Subsidiary Courses
A ‘subsid’ is like a side dish — it counts towards your final belly-full, but it’s not what you chose the restaurant for. So you might be taking maths as your main dish with a side salad of, say, physics, computing, Latin, or whatever.
Many students regard subsids as nothing more than a distraction from the important stuff, but they’re usually a good opportunity to broaden your scope a notch and learn something new — something with, perhaps, more jobability than your main course. A language, for instance, or something vocational.
Not every course at every university, however, offers subsids. And you can’t always pick whatever you want as a side dish. Some universities offer a very limited menu, either because of timetable clashes or because they simply can’t be arsed to give you the choice.
Last updated on: 23 April 2008