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[Makro]

What exactly are these? I tried searching the uni site as well as google with no real result. Are they like periods or something longer? If so how long. Thanks. E.g. 6 full time sessions a week, is a usual description.

 

[ianc]

which uni?

each uni has its own jargon. for example at unsw they call a semester a session

 

[Graney]

Yeah, a session is a semester to me.

I guess for the use you're referring to above, they are speaking of face to face contact 'sessions, a total of all lectures/tutorials/labs for a course per week. 6 is an awfull lot for one subject though?

Normal full time load is 40 hours per week. 4 subjects per semester, 10 hours of work per subject/week, including contact and non-contact study.

 

[xeuyrawp]

What exactly are these? I tried searching the uni site as well as google with no real result. Are they like periods or something longer? If so how long. Thanks. E.g. 6 full time sessions a week, is a usual description.

That's bizarre. Usually a "session" means a semester, or its equivalent (eg a trimester).

Here it's obviously referring to periods in a day or something. Which uni is it? Pretty much every uni will have a key terms glossary or something along those lines.

 

[cute.asa.button]

in terms of 'periods' (as in classes at school), the actual times for classes at uni's depends on the subject and the uni. For example, most first year arts subjects have a two one hour lectures (at least at Melbourne Uni) and one one hour tutorial a week. Whereas science has 3 one hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial each week and a 3 hour prac every second week, or for only half the weeks in a semester.
Other subjects have two 2 hour classes a week (some languages etc), other have a 1.5hour lecture and a 1 hour tutorial etc etc.

If this is what you were referring to, then the number (and length) of 'sessions' per week varies for every subject and at every uni.

 

[Makro]

Thanks for the help. IT wasn't supposed to be per week as I remembered correctly. It was going on about the course length. All the different uni sites confuse the shit out of me. It said 6 sessions for a 3 year course. Which means they're referring to semesters.

Thanks again.

 

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What exactly are these? I tried searching the uni site as well as google with no real result. Are they like periods or something longer? If so how long. Thanks. E.g. 6 full time sessions a week, is a usual description.

UNSW

Session 1 = Semester 1 = 12 weeks not including exams
Session 2 = Semester 2 = 12 weeks not including exams
I don't know much about summer session.