Enrolment Information for New Undergraduates

Semester 1, 2008

CONGRATULATIONS on gaining a place at the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at UNSW. We welcome you to your newly offered program at CSE and we hope that your time at UNSW will be rewarding, challenging, enjoyable and fulfilling.

This site has grouped together important information for new first years regarding your enrolment, program requirements, timetables, and general procedures relating to undergraduate study in CSE@UNSW. Please read through this site carefully, taking note of enrolment dates and deadlines. All enrolment timetables and deadlines as laid out in this site will be strictly enforced.

Students must be enrolled by Friday 7 March, and fees payments must be finalised by Friday 14 March.

While students are encouraged to review the material below and enrol themselves online via my.unsw.edu.au, the School will host an advising session in one of our labs where you can receive personal assistance during the enrolment process:

Tuesday 12 February 2008
Appointment Times are:

Computer Engineering 10.00-11.30

Bioinformatics 11.30-12.00

Computer Science 12.00-1.30

Software Engineering 1.30-3.00

Bugle Lab, Ground Floor, Mechanical Engineering Building (J18 on the Map)
Next to Coffee on Campus

After the Advisory Day above has passed, enrolment advice can be recieved directly from the CSE Student office.

If you can't find answers to your questions here, or elsewhere on the CSE website, please get in touch with the CSE Student Office either in person or via email:

Ground Floor, CSE Building (K17)
+61 2 9385 4329 or +61 2 9385 4007

You may have seen advertising mentioning UNSW COMPUTING. This is the name we use externally, but now you are a student at UNSW you will hear it called " CSE" - short for the School of Computer Science and Engineering.

CSE has an extensive O-Week program aimed both at giving you some fun activities to do and also to help get you ready for lectures the following week. This year's program is at O-Week08

Many of these activities are for students who join our Mentoring Program. If you join this program you will be allocated a senior student who will help you with your transition to life at UNSW and CSE. This is a very popular program and has helped many student to perform better. It also lets you join free BBQ's and Pizza nights! This program is open to students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics (and their double degrees) or the Flexible First Year. Sign up at http://do.cse.unsw.edu.au/students/mentee

Regards,

CSE Undergraduate Administration
January 2008.

Step One: Understanding your program requirements

All students should consult the UNSW online handbook to review the courses which make up their degree (links provided below). In some cases, specific program advice has been provided by the CSE Student Office or your Program Director.

Students enrolled in combined or concurrent degrees should consult the program authorities responsible for providing specific program advice. CSE advises on the BE program only, but will happily point you in the right direction if you're not sure who you should speak to for advice on the Arts, Science, Commerce, or COFA program requirements.

Step Two: Select your courses and review the timetable

Once you have selected the courses you are required to enrol in for your first semester, the next step is to arrange a timetable. Note that most undergraduate classes require you to enrol in a lab and/or tutorial as well as a lecture.

All UNSW Class Timetables are available online:

http://www.timetable.unsw.edu.au

Courses are grouped by campus, which is Kensington for all students (except those enrolled in the BSc BDM - who select courses from the College of Fine Arts Paddington campus).

For convenience sake, courses managed by the School of CSE are outlined on the CSE timetable:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/courses

These courses include those that start with the prefix BINF, COMP, SENG.

UNSW expects students to enrol in courses consistent with their program, so any courses you select from outside of your program requirements may be ignored and you will be required to enrol in (and pay for) more courses and this could extend the duration of your degree by 1 semester or more. It's always best to check if you are not sure.

Enrolment Advice

For academic advice on program content and electives, please contact your Program Director:

All other enrolment, program, and course level enquiries can be directed to the CSE Student Office:

Ground Floor, CSE Building (K17)
+61 2 9385 4329 or +61 2 9385 4007

You can review the rules governing programs in the School of CSE on the Student Office website: Program Rules

Step Three: Login and enrol via myUNSW

UNSW manages all enrolments via the Online Enrolment Portal known as myUNSW. The first time you login to this site you will need to do so by clicking on the Accept Online link. This will take you through the steps required to accept your offer and enrol in the courses you have selected. You will be asked to review your personal details during each enrolment cycle.

To login you will need your Student Number (provided on your offer letter) and your Unipass (which you can create here)

Click on the images below to access these Portal:

Courses are selected by searching the course catalogue while you are logged in to myUNSW.

The Portal will be available for online enrolments:

Semester 1: Monday 10 December - Friday 7 March
Semester 2: Enrolments TBA

UNSW has recently moved to semester-based enrolments, so students will not be asked to enrol for Semester 2 2008 courses until May. However all courses that are planned to be offered for Semester 2 have been indicated as such for planning purposes and can be viewed via the UNSW Timetable Website.

TIPS: The first year timetable for most programs contains a large number of lab and tutorial options. For the purpose of getting yourself enrolled, we suggest you use the AUTO TIMETABLE option and then spend some time prior to the start of semester making minor changes to classes as you see fit.

For all online enrolment enquiries or assistance with enrolling during the enrolment period, contact the UNSW Student Services Enrolment Support Centre:

The centre is operational from Wednesday 2 January - Friday 29 February

• by phone +61 2 9385 1110 (9.30 - 17.00 AEST Mon-Fri); or
• via email enrol@unsw.edu.au; or
• in person - location to be advised.

Prior to (and after) this time enrolment support is provided via UNSW Student Central (Map ref C22).

Important Events and Deadlines

See myUNSW for Complete UNSW Enrolment Dates

Step Four: Accessing your email accounts after successful enrolment

It is very important that you access your email accounts upon successful enrolment as UNSW uses email as a way of communicating important official notices to students.

Two accounts are provided for CSE students:

1. Unimail is the UNSW Central Electronic Mail System, provided by the UNSW Communications Unit and supported by Dis><Connect. Uni-wide related notices such as messages from the Chancellor, notices of student fees, end of Semester exam results are sent via this account.
2. The CSE computer account is the CSE School’s electronic mail system. Official School announcments will be sent to this address.

It is highly recommended that students monitor both email accounts, or forward one to the other.

To activate your CSE computer account, you will need to first read and then acknowledge the important information outlined in the Yellow Form.