Study Planner - Enrolling for 2011

[Mxbn0]

Umm... que?

I spent a good 45 minutes looking for the answer on the unimelb site, but how do we know which subjects to enrol for next year? Not like they've sent us a handbook detailing 2nd,3rd,4th year majors and subjects...

Or am I just being paranoid?

[Russ]

What year are you in?
If you're in year 12, nothing matters at this point, everything will be handled after you get your offer.

If you're a current student, the new handbook was just released last week, so have a look at that.

I'll post better advice in a bit.

[Mxbn0]

I'm in 1st year BSc, and I don't know what subjects to pick for 2nd year, and/or what science elective to pick outside of my core subjects. I can only find details of what's needed to complete the course. I.e. what subjects need to be taken in 3rd year.

[Russ]

Decide what major you want to do in 3rd year. Check the 3rd year subjects for that. Check the prerequisites for those subjects and make sure you do them in second year.

[Edmund]

http://www.studentcentre.unimelb.edu.au/eastern/course_information/majors/bsc/majors_-_structures_and_contents

[simpak]

My friend tried to reenrol in my course.
Does not even allow her to choose which of the forked option she is doing - enriched or double major.
BAMC, always getting left behind.

[Russ]

When I tried to enrol I wasn't even allowed to pick the compulsory subjects, the study plan has...issues...to put it nicely.

[simpak]

I did that student survey and literally spent 30 minutes typing out some 'advice' for how to improve enrolling, timetabling and the student portal in general.
I'd better win an iPad for my awesome contributions/abuse.

[rustic_metal]

Choosing subjects:

Third year subjects - Type your major into the handbook and it'll tell you which 3rd year subjects are needed to fulfil it.

Second year subjects - Check each of your third year subjects individually and make sure you do all the prerequisite subjects.

First year subjects - Make sure you do everything that's a prerequisite to second and third year subjects. There's two of almost everything: one per semester. Engineering 1 and 2, physics 1 and 2, etc. Just pick the ones you're interested in and are relevant to your major.

[simpak]

Just looked at updated handbook then.
Confused like death yay.

[simpak]

Re: handbook,

Related Breadth Track(s):   Psychology - Biological

BREADTH TRACK?  Has this always been there and I have been too stupid to notice?

[Russ]

No.
They created them this year because of the changes to breadth and the feedback

[simpak]

Oh okay!  I suppose that makes things slightly easier for some.
I wish I did breadth

[Gloamglozer]

Choosing subjects:

Third year subjects - Type your major into the handbook and it'll tell you which 3rd year subjects are needed to fulfil it.

Second year subjects - Check each of your third year subjects individually and make sure you do all the prerequisite subjects.

First year subjects - Make sure you do everything that's a prerequisite to second and third year subjects. There's two of almost everything: one per semester. Engineering 1 and 2, physics 1 and 2, etc. Just pick the ones you're interested in and are relevant to your major.

I would take this advice.  Also, along with Edmund's link, this will be pretty helpful:

https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2011/B-SCI

Just scroll down to the list of majors, and it will guide you to which subjects you should enrol.

Also, just a little advice.  The study plan with all the trees is hard to read.  I would suggest to collapse it all and start expanding it out slowly, starting from your core subjects.  After you've done your core subjects, collapse again and expand out only your breadth.  I found that pretty helpful.

[rustic_metal]

One more thing I found out recently: If you're planning to do a masters degree and plan to get credit for your bachelor major (ie doing a masters of mechanical engineering in 2 years after doing mech eng in your bachelor, rather than 3 years having done commerce or something), make sure you've done all the subjects you need to skip. For example, there are only 4 specific third year electrical engineering subjects required to get a major in Electrical Systems at Melbourne, but you also need to do another, ESI, if you want to get a full year of credit towards your masters.