MAQ ARTS students help me please!! (1 Viewer)

[Ava]

I was wondering if someone who has done these courses I want to do for Semester 2 could tell me how they are assessed.

ENGL106 - Literature and the screen (or something like that)
PHIL131 - Mind, meaning and metaphysics
AHST101 - myth in the ancient world
CUL101 - Introduction to Visual Culture
FRN131 - French beginners

What i mean by assessed is whether they are all essays (no final exam), whether they have heavily weighted final exams (like 50% finals for french, or small weighted finals like Philosophy132 was only 20%).

Thx soo much!!!!~

 

[MaryJane]

Doesnt it say on their individual websites? It used to... back in the day...

if you run a search on the MQ website for each of them, it shoud come back with their site, which lists assessment info.

 

[Ava]

I went to the site where they tell you info on the UNITS but there wasn't anything on the assessments. Damn. I think it might be because its semester 2 courses..maybe,

Thanks for the suggestion anyway~

 

[Cyan_phoeniX]

Hi ava.

i did (last year):

PHIL131 - Mind, meaning and metaphysics
AHST101 - myth in the ancient world

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What i recall, PHIL131 was made up of:

2x 1500 word essays (35% each)
10% tut mark
and 20% final exam

I found it an excellent unit. I would definitely recommend it, especially if you are like me and find that exams are a weakness.
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AHST101 is a little different. from what i remember, it consists of:

2 Tut papers (15% each)
30% essay
40% final exam

(or it may have been 10 for each tut paper and 40% final)

AHST101 was great, but is ALOT of work. The final exam is probably the most stressful thing to study for because it covers alot of stuff (3 main civilisations, plus several minor ones).
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So this is what the courses are made up of. If your into philsophy and like a mathsy sort of subject i would definitely recommend PHIL134 (formal logic). Other than that, both PHIL131 and AHST101 are great so you wont be disappointed if you chose on of them. hope that helps!

 

[glitterfairy]

^^ Hmm, I was thinking of going Myth In the Ancient world next year (clashes with arts105 for next semester).

Other than that, I'm doing phil131 next semester too! Yay! Studybuddies!

 

[AsyLum]

Dammit cyan, just cos i had a fricking exam you go and help

Haha, yeah what cyan said about those two.

 

[xeuyrawp]

PHIL131 - Mind, meaning and metaphysics

From the Phil website's study guide:

Essay 1 1,200 - 1,500 words 35%
Essay 2 1,200 - 1,500 words 35%
Short-answer exam (1 1/2 hours) 20%

Every other subject have their study guides, up, too, but I'm too lazy to go paste up the info for you.

 

[Cyan_phoeniX]

Dammit cyan, just cos i had a fricking exam you go and help

Haha, yeah what cyan said about those two.

LOL! sorry Asylum. I know how you just love to be the first to help everyone. I'll be slower next time

 

[cpjeeves]

I did ENGL 106, the literature and screen one, I can't exactly remember the weighting of the course but I do recall we had an essay instead of an exam..and a tutorial presentation. That's all I remember doing actually, I think that's it (but I could be wrong).

I'm going to throw my 2 cents in and say that it's a really great unit too, it was my favourite last year (mostly because half of it was watching movies, what's not to like?)

 

[AsyLum]

Thats ok Cyan, i forgive you

Yeah basically all philosophy is the same

2 essays + 1 short exam.

 

[xeuyrawp]

Thats ok Cyan, i forgive you

Yeah basically all philosophy is the same

2 essays + 1 short exam.

Anyway, this information is in all the study guides which are easily available online...

 

[Ava]

Ah thanks, I might skip history. And I'm still thinking about what to do about english...I mean I like english but is it like HS english where u watch films and basically have to write about techniques etc etc?

But I'll def. go ahead with philosophy~

 

[xeuyrawp]

Ah thanks, I might skip history. And I'm still thinking about what to do about english...I mean I like english but is it like HS english where u watch films and basically have to write about techniques etc etc?

But I'll def. go ahead with philosophy~

English next semester is supposedly really fun. I am still considering dropping the Roman history unit and doing the english one.

 

[glitterfairy]

That fun, huh?

I did engl120 this semester. I'm not sure I could stomach another one like it, although in retrospect I learnt a lot from Intro to English.

 

[Ava]

From the Phil website's study guide:

Essay 1 1,200 - 1,500 words 35%
Essay 2 1,200 - 1,500 words 35%
Short-answer exam (1 1/2 hours) 20%

Every other subject have their study guides, up, too, but I'm too lazy to go paste up the info for you.

Thanks, I'll look it up, but could you give me the link to the phil website?
Cos' I must be going to a totally random site...i can't find any study guides.

thanks~

 

[xeuyrawp]

Thanks, I'll look it up, but could you give me the link to the phil website?
Cos' I must be going to a totally random site...i can't find any study guides.

thanks~

http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/undergraduate.htm
PM me for password

 

[Ava]

Ah thanks so much, I think I'm a tad technically challenged when it comes to navigating huge websites...or at least the maq site seems huge to me.

 

[Cyan_phoeniX]

Anyway, this information is in all the study guides which are easily available online...

but it is so much better hearing it from Asylum.
Some people live for this moment. dont ruin it for them

 

[AsyLum]

but it is so much better hearing it from Asylum.
Some people live for this moment. dont ruin it for them

Oh boy dont you know it!
*puts on mentor cap*

 

[xeuyrawp]

Oh boy dont you know it!
*puts on mentor cap*

My mentor, that we met at o-week, totally sucked.

We gave her our emails, she never gave us hers, and she never got back to us. I saw her on campus recently and told her that she shouldn't waste everyone's time if she wasn't going to bother with actually helping.

It was really bad, because I missed the library tours, and my other friends said their mentors took them on one, or arranged one. Thankfully I went with another group, but it annoys me when people do half-assed things like that.

I hope you're a good mentor!