Charting Courses

Your Guide to Enrolment

Now that you are at UNSW, you should have already enrolled into your first Term 1 courses. If you haven’t, make sure you follow the following steps. For those that have already enrolled, check out our mini guide for any information that you may have missed.

1. Log in to myUNSW.

2. Click ‘Enrolment Appointments’ on myUNSW to see when you can first enrol and register the classes for your courses. This information will become available towards the end of the term. Most courses tend to run out of capacity very quickly, so we recommend you select classes immediately after the time shown on your enrolment appointment.

Enrolment Appointments

3. Click ‘Update Your Enrolment’ to search for the courses offered in a particular term. You are free to drop and enrol in courses anytime without academic penalty, as long as it is before the academic census date.

Update Your Enrolment

Year selection

Enter Course Code

4. Congratulations! You have successfully enrolled into your course!

FAQs

1. What do I do if the class I want to register for is already at capacity?

You can put yourself on the waiting list. If any student removes themself from the class, the system will automatically fill the position with the first person on the waiting list. In the meantime however, we recommend that you also join another open class to guarantee your position in the course.

2. What to do if my class/lecture clashes with another class/lecture?

UNSW does not usually allow students to take two classes simultaneously. However under the specific circumstances, you can submit a timetable clash request form. To access this form and the conditions for eligibility, select ‘Student Request Forms’ under ‘Online Services’ in the myUNSW website. After this, proceed to select the ‘Timetable Clash Enrolment’ option.

3. What are Core Courses and Elective Courses?

Core courses are compulsory and must be satisfactorily completed to fulfill the requirements of the program. It often needs to be completed alongside Elective Courses, which offer a greater level of flexibility.

There are three types of elective courses: General Education Elective Courses (GenEds), Free Electives and Prescribed Electives. GenEds are taken for the purpose of increasing the breadth of knowledge and require students to select courses outside the faculty of their degree program. In comparison, Free Electives aim to develop knowledge and skills in a particular discipline by choosing from a large, but sometimes restricted, list of courses offered by a specified faculty. Prescribed electives are typically taken to complement the required depth of knowledge and are selected from a specified list of courses.

Degree Planning

Every UNSW degree has a progression plan that you can refer to. If you find the information there to be limiting, please access the handbook relevant to your degree/s to find all the compulsory and/or elective courses that you need to complete. Following this, you can see the terms that each course is offered in and map this information across the duration of your degree on google spreadsheets, excel etc.

Remember, a full time student must complete 48 UOC (units of credit) across one year, with at least one course enrolment per term. Domestic students will need to complete a minimum of 12 UOC per term, or 36 UOC across 3 terms with a minimum of one enrolment per term.

One of the most useful tools to save class enrolment stress is CrossAngles! This web app helps you plan out your timetable before you enrol in your classes. Input the courses you are planning to take for the term and it will generate the most optimal timetable, which you can easily rearrange by dragging and dropping as desired. The site also displays the current enrolment numbers for each class - but check Timetable for the most up-to-date information. Use it here: https://crossangles.app/

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