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Student Electives
Student Electives are available to students enrolled in higher education undergraduate programs.
To determine whether you need to enrol in a Student Elective refer to your enrolment program structure, or seek advice from your school.
Rules for Student Electives
Students enrolled in higher education undergraduate programs are required to undertake a minimum of:
- 24 credit points of Student Electives for a three year program
- 36 credit points for a four year programs.
All Student Electives are 12 credit points.
You can enrol in courses with prerequisites and corequisites, however it is your responsibility to check the relevant course guide to make sure that you have met the requisites.
Some courses have a restriction on the number of enrolments allowed. Once a course is full you will not be permitted to enrol in the course.
RMIT University reserves the right to not offer courses that fail to meet a minimum enrolment of 25 students.
Search for a Student Elective
You can search on the Student Electives website for courses that are offered as Student Electives.
You enrol in electives to:
- add value to your degree,
- pursue one of your interests, or
- explore an area that is new to you.
If you don’t know what elective to choose, the following scenarios might be helpful:
- Astrid is interested in turning her art practice into a viable business and has chosen Business Planning as a Student Elective.
- Arjun, an applied science student, is fascinated and alarmed by the international situation, so he chose International Politics.
- Mei-Ling, a life sciences student, comes from a very religious Christian family but finds that in Melbourne she gets into a lot of arguments with friends from other faiths and friends who are atheists. She chose Religion, Society and Culture to explore issues of belief further.
- Irina, an engineering student, wants a broader understanding of environmental issues, both for career and personal reasons, plus the convenience of online study. This led her to Environmental Sustainability online Plus.
- David is a bachelor of education student. He chose Introduction to Simulation and Virtual Environment, partly because of its applications in the classroom, but mainly for fun.
- Annie, a business student, selected Language, Culture and Business Practice – Japanese 1, to enhance her career prospects.
- Edmund, an architecture student, wants to know more about himself and other people, so his Student Elective is Foundations of Psychology.