Enrollment is compulsory for all courses. You have to enroll via 'Studieweb': http://studieweb.student.uva.nl. If you do not enroll, you may not take part. Please take notice of the deadlines as presented in the Academic Calender below. When you are enrolled for a course, you are automatically enrolled for the first exam (directly following the tuition period) and for the first resit (just in case). 
The timetables for exams and resits are to be announced by the Education Office (and will be published on the Internet). Any changes in the procedure will be announced by e-mail.

Academic Calender 2010-2011

sem  number of weeks   enroll via Studieweb- before   semester dates  exams in the last week   grades to be published before  1a  8  6 Sept   6 September - 29 October  25 - 29 October  19 Nov  1b  8  1 Nov   1 November - 24 December  20 - 24 December  21 Jan  1c  4  24 Dec  3 January - 28 January   During the period  18 Feb  2a  8  31 Jan   31 January - 25 March   21 - 25 Mar  15 April   2b  9*  28 Mar  28 March - 27 May  23 - 27 May  17 June  2c  4  20 May  30 May - 24 June  During the period  15 July

* Including holidays and resit week

Enrollment is compulsory for all courses. You have to enroll via Studieweb ( http://studieweb.student.uva.nl). TaTake care that you observe the proper procedures: if you do not enroll, you may not take part. If you don't enroll but do take part, and turn up in class, your marks will not be recorded. Please take notice of the deadlines as presented in the academic calender. The timetables for examinations and resits is to be published by the Educational Institute.  

Holidays and events 2010-2011   no classes:  Christmas Holidays  25 December (Saturday) - 3 January (Monday)  Good Friday  22 April (Friday)  Easter Monday  25 April (Monday)  Queens Day  30 April (Saturday)  Liberation Day  5 May (Thursday)  Ascension Day  2 June (Thursday)  no classes  6 May (Friday) & 3 June (Friday)  Whit Monday  13 June (Monday)

Semesters
The classes are given in two terms ( semesters), each semester being divided into three periods: 2x 8 weeks and 1x four weeks. At the end of each period there are examinations (1 week), except for the period of four weeks. In that period the tests are scheduled in consultation with the students.
The periods are referred to with "a" (1st period, eight weeks), "b" (2nd period, eight weeks) and "c" (3rd period, four weeks). Some subjects are given in more than one period; in that case all letters of the periods concerned are shown.

Credits
The programmes follow the ECTS, the European Credit Transfer System. 60 credits (EC) per year is considered to be a normal course load. This is equivalent to about 40 hours (28 hours per EC) per week and includes lectures, reading, assignments, library queries, and discussions. Each semester has 30 EC.