UNIVERSITY CREDIT
The Credit Transfer System
The University of Bath uses the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) in which each credit is equivalent to 2 CATS credits (Credit Accumulation Transfer System - also used by some UK universities).
The idea of the system is to allow transfer of academic credit from one institution to another. Of course if you subsequently decide to enrol for the full University of Bath degree that we deliver, you will receive credit for the Units you have completed and won't have to repeat these.
Most of our courses are standard units attracting 6 ECTS (12 CATS) credits, and these have 4 or 5 teaching days. A few are half units (3 ECTS/6 CATS credits) taught over 3 days. We also offer 2 9-credit Units (8 days taught in two 4 day blocks) and one 12-credit Unit (Counselling Skills in an Addiction Treatment Context) taught in two 5 day blocks.
Academic Level
The Units are assessed at 3 academic levels corresponding to the three years of an ordinary bachelor's degree at an English university. At Bath the levels are known as Level C (Certificate level, year 1), Level I (Intermediate level, year 2) and level H (Honours level, year 3).
The Units assessed at Honours level are quite academically challenging and we would normally expect that students on these would have completed the related units at the lower levels, or have appropriate the experience and academic skills.