How much time do you spend at uni per week/day? Is it possible to hold a part time job while doing this course? (GC campus if it helps) thanks!
Griffith - Foundation Year Health Overview and Q&A I wrote a brief overview for a few of the subjects you'll be doing at the Gold Coast campus in this thread. Honestly, your workload won't be much greater than any other first year university student - yes, you'll be doing 5 subjects instead of the 4 that most full-time students do, however, your stats subject (Introduction to Biomedical Data Analysis) is entirely run online, as are the lectures of the health law subject (which will only have 5 modules if things haven't changed since I went through, as it's actually a 2nd year nursing subject and nursing students go on prac after 5 weeks of the trimester), and if you did chemistry at school then you really won't need to turn up to any of the chem lectures or tutorials unless the topic is one that you think you need a refresher on. As above, the lectures are all available online so these aren't compulsory either. This leaves your only compulsory classes as:
- 3 hour anatomy prac every 2nd week
- 2 hour CTR lab every 2nd week
- 2 hour health law tutorial every week only for weeks 1-5
- 3 hour chem lab every 2nd week
I'd wager that with reasonable timetable organisation, you should only need to go 2-3 days a week (maybe 4 in the weeks where you have multiple labs if you want to attend the lectures face to face), but you'll need to set aside time to keep up to date with your online classes as well as revision etc. You'll figure out what works best for you and which subjects you want to invest your time into attending in-person lectures after a few weeks.
My recommendation would be to enrol and organise your timetable as soon as you've accepted your offer, as classes will fill up very quickly - this will have the biggest effect on how many days you need to go in.
As above, there will be plenty of opportunity for part-time work. It will be hard to pick out which days you'll be available until you've actually enrolled, though.