The University of Western Australia — Attraction in Crawley

I studied Sport Science here, but only for less then a semester due to illness, forcing me to defer. The campus is massive, which is tiring when you have to walk from one side to the other every day (or several times a day), however, it is beautiful. The care taken in maintaining the grounds is sublime, and there is plenty to see and do along the way, when walking to class, like admire the peacocks and duck infestation.

The classes I took mainly consisted of Human Biology, Sport Science (core) and German (elective). Oddly enough, German was my favourite subject, and got me motivated to further pursue learning the language outside of the university. The German teachers were AWESOME! Kind, helpful and humorous, unlike (unfortunately) the lifeless and personality drainers of my other units. I had one good teacher for Human Biology, but too bad the unit consisted primarily of Evolutionary Science rather than anything of importance or noteworthy to do with Human Biology.

Now the rest of the teachers and units. The lectures were gruelling to get through; half baked attempts to get information across, supplemented with uninspiring lecturers, who you could see wanted to do something better than stand around talking to eager student learners. The Sport Science department, at the time, was in shambles! The teacher I acquired was arrogant and self obsessed, with no care for teaching, but rather, they enjoyed making their students suffer from embarrassment and/or anxiety (sadness, depression, etc.) when they publicly humiliated said students for not knowing answers to questions or other trivial things. "Maybe you don't know, but just because I didn't know the answer or got it wrong, doesn't mean I'm not studying or being 'lazy', it's because your teaching abilities are so weakly strung together I'm surprised you even made it this far in life to have a job!" That is something I wish I had said, but didn't have the cranial reactions to manifest on the spot.

Overall, German lessons were the obvious highlight. I wish I just did German there and nothing else; I would have loved every minute of it and I would have returned after that first semester. The rest of the teaching faculty, lectures and informative information paid to receive, were lacking heavily! A very dull, boring and dry place to study, if you could even study there, with directionless units that teach nothing so you learn nothing. 2 stars out of five overall. German classes get the full five-out-of-five, but the weighted mean of my other classes just drags that average...

This campus is the main campus of the university of western Australia (UWA). The other two are not to far (the medical campus in Monash Avenue and Claremont campus for Celt, and Nedlands campus of public health studies which is just on the corner of the Cross roads of Sterling Hwy). Crawley campus made UWA to be one of the five sandstone universities in Australia (the others are Queensland and Sydney universities). The iconic Winthrop clock tower is there which can bee seen from Stirling Hwy, Reid library and Science library, UWA fitness centre, UWA swimming centre and pools, James oval for cricket, the tropical garden and the peacocks who live in Art school. Most of the students facilities are in the guild village in the centre of the campus where you can find ATMs, coop shop, newsagents, student Central, medical centre and dentist , and subway and Cafe. However, there no Middle Eastern and Halal food (you have to go to Broadway shopping centre) which very inconvenient for many international students. Another serious issue is the car parking. High reputation for a G8 university but also very high...

I am about to graduate from a BSc in organic chemistry at the University of New South Wales, but previously I studied chemistry at the first, second and third year levels here.

Concepts taught to undergraduate students at UWA were either 40 years out of date, poorly explained, or just downright incorrect. It is abundantly clear that the Chemistry department in particular has no interest in producing chemists with an up-to-date and accurate knowledge of their field, and this is reflected in every aspect of the lecturing, tutoring, lab work, and marking at the undergraduate level.

There are no opportunities for research, no way to improve your skills and qualifications prior to graduation, and nobody willing to help you if you struggle with the concepts at hand.

Don't go to either of the major Perth unis unless you genuinely have no other choice. The best thing an undergraduate chemist (or any science student) can do for their sanity and their career is to move to Sydney or Melbourne immediately.

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