Bachelor of Arts ??? (2 Viewers)

[Phanatical]

For the most part, though some classes are also held in the Old Darlington School, which is a very nice little venue for concerts. USYD Arts Music is actually part of the Con, but places a different emphasis on their teachings - it's a little bit more general, and isn't focused so much on making the perfect musician, as teaching lessons which apply to other subjects.

 

[chepas]

Yeah I did comp for extension and for all the option in the 2U. There was no way I was going to do more than the required performance lol! And composing's fun anyway

As Phanatical mentions the Arts Faculty Music Dept is actually more or less married with the Con now. According to some of the Arts faculty music staff because of the way the music dept and the Con work together it's possible for Arts students on the 'Main' campus to do some units at the Con. That said - the red tape (from the BA/BA Lang etc Arts student trying to do Con units point of view) almost makes it not worth it and the fact that you will have to make your classes work between two campuses at opposite ends of the CBD. Also you'll have to satisfy requirements/prequisites etc etc.

A way to avoid all the fuss is probably to do the combined degree B Arts/B Mus Studies which is actually a combination of a BA and some music stuff at the Con. This degree does some subjects on the main campus (eg. your language maybe) and music units at the Con. I think someone actually does it or did it on here, might have actually been Phanatical^?

And re ODS: when it comes to lectures it's rubbish there are no damn tables to write on, so every class we'd come out with DVT in our legs from having used them as something to write on.... . Soooo glad that now everything's in the Seymour Centre this sem.

 

[Phanatical]

Yep, that would be me. I transferred over from the BMus (Comp.) this year. It's a new degree, introduced last year, so I'm the only third year BABMusStudies student in existance.

 

[paper cup]

30 people?
Alright, that is so coming off my list of preferences
Is it difficult to maintain a credit major?

 

[Phanatical]

I'd leave it on your preferences - it aint' actually that hard to get in. And no, it's not difficult. Unless you're running for SRC President and don't go to classes so that you can campaign...

 

[paper cup]

I'd leave it on your preferences - it aint' actually that hard to get in. And no, it's not difficult. Unless you're running for SRC President and don't go to classes so that you can campaign...

arts languages though!
chepas? any generalised info...do you know if they take EAS kiddies because I think I'm going to need it.

 

[neo o]

TRAITOERErer!1!11one!

 

[paper cup]

TRAITOERErer!1!11one!

ggrrr dude I thought you were going to give me information on the bloody course.
It's not like I'm going to make the cutoff anyway, and if I do, it will save you pain of me constantly walloping you in the halls with my bat

 

[chepas]

^ .

Anyway, for the exciting general info... .

There's a blurb of BA Lang I wrote already somewhere in this thread, or in another degree thread, the 'language-art' one I think.

As far as EAS is concerned, hi! I got in to this course with EAS, the cutoff was 97.XX (I think?) and I got 95.4, so I'm officially a 'Broadway Scheme' student - only there by the grace of god... But as there are only about 30 places offered each year and about 5% of places allocated to EAS (as says the EAS booklet It hink), for that it would be 1.5 places for BA Lang...

Still put it on the top of/in your prefs! I was sceptical about it, it didn't even make it onto my prefs until I changed it at the last moment before they closed, and it managed to work.

 

[paper cup]

^ .

Anyway, for the exciting general info... .

There's a blurb of BA Lang I wrote already somewhere in this thread, or in another degree thread, the 'language-art' one I think.

As far as EAS is concerned, hi! I got in to this course with EAS, the cutoff was 97.XX (I think?) and I got 95.4, so I'm officially a 'Broadway Scheme' student - only there by the grace of god... But as there are only about 30 places offered each year and about 5% of places allocated to EAS (as says the EAS booklet It hink), for that it would be 1.5 places for BA Lang...

Still put it on the top of/in your prefs! I was sceptical about it, it didn't even make it onto my prefs until I changed it at the last moment before they closed, and it managed to work.

OK I'll run a search thanks!
Maybe they get to saw me open, so half of me gets to do law and the other half arts languages....be interesting that.
I still don't really get this, mainly because I'm slow at getting things lol, but do you mean that in an ordinary arts degree you only have to do one major but in the lang one you have to do two, one lang and one non lang? And how many minor thingies do you have to do? Oh god, I really suck at this uni stuff

 

[dramaqueen462]

hey i was just wondering what you think i should do because im really bad at this kinda stuff. My main interests are french, english and drama and i was thinking maybe advertising or something would be good? Like i know i wanna do something related to english because its definitely my strength but it has to be creative or ill die!!! lol so yeah any suggestions? my subjects are 4 unit english, french and drama (the ones that are relevant anyway)

 

[chepas]

but do you mean that in an ordinary arts degree you only have to do one major but in the lang one you have to do two, one lang and one non lang

Yep yep. Except that while one major HAS to be a language, your other could be anything, including another language if you wanted.

As far as doing a combined degree, I don't think Arts Lang is available as part of a combined degree cos it's already itself a modified version of the pure BA.

Minor - with these, these are just left over units that don't form part of the subject that is your major, that you do in whatever.

hey i was just wondering what you think i should do because im really bad at this kinda stuff. My main interests are french, english and drama and i was thinking maybe advertising or something would be good? Like i know i wanna do something related to english because its definitely my strength but it has to be creative or ill die!!! lol so yeah any suggestions? my subjects are 4 unit english, french and drama (the ones that are relevant anyway)

Probably the straight Bachelor of Arts, as if you would be specialising in English then you don't have to marry yourself completely to a foreign language like you would have to if you did Arts Lang. In the Arts programme there's the School of Performance Studies units for drama, as well as lots of English and French units to choose from. With that combination you could do good things .

 

[rebemol]

Just want to say thanks - to chepas and phanatical, for all ur info on music!
I have another question... You can still go on exchange even if you're doing B.arts right? So could you go overseas and study, for example, music in france, and that gets counted towards your credit points? Is that how it works? And do they have any restrictions - on how long you can go overseas for?
Sorry to bombard you with so many questions!

 

[chepas]

Alors, de rien .

Yep you can still go. Before you go it just means having to plan and negotiate a lot of stuff, and in order for study overseas to be counted you have to talk to the individual departments to work out things you can study that would able to be coutned towards the major/s. As for how long we go for, it's either 6 months or 12 months for the exchange as in, either half of or the whole scholastic year. As far as I know you can't do longer. Also another few conditions, for USyd at least, you need at least X amount of units or credit points completed and you have to have a credit average in your grades. But there you don't have to worry about that until you're actually started with your studies hehe...

 

[derrida]

my guess at the reason for the uai difference is that they would only let a very small number of people do arts (languages) (maybe 50 or so), but a lot more do just the arts (a couple of hundred)..

ha! A couple of hundred! Try more like a few thousand!

Arts by my estimate prob has 7000 people at sydney uni alone doing that one course!

 

[derrida]

also, as far as my limited knowledge goes, if you want to be a translator its best to do arts (languages)...

Translation is seriously hard! By that i mean translation of academic texts and that sort of thing! It would be worth doing honours and then possibly a masters in translation.

I am sure there are some people from USYD on this who know more than me.

 

[ManlyChief]

ha! A couple of hundred! Try more like a few thousand!

Arts by my estimate prob has 7000 people at sydney uni alone doing that one course!

that 7,000 figure is a little high

there are approx 300 students accepted each year into arts places. this includes those studying BA(Adv).

there are only around 40,000 undergraduates in the University as a whole - this number includes all full-time, part-time, HECS, full-fee students and students at the other campuses (St James, the Con, SCA etc).

 

[Phanatical]

It's all the different variations on the BA.

Bachelor of Arts
BA (Advanced)
BA (Languages)
BA (Media & Communications)
Bachelor of Arts & Sciences
BA Informatics
Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Commerce
Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Social Work
Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Music Studies (that's me!)