Summer session courses (1 Viewer)

[specialjenny]

Hi,

Just wondering what a summer/winter session course is like. I can't seem to understand how it is possible to jam 48 hours of contact hours into 2/3 weeks. And I don't understand how it is possible to have a 6 hr lecture/tutorial..

Thanks.

 

[konstantine']

I'd like to know too. Also, do you have to pay the course fees upfront or can they be deferred?

 

[sunny]

They can be deferred like regular in session courses.

Summer/winter courses usually run all week for most if not the entire day during the week. 48 hours over 10 days = 4.8 hours a day...which is not very much at all.

6 hours...start at 9am, finish 3pm.

It really depends on the course itself as well, obviously things like gen eds should be shorter/easier, but courses that are meant to be the same as the in-session ones would be more crammed.

 

[specialjenny]

How do the lectures and tutorials work?? I mean in tutes do you sit in a class with 15 people for 6 hours having discussions and things?

Thanks for your reply Sunny.

 

[Rekkusu]

Summer Session Courses span anywhere from 1 month to 3 months (December to February period). Winter Session Courses span for 1 month only.

https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/resources/AcademicCalendar.html

How do the lectures and tutorials work?? I mean in tutes do you sit in a class with 15 people for 6 hours having discussions and things?

Thanks for your reply Sunny.

This would depend upon the course you wish to undertake in Summer. For example, for COMP1921:
http://www.timetable.unsw.edu.au/2007/COMP1921.html

You can see in Summer session period offer that it's a mix of Lectures & Tutorial-Laboratories. Again it's different for medicine, Law, Mathematics, etc courses. Discussions are usually done in Tutorials, whereas Labs are where Practical study is undertaken. The number of people in each tutorial/lab is stated in UNSW Timetables in the Enrol/Cap.

To cater for your Degree needs, check the courses on UNSW's Online Handbook, and look at the "Class Timetable" hyperlink located in the light-blue box.

Though no doubts, it's definitely alot of Cramming! But a stitch in time saves nine, you'll be saving yourself from doing the full 24 UOC for a semester(s) in the future.

 

[konstantine']

This might sound pretty stupid but is there such a thing as doing full-time or part-time during Summer sessions?

 

[sunny]

The definition of full time study is 48uoc per year (24 per session), I doubt people usually do this much in summer (let alone 2 weeks winter).

I think of summer/winter session as extra time, so I don't think you would call them part or full time.