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Swinburne provides flexibility and choice to undergraduate students by providing a range of study options during Summer & Winter Terms. These six week teaching periods can provide you with the opportunity to undertake for example a single unit of study, a four unit minor or an Electives Plus minor. Consider:

  • Spreading your degree outside the normal semesters, or you can even fast track it.
  • Undertaking a single unit of study which can be counted towards a minor.
  • Enhancing your degree with either a depth or breadth Summer & Winter Term minor.
  • Undertaking one of the Electives Plus minors which arespecifically designed to broaden your career skills and strengthen your employability.
  • Summer & Winter Term single units of study for your personal development, upgrading of your skills, or even repeating that failed unit of study.
  • The specialist Options Plus unit, Analysing and Writing English is available for Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) students.
  • Units available on-line through Open Universities Australia (OUA)*.
  • Study Tour units of study. For example, consider the units (four weeks duration in winter) at the amazing destination of Kuching, Malaysia. It’s the home of Swinburne's Sarawak campus.

Some of these options may not be available for your program. For information about the suitability of Summer & Winter studies for your program, contact your enrolling faculty.

* OUA units are normally undertaken over a 12 week period in Summer.