How does majoring in science work? (1 Viewer)

[frogbutt]

Confused.

You apply for the B science right. Then how do you apply to major in a particular thing?

 

[Iruka]

Well, basically you make sure that you enrol and complete the correct courses, which you will find listed somewhere in the uni handbook. It's your responsibility to make sure that you have taken the correct courses for your major.

At some stage, you lodge a form with the science students' office in which you declare your major. I did this the first week of uni cause I already knew what I wanted to major in, but there is no need to do it that early. You have to do it before you graduate so that they can check that you have actually completed the requirements for your major and put the correct major on your testamur. So if you submit it sometime in third year, all should be well.

 

[Omie Jay]

what are career opportunities after getting a science degree?

 

[Graney]

At some stage, you lodge a form with the science students' office in which you declare your major. I did this the first week of uni cause I already knew what I wanted to major in, but there is no need to do it that early. You have to do it before you graduate so that they can check that you have actually completed the requirements for your major and put the correct major on your testamur. So if you submit it sometime in third year, all should be well.

Is this actually true? At all uni's, not just this guys?

I'm in my third year (not b.science mind you) and have never heard of this.

To the op, once your enrolled in your degree, you basically just choose subjects within the major you plan to complete, making sure you follow your degree rules and program. It's simple.

 

[Rekkusu]

Is this actually true? At all uni's, not just this guys?

I'm in my third year (not b.science mind you) and have never heard of this.

To the op, once your enrolled in your degree, you basically just choose subjects within the major you plan to complete, making sure you follow your degree rules and program. It's simple.

Graney - If you're not B Science or B Adv Science, then you don't have to worry about declaring your Major/Minor or Major/Major Sequence. B Medical Science students have no need of declaring a major/minor, however, they too by 3rd year WILL specialise in an area(s). The reason why they can choose pretty much any medical-based major by 3rd year, is because they've fulfilled all the requirements for all medical-based 3rd year courses.

In a nutshell, B Med sci students are EXACTLY the same as B Sci students, except you graduate with a nifty named degree which has no relevance to medicine.

Guys basically once you've enrolled in a B Sci degree, and head into this site:
http://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/programs/2009/3970.html

From there you choose what area of speciality you want to work in the future. i.e. Medical Microbiology & Immunology. Click on that major --> Then follow ALL the requirements they tell you there. Failure to comply will lead to being unable to graduate.

You then choose a second Major or minor sequence again from that same site. Minor simply means a less condensed form of the major sequence.

Career opportunities differ from major to major. Nanotechnologists/biotechnologists/bioinformaticians, typically get employed quite quickly after they graduate simply with a B Sci.

While other majors may require you to do honours as well as PhDs to get favourable jobs.

A crap load of people think you'll be unemployed after you finish a B Sci degree, and that it leads you to nowhere but a diagnostics lab in the hospital basement. But truth is, it doesn't. It all depends on what you major/speciality is in.

 

[frogbutt]

thanks all, do you have to major in something? what does it do what's so good to major in something and did you?

 

[katie tully]

At CSU with Medical Science if you want to specialise in Pathology, you have to delcare this fairly early on and follow a set subject list.

Otherwise you can do the generic strand and pick 9 electives.

 

[Graney]

Don't be lazy, read your degree rules, they're available on your universities website.

 

[Tim035]

I'll almost certainly be going ahead with pharmacology for a major now (ended up hating pathology, I think mainly because of how it was taught). Is that a basement dwelling / 40k a year major?

 

[katie tully]

I don't know what you'd do with a Pharmaco major, honestly. Other than some sort of research, orr I don't know.

Are you going ahead with applying for a transfer to Pharm?

 

[Tim035]

I've decided I'll finish med sci and sit the GAMSAT early next year for Masters in pharm at usyd. I was soo close to applying to UAC but in the end just couldn't stand the idea of starting again (and have accumulated $13k hecs for no reason).

- If that fails, I'll quite seriously consider doing a buisness or commerce degree

 

[wrong_turn]

haha i didnt declare my majors for my degree until recently...like a couple of weeks ago. before that i just did whatever was required for my major as most would.

 

[darkwolfzx]

As part of the science component of my degree I was emailed asking which area I wanted to major in. After looking at Table A of the science degree (majors) I picked pyschology.

 

[wrong_turn]

haha i was planning on majoring in psychology but then after first year psych and after first year in general...i just wanted to finish my degree hahaha