1999 Science Handbook - Science: Clayton

Science: Clayton

Essential information for students enrolling in undergraduate science degrees
- Planning your course
- Enrolment requirements

Essential information for students enrolling in undergraduate science degrees

Planning your course

In choosing first-year subjects students should aim to keep options open for the choice of second and third-year subjects. Students in the designated science degrees have a more structured course than the BSc. However all students should peruse the subjects available in later years and check on the corequisites and prerequisites set out in the subject entries. Most disciplines require certain prerequisites for progression. To qualify for the award of the degree, the student's program must also be consistent with the course regulations which are set out at the end of this handbook and the course requirements which are set out below under the objectives for each degree.

Enrolment requirements

Approval

Before commencing each semester students require faculty approval for their program of studies, which is obtained at the time of enrolment. Faculty approval is also required for any proposed alteration to the course of study during the semester; students should obtain the form for altering courses/subjects from the faculty office

Maximum semester enrolment

Except at level one, students may not enrol in more than thirty points per semester. At level one, students may not enrol in more than twenty-four points per semester.

Progressing from one level to the next

To enrol in level-two subjects, students must have already passed at least twelve points within one discipline at level one. To enrol in in level-three subjects, students must have already passed at least thirty-six points from level-one subjects.

Prerequisites

To satisfy a first-semester prerequisite students must obtain a grade of NP or better in one of the pair of sequential prerequisite subjects provided that a grade of at least P is obtained in the other subject.
To satisfy a second-semester prerequisite students must obtain a grade of NP or better in the first-semester subject.
Prerequisites, corequisites and prohibited combinations (ie only one subject from a pair of subjects can be counted towards the degree) are set out under subject entries.

Repeating failed subjects

Except with the permission of the dean acting on the recommendation of the head of department, students may not enrol in a subject they have previously failed twice. Students who fail a subject and elect to repeat it must, unless exempted by the head of department, repeat all requirements of the subject.

Laboratory requirements

To complete subjects which have a laboratory component, students shall, to the satisfaction of the head of department, participate and satisfactorily complete such compulsory exercises and laboratory work, if any, as shall be prescribed in subject information sheets. If students have not completed the prescribed requirements for any subject, they may be deemed ineligible to pass the subject, or be otherwise penalised, as shall be specified, for unsatisfactory performance.

Reaching 144 points

To qualify for a three-year undergraduate science degree, students must complete 144 points. The course requirements to reach 144 points are set out in the next section for two groups of students: those whose first enrolment is prior to 1999, and those whose first enrolment is in 1999.
Students are not able to count a subject or part of a subject more than once.
Students whose first enrolment in an undergraduate science degree is prior to 1999 may be awarded a maximum of twenty-four points at NP level throughout the course of their degree, with no more than twelve points to be counted at level three. Students whose first enrolment in an undergraduate science degree is in 1999 may be awarded a maximum of two NP grades in their first year of enrolment (twelve points).