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2013 Course information sessions and booklets
Single degree information session (PPT)
Single degree information booklet (Word)
Double degree information session (PPT
Double degree information booklet (Word)
See Course Information Sessions for Round 1 session times.
Please read each section carefully:
Majors, minors and sequences explained
Important terms and definitions
Areas of study / discipline
The areas of study, sometimes referred to as disciplines, are broad topic areas like History or Politics.
Course
A course is a defined period of study leading to a tertiary qualification. Rules and requirements for each course are included in the University Handbook.
Credit points
This is the value given to a unit/subject, normally 6 credit points. There are some second and third year units that are worth 12 credit points.
Unit / subject
Units are like subjects and they make up the different areas of study (disciplines).
Year level
Within a course, there are a number of different year levels at which units are offered. These represent the order in which you should take them in your course.
For example ATS1351 ‘Exploring performance’ is a first-year level Performance unit and ATS2811 ‘Making performance: Theory and practice’ is a second-year level Performance unit.
Note: The term does not necessarily refer to the number of years a student has been studying but the level you have achieved in your course or a particular area of study. For example, a double degree student may find that they study first-year level units in their second year at university.
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