First year engineering electives list

First year electives allow you to take level 1 courses that are otherwise not core for your chosen specialisation. In some specialisations you may have recommended courses as your L1 electives, however you may choose any of the below subjects.

If one of your core courses is on the L1 elective list you can double count this and choose an extra discipline elective later in your program.

First year electives can be taken at any time in your program. Some courses may have pre-requisites, co-requisites or exclusions, please check carefully.
The chemistry courses are sequenced: (CHEM1811, CHEM1821) or (CHEM1011, CHEM1021) or (CHEM1031, CHEM1041).
Students can only count one of either COMP1521 or COMP1531 as a first year elective.
For more details about individual programs (like whether your school suggests certain electives), see the relevant entry in the  Online Handbook.
All courses are 6 units of credit (UOC)

Contact The Nucleus if you want help clarifying your choice of courses. If you are enrolling into 2nd year and later, please contact your school office if you require assistance with your enrolment.

Click on the course below to view the current handbook description and click on the [ T ] to view the current timetable.

Course Code	Timetable	Course Title	Streams including as Core Subject	Recommended
ARTS2755	[ T ]	Global Development in Practice: Concepts and Practice for Inclusive Development
BABS1201	[ T ]	Molecules Cells and Genes	Bioinformatics Engineering
BIOM1010	[ T ]	Engineering in Medicine and Biology		All Biomedical Engineering dual combinations
BIOS1301	[ T ]	Ecology, Sustainability and Environmental Science	Environmental Engineering
CEIC1000	[ T ]	Sustainable Product Engineering and Design		Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry
CHEM1011	[ T ]	Chemistry 1A: Atoms, Molecules and Energy	Environmental Engineering
CHEM1021	[ T ]	Chemistry 1B: Elements, Compounds and Life
CHEM1031	[ T ]	Higher Chemistry 1A: Atoms, Molecules and Energy
CHEM1041	[ T ]	Higher Chemistry 1B: Elements, Compounds and Life
CHEM1811	[ T ]	Engineering Chemistry 1A	Chemical Engineering, Chemical Product Engineering	Preferred initial Chemistry course for Engineering students. Alternate Chemistry course for Environmental Engineering.
CHEM1821	[ T ]	Engineering Chemistry 1B	Chemical Engineering, Chemical Product Engineering	Preferred second Chemistry course for Engineering students.
COMM1120	[ T ]	Collaboration and Innovation in Business
COMP1521	[ T ]	Computer Systems Fundamentals	All CSE and EET streams	Electrical, Telecommunications
COMP1531	[ T ]	Software Engineering Fundamentals	All CSE streams
CVEN1701	[ T ]	Environmental Principles and Systems		Environmental Engineering
ELEC1111	[ T ]	Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering	All EET and MME streams, Computer Engineering	Electrical Engineering, Photovoltaics and Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Telecommunications
ENGG1100	[ T ]	Grand Challenges for Engineering
ENGG1200	[ T ]	Undergraduate Special Projects
ENGG1300	[ T ]	Engineering Mechanics	Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, MME streams
ENGG1400	[ T ]	Engineering Infrastructure Systems		Civil Engineering, Geospatial Engineering
GEOS1111	[ T ]	Fundamentals of Geology
GMAT1110	[ T ]	Surveying and Geospatial Engineering	Geospatial Engineering, Surveying	Mining Engineering, Petroleum Engineering
MATH1081	[ T ]	Discrete Mathematics	Bioinformatics Engineering, Software Engineering
MATS1101	[ T ]	Engineering Materials and Chemistry	Petroleum Engineering	Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, Photovoltaics and Solar Energy, Renewable Energy Engineering
MATS1110	[ T ]	Introduction to Materials for Engineering Applications		Mechanical Engineering
MINE1010	[ T ]	Mineral Resources Engineering		Mining Engineering
PHYS1231	[ T ]	Higher Physics 1B	All EET streams	Alternative physics course for Computer Engineering, all SPREE and all MME streams (except Naval Architecture)
PSYC1001	[ T ]	Psychology 1A
PSYC1028	[ T ]	Psychology of Human Centred Design
SOLA1070	[ T ]	Sustainable Energy		Photovoltaics and Solar Energy, Renewable Energy Engineering

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