2018 Unit/Subject Selection Thread

[www]

Make sure y’all do Life, Death, Morality in first semester!!!!

Time, Self, and Mind for second semester is pretty good too!

After doing TSM last year, I just had to use an elective space for LDM this semester.

[brenden]

Time, Self, and Mind for second semester is pretty good too!

After doing TSM last year, I just had to use an elective space for LDM this semester.

May as well just do a major in Philosophy at this point.

[Glasses]

Hey everyone I'm starting a bachelor of Arts at Clayton this year
So far these are my choices
Semester 1
ATS1873 Introduction to International Relations
ATS1261 Understanding Human Behaviour
ATS1281 Understanding Crime: An Introduction
ATS1325 Contemporary Worlds 1
If anyone has any tips or experience in these units I would be happy to hear it

Fortunately for you, there have been reviews written on all of those subjects, which contain a heap of useful information and tips! Check these out:
Intro to IR
Intro to IR #2
Understanding Human Behaviour
Understanding Crime
Understanding Crime #2 (written by some guy called Glasses)
Contemporary Worlds 1
Contemporary Worlds 1 #2
Contemporary Worlds 1 #3

[peanut]

The prereqs for FIT2081 is "FIT1045, FIT1048, FIT1051, FIT1053, FIT2071 or FIT1002 or equivalent". Does this mean:
1. I must complete all of FIT1045, FIT1048, FIT1051, FIT1053 and one of FIT2071 or FIT1002

OR

2. I must complete one of FIT1045, FIT1048, FIT1051, FIT1053, FIT2071 or FIT1002 (just one unit)?

[VanillaRice]

The prereqs for FIT2081 is "FIT1045, FIT1048, FIT1051, FIT1053, FIT2071 or FIT1002 or equivalent". Does this mean:
1. I must complete all of FIT1045, FIT1048, FIT1051, FIT1053 and one of FIT2071 or FIT1002

OR

2. I must complete one of FIT1045, FIT1048, FIT1051, FIT1053, FIT2071 or FIT1002 (just one unit)?

The key is to look at the word between the last two: FIT2071 or FIT1002. This means you only have to pick one of them

Side note: If "or" was replaced with "and", you would have to do all of them.

[Confusedprincess]

Semester 1:
ATS1091   German introductory 1
ATS1320   Nations at war: Revolution and empire   
ATS1325   Contemporary worlds 1
ATS1873   Introduction to international relations

Semester 2:
ATS1092   German introductory 2   
ATS1321   Nations at war: The twentieth century
ATS1326   Contemporary worlds 2   
ATS1701   Terrorism and political violence: An introduction

Are these good subjects?

[Coffee]

You will love Nations at War. It’s a brilliant subject! Great lecturers and great tutors for both Nation at War units.

I’m still finalising my subject choices but I may or may not see you in either German or IR if I ever decide…

[Floatzel98]

What is everyone's experience with introductory language units? Not entirely decided on my units for this semester, and think I might want to take Introductory Italian 1. How do the workshops/seminars generally run in these units?

[caseykimkai]

Hi, I'm starting at Monash this year (bachelor of arts) and I'm a little confused as to how I pick electives.

I'm planning on doing 2 majors, and supposedly if you do this, you don't do any minors. If so, I think that leaves 2 electives for semester 1. When choosing electives, do I choose them from the minor units list even though I am not doing a minor, for example, ATS1371 Life, death, and morality in Philosophy? Or from the "elective list"? I thought the elective list was only for those doing the subject as a major, but now I'm confused  The elective list also generally requires the completion of first-year arts units.

[brenden]

Hi, I'm starting at Monash this year (bachelor of arts) and I'm a little confused as to how I pick electives.

I'm planning on doing 2 majors, and supposedly if you do this, you don't do any minors. If so, I think that leaves 2 electives for semester 1. When choosing electives, do I choose them from the minor units list even though I am not doing a minor, for example, ATS1371 Life, death, and morality in Philosophy? Or from the "elective list"? I thought the elective list was only for those doing the subject as a major, but now I'm confused  The elective list also generally requires the completion of first-year arts units.

Hey! I’m not 100% on what you mean by the ‘minor list’, but you’d choose electives from different disciplines to your major. For example, if you were going to major in Psychology and Literature, your semester might look like this:

Literature unit
Psychology unit
Philosophy unit (elective)
Linguistics unit (elective).

Last time I checked (which was two years ago, but likely still applies), you can even do electives in your major discipline. (I.e., 8 units gives a major, but you could take 10 units in a certain discipline by using 2 of your electives on your major discipline).

If you let us know the subjects you’re looking at potentially studying, we can let you know whether that’s fine or not? (Also, Life, Death, Morality is an awesome unit!!!)

[www]

Hi, I'm starting at Monash this year (bachelor of arts) and I'm a little confused as to how I pick electives.

I'm planning on doing 2 majors, and supposedly if you do this, you don't do any minors. If so, I think that leaves 2 electives for semester 1. When choosing electives, do I choose them from the minor units list even though I am not doing a minor, for example, ATS1371 Life, death, and morality in Philosophy? Or from the "elective list"? I thought the elective list was only for those doing the subject as a major, but now I'm confused  The elective list also generally requires the completion of first-year arts units.

Generally when courses refer to an 'elective', it means any unit that you are able to enrol into (i.e. meet prerequisites for), so you can pick ATS1371 as one of your electives for first semester. When a unit is listed under a minor/major requirement list, it is not ONLY if you intend to minor/major in the area of study.

Keep in mind if you do 2 majors, you are still required to take at least 4 Arts electives, and 4 electives from any faculty across your course.

[occidit]

Sem 1
BMS1011 Biochem
BMS1031 Biophysics
ATS2095 ( German Proficient 1)
IMM2011 Basic immunology

Sem 2
ATS2096 ( German Proficient 2)
BMS1042 public health + preventative medicine
BMS1052 human neurobiology
BMS1062 molecular biology

Just wondering if you guys think doing imm2011 may be a bit too hard in first year as I've seen it's a lot of work and am really stressing out about it. Thanks

[VanillaRice]

Just wondering if you guys think doing imm2011 may be a bit too hard in first year as I've seen it's a lot of work and am really stressing out about it. Thanks

In my opinion, it depends on how well you can adjust to university in first semester. Biomed units are typically viewed as quite difficult, with more content crammed into lectures compared to say, BIO1011/1022. I've also heard that IMM2011 is quite a heavy unit, but if you were okay with the immunology part of MUEP bio, you should be able to keep up

What you can do is do IMM2011 for say, a week or two, and if it gets too difficult, change it to another elective. In this case, it might be worthwhile looking into other potential electives you might want to swap to, just in case.

[occidit]

I've also heard that IMM2011 is quite a heavy unit, but if you were okay with the immunology part of MUEP bio, you should be able to keep up

What you can do is do IMM2011 for say, a week or two, and if it gets too difficult, change it to another elective. In this case, it might be worthwhile looking into other potential electives you might want to swap to, just in case.

Alright, thanks a lot man, hopefully I'm just stressing unnecessarily :^

[DailyInsanity]

BCH2011 - Structure and function of cellular biomolecules
CHM2911 - Inorganic and organic chemistry
MTH1035 - Techniques for modelling (advanced)
SCI2015 - Scientific practice and communication (advanced)

BCH2022 - Metabolic basis of human diseases
CHM2922 - Spectroscopy and analytical chemistry
CHM3922 - Advanced organic chemistry
MTH2010 - Multivariable calculus

Anybody who has done any of these got some pointers  ? Also, there's a clash between a workshop in MTH1035 and a lecture in another unit. There is only one available workshop slot for MTH1035 (due to the amount of students I'm thinking ) so I can't really avoid it. If this doesn't get rectified, would taking MTH1030 and then selecting a different workshop slot (due to more students doing it) be a tenable solution? Surely one can just skip a lecture if there is a clash and watch it later if it was recorded? Thanks!