DigiPen (Singapore) adopts Singapore Institute of Technology’s (SIT) trimester calendar system, which is comparable to ACCSC’s definition of a semester system.
DigiPen (Singapore)’s academic year comprises 3 trimesters, illustrated in each degree’s Recommended Course Sequence. Each trimester has 14 weeks comprising 12 weeks of instruction, 1 week of study break and 1 week final assessment period. Each degree program requires 240 credits for the award of the degree and are delivered in modules. Each module is assigned a certain number of credits. The credit hour is a measure of student’s workload and academic value of each module
From AY 2020/2021 onwards, DigiPen (Singapore) defines a credit hour as follows:
Generally, 1 credit requires at least 25 notional hours of contact time (lecture or supervised laboratory), projects, practical work, self-study, continual assessment (CA) and examination for a trimester.
The minimum contact time per credit requires at least 8 hours of classroom instruction, or 12 hours of supervised laboratory, or 30 hours of internship experience (excluding Integrated Work Study Program) for a trimester.