EDIT: Never mind; apparently, because I do such an obscure degree, there is no fixed course plan and I’m allowed to take whatever subjects I want 🙂
ORIGINAL POST: Well. There goes my wonderfully constructed 6-year plan. Apparently Impressionism to Postmodernism is not being offered next year. Impressionism to Postmodernism is a compulsory music history class that I need to finish my degree. The system’s not letting me enrol in the Melbourne Model equivalent, and I’m not sure I’d want to anyway, because the Melbourne Model version combines both the heritage second year music history subjects into one, and I already took 19th Century last year and don’t want to repeat the content, especially since it wasn’t a particularly difficult subject the first time around. There’s an ‘Art Music and Postmodernism’ subject, but that isn’t really right either since it’s about post-1970s type music which leaves a good 60 years of music history out of the picture.
I need to shuffle all my other subjects now. This will suck.
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Quite the opposite with mine. Melbourne Model degrees were supposed to be flexible and all that, so Environments students are supposed to be able to choose whatever subjects (except maybe for those who want to do Civil Engg) we want in the first year. However, after looking at the undergrad handbook, I just discovered that I won’t be able to take this particular Urban Design subject I wanna do coz I haven’t done the 1st year “prereq”. The only way I could take it it is if I use my precious electives allowance to do a first year subject in my second year, so that I could take that Urban Design subject by third year (it’s only offered once a year) – which kinda sucks, because the last thing I wanna do is to take a generalist 1st year subject as an elective.
Gianina: yeah, I’m surprised at how unflexible some of the Melbourne Model courses actually are in practice, even though on paper they give you scads of choice. Old-school Arts, for instance, was pretty much a free-for-all where you could take any subject in Arts plus a decent range from Science, Music or Commerce with relatively few restrictions other than meeting the relevant prerequisites; the new version actually seems to limit this with the requirement to take 6 breadth subjects and something interdisciplinary.
That said, my old-school heritage degree doesn’t give me a chance to take very many electives at all, and I’d be quite happy to do a subject outside my two faculties each semester and to be able to actually pick my first and second year subjects…. counting down the days until next year when I get to do some electives 🙂
Quite the opposite with mine. Melbourne Model degrees were supposed to be flexible and all that, so Environments students are supposed to be able to choose whatever subjects (except maybe for those who want to do Civil Engg) we want in the first year. However, after looking at the undergrad handbook, I just discovered that I won’t be able to take this particular Urban Design subject I wanna do coz I haven’t done the 1st year “prereq”. The only way I could take it it is if I use my precious electives allowance to do a first year subject in my second year, so that I could take that Urban Design subject by third year (it’s only offered once a year) – which kinda sucks, because the last thing I wanna do is to take a generalist 1st year subject as an elective.
Gianina: yeah, I’m surprised at how unflexible some of the Melbourne Model courses actually are in practice, even though on paper they give you scads of choice. Old-school Arts, for instance, was pretty much a free-for-all where you could take any subject in Arts plus a decent range from Science, Music or Commerce with relatively few restrictions other than meeting the relevant prerequisites; the new version actually seems to limit this with the requirement to take 6 breadth subjects and something interdisciplinary.
That said, my old-school heritage degree doesn’t give me a chance to take very many electives at all, and I’d be quite happy to do a subject outside my two faculties each semester and to be able to actually pick my first and second year subjects…. counting down the days until next year when I get to do some electives 🙂