All doctoral students of ZGSM have to register for graduate courses they want to attend.
As ETH and UZH have different systems the registration for doctoral students from D-Math and I-Math is not uniform.
Course registration for doctoral students of D-Math (ETH)
Registration for courses at I-Math (UZH):
- First you have to register for "Mobility Incoming/Module Mobility" at UZH
- Deadline for Swiss Mobility (ETH): Friday before the beginning of the lecture period (13.09.2024)
- For further information please see mobility
- Being registered please book the modules marked -DP which are listed in the ZGSM graduate course program (see Graduate Courses)
Registration for courses at D-Math (ETH):
In general, the booking is done via myStudies. You can book courses with an ungraded semester performance and courses with a session examination. Without doing an ungraded semester performance or passing an examination no credit units are assigned.
A) Courses with ungraded semester performance:
These courses are marked with -DRL in the VVZ (level "Doctorate", department "Mathematics"). The type of ungraded semester performance is defined by the lecturer. On base of this the lecturer decides about "pass/fail".
- Nachdiplom-Lectures (with 2 credits)
- Foundations of D-MATH Doctoral Studies I or II (with 3 credits each)
- The Foundations of D-MATH Doctoral Studies are offered from fall semester 2024 on and can be:
- courses primarily aimed at students in the Master's degree studies or in the third year of the Bachelor's degree studies - seminars are not allowed within the foundation untis
- reading courses supervised by a senior scientist or professor (the thesis supervisor is not permitted to act as supervisor of a reading course)
- The Foundations of D-MATH Doctoral Studies are booked via the lecturer which means that you chose the course you want to attend within the Foundations course unit by chosing the lecturer
- In the maximum two Foundations of D-MATH Doctoral Studies (I and II) can be chosen during your doctoral studies: 401-5001-DRL Foundations of D-MATH Doctoral Studies I and 401-5002-DRL Foundations of D-MATH Doctoral Studies II (please see VVZ). The booking has to be done in consultation with the supervisor
- The Foundations of D-MATH Doctoral Studies are offered from fall semester 2024 on and can be:
B) Courses with session examination:
- Not (!) possible for doctoral students who are doing their doctoral studies on base of the old ordinance for doctoral studies. As a rule, they started their doctorate before 01.01.2022 (please also see credit units (ETH)). The booking of these courses can only be done via the Foundations modules - but then with ungraded semester performance (see above).
- Courses on an advanced Master's level, listed in the ZGSM graduate course program (see Graduate Courses). In the VVZ these courses are listed under "Doctorate Mathematics" and are marked with "Offered in: Doctorate Mathematics"
- The examination mode and the credit units published in the ETH VVZ for these courses are binding
- With passing the examination the full credit units for these courses are assigned (which can be more than 3 credit units)
- from fall 2024 on core courses in mathematics (under the headline "core courses" in the ETH VVZ (with 7 credits or more) are not (!) part of the graduate course program anymore (even if some of them had been in previous years)
In summary, this means:
- Core courses only can be booked within the course units "Foundations of D-MATH Doctoral Studies (I and II)" - this has to be done in consultation with your supervisor and via the lecturer of the relevant course
- Courses of the ZGSM graduate course program can be booked either within the course units "Foundations of D-MATH Doctoral Studies I and II" (with ungraded semester performance and 3 credits) or as Master's courses (with session examination and full credits. The latter is not possible for doctoral studies on base of the old ordinance, see above)
Please consider that you have to de-register from a course in case you do not plan to attend a course (and hence may not meet the criteria for passing the course). Due to the new electronic credit point capture (at ETH) you may risk having a fail in your records if you don’t show up and haven’t de-registered.
Furthermore, please keep in mind that attending courses only covers 1 of 3 areas in which the 12 credits have to be acquired (regarding to the new ordinance on doctoral studies). For further details please see credit units.
Proof of the courses taken during the doctorate:
- via a myStudies transcipt for all doctoral students in accordance with the new ordinance for doctoral studies
- via the Course List for Doctoral Studies for all doctoral students under the old ordinance for doctoral studies. For courses with registration via myStudies, a myStudies extract can also be attached instead of the lecturer's signature
Status: 02.09.2024.
In case of any questions please contact Jessica Bolsinger via info@zgsm.ch.