First Year Advisory Centre

:: First Year Advisory Centre

These pages access two initiatives to serve new undergraduate students at UNSW. They have been developed to provide practical information about the first year of your intended program. If you follow the instructions carefully, you should find it easier when you formally choose the courses (subjects) that make up your enrolment. For most students, enrolment is complete only after the following steps have taken place:

you have received an offer from UNSW, either via the Universities Admissions Centre, or for most international students and postgraduate coursework applicants, directly from the UNSW Admissions Office;

you have accepted the offer, normally through the myUNSW portal, and paid any deposits specified in the offer;

you have obtained some advice about the structure and options in the first year of your program. Your faculty will run one or more general advisory sessions from the end of January 2006. Personal advice will be available at these sessions, too, supported by the on-line resources below.

You are not obliged to attend the advisory sessions if you are comfortable with the information you can obtain on-line. Between accepting your offer and attending the academic advising sessions feel free to use the resources below.

Enrolment in individual courses for commencing local students is through the myUNSW portal, and occurs from 18 January 2008. International students may enrol when they receive an offer and complete admission requirements.
The on-line advisory assistance comes in two parts:

Sitar - First Year Planner. The planner shows what options are available in any selected program. You can use it to explore the courses offered by UNSW, and to make tentative course selections. It can form the basis of a discussion with advisers on your enrolment day.

Cola - Course On-Line Adviser. Cola suggests the appropriate level of courses in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Computing, based on your HSC results and on-line quiz results. While designed for students starting Science and Engineering programs. Cola is useful for anyone who may be interested in taking some of these areas as electives.

Please Note: these services are not available until Monday 07 January 2008.

Your Program

To advise you correctly, we need to know which program of study you are interested in.

A program is a pattern of study over several years, leading to a degree. Each year you enrol in several courses, or units of study. Some courses are specific to a program, others are taken by students in many different programs.

Select an area of study from the list below. Each area corresponds to a single program or a group of related programs. When you have selected an area you may be asked to narrow the field in order to identify appropriate courses for your first year.