Enrolment

New postgraduate students must enrol at the Faculty of Arts office. Please bring your letter of offer from the Faculty of Arts. UAC applicants, please note: Evidence of Australian Residency status required at the time of enrolment: Please bring your Passport or Birth Certificate as evidence of your Australian or New Zealand citizenship, or Australian Permanent Residency visa.

The Faculty of Arts office is located next to the MacLaurin Hall stairway, in the Main Quadrangle.

Enrolment dates for Semester 1, 2009:

Research students - LOCAL

Monday 2 February 2009 9:00am - 4:00pm
Tuesday 3 February 2009 9:00am - 4:00pm

Coursework students - LOCAL

Wednesday 4 February 2009 9:00am - 4:00pm
Thursday 5 February 2009 9:00am - 4:00pm

Late opening - research and coursework students - LOCAL

Friday 6 February 2009 9:00am - 5:30pm

Research and coursework students - ALL INTERNATIONAL

Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:00am - 4:00pm

UAC offers for:
Master of/Graduate Diploma in/Graduate Certificate in Media Practice
Master of/Graduate Diploma in/Graduate Certificate in Health Communication
Master of/Graduate Diploma in/Graduate Certificate in Strategic Public Relations

You may email your acceptance of an offer to the above courses of study within 2 weeks from the date of your offer to: Offers will be sent by UAC late November 2008 to end January 2009.

Please include:

• UAC reference number
• surname
• given names
• course name

Enrolment will be made in person at the Faculty of Arts office, Ground Floor, Main Quadrangle. Please bring your UAC offer letter with you.

UAC applicants, please note: Evidence of Australian Residency status required at the time of enrolment:
Please bring your Passport or Birth Certificate as evidence of your Australian or New Zealand citizenship, or Australian Permanent Residency visa.

To enrol by proxy you must give written authority to someone to act on your behalf. Proxy forms are available from the Student Centre or the Faculty office. You must provide your proxy with appropriate course selection information and your tax file number if you are deferring your Higher Education Contribution Scheme (Equity HECS) liability to the taxation system.

If you do not enrol at one of the specified times (listed above) you may be charged a late enrolment fee of $100. Enrolments will not be possible after 31 March 2009

Details of voluntary subscriptions are available online at the University's Student Centre web site. Students are required to pay for tuition fees or upfront HECS when they enrol. Payment may be made by cheque, EFTPOS or credit card only (cash cannot be accepted). Tuition fees and HECS will be charged on a per semester basis. If you are deferring HECS payments, your tax file number will be required at enrolment. Student cards and transport concessions will be issued on the day.

You are required to re-enrol each year. Advice on how and when to enrol is normally sent out in September the previous year. Please check your University email account regularly for correspondence from the University. If you do not receive enrolment information you should contact the Student Centre. If you do not enrol within the period stated, your candidature will lapse and you will have to apply for re-admission.

You may not enrol concurrently in another award program that is not already a combined program approved by the Senate, unless approved in writing by the relevant deans.

All variations of enrolment must be lodged in writing with the Faculty of Arts and not with your department. If you vary your enrolment in your department and do not advise the Faculty, your enrolment will be incorrect and you will be charged accordingly. It is your responsibility to ensure that your enrolment is correct. Please contact your department for details of any necessary registration, class times and reading lists.

Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that you are correctly enrolled. The following information will assist you to maintain a correct enrolment.

Check your personal Confirmation of Enrolment (you will receive this in the mail) and bring it to the Faculty of Arts office to make any changes to your enrolment.

Advising your department of your intention to change your enrolment is not sufficient. If you do not advise the Faculty of Arts of a change in writing:

- you will be incorrectly enrolled

- you will be incorrectly charged

- you will not receive a result for study undertaken

- you will be ineligible to graduate

You must enrol in all units of study you undertake with the Faculty of Arts office.

The addition of, or withdrawal from a unit of study can only be done in writing at the Faculty of Arts office before the following HECS census dates:

31 March for Semester 1, 2009

31 August for Semester 2, 2009

A full-year unit is denoted by 3. You can only enrol in semester 1 for full year units. Please withdraw for each semester as above.

If you withdraw by the above dates you will receive a refund of fees. Please see Refunds Policy (below) for details.

If you discontinue a unit of study after the above dates, you will be Discontinuing with Permission (DNF) and will be charged for the unit, regardless of whether you have completed the required work.

If you do not complete required assessment and do not advise the Faculty you will be charged for the unit of study and will receive a result of Absent Fail (AF).

If you are enrolled in a unit of study that is subsequently cancelled by the department, it is your responsibility to notify the Faculty of Arts in writing to withdraw you from that unit by the HECS census dates; if not, you will be charged for the unit.

Suspension, extension, change in attendance status, permission to count time away, leave of absence, permission to complete away, credit for postgraduate coursework study undertaken at another institution, recommencement, discontinuation.

Application forms for the above are available at the Faculty of Arts office, or online. The relevant form must be completed and approved by the department and Associate Dean. Applications must be submitted prior to the HECS census dates:

31 March for Semester 1, 2009

31 August for Semester 2, 2009

Retrospective applications cannot be processed.
You must notify the Faculty office that you will be recommencing after a period of suspension. If you fail to do so, you will not be able to enrol.

Refunds policy for withdrawals and discontinuation from local fee paying postgraduate award courses and local postgraduate and undergraduate fee paying non-award programs.

The University imposes the following policies with respect to the refund of fees paid for local fee paying postgraduate award courses, units of study, and local postgraduate or undergraduate fee paying non-award programs.

Students who withdraw* from a fee paying postgraduate award course or from a postgraduate or undergraduate fee paying non award program before the start of a semester but subsequent to enrolment will be reimbursed 100% of the tuition fee and 100% of all compulsory subscriptions paid.

Students who withdraw* from a fee paying postgraduate award course or from a postgraduate or undergraduate fee paying non award program after the commencement of teaching but before 31 March or 31 August in the February or July semester (the DEEWAR census date) will be reimbursed 100% of the tuition fee and 100% of all compulsory subscriptions paid.

No refunds are payable in respect of a particular semester to students who discontinue^ from a fee paying postgraduate degree, graduate diploma or graduate certificate or from a postgraduate or undergraduate fee paying non degree program.

Students who withdraw* from March or July semester units of study prior to the relevant census date will be refunded 100% of the tuition fee for those units.

Students who withdraw* from "Intensive Mode" postgraduate units of study will be refunded 100% of the tuition fee for those units. No refunds are payable to students who discontinue^ from "Intensive Mode" postgraduate units of study. See the separate Sydney Summer School refund policy for the refund penalties that apply to units of study taken within the Summer School.

No refunds are payable in respect of the discontinuation^ of a semester-length unit of study.

If a variation of a student's enrolment before the DEEWAR census date results in a change of part-time/full-time status then any appropriate reduction with respect to compulsory subscriptions will be refunded in full.

Notes:
*Withdrawal - To cease studies in a unit or units of study and/or award course at any time subsequent to enrolment and prior to the close of business on the census date in either the March or July semester (31 March or 31 August). In respect of units of study offered in non-standard semesters (intensive mode units), to cease studies at any time subsequent to enrolment up until:

• close of business on the first day of teaching of the unit of study where the duration of the non-standard semester in which the unit is offered is less than six weeks, or
• close of business on the 14th day after teaching has commenced for the unit of study where the duration of the non-standard semester in which the unit is offered is greater than six weeks but less than a standard semester.

^Discontinuation - To cease studies in a unit or units of study and/or award course at any time during the semester subsequent to the relevant census date (31 March or 31 August). In respect of units of study offered in non-standard semesters (intensive mode units), to cease studies at any time during the non-standard semester subsequent to the census dates set for that non-standard semester, see withdraw above.

31 March for Semester 1, 2009

31 August for Semester 2, 2009

These are the latest dates for students to make any variations to their enrolment details, such as application for suspension, changing from full-time to part-time candidature, changing courses or options, etc.

Candidates who are commencing candidature or who are resuming candidature after a suspension must enrol by this date to be eligible to receive a HECS exemption. There are no opportunities for students to claim special consideration.