The guidelines & FAQ for offering elective courses

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General information about elective courses

What is an elective course?

An elective is a course chosen by students based on their interest.

There are two types of electives: technical and humanities. Some of the electives we have offered during the last couple of years are:

What should be the content of an elective course?

The content and topics can be suggested by the instructor who is delivering the course. If you are hesitating as to what exactly to offer we can help you out.

Generally speaking, we welcome industry-related subjects. The main criteria are two:

  1. subjects have to be suitable for students given their background;
  2. subjects must not repeat the core subjects that students take during their degree. (See: core subjects by each year BSc & MS)

Some subjects of interest to our students could be:

  1. Industrial Programming in Java;
  2. Backend Development with Kotlin;
  3. Advanced С++: New Language Concepts, Features and Mechanisms;
  4. UX/UI design;
  5. Back-end development with Python.

Example subjects we are already delivering:

  1. Introduction to Quantum Programming;
  2. Front-end Web Development;
  3. Programming in Haskell;
  4. Introduction to Game Development;
  5. iOS Development with Swift;
  6. Cross-platform Mobile Development with Flutter.

How many classes/teaching hours does a course take?

A technical elective course is 40 academic hours of teaching, i.e. 20 classes (90 minutes each).

These 20 classes can be a mix of lectures and labs, i.e. theory and practice, or any other contact format (masterclasses, presentations, training, …).

In addition to that the students are expected to have 140 academic hours for self-studying work (homeworks, projects, assignments, reading, etc) and the exam including preparation.

A humanities elective is 30 academic hours of teaching (lectures and labs) and extra 42 academic hours for a student’s self-study (homeworks, projects, assignments, reading, etc).


What is the language of teaching?

English.

Who are the students?

- How large are the groups of students? Number of students at an elective course is between 6 and 30. Also, the instructor can indicate the optimal number of students for their course.

- What is their background? You can familiarize yourself with their educational program and core courses here:

- Where can I get the lists of students? Normally, the exact list is only known a few weeks prior to the start of the course.

You can contact https://t.me/Viktoria_Mostiakova to get the list of students and their contact details.

Offering a course

How can I propose an elective?

To propose an elective, you need to provide the following information about the course:

  1. The title;
  2. A short description;
  3. Prerequisites needed for your course;
  4. Intended learning outcomes;
  5. The list of topics that will be covered during the course.

This is needed for students to understand the content of the course and choose the elective among others. You can also provide links to GitHub repos, some presentations, etc.


The deadline for proposing a course for the Summer term 2022 is April 10th. The deadline for proposing a course for the Fall term 2022 is June 15th.

Please send your proposals to bmp@innopolis.university Also you can message https://t.me/nurios if you have any questions.

I proposed. What’s next? How are the students going to choose?

  1. We will provide the students with the list of all proposed options.
  2. Students will vote to indicate their interests.
  3. When all votes are collected, we will notify you whether the students have chosen your elective.
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