Need to choose a new breadth subject. :/

[stonecold]

Okay, so it has become glaringly obvious to me since the LMS went live that I've screwed up choosing my breadth subject for this semester.

I quickly need to choose something else and have been looking at this one for a while now.

I checked out the exams and they look relatively straight forward, plus I have always had an interest in property in general.

If  anyone knows anything about this subject, please post.

Thanks.

Edit: Awww shiiiiiiiiiit.  Property Market Analysis only runs in Semester 1.  It is safe to say I am screwed.  :/

More countless hours trawling through the damn handbook.

[Russ]

What subject did you decide against, and why?

I'm enrolled in Living Longer: A Global Diagnosis, which I would actually encourage you to do. I've heard great things about it from friends, saying it's both easy and interesting. I looked at the LMS and it seems very well organised and not too difficult to do well in. The essay is only 2000 words and can be written as a scientific report rather than an essay (ie data, tables, graphs etc.) if the student so chooses.

If not, maybe the mind/body/medicine subject that seems so popular?

[mikee65]

Microeconomics?

[stonecold]

I was going to do Second Language Learning and Teaching.  But it just isn't going to work out because firstly I have very limted understanding of languages other than English which I am probably going to need and secondly, it involves finding and recording people and conducting your own reports and research, which I frankly do not have the time for.

The assessment looks awfully set out as well.  The assignment sheets are already up and they look very vague.  I would rather take a subject with actual essays than do this subject because it actually wouldn't be so bad.

I am really annoyed because I have found so many subjects which I want to do, but they all run in Semester 1

I would really like to do all of these:
-Genetics, Health and Society
-Phonetics
-Grammar of English
-Property Market Analysis

But yeah...they all run in first semester so I am going to have to overload to get more than two of them in.  :/

I am also looking to take level 2/3 breadth subjects atm because I may want to take some more level 1 maths later on in case I opt to pursure post-grad engineering, which requires Calc 2 and Linear Algebra.

The medical breadths that you mention do look very interesting, but I am not really sure what to expect and have no idea what academic writing even entails.  :/  Being able to write up a project as a scientific report does seem okay though.

Right now I am looking at taking Syntax for this semester because it continues on with what I did last semester...but, the same lecturer who I didn't like last semester takes the subject and he is kinda terrible.

Decisions decisions...

Microeconomics?

What do you even do in economics?

The handbook is so vague...

[Russ]

Introductory microeconomics 1 is really easy. If you want to be bored and get an H1, take it.

The medical breadths that you mention do look very interesting, but I am not really sure what to expect and have no idea what academic writing even entails.  :/  Being able to write up a project as a scientific report does seem okay though.

Academic writing isn't hard at all, it's just formal and objective.

[stonecold]

Looking through the microeconomics exam, it actually looks okay.

Before I do anything...of the total 6 breadth that you must take (of which two can be any subject) how many need to be level 2/3?

I am under the impression that it is one only, but I am probably wrong.

[Russ]

All it says is a maximum of 3 level 1, so a minimum of 1 level 2/3

[stonecold]

All it says is a maximum of 3 level 1, so a minimum of 1 level 2/3

Yeah, but what about the other two?

[vexx]

All it says is a maximum of 3 level 1, so a minimum of 1 level 2/3

Yeah, but what about the other two?

the other two can be ANY other subject - so could be electives from science.

[stonecold]

All it says is a maximum of 3 level 1, so a minimum of 1 level 2/3

Yeah, but what about the other two?

the other two can be ANY other subject - so could be electives from science.

Yeah, I mean what level though? :p

[stonecold]

Can someone please explain whether the 25 points worth of "free" subject choices need to be at certain levels?

I cannot make any sense out of this...

Breadth Requirements:

From Semester 1 2011, the breadth rules will be as follows:

Up to 75 points (25% - six subjects) of a New Generation degree can consist of breadth studies.
Students must complete a minimum of 50 points (four subjects) of breadth study, the remaining 25 points can be taken from either breadth or core studies**.
Students can complete a maximum of 37.5 points of breadth study at level 1.
** Choice of how to use the 'free' 25 points should be unrestrained. Students should be permitted to use this component how they choose.

http://www.bbiomed.unimelb.edu.au/breadth

[Russ]

They're not breadth -> no level requirement.

Ask the EPSC or 13MELB just to be safe

[stonecold]

They're not breadth -> no level requirement.

Ask the EPSC or 13MELB just to be safe

Cheers...will do Brussels!  :p

I am so disappointed with this whole situation and the total obliteration of my timetable which was for once looking half decent. 

[gemgem49]

Why did you have to change your breadth? Just curious. You should do Sustainability in Developing Communities with me, 5 hour block on Wednesday. Super fun

[stonecold]

Why did you have to change your breadth? Just curious. You should do Sustainability in Developing Communities with me, 5 hour block on Wednesday. Super fun

The assignments are awful.

In the first one you have to record someone learning a second language then write about and research the errors they make.
In the second one, you have to develop questions and then interview someone who is learning a second language, then report on it.
In the third one you have to either take language learning programs/textbooks and analyse their effectiveness, or you can sit in on a language learning class.  Then you have to write about it.

All of it needs to be discussed with reference to language learning theories, and you have to do your own research as well and then reference it. The assignment sheets are very vague so I would have no idea how to even set it out, and it says everyone screws up on the referencing and I am not keen on losing marks for referencing.  I have no idea how to do it.

As tempting as Wednesday dates with your lovely self sound :p ,  my Wednesdays are full with biomed core crap and  I will probably be doing micro or syntax for breadth.