:roll: we're the next America when it comes to overzealous political correctness.

Private school girls are contractually obligated to go to Europe

#truthbomb

:lol:

Edited by condemned666: 3/12/2015 12:52:42 PM

Finished my business and commerce degree majoring in sport management at Western Sydney University!

Anyone at Monash here?

I'm currently doing Arts, but I have the option of transferring to Arts/Law this year. Not really sure which to go with - Law sounds like a pretty boring degree from what mates doing it have told me, and I'm not sure I even want to be a lawyer. But the flipside is that an Arts degree is probably worth fuck all when I'm looking at career options down the line and Law would probably give me more opportunities in that regard.

So I'm basically canvassing as many opinions as I can before I decide - any law students/former law students on here?

Im doing corporate law this semester, which is ok. I found the introductory law boring. My teacher is now Chinese and almost impossible to understand so it also makes it tough (and for my other subject I have a Japanese woman, brutal).

Next semester is revenue law. YAY. I dont like it personally but its part of a commerce degree.
I am studying accounting. I dont mind the financial accounting, and the managerial accounting is good too.

What are you majoring in Arts? A lot of the time the two degrees can be quite complementary to each other.

Yeah, first year is apparently lots of introductory law, history of law stuff - not exactly exciting.



I'm doing two majors at the moment - Government and History; the former would complement law quite well I imagine.

Lol every single girl I went to school with has been to Europe and the US in the last 5 years.
Do public school girls not do this?

It wont kill you though.
I study at USQ so I had to read Queensland law. The beginning has a lot to do with when Queensland broke away from NSW, as well as British/English common law and when Australian became a country. Along with the basic famous cases of civil law.

Well there are plenty of career paths through law even if you don't want to be a lawyer, there are even more when you combine it with Arts Majors like Government. IMO don't shy away from a degree just because the main career path doesn't appeal. Too many people shy away from certain degrees because they think to narrowly about the end product.

I didn't know they had a campus in Sweden. :lol:

Either did I.

http://www.usq.edu.au/study/modes/online-study

They change the rules/law just before I started so I have to return to Australia this year to study 1 subject (HELP/HECS rules). If you want to travel/live overseas you can do a masters, but just do the first semester in Australia. Also you can study 3 semesters online.

Cheers, that's all fair enough, law certainly seems logical career-wise. my reluctance is just that it'll be a chore studying it for five years, but that's not much of an excuse. I think I will probably end up doing it; whether I enjoy the degree is another matter.

I've heard from friends that you should only do law if you're very keen on it. The degree is so long and arduous that you'd have to actually enjoy it to motivate yourself to get through it.

Commerce/Accounting is the same.

-PB

Anyone here doing a summer course?

Which Uni are you at? I think Arts (Government) / Law would work very well as a career option.

I wouldn't worry about the 5 years. You are going to do 3 years for Arts anyway and with the 4th and 5th year, you will most likely be working part time as the contact hours for law would only be around 12 hrs a week.

First semester law is generally boring - foundations and legal research. Then its torts and contracts. Torts is fun but with civil liability reforms in the 2000's, its quite limited in opportunities.

Revenue law is also quote practical scott :)

I'm at Sydney Uni. You're obviously right that career prospects are more important than the five years, and the fact I'm combining it with Arts at least means the law subjects will be relatively spread out.

Is contracts law interesting? Seems like it could be tedious.

When I was at Sydney Uni, they gave me my Bachelors (Commerce) after I completed that. Check if this is still the case, because with some of my friends at UNSW held out until you finished both degrees. What it means is, if you really don't like law, you can just drop it after 3 years. I have a friend who did Science/Law and switched to Medicine at year 4.

I think the contracts course is combined with torts now. So I can't say how the course has changed. Both contracts and torts have an interesting set of case law and I would say its interesting to learn the general principles offer/acceptance, consideration, severance, duress etc. It really comes down to the lecturer.

Interesting, cheers for the info mate. I'll check about when they award the respective degrees.

Anyone know to what level in a Bachelor of Medicine is the study of statistics & research undertaken?
And how many semesters worth?

The entire course.

And then CPD for the rest of your life.

So I could walk up to any medical grad and they could explain to me what is MANOVA, Discriminant Analysis, Logistic Regression, Multi Level Modelling, amongst other multivariate statistical analyses?
I am surprised, because almost all General Practitioners I've come across are rather vapid when it comes to peer reviewed science and the most basic concepts of probability, it's only when you see specialists that you get some sort of scientific discussion and even then it seems to be at a 'basic' level.
My guess is most 'groan' when they discover they have to study stats ("what's this research stuff, I just want to practice and help people") and just tick the box to 'get it over and done with'.

This is the basic formula for modern medical education in the Western World for this century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine#Current_practice

Came first in Australia in my Post-Grad SMSF course. Pretty chuffed.

We'll skim over the fact there were only 30 students

This thread is popular.

CVs don't show cohort size. Just say you topped the course in the country.

Accepting students 40 points short of atar

UNSW wants to do away with the ATAR system

Demand for university goes off the boil

Plans to merge Faculties at USyd

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