Textbooks &What to bring (1 Viewer)

[jelabay]

Just wondering,

1. Is there a list where we can find out what text books we need for Semester 1?

2. And would we need to have our text books on the first day?

3. What else do we have to bring? Books etc?

If this helps, I'm doing a BCOM-ACCG @macquarie
&first sem i'm doing STAT170, ACST101, ECON110 AND ACCG100

thanks

 

[decypher]

Uni is not like school.

2. The lecturer doesn't care if you have the textbook or not. You do not have to buy it. It's recommended that you do, but if you don't it's not big drama.

3. Notepad and pen. That is all you'll ever need.

 

[-may-cat-]

But is there a section on either the Macquarie uni site or the coop site that shows recommended books for certain units?

 

[Leggs]

But is there a section on either the Macquarie uni site or the coop site that shows recommended books for certain units?

If you go to the Student Portal and sign in, there's a heap of tabs up the top. If you click on the tab that says "Student Information" then on the left there's a box labelled "myUnits" and in there it has the link to the Coop information for each of your subjects.
I'm not very good at explaining stuff but I think that should be good enough.

 

[Pwnage101]

yeh just to clarify, i am led to believe thats in the 'MyMQ' portal - which we get access to 48 hours after we enrrol (and yes, it is diferent to eStudent)

 

[Undersiege]

Im going in tomorrow for academic advising and something else ... i tend to forget. I dont even know what subjects im taking , time tables or anything.. or what to bring or how to pay etc. The joy. All i know is i have to be there .... to do all those things which i have mentioned i have no clue about. Im guessing you have already attented you days ? Man im nervous.

 

[-may-cat-]

thank you

 

[jelabay]

yeh just to clarify, i am led to believe thats in the 'MyMQ' portal - which we get access to 48 hours after we enrrol (and yes, it is diferent to eStudent)

how do we our password for this?
apparently is our old password, but i changed it when they told me to, and i've forgotten what the original was.

apparently its our date of birth and two random letters?

 

[AsyLum]

The list is also now available on campus in the Co-op Bookshop itself.

 

[jellybelly08]

you can find out yourself using this link and changing stat170 to watever unit code in the URL.

The Co-op Online Bookshop - textbooks, books, course notes, study guides, software

imo no point in buying text books before the first lecture. Since the lecturers might say that this book is optional or whatever.

 

[-may-cat-]

fuck me, there's like 8 books recommended for one of my units, they don't seriously expect you to have all of them, i cant afford that. Do the lecturers in the first lecture point out which ones would be the most important?

 

[Leggs]

I can't remember the password situation for MyMQ
Yeah usually lecturers put up a whole heap of "recommended" texts, but usually there's a prescribed text as well, where in the textbook status it says "text"

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
CBMS223
BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY I
PROFESSOR SHOBA RANGANATHAN
U@MQ BUILDING
COURSE NOTES REQUIRED


Title: Biochemistry + Infotrac
Author: Garrett & Grisham
Status: Text
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $131.90
Price: $144.95 Add to Basket

B188090
Title: Biochemistry
Author: Voet Donald & Judith G Voet
Status: Recommended
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $138.27
Price: $151.95 Add to Basket

B990451
Title: Molecular Biology Of The Gene
Author: Watson
Status: Recommended
Notes: Availability*: Limited stock
Member Price: $130.99
Price: $143.95 Add to Basket

B214397


Like there I'd just get the "Biochemistry and Infotrac" book...if I really wanted to

 

[-may-cat-]

OH! i forgot about this site
The Book Depository - Homepage - Cheap books with free delivery worldwide "all books for all people"

Very cheap textbooks, with zero delivery cost, even though its from the UK! The books are half the price they are at co-op.

 

[xeuyrawp]

fuck me, there's like 8 books recommended for one of my units, they don't seriously expect you to have all of them, i cant afford that. Do the lecturers in the first lecture point out which ones would be the most important?

Yes - we need to talk about the AHST unit textbooks... What subjects are you doing, and what does it say you need? I probably spent ~$200 too much on pointless AHST textbooks, and I tend to read most recommended stuff...

 

[-may-cat-]

ive got the books for AHST205/6 already, but for:

AHST100:
Title: Egypt World Of The Pharaohs
Author: Schultz
Status: Text
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $45.45
Price: $49.95

Title: Burial Customs In Ancient Egypt: Life In Death For Poor And Rich
Author: Grajetzki
Status: Recommended
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $52.78
Price: $58.00

Title: Egyptian Pottery
Author: Hope
Status: Recommended
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $18.19
Price: $19.99

Title: Egyptian Textiles
Author: Hall
Status: Recommended
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $18.19
Price: $19.99

Title: Egyptian Shabtis
Author: Stewart
Status: Recommended
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $18.19
Price: $19.99

Title: Egyptian Towns & Cities
Author: Uphill
Status: Recommended
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $18.19
Price: $19.99

And for AHST103:

Title: Civil Wars
Author: Appian
Status: Text
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $20.88
Price: $22.95

Title: Roman Lives: A Selection Of Eight Lives
Author: Plutarch
Status: Text
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $19.06
Price: $20.95

Title: From The Gracchi To Nero
Author: Scullard
Status: Recommended
Notes: Availability*: Available
Member Price: $58.24
Price: $64.00



Ive got a $100 coop book voucher but i don't think it'll go very far...

 

[AsyLum]

Haha, AHST103 <333 I wish I could do it again

 

[-may-cat-]

What books did you get for it? All or one or none?

 

[AsyLum]

Bought everything, still using it now I guess seeing as I'm going to end up teaching Ancient (hopefully)

Also, its great for starting up your academic bookcase!

 

[-may-cat-]

Also, its great for starting up your academic bookcase!

Yeah i thought of that, nice to have plenty of references etc, i just dont know if i can afford it.

 

[AsyLum]

Yeah i thought of that, nice to have plenty of references etc, i just dont know if i can afford it.

Part of the pre-requisites to being an Ancient Historian, you buy books instead of food.