Maintain and create new courses at the Department of Informatics

Syllabi and literature lists

The syllabus is the legal document that regulates the conditions for admission to and completion of the course. It specifies the learning outcomes, content, design, assessment/examination, entry requirements, grading scale and further information, like what teaching sessions that are mandatory on the course. It also states the level and number of credits of the course. The syllabus must be published no later than the date when the applications for the course opens.

Help with formulating learning outcomes for syllabi can be found in chapter 5 of the Handbook for writing syllabi (only available in Swedish). 

Handbok för att skriva kursplaner (in Swedish)

Information about course literature is given separately in a literature list. The literature list must be available for students to view at least two months before the course starts.

Syllabi and literature lists are administrated in Lubas by Carla Böhme. 

The syllabus and literature list can be found on the course page on the LU web and in Canvas.

Course literature recommendations by LUSEM

Create a new course

Teachers are encouraged to suggest new relevant courses. New courses are proposed to the director of studies, who brings the suggestion to the Management team. After deciding to develop the new course, an appointed course director develops a proposal for the course syllabus. 

Changes to an existing syllabus

All changes that affect the course syllabus (including the set of exams) need to be approved by the Department board. Some changes require a new course code, i.e. a new syllabus, like changing the name, number of credits, level, entry requirements, etc. 

For more information contact Carla Böhme. 

Changes to course literature

Changes to course literature that entail adding or removing works from the literature list requires approval from the Department board. If the change simply entails updating existing works to newer versions (e.g. updating a book from edition 4 to edition 5), the change does not need to go through the board but it needs to be approved by the director of studies. 

Instructions and Deadlines

Proposals to the Department board regarding syllabi or literature lists are sent to the Director of studies Björn Svensson. The proposal must explain and argue for the desired changes and its possible consequences. When editing a course syllabus, preferably use the Microsoft Word feature Track changes to explicitly show the changes. For retrieval of the syllabus or literature list in Word-format, or for any questions, contact Carla Böhme.

The director of studies brings the proposal to GuKom for discussion. After approval in GuKom, the matter is passed on to the Department board for decision.

​​​​​​​Deadlines for upcoming autumn term:

• Syllabus incl. set of exams – proposals sent to the director of studies by 1 October.
• Literature lists – proposals sent to the director of studies by 1 May.

Deadlines for upcoming spring term:

• Syllabus incl. set of exams – proposals sent to the director of studies by 1 May.
• Literature lists – proposals sent to the director of studies by 1 October.