Arts Law At Monash Uni

[ninwa]

I have a few questions.
If I want to do Arts - how many Art subjects do I pick?
I don't really understand the whole major and minor thing.
Also for law, how many law subjects do I pick or are they all core?
Thanks : D

Here is the course map for BA/LLB:



As you can see, you pick 16 arts subjects.
(Ignore the stuff about "arts major", "arts minor", "elective" etc. You can tailor that to your own needs - for example, if you want to do a double major instead of a bunch of electives. Definitely see a course adviser - I can only help you so much.)

Re: majors - see my post to andy456. Basically: one subject is 6 credit points. A major is when you do 48 credit points' worth (i.e. 8 subjects) in a particular area. A minor is when you do 24 points' worth (i.e. 4 subjects).

Re: law subjects - the law subjects listed in that table which don't have a * next to them are the core subjects. They are compulsory and you cannot graduate with a law degree without completing those.

The subjects with a * next to them (Equity, Trusts, corporations law, civil procedure, lawyers/ethics/society, and evidence) are quasi-compulsory. You can get a law degree without doing those, but you won't be able to practice as a lawyer in Victoria.

Also, as you can see in the table, you can pick 8 electives. These can be anything you want. I've uploaded a copy of the list of electives offered in 2010 if you want to have a look at the types of law you can choose to study.

[Muuru]

Arts is a lot less stressful. Arts students are generally far more laid-back (although politics tutorials often will involve a lot of fiery discussion! And even in non-related subjects when the topic somehow turns to politics... there will often be that amusing showdown between the hippy leftie and the conservative right-winger.)

Slightly off-topic, but fiery discussion isn't exclusive to politics. Just last week, two students in one of my English classes got into a fierce argument about Twilight in the second week. It was INTENSE. The antagonistic student even kept telling the tutor (who gave a lecture in the first hour of class) that her ideas were bullshit without explaining why. The argument freaked the whole class and the tutor out. You needed to have been there to know how bad it was, haha.

Amusing? Maybe. But the way these two students were going at it... I hadn't seen anything like it at uni before. I've taken several PLT units before as well and the discussions in those tutorials didn't even come close in ferocity.

[Glockmeister]

Man, by comparison, Science is quite docile.

[Cthulhu]

Arts is a lot less stressful. Arts students are generally far more laid-back (although politics tutorials often will involve a lot of fiery discussion! And even in non-related subjects when the topic somehow turns to politics... there will often be that amusing showdown between the hippy leftie and the conservative right-winger.)

Slightly off-topic, but fiery discussion isn't exclusive to politics. Just last week, two students in one of my English classes got into a fierce argument about Twilight in the second week. It was INTENSE. The antagonistic student even kept telling the tutor (who gave a lecture in the first hour of class) that her ideas were bullshit without explaining why. The argument freaked the whole class and the tutor out. You needed to have been there to know how bad it was, haha.

Amusing? Maybe. But the way these two students were going at it... I hadn't seen anything like it at uni before. I've taken several PLT units before as well and the discussions in those tutorials didn't even come close in ferocity.

Was the lecture recorded? what class was it for?