What breadth did you enjoy the most in UoM???

[Mintk]

Hi, I'm a future UoM student (hopefully ) and ofc, as an eager student, I wanted to form my timetable.
I was looking at all the possible breadth subjects I could do, and all of them seemed sooooo interesting..!!!!!
Could you share some insights in what was the best breadth you've ever done? (it could be as exotic as African dance XDD No judging allowed!)

Thank youuuuuuu <3

[Orb]

Wellbeing Motivation and Performance. Pretty sure I wrote a review about it

Not the best for grades but the one of the best in terms of teaching structure, course and content!

[vox nihili]

Language breadths are amazing fun. YOu get so much out of them and they're fun to learn I did Spanish, which was very bueno

[spectroscopy]

yea i second language breadths. theyre usually pretty fun and its something useful to learn. at least at level 1 it's definitely fun. i did chinese and although it was easy in chinese 1 and kinda easy in chinese 2, by the time i got to chinese 3 (i had done pretty well in chinese 1 and 2) the pace became wayy too much for me and they stop being cruise-y, fun, useful, and pretty easy to do well in, and become very very serious subjects with alot of content. I would definitely do at least level 1 of a language and see how you like it

[chameleon7]

I completely agree with languages being an awesome breadth option; especially in first year.
I undertook Russian language from scratch-with no prior knowledge or ability to even read the alphabet (let alone write it)-and I can honestly say that it's the subject I most looked forward to throughout the year in my first year of science.
I found that taking a language as my breadth for science satisfied the social aspect of going to university; you don't get much time to talk to people between lectures, and people generally take certain groups of subjects together (physics+math, chemistry+biology etc, though these are just generalisations that I'm aware of), so if you've got friends taking different subjects you probably won't run into each other as often as you'd hope.
Anyway, Russian language is really easy to pick up; everything is straight forward and you're assessed on content directly from the textbook, plus if you ever have any problems, the head of the department and the tutors from Russia/Ukraine/Belarus are always happy to spend time with you whenever you need to and are ace at replying to emails asap.
It's an extremely difficult subject to fail; 50% of the assessment comes from a fortnightly assignment of basic q's (same format as the textbook), and the other 50% comes from a 10% oral exam and 40% written exam in the exam period.
In terms of handing in homework, and even the exams; the coordinator and tutors are super lenient if you've been sick or if you're a bit behind; you can get an extension without a mark deduction, and there's even a choice of exam times available (several sittings of the written exams) in the exam period which are particularly great for science and biomed students, as most of the science exams are in the first week of exams.
If you just do the homework and learn the vocab as you go, you shouldn't have a problem getting a good mark 

[Mintk]

OOohh okay, thank you all!!
I've decided to undertake Chinese 01 and 02 as a breadth.

[RKTR]

intro microecons

[dankfrank420]

intro microecons

If you're looking at a commerce-ey breadth I'd have a look at intro macro too. Personally found it far more interesting and easier than micro.

[RKTR]

If you're looking at a commerce-ey breadth I'd have a look at intro macro too. Personally found it far more interesting and easier than micro.

ah i've used up my lv1 breadths. do you know anything about inter micro?

[dankfrank420]

ah i've used up my lv1 breadths. do you know anything about inter micro?

Nah sorry, nothing more than what I've read about in the AN review.

[sjayne]

ling10001 the secret life of language!!!

I loved every second of this it was brilliant.

[literally lauren]

^ seconding Secret Life as being a brilliant elective or breadth subject for Arts/non-Arts students alike!

Also (I know you've already chosen your breadths, but just ftr) would recommend choosing some intensive subjects as breadths like Auslan and Visual Communication (held in June) since it frees you up throughout semester and feels way more efficient than 12 weeks of stretched out content :'D

Genetics and the Media was also a really enjoyable subject imo if you're into the interdisciplinary humanities+science-y stuff.

[QUADRATUS]

Sports Coaching is definitely the best breadth subject out there
easy and really enjoyable

[gettingthrough]

i did african music and dance! it was the best breadth i did so far. the assessment was pretty fair as ong as you studied for it and put in an effort and the classes were super fun and enjoyable!

[thelolcat]

Language breadths are amazing fun. YOu get so much out of them and they're fun to learn I did Spanish, which was very bueno

Hey! I know this is a dead thread but I had to ask, what exactly do the oral assessments entail? I’m kinda afraid of public speaking and was wondering how they go? And also what do you think of the difficulty of the language assessments?

Thanks so much if you reply! (I interested in taking up Spanish 1 too)