This is a pretty big decision...

'Full-time' means that you are undertaking at least three-quarters of a standard full-time load of study. A standard full-time load is equal to #16 of study a year (this usually means 8 courses a year), or #8 of study a semester (this usually means 4 courses a semester). Three-quarters of a standard full-time load would therefore mean #6 (or a miniumum of 3 courses).

So 4 courses a semester... #2 units for each. Most of the courses seem to go for 13 weeks.

How would these courses be studied? All 4 at the same time over the semester?

Or 2 at a time (since they're 13 weeks) for a term... then the next 2.

Could anybody fill me in?

Thanks in advance...

umm

at UQ u do on average depending on the degree 4 subjects per semester, there are 13 actual uni weeks in a semester, and u do all 4 at the same time

hmmm that's a tough decision...

4 subjects per term... that'll probably mean 5 days a week.

It's only a concern because UQ is around an hour and a half travel away (at least) each way and I would have to keep it up for the full time of the degree.

13 week semesters.. hmmm

Thanks :D

Not sure about the exact subjects you are thinking of doing.

At QUT, I'm studying a law degree. 4 subjects. I have 11 contact hours - I am required to be at Uni 11 hours per week. I spread it out a lot and go to uni 3 days per week, but I know some people that go 1.5 days a week.

You would need to check with the school that you were intending to attend to see what sort of contact hours you would have, and if the tutorials are normall scheduled directly after the lectures.

A course that is worth #2 units, usually requires 5 hours of contact per week (lectures and/or tutorials and/or labs-pracs).

This does not take into account personal study time for keeping up to date and getting assignments done, etc :)

the way they use to work it was a 2unit subject use to be worth 12 credit points
each 16credit point subject had approx 4-5 hrs of contact per week at uni, and u should make up 7-8 hrs of study per subject per week at home. Thats the way they told us. but anyway i use to travel an hr to and hr and a half to uni every day, 5 days a week for 4yrs.

It's confusing how at UQ a course is a subject and a unit is a value of a course. At QUT the unit is the subject and the course is the whole degree.

they changed all the names around last yr it was dumb, i dont know why they did it

I had a 2 hour travel each way from uni for a 4 subject semester.. (had to go 4 days a week - 1 subject for each day)..

if u're doing a fairly popular course or something.. u should be able to select which lectures & tutes & stuff u go to.. which might enable u to cut it down to 3 or less days per week.. unfortuantely i didn't have that luxury.. but oh well..

The travel time to and from uni is normaly a good thing ... It is a good time to spend studying or at least reading over stuff.

that - or you can study externally.

meh - most uni courses require about 2 days attendance, unless you do science or engineering or something of that nature.

1.5 hours? thats not too bad.....i used to catch busses for 1.5 hours to get to Grifftafe last year.

Now its a 30 min bus trip and im in the city :D

that - or you can study externally.

I wouldn't advise that. At the end of the day it is much easier to do well in a subject when you actualy have to rock up, if only for the motivation factor. You also get to interact much easier with lecturers and tutors to help you gain understanding on your assigned tasks.

Ask anybody who has done both external and internal study, and they will tell you that external is much harder than internal.

i am enrolled internally but I basically study externally - wish they would let me swap, would save me so much money. I work full-time and study full-time and don't find it that difficult except during exam periods.

I work full-time and study full-time

You must work pretty freakin' efficiently on your uni stuff to be able to complete all your credit points and still do full time work. I interpret full-time work as 40 hours per week which leaves very little time to study and do assessment :/ It'd be worse if you actually attended classes since you'd have to schedule work around uni lectures but still... having only two days and a handful of hours each night to do all your uni work? Doesn't really leave much time to do anything but work and uni :/

Also, with regards to the way unis are using different terms, Griffith uses "Program" to describe what we know as a course, and a "course" to describe what we know as subjects. Hooray. Griffith also changed their course codes and what not around heh... doesn't matter too much unless you're dealing with pedanting people at Student Administration :D

i am enrolled internally but I basically study externally - wish they would let me swap, would save me so much money. I work full-time and study full-time and don't find it that difficult except during exam periods.

Almost every single person I know who has studied externaly has had major problems when there comes some of the harder examples. My housemate was doing Mechatronics at USQ last year, and had a hard problem with some of the engineering maths problems (and this guy is a maths freak), simply because the textbook didn't explain it very well. He went down there one day, and went to a tutorial and bugged the lecturer and in a hour or two was completly sorted.

Most Unis who offer external studies, also have big problems in teaching everything they have to, without direct contact to your lecturers and tutors life becomes hell.