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Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: a/b on December 27, 2012, 06:42:11 pm
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to do Principles of Neuroscience as a second year elective in biomed, even though it's also a subject that is available as part of the physiology major I plan on doing in 3rd year? I understand it involves a lot of memorisation. Would I be overwhelmed in taking this level 3 sub in the first semester of 2nd year biomed?
Thanks! :)
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I'm not sure about it, but I do recall my sister saying that this particular unit was harder than the other units that she did, and the general consensus around her was the same. Probably get a biomed student who had done it before to give a better insight.
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to do Principles of Neuroscience as a second year elective in biomed, even though it's also a subject that is available as part of the physiology major I plan on doing in 3rd year? I understand it involves a lot of memorisation. Would I be overwhelmed in taking this level 3 sub in the first semester of 2nd year biomed?
Thanks! :)
Advantages: It is taking away one less level 3 subject that you will have to do in 3rd year. Also if you are applying for post graduate degree where 3rd year results are more highly weighted it will give you the opportunity to explore a non-3rd year subject to alleviate the work load of having to take on multiple 3rd year subjects in the semester. It will also give you the opportunity of testing whether neuroscience is for you since principles is such a general neuroscience subject, you might discover that you should steer clear from neuro-type subjects.
Although I haven't done this subject before. I strongly advise against it just because I believe the subject is offered in first semester. Because you would have come straight from first year, it would be good to complete some second year subjects first to see how you cope with that. As I can understand Biomed students get it harder with their 25pt core subjects in second year which can be a heavy load in conjunction with a 3rd year subject. But doing a third year subject in second semester after you've become familiar with how to focus/study on 2nd year subjects would be a more safer option. A lot of students did this for the Cardiovascular Physiology subject and Viscera and Visceral Systems subject this year.
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Thanks a lot for the replies. I've decided to do Mind, Brain and Behaviour instead [a level 1 subject], as I've got a number of level one subjects left that I can do, and I'll consider your advice of the third year subject in second sem. Thanks again! :)
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to do Principles of Neuroscience as a second year elective in biomed, even though it's also a subject that is available as part of the physiology major I plan on doing in 3rd year? I understand it involves a lot of memorisation. Would I be overwhelmed in taking this level 3 sub in the first semester of 2nd year biomed?
Thanks! :)
Just wanted to let you know that "principles of neuroscience" is in fact not a part of the physiology major you intend to do, it is however part of the "human structure and function major".
"neurophysiology, neurons and circuits" is the one that you will be doing in your physiology major. I just thought that that should be cleared up first, so that you don't end up thinkin that you will be doing "principles of neuroscience" as part of your major.. (maybe you did mean human structure and function instead of physiology, I'm not too sure)
But, I just wanted to let you know...
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Principles of Neuro (I didn't do it) was quite hard/had a heavy workload from what I heard. Although opinions did differ a fair bit.
(On the other hand Neurophysiology was by far the easiet third year subject to do well in that I did. Some of the lecturers were a bit bland though I'll be quite honest, but the assessment was not hard.)
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Oh, ok... I thought it was "part of the physiology major" because in the handbook for physiology, it is a subject we can choose under "Plus two electives selected from:"
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2012/%21R01-AA-MAJ%2B1035
Or am I not getting something?..
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Oh, ok... I thought it was "part of the physiology major" because in the handbook for physiology, it is a subject we can choose under "Plus two electives selected from:"
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2012/%21R01-AA-MAJ%2B1035
Or am I not getting something?..
Yep you're right a/b, but if you intend to do a physiology major with neurophys and principles of neuroscience it'd probably be more wise to consider a neuro major instead, as it doesn't have the compulsory 'Frontiers in Physiology' subject which I've heard is awful. I think you'll get a much better perspective once you've done Human Structure and Function, it really clearly demonstrates the difference between anatomy and physiology (and the quality of the respective teaching departments). In my opinion, and as most of my fellow cohort found but not all, the latter of the two departments was very disorganised which put a lot of people off the major in biomed.
On the other hand, the physiology teaching staff for the science students were outstanding which has led a number of people to choose that major, but unfortunately for them, a lot of the biomed physiology lecturers will be present in third year and the main lecturer which everyone loved in science physiology does not teach third year (at this stage at least).
I know it seems quite trivial for people to be deciding their major according to the teaching staff, but given the stakes of third year, nobody wants to be screwed over by dodgy lecturers who are disorganised.
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Wow, thanks for that. And no I don't think teaching quality is trivial at all. My choice was between anatomy and physiology, so I'll definitely think it through instead of just choosing blindly. Thanks :)
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Oh, ok... I thought it was "part of the physiology major" because in the handbook for physiology, it is a subject we can choose under "Plus two electives selected from:"
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2012/%21R01-AA-MAJ%2B1035
Or am I not getting something?..
Oh sorry about that... I read this quite some time ago and must've missed the "principles of neuroscience"