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UNSW Business School
Academic Success
Presenters: • Dr Christine Mathies (Academic Director
Undergraduate Programs)
• Peter McGuinn (Digital Learning Manager)
• Dr Louise Fitzgerald (Learning Adviser)
• Leanne Li (Senior Student Adviser)
Your First Year at UNSW Business School
Semester 1 Break Semester 2
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Week
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Study
Period
Exams O-
Week
1 2
- Planning your program and enrolment
- Planning your classes and assessments
Planning your program and enrolment
Semester 1 Break Semester 2
O-
Week
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Study
Period
Exam
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27/3
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5/6 –
8/6
9/6-
26/6
27/6 –
18/07
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WC
24/7
WC
31/7
1/3/17
Enrolment
Deadline 31/3/17
Census Date
16/4/17
Drop, no
academic penalty 9/5/17 S2
Enrolments open
15/5/17
IPT
30/7/17
S2
Enrolment Deadline
Help available:
- Handbook
- Progression Plans
- Student Centre– Adviser
- Choose your major videos
You need a vague idea of possible majors by the time S2 enrolments open
Help with your decision:
• Choose your majors videos
• Your first year lecturers
• Undergraduate Coordinators in each school
• UNSW Careers and Employment
Semester 1 Break Semester 2
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Week
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Study
Period
Exam
s
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Week
1 2
WC
20/2
WC
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WC
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WC
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15/5
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5/6 –
8/6
9/6-
26/6
27/6 –
18/07
WC
19/7
WC
24/7
WC
31/7
9/5/17 S2
Enrolments open
30/7/17
S2 Enrolment Deadline
Screenshot & link to
"Choose your Major"
videos (couldn't find
them!)
The Handbook – 5 Top Tips to successfully navigate this necessary evil!
1. Always refer to the
2017 version of the
handbook – unless
you change degrees
The Handbook – 5 Top Tips to successfully navigate this necessary evil!
2. The Jargon
– Units of Credit UOC:
The “currency” of your degree; each course has a “value”, typically 6 UOC.
– Types of core courses:
– Compulsory core course:
You must take these courses
– Flexible core course:
You must take four of these courses if you are studying a BCom
– Compulsory course:
A course you must study as part of a major
– Types of elective courses:
– UNSW Business School Elective:
You can choose a Business School course
– Free Elective:
You can choose a course, within or outside of the Business School
– Elective courses:
A list of courses to choose from as part of a major
– Major requirements:
You must study a total of 48 UOC (8 courses) in a major; the handbook site for that major will tell you what they are.
You must complete at least one major.
– General Education:
You must complete 12 UOC of anything that isn’t offered by the Business School
– Pre-requisites vs. Co-requisites:
Pre-requisites: Course(s) that you must take before you can enrol in a course
Co-requisites: Course(s) that you must take before or at the same time
The Handbook – 5 Top Tips to successfully navigate this necessary evil!
3. Beware the overlap! Types of core courses
– Compulsory core courses can – and probably will – at the same time be the start of your major, i.e.
compulsory course
Here are some examples (Actuarial Studies)
ACCT
1501
ACCT
1511
ACTL1
101
ACTL
2102
ACTL
2111
ACTL
2131
ECON
1101
ECON
1102
FINS
1613
MATH
1151
MATH
1251
MGMT
1001
ACCT2522
ACCT2542
ACCT3563
+ 3 electives
ECON1202
+ 6 electives
FINS1612
FINS2624
FINS3616
+4 electives
Accounting
major
Business
Economics
Finance
– Flexible core courses can perform the same trick and become a compulsory course
Here are some examples (Commerce)
ACCT
1511
COMM
1000
ECON
1102
FINS
1613
INFS
1602
MARK
1012
MGMT
1101
TABL
1710
Accounting Economics Finance Info Systems Marketing Int Business Taxation & Business Law
The Handbook – 5 Top Tips to successfully navigate this necessary evil!
4. Beware the overlap! Electives – what elective?
– Doing a double major?
– You will use most – if not all – your Business School Electives and Free Electives for core and
elective courses in your second major.
Business School
Electives
Free Electives
48 UOC 2nd
Major
The Handbook – 5 Top Tips to successfully navigate this necessary evil!
5. Get help from the experts!
Business School Student Centre
Student Centre Team
Business School Student Centre
We can help you with:
• Enrolment requests
• Clarification of course selection
• Requests for advanced standing/ credit transfer
• Progression checks
• Internal Program Transfers (IPT)
• Overloading requests (for non-first year students)
• Exchange TOC forms
• Reduce Study Load forms
• Confirmation of enrolment (eCOE) forms
• Academic advising appointments
• Other matters requiring staff action
Business School Student Centre
Business School Student Centre
Use our HELP website: https://help.business.unsw.edu.au/
Business School Student Centre
Business School Student Centre
Where can you find the
Business Student Centre?
Location
Room 1028 , Level 1
Quadrangle Building (E15)
Opening hours
Monday to Friday
9am to 5pm
Phone: 02 9385 3189
Semester 1 Break Semester 2
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Week
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Study
Period
Exams O-
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27/2/17
Lectures start!
20/2/17
Moodle
available
6/3/17
Tutorials start!
26/5/17
Lectures finish
2/6/17
Tutorials finish
First
assignments
Mid-semester
exams
Assignment
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Help available:
- Course resources, digital and analogue
- Your teaching staff
- PASS classes
- Learning consultations
- Learning Support web-page
- Informal study groups
24/4/17 Provisional
28/4/17 Final
Exam timetable released
Exams
Planning your classes and assessments
Moodle & Digital Learning
Semester 1 Break Semester 2
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UNSW IT Student Support
UNSW MyAccess
UNSW Moodle
https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/students/resources/learning-support
Which approach
to university studies will you take?
Bob diligently takes notes in class and from the
recommended readings, before accurately reproducing
the information in essays and other coursework.
Karen approaches tutorials and other
group-work with the purpose of finding fault in the
views expressed by fellow students.
Sarah questions information presented in class and in
texts, before attempting to draw her own interpretation
of the gathered information.
Pete sets out to present an original
viewpoint by disregarding existing ideas or research.
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Learning Support at UNSW Business School
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Day Topic
Wed
22 Feb Studying Business with Mindfulness
Thurs
23 Feb Writing and researching for Business
Fri
24 Feb Making the most of lectures, tutorials
and workshops
Business School Academic Success Workshops in O Week
Come along, learn new things, practise your skills, meet
other students
Same time & venue each day: 11.00-12.00, Webster, Theatre A