School Students Guide to University SCHOOL STUDENTS GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY Whether you’re set on studying a particular degree or you’re still considering your options, planning your future at Flinders is an exciting experience. It’s never too early to start thinking about university and your study CHOOSE options. Here are some tips to help you choose what’s right for you. University applications are due around assessment time, so it’s worthwhile making a gradual and informed decision throughout the year. Attend Open Days and meet current students to start exploring your future study areas. 1. Schedule an appointment with a Prospective Student Advisor in YOUR the holidays and request a personalised tour of the campus with a current student. Friends and family are welcome to come along with you. Book your tour over the phone, via email or online at: flinders.edu.au/campustour 2. Contact Flinders when you receive your ATAR to discuss preferences and pathway options. To visit our recommended pathway programs please see: flinders.edu.au/pathways DEGREE 3. Flinders offers a wide range of scholarships to help new students transition to university. Find out more and check your eligibility: flinders.edu.au/scholarships “It’s important to choose something you will enjoy and not feel pressured to choose something that’s STUDY not the right fit for you. After looking into university degrees and considering my interests in sport AT FLINDERS and teaching, I found that Flinders would provide everything I was interested in studying at uni.” Dominic, Christian Brothers College Flinders University is here to help you every step of the way, from Studying Secondary Education / Health Sciences exploring your study options, personalising pathway advice, providing support throughout your studies and offering unique opportunities to assist you in becoming career-ready. Flinders University acknowledges the Traditional Owners on lands in which its campuses and centres are located and honours Elders past and present. These are the traditional lands of the Arrernte, Barngarla, Boandik, Dagoman, Erawirung, Gunditjmara, Jawoyn, Kaurna, Larrakia, Nauo, Ngadjuri, Ngarrindjeri, Peramangk, Ramindjeri, Wardaman, Warumungu and Yolngu peoples, spanning across South Australia, the Northern Territory and Victoria. 2 3 STUDY AREAS Business Engineering International Relations and Political Science Midwifery Business degrees provide you with the general skills and knowledge Our Engineering degrees are offered in close collaboration with Our degrees give you a range of tools to understand and drive The Bachelor of Midwifery (Pre-registration) will equip you with the necessary to pursue a successful career in business. You’ll study industry, giving you specialist knowledge and an integrated ‘toolkit’ political, social and economic change. You will learn how political, essential skills required to provide high quality, safe and effective topics in the core areas of accounting, marketing, management, of skills that will enable you to meet the requirements of industry as social, economic, and strategic relations work within the global woman-centred care. With a focus on the principles of primary law, economics, human resources management, and innovation and it continues to change. You’ll take part in a nationally recognised community and how these translate into policy areas such as trade, health care and continuity of care, you will develop an understanding enterprise. You can choose to focus your studies on a specialisation, industry placement program and network with teachers, mentors and economic development, tourism, foreign affairs, education, migration, of various midwifery models to enable you to apply theory and for example Banking, Finance, Sport Management, Marketing, and businesses who will prepare you for the workplace. Our graduates human rights and environmental protection. You will learn how skills in your daily practice. Midwives provide safe, effective care Accounting or keep your options flexible by choosing your own leave with professional accreditation and all engineering degrees policies are developed and implemented, preparing you for careers that recognises women’s individual needs of choice, control and topics in the Bachelor of Business. You’ll develop real-world work can be combined with design, technology or innovation topics to in government, non-government and not-for profit organisations in continuity of care. Upon completion, you will be capable of providing experience and build networks through work placements and live give you the skills for an ever-changing world. You’ll be able to focus Australia and abroad. care to women through their experience of pregnancy, labour and industry projects. your studies in Biomedical, Civil, Electrical and Electronics, Maritime, the early postnatal period in community and hospital settings. Mechanical, Robotics and Software Engineering. We also offer a Flexible Entry degree if you are unsure of where to start, where you Languages and Culture Creative Arts can explore topics from the different specialisations before making Studying Languages and Culture at Flinders gives you the chance Psychology Whether you’re preparing to take centre stage, direct or produce up your mind. to develop a broad range of skills and knowledge. Whether your Undertake an extensive range of key subjects and a career an internationally acclaimed feature film, stitch and style your way interests lie in language, media, archaeology, theology or tourism pathway to practising psychology. Psychology prepares you for a to success, or write an award-winning play, Flinders Creative Arts and events, you’ll gain transferable skills and industry experience wide range of careers including youth work, advertising, marketing, and Media will help you realise your ambitions. You’ll be taught Health that will help you throughout your career and let you explore your policy and research, consumer research, industrial relations, by practising creative artists who are award-winning authors, With a Health degree, you can make a meaningful difference to people passions and the world we live in. Extend your previous foreign human resources, program coordination and welfare. You’ll study playwrights, actors, cinematographers, creative entrepreneurs and and communities throughout the world. There are many opportunities language studies or learn a new language in French, Indonesian, fields such as personality, emotion, development, cultural and leaders in the arts industry. Study in a range of areas including in this evolving field—from healthy ageing, to nutrition, or optometry. Italian, Modern Greek or Spanish at Flinders, or one of our cross- biological influences, social psychology and mental health. You’ll Costume Design, Creative Writing, Digital Media, Drama, Enterprise, You’ll graduate well equipped to face the health challenges of the institutional partnerships to study Chinese, German or Japanese. have the option of focussing your studies on an additional specialist Fashion, Live Production, Festivals and Arts Production, Film and future. Many of our health degrees are nationally accredited and offer area related to psychology, including Criminology, Management, Television, Interactive Design, Screen, Theatre and Performance, flexibility so you can carve out your unique pathway. Gain the skills Neuroscience or Biology, or have the freedom to choose elective Visual Arts, Visual Effects and Entertainment Design and Writing and to make a difference to people’s lives and address the future health Law topics from a range of different areas. Publishing. needs of Australia and the world. Our many electives, degrees and Law brings hope to the disadvantaged, confidence to commercial pathways give you the flexibility to follow your passion with industry ventures, rigour to politics and solid foundations to launch your experience. Our courses include Disability and Developmental career in a diverse range of fields. A law degree also opens the Science Criminology Education, Exercise Science, Health Sciences, Occupational Therapy, door to careers outside of the law including banking and finance, Science at Flinders allows you to tailor your study to suit your Criminology is the study of the causes, impact and prevention of Physiotherapy, Nutrition and Dietetics, Paramedic Science, Public environmental protection and development, politics, marketing, needs and career aspirations. Our science degrees enable you crime, and the institutions involved in responding to criminal conduct. Health, Optometry, and Speech Pathology. communications, business management and leadership. Our law to follow your interests without being confined by traditional You will learn criminology theory and its applications in policing, topics are focused on 21st century lawyering and include criminal boundaries in core sciences such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics corrections, criminal process, victimisation, miscarriages of justice, law, contracts, torts, real property, evidence, international law and and Mathematics, or diverse options such as Forensics and organised crime, and corruption. Practical focussed topics will equip Humanities and Social Sciences law in a digital age. You will develop high level communication, Analytical Science, Marine Biology, Environment, Palaeontology, you for employment in intelligence analysis, community corrections, Our degrees provide you with valuable, transferable skills to adapt to presentation and teamwork skills in preparation for practising