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NTHU Course Planning Strategy & Academic Regulations

Course Selection Strategy & Priority Ordering

🎯 Step 1: Understand Your Departmental Curriculum Requirements

Master your department's curriculum structure and mandatory/elective planning! Use our university administration systems and course scheduling tools below to map out your semester:

🎯 Step 2: Mind the Semester Credit Load Limits

When planning your weekly schedule, ensure your total registered credits fall strictly within the required minimum and maximum limits for each semester:

Student Category	Credit Load Limits Per Semester
Undergraduate (Years 1–3)	Min. 16 credits, Max. 25 credits
Undergraduate (Year 4+)	Min. 9 credits, Max. 25 credits
Master’s / Doctoral Students	At least 1 course per semester

💡 Special Applications: Overload Application (Exceeding 25 credits) | Underload Application (Below minimum requirement)

🎯 Step 3: Enrollment Execution Strategy

Step 1 — Prioritize enrolling in your department's designated mandatory courses for the current semester.

Step 2 — Allocate remaining credit capacity to electives and General Education (GE) courses (for Undergraduate students).

📌 Administrative Advice: Securing your departmentally planned mandatory credits semester-by-semester is the single most effective baseline strategy to guarantee an on-time graduation.

Get to Know NTHU's Digital Learning Platforms

🎯 Once You Successfully Secure a Course:
NTHU operates two core Learning Management Systems (LMS): eLearn and eeclass. Faculty members select their preferred platform independently. If your instructor activates their course site, all subsequent syllabus updates, course materials, announcements, assignment submissions, and online discussions will be hosted on that platform.

💡 Please note that some instructors may communicate via alternative channels. Always follow the explicit instructions provided by your professors during the first week of class.

💡 Technical Note: After the Add/Drop execution, the backend system requires technical processing time to batch-sync the enrollment database over to the digital learning systems. If a newly added course does not appear on eeclass or eLearn immediately, please allow a few hours for the automated synchronization cycles to refresh.

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