Proposed timetable and venue changes for 2013

This page summarizes the timetable and lecture venue changes that are planned for 2013. Please visit it regularly, as adjustments will undoubtedly be needed.

Please send comments to Pat Terry (p.terry@ru.ac.za) as soon as possible.

First release : 5 January 2013
This version : 19 February 2013
Changes since first release will be highlighted in red

19 January 2013 - A number of important changes have taken place in the last few days - to BComF, Industrial Sociology 2, Professional Communication 2, Maths 1C Tutorials. Please make sure you have noted them (see below).

As always, changes to class times from 2012 have been kept to a minimum. However, this year will see some rather large changes to curricula in Commerce and Pharmacy and these, coupled with uncertainty in predicting numbers in these courses (which are expected to rise dramatically), have called for rather more change than usual.

A further large number of venue changes are proposed. These are mostly predicated by the predicted rises in numbers. Please bear in mind that the pressure on venues is now (in principle) very problematic. Poor lecture attendance "helps" but the fact remains that we are now overbooking venues quite badly in some situations. A study of the allocation tables on the web site will reveal that the bigger venues are very heavily booked, so there is little room for manoeuvre, and in particular the often touted "solution" of "move lectures to the afternoon" might well create more problems than it could ever hope to solve!

2013/02/17 After much cogitation, I would like the following venue changes to come into effect as soon as possible, preferably on Tuesday 19th February. I have updated the web sites in anticipation that folk will accept that this is about as good as we are ever likely to get with this year's numbers.

Accounting 201/202 (167) to move from Chemistry Major (320) to Zoo Major (276)
Anthropology 1 (260) to move from GLT (249) to Chemistry Major (320)
Anthropology 2 (123) to move from Sociology B (52) to Psychology Major (128)
Chemistry 301/302 (49) to move from Zoology Minor 02 (96) to Sociology B (52)
Classics 1 (202) to move from Arts Major (178) to Eden Grove Red (350)
Computer Science 112 (355) - change of one alternative from the 1-2-3-4-5 slot to the 3-4-5-1-2 slot (this still balances nicely).
Venue for both slots moved to Eden Grove Red (was one slot only in Barratt 2-3-4-5 1 pending adjustment)
Earth Science 101 (184) to move from GLT (249) to Chemistry Major (350)
Geography 102 (166) to move from GLT (249) to Chemistry Major (350)
*** EAR/GOG share a common slot with one option of ECO 2, so must move together
Economics 201/202 ((385 div 2 = 192) to move from Chemistry Major (320) to GLT (249)
English 1 (274) to move from Zoology Major (276) to Chemistry Major (320)
Management 3 (170) to move from Zoo Major (266) to Eden Grove Blue (170)
Philosophy 2 (84) to move from Psychology Major (128) to Zoology Minor 02 (96)
Prof Com Sem 2 (146) to move from Eden Grove Red (350) to Arts Major (178)
Psychology 2 (189) to move from Chemistry Minor (173) to Zoology Major (266)
Org Psychology 2 (180) to move from Economics B (160 to Chemistry Minor (173)
*** this seems to be the only one I cannot get to fit (sorry) - but only 7 short
Statistics 101/102 (120) to move from Eden Grove Blue (170) to Economics B (160)
Zoology 101 (131) to move from Eden Grove Red (350) to Barratt 1 (400)
*** this is over generous, but occasionally one has to use a much larger venue than is needed.
It makes a welcome change from the many other cases where the venues are nearly 100% full!

PC 240 Pharmacy Admin and Practice 2 (116) was assigned to Chemistry Minor (173) in periods * - * - 2 - 3 - 4
PC 211 Pharm Biochemistry 2 (155) was assigned to Psycho Major in periods 4 - * - * - 2 - 3
2013/02/19 Clearly this was unsatisfactory, so it wass proposed that the classes are swapped. But this has turned out to be unworkable as so many students taking Pharm Biochem are also taking Pharmaceutics 3. So we revert ot PC 211 in PSY Major and have moved PC 211 to 6 - * - * - * 3

Earlier changes to times and original changes to venues from 2012 are summarized below by department.

Please visit the interactive time timetable checker for 2013
You can see a full timetable as it used to appear in the University Calendar.
In the present age there seems little point in distributing the timetable in any but electronic form, and that web page must be regarded as definitive. It will be kept up to date to reflect changes, in particular any that come about shortly after registration.
Please study the the detailed suggestions for venue allocations

Accounting

Numerous changes have been necessitated to accommodate the BCom Accounting second year curriculum, in particular, as well as a request to provide an extra lecture/tutorial in first year for students with no prior exposure to Accounting, and to work out a way to offer the Ethics module to both the second year and the third year students at the same time for this year only. This has all been achieved, but not without some awkward consequences for Legal Theory 2. When will the University planners come to appreciate that we do not have enough venues that can accommodate 250+ students? It is not as though I have not been alerting them to this for nearly a decade!

Here is the suggested plan for Accounts 1. Lectures are duplicated on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the dawnie on Wednesday is, fortuitously, available for the extra class. Note that ACC 1 does not follow the diagonal pattern properly, but this is partly dictated by a shortage of venues.

   .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
   1                | ACC 1 (Barr 2) | ACC 1X(Barr 2) |                |               |
   |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------|
   2                |                |                |                |               |
   |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------|
   3 ACC 1 (Barr 2) | ACC 1 (Barr 2) |                |                |               |
   |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------|
   4 ACC 1 (Barr 2) |                |                |                |               |
   |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------|
   5                |                | ACC 1 (Barr 2) |                |               |
   |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------|
   6                |                | ACC 1 (Barr 2) |                |               |
   |===================================================================================|
   7 ACC 1 Tuts     | ACC 1 Tuts     |                | ACC 1 Tuts     | ACC 1 Tuts    |
   |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------|
   8 ACC 1 Tuts     | ACC 1 Tuts     |                | ACC 1 Tuts     | ACC 1 Tuts    |
   |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------|
   9                |                |                |                |               |
   |----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------|
   0                |                |                |                |               |
   `----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+---------------'
       Monday          Tuesday          Wednesday        Thursday         Friday

Students taking the BCom (Accounting) curriculum are required to take the new course CSC 112 as a prerequisite for taking Information Systems 2 - and the same applies to students who intend to major in Information systems in other BCom degrees as well as the BSc (Inf Sys) degree. These students will be kept very busy - here is one possible first year curriculum for them (fortunately there are other possibilities as well).

It is anticipated that CSC 112 numbers might even rise to the point where those lectures have to be duplicated as well, which will pose another set of problems; we shall have to see. 2013/02/13 It just happened. Venues to be sorted out later!

Note how much more demand is made on the time of these students than is the case with BA students!

   .-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
   1                 | ACC 101 ACC 102 | ACC 1 extra tut | MAN 101 MAN 102 |         CSC 112 |
   |                 | Barr 2  Barr 2  |                 | Barr 2  Barr 2  |         Barr 1  |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
   2         CSC 112 | ECO   tutorial  | ECO 101 ECO 102 | TOF 1   STA 1D  | MAN 101 MAN 102 |
   |         Barr 1  |                 |                 | Eden R  Eden R  | Barr 2  Barr 2  |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
   3 ACC 101 ACC 102 |         CSC 112 |                 | ECO 101 ECO 102 | TOF 1   STA 1D  |
   | Barr 2  Barr 2  |         Barr 1  |                 | Barr 2  Barr 2  | Eden R  Eden R  |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
   4 TOF 1   STA 1D  | MAN 101 MAN 1   |         CSC 112 |                 | ECO 101 ECO 102 |
   | Eden R  Eden R  | Barr 2  Barr 2  |         Barr 1  |                 | Barr 2  Barr 2  |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
   5 ECO 101 ECO 102 | TOF 1   STA 1D  | TOF 1   STA 1D  |         CSC 112 |                 |
   | Barr 2  Barr 2  | Eden R  Eden R  | Eden R  Eden R  |         Barr 1  |                 |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
   6 COL 101 COL 102 | COL 101 COL 102 | ACC 101 ACC 102 | COL 101 COL 102 | COL 101 COL 102 |
   | Barr 2  Barr 2  | Barr 2  Barr 2  | Barr 2  Barr 2  | Barr 2  Barr 2  | Barr 2  Barr 2  |
   |========================================================================================-+
   7 ACC 101 ACC 102 |         CSC 112 | MAN 101 MAN 102 | TOF 1   STA 1D  |                 |
   |---- tutorial ---+---------- prac -+---- tutorial ---+--- tutorials ---+-----------------+
   8 ACC 101 ACC 102 |         CSC 112 | COL 101 COL 102 | TOF 1   STA 1D  |                 |
   |-----------------+-----------prac--+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
   9                 |         CSC 112 |                 |                 |                 |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
   0                 |                 |                 |                 |                 |
   `-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
       Monday            Tuesday           Wednesday         Thursday          Friday

In the second year of the BCom (Accounting) curriculum, Commercial Law 2 falls away. In its place, students are required to take the two first semester courses "Introduction to Taxation" (ACC 211, 3 lectures per week) and "Professional Communication for Accountants" (PRFC2A, 2 lectures per week). In the second semester students are required to take an 8 week module of "Introduction to Auditing" followed by a five week module of "Ethics for Accountants". This latter course takes the place ot Ethics 101, which was formerly given at the third year level, and the timetable has been squeezed to allow the course to be given to both second and third year streams at the same time - though of course this requires a very large venue. Here is one possible way of accommodating the requirements for a second year student properly registered for this curriculum - bad luck if they are repeating first year courses at the same time.


   .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
   1 ECO 202 ECO 201 |                 | INF 201 INF 203 | ACC 211         |                 |
   | Chem Ma Chem Ma |                 | Arts Ma Arts Ma | EdenR           |                 |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   2 ACC 201 ACC 202 | ECO 202 ECO 201 | PRFCA           | INF 201 INF 203 |         ACC 212 |
   | Chem Ma Chem Ma | Chem Ma Chem Ma | Tutorial        | Arts Ma Arts Ma |         Barr 1  |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   3 ACC 211 ACC 212 | ACC 201 ACC 202 | ECO 202 ECO 201 | ACC 211         | INF 201 INF 203 |
   | EdenR   Barr 1  | Chem Ma Chem Ma | Chem Ma Chem Ma | Eden R          | Arts Ma Arts Ma |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   4 INF 201 INF 203 | PRFC2A  ACC 212 | ACC 201 ACC 202 | ECO 202 ECO 201 | ECO 202 ECO 201 |
   | Arts Ma Arts Ma | EdenR   Barr 1  | Chem Ma Chem Ma | Chem Ma Chem Ma |   Tutorial      |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   5 PRFCA           | INF 201 INF 203 | ACC 211 ACC 212 | ACC 201 ACC 202 | PRFC2A          |
   | Tutorial        | Arts Ma Arts Ma | EdenR   Barr 1  | Chem Ma Chem Ma | EdenR           |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   6                 |                 |                 |                 |                 |
   |                 |                 |                 |                 |                 |
   |=========================================================================================|
   7 INF 201 INF 203 |                 |                 |                 | ACC 211         |
   |--- practical ---+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-tutorial--------|
   8 INF 201 INF 203 | ACC 201 ACC 202 |                 |                 | ACC 211         |
   |-----------------+--- tutorial ----+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   9 INF 201 INF 203 | ACC 201 ACC 202 |                 |                 |                 |
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   0                 |                 |                 |                 |                 |
   `-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------'
       Monday            Tuesday           Wednesday         Thursday          Friday

Although Commercial Law 202 has fallen away, COL 201 will still be offered as a filler for students who need a single semester credit course to make up their credit total. It is not anticipated that there will be a huge demand.

For the third year of the BCom (Accounting) curriculum the proposal is as follows. Note that this allows for the simultaneous delivery of Ethics (ETHX) to these students and to the second years under the guise of ACC 212. The other subjects have had to be fitted in as best they can. Fortuitously there is a free slot in which a few defaulters in INF 203 and ECO 2 might be able to fit - though how one can expect any (already weak) student to succeed under such a load is beyond your author!

This proposal takes into account a request from Accounting to schedule ACC 3 lectures on Tuesday through Friday, as well as a request to hold ACC 3 tutorial on only two afternoons.

   .---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
   1 AUD 1    (Eden R) |                   | INF 203 and ECO 2 | MAF 1    (GLT)    | TAX 1    (GLT)    |
   |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
   2                   | ACC 3    (Barr 1) | MAF 1    (GLT)    | INF 203 and ECO 2 | ETHX(S2) (Barr 1) |
   |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
   3 ETHX(S2) (Barr 1) |                   | ACC 3    (Barr 1) | TAX 1    (GLT)    | INF 203 and ECO 2 |
   |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
   4 INF 203 and ECO 2 | ETHX(S2) (Barr 1) |                   | ACC 3    (Barr 1) | MAF 1    (GLT)    |
   |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
   5 TAX 1    (GLT)    | INF 203 and ECO 2 | ETHX(S2) (Barr 1) |                   | ACC 3    (Barr 1) |
   |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
   6 MAF 1    (GLT)    | TAX 1    (GLT)    | AUD 1    (Zoo Ma) | AUD 1    (Zoo Ma) | AUD 1    (Zoo Ma) |
   |===================================================================================================|
   7 TAX tuts (Che Ma) | TAX tuts (Che Ma) | MAF tuts (Barr 2) | ACC tuts (Barr 2) | TAX tuts (Che Ma) |
   |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+----  or  ---------|
   8 TAX tuts (Che Ma  | TAX tuts (Che Ma) | MAF tuts (Barr 2) | ACC tuts (Barr 2) | ACC tuts (Barr 2) |
   |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
   9                   |                   |                   |                   |                   |
   |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
   0                   |                   |                   |                   |                   |
   `-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------'
       Monday             Tuesday             Wednesday           Thursday            Friday

Anthropology

No changes to lecture times.

Anthropology 2 venue changed to Sociology B.

Biochemistry, Microbiology

No changes to lecture times.

2013/01/11 - All lectures now held in Zoo Minor 01.

Botany

No changes to lecture times.

Botany 102 venue changed to Psy Major (this may have to change after numbers are known)

Chemistry

No changes to lecture times.

Chemistry 1 lectures moved to Barratt 1.

Chemistry 1R lectures moved to Economics B.

Chinese Studies

No changes in first and third year.

Chinese Studies 2 reduced to single stream 4 - 5 - 1 - 2 - 3 in Geography G10

Classics (formerly Classical Civilisation)

No changes to lecture times and venues. Classics 2 and 3 share a common slot in Steve Biko Union room 1, with a syllabus that rotates from year to year. Hopefully failures never occur in third year!

Commercial Law

No changes to Commercial Law 101 and 102.

Commercial Law 101 moved to Psychology Major.

Commercial Law 202 no longer offered.

Computer Science

Computer Science 101, 102 venue changed to Eden Grove Blue in slot 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5.

Computer Science 101 offered only once per day.

Computer Science 1L1 moved to Barratt 1.

Computer Science 1L2 no longer offered. Instead, the new course Computer Science 112 is to be offered (and becomes compulsory for students intending to major in Information Systems). This course will be offered in Barratt 1 in periods 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 1 if numbers remain below 400. If not, we shall have to offer lectures twice a day, but will face that hurdle when numbers are known (or are more easily predictable).

Drama

No changes to lecture times or venues for Drama 2 and 3

2013/01/19 - Drama 1 changed from * - 2 - 3 - 4 - * to * - 2 - 3 - * - 5 to eliminate clash with ASP 1.

Earth Science 101

No changes to lecture times or venues.

Economics

No changes to lecture times or venues.

English

No changes to lecture times.

English 1 to move to Zoology Major, provided numbers in CSC 112 remain low enough.

English Language and Linguistics

No changes to Linguistics times.

ELN 3 venue changed to Sociology B.

2013/01/19 - Changes to Professional Communication -

Semester 1: (Accounting curriculum) Lectures now Tuesday 4 and Friday 5.

Semester 2: (Other Commerce students) Lectures now Tuesday 7 and Friday 3.

Both semesters: Tutorials on Monday or Wednesday.

Environmental Science

No changes to lecture times.

Venues remain assigned officially to Botany Major.

Ethnomusicology

No changes to lecture times or venues.
But something may be wrong. In 2012 Ethnomusicology 2 and 3 were combined in some mysterious way. Does this practice remain?

Fine Art

No changes, but if AHV 1 grows much bigger we shall have a serious problem.

French

French 1P venue changed to Geography G11.

French 1 venue changed to Arts Minor.

Geography

No changes to lecture times or venues.

Geology

No changes to lecture times or venues.

German

German Studies 2 changed to 4 - 5 - 1 - 2 in the Department.

German Studies 3 changed to 3 - 4 - 5,6 - 1 - 2 in the Department.

German has traditionally been a subject that has manipulated its timetable once registrations are known. The times given above are suggested by a careful study of the curricula and exam results for students who took German 1 and 2 in 2012, and appear to afford the best starting point for 2013.

Greek

No changes to lecture times or venues. The Acropolis can rest in peace on Wednesday evenings.

History

No changes to lecture times or venues

History 3 have two venues for their two streams: Arts Minor and Geography G11.

Human Kinetics and Ergonomics

No changes to lecture times. All lectures remain in the HKE department.

Changes may be made to practical and tutorial times once numbers are known.

Ichthyology

No changes to lecture times or venues. All lectures remain in the DIFS department.

isiXhosa 2nd language

No changes to lecture times or venues

isiXhosa (Mother Tongue) to design their own timetables as before. This is unsatisfactory, however, and a better solution should be found.

Industrial & Economic Sociology

Please see the later entry for Sociology.

Information Systems

No changes to lecture times or venues. Take note of Computer Science 112 mentioned before.

Introduction to Science Concepts and Methods

The double period tutorials have all been moved to Steve Biko Union room 1, as rquested.

Journalism

No changes to lecture times or venues. Note that Journalism 2 is also allocated the Fine Art lecture room on Monday 2 and Thursday 5, to allow for topic splits.

Journalism 3 venue changed to Chemistry Minor.

2013/01/10 - The timetable for isiXhosa for Journalism has been altered to 7 - 8 - 9 - * - *. This appears to be the only slot in which there is a reasonable way to timetable this course so that it fits with all the most popular combinations with Journalism 2 (and maybe even Journalism 3).

Latin

In Africa Australis nunquam aliquid novi. No changes to lecture times or venues.

Law

Legal Theory 1 times changed back to * - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5. Seems the judicial system does not support early risers.

Legal Theory 2 has become complicated, because of the need to accommodate the very large Ethics course that is to be offered as a once-off simultaneously to to Accounting second and third year students in 2013 (but to the smaller group of second year students only from 2014).

In the first semester the lectures will be offered in the slot 3 - 4 - 5 - * - 2 (no early risers there either) and be given in Barratt 1.
In the second semester, lectures will be offered in the slot * - 4 - 5 - 1 - 2 (sorry).
Lectures on Tuesday 4, Thursday 1 and Friday 2 will be given in Zoology Major and on Wednesday 5 in Eden Grove Blue.

It is anticipated that once some Ethics have been drummed into the third year accountants in 2013, the Legal Theory 2 lectures can be normalised in 2014, as the third year Ethics course will fall away completely.

If numbers in 2013 for Legal Theory 2, Linguistics 1 or Psychology 3 turn out to be very different from those in 2012 this nasty situation will have to be reviewed, of course.

Management

No changes to lecture times or venues for Management 2 and 3.

Management asked for a reassessment of Management 1. This has been offered twice a day, for three lectures a week for some years. Numbers in Management 1 have been "on the cusp" recently - just a little over 400. Nevertheless, given the wide spectrum of curricula which include Management 1 and the anticipated rise in Commerce students in particular, it does not seem that it would be wise to cut back to one stream a week (one cannot take a decision to do so on-the-fly only after registration). Their other request - to explore the possibility of a single stream with four lectures per week - has also been investigated, but a glance at the allocation of classes to Barratt this year makes this impossible.

However, the Management 1 times have been changed with the idea of following the diagonal pattern used for almost all subject timetables and, in particular, to allow for better integration with the BComF Extended Studies program which has been revised to require Management 1 as a compulsory first year component.

Management 1 lectures are to be held in Barratt 2 in the slot(s) * - [4.5] - * - [1,2] - [2,3].

Maths

All Mathematics 1C1 and 1C2 lecture are to be held in Chemistry Major.
It is hoped that this class can be confined to a single tutorial period on Monday 7,8 in the GLT in Semester 1 and Thursday 7,8 in the GLT in Semester 2; we shall have to see after 2013 registrations are completed.

A new single semester course, Mathematics 1S1 is to be held in the first semester in the slot 3 - 4 - 5 - 1 - 2 in Barratt 1. This is a compulsory course for the new BPharm 1 intake, and may be of interest to other students in Science, Commerce and the Humanities. It takes the place of the former second semester course Maths 1P, which is no longer offered. Tutorials will probably need to be offered on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, as it is anticipated that this might be a very large class.

Mathematics and Applied Mathematics 2 lectures are held in Zoology Minor 01 as before.

Mathematics and Applied Mathematics 3 have been reorganised on a modular basis,
Lectures will be held in Physics Upper in periods 5,6 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 and in Physics Lower in periods 3 - 4 - 5,6 - 1 - 2.

Modern Fiction

Times unchanged; all lectures to remain in Arts Major.

Music

No changes to lecture times or venues for Music. Although Music appears on the official timetable it is suspected that they often make ad-hoc changes.

Sound Technology is timetabled internally, but this is unsatisfactory.

Ethnomusicology 2 and 3 share a common slot - are these courses only offered in alternative years as for Classics 2 and 3?

Organisational Psychology

Please see the later entry for Psychology.

Pharmacy

A very large increase in the number of first year students is anticipated, along with a complete revision of the syllabus, which will in time work its way forward (and heaven help us if the number of students in second, third and fourth year increase as dramatically). Furthermore, BPharm 1 is to become very much a "closed shop" so that students who reach the end of their first year and either fail too many courses or wish to change to another degree will not have much of a base on which to build this, as the only complete course might have been Chemistry 1.

The changes for 2013 are summarised in the timetable below, which also shows the venues for lectures. Chemistry, Maths and Cell Biology practicals will be held on as few afternoons as we require as possible.

The Faculty of Pharmacy have intimated that any second semester practicals needed for Anatomy & Physiology will be arranged by and held in the School (possibly on Monday, Thursday, Friday)

Note that five lectures have been reserved for each of these new courses. Unfortunately it appears that the lectures for Foundations of Pharmacy cannot all be held in the same venue, unless class sizes change markedly after registration.

   .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
   1                 | CHE 1  (Barr 1) |                 | MAT 1S (Che Ma) | CEL B  (Barr 1) | Sem 1
   | BCH 1  (Zoo Ma) | CHE 1  (Barr 1) | FND PH (Che Ma) | ANAT 1 (Che Ma) |                 | Sem 2
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   2 CEL B  (Barr 1) |                 | CHE 1  (Barr 1) | CSC 1L (Barr 1) | MAT 1S (Che Ma) | Sem 1
   |                 | BCH 1  (Zoo Ma) | CHE 1  (Barr 1) | FND PH (Barr 1) | ANAT 1 (Che Ma) | Sem 2
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   3 MAT 1S (Che Ma) | CEL B  (Barr 1) |                 | CHE 1  (Barr 1) | CSC 1L (Barr 1) | Sem 1
   | ANAT 1 (Che Ma) |                 | BCH 1  (Zoo Ma) | CHE 1  (Barr 1) | FND PH (Barr 1) | Sem 2
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   4 CSC 1L (Barr 1) | MAT 1S (Che Ma) | CEL B  (Barr 1) |                 | CHE 1  (Barr 1) | Sem 1
   | FND PH (Barr 1) | ANAT 1 (Che Ma) |                 | BCH 1  (Zoo Ma) | CHE 1  (Barr 1) | Sem 2
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   5 CHE 1  (Barr 1) | CSC 1L (Barr 1) | MAT 1S (Che Ma) | CEL B  (Barr 1) |                 | Sem 1
   | CHE 1  (Barr 1) | FND PH (Barr 1) | ANAT 1 (Che Ma) |                 | BCH 1  (Zoo Ma) | Sem 2
   |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   6                 |                 |                 |                 |                 |
   |                 |                 |                 |                 |                 |
   `-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------'
       Monday             Tuesday           Wednesday         Thursday          Friday

No changes to lecture times have been proposed for second, third and fourth years. As mentioned earlier, this will probably be needed from 2014, but maybe that will somebody else's problem. I have been complaining for years about a building policy that sees ever more residences being built, but with no increase in the number of large lecture venues.
2013/01/14 - The Seminar period has been moved from Wednesday 6 to Thursday 6.

Classes in Pharmacy 2 to be held in Chemistry Minor (173 seats) or Psycho Major (128 seats).

All classes in Pharmacy 3 to be held in Geography G11 (114 seats).

Nearly all lectures in Pharmacy 4 to be held in Economics A (118 seats), convenience.
except for the Electives which are assigned to multiple periods in Zoology 109 at the School's

Philosophy

No changes to lecture times or venues.

Physics

No changes to lecture times, but we may have to make venue changes if Physics (and other) class sizes change dramatically.
Physics 2 and 3 are "greedy" (they have more than 5 periods/week) and the extra 6th period in Physics 2 is assigned to Geology C11.

Politics

No changes to lecture times.

Politics 3 moved to Economcs A.

Numbers in Politics 1 have fluctuated quite widely in recent years.
If Politics 1 becomes much larger than can be properly accommodated in one session in Barratt 6 - 7 - 8 - 9
a second slot in 7 - 8 - 9 - 6 - * might have to be introduced, but we shall have to see.

Psychology and Organisational Psychology

Psychology have opted to reduce to 3 lectures per week in all years

Psychology 1 to be held twice a day in Eden Grove Red in * - [2,9] - [3,6] - [4,7] - *.

Psychology 2 and Organisational Psychology 2 appear on the timetable to have 4 periods per week. Three of these occupy the slot 4 - 5 - * - 2 - * and are assigned to Economics B and Chem Minor (to be finalised when relative numbers are known). The fourth period - Wednesday 1 - is assigned to Barratt 1 and is to be used when ORG 2 classes are combined with PSY 2 classes at various times through the year.

Psychology 3 and Organisational Psychology 3 appear on the timetable to have 4 periods per week. Three of these occupy the slot 3 - 4 - * - * - 2 and are assigned to Economics B and Eden Grove Blue (to be finalised when relative numbers are known). The fourth period - Thursday 1 - is assigned to Barratt 1 and is to be used when ORG 3 classes are combined with PSY 3 classes at various times through the year.

Tutorial times for such large classes are always problematic. I propose to try to assign

PSY 1 students to a single period tutorial on one of Friday 7, 8, 9 or 10,
PSY 2 and ORG 2 students to a double period on one of Mon 7 + 8, Mon 9 + 10, Tue 7 + 8, Tue 9 + 10.
PSY 3 and ORG 3 students to a double period on one of Wed 7 + 8, Wed 9 + 10, Thu 7 + 8, Thu 9 + 10.

Sociology and Industrial & Economic Sociology

2013/01/19 - Sociology asked that I explore the possibility of changing the times for Industrial Sociology 2. After much experimentation it appears that this can be done at last, provided that students are counselled carefully to take whichever of Sociology or Industrial Sociology does not class with their other subjects.

Industrial Sociology is now allocated to the slot 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - * .

I am not sure about the arrangements for double period tutorials. I have the idea that INS 2 and SOC 2 combine forces on Friday afternoon. Is this in fact the case, and if so, where have these classes been held?

Statistics

Statistics 1 reduced to a single stream in slot 4 - 5 - 1 - 2 - 3 (both semesters). Tutorials will (provisionally) be held on Tuesday periods 7 + 8 only.

Statistics 101 is no longer a compulsory course for first year BPharm students.

2013/01/19 - Theory of Finance 1 and Statistics 1D changed to [4,5] - [5,1] - [1,2] - [2,3] - [3,4] and moved to Eden Grove Red.

Zoology, Entomology

No changes to lecture times or venues for second and third year courses.

Cell Biology 1 to move to Barratt 1, and Zoology 101 to move to Eden Grove Red, both in slot 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 1.

Extended Studies Programmes

BAF (Humanities): No changes to lecture times.
2013/01/19 - Most venues remain unaltered, but the double period on Friday 5 + 6 is now split between Drama (ANT + JRN) and Sociology A (SOC + POL).
BScF (Science): 2013/01/09 - One small change to times.
Most venues remain unaltered, but the double period tutorals are now, by request, all relocated to Steve Biko Union room 1.
2013/01/09 - The double period tutorial on Thursday has been moved to period 3+4 from 2+3

BComF (Commerce)

A complete redesign of the BComF 1 timetable has taken place. This is a closed shop. All students now take mainstream Management 101 + 102, but four periods have been assigned for extra tutorials on that material.

Accounting, Theory of Finance and Computer Skills allow for the class to be split into two groups. Apart from Management 101/102 and Computer Skills, all classes can be held in Sociology A, including Accounting 1G, which forms part of the BComF 2 curriculum.

2013/01/09 - The extra tutorials in Management and the TOF 1F tutorials for the BComF programme have been relocated to Steve Biko Union 1.

This should become clearer if you study the following timetable: Changed (again) 2013/01/19

   .------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
   1 ACC 1FA          | CSC 1CA         |   MAN 1F tut 2  | MAN 1 lecture 2 |                 |
   |------------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   2          ACC 1FB | CSC 1CA         |         ACC 1FB |   MAN 1F tut 3  | MAN 1A  ACC 1FB |
   |------------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   3                  | TOF 1FA         | ACC 1FA         |         ACC 1FB | MAN 1B  ACC 1FA |
   |------------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   4                  |         TOF 1FB | TOF 1FA         | ACC 1FA         |   MAN 1F tut 4  |
   |------------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   5 TOF 1FA          | Man 1 Lecture 1 |         TOF 1FB | TOF 1FA         |                 |
   |------------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   6          TOF 1FB |   MAN 1F tut 1  |                 |         TOF 1FB |                 |
   |==========================================================================================|
   7 ACC 1G           | ACC 1FA ACC 1FB |         CSC 1CB | TOF 1FA TOF 1FB | CSC 1CA         |
   |------------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   8 ACC 1G           | ACC 1FA ACC 1FB |         CSC 1CB | TOF 1FA TOF 1FB | CSC 1CA         |
   |------------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   9                  |                 |                 |                 |         CSC 1CB |
   |------------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------|
   0                  |                 |                 |                 |         CSC 1CB |
   `------------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------'
       Monday             Tuesday           Wednesday         Thursday          Friday

2013/01/19 - Accounting 1G lectures to be held in slot 4 - 5 - 6 - * - * in Sociology A, with a tutorial on Monday 7 + 8 in the same venue.