This subject was definitely not the best, and to be honest is a waste of money considering it is compulsory for all Arts students. The content and readings were bland, the only part I enjoyed about sitting through it for 2 hours each week was the bond I formed with my group members. If you hate group projects though, this is an unfortunate introduction to your course. There's a lot of BS around the "new futures" concept, which I still can't even define after having finished the subject. The modules that you have to do each week literally don't relate to anything during the seminars and are just basic common sense and respect. My best advice: you can probably put in your bare minimum and just blab your way through the assignments, it's a pretty easy H1.

waste of time

Arts Discovery was absolutely the worst part of my first semester here at Unimelb. It's compulsory for all Arts students, so complaining won't do much good, but I'm going to anyway. The content was completely vague and uninteresting, and I don't really feel there was any learning happening. They kept relating everything back to their central theme of 'nEw fUtUrEs', whatever the hell that is, but didn't even bother to explain it clearly anywhere on Canvas or in class. All of the modules they forced us to do were uninteresting and basic (don't do a racism, guys!!!). Then the major assessment was a group project, which makes you entirely dependant on the group you get for like 50% of your mark. If you get a good group, the subject is an easy H1, however it's just as likely that you'll get people who are lazy, don't respond, or don't even know English. On top of all of that, they charged the highest possible amount for this shitshow. WTF are we paying almost $2000 for? There's nothing of value to be gained from this subject. They even had the audacity to send out a little feedback report, saying that they are ignoring all of our valid criticisms (basically a giant F* you). The subject was a slap in the face to the entire Arts cohort. So glad this shitshow is over with. Good luck, Arts students, you'll need it.

Sadly, this subject is a compulsory subject for all first year arts year students. The content is disorganised, with referencing and writing techniques being taught in week 10/11 as opposed to earlier when it would have been more useful. Group work is a main component of thus subject as you have to create an arts project/dissertation, therefore getting stuck with a bad group can make things difficult. The modules were really cut and dry in my opinion, extremely boring and is too general to be useful to the degree with themes like respect, diversity and inclusion. Overall, the subject was an easy H1 if you get a decent group.

Biggest waste of time and money. I haven't met a single person who has enjoyed arts discovery. Praying for next years arts students they don't have to do this. They really should have made this subject free or just not forced us to do it. I have learned nothing, it feels unorganised and disjointed, the modules are useless, our group tutor hasn't given us any feedback on our project since week 3, and I had to miss a subject I really wanted to do because this was compulsory.

Im so sorry to the arts students that have to do this, this subject is disastrous and an absolute piss take. I hope the uni changes it for next years intake as it is horrific.

Without a doubt, the worst subject you will take in your Arts degree. Can't believe the university charged us the highest amount possible for this. It was a disaster.