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Uni Stuff => General University Discussion and Queries => Topic started by: squance on January 15, 2008, 04:17:39 pm

Title: Uni hours
Post by: squance on January 15, 2008, 04:17:39 pm
Heheh!!! I was just looking at my subjects for engineering and was calculating the contact hours for semester 1...

17 hours per week!!!! WOW!!!

In high school it was 30 hours+....WOW!!!

But then there are the extra hours you have to dedicate to studying/reviewing what you learnt at uni... :'(
Title: Re: Uni hours
Post by: Collin Li on January 15, 2008, 05:28:14 pm
But then there are the extra hours you have to dedicate to studying/reviewing what you learnt at uni... :'(

More like getting drunk... :D

Nah, don't worry too much. You won't be doing more than 13 hours of study a week anyway... well you don't need to I think :)
Title: Re: Uni hours
Post by: excal on January 15, 2008, 06:41:58 pm
You study as hard as you need to.

You'll know how much that is when you get there =D

Still...17 hours a week for engineering sounds a little low though! I've found a lot of my friends doing Engineering at the 25-30 mark.
Title: Re: Uni hours
Post by: aidansteele on January 15, 2008, 06:46:55 pm
I know that Sci/Eng is 30-something hours - 35, if I remember correctly. Hurray :p
Title: Re: Uni hours
Post by: costargh on January 15, 2008, 06:48:17 pm
How many hours would be involved for Commerce @ Melb or Monash?
Title: Re: Uni hours
Post by: excal on January 15, 2008, 06:49:40 pm
Not many =D

Similar to what Arts would be - but you'll be spending your free time writing essays!
Title: Re: Uni hours
Post by: Collin Li on January 15, 2008, 06:52:03 pm
My semester 1 was 18, although it was 15 half of the time (pracs don't run every week).
My semester 2 was the same.

My summer semester now is 10 hours, but more like 8 hours since lectures finish very early.

These hours are diluted by Commerce subjects though (usually about 3 hours a week per subject)
Title: Re: Uni hours
Post by: maxleng on January 15, 2008, 06:58:33 pm
how many weeks are usually in a semester?

all ive got for my engineering degree at swinburne is this:

 Year 1
Semester 1
HES1300 Robotics and Mechatronics Project 1
HES1125 Mechanics of Structures
HET124 Energy and Motion
HMS111 Engineering Mathematics 1

 1 Semester     72 Hours
 1 Semester     60 Hours
 1 Semester     5 Hours per Week
 1 Semester     5 Hours per Week
Title: Re: Uni hours
Post by: Collin Li on January 15, 2008, 07:02:20 pm
Twelve. It makes sense too, given your subjects have multiples of 12 for the hours per semester.