Choosing Your Subjects
Students must be enrolled for a full-time credit load while on exchange:
- for one semester overseas: a minimum of 37.5 points (preferably 50 points)
- for one year overseas: a minimum of 87.5 points (preferably 100 points)
In order to get the appropriate load credited to your degree at the University of Melbourne, you must successfully complete the equivalent load at your host institution as listed on the credit load equivalents table.
Choose subjects at the host institution in consultation with your Departmental advisor. Provide subject descriptions (including, where possible, reading lists and topics covered), information about contact hours (per week and the number of weeks), assessment, any prerequisities and the credit point value of each subject. You will find this information in the Melbourne Global Mobility Resource Room or on the institution websites.
It is your responsibility to check that your study plan is current and, as best you can, that the timetable will enable you to do all the subjects you need at the partner institution. If you are forced to choose subjects based on the previous year's handbook while you wait for the new one, you must check that subjects are still available when the new handbook becomes available.
Note: you are advised to choose and get approved more subjects than you will actually need to take as, in some cases, handbooks or timetables for your host institution may not yet be published.