I left school at the end of year 10, aged 15, and am just now finding the time and opportunity (and finances) to pursue a tertiary education. (Basically, I have sweet FA else to do here at the moment.
)I'm studying through Open Univeristies Australia, online, and aiming for a Bachelor of Arts through Macquarie Uni. I think I have decided which "stream" I want to follow,though it's difficult because none seem to offer all of the units I want to cover...which leads me to my question.
Once you have a degree, and you want to do other, extra units, do they actually count for anything?
I don't know if I am expressing myself the right way but what I am getting at is, there are Philosophy, Sociology and Politics units, but more importantly Linguistics units (since that is the field I want to move into), that I really do want to do, but they aren't all covered in the "streams" offered. So if I do them, in addition to those I have to do, for the BA, do I get any kind of recognition for them?
Obviously, I have no understanding of the way these things work, and I know that some of you smaht people would have a much better idea.
