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Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: schmalex on January 16, 2011, 10:28:40 pm
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WHO HAS DONE A FIRST YEAR ARTS SUBJECT AND WAS IT ANY GOOD. go!
Also, does anyone else find the study planner ridiculously difficult to use?
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The study planner is a pain, but since its main purpose is to ensure that people aren't running into cul de sacs with their subject selections in 2nd and 3rd year, it must have been a nightmare for the uni to come up with a system that takes into account all possible paths to a major and doesn't tell anybody they haven't finished their degree when they have. :P
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Do you at least get used to it? It's kind of doing my head in :P
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Do you at least get used to it? It's kind of doing my head in :P
It helps if you collapse all of it and then expand the ones you want. Still, it's a pain. Even for students who have used it many times.
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Yeah. It's basically split up into three sections: your major, your electives and your breadth. If you're doing history, for example, you click the choose button next to your major to select history subjects, the choose button next to your electives for French subjects and the choose button next to your breadth for geology subject. Each section is also split up into 100, 200 and 300 level subjects, so just pick the one that's relevant to the subject you want. If there's more than one option - e.g. '200-300 level subjects' AND '200 level subjects' - then just pick either: as long as it'll accept the subject, you're fine.
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The study plan is a confusing mess. Watch the help videos, they're the only saving grace
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Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.
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Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.
I was thinking of taking Globalisation. Not because I particularly wanted to, just because I'm thinking it might be useful for a politics students. What didn't you like about it?
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Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.
I was thinking of taking Globalisation. Not because I particularly wanted to, just because I'm thinking it might be useful for a politics students. What didn't you like about it?
I didn't take it but the assessment and the premise are ridiculous. Tbqh, there is no subject that you can take where you won't learn about globalisation anyway. My friend took the subject and she was under constant pressure (more so than everyone else, haha) and she claimed it was a nightmare - you have to do a referenced blog entry every single week and you have stupid assignments.
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Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.
I was thinking of taking Globalisation. Not because I particularly wanted to, just because I'm thinking it might be useful for a politics students. What didn't you like about it?
I didn't take it but the assessment and the premise are ridiculous. Tbqh, there is no subject that you can take where you won't learn about globalisation anyway. My friend took the subject and she was under constant pressure (more so than everyone else, haha) and she claimed it was a nightmare - you have to do a referenced blog entry every single week and you have stupid assignments.
Do you know anything about the other IDF subjects. And I was thinking of literature, but the stuff they study seemed quite obscure and difficult.
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Apparently they all suck but the ones I've heard good things/the least bad things about are Democracy and Understanding Asia
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Apparently they all suck but the ones I've heard good things/the least bad things about are Democracy and Understanding Asia
This is much the same as what I've heard, except that Democracy doesn't really cater to my interests very well, and PPE is really tempting because I'm pretty sure it'd be really really easy. And I saw the exam for Self and Other which made it look interesting :S I can't make decisions! All the subjects seem to have good and bad points :S
Anyone know anything about first year philosophy, asian studies, or history?
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If you want exams I can post them so you can see what it's like.
I did 1st year philosophy...it was both interesting and crap. Weekly assignments (top 5 counted) and a major essay - my essay was on the first six weeks of content, so everything after that I just tuned out for because my assessment was over. That might have made it seem much less interesting. Overall it was okay, certain parts were engaging but some of the other students were irritating (typical arts/philosophy stereotype) and the lecturer was average. To be honest, i skipped more than half the lectures and never bothered listening to them online so that should give you an idea of how interesting they were haha
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Lol, which philosophy subject was it?
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It's since been cut as part of the Melbourne Model's "eradicate arts" focus, but it was taught by Kristian Camillieri who teaches all the other 1st year subjects.
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Just wondering - If you choose a major, such as English, and after a semester/year you really dislike it, how difficult is it to swap majors? Would this mean your course is lengthened to catch up on units you missed out on in your new major? Is swapping even at all possible?
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Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.
I was thinking of taking Globalisation. Not because I particularly wanted to, just because I'm thinking it might be useful for a politics students. What didn't you like about it?
I didn't take it but the assessment and the premise are ridiculous. Tbqh, there is no subject that you can take where you won't learn about globalisation anyway. My friend took the subject and she was under constant pressure (more so than everyone else, haha) and she claimed it was a nightmare - you have to do a referenced blog entry every single week and you have stupid assignments.
Do you know anything about the other IDF subjects. And I was thinking of literature, but the stuff they study seemed quite obscure and difficult.
The Literature and Performance subject is really good, and if you've done lit in vce you already know how to do the assessment.
All the IDFs are crap, I didn't take any because my course is oldgen but they are all shit and yes, Democracy and Understanding Asia are the best ones.
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Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.
I was thinking of taking Globalisation. Not because I particularly wanted to, just because I'm thinking it might be useful for a politics students. What didn't you like about it?
I didn't take it but the assessment and the premise are ridiculous. Tbqh, there is no subject that you can take where you won't learn about globalisation anyway. My friend took the subject and she was under constant pressure (more so than everyone else, haha) and she claimed it was a nightmare - you have to do a referenced blog entry every single week and you have stupid assignments.
Do you know anything about the other IDF subjects. And I was thinking of literature, but the stuff they study seemed quite obscure and difficult.
The Literature and Performance subject is really good, and if you've done lit in vce you already know how to do the assessment.
All the IDFs are crap, I didn't take any because my course is oldgen but they are all shit and yes, Democracy and Understanding Asia are the best ones.
Hm....you have tempted me. Although I've already studied a few of the texts, it could be quite interesting. I'm never going to make up my mind...
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You only spend a week on each text though so best to read them before uni starts.
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Well then it's a very good thing I've already read Pride and Prejudice and Great Expectations, which are probably among the longer texts there....if I decide on this subject :S
EDIT: Great Expectations and P+P actually took me a really long time to read the first time. Particularly Great Expectations. I dunno if I'd be able to read through all of that if I hadn't already read them once.
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The good news is you don't have to read all the texts because you choose which ones you do the assessment on.
One of Romeo/Juliet and Othello for Assessment 1.
One of Romeo/Juliet or Othello or Romantic Poetry for Assessment 2.
And any of the texts for assessment three, two of them for a comparison.
But you can't do the same text twice.
So I did my assessment on R/J, romantic poetry and then P+P and A Doll's House. I only technically had to read those four.
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Globalisation - I actually thought it was pretty good. The blog thing is just easy marks, I got 100% on the blog because it is so straight forward. The lectures get a bit boring towards the end, but there are some great lecturers in the subject. The main english guy was great. Really informative. I would definitely choose this over Self and Other
Homer to Hollywood - Absolutely hated it during semester 1. Still the worst subject I have done at Uni. However, I did literally not one minute of study for the exam, was sitting on about a 60% average for the year and still managed to get an 80. As did all of my friends. This is quite possibly the easiest marked subject in Arts. So if you have any passing interest in literature, reading, film then maybe this is a decent choice.
Intro to Cinema Studies - Great subject. Good for easing into Arts, and the movies they choose are really interesting.
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I'm thinking of doing Self and Other and Knowing Nature, or whatever they're called.
I liked the subject descriptions.
Self and other made me think of Identity and Belonging Context, haha.
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Self and Other is alright, I wrote a Self and Other essay for my friend without doing the subject and she got a 79 (y)
The assessment was shit easy though.
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Sorry for bringing up an 'oldish' thread but I'm contemplating what arts subject I'm going to take next semester. I'm currently tossing up between 'Media, Culture and Everyday Life' and 'Intercultural Communication'.
I went through this thread and read that Media, culture and everyday life was terrible and I was wondering what's so bad about it? For anyone who's done it, what are the assignments like? (reading through the subject description for it on the handbook, it says the assignments involve a multimedia essay, an advertisement/storyboard/video and an essay/video).
On the other hand Intercultural Communication involves 2 research essays (which I don't really like writing) worth 70% and an exam worth 30%. Has anyone done this subject? What exactly is it about/like?
Essentially I'm trying to find another area to major in other than Psychology. Linguistics I'm not entirely sure about considering I don't know all that much about it, whether I'll be passionate about it or where it could lead. Conversely, Media and Communications as a major could lead me into journalism which I think would be interesting although I'm worried because I have no interest/no nothing about politics and I wonder whether this will affect how much I enjoy the subjects. I've look through the list of majors within BA and nothing really sticks out. English possibly although I'm worried about the reading load. I'd be interested to know what other people doing BA are majoring in.
So yeah, any opinions are welcome :).
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Okay well here's the deal. If you take CMEDL, you will get an easy H1. However, you will become severely frustrated with your life and hate every part of university because the subject is so horrible and everyone things it is a massive waste of time. I did not choose to do it, it was a core.
The assignments are relatively easy, especially because the media students could recycle sources. The blog could be alright depending on how much you enjoyed writing that way and keeping up with it.
It's the actual content and the lecturer that are awful. The tutes are a massive waste of your time, yet a hurdle requirement. We watched youtube videos in ours. And the subject matter is boring and dull, mostly about...leftist ideals and how much capitalism sucks. Which is probably why I hate the lecturer so much, she is a leftist feminist lesbian who annoyed me with her pretentious academia. The other lecturer is the most boring speaker you will ever encounter and will send you to sleep.
The readings are huge and the biggest bane of your existence.
I spoke to one person who enjoyed CMEDL and knew about fifty taking it because of it being a core for my degree. And I don't think CMEDL will lead you in to a Comm major anyway! You'd be better off trying out Professional Writing (or whatever they call that subject now) since CMEDL leads into screen and cultural studies which is a major a couple of my friends are taking now.
Good majors I hear nice things about include:
- Criminology
- English
- History
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Haha thanks for the honest review!
You've swayed me somewhat as having done Homer To Hollywood, I would hate to do another subject that will make me frustrated with life and is a massive waste of time. Are the lectures even helpful at all? As in could you just skip them and still do well? I'm really not sure what to choose anymore.
I think they've changed the course such that to do a Media & Comm major you need to do one of the following 1st year subjects:
CICU10001 Introduction to Cinema Studies (SEM 1)
SOCI10001 Understanding Society (SEM 1)
CICU10002 Culture, Media and Everyday Life (SEM 2)
HIST10008 The World That Made Us: 1945 to Today (SEM 1)
DEVT10001 The Developing World (SEM 1)
HPSC10001 From Plato to Einstein (SEM 2)
ASIA10001 Language and Power in Asian Societies (SEM 1)
PHIL10002 Philosophy: The Big Questions (SEM 1)
So if I do want to persue a major in Media & Comm I'll need to do either CICU10002 Culture, Media and Everyday Life or HPSC10001 From Plato to Einstein.
Hmm ... Criminology and History I don't think I'd be interested in but I was considering English for a while. Just worried about all the reading involved with it, in that I'm not sure I'd be able to keep up. Thanks for your honest opinion though! It's given me a lot to consider.
I wish I knew someone who does linguistics ...
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ICU10001 Introduction to Cinema Studies (SEM 1)
SOCI10001 Understanding Society (SEM 1)
CICU10002 Culture, Media and Everyday Life (SEM 2)
HIST10008 The World That Made Us: 1945 to Today (SEM 1)
DEVT10001 The Developing World (SEM 1)
HPSC10001 From Plato to Einstein (SEM 2)
ASIA10001 Language and Power in Asian Societies (SEM 1)
PHIL10002 Philosophy: The Big Questions (SEM 1)
I'm doing The Developing World and it's my biggest regret. I thought from the description in the handbook that it was going to be case study focused. In reality it's a heap of theories that I think is pointless. Plus the tutorials are used for individual presentations on developing countries so there's no time for discussion or to clarify the lecture, which is horrible because the lectures aren't the easiest to listen to and understand.
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@ marr - what sort of a career are you looking for after your degree? As we've discussed I'm going to be following a similar course to you - I think Psychology is well complemented by subjects within the Philosophy and even Linguistics domain (when you discuss semantics, development of language, etc.). As I mentioned I'll be doing Intercultural Communication next semester. I can see how linguistics can become quite dry, though, I know someone at Monash that complained of that. Criminology I also hear good things about.
As you were considering before, I don't think there's much wrong in just doing a minor in another area (or just filling things up with subjects that interest you if you're allowed), especially if Psychology is your main focus.
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Psychology is pretty much my main focus so I guess it doesn't matter too much what I decide to do with my other subjects as long as I can do well in them to get good enough grades for 4th year Psych. The subject Intercultural communication interests me however if I do choose to do the major, some of the later linguistic subjects don't seem all that great. Are you planning to do a linguistics major?
That's true. I've been contemplating just doing a psychology major and what other random subjects I would choose to fill in the gaps. The only problem I've found is finding 2nd year subjects that don't have 1st year subject pre-requiresites and are interesting.
Also, for the 3rd year psych elective subjects in which we are supposed to choose 2:
PSYC30017 Advanced Studies of Human Cognition
PSYC30016 Developing Persons in Social Worlds
PSYC30018 Neuroscience and the Mind
PSYC30012 The Unconscious Mind
PSYC30022 Advanced Personality & Social Psychology
PSYC30019 Development of the Thinking Child
PSYC30015 Organisational Psychology
PSYC30020 Psychology of Sleep and Emotions
PSYC30014 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Are these all considered arts subjects or are they science? What I'm really trying figure out is if I decide to do 3 of these subjects, will the extra one be counted as part of my arts degree or part of my breadth if it is considered a science subject.
ICU10001 Introduction to Cinema Studies (SEM 1)
SOCI10001 Understanding Society (SEM 1)
CICU10002 Culture, Media and Everyday Life (SEM 2)
HIST10008 The World That Made Us: 1945 to Today (SEM 1)
DEVT10001 The Developing World (SEM 1)
HPSC10001 From Plato to Einstein (SEM 2)
ASIA10001 Language and Power in Asian Societies (SEM 1)
PHIL10002 Philosophy: The Big Questions (SEM 1)
I'm doing The Developing World and it's my biggest regret. I thought from the description in the handbook that it was going to be case study focused. In reality it's a heap of theories that I think is pointless. Plus the tutorials are used for individual presentations on developing countries so there's no time for discussion or to clarify the lecture, which is horrible because the lectures aren't the easiest to listen to and understand.
I've heard that it's really dry and has heaps of readings each week. I'm really trying to go out of my way to avoid these subjects since I've been having a bad experience with Homer to Hollywood at the moment. I guess it's good to learn what field areas you are interested and not interested in early. What major are you planning to do, if you don't mind me asking?
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I'm quite sure that all Psychology subjects don't need to be classified as either Arts or Science - if you're doing Arts then they are all part of Arts. You can do two as part of your Breadth if you want to complete two majors. http://www.ba.unimelb.edu.au/about/course-structure.html - bottom few samples. With your third year the extra one will be done in Breadth (as a special exception) and obviously included as part of your Arts major.
Speaking of which, what second year Psych subjects are you thinking of choosing? :)
Double check to be sure that you can come out of Arts with one major only but I don't see any reason why you couldn't Sociology is also an option and ranks pretty highly amongst people I've spoken to as an interesting subject - and one that probably aligns with Psych.
I'm definitely considering a Linguistics major. I'm setting myself up for options in Psychology (which I'll almost definitely be doing), Linguistics and Philosophy. If the latter two aren't good, I'll probably just minor in them and then reclaim some Breadth for qualifying myself to teach Biology in schools and some Arts space so I can study a language.
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Thanks for clearing that up and that link was very helpful ;)! Looking at that I'm thinking of using two 2nd year Psych subjects as breadth so that I can save some breadth for 3rd year.
I thought we didn't get to choose Psych electives until 3rd year as we have to do 'Cognitive Psychology', 'Biological Psychology', 'Personality and Social Psychology' and 'Developmental Psychology' next year.
In terms of 3rd year though I'm not all that sure yet as depending on how much I enjoy the second year subjects will affect what I choose for 3rd year. Right now, if I had order them from most interested to least interested it would be:
The Psychopathology of everyday life
Advanced Personality & Social Psychology
Psychology of sleep and emotions
The unconscious mind
Organisational psychology
Developing persons in social worlds
Advanced studies of human cognition
Development of the thinking child
Neuroscience and the mind
There's a very thin line with the order of the 'middlish' subjects. Do you have any idea what you might be interested in yet?
I think you can. From the handbook it says "The Bachelor of Arts offers unique flexibility with the opportunity to focus on one or two majors or a major and a minor chosen from a broad range of Arts programs". I could always persue something as a minor anyway. Yeah I know quite a few people doing Psychology and Sociology. I read the description for sociology and it sounds a bit like Self and Other so I might consider that.
That sounds good! I've always wanted to do philosophy as well so I may check that out. Sounds like you've got everything planned out very well! ;)
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Whoops, my bad, you're right, no electives in second year :)
My interests are similar to yours except for Psychopathology, but almost everything there seems awesome, it's going to be sooo hard to pick! Very thin line like you said. Will have to see what takes my fancy in second year.
Advanced Personality & Social Psychology
Psychology of sleep and emotions
The unconscious mind
Development of the thinking child
Advanced studies of human cognition
Organisational psychology
Developing persons in social worlds
Neuroscience and the mind
The Psychopathology of everyday life
Re the handbook, I guess you can only do one major and no minor. I re-read it and I suppose I overlooked that part. Good news for you :)
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>: Why all the hate for neuroscience and the mind guise.
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I was wondering why you had psychopathology last and then I looked up what it was and it was nothing like what I expected it to be! :P Looks like we might be in a few of each others classes in the future :)
>: Why all the hate for neuroscience and the mind guise.
I don't think it'll be all that popular with Arts kids :)
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>: Why all the hate for neuroscience and the mind guise.
Stuff like this :(
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>: Why all the hate for neuroscience and the mind guise.
Stuff like this :(
* shivers from complexity overload * - precisely why. I'm quite a sciencey person but not sure if I'd cope with the extreme detail and blandness of it all.
I was wondering why you had psychopathology last and then I looked up what it was and it was nothing like what I expected it to be! :P Looks like we might be in a few of each others classes in the future :)
Haha :) We're almost doing the same Arts course, especially if you go with Linguistics. Will see you round at Melbs :D
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Psychology is pretty much my main focus so I guess it doesn't matter too much what I decide to do with my other subjects as long as I can do well in them to get good enough grades for 4th year Psych. The subject Intercultural communication interests me however if I do choose to do the major, some of the later linguistic subjects don't seem all that great. Are you planning to do a linguistics major?
That's true. I've been contemplating just doing a psychology major and what other random subjects I would choose to fill in the gaps. The only problem I've found is finding 2nd year subjects that don't have 1st year subject pre-requiresites and are interesting.
Also, for the 3rd year psych elective subjects in which we are supposed to choose 2:
PSYC30017 Advanced Studies of Human Cognition
PSYC30016 Developing Persons in Social Worlds
PSYC30018 Neuroscience and the Mind
PSYC30012 The Unconscious Mind
PSYC30022 Advanced Personality & Social Psychology
PSYC30019 Development of the Thinking Child
PSYC30015 Organisational Psychology
PSYC30020 Psychology of Sleep and Emotions
PSYC30014 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Are these all considered arts subjects or are they science? What I'm really trying figure out is if I decide to do 3 of these subjects, will the extra one be counted as part of my arts degree or part of my breadth if it is considered a science subject.
ICU10001 Introduction to Cinema Studies (SEM 1)
SOCI10001 Understanding Society (SEM 1)
CICU10002 Culture, Media and Everyday Life (SEM 2)
HIST10008 The World That Made Us: 1945 to Today (SEM 1)
DEVT10001 The Developing World (SEM 1)
HPSC10001 From Plato to Einstein (SEM 2)
ASIA10001 Language and Power in Asian Societies (SEM 1)
PHIL10002 Philosophy: The Big Questions (SEM 1)
I'm doing The Developing World and it's my biggest regret. I thought from the description in the handbook that it was going to be case study focused. In reality it's a heap of theories that I think is pointless. Plus the tutorials are used for individual presentations on developing countries so there's no time for discussion or to clarify the lecture, which is horrible because the lectures aren't the easiest to listen to and understand.
I've heard that it's really dry and has heaps of readings each week. I'm really trying to go out of my way to avoid these subjects since I've been having a bad experience with Homer to Hollywood at the moment. I guess it's good to learn what field areas you are interested and not interested in early. What major are you planning to do, if you don't mind me asking?
I'm taking Developing World and everyone I talk to in it loves it. There are a lot of readings but they are all optional. They just want you to read SOMETHING depending on what you're interested in. Developing world covers a lot of different areas, including philosophy, anthropology, politics, history and economics (ish). I'm majoring in Economics and also interested in politics and anthropology and basically all of the disciplines I just listed and Developing World is my favourite subject. I was actually interested in a lot of the subjects you picked. I'm taking:
Intermediate Microeconomics
Quantitative Methods (statistics subject for economics major)
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Plato to Einstein
International Politics
Developing World
and then my IDFs are PPE and Self and Other, to give you an idea of the sorts of things I'm interested in.
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^ Are the intermediate economic subjects level 2 subjects? How are you finding them in comparison to 1st year economics subjects? It's good that you know what areas of study you like and you've picked subjects that suit that.
>: Why all the hate for neuroscience and the mind guise.
Stuff like this :(
That really scares me! :o
>: Why all the hate for neuroscience and the mind guise.
Stuff like this :(
* shivers from complexity overload * - precisely why. I'm quite a sciencey person but not sure if I'd cope with the extreme detail and blandness of it all.
I was wondering why you had psychopathology last and then I looked up what it was and it was nothing like what I expected it to be! :P Looks like we might be in a few of each others classes in the future :)
Haha :) We're almost doing the same Arts course, especially if you go with Linguistics. Will see you round at Melbs :D
Pretty much! I just had a looked up what psycholinguistics is and that actually seems realyl interesting. Sigh .. it seems I can't make up my mind.
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Oooohhh Psycholinguistics sounds groovy, just read up on it :)
What subjects are you doing now again? You should be able to structure your course so you have the opportunity to go on to three possible majors in second year.
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^ Are the intermediate economic subjects level 2 subjects? How are you finding them in comparison to 1st year economics subjects? It's good that you know what areas of study you like and you've picked subjects that suit that.
>: Why all the hate for neuroscience and the mind guise.
Stuff like this :(
That really scares me! :o
>: Why all the hate for neuroscience and the mind guise.
Stuff like this :(
* shivers from complexity overload * - precisely why. I'm quite a sciencey person but not sure if I'd cope with the extreme detail and blandness of it all.
I was wondering why you had psychopathology last and then I looked up what it was and it was nothing like what I expected it to be! :P Looks like we might be in a few of each others classes in the future :)
Haha :) We're almost doing the same Arts course, especially if you go with Linguistics. Will see you round at Melbs :D
Pretty much! I just had a looked up what psycholinguistics is and that actually seems realyl interesting. Sigh .. it seems I can't make up my mind.
Second year is a lot more dry, but it's quite interesting because it's a lot less general and you can go into things deeper. It's also quite a bit harder and involves more maths. It makes first year subjects look pretty easy, but it's good to have things staggered as well.
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Random question - Provided we have completed and passed a level one breadth subject in first semester, are we allowed to enrol into a level 2 breadth subject in second semester?
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Random question - Provided we have completed and passed a level one breadth subject in first semester, are we allowed to enrol into a level 2 breadth subject in second semester?
Yes. Just make sure that you fulfill the minimum breadth component of your degree some time and the breadth combinations won't matter at all.
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Oooohhh Psycholinguistics sounds groovy, just read up on it :)
What subjects are you doing now again? You should be able to structure your course so you have the opportunity to go on to three possible majors in second year.
Right now I'm doing: Mind, Brain & Behaviour 1, From Homer to Hollywood, Creative Writing: Ideas & Practice and Accounting Reports & Analysis for breadth. Originally I wanted to also persue a major in creative writing but I've decided not to now. I guess that means I only have the option of the possibility of going on with 2 majors for second year.
@sah123: What level 2 breadth are you considering?
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>: Why all the hate for neuroscience and the mind guise.
Stuff like this :(
* shivers from complexity overload * - precisely why. I'm quite a sciencey person but not sure if I'd cope with the extreme detail and blandness of it all.
Pfft you guys are chicken! I'm excited for it.
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Pfft you guys are chicken! I'm excited for it.
Don't you dare offend me into studying it! :P I'll see.
Right now I'm doing: Mind, Brain & Behaviour 1, From Homer to Hollywood, Creative Writing: Ideas & Practice and Accounting Reports & Analysis for breadth. Originally I wanted to also persue a major in creative writing but I've decided not to now. I guess that means I only have the option of the possibility of going on with 2 majors for second year.
Hmm yeah I guess you are... Seems pretty rigid for an apparently flexible model. Big decision for you next semester, all the best :)
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Random question - Provided we have completed and passed a level one breadth subject in first semester, are we allowed to enrol into a level 2 breadth subject in second semester?
Yes. Just make sure that you fulfill the minimum breadth component of your degree some time and the breadth combinations won't matter at all.
Thanks for that. How do we enrol into a level 2 subject though? On my study planner it will only allow me to add another level one breadth component for next semester.
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Random question - Provided we have completed and passed a level one breadth subject in first semester, are we allowed to enrol into a level 2 breadth subject in second semester?
Yes. Just make sure that you fulfill the minimum breadth component of your degree some time and the breadth combinations won't matter at all.
Thanks for that. How do we enrol into a level 2 subject though? On my study planner it will only allow me to add another level one breadth component for next semester.
Have you tried scrolling down to level 2 breadth? Or maybe they've disabled enrolling. But I doubt it since I changed subjects for next semester 2 weeks ago.
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Random question - Provided we have completed and passed a level one breadth subject in first semester, are we allowed to enrol into a level 2 breadth subject in second semester?
Yes. Just make sure that you fulfill the minimum breadth component of your degree some time and the breadth combinations won't matter at all.
Thanks for that. How do we enrol into a level 2 subject though? On my study planner it will only allow me to add another level one breadth component for next semester.
Have you tried scrolling down to level 2 breadth? Or maybe they've disabled enrolling. But I doubt it since I changed subjects for next semester 2 weeks ago.
I tried to do that but it says there is an error in processing. I also heard from a professor today that first years are not allowed to do second year subjects which is veeeeery annoying! Unless, however, we get special permission :S
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LIES.
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LIES.
Yeah. Lies. I know someone who did Business Finance in their second semester of uni.
I'd wager that it's the buggy portal playing up again. Try again tomorrow morning and if it doesn't prevail, go to your student centre.
On a final note, this shall once be said again:
In the words of Jamison:
I BLAME THE MELBOURNE MODEL.
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Gosh darn it, lies?! That's reassuring. It still doesn't work so I guess I have to visit the Student Centre *sigh*
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Hey I just realised that in the handbook it says that out of the 75 points that are not arts subjects, you have to do at least 50 points of breadth with the other 25 being either arts subjects or more breadth.
Potentially would that mean I could hedge my bets and do 3 arts subjects and the IDF next semester with no breadth? Just wanted to make sure. :)
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You only have to do 4 breadth yeah. If you did one in 1st semester then you have to do another 3 across your next 5 semesters. You can do 4 arts subjects if you want in semester 2
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That's good to know. Do I need to have my study plan ammended to do this though as currently it comes up with this:[IMG]http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9225/breadthtrack.jpg[/img]
meaning I can't pick a fifth arts discipline subect for the year? At the moment if I click choose subject it only comes up with breadth subjects and not arts ones.
Sorry for all the questions, the study plan is just really confusing to me. ???