Dean’s measure No. 12/2023
Academic calendar 2023/2024

Art. 1
Main dates


The beginning of the academic year:

1. 10. 2023

The end of the academic year:


30. 9. 2024

 

   
Winter semester

 
Summer semester

Semester 1. 10. 2023 – 7. 1. 2024 19. 2. 2024 – 26. 5. 2024
Scheduled classes 2. 10. 2023 – 7. 1. 2024 19. 2. 2024 – 26. 5. 2024
Course credit week 2. 1. 2024 – 7. 1. 2024 13. 5. 2024 – 19. 5. 2024
Courses out of the faculty 20. 5. 2024 – 26. 5. 2024
Exam period 8. 1. 2024 – 18. 2. 2024 27. 5. 2024 – 30. 6. 2024
2. 9. 2024 – 23. 9. 2024

 

Christmas holidays 23. 12. 2023 – 1. 1. 2024
Summer holidays 1. 7. 2024 – 31. 8. 2024
Dean’s Day of Sport (classes are cancelled) 25. 4. 2024
Rector’s Day of Sport (classes are cancelled) 14. 5. 2024

 

Art. 2
Registration in the first year of study

Dates of registration in the bachelor study

Aplikovaná geografie, Geografie a kartografie, Demografie, Hydrologie
a hydrogeologie
(Only registration at the faculty)

18.7.2023
Biologie, Ekologická a evoluční biologie, Molekulární biologie a 
biochemie organismů, Bioinformatika
(Three-day training camp at the faculty campus)
23.8.2023 – 25.8.2023
Biochemie, Chemie, Chemie a fyzika materiálů, Klinická a toxikologická
analýza, Medicinální chemie, Geologie, Geologie se specializací
Geoarcheologie, Geotechnologie, Hospodaření s přírodními zdroji,
Praktická geobiologie, Vědy o Zemi
(Three-day training camp outside the faculty campus)
28.8.2023 – 30.8.2023
Programy se zaměřením na vzdělávání, Ochrana životního prostředí
(Three-day training camp outside the faculty campus)
30.8.2023 – 1.9.2023
Aplikovaná geografie se specializacemi, Demografie se specializacemi
Geografie a kartografie, Hydrologie a hydrogeologie
(Three-day training camp outside the faculty campus)
1.9.2023 – 3.9.2023
Science (three-day training camp at the faculty campus) 19.9. - 21.9.2023
Alternative date of registration in the bachelor study
(Except Science; only registration at the faculty)
12.9.2023
Alternative date of registration for Science
(Only registration at the faculty)
27.9.2023
Dates of enrollment in the master study
For applicants who graduated from Faculty of Science bef. 30. 6. 2023 31.8.2023
For applicants who graduated from the other faculties 15.9.2023
For applicants who graduated from Faculty of Science between 1. 7. 2023 to 19. 9. 2023 22.9.2023
For applicants of English study programmes 27.9.2023
Dates of enrolment in the doctoral study
For foreign applicants (excluding Slovakia), who will start their studies:
from 1. 10. 2023
from 1. 3. 2024

27.9.2023
1.3.2024
For applicants from Czech Republic and Slovakia, who will start their studies:
from 1. 10. 2023
from 1. 3. 2024

29.9.2023
1.3.2024

 

Art. 3
Registration of courses

   
Winter
semester
 
Summer
semester
Electronic registration of courses from 16.8.2023 from 18.12.2023
Priority registration of compulsory courses by 23.8.2023 by 25.12.2023
End of registration for courses 6.9.2023 14.1.2024
for student starting the first year of their bachelor studies 14.9.2023
for student starting the first year of their master studies 18.9.2023
Additional changes to course registrations from 25.9.2023 from 12.2.2024
Conclusion of registration for courses 8.10.2023 25.2.2024
Control of preliminary course registrations and refusal of 
overlapping courses (done by the Student Affairs Division)
4.10.2023 21.2.2024
Refusal of overlapping courses and final registration of courses (done by the Student Affairs Division) 9.10.2023 26.2.2024
The registration for courses in summer semester is done only in the period for the summer semester.
Courses of summer semester registered in winter semester cannot be deleted later on.

 

Art. 4
Study control and registration for the next stage of the study in bachelor and master programmes (only online form of registration is available)


Students of the first year of bachelor study who were enrolled to the study programme in academic year 2023/2024
Registration to the second stage of study (summer semester) 1.2.2024 – 19.2.2024
Last date of exams in the first stage of study 16.2.2024
Registration of the results of the exams into the SIS in the first stage of study by 18.2.2024
Control of the conditions for the progress to the second stage of study 19.2.2024
Alternative registration to the second stage of study by 11.3.2024

All students
Registration to the next year of study for students of bachelor‘s
and master‘s programmes
1. 6. 2024 – 29.9.2024
The last date of exams 23.9.2024
Registration of the results of the exams in the SIS by 23.9.2024
Control of the conditions for the progress to the next stage of study 24.9.2024
Alternative registration to the next stage of study by 17.10.2024

 

 
Announcement of exam dates through SIS – winter semester
by 7.1.2024
Announcement of exam dates through SIS – summer semester by 26.5.2024

 

Art. 5
State final exams


Registration for a topic of a bachelor/master thesis in SIS
Announcement of the thesis topics by 1.11.2023
Registration for a thesis topic by 14.1.2024
Acceptation by the thesis supervisor by 21.1.2024
Approval by the guarantor by 31.1.2024

 


Terms of the state final exams
Bachelor’s programmes 15.1. – 16.2. 2024 27.5. – 28.6. 2024 2.9. – 19.9. 2024
Master’s programmes 15.1. – 16.2. 2024 27.5. – 14.6. 2024 2.9. – 19.9. 2024
The guarantor sets a 14-day period for holding of the state final exams by 3.10.2023 by 7.2.2024 by 10.5.2024
Student Affairs Division publishes a 14-day period for holding of the state final exams by 13.10.2023 by 25.2.2024 by 31.5.2024
Deadline for meeting the conditions for holding of the state final exams no later than 3 working days before the start of the fourteen-day period for holding of the state final exams
The deadline for registering for individual parts of the state final exams (including thesis defense) and submitting the bachelor's thesis in SIS (performed by the student):
Registration and submitting of theses from 1.11.2023 from 1.3.2024 from 1.6.2024
Study programmes of the biology section by 12.12.2023, 12:00 hod. (for the SPs focused on 
education by 3.1. 2024, 12:00 hod.)
by 30.4.2024, 12:00 hod. by 8.8.2024, 12:00 hod.
Study programmes of the geography section by 12.12.2023, 12:00 hod. by 30.4.2024, 12:00 hod. by 31.7.2024, 12:00 hod.
Study programmes of the geology section and IES by 12.12.2023, 12:00 hod. by 30.4.2024, 12:00 hod. by 31.7.2024, 12:00 hod.
Study programmes of the chemistry section by 12.12. 2023, 12:00 hod. by 24.5.2024, 12:00 hod. by 23.8.2024, 12:00 hod.
The deadline for registering for individual parts of the state final exams (including thesis defense) and submitting the master's thesis in SIS (performed by the student):
Registration and submitting of theses from 1.11.2023 from 1.3.2024 from 1.6.2024
Study programmes of the biology section by 12.12.2023, 12:00 hod (for the teaching SP by 3.1.2024, 12:00 hod.) by 30.4.2024, 12:00 hod. by 8.8.2024, 12:00 hod.
Study programmes of the geography section by 12.12.2023, 12:00 hod. by 30.4.2024, 12:00 hod. by 31.7.2024, 12:00 hod.
Study programmes of the geology section and IES by 12.12.2023, 12:00 hod. by 30.4.2024, 12:00 hod. by 31.7.2024, 12:00 hod.
Study programmes of the chemistry section by 12.12.2023, 12:00 hod. by 17.5.2024, 12:00 hod. by 23.8.2024, 12:00 hod.
Chairman of the state final exams commission Sets out specific dates in which individual students will fulfil the relevant part of the state final exam (no later than seven days before)
Chairman of the state final exams commission Hands over the protocols to the Student Affairs Division no later than three working days after the state final exam (in the autumn term no later than 20. 9. 2024)

 


The dates of the final exams of supplementary pedagogical studies within the life-long education programmes
Pedagogika a psychologie 4.3. – 15.3. 2024 9.9. – 20.9. 2024
Didaktika, obhajoba 15.1. – 16.2. 2024 27.5. – 21.6. 2024 2.9. – 20.9. 2024
The guarantor sets a 14-day period for holding of the final exams 3.10.2023 7.2.2024 10.5.2024
Student Affairs Division publishes a 14-day period for holding of the final exams 13.10.2023 25.2.2024 31.5.2024
Deadline of submitting of thesis Same as the term for master study of teacher programmes of the relevant section Same as the term for master study of teacher  programmes of the relevant section Same as the term for master study of teacher programmes of the relevant section
Registration and logging out of the final exams to Pedagogika a psychologie programme  performed by the participant) from 8.1. 2024 to 25.2. 2024 from 1.6. 2024 to 31.7. 2024
Registration and logging out of the final exams to Didaktika a obhajoba programme (performed by the participant) from 1.11. 2023 to 3.1. 2024 od 1.3. to 30.4. 2024 from 1.6. to 31.7. 2024

 

Art. 6
Doctoral studies


Generating individual study plans
 
Autumn term

Spring term
Registration of the dissertation’s topic by supervisor, definition of the individual study plan by student and its approval by the supervisor by 15.10.2023 by 20.3.2024
Approval of the individual study plan by the subject-area board by 30.11.2023 by 30.4.2024

 


Evaluation of the individual study plans
   
Extraordinary
 
Annual
Initiation of evaluation 1.4.2024 1.8.2024
Student submits the evaluation to the supervisor 10.4.2024 18.9.2024
Supervisor submits the evaluation to the subject-area board 17.4.2024 30.9.2024
Approval by the subject-area board and guarantee 30.4.2024 22.10.2024

 

 
The state doctoral examinations and dissertation defenses

Students register for the state doctoral examination by submitting a written application on the prescribed form to the study department.

They are automatically registered for the dissertation defense upon submission of the thesis in SIS.

The state doctoral examination and dissertation defense must be realized no  later than 3 months since the doctoral examination/defense registration (or since fulfilling the requirements by the ISP student).

The chair of the board of examiners will hand over the protocols to the Student Affairs Division in no later than three working days after the state  doctoral examination/dissertation takes place.

 

Art. 7
Graduation ceremony and matriculation ceremony

Matriculation ceremony in Aula Magna, Carolinum 10.10.2023
Bachelor graduation ceremony in refectory, House for the Proffesed 28.11.2023 – 30.11.2023
19.4.2024
Master graduation ceremony in Aula Magna, Carolinum 10.11.2023 – 13.11.2023
19.4.2024
25.7.2024
Doctoral graduation ceremony in Aula Magna, Carolinum 27.11.2023 – 28.11.2023
27.5.2024
Rigorosum graduation ceremony in Aula Magna, Carolinum 28.11.2023
21.5.2024

 

Art. 8
Concluding remarks

  1. This measure comes into force from the date of publication. It is valid until 30. 11. 2024.
  2. As a person responsible for the realisation of this measure and its control I hereby appoint the
    Vice-Dean for Student Affairs and the Head of the Student Affairs Division.

 

In Prague on 28. June 2023

  prof. RNDr. Jiří Zima, CSc.
Dean of the Faculty

 


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