Extra-semestrial and Intensive courses
Extra-semestrial courses and extra language study
Intensive courses
Every semester, visiting professors come to the Faculty of International Relations. Their courses are offered as intensive, usually in the range of 3 to 5 days in a row.
Although these courses are often called extra-semestrial, they are included in regular course registrations in InSIS. Look for them when registering for regular courses for the relevant upcoming semester. You can always find the exact dates for intensive courses in the notes on the course’s timetable.
The departments that offer intensive courses usually list them on their websites. For example, you can learn who teaches the course. You will find the course completion requirements in the syllabus, just like for the other courses.
Extra-semestrial courses
In case a course of a visiting professor is offered at the last minute and there is no longer time for the course to be included in the registrations, it will be listed (from the InSIS point of view) as an extra-semestrial course. In this case, look for the course under extra-semestrial courses and follow the schedule that is given there.
A special kind of extra-semestrial courses are final state exams and defense of thesis papers (so-called persistent subjects). They are listed in InSIS as extra-semestrial for technical reasons and are therefore also searchable under the other extra-semestrial courses. For these courses the rule is applied that should you not complete them successfully, they will be automatically registered in the next semester.
For technical reasons, extra-semestrial courses for the winter semester cannot be registered in InSIS before September 1 and the summer semester ones before the first day of the summer semester. For the same reason, it is necessary to wait for the September state exams to be published and open for registrations by the respective departments until after 1 September.
Extra-semestrial courses are also used by departments when they need to enrol a few students who need the respective course to complete their curriculum in the semester. Even such courses are offered in InSIS as extra-semestrial courses, and a special schedule of entries and grades input is followed.
Extra language studies at FIR
If a student is interested in studying language courses at FIR, but does not have available credits, he/she can buy credit vouchers and study such a selected language course in a so-called extra study.
The price is CZK 700 per credit.
Information will be provided by individual language departments. We recommend that you first contact them and then submit an application form to the study department (Form: Application for extra studies).
In special cases, other courses can be studied in this way; information is provided by the respective departments where such courses are offered, or by the Vice-Dean for Studies.