Arts in Galway

vale

Hi I am considering doing arts in NUIG next year. I would take History,French, Soc/Pol and Classic Civilisation/Irish/Beginner German

Iwould then drop Soc/Pol and whatever 4th subject.

What do you think?

Lockstep

I'm doing history,legal science, Soc and Pol and archaelology.

I was planning on doing Classical Civilization but the course was based around Greek and Roman art and literature. If your'e hoping on doing Roman armies and stuff be careful.

Soc and Pol is great but attracts a lot of people who just want an easy fourth subject, this means the classes this year are horribly overcrowded with people sitting on the floor.

History is grand, we're doing Irish history and the first world war this year and we can specialize next year,I'm planning on Medieval Europe.

Nice choices

Traditio

History is worth keeping but tough going depending on your 2nd subject. It has plenty of good options. Good subject choices there you picked. I dropped Philosophy and History after 1st year though. I wouldn't be gone on Soc/Pol.

spinandscribble

the classics course has changed in the last year. it used to me equally history, lit and art. nowadays its like philosophy of history, lit and art or something. im in the final year of it.

Lockstep

spinandscribble wrote: »

the classics course has changed in the last year. it used to me equally history, lit and art. nowadays its like philosophy of history, lit and art or something. im in the final year of it.

I would have enjoyed that.

But the way the course is set out now just annoys me.

I've met about half a dozen people who are disillusioned as they didn't go to the intraductory lectures and are stuck doing Greek tragedy.

TerrorFirmer

kickoutthejams wrote: »

I'm doing history,legal science, Soc and Pol and archaelology.

I was planning on doing Classical Civilization but the course was based around Greek and Roman art and literature. If your'e hoping on doing Roman armies and stuff be careful.

Soc and Pol is great but attracts a lot of people who just want an easy fourth subject, this means the classes this year are horribly overcrowded with people sitting on the floor.

History is grand, we're doing Irish history and the first world war this year and we can specialize next year,I'm planning on Medieval Europe.

Nice choices

You don't really get to 'specialize'. You just get to choose your own modules, you still have to do several per semester. There's no real difference otherwise. The options aren't overly great and you have to choose at least one from each category of history (classical, medieval, modern, early modern, etc). This year I'm enjoying it, I'm doing Germany in the First World War and American History from the Civil War onwards, but I'm not so keen on the choices next semester.

Psychology is probably the easiest subject so if you want a 4th subject just to do well in, then choose that.

Out of curiosity, I don't get why people choose subjects like Classics and say, French for 2nd year. I know someone doing French and Soc&Pol - Where are the career prospects in that? I'm doing History and English and hoping to do the h dip...

leninbenjamin

HavoK wrote: »

Out of curiosity, I don't get why people choose subjects like Classics and say, French for 2nd year. I know someone doing French and Soc&Pol - Where are the career prospects in that? I'm doing History and English and hoping to do the h dip...

career prospects.... bah... you do what ya wanna do and then see what happens. i'd never pick something just for employments sake. seen to many people i know do that and end up regretting it. if you like it enough and commit to it enough you can make the employment happen regardless of what sector...

funny enough though i picked economics and IT and have everybody telling me "ooh that's a great degree"... is it? i couldn't give a shet, they were the subjects i enjoyed most. so much so, tat now in my final year i can't decide which one to pursue next year.

Toto Wolfcastle

HavoK wrote: »

You don't really get to 'specialize'. You just get to choose your own modules, you still have to do several per semester. There's no real difference otherwise. The options aren't overly great and you have to choose at least one from each category of history (classical, medieval, modern, early modern, etc). This year I'm enjoying it, I'm doing Germany in the First World War and American History from the Civil War onwards, but I'm not so keen on the choices next semester.

Psychology is probably the easiest subject so if you want a 4th subject just to do well in, then choose that.

Out of curiosity, I don't get why people choose subjects like Classics and say, French for 2nd year. I know someone doing French and Soc&Pol - Where are the career prospects in that? I'm doing History and English and hoping to do the h dip...

French and Soc&Pol = hdip (PGDE) in French and CSPE!!

Morf

Would german, spanish, italian and one of either social and political studies or psychology be complete madness to try and get through for the year? Can you give me an idea of workloads please?

leninbenjamin

Morf wrote: »

Would german, spanish, italian and one of either social and political studies or psychology be complete madness to try and get through for the year? Can you give me an idea of workloads please?

Only one of them that i did was Psychology (and only in first year). workload was very easy. do an assignment now and then which wont take much more than a few hours to complete then a bit of time learning some definitions (day or two) for the exam and yer sorted. it's a very different ballgame after first year though from what i hear.

tbh the workload isn't huge for any subject in first year, in fact its negligable. however if you were learning those three languages from scratch then you might have to do a fair bit....