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What to enrol in

If you’re a full-time student with no enrolment variations, you can follow a standard course structure. If not, you may need a personalised student plan.

Course structure or student plan?

Course structures and student plans list the units you should enrol in each semester and indicate whether they’re majors or minors, compulsory or elective, have pre-requisites or co-requisites.

If you’re a full-time student with no enrolment variations, you can follow a standard course structure. If you’re part time, check to see if there’s a specific part-time course structure first, but if there isn’t one, you’ll need a student plan. If you have received credit from previous studies, withdrawn from or failed units, changed your major or minor or taken leave, you’ll also need a student plan. 

Course structures

Select your study area below. You’ll be taken either to your course structure page or to your course resource page. If you’re taken to your course resource page, click the course structure button for either new or continuing students to access your course structure.

If you have the choice of a Semester 1 or Semester 2 course structure, choose the semester you started your course in, not the semester you’re enrolling into. 

Institute Study area
Institute of Education, Arts and Community Arts Academy (new students and continuing students)
Education (new students and continuing students)
Humanities and social sciences (new students and continuing students)
FAST
Social work, community and human services (new students and continuing students)
Institute of Health and Wellbeing Exercise and sport science
Nursing
Midwifery
Physiotherapy
Public health
Paramedicine
Speech pathology
Occupational therapy
Psychology
Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability Business (new students and continuing students)
Engineering (new students and continuing students)
Information technology (new students and continuing students)
Science (including mathematics) (new students and continuing students)
Global Professional School

Diploma of Business (higher education)
Diploma of Engineering (higher education)
Diploma of Information Technology (higher education)
English for Academic Purposes (EAP)

TAFE

TAFE units are automatically added to my Student Centre, so all you need to do is log in and enrol.

Graduate Research School

Check your student inbox for the details of your units.

Student plans

If you’re a continuing student with past enrolment variations (e.g. failed units), you may have already received a personalised student plan (check your Federation inbox). If not, you can request a plan via the enquiry portal or through a one-on-one appointment

If you’re a new student and you intend to study part time or you’ve applied for credit, you should also request a student plan via the enquiry portal or through a one-on-one appointment.

Plan your academic year

If you’re following a course structure, use these definitions to understand how to pick your units. Keep in mind that you need to enrol in units for the entire upcoming year – both semesters.

It’s important to consider unit sequence when enrolling. A pre-requisite is a unit that must be completed before taking another unit. A co-requisite is a unit that must be completed at the same time as another unit. An exclusion is a unit that is equivalent to another unit, which means you can’t do both.

Your course structure will include any majors, minors or specialisations that you need to do. There might be a list at the end of the document, but if not, contact your course coordinator to find out what you should choose.  

If there’s a list of prescribed electives at the end of your course structure document, you must choose yours from it. If there are no specific requirements, you might be able to enrol in a unit from any study area. Contact your course coordinator to find out what your options are. 

NOTE: Any student can enrol in the elective COOPC1021 Professional Identity: Preparing for Work. This introductory unit (worth 15 credit points) is about planning ahead, knowing yourself and preparing to join the workforce.

If your course includes placement, this will appear in your course structure. Units might be listed as:

  • professional practice/experience
  • co-operative placement
  • field placement
  • clinical practice/placement.

When you enrol in these units, the placement team will be notified and the units will appear in InPlace, our placement management system. 

Interested in going on exchange? We recommend waiting until second or third year. Keep in mind that you’ll need space available in your course structure. Overseas study can count as electives, placement or equivalent core units. And you’ll have to consider the impact this will have on pre-requisites for later study. Find out more on the Global Professional School website.