[Hum-DIS] Information Studies low enrolment units and re-enrolment 2011

[Kerry Smith]

Dear students

 

Due to University unit requirements, some units that would have been
offered in both semesters in 2011 in our degree courses can only now be
completed in their main semester.  This could affect a few students who
might have completed their studies in first semester 2011. 

 

Our Department has resisted the non offering of units with low enrolment
for many years, and the University has finally caught up with us.    We
are no longer permitted to offer units with low enrolment numbers and
our "options" and "off semester units" are included in this category.
We have been very accommodating in how we have managed the enrolments
for  a student body with a large number of variants in enrolment.   It
would not matter when we decided to enact the change (and now we have no
choice), there would always be a few students who would be affected
because of the variations and unpredictability in our student body's
enrolments.

 

Fortunately we have been informed that affected graduate level students
(and this is a short term issue) can undertake the units via Open
University Australia (OUA)  in 2011.   I understand that once the OUA
unit has been completed, the credit, if passed, can be brought across
into the enrolled Curtin degree programme.  Other areas within the
University are not so lucky to be able to offer this course of action.
This is a way forward if you wish to complete your degree in semester 1,
2011.  Otherwise the units will need to be taken when offered.

 

Undergraduate students will normally have enough choice in their
enrolment patterns to allow for this change and they should proceed  to
re-enrol according to the directions provided by the University.  They
will be referred onto us should issues arise.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Kerry

 

Assoc Prof Kerry Smith, FALIA

Head| Department of Information Studies

School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts
Curtin University
Tel | +61 8 9266 7217
Fax | +61 8 9266 3152
Email | k.smith at curtin.edu.au 
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