Student Services - The Guild

• Free breakfast 9.00am - 10.00am (North Court, outside Union Building)
• Student welcome 10.00am - 10.15am (Moat Theatre) Campus tours 10.15am - 12.00pm (Leaving from Moat Theatre or Union Hall if raining)
• Guild festival 12.00pm - 2.30pm (Agora)
• Important information for new students 2.00pm- 2.45pm (ELT 2)
• Christopher Brooking memorial lecture 3.00pm - 4.00pm (ELT 1)
• Short flicks 4.00pm - 6.00pm (Agora Cinema)
• Movies 6.00pm - 10.00pm (Agora Theatre)
• Trivia night 6.00pm - 10.00pm (Eagle Bar)

• Free breakfast 8.30am - 9.30am (North Court, outside Union Building)
• Vice-Chancellor’s welcome 9.30am - 9.45am (Union Hall)
• Wurundjeri welcome 9.45am - 10.15am (Union Hall)
• Academic sessions 10.15am - 11.45am (Various Locations around campus)
• Academic sessions 12.00pm - 1.00pm (Various Locations around campus)
• Sports centre BBQ 1.00pm - 3.00pm Sports Centre Lawns)
• Important information for new students 2.00pm - 2.45pm (ELT 2)
• Christopher Brooking memorial lecture 3.00pm - 4.00pm (ELT 1)
• Chill out session 4.00pm - 7.00pm (Eagle Bar)
• Comedy gala 7.00pm - 11.00pm (Union Hall)

• Free breakfast 9.00am - 10.00am (Agora)
• Academic sessions 10.00am - 12.00pm (Various locations around campus)
• Mike Moore lecture 12.00pm – 1.00pm (ELT 6)
• Clubs and societies festival 1.00pm - 3.00pm (Agora)
• Important information for new students 2.00pm - 2.45pm (ELT 2)
• Bar activities 3.00pm - 5.00pm (Eagle Bar)
• Vice-Chancellor’s carvery 5.00pm - 8.00pm (Eagle Bar)
• Orientation bar night 8.00pm - LATE (Eagle Bar)

Welcome to the Faculty of Law and Management.
These sessions will provide general information about your course and university life, and give you the chance to meet fellow students and staff and ask questions. Each session will be followed by morning tea. After each course welcome, you should attend the relevant academic orientation that relates to your course. We look forward to meeting you!

Course welcomes (choose one)
Agora Theatre
Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, International Business, Sport and Leisure Management, Tourism and Hospitality Management, and Tourism Management and the following double degrees – Arts/Accounting, Arts/Economics, Business/Asian Studies, Accounting/Economics, Accounting/Finance

ELT 5
Law, Law/Arts, Law/Asian Studies, Law/Behavioural Science, Law/Accounting, Law/Economics, Law/Electronic Engineering, Law/Finance, Law/Information Systems, Law/Media, Law/Science 

11.15am – 11.45am

Morning tea for all students
On the lawn between the Donald Whitehead Building and the Social Sciences building.

Academic orientation programs (choose one)
Law students
Learning and writing in Law

11.45am – 12.30pm 

What is a lecture and what is a tutorial in Law?
ELT 5
Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, International Business, Sport and Leisure Management, Tourism and Hospitality Management, and Tourism Management students.

Studying business @ La Trobe
Agora Theatre
A comprehensive overview of the skills you will need to achieve in an academic environment. The session covers information on the help you can utilise from University services and the skills you should have.

Note taking and paying heed
Agora Theatre
A good set of notes is worth their weight in gold! This session provides a background of what constitutes good note taking and how to construct a set of notes that will carry you through to your exams.

Critical thinking: The analysis of the essay
Agora Theatre
Students find that the problem presented is not properly understood. This session will give insight into understanding what the marker is looking for from your essays.

Welcome to our new students
Our orientation sessions give you the chance to meet students studying in your course and help you find your way around our buildings and laboratories.

R.L. Reid Building, Room 233
Bachelor of Agricultural Science (and related double degrees), Animal and Veterinary Bioscience

 Thomas Cherry Building, first year laboratory, 4th Floor
Bachelor of Biological Science, Biological Science (Advanced Science), Biotechnology and Cell Biology, Conservation Biology and Ecology, Biomedical Science, Human Nutrition

Szental Lecture Theatre
Psychological Science (and related double degree)

Beth Gleeson Building, Room 445
Bachelor of Electronic Engineering (and related double degrees including Biomedical, Telecommunications and Microelectronics), Electronic Technology

Peribolos West, Room 219
Bachelor of Computer Science (and related double degrees), Games Technology, Computer Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems (and related double degrees)

Undercroft Lecture Theatre
Bachelor of Science, Science/Science, Science/Science Education, Science/Commerce, Science/Arts,

Finance/Science, Chemical Sciences, Medicinal Chemistry, Nanotechnology/Science

12.00pm – 1.00pm

Hooper Lecture Theatre
CONNECT: Transition support program for Science, Technology and Engineering students.

Students hosts will guide you to the venue designated for your course of enrolment (as detailed below). You will get the opportunity to:

Receive unit information and meet and talk with academic staff and other school staff and students.
Discover the location of lecture, prac. and tutorial rooms.

Course welcomes will be held in the following locations:

• Health Information Management (and related double degree) - Health Sciences 1, Room 120
• Bachelor of Health Sciences (and related double degrees) - East Lecture Theatre 1
  
• Nursing and Midwifery - West Lecture Theatre 1
  
• Occupational Therapy (and related double degree) - East Lecture Theatre 3
  
• Physiotherapy - West Lecture Theatre 3
  
• Social Work - East Lecture Theatre 2
  
• Speech Pathology - West Lecture Theatre 2
  
• Orthoptics - Room 223, HS2
  
• Podiatry - East Lecture Theatre 4 
  
• Prosthetics and Orthotics - Health Sciences Clinic, Teaching Room

2.00pm, 2.30 pm, 3.00pm & 3.30pm

Visit the Faculty of Health Sciences’ Computing Lab
computing lab: HS3, 401 or 402
Visit the computer lab for an introductory session on computers available for your use throughout your study.  Make sure you attend one of the sessions to discover more about the computer lab. 
(Please note that for those students who will be involved in course specific sessions at these times, there will be opportunities to visit the computer lab in the first week of semester).

Orientation to Human Physiology and Anatomy
West Lecture Theatre 1
For students from the following courses: Occupational Therapy, Orthoptics, Podiatry, Prosthetics & Orthotics, Speech Pathology, Physiotherapy

2.30pm - 3.00pm

West Lecture Theatre 1
For students from the following courses: Nursing and Midwifery, Health Sciences (and related double degrees), Health Information Management

Social Work Students– you will make a difference! 

Stay in the Union Hall after the Vice-Chancellor’s welcome.

Congratulations and welcome! Following the official welcome from the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS) you will move into groups based on your degree.

Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, International Business, Sport and Leisure Management, Tourism and Hospitality Management, and Tourism Management Students.

ELT6

Finding the essay: Structuring an answer
“How can I write a 2000 word essay, when I don’t even understand the question?” Delve into how to construct a reasoned argument as well as finding the focus of your essay. This session follows from Critical Thinking.

PUBLIC LECTURE

Mike Moore Lecture
Business for Millennium Development: An end to world poverty?

Law School ‘Meet and Greet’

Presentation by the La Trobe Law Students’ Association (LSA)

Peribolos West, Room 101
Come and meet your committee, see the student facilities and find out about LSA activities – especially the Law Camp.

BBQ
Social Sciences, Room 101.

12.00pm – 1.00pm

ELT 6

Rt Hon Mike Moore is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law and Management and the International Patron for Business for Millennium Development.

Don’t miss the opportunity to listen to Rt Hon Mike Moore previously the Director General of the World Trade Organisation and is an ex-Prime Minister of New Zealand. 

The Business for Poverty Relief Alliance was formed in August 2006 when a group of leading and progressive Australian companies came together at the invitation of World Vision to consider the question “How can corporate Australia do more to address global poverty?”. The alliance was launched in May 2007 to overwhelming support around Australia. In October 2007, the alliance was rebranded as the Business for Millennium Development (B4MD) to bear a more accurate reflection on their focus on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

B4MD believes that Australian businesses have the opportunity to do much more to reduce poverty while developing business with the emerging markets of the Asia Pacific region.

Dynamic presentations for the 21st century

Agora Theatre
Great speakers get across their ideas with clarity and generate excitement in their audience. This session will provide you with the basics of a good presentation and delve into the eternal question ‘To PowerPoint or Not to PowerPoint!’.

3.00pm – 4.00pm

Understanding in-text referencing

Agora Theatre
We stand on the shoulders of giants and we should give credit where credit is due. This session goes through the mechanics of the Harvard Referencing System and shows the advantages to referencing properly.

10.00am – 11.15am (surnames A – K)

2.00pm – 3.15pm (surnames L – Z)

Eastern Lecture Theatre 1
Learning and writing for students from the following courses: Biological Science and Biological Science (Advanced Science), Biotechnology and Cell Biology, Conservation Biology and Ecology, Biomedical Science, Human Nutrition, Agricultural Science (and related double degrees), Animal and Veterinary Bioscience, Psychological Science (and related double degree).

Eastern Lecture Theatre 4
Learning and writing for students from the following courses: Electronic Engineering (and related double degrees), Electronics Technology, Computer Science (and related double degrees), Games Technology, Computer Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems (and related double degrees), Science, Science/Science, Science/Science Education, Science/Commerce, Science/Arts.
Finance/Science, Chemical Sciences, Medicinal Chemistry, Nanotechnology/Science.

11.15am – 12.15pm

3.15pm – 4.15pm

Boardroom in the Union Building
Welcome from LUPA President – Sally Dongping Huang.
Listen to information on the advice and advocacy service from Dr. Bingxin Wang, Student Advocate and Executive Director.

Win free tickets for LUPA trips and have the chance to receive LUPA event information  from Mr Frank Van Groeningen, Administration Office Manager.

Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, International Business, Sport and Leisure Management, Tourism and Hospitality Management, and Tourism Management Students.

Students can self select into these workshops. Each will be run in both sessions to allow all students to attend the LMS workshop and the relevant transition/return to study session.

Transitions from Yr 12 to University
West Lecture Theatre 3

Returning to study (Non Yr 12)
East Lecture Theatre 3

Intro to LMS for Health Sciences students
Agora Theatre

Morning tea break

Transitions from Yr 12 to University
West Lecture Theatre 3

Returning to study (Non Yr 12)
East Lecture Theatre 3

Intro to LMS for Health Sciences students
Agora Theatre

Union Hall, Union Building

How can I get through the reading?
How can I take useful notes?
What do they want in an essay?
How do I know if it’s good enough?
What is it ok to ask my lecturer?