Arts subject selection

[schmalex]

WHO HAS DONE A FIRST YEAR ARTS SUBJECT AND WAS IT ANY GOOD. go!


Also, does anyone else find the study planner ridiculously difficult to use?

[rustic_metal]

The study planner is a pain, but since its main purpose is to ensure that people aren't running into cul de sacs with their subject selections in 2nd and 3rd year, it must have been a nightmare for the uni to come up with a system that takes into account all possible paths to a major and doesn't tell anybody they haven't finished their degree when they have.

[schmalex]

Do you at least get used to it? It's kind of doing my head in

[Gloamglozer]

Do you at least get used to it? It's kind of doing my head in

It helps if you collapse all of it and then expand the ones you want.  Still, it's a pain.  Even for students who have used it many times.

[rustic_metal]

Yeah. It's basically split up into three sections: your major, your electives and your breadth. If you're doing history, for example, you click the choose button next to your major to select history subjects, the choose button next to your electives for French subjects and the choose button next to your breadth for geology subject. Each section is also split up into 100, 200 and 300 level subjects, so just pick the one that's relevant to the subject you want. If there's more than one option - e.g. '200-300 level subjects' AND '200 level subjects' - then just pick either: as long as it'll accept the subject, you're fine.

[Russ]

The study plan is a confusing mess. Watch the help videos, they're the only saving grace

[simpak]

Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.

[saaaaaam]

Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.

I was thinking of taking Globalisation. Not because I particularly wanted to, just because I'm thinking it might be useful for a politics students. What didn't you like about it?

[simpak]

Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.

I was thinking of taking Globalisation. Not because I particularly wanted to, just because I'm thinking it might be useful for a politics students. What didn't you like about it?

I didn't take it but the assessment and the premise are ridiculous.  Tbqh, there is no subject that you can take where you won't learn about globalisation anyway.  My friend took the subject and she was under constant pressure (more so than everyone else, haha) and she claimed it was a nightmare - you have to do a referenced blog entry every single week and you have stupid assignments.

[schmalex]

Don't do the IDF Homer to Hollywood, the subject Culture, Media and Everyday Life or the subject Professional Writing or the IDF Globalisation.
Do take Literature.

I was thinking of taking Globalisation. Not because I particularly wanted to, just because I'm thinking it might be useful for a politics students. What didn't you like about it?

I didn't take it but the assessment and the premise are ridiculous.  Tbqh, there is no subject that you can take where you won't learn about globalisation anyway.  My friend took the subject and she was under constant pressure (more so than everyone else, haha) and she claimed it was a nightmare - you have to do a referenced blog entry every single week and you have stupid assignments.

Do you know anything about the other IDF subjects. And I was thinking of literature, but the stuff they study seemed quite obscure and difficult.

[Russ]

Apparently they all suck but the ones I've heard good things/the least bad things about are Democracy and Understanding Asia

[schmalex]

Apparently they all suck but the ones I've heard good things/the least bad things about are Democracy and Understanding Asia

This is much the same as what I've heard, except that Democracy doesn't really cater to my interests very well, and PPE is really tempting because I'm pretty sure it'd be really really easy. And I saw the exam for Self and Other which made it look interesting :S I can't make decisions! All the subjects seem to have good and bad points :S

Anyone know anything about first year philosophy, asian studies, or history?

[Russ]

If you want exams I can post them so you can see what it's like.

I did 1st year philosophy...it was both interesting and crap. Weekly assignments (top 5 counted) and a major essay - my essay was on the first six weeks of content, so everything after that I just tuned out for because my assessment was over. That might have made it seem much less interesting. Overall it was okay, certain parts were engaging but some of the other students were irritating (typical arts/philosophy stereotype) and the lecturer was average. To be honest, i skipped more than half the lectures and never bothered listening to them online so that should give you an idea of how interesting they were haha

[schmalex]

Lol, which philosophy subject was it?

[Russ]

It's since been cut as part of the Melbourne Model's "eradicate arts" focus, but it was taught by Kristian Camillieri who teaches all the other 1st year subjects.