is equivalent to 25 working days.
3. Study Load in One Semester
The amount of students’ study load in 1 semester is determined based on the average working time a day and individual ability. Because 1 SKS is equivalent to 3 working hours, students’ study load is generally between 14 and 24 SKS, depending on individual ability that is reflected on the previous study result. Especially for the 1st semester, study load is determined by each Faculty and Ubaya Polytechnic.
4. Grade Point Average (GPA) (Indeks Prestasi – IP)
In SKS there are 2 types of grade point average, they are Semester GPA (IP Semester - IPS) and Cumulative GPA (IP Kumulatif - IPK). IPS is a measure of students’ accomplishment of subjects in a semester, while IPK is a measure of students’ accomplishment that is measured from the first until the latest semester. The amount of IPS and IPK is measured as follows:
IPS = (Ksi x Ni) / Ksi
IPK = (Kki x Ni) / Kki
“Ksi” is the SKS of a subject taken in the semester, “Kki” is the SKS of subjects taken from the first until the latest semester. “Ni” is indeed the weighted value of each subject.
Besides IPS and IPK, in Ubaya there is also IPKm as a measure of students’ accomplishment that is measured from the first until the latest semester without counting grade ‘E’. IPKm is used for issuing academic transcript and determining study evaluation.
IPKm is measured as follows:
IPKm = (Kkim x Ni) / Kkim
Kkim is the SKS of subjects taken from the first until the latest semester without subjects with grade “E”.