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[gelo]

Ok. I've enrolled up to the point where I must "Consult the Handbook of Undergraduate Studies" and plan my unit enrolment and class timetable before I attend the on-campus enrolment session.

Now, I have no idea what this means.
I don't understand the entire "units" deal or planning my timetable!

Please help this stupid high-school graduate! :worried:

 

[glitterfairy]

HSC lingo --> uni lingo

subjects --> courses, or "units"
units --> credit points
"You must have done this subject in Yr 11/prior to picking up this subject" --> pre-requisites

Look at the handbook and look for your degree specifications. Look at the list of COMPULSARY units (normally called core units, ot something like that). eg mine says ARTS300, ENGL318 etc.

depending on what you're doing, you may be given a list of units to "choose 2" or something like that, otherwise they just give you the compulsary ones.

From the compulsary ones (eg ARTS300) look it up in the unit list part, which will tell you if there are any prerequisites... normally for a 300-level unit it might say "prereq: ARTS200 and 28 credit points". So, this means that before doing ARTS300 you have to do ARTS200 and have done up to 28 credit points (most units are worth 3-4 cp, and you do a 10-14 of them a semester). You then look up ARTS200, and it will likely say "prereq: ARTS100". Voila, you now have three core subjects you MUST do (even if they're not all listed in the compulsary cores).

A lot of "timetabling" really just means finding out what you have to do, then working backwards through the chain of pre-reqs to find out all the hidden compulsary stuff. Make sure you note down the year (100-level = first year, and so on), and the semester, and you'll notice that most of your units settle into a 3-4 units a semester patten.

 

[gelo]

Sorry if this is REALLY dumb but I still don't fully understand it.

My offered course is B Media (http://www.handbook.mq.edu.au/degree.php?edition=2007&id=21074)

I understand what you're telling me glitterfairy, but am still a little confused when I look at my degree.

SORRY

 

[withaface]

Which major are you in media?

multimedia

screen production

writing


???



If you're multimedia then:


These are the ones you HAVE TO DO:

100 levelRequiredCUL100Text, Image, Culture (3)3RequiredMAS104Australian Media (3)3RequiredMAS105Media Cultures (3)3200 levelRequiredMAS203News and Current Affairs (3)3RequiredMAS208Multimedia Theory and Production 1 (4)4RequiredMAS209Multimedia Theory and Production 2 (4)4RequiredMAS214Media Forms: From Alphabet to Internet (3)3300 levelRequiredMAS306Modernism and Postmodernism (4)4RequiredMAS307Culture and Technology (3)3RequiredMAS308Advanced Multimedia Theory and Production 1 (4)4RequiredMAS309Advanced Multimedia Theory and Production 2 (4)4

If you're doing screen production then you HAVE TO DO THESE:
100 levelRequiredCUL100Text, Image, Culture (3)3RequiredMAS104Australian Media (3)3RequiredMAS105Media Cultures (3)3200 levelRequiredMAS202Introduction to Screenwriting (3)3RequiredMAS203News and Current Affairs (3)3RequiredMAS205Introduction to the Cinema (3)3RequiredMAS212Screen Production 1 (3)3RequiredMAS213Screen Production 2 (3)3300 levelRequiredMAS312Advanced Screen Production 1 (3)3RequiredMAS313Advanced Screen Production 2 (3)3RequiredMAS314Screenwriting: Stories and Structures (3)3Required3 cp fromMAS302-MAS307, MAS315, MUS3033

If you're doing writing these are the ones you have to do:

100 levelRequiredCUL100Text, Image, Culture (3)3RequiredMAS104Australian Media (3)3RequiredMAS105Media Cultures (3)3200 levelRequiredMAS203News and Current Affairs (3)3RequiredMAS210Print Media Production 1 (3)3RequiredMAS211Print Media Production 2 (3)3RequiredMAS215Theories of Writing for the Media (3)3300 levelRequiredMAS310Advanced Print Media Production 1 (3)3RequiredMAS311Advanced Print Media Production 2 (3)3Required6 cp fromMAS302-307, MAS314-315, MAS389-3906




SO, you're first year, so just look at the 100 level subs you're required to do, say if you're maj. in writing then you have to do cul100, mas104, mas105, see if they are on during this semester (semester one) if they are, choose them or choose the ones that are on. Now, media people tend to have a bucketload of electives, you guys drift around a lot doing lots of other subjects, so look at S1 timetable and see if there are any 100 level subjects that seem interesting, and you'd like to do them. Pick enough subjects for 12cp.

 

[gelo]

Well I haven't chosen a major yet..
I'll probably do Screen Production though.

 

[AsyLum]

http://www.handbook.mq.edu.au/PDFs/2007/ug-glossary-of-terms.pdf

 

[dandel26]

Hey i'm doing a BA LLB, i'm cool for the law units cause its all prescribed. But for the arts units could i do mixture of units that aren't part of a major? eg)
AHIST103
POL168
PHIL131

 

[Kegs]

All those units are part of a major. It's arts. You can pick anything you want.

 

[lilsxcwog89]

Quick question, im doing the combined law degree (BA-Psych/LLB) and have already timetabled my required units for both first and second semesters (15 credit points). I also chose to do POL168 as and elective for second year. So, effectively, 18 cp in total for first year, is this too much of a workload and is the idea of choosing POL168 a good idea for this course?.

 

[Cyan_phoeniX]

Quick question, im doing the combined law degree (BA-Psych/LLB) and have already timetabled my required units for both first and second semesters (15 credit points). I also chose to do POL168 as and elective for second year. So, effectively, 18 cp in total for first year, is this too much of a workload and is the idea of choosing POL168 a good idea for this course?.

generally, people do 12cp per semester if they are full-time(so 24 cp per year). If you are doing the Ba-Psych/LLB, then your doing 15cp (PSY105 PSY105 STAT170 LAW114 LAW104). So what you are doing is not an overload. POL168 is politics, so its probably not the most irrelevant unit, as its lawish. If you want to do something Psych related then there are heaps of groovy philosophy units too.