BoA Melbourne

[albert]

Hey, anyone out there studying arts at Melbourne?

I'm thinking of studying there next year, maybe the criminology/psychology sides

can anyone provide some reviews? 

cheers

[yearningforsimplicity]

I'm doing Arts @ Melb I plan to major in psych and so far I can tell you it has been great! Psych is an extremely interesting field and the psych department at melb are really organised in terms of lectures and preparing us for later year psych study through getting the basics (e.g. quantiative methods) down pat in first year itself Also the head tutors are really friendly and helpful and the exam is relevant and fair (i.e. if you've studied, you'll get the marks) Also, they put out practice exam Q's months before the exam so there's always that feeling of organisation and not worrying about having to wait until the last minute to get practice materials
In terms of Arts generally, I think it's great They've got a lot of student assistance units too like ASU (Academic skills Unit) to help out with essay-writing and referencing and what not and there's a lot of student support if you need it I think if you really do what you love then it will be a rewarding experience and you'll enjoy it Just make sure you stay on top of the readings + lectures and it'll be great!

[Gloamglozer]

I think you mean B.A?

Cos BoA is a singer. 

[Russ]

There's a subject review thread in the UoM subforum that will have some examples of arts subjects people have done

[Starlight]

I'm doing Arts @ Melb I plan to major in psych and so far I can tell you it has been great! Psych is an extremely interesting field and the psych department at melb are really organised in terms of lectures and preparing us for later year psych study through getting the basics (e.g. quantiative methods) down pat in first year itself Also the head tutors are really friendly and helpful and the exam is relevant and fair (i.e. if you've studied, you'll get the marks) Also, they put out practice exam Q's months before the exam so there's always that feeling of organisation and not worrying about having to wait until the last minute to get practice materials
In terms of Arts generally, I think it's great They've got a lot of student assistance units too like ASU (Academic skills Unit) to help out with essay-writing and referencing and what not and there's a lot of student support if you need it I think if you really do what you love then it will be a rewarding experience and you'll enjoy it Just make sure you stay on top of the readings + lectures and it'll be great!

offtopic but do you think you have to do the readings? I haven't done one yet...

[yearningforsimplicity]

I'm doing Arts @ Melb I plan to major in psych and so far I can tell you it has been great! Psych is an extremely interesting field and the psych department at melb are really organised in terms of lectures and preparing us for later year psych study through getting the basics (e.g. quantiative methods) down pat in first year itself Also the head tutors are really friendly and helpful and the exam is relevant and fair (i.e. if you've studied, you'll get the marks) Also, they put out practice exam Q's months before the exam so there's always that feeling of organisation and not worrying about having to wait until the last minute to get practice materials
In terms of Arts generally, I think it's great They've got a lot of student assistance units too like ASU (Academic skills Unit) to help out with essay-writing and referencing and what not and there's a lot of student support if you need it I think if you really do what you love then it will be a rewarding experience and you'll enjoy it Just make sure you stay on top of the readings + lectures and it'll be great!

offtopic but do you think you have to do the readings? I haven't done one yet...

Hahah it depends, really! For psych, I don't do any readings when they're given because my tutor never really bothers with them anyway (I didn't do them last sem either eeek) - like even for the Display rules one, we went through it again in class so I guess a lot of people don't do the readings haha but for ICC and Lit, my tutor always talks about them and bases discussions around them so unfortunately I have to!

[Starlight]

I'm doing Arts @ Melb I plan to major in psych and so far I can tell you it has been great! Psych is an extremely interesting field and the psych department at melb are really organised in terms of lectures and preparing us for later year psych study through getting the basics (e.g. quantiative methods) down pat in first year itself Also the head tutors are really friendly and helpful and the exam is relevant and fair (i.e. if you've studied, you'll get the marks) Also, they put out practice exam Q's months before the exam so there's always that feeling of organisation and not worrying about having to wait until the last minute to get practice materials
In terms of Arts generally, I think it's great They've got a lot of student assistance units too like ASU (Academic skills Unit) to help out with essay-writing and referencing and what not and there's a lot of student support if you need it I think if you really do what you love then it will be a rewarding experience and you'll enjoy it Just make sure you stay on top of the readings + lectures and it'll be great!

offtopic but do you think you have to do the readings? I haven't done one yet...

Hahah it depends, really! For psych, I don't do any readings when they're given because my tutor never really bothers with them anyway (I didn't do them last sem either eeek) - like even for the Display rules one, we went through it again in class so I guess a lot of people don't do the readings haha but for ICC and Lit, my tutor always talks about them and bases discussions around them so unfortunately I have to!

for ICC i just do the ones based on the assignment haha I shouldn't have bought the book. I just don't had time to do the readings unfortunately.

[yearningforsimplicity]

I'm doing Arts @ Melb I plan to major in psych and so far I can tell you it has been great! Psych is an extremely interesting field and the psych department at melb are really organised in terms of lectures and preparing us for later year psych study through getting the basics (e.g. quantiative methods) down pat in first year itself Also the head tutors are really friendly and helpful and the exam is relevant and fair (i.e. if you've studied, you'll get the marks) Also, they put out practice exam Q's months before the exam so there's always that feeling of organisation and not worrying about having to wait until the last minute to get practice materials
In terms of Arts generally, I think it's great They've got a lot of student assistance units too like ASU (Academic skills Unit) to help out with essay-writing and referencing and what not and there's a lot of student support if you need it I think if you really do what you love then it will be a rewarding experience and you'll enjoy it Just make sure you stay on top of the readings + lectures and it'll be great!

offtopic but do you think you have to do the readings? I haven't done one yet...

Hahah it depends, really! For psych, I don't do any readings when they're given because my tutor never really bothers with them anyway (I didn't do them last sem either eeek) - like even for the Display rules one, we went through it again in class so I guess a lot of people don't do the readings haha but for ICC and Lit, my tutor always talks about them and bases discussions around them so unfortunately I have to!

for ICC i just do the ones based on the assignment haha I shouldn't have bought the book. I just don't had time to do the readings unfortunately.

Haha I know! We don't use the book as much as I thought we would :/ Do you think the exam will be more readings-based or lectures-based? :/

[Starlight]

I'm doing Arts @ Melb I plan to major in psych and so far I can tell you it has been great! Psych is an extremely interesting field and the psych department at melb are really organised in terms of lectures and preparing us for later year psych study through getting the basics (e.g. quantiative methods) down pat in first year itself Also the head tutors are really friendly and helpful and the exam is relevant and fair (i.e. if you've studied, you'll get the marks) Also, they put out practice exam Q's months before the exam so there's always that feeling of organisation and not worrying about having to wait until the last minute to get practice materials
In terms of Arts generally, I think it's great They've got a lot of student assistance units too like ASU (Academic skills Unit) to help out with essay-writing and referencing and what not and there's a lot of student support if you need it I think if you really do what you love then it will be a rewarding experience and you'll enjoy it Just make sure you stay on top of the readings + lectures and it'll be great!

offtopic but do you think you have to do the readings? I haven't done one yet...

Hahah it depends, really! For psych, I don't do any readings when they're given because my tutor never really bothers with them anyway (I didn't do them last sem either eeek) - like even for the Display rules one, we went through it again in class so I guess a lot of people don't do the readings haha but for ICC and Lit, my tutor always talks about them and bases discussions around them so unfortunately I have to!

for ICC i just do the ones based on the assignment haha I shouldn't have bought the book. I just don't had time to do the readings unfortunately.

Haha I know! We don't use the book as much as I thought we would :/ Do you think the exam will be more readings-based or lectures-based? :/

Lecture-based. Except for social, there seems to be a few more readings based questions in the prac qs (except majority will still probably be lecture-based). I think they have to make it a fair assessment because probably 90% of us don't do the readings.

[pk-607]

Sorry to cut in. But I'm still wondering b/w which uni for BA should I go for next year and I've heard lot of good things about Melb. However there is one that troubled me greatly is that Melb strongly prone for theoretical work. I'm thinking of a Psych major. So can someone clear this up for me? Thanks

[yearningforsimplicity]

Sorry to cut in. But I'm still wondering b/w which uni for BA should I go for next year and I've heard lot of good things about Melb. However there is one that troubled me greatly is that Melb strongly prone for theoretical work. I'm thinking of a Psych major. So can someone clear this up for me? Thanks

Psych is quite theoretical - Idk about 2nd and 3rd year but so far in first year we've covered heaps of theoretical work, the lectures do cover heaps and there's a lot of concepts to learn. However it's not 100% theory, we also do some I guess you could call "practical" work in tutes, like presenting lab reports and statistical calculations and what-not and are tested on this in conjunction to the theoretical component Psych itself isn't AS practical as say, bio or chem, but it's not entirely theoretical either You should check out the undergrad unimelb psych booklet, it might help : http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1y7gj/UndergraduatePsychol/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffree.yudu.com%2Fitem%2Fdetails%2F581422%2FUndergraduate-Psychology-2013---University-of-Melbourne%3Frefid%3D165070

[Starlight]

Soooo much memorizing for psych yearningforsimplicity, how are you going to approach the exam prep? Have you started studying yet?

[yearningforsimplicity]

Soooo much memorizing for psych yearningforsimplicity, how are you going to approach the exam prep? Have you started studying yet?

I knoooooow :O I have no idea how I'm going to get everything into my head! Thank God it's multiple choice though! I haven't even started study yet haha so unorganised! but when I do get around to it, I'm just going to read my notes, watch some videos and answer all the questions they've put up on lms and just hope for the best haha

[Russ]

Sorry to cut in. But I'm still wondering b/w which uni for BA should I go for next year and I've heard lot of good things about Melb. However there is one that troubled me greatly is that Melb strongly prone for theoretical work. I'm thinking of a Psych major. So can someone clear this up for me? Thanks

If you want to work as a psychologist you have to do honours and masters anyway, you'll get plenty of experience. I wouldn't expect any BA with a major in psych to be heavy in practical experience, unless you go and find some yourself.

[pk-607]

Sorry to cut in. But I'm still wondering b/w which uni for BA should I go for next year and I've heard lot of good things about Melb. However there is one that troubled me greatly is that Melb strongly prone for theoretical work. I'm thinking of a Psych major. So can someone clear this up for me? Thanks

If you want to work as a psychologist you have to do honours and masters anyway, you'll get plenty of experience. I wouldn't expect any BA with a major in psych to be heavy in practical experience, unless you go and find some yourself.

The thing is I'm not sure if I'll take up Psych as my future career so I want to get as much out of a psych major while also doing something I love (English maybe) in B.A