Course Readers - what are they (1 Viewer)

[ballin]

Im really confused, are they just a list of everything we should be reading for a particular subject? If so, when/how do we get them?

Also, i was looking through the tutorial guide for a few of my subjects and it has "recommended tutorial reading". Will we be given those readings? or do we need to buy them. thanks

 

[Iheartpaulfrank]

You get them from the University Copy Centre and they contain the tutorial readings. What subjects are you doing?

EDIT: http://www.usyd.edu.au/ucc/notes/notes.html Have a look at all the available Course Readers.

 

[Triangulum]

Typically 'recommended reading', as opposed to 'compulsory reading', is something you have to get yourself online/from the library. Compulsory readings will be in the reader and/or textbook.

However, no one does recommended reading unless they're doing a presentation in that tute or an essay on that tute's subject.

 

[ballin]

OH! so the notes actually contain readings that are compulsory, right? However i can only find notes for 2 out of the 4 subjects im doing this semester. That is, there arent any notes for SCLG1001 and Govt1202...?

Also Triangulum, for ARHT1002 they've given me a list of "recommended introductory readings" are you saying i should just fuck them? Because i really dont want to be forking out money if i can ace the subject without them

 

[Triangulum]

OH! so the notes actually contain readings that are compulsory, right? However i can only find notes for 2 out of the 4 subjects im doing this semester. That is, there arent any notes for SCLG1001 and Govt1202...?

Don't know about sociology, possibly they just haven't put the reader online yet. The government department doesn't use the university copy centre, it uses a different printer near the uni (Kopystop) which doesn't have online ordering. They'll tell you how to get there in the first lecture.

Also Triangulum, for ARHT1002 they've given me a list of "recommended introductory readings" are you saying i should just fuck them? Because i really dont want to be forking out money if i can ace the subject without them

Intro readings for the whole course? If it's a couple of articles or whatever you may as well grab them online and have a read, but if it's a whole book it's probably not worth the bother. If you really completely needed to read them to do the course then they'd say so. (But if you want to be conscientious and studious, it can't do any harm to have a read, but you'd probably just want to get it from the library rather than shelling out for it.)

 

[ballin]

thanks