How do you know how many contact hours

[patricktsmith]

I was just wondering, when your looking at different courses how do you work out how many contact hours they are

and was wondering does anyone know how many contact hours there is per week for

Commerce at Melbourne Uni
and
Professional Accountancy – Bachelor of Business at RMIT

[Gloamglozer]

I was just wondering, when your looking at different courses how do you work out how many contact hours they are

and was wondering does anyone know how many contact hours there is per week for

Commerce at Melbourne Uni
and
Professional Accountancy – Bachelor of Business at RMIT

You can't tell just by looking at the VTAC Guide.  You actually have to look into the subjects that you need to complete and add them up.  Or you can ask someone who does the course.

For commerce at UoM, I can tell you that it's around 12 hours a week.  But it depends on what breadth subject you want to do.  Doing breadth from the science faculty or doing a language will increase that number.  Usually for commerce, it's 2x 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial for each commerce subject.  So doing 3 commerce subjects already gives you 9 hours.  The only exception that I can think of right now would be accounting, where you have 2-hour lectures.

[patricktsmith]

omg really 12 hours thats so little

so if i go to
http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse/;CURPOS=1?programCode=%3F&STYPE=ENTIRE&QRY=%2Btype%3Dflexible+%2Bsubtype%3Deps+%2Bnotes%3D%28%20|%22BP129%22%29
which is link for all the subjects you do for proffesional accontancy how do i see how long each subject is

[zhenzhenzhen]

12 hours might sound little to you, but keep in mind you're expected to do many times that in practice/exercises/readings on your own time. Contact hours at uni are said to be like only 20% of the time you should be spending on your subjects - but obv nobody takes it seriously

and eventho 12 hours is little, you prob gonna skip some lectures by the 2nd week or so so heh

[Gloamglozer]

omg really 12 hours thats so little

so if i go to
http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse/;CURPOS=1?programCode=%3F&STYPE=ENTIRE&QRY=%2Btype%3Dflexible+%2Bsubtype%3Deps+%2Bnotes%3D%28%20|%22BP129%22%29
which is link for all the subjects you do for proffesional accontancy how do i see how long each subject is

I'm not sure about RMIT, but for UoM you can go to the Handbook and search for the subjects and then look at the contact hours for it.