They'll tell you all the course structures and workloads during enrollments and O-Week. However, reading the course description of
LAWS1203 it says that the first two weeks will encompass four hours of lectures. Therefore, it would seem that you either choose to be in Lecture Group 1 or 2, depending on what time you want to be at uni, potential clashes with other courses and availability of places in the group (so get in early to get the lecture time-slots you want)!
So if you went in Group 1, you'd have Thursday and Friday off! Jeez, you law students have no contact hours... For comparison, my timetable will look
something like this:
; ie 12 lectures per week, one engineering, maths and statistics tutorial per week, plus 8 three hour assessed physics labs, plus study time and other assignments!
The
English lectures A and B are just the two lectures that everyone in that course needs to attend every week. Workload: 24 hours of lectures (ie 2 a week) and one hour of tutorials per week.
Signing up to tutorials generally happens in the first week, through Wattle.
I
think those clashes are there because someone in the law department set-up the timetable wrong. They are likely to be the same two-hour lecture (noted by the cont.), just duplicated in the computer listing. If you look at the setup for the lectures later in the week, they are of the same format, but the second hour is not entered in duplicate. This timetable is obviously still in beta!