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Recommended Study Plan for the BCom/BSc Combined Degree (Program 3529) with Majors in Finance and Mathematics or Statisticssunny said:No. Bookings for lecture theatres etc are extremely tight - changing the time for one subject would lead to many problems. Its not just a matter of asking your lecturer to change the time, that just doesn't work.
If they are electives, you probably have no choice but to pick another.
i prefer not having to do the thesis project AMTH4012. in the future, can i avoid enrolling in this even though i do not plan to do honours in maths? instead, i wish to take further math courses.maniacguy said:1) Depending on the subject you may be able to renegotiate the times (if you were doing third year Higher subjects in Pure maths, for instance, the timetable is negotiated on the first day of session by the students and lecturers!). In this particular case, though, no you wouldn't, since MATH3901 is for some reason quite popular nowadays (since the whole Actuarial/Maths and Finance/Maths thing seems to have taken off).
2) The "recommended study plan" is meant to be purely as an indicative sort of thing. There is no onus on you to do the subjects listed there, or in that order or anything like that, aside from those you have to do for your program*. Look at the one without subjects listed but with things like "12uc Maths options" sortof thing.
Besides, those plans were designed based on timetables in previous years when it's possible that there was not a clash. And even if there is a clash, you can get permission to do it anyway, as laney says.
*And in this case, MATH2130 is the ONLY subject you HAVE to do after the ones in second year. All other commerce subjects are optional (i.e. substitute appropriate alternatives as you see fit), and in terms of maths subjects:
- you'd have to do one of MATH2520/2620 (complex analysis) or MATH2810/2910 (statistical computing for categorical data). If you wanted to do statistics, the latter is compulsory, if you wanted to do pure/applied maths then the former is.
- if you want to major in statistics, then there are various compulsory subjects you have to do of the third year ones, and similarly for pure/applied (though they tend to be more on doing X units of credit).
- you should do MATH4012 unless you plan on doing an Honours year, in which case you'll be doing a thesis anyway as part of that.
Basically, to sum up:
Do not treat the recommended plan as set in stone. Figure out what you want to do, then figure out a way to do it. Talk to Dennis Trenerry (executive assistant for maths) if you have any major issues, and he'll be able to help you on the requirements from the maths side of things with keeping prerequisites/corequisites, etc. No idea who deals with it in finance.
has any1 ever thought of doing this (MATH4012 Mathematics and Finance Thesis Project) over the summer session? if i want to do this on top of my 192 uoc, r the extra 12uoc for this thesis project charged on HECS basis?maniacguy said:As the rules stand, you don't have to do it (it's strongly recommended, but that's not the same as compulsory):
http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/students/current/ugfinanceprograms.html
"The Level 1 and 2 Mathematics courses listed (except MATH2931) are compulsory and the others are strongly recommended. (MATH1151/1251 replace MATH1131/1231 and MATH2910 replaces MATH2620 in the formal requirements for a Mathematics major.)"
Edit:
Check the rules again when the time comes around. They make minor changes every year or two. I expect that one to stay the same, though.