Lecture notes (1 Viewer)

[antheung]

Hi guys.

I'm transferring to the University of Sydney from an overseas university, where lecture notes are usually uploaded onto the web for students to download and print out before class. However, after taking a look at the course websites of some units of study at the University of Sydney (mainly those offered by the School of Mathematics and Statistics), it seems that I can hardly download lecture notes from the web since they aren't available online.

So I was wondering where students obtain copies of lecture notes. Or do students take notes written on the blackboard in class?

By the way, I'll also be taking Economics and units of study from other Arts subjects, so I'd like to know where those students usually obtain copies of lecture notes.

Thank you guys.

 

[engineering]

Every lecturer is different

Some will specify a text book
Some use power points, and may or may not upload them for you
Some will give handouts in the lecture
Some will expect you to copy the blackboard.

 

[Blue Suede]

in first year maths, the statistics course gives out notes, but these are fairly long text ones. They then do lots of work on the board which you are expected to copy down (sometimes these are then put online after the lecture). All other maths expect you to copy what's going on in the class and there might be textbooks and such to help.

Economics has power points and (generally) puts the slides up online before the lecture (somewhere between an hour-a day before) which allows you to print it out and make extra notes on the paper (the lecture notes alone are not sufficient to learn everything).

My experience of arts subjects is just take notes. In the 13 arts subjects I've done, only one has put notes online and they were useless as only the absolute bare bones of what happened. Just take notes of what you think is important.

edit: pen/paper best for maths classes - can't do those equations on a comp, and I'd suggest laptop for arts subjects because of the sheer amount of writing you'll do.