University lecture attendance

[Hure]

Hi there, this has probably been asked about before (only I can't find anything on it as of yet), but how often would a student doing an arts degree or an environments degree at unimelb need to go in to uni ever week? Is it flexible, can you get all notes online?
The thing is I'm trying to look for jobs at present, and it's difficult because I don't actually know what my availability is going to be like. Do I need to worry about this?

[Russ]

Get a job where you can work shifts, swap shifts to cover lectures.

You can skip lectures to go to work if you want, you just have to catch up later. Most arts first year lectures will be available online.

[liuetenant]

i know that for the arts course, it's roughly 3 hours per week per subject (but correct me if i'm wrong). Generally, the lecturers don't give a damn if you go or not. However, this is arts. You must be there for 75% of the lectures in order to pass the course....so yeah...

check out the unimelb handbook for the bachelor of arts. It tells you everything you need to know....

And likewise with the environments course..

[marr]

I'm pretty sure the attendence requirement of 75% is for tutorials. You don't necessary have to go to the lectures, in arts no one takes the attendence in lectures.

[slothpomba]

I'm pretty sure the attendence requirement of 75% is for tutorials. You don't necessary have to go to the lectures, in arts no one takes the attendence in lectures.

This is correct. Its tutorials. Tutorials are often smaller having like 10-20 people in my experience anyway.

It would be impossible and very time consuming to take attendance at a lecture full of hundreds of students (my first year biology lecture had ~1000), it would really cut into the lecture time.

Arts subjects are usually about 3 hours per week though. Look up what units you want to do in the handbook and it usually states what the contact hours are.

You should be able to swing at least one day off, if us kids in science with high contact hours can do it, im sure you arts kids can do it.