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Electives

Electives give you the chance to shape your degree according to your academic interests.

The bachelor’s programme in Computer Science includes in 10 ECTS of electives during the 6th semester.

When choosing your elective courses, you can find lists of recommended and available electives further down on this page. You are free to choose from the courses on these lists, provided you meet any entry requirements. You can view them in the registration form in SDU Student Self-Service, along with the mandatory courses in your programme.

Please note that although all courses are available, you should still consider whether you meet any academic prerequisites stated in the course description before registering.

If you wish to take a course at the Faculty of Science that does not appear on the lists of recommended and available electives, nor in your registration form in SDU Student Self‑Service, you must submit an elective application form to the faculty’s student counsellors.

In the application form, you must explain why you would like to take the course and describe your academic qualifications for doing so. You can also indicate if one of your lecturers has recommended that you take the course as an elective, or if the student counsellors have already advised you on the rules regarding electives.

The student counsellors will review the completed application form and assess whether your registration appears to be based on sufficient information, or whether they should offer you guidance regarding academic prerequisites and the rules for elective-course registration.

The student counsellors cannot assess academically whether you ought to take the elective. The purpose of the application form – and any subsequent meeting is solely to ensure that you have had the opportunity to obtain relevant information before making your decision about an elective offered by the Faculty of Science but not already available on your registration form.

Once your form has been approved, and after any necessary meeting, you may be registered for the elective provided that you have room for it in your study plan, meet the entry requirements, and there are available places.

You can also apply to take courses offered by another faculty or university. This requires that you find a course which is academically relevant to your degree programme and which fits into your course of study.

Additionally, you must send an application to your study board for pre-approval of credit transfer. If the study board approves the course, you must attach the pre-approval letter when you register for the course at the faculty or university offering the course. Once you have passed the course, you must apply for final credit transfer so that the course can be registered as a passed elective on your programme.

A few electives offered by the Faculty of Science have a capped number of participants.

Procedure for courses with a waiting list

You must have registered for the course in time.

Additionally, you must meet any entry requirements.

We assess all timely registered students when we allocate places for courses with a capped number of participants in case the number of registered students exceeds the number of students places on the course.

The two most commonly used prioritisation methods are the following:

  • The timely registered students are prioritised administratively, according to when they registered for the course.

  • The timely registered students are prioritised by the relevant academic environment at the Faculty of Science on the basis of a number of criteria, which are stated in the course description.

The specific method used for prioritisation is stated in the comments field in the course description.

At any time, PhD students are given first priority for PhD-level courses.

You will be notified by e-mail if you are not admitted to the course. In such case, you will be placed on a waiting list.

If you have been admitted to a course with a waiting list, you must attend the first lesson in order to keep your place on the course or otherwise notify the teacher that you wish to keep your place. This also applies if you are absent due to illness.

If you fail to attend the first lesson without notifying the teacher beforehand, you will be deregistered from the course.

Even if you have been placed on a waiting list for a course due to capacity issues, you should attend the first lesson anyway.

If you have been admitted for a course with a waiting list, but fail to attend the first lesson, you lose your place on the course. Any vacant places will be allocated to students on the waiting list, according to their placement order in the waiting list. Only students attending the first lesson will be considered for a place in the course.

Once teaching has started, the waiting list is annulled.


As a graduate student at the Faculty of Science, you can take graduate courses offered by the Faculty of Science as electives, as long as you meet any entry requirements. Additionally, you can take undergraduate courses as electives, as long as they are outside your primary field of study.

Courses that overlap with constituent subject elements, or which overlap with already passed subject elements, cannot be approved as electives.

If you regret your choice of elective, you may change an elective for another up to three weeks after the start of the semester.

3 exam attempts

You have three attempts to pass each elective, just as you do for your other courses.

If you do not pass the examination by the third attempt, you will generally not be able to continue your programme. Therefore, it is important that you consider your choice of electives carefully before enrolling.

Contact

You’re always welcome to contact the student counsellors if you need guidance – for example in relation to dispensations, credit transfers, programme regulations, individual courses of study, special exam conditions, etc.

Contact the counsellors: See when and how.