Welcome to the external offering of CBMS101 in Second Semester of 2009. I hope all of you have had a good break after finishing your examinations in First Semester. If you are a new student, welcome to Macquarie University

Please note that the Open Education Centre would have mailed out a package consisting of 6 items to you on July 6. The 6 items are: (1) Unit Outline, (2) Syllabus, (3) Tutorial Schedule, (4) Important Dates, etc, (5) Program for First On-Campus Session, (6) 6 Assignment Folders. If you have not received these items or if any one of them is missing from your package, please enquire at the Open Education Centre and they will be able to help you out.

Note that the first On-Campus Session is on August 15 and August 16. You are now able to download lecture notes and lecture recordings by clicking the 'login' button in the left hand panel. To prepare for the first On-Campus Session, please listen to the lecture recordings and also complete the pre- laboratory work for Experiment 1 and Experiment 2. In this way, during the first On-Campus Session, we will be able to focus on any questions that you may have encountered while g you were doing self-study.

Please do not hesitate to contact me by phone, e-mail or just knock on my door if you have any questions before August 15.

I look forward to meeting you all on August 15.

Danny Wong

Lecturer in-charge