Environmental science - Bridging courses (1 Viewer)

[SiN3m]

Hi I want to come to UTS nexy year to do Environmental Science. I do biology now but i wanted to do bridging courses for cemistry and mathematics (i now do General).

Is it a bad idea to do 2 bridging courses? Anyone know how important they are to the subject? I want to major in environmental bio so i know i won't need too much chem, but yeah...


Any advice is welcome. thanx

 

[katie tully]

I did a bridging course for chem... Essentially you're trying to learn a heap of catch up content in 13 weeks, so don't be mistaken in thinking a bridging course is easy.

But if you have no prior assumed knowledge of chem, I'd really consider it. Same for maths. I did General Maths too, and in hindsite it would have been benficial to do maybe 2U.

That said, when I did a semester of Earth Science there was quite a lot of physics and maths involved for an Earth Systems Processes subject I did ...

 

[SiN3m]

thanx

well i did do half the 2u math course, the prelim...

So you rekon it will be really hard to do both? would it be worth it though?

 

[katie tully]

It'd be hard, but if you're going to do one over the other, I'd say do chemistry.
Which degree are you looking at?

* Bachelor of Science (Environmental Biology)
* Bachelor of Science (Urban Ecology)
* Bachelor of Science (Environmental Forensics)
* Bachelor of Science (Marine Biology)
* Bachelor of Science - Major in Environmental Sciences

 

[SiN3m]

ahk so chem more important...

and i want to do Bachelor of Science (Environmental Biology)

 

[katie tully]

http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/sci/ug/c10242.html#F17

Well the depending on what you want to major in, there is a lot of chemistry.
91120 GIS and Remote Sensing would involve some maths

So yeah. Chem definitely, maths would be beneficial but it'd be up to you

 

[katie tully]

91149 Geological Processes would also involve maths, it looks very similar to the subject I did in first year

 

[SiN3m]

Yeah 've read through that. The main thing is bio for me...

I spoke to one of the guyz from UTS doing the ES who came to our school who only did a bridging course in chem and he did general in his HSC too... i just wanted to know how others did it..


thankyou for help