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VARUN MANGLIK
Jan 10, 2013, 8:52:46 AM1/10/13
to Indrani Chakraverty, imtians-...@googlegroups.com
How is this now? I have to leave for campus. Do the final touch ups and send it to them. Try contacting Maythe to see if she allows us to make an international call to IMT. You can discuss this issue of taking 9 courses with her, i am sure she would like some amusement. :P
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> Hope you all are doing good. We are glad to inform you that we have safely reached IPADE, Mexico without much hassles.
> This is regarding the credit requirements communicated to us for the exchange program 2013.
First and foremost, i am sure you will appreciate that every business school has its own fundamental pedagogy and set of ethos by which it functions. It is a very different experience for us in IPADE here. We have attached a list of courses that we are being offered from IPADE in this trimester. It also has details about the number of contact hours, independent hours, ECTS Credits, course contents, etc. I would request you to kindly go through it once.
1. Here in IPADE, they strictly follow the Harvard Case based methodology. Hence, there course is designed so that we have enough time for Individual study + Team Work + the case discussions in class. Please find a sample time table that mentions slots for each one of them.
2. As per IPADE, the exchange students need to opt for just 5-6 courses in this trimester. For students of IPADE, 6-7 courses are required. We have attached an Excel Sheet which has the name of the courses, contact and independent hours. If we use the 7 hours = 1 ECTS credit rule here in IPADE, we need to take a minimum of 8 to 9 courses! Now this seems absurd even to the administration of IPADE and they recommend us to talk to our university as it can get a lot strenuous in the weeks to come.
3. We have to take the spanish course here for our own survival. It will have classes 4-5 days a week. With this, it eventually will leave very less time for any self-study.
4. We have another course called "Doing Business in Emerging Markets", it is a complete one week intensive program. And it is mandatory for us. So we will have to go for this 6 ECTS credits course without a choice. Though it offers 21 contact hours (3 IMT Credits), if you re-consider this course with the independent hours (maximum of all in the list, 53 hours), it accounts to 6 ECTS Credits. This actually accounts to 74 hours to be dedicated to this course in just a week's time. This i am sure will give you an insight so as to how much work is needed in IPADE and their course is designed according to international standards (ECTS) keeping both the contact and study hours in mind.
> We request you to kindly look into this issue, as this is proving to be greatly disadvantageous to us. Please find attached herewith our detailed course syllabus, credit and contact hours details for each of the courses. The details of our subjects is also there in the attached excel sheet. We request you to make an exception for students at IPADE and follow the international standardization practice of using the ECTS Credit system where I ECTS Credit = 1 IMT Credit. This will allow us to take up 5 to 6 subjects of our choice in addition to the language course (which has 4 to 6 classroom hours per week) and complete credit requirements of both institutions, while ensuring our performance is robust.
Thanks a lot.
IMTians.
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> Hope you all are doing good. We are glad to inform you that we have safely reached IPADE, Mexico without much hassles.
> This is regarding the credit requirements communicated to us for the exchange program 2013.
First and foremost, i am sure you will appreciate that every business school has its own fundamental pedagogy and set of ethos by which it functions. It is a very different experience for us in IPADE here. We have attached a list of courses that we are being offered from IPADE in this trimester. It also has details about the number of contact hours, independent hours, ECTS Credits, course contents, etc. I would request you to kindly go through it once.
1. Here in IPADE, they strictly follow the Harvard Case based methodology. Hence, there course is designed so that we have enough time for Individual study + Team Work + the case discussions in class. Please find a sample time table that mentions slots for each one of them.
2. As per IPADE, the exchange students need to opt for just 5-6 courses in this trimester. For students of IPADE, 6-7 courses are required. We have attached an Excel Sheet which has the name of the courses, contact and independent hours. If we use the 7 hours = 1 ECTS credit rule here in IPADE, we need to take a minimum of 8 to 9 courses! Now this seems absurd even to the administration of IPADE and they recommend us to talk to our university as it can get a lot strenuous in the weeks to come.
3. We have to take the spanish course here for our own survival. It will have classes 4-5 days a week. With this, it eventually will leave very less time for any self-study.
4. We have another course called "Doing Business in Emerging Markets", it is a complete one week intensive program. And it is mandatory for us. So we will have to go for this 6 ECTS credits course without a choice. Though it offers 21 contact hours (3 IMT Credits), if you re-consider this course with the independent hours (maximum of all in the list, 53 hours), it accounts to 6 ECTS Credits. This actually accounts to 74 hours to be dedicated to this course in just a week's time. This i am sure will give you an insight so as to how much work is needed in IPADE and their course is designed according to international standards (ECTS) keeping both the contact and study hours in mind.
> We request you to kindly look into this issue, as this is proving to be greatly disadvantageous to us. Please find attached herewith our detailed course syllabus, credit and contact hours details for each of the courses. The details of our subjects is also there in the attached excel sheet. We request you to make an exception for students at IPADE and follow the international standardization practice of using the ECTS Credit system where I ECTS Credit = 1 IMT Credit. This will allow us to take up 5 to 6 subjects of our choice in addition to the language course (which has 4 to 6 classroom hours per week) and complete credit requirements of both institutions, while ensuring our performance is robust.
Thanks a lot.
IMTians.
Indrani Chakraverty
Jan 10, 2013, 9:02:02 AM1/10/13
to VARUN MANGLIK, imtians-...@googlegroups.com
ya this looks fine. except that the "make an exception" line may not go down well.
will get in touch with mayte and see if she can do smthing about this. it would be great if she can actually call and recommend as you have mentioned in the draft.
i was thinking about the language course. in other schools language course holds credits. now is we can figure out the contact hours, we may try convincing them to accept equivalet credits at IMT. After all if a mandatory subject with 6 credits may be treated as null, spanish may eb able to fetch us credits ...... i am thinking of this as a last resort.
will email them :) fingers crossed!
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Regards
-Indrani
will get in touch with mayte and see if she can do smthing about this. it would be great if she can actually call and recommend as you have mentioned in the draft.
i was thinking about the language course. in other schools language course holds credits. now is we can figure out the contact hours, we may try convincing them to accept equivalet credits at IMT. After all if a mandatory subject with 6 credits may be treated as null, spanish may eb able to fetch us credits ...... i am thinking of this as a last resort.
will email them :) fingers crossed!
Regards
-Indrani
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