I have Absolutely No Idea how to do this! (1 Viewer)

[D.Larie]

I don't know the FIRST thing about this timetabling business.

I'm doing Arts in Communication (Social Inquiry).
Here's the Handbook page: http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/hss/ug/c10100.html
Here is the list of all the subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/hss/lists/alpha.html

Now what?
Sorry, I'm such a pain.

The Handbook page for my course says this:

Year 1
Autumn semester
50105 Communication and Information Environments 6cp
50107 Contemporary Cultures 1 6cp
50109 Power and Change in Australia 6cp
50120 Introduction to Social Inquiry 6cp
Spring semester
50106 Media, Information and Society 6cp
50108 Contemporary Cultures 2 6cp
50111 Colonialism and Modernity 6cp
50121 Theory and Method 6cp

Do I have to choose anything?

 

[jase_]

That's your standard program for your first year. Now what you have to do is, go to the timetable website (http://timetable.uts.edu.au) and enter in the subject numbers for the relevant semesters, and then choose the times you would like for your timetable. Write this down somewhere and take it along to enrolment and then choose your times that you want.

 

[D.Larie]

jasee, I'm really dumb..

Where do I enter the subject numbers?

The Year One list I posted...are those the subjects I HAVE to do? I don't get to choose my own subjects until Yr 2?

Please teach me step by step. I'm sorry! lol

 

[SashatheMan]

1.follow that link jasee told u . (http://timetable.uts.edu.au)
2. click "Build timetable "
3. then in step 3. u either write your subject name or number and search for it
4. add it to your time table
5. let someone else do the rest i dont know what to do myself . lol

 

[dark`secrets]

eeek this should have been posted earlier so i wouldnt have struggled with the whole timetabling tutes and stuff

 

[D.Larie]

Ok, so here's my Semester 1 thing:
Autumn semester
50105 Communication and Information Environments 6cp
50107 Contemporary Cultures 1 6cp
50109 Power and Change in Australia 6cp
50120 Introduction to Social Inquiry 6cp

That's what is written on the Handbook page.
When I type in 50105 (or the other three), it tells me to 'pick from the following' but there's only one choice.
So, I take it that these 4 are compulsory subjects?

And do I only do this for Semester 1 or for the whole year?

 

[jase_]

Yes, type in the subject numbers, then pick from the list. If only one comes up, then its fine. Basically it should look something like _AUT_U_1 and _SPR_U_1, where the U standards for city campus. The St Leonards and Kuring-gai campus subjects have different letters. Then just make your timetable for Autumn and Spring, and yes, you have to enrol for the whole year.

 

[Seraph]

hmm i thought they do this at enrolment too...

 

[jase_]

You can if you want, however your enrolment will be faster if you do the preparation stuff at home.

 

[D.Larie]

Is it strange to only have 11 hours of uni a week?
I calculated mine...

My friend has 8 hours in each of the 4 days a week in her timetable...

What a huge difference. I'm worried...should I be?

 

[Jinglebell]

Is it strange to only have 11 hours of uni a week?

no, that's the hours for first year communications...this year I have 9 hours a week. Yes, a whole *9* hours. I'm not sure how I'll fit everything in

 

[b_d8]

Am confused...
What's the difference between:
48210_AUT_U_1_S: Engineering for Sustainability
and
48210_AUT_U_1_B: Engineering for Sustainability

which one should i choose?

 

[tomekz]

Am confused...
What's the difference between:
48210_AUT_U_1_S: Engineering for Sustainability
and
48210_AUT_U_1_B: Engineering for Sustainability

which one should i choose?

Study/Attendance Modes
S Standard
Typically activities offered week-by-week on a local campus.

O Offshore

D Distance

B Block/Flex/Intensive
Refer to subject description or faculty for details 'Block' study mode delivery.

As for what a block/flex/intesive, i got nfi......

 

[jase_]

Choose the one with S, which means standard. The B is block, which means like summer school, as in they run the whole subject over a few weeks or so. In this case, they also do block mode for that subject during the semester, however, you should just choose the S one.

 

[zeal]

I've inputted my subjects in and the timetable displayed.. but how the heck do we read the grid table? The flat version is sort of less confusing, but I'm not really sure how to pick which times I want from there.

 

[tomekz]

I've inputted my subjects in and the timetable displayed.. but how the heck do we read the grid table? The flat version is sort of less confusing, but I'm not really sure how to pick which times I want from there.

Yeah i also found the flat version less confusing...... What i just did was find the subjects that only had one choice for them (i think i had 2or3) and then moved on from there, what times i want to go and as long as they didnt overlap....

Oh BTW dus anyone no if its a good idea to choose sumthing that comes right after another such sumthing finishes at 2 and another starts at the same time or is it best to leave about half an hour in between?

 

[MoNNiE]

Am confused...
What's the difference between:
48210_AUT_U_1_S: Engineering for Sustainability
and
48210_AUT_U_1_B: Engineering for Sustainability

which one should i choose?

b_d8,
the difference between the two is that one is standard mode and the other is block
standard = 1 lecture, 1 tutorial per week
whlist the block refers to doing double amount of time (2x of each) per week
usually when one person does block it is because they are part timers who are full time workers or, ppl doing double degrees whois timetable didn't permit them doing the standard program

 

[D.Larie]

Oh BTW dus anyone no if its a good idea to choose sumthing that comes right after another such sumthing finishes at 2 and another starts at the same time or is it best to leave about half an hour in between?

Yea, I would like opinions on this as well. Would it be better to leave some time after a lecture to fix up and read notes before going to a Tut?

What's Uni like in the morning vs noon?

Also, would it be better to go to a 9:00am lecture or a 12:00 one?
Please help me with this decision.

 

[Jinglebell]

Yea, I would like opinions on this as well. Would it be better to leave some time after a lecture to fix up and read notes before going to a Tut?

What's Uni like in the morning vs noon?

Also, would it be better to go to a 9:00am lecture or a 12:00 one?
Please help me with this decision.

Go for the tut straight after the lecture, the only week you may possibly want more time is the week you are presenting the tutorial, but the other 12 or so weeks you'll be happy to get it out of the way...and I probably shouldn't be saying this, but you *think* you'll be reading your lecture notes, or even taking notes...well, so did I this time last year

morning vs. afternoon is your preference, really. Personally, I got stuck with a couple of 3.30-5pm tutorials and everyone just wanted to get out of there, they weren't as good as some of my others. And as for lectures, in theory the two lectures are exactly the same, go to the one before your tut, there's no need to be at the 9am lecture if you have a 3.30 tut and theres a repeat lecture at 12. That said, you can generally go to whichever lecture suits you at the time, like when I had a presentation in an afternoon tut and had no idea what to do, I'd sometimes go to the morning lecture instead of midday. But I wouldn't recommend regularly going to a lecture *after* a tut, you could be all kinds of lost in discussions.

Hope that helped your decisions somewhat...

 

[D.Larie]

Omg, we have to present tutorials?? I didn't expect anything like that...

How many weeks into the course are we expected to do this?