ADJUSTING TO UNI

HIGH SCHOOL UNIVERSITY

Approx. 35 hours a week contact time. Approx. 12 hours a week contact time.

No real difference in class structure. Usually just called double and single periods. Learning is divided into lectures, tutorials and sometimes additional workshops.

Intimate classroom settings with access to teacher’s help most of the time.

Opportunity to draft work with teachers to perfect assignments. Large lectures and disaparate student-to-academic staff ratio.

No opportunity to draft or conference assignments directly with tutors or lecturers. Can talk to the Student Success Group.

Highly guided and supported learning. Teachers chase you up for homework and assignments.

Not very much free time to participate in extracurricular activities.

Seeing the same people each day and getting to know one another. Highly independent and autonomous learning. At university you are left to your own devices.

Lots of time to pursue sporting, hobby and faculty-related extracurriculars! Being involved makes you more employable.

More freedom to choose classes, so you won’t get to know everyone in your tutorial (unless you really want to!)

Emphasis on close-knit classroom relationships with peers and teachers. More individualistic classroom culture – tutors are usually practitioners and are time-poor. Your learning is entirely your responsibility.

Have to wear a school uniform. You can wear anything you like! Some people even wear their pyjamas to exams to be comfortable.

WHAT’S A LECTURE?A lecture is a session when a weekly topic is delivered to students in that subject. A lecture is a session when a weekly topic is delivered to students in that subject. All students are All students are expected to engage with the weekly lecture material at a bare expected to engage with the weekly lecture material at a bare minimum. Lectures for first- and secondminimum. Lectures for first- and second-year subjects will usually be a two-hour year subjects will usually be a two-hour lecture delivered by a lecturer in person. Lectures are always lecture delivered by a lecturer in person. Lectures are always records and uploaded recorded and uploaded to Blackboard. to Blackboard.

The Law School places heavy emphasis on student autonomous learning, so in third and fourth year, The Law School places heavy emphasis on student lectures will not occur in person and will usually be structured in more of a ‘podcast’ style delivery, autonomous learning, so in third and fourth year, with a number of short videos that pertain to particular parts of a broader topic. These are usually prelectures will not occur in person and will usually be recorded and uploaded to Blackboard each week or a few weeks in advance. structured in more of a ‘podcast’ style delivery, with a number of short videos that pertain to particular parts of a broader topic. these are usually pre-recorded and uploaded to Blackboard each week or a few weeks in advance.

WHAT ARE READINGS?

WHAT ARE READINGS? Readings describe any prescribed textbook pages or chapters, legislation and case law that is relevant to the weekly subject matter covered in your lectures and tutorials. These readings will be located in your study guide and on your learning resources weekly tabs in Blackboard. In your first and second semesters, you will be taught in class how to read and interpret court cases and legislation. In later years you will be expected to know how to read and understand cases and legislation by yourself, so do not be afraid to ask your tutors for lots of help! It is better to ask for lots of help in first year than it is in third year. Readings describe any prescribed textbook pages or chapters, legislation and case law that is relevant to the weekly subject matter covered in your lectures are tutorials. these readings will be located in your study guide and on your learning resources weekly tabs in Blackboard. In your first and second semesters, you will be taught in class how to read and interpret court cases and legislation. In later years, you will be expected to know how to read and understand cases and legislation by yourself, so do not be afraid to ask your tutors for lots of help! It is better to ask for lots of held in first year than it is in third year.

WHAT’S A TUTORIAL?

WHAT’S A TUTORIAL?

A tutorial is a class that goes for one to two hours where students have the chance to workshop questions that test their knowledge of the weekly lecture material. Law tutorials are where you will do the practical preparation for exams by way of answering problem scenarios in a special legal analytical framework called ISAAC ISAACs. Every good law student is best mates with ISAAC ISAACs. What’s a workshop? A tutorial is a class that goes for one to two hours where students have the chance to workshop questions that test their knowledge of the weekly material. Lawtutorials are where you will do the practical preparation for exams by way of answering problem scenarios in a special legal analytical framework called ISAAC ISAACs.

Not every subject involves a regular workshop on top of the scheduled lectures and tutorials.

Nevertheless, a workshop is a further opportunity to literally workshop some knowledge and skills.

In first year you will likely encounter the Torts Peer Workshop program, and you will have a number of research workshops with librarians to introduce you to researching using the legal databases that QUT has access to. Workshops will usually go for one to two hours in an intimate setting, very similar to a tutorial.

WHAT’S A WORKSHOP?

Not every subject involves a regular workshop on top of the scheduled lectures and tutorials. Nevertheless, a workshop is a further opportunity to literally workshop some knowledge and skills. In first year you will likely encounter the Torts Peer Workshop program, and you will have a number of research workshops with librarians to introduce you to researching using the legal databases that QTUT has access to. Workshops will usually go for one to two hours in an intimate setting, very similar to a tutorial.