Breadth Requirements & Questions

[vexx]

^ I added in LING20011 Grammar of English, tried it for both the breadth lv1-3 and the breadth 2-3 and it works in neither.
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2011/LING20011

[rustic_metal]

Administrative bungle. Just tell the student centre next time you go in (NOT Academic Advice Day!) and they'll override it.

[vexx]

Administrative bungle. Just tell the student centre next time you go in (NOT Academic Advice Day!) and they'll override it.

I'm going away, so I'll call up next week. I'm assuming they can do it over the phone.. cheers

[rustic_metal]

Don't know if they'd change anything without your student card/ID, but maybe they would since it's not such a big deal. You've got weeks to do it, anyway.

[vexx]

Don't know if they'd change anything without your student card/ID, but maybe they would since it's not such a big deal. You've got weeks to do it, anyway.

yeah i know but wanting to get a good timetable !!
just decided to squish in my breadth this year so it wont affect my GPA as much in the later years which count more.

[rustic_metal]

Mmm...just remember that your average is calculated based on the subject's level, not what year you do them in.

[vexx]

Mmm...just remember that your average is calculated based on the subject's level, not what year you do them in.

not for medicine, it's counted in the year you did it.

https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2011/UNIB20007 from what people said in the first page, it seems pretty basic o-o maybe i will do it in second year. im assuming it's like a basic science?

[LFTM]

So which breadth subject is the easiest and requires the least amount of time?

Doing it wrong. lol

Is there sometimes problems with the portal subject thing? I'm trying to enrol into "grammar of english" as it says it has no prereqs in the handbook but i can't in the portal
"This subject has a Pre-requisite of 12.5 Credit Value in LING%, MULT10005, MULT10004, MULT10007, MULT10008, MULT10001, MULT10006, MULT10003, MULT10002, and Year Level = 1 that has not yet been met."
.. Which is clearly not true according to handbook.
How do i fix this and enrol for first semester?

Which course code did you use?

what? why is it wrong?

[rustic_metal]

Mmm...just remember that your average is calculated based on the subject's level, not what year you do them in.

not for medicine, it's counted in the year you did it.

Really? Typical medicine, can't do anything normally, lol.

[Russ]

Thus far, it's been based on the year completed. Because this leads to people stacking their 3rd year with 1st year units, the universities are currently in the process of revising the GPA calculation process. A lot of people seem to think that they'll be altering it to level of subject rather than year of study but nobody knows for sure.

And genetics health society is an interesting subject (I loved it). The first 3 weeks are basic genetics (plus some new, advanced stuff simplified) and will be easy for science students/tough for arts students. The rest of the subject is legal/ethical etc. perspectives on genetics. There's even a "genetics in art" lecture sequence that is universally ignored by the students haha.

edit,

i would actually keep breadth options open. don't do them all this year, because I can guarantee you that doing 4 science subjects in 2nd/3rd year is painful. In 2nd year I took creative writing, which isn't particularly study intensive during semester - I got to focus on my 2 subjects rather than juggling an extra one.

[vexx]

hmm, i'd definitely consider it if it was in semester 2.. ergh it sounds like a good breadth to do !

this is what the linguistics enhancement studies do which they say is very similar to EL
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2011/LING10001
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2011/LING10002

so perhaps this year
sem1: grammar of english (or secret life of language), creative writing
sem2: intercultural communication, syntax (or short fiction)

edit, next year i'll do the two psych subjects as my breadth (eek, i'll have so many contact hours..) and well psych is level 1 and wont be that sciency/bad for year 2. and then in year 3 i only do 3 subjects per semester so that seems fine. i think i will take my chances on doing well in the sciences moreso than these artsy ones, illl just study quite a bit next year.

[Russ]

if you want to stack your GPA, you want to do more subjects later not less

[vexx]

if you want to stack your GPA, you want to do more subjects later not less

what do you mean? if i'm doing 6 subjects in my final year, it's more time to concentrate on them, which are weighted 3 times; so more likely to do better.

[Russ]

True, but you're only doing six subject so it'll pull it up less than eight subjects. I guess it's half a dozen of one/six of the other

[vexx]

hmmm, well i haven't completely decided what i'm doing yet... i just have ideas!

oh & also, is this another bug with the study planner

for "Option for BS-SCI&BREADTH Science and Breadth" so the electives/breadth; the handbook says that it can science subjects lv1-3, but on the planner it has "Choose your Level 2-3 Science and / or Breadth Subjects", and won't let me add level 1 science subjects..?