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

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- Planning your program and enrolment

- Planning your classes and assessments

Planning your program and enrolment

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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

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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

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Lectures start!

20/2/17

Moodle

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6/3/17

Tutorials start!

26/5/17

Lectures finish

2/6/17

Tutorials finish

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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

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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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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