Breadth Requirements & Questions

[stonecold]

Do we need to pick our semester 2 breadth subject now as well?

Enrolled in 'The Secret Life of Language' for semester 1.  

oo, see you there

We can change our semester 2 subjects until the end of August - so much time heh.

Haha mad!  I swear the linguistics lecture was like the only good one.

The presenter was pro.  Did anyone hear those words from indigenous languages just roll off her tongue!

For semester 2, I am unsure of whether to take 'Intercultural Communication' or 'Grammar of English'.  I wouldn't mind taking the latter and quickly getting rid of the level 2 subject. But there is still time to think about it.

As for UniBreadth subjects,  IMHO, I think the best ones for biomed people look to be 'Genetics, Health, and Society', 'Body, Mind and Medicine: A Dissection' and 'Seeing: The Whole Picture'.

Will definitely consider doing some of them next year.  These are level 2 anyway so they take care of the requirement.

Anyway, I am officially like 7% of an Arts student.  

[cameron_15]

The way she spoke was incredible!

I am heavily considering some linguistics however I'm a little scared as I've only done English at VCE and I'm afraid I might struggle a little...

If I don't do a linguistics subject I reckon I'll just go with 2 of the medical sequence subjects this year.

Also, Seeing: The whole picture was pretty awesome!

[stonecold]

The way she spoke was incredible!

I am heavily considering some linguistics however I'm a little scared as I've only done English at VCE and I'm afraid I might struggle a little...

If I don't do a linguistics subject I reckon I'll just go with 2 of the medical sequence subjects this year.

Also, Seeing: The whole picture was pretty awesome!

You will be fine.  It really shouldn't be hard to pick up at all.

Were you at the first Linguistics lecture at 12.30?

[cameron_15]

Yep, Running around like crazy trying to squeeze into heaps of lectures, I was like a minute late 8-)

[Slumdawg]

Did anyone go to "Medical sequence: An Ecological History of Humanity, Body Mind & Medicine, Living Longer" session? After about 2 minutes I immediately crossed of the ecological one + living longer. Climate change in a medical sequence....really  

[stonecold]

Yep, Running around like crazy trying to squeeze into heaps of lectures, I was like a minute late 8-)

Did you stay at the end when everyone asked her questions?

And yeah, I tried to go to a lot, but deep down I always knew that I would do linguistics.  I am not massively keen in entering uncharted territory at this stage.  Don't get me wrong, Criminology for example seems fascinating, but also subjective and the type of thing that would require copious amounts of reading and knowledge of various case studies, as well as well structured essays.

Would rather just do something where the answers are more concrete and I have some basic knowledge under my belt.

Did anyone go to "Medical sequence: An Ecological History of Humanity, Body Mind & Medicine, Living Longer" session? After about 2 minutes I immediately crossed of the ecological one + living longer. Climate change in a medical sequence....really 

Yeah man!  I was at the first one.  I didn't get to see you. 

Walked in late also haha.

Parts of it seem interesting, but thb, the assessment seems rather shonky.

e.g. A weekly online blog.  Not big on this stuff.

I prefer the old school assignments and exam method.

[Slumdawg]

haha I actually think I saw you stonecold. I was in the first session too, I wanted to walk out though but thought it'd be too awkward haha. Were you wearing grey and walked in with another guy with red hair? Cos that's the only person I saw that slightly resembles your fb photo. I was in the middle of the theatre wearing a flanny. P.s. I'm pretty sure I saw loppol like 5+ times when I was walking around haha. But I don't he knew I was a VNer....

haha yeah I don't get the online blog and yet it counts 30% WTF. The lecturer for body mind and medicine was cool and left me somewhat interested, but when the guy in green mentioned stuff like "irrigation" and "climate change" I wanted out haha.

I think I'm doing accounting/principles of business law for breadth, those lectures were great.

[cameron_15]

Yep, Running around like crazy trying to squeeze into heaps of lectures, I was like a minute late 8-)

Did you stay at the end when everyone asked her questions?

I left when the flood of people began to leave to go to the second medical sequence lecture.

I didn't have time to ask questions then, but I did send them an email before outlining my concerns etc.

I'm particularly drawn to the practicality of some linguistics skills when I'm *hopefully* practicing a health science in more diverse (in terms of language) regions of the world where perhaps English skills are on a completely different level.

[Stroodle]

The thing that turned me off the most was the 20% for group work. Seems pretty risky..

[rustic_metal]

Heaps of subjects have group work components. Everything with a workshop definitely does. It's just one of those things where you have to suck it up and realise that in the real world you'll be judged on team performances, not just your own.

20% is hardly anything, anyway.

[Stroodle]

Yeah, but this isn't "the real world" yet - it's trying to get into med, and every bit counts to me..

[rustic_metal]

Then do the whole assignment yourself and coordinate with the group? That's what everybody who wants to do well does.

[Stroodle]

Was thinking that would be the case. I've just read a few warnings on mso about group work affecting your gpa, so I'm a bit weary..

[vexx]

Say vexx, why 4 breadth this year?

Because for medicine the year you complete a subject is what matters and so first year counts the least - wouldn't want to destroy my GPA so doing it first year since I'm not sure how I will do.
It'll be an interesting year

Haha mad!  I swear the linguistics lecture was like the only good one.

The presenter was pro.  Did anyone hear those words from indigenous languages just roll off her tongue!

For semester 2, I am unsure of whether to take 'Intercultural Communication' or 'Grammar of English'.  I wouldn't mind taking the latter and quickly getting rid of the level 2 subject. But there is still time to think about it.

As for UniBreadth subjects,  IMHO, I think the best ones for biomed people look to be 'Genetics, Health, and Society', 'Body, Mind and Medicine: A Dissection' and 'Seeing: The Whole Picture'.

Will definitely consider doing some of them next year.  These are level 2 anyway so they take care of the requirement.

Anyway, I am officially like 7% of an Arts student.  

Pretty sure that Grammar of English is semester 1 only otherwise I'd do it over 'syntax', but yeah go intercultural communication as it, like the secret life, is very similar to EL which is nice - you'll smash both!
and the genetics one seems like a good choice as Russ has said all that stuff, and I think the 'seeing' subject seems good as too.

[mikee65]

Say vexx, why 4 breadth this year?

Because for medicine the year you complete a subject is what matters and so first year counts the least - wouldn't want to destroy my GPA so doing it first year since I'm not sure how I will do.
It'll be an interesting year
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I would figure breadth would be generally be easier that some of the other sciences