Oh no!! B. Science major/minor question

[dekoyl]

Gah. I think I've come across a problem in my course.
My top preference is B.Science/B.CompSci at Monash. (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/3517.html)
For the science part of the course, it says I need to minor in maths and major in a science area of study. Can I major in maths as well?
I picked a double degree as I wanted to complement computer science with more maths. I pretty much have no desire to do any other areas of science.

Looking at this:

(b.) 96 points of science units including:

    * MTH1112 Numbers, logic and graphs or STA1010 Statistical methods for science (6 points)
    * SCI2010* The practice and application of science (6 points)
    * a major sequence in a science area of study (48 points)
    * a minor sequence in mathematics (24 points)
    * science elective units to complete a total of 96 points

Note: Within the Science component students must complete a minimum of four level-three science units (24 points), and a maximum of six level-one science units (36 points) can be taken overall.

I'm not sure if I can fill all 96 points with maths only.

And, as I want to do IBL, I don't want to let the subjects I have no motivation to do pull me down. =\

[zzdfa]

Sure you can major+minor in maths as well,  and you can always do self study units for credit if you run out of units you want to take.

like, 'science elective units' means 'any science units' not 'non maths units'

[dekoyl]

Oh okay. What are "self study units" you speak of? Does that mean I can always stick to a type of maths of some form?

[zzdfa]

if you run out of interesting stuff to take here:
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/sci-ug-mathematics.html
then you can take
mth1000, mth2000 or mth3000. They're called 'research projects' but I think they're usually used as independent reading units (since the selection of maths units at monash is quite poor). You choose a topic, find a supervisor, borrow some books, and study the topic over the semester.

[dekoyl]

That sounds very awesome. Thanks for showing me that

[humph]

Psssh, you really just ought to do this and not worry about splitting your interests up into two degrees

[dekoyl]

"elite four-year...program" I don't think I'm elite enough, humph

[humph]

"elite four-year...program" I don't think I'm elite enough, humph

You "only" need to get 98, it's not that bad And a 75 average isn't that hard to keep.

[TrueLight]

you can probably do major in science and major in maths

cause in straight science you can do mathematics and computer science..

with mine u have to do major and minor but u can also do 2 majors and no minors


go ask the science faculty

[periwinkle]

 My sister is finding Physics too esoteric. Heaven knows what she'd think of Pure Maths

[QuantumJG]

"elite four-year...program" I don't think I'm elite enough, humph

You "only" need to get 98, it's not that bad And a 75 average isn't that hard to keep.

wtf "only an ENTER of 98"!

My sister is finding Physics too esoteric. Heaven knows what she'd think of Pure Maths

Pure maths probably becomes more abstract than physics (unless you do theoretical physics - please don't hurt me pure mathematicians). If your sister is finding physics too esoteric, then, she'll find pure maths is definately too esoteric.

This reminds me of going to a lecture on what areas of maths you can focus on with your maths major. Anyway the first off was an applied maths student who was showing a model for grainular materials and how it showed the grainular structure broke in half, then there was a discrete and operations research maths student who's maths area was on optimal routes to deliver something, the statistics and stochastic processes maths student was discussing their project which was investigating penguin populations in Victoria and then finally the pure mathematician comes up and is the most egotistical person there. Basically he was discussing all these cool and abstract things you look at in pure maths.

[periwinkle]

"elite four-year...program" I don't think I'm elite enough, humph

You "only" need to get 98, it's not that bad And a 75 average isn't that hard to keep.

wtf "only an ENTER of 98"!

My sister is finding Physics too esoteric. Heaven knows what she'd think of Pure Maths

Pure maths probably becomes more abstract than physics (unless you do theoretical physics - please don't hurt me pure mathematicians). If your sister is finding physics too esoteric, then, she'll find pure maths is definately too esoteric.

This reminds me of going to a lecture on what areas of maths you can focus on with your maths major. Anyway the first off was an applied maths student who was showing a model for grainular materials and how it showed the grainular structure broke in half, then there was a discrete and operations research maths student who's maths area was on optimal routes to deliver something, the statistics and stochastic processes maths student was discussing their project which was investigating penguin populations in Victoria and then finally the pure mathematician comes up and is the most egotistical person there. Basically he was discussing all these cool and abstract things you look at in pure maths.

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