摘要：This article analyses students' autonomous workload in some of the courses on university fine arts degrees. This is the most difficult, controversial facet of the European Credit Transfer System, and its adjustment in the new degree courses will require regular monitoring. After a brief description of the nature of the ECTS and the problems involved in calculated the hours of students' workload, the article proposes a procedure of estimation based on the activities performed as part of two learning portfolio models. The student's total workload on a course is calculated by adding together this estimation and the hours devoted to the other blocks initially included in the program: work in the lecture-room, and guided learning activities
