3rd History (Formerly 2nd History...)

Brimmy

The core class on the Renaissance on Tuesday/Thursdays, whens the first essay due in for and what are the titles if they've been announced? Been out for the last 2 weeks and it's not in my blackboard so I can't even mail the lecturer..

Any help would be mucho appreciated.

Flume

Due week 7. Go to the history office k107 and ask them for the titles.Or else go to the tutors room, they'll have copies of them.Theres a good bit of choice.

Brimmy

Savage cheers. Week 7 is the next week right? As in week of the 22-26?

Pride Fighter

Its rant time. The class Ranaissance to Enlightenment is the biggest joke of a class I have ever been in. It does not even have a f***ing blackboard, the lectures are too early in the morning for the atypical student to attend. I have to get up at 6am just to get in. It does not operate the seminar system employed by the other history modules so you have no idea when essays are due. The delivery of lectures is a bit fast so the lecture notes I take down are incomplete which is not a problem in other courses as the have a blackboard. In the other classes I am in the seminars are taken by the actual lecturers themselves, in this one there is only two seminars take by tutors, so no contact with the lecturers there. Its rubbish, end of rant!!!

Pride Fighter

Brimmy wrote:

Savage cheers. Week 7 is the next week right? As in week of the 22-26?

Friday at 1pm on the 26th of October.

Dave!

Pride Fighter wrote:

Its rant time. The class Ranaissance to Enlightenment is the biggest joke of a class I have ever been in. It does not even have a f***ing blackboard, the lectures are too early in the morning for the atypical student to attend. I have to get up at 6am just to get in. It does not operate the seminar system employed by the other history modules so you have no idea when essays are due. The delivery of lectures is a bit fast so the lecture notes I take down are incomplete which is not a problem in other courses as the have a blackboard. In the other classes I am in the seminars are taken by the actual lecturers themselves, in this one there is only two seminars take by tutors, so no contact with the lecturers there. Its rubbish, end of rant!!!

I agree. I hate it so much! My tutor was quite nice, but you can't exactly cover alot in 2 tutorials, 1 for each essay. Ridiculous.

How do I get my hands on the overheads again?

Also what the f*ck is that lecturer talking about over Blackboard? Intellectual rights or somethin? I know he has law qualifications, but no other lecturers have this problem with Blackboard (although they don't all use it obviously).

Is he just causing a fuss for the sake of it?

Pride Fighter

DaveMcG wrote:

I agree. I hate it so much! My tutor was quite nice, but you can't exactly cover alot in 2 tutorials, 1 for each essay. Ridiculous.

How do I get my hands on the overheads again?

Also what the f*ck is that lecturer talking about over Blackboard? Intellectual rights or somethin? I know he has law qualifications, but no other lecturers have this problem with Blackboard (although they don't all use it obviously).

Is he just causing a fuss for the sake of it?

Yes he is. He is something that rhymes with banker, no need to repeat it.

spaceman1

What will we be covering in Renaissance to Enlightenment seminars? Has anyone here already been to one?

It's strange that there are only two seminars for this course and there is ten for the Age of Mohammed.

Tom65

Does anyone know if the essay titles vary depending on tutor? I missed my first seminar, but can get the titles off a friend. I'm just making sure I don't do the wrong title.

delta_bravo

How much are the essays worth? I heard that they are worth 25% each and i also heard they are 12.5% each and the module outline says essays contribute a total of 20%

Flume

delta_bravo wrote:

How much are the essays worth? I heard that they are worth 25% each and i also heard they are 12.5% each and the module outline says essays contribute a total of 20%

We were told by the tutor that the amoun of words has increased in each but that each is only worth 12.5 %.:(

Dave!

My tutor "assumes" they're worth 25% each but isn't sure.....

This class is a f*cking joke. Ridiculous.

Missed the lecture again today despite getting up at 6.30am :rolleyes:

Ugh

arbeitsscheuer

This thread brings back so many memories. Almost all of them terrible.

Missed the lecture again today despite getting up at 6.30am

Ah, it's nice to see that today's students have to cope with the same magnificent timetabling as in my day... which admittedly was only 2 years ago, but still.

Brimmy

Were there seminars this week or last? I'm assuming you can get the essay titles from the office otherwise I'm completly screwed. The lectures themselves did seem to be a bit of a joke and the lack of blackboard is just retarded, I haven't been able to make it in for the last 2 weeks and because of the lack of blackboard and only 2 tutorials I haven't been able to contact anyone about information, I'd email the lecturer about it but judging from what I saw I guess I'd just get a smarmy prick of an answer.

Pride Fighter

Brimmy wrote:

Were there seminars this week or last? I'm assuming you can get the essay titles from the office otherwise I'm completly screwed. The lectures themselves did seem to be a bit of a joke and the lack of blackboard is just retarded, I haven't been able to make it in for the last 2 weeks and because of the lack of blackboard and only 2 tutorials I haven't been able to contact anyone about information, I'd email the lecturer about it but judging from what I saw I guess I'd just get a smarmy prick of an answer.

They are both this week and last week. Maybe you could drop into one but I have no idea when they are as I have not checked the noticeboard and even then it might not be on it. I could PM yo the essay titles if you want. I would guess they are the same for everyone.

spaceman1

I was in my first seminar today. It was fine. The tutor gave us the titles for both assignments.

Brimmy

Pride Fighter wrote: »

They are both this week and last week. Maybe you could drop into one but I have no idea when they are as I have not checked the noticeboard and even then it might not be on it. I could PM yo the essay titles if you want. I would guess they are the same for everyone.

If you wouldn't mind that'd be quite helpful. My tutorial was for last week at Thursday at 12 I think, if anyone was in that can they also pm me or post the tutors email?

Pride Fighter

I was thinking that maybe all in the class should complain to the history department or the SU education officer. The class is too early. People commuting from inside Dublin can get up at 6am and miss the class due to traffic delays etc and a lot of people in the class commute here from outside Dublin, just think how bad it is for them. This is not normally a problem in other courses as if you miss a class you can just get the notes off blackboard. But hey this class, the core class for 4-500 history students does not have a blackboard. Its a f***ing disgrace.

Het-Field

I remeber doing that course in those bygone days of 2004-2005.

Its a nice course when it comes to the exam. Its just boring as sin to listen to.

Is the Irish Experience 1300-1750 still there. Now that was a nightmare

pretty*monster

Pride Fighter wrote: »

I was thinking that maybe all in the class should complain to the history department or the SU education officer. The class is too early. People commuting from inside Dublin can get up at 6am and miss the class due to traffic delays etc and a lot of people in the class commute here from outside Dublin, just think how bad it is for them. .

I assume your class starts no earlier than 9am. The chance of you getting in changed are roughly 0. 9am classes are unpleasent but that's life.

Pride Fighter wrote: »

This is not normally a problem in other courses as if you miss a class you can just get the notes off blackboard. But hey this class, the core class for 4-500 history students does not have a blackboard. Its a f***ing disgrace.

I don't understand why students feel entitled to have class notes up on blackboard to be honest, neither can I see how not having them up can, with any sense of seriousness, be called a disgrace. In the days before blackboard were all university courses a "****ing disgrace"?

princess-sprkle

Pride Fighter wrote: »

I was thinking that maybe all in the class should complain to the history department or the SU education officer. The class is too early. People commuting from inside Dublin can get up at 6am and miss the class due to traffic delays etc and a lot of people in the class commute here from outside Dublin, just think how bad it is for them. This is not normally a problem in other courses as if you miss a class you can just get the notes off blackboard. But hey this class, the core class for 4-500 history students does not have a blackboard. Its a f***ing disgrace.

ah now! we had the exact same class last year, same time, same lack of blackboard, i had to travel 2 hours to get there! its not gonna be changed especially since next week is week 6& its 9 am, early starts are a fact of life.

the blackboard thing, does he still put photocopies in the history department?
He did this last year, which is essentially the same as blackboard. if he's not doing this, ask him to do so. i'd imagine thats about as much as you could do there.

scalder

A Blackboard - now I get you, I was thinking things had hardly gone that far that UCD didn't have blackboards anymore!

Enjoy it folks, they really, really are the best days of your life...

Dave!

He mentioned a reading week on Thurs... Is that this week? We have no lectures?

Also is that just in his class, or every history class?

Flume

DaveMcG wrote: »

He mentioned a reading week on Thurs... Is that this week? We have no lectures?

Also is that just in his class, or every history class?

All history is off next week.

Dave!

Sweet...... now I don't really have an excuse for not doing my essays

Has anybody else not started the one for Renaissance? AFAIK I have a week... should be alright since there's no lectures. I also have to start the Middle East one, but that one's not due til after, and actually looks interesting, unlike Renaissance

delta_bravo

DaveMcG wrote: »

Sweet...... now I don't really have an excuse for not doing my essays

Has anybody else not started the one for Renaissance? AFAIK I have a week... should be alright since there's no lectures. I also have to start the Middle East one, but that one's not due til after, and actually looks interesting, unlike Renaissance

you have 2 weeks really till renaissance essay is due (end of week 7)
Middle East on is due week nine. Is the title the one about the king crane commission?

Dave!

Ah, cheers.

There's 5 essay titles on Blackboard for ME. King-Crane is probably the one I'll go for (although I'm currently making my way through the NSA document).

Frank Thomas

does anyone know the essay titles and or submission dates for the japan china and korea "asian tiger" elective ?

Flume

Frank Thomas wrote: »

does anyone know the essay titles and or submission dates for the japan china and korea "asian tiger" elective ?

Not due till the 16th november. Between 3000- 5000 words. The titles are too long and i couldnt be arsed typing them out. He left copies of it in k107 though.;)

Frank Thomas

Flume wrote: »

Not due till the 16th november. Between 3000- 5000 words. The titles are too long and i couldnt be arsed typing them out. He left copies of it in k107 though.;)

cheers, il check them out tomorrow then so, 3-5000 words though ! bit excessive. hes a strange fruit though i suppose.

Flume

Frank Thomas wrote: »

cheers, il check them out tomorrow then so, 3-5000 words though ! bit excessive. hes a strange fruit though i suppose.

Wait until you read the handout. He's very specific in what he wants.

spaceman1

Did anyone else get a message on their Blackboard about an essay for the course "Land Religion Identity Ireland'? According to my calendar it doesn't start until semester 2.

Brimmy

spaceman1 wrote: »

Did anyone else get a message on their Blackboard about an essay for the course "Land Religion Identity Ireland'? According to my calendar it doesn't start until semester 2.

Yeah I got it, assuming its just for last years Students and I'm going to ignore it.. hopefully it is!

spaceman1

If it's not, get ready for the loudest profanity you've ever heard.

Brimmy

spaceman1 wrote: »

If it's not, get ready for the loudest profanity you've ever heard.

Heh you're telling me I only found out that folklore essay was for Friday on Monday and had 4 other essays due in first... but that's my own fault I guess. Last thing I need is ANOTHER history essay!

Pride Fighter

Has anyone submitted an essay through blackboard yet? What do I do.

spaceman1

I've only submitted an essay through blackboard for info studies. For that I had to go to the assigments section and it had a link that brought me to an upload page.

Dave!

hey you f*ckers, youre not supposed to have started it yet, never mind finished it

Tom65

Any feel like posting the Renaissance essay topics? Just asking...

Dave!

Martin Luther - a rebel without a cause?

How did Calvin radicalise the Renaissance?

What was the impact of the voyages of discovery on the new world, and the old?

That's off the top of my head, so wait til someone confirms before choosing Good to see someone else lagging behind

spaceman1

This is what I got.

1. Back to the future. Why did the Renaissance embrace ancient Classical culture at the expense of the Medieval?

2. What was the impact of the voyages of exploration and discovery on the Old World and on the New?

3. Martin Luther, a rebel without a cause?

4. In what way did Calvin radicalize the Reformation?

Tom65

DaveMcG wrote: »

Martin Luther - a rebel without a cause?

How did Calvin radicalise the Renaissance?

What was the impact of the voyages of discovery on the new world, and the old?

That's off the top of my head, so wait til someone confirms before choosing Good to see someone else lagging behind

Not so much lagging behind as permanently situated there


Thanks for posting those (also to spaceman). Best get cracking on it tomorrow.

paranoid wreck

anyone doing US foreign policy? how do you upload your essay to blackboard? there is nothing in the assignments page to upload an essay. And what do they mean by one hard copy to the office?

Also how many words for that renaissance to enlightenment essay?

delta_bravo

paranoid wreck wrote: »

anyone doing US foreign policy? how do you upload your essay to blackboard? there is nothing in the assignments page to upload an essay. And what do they mean by one hard copy to the office?

Also how many words for that renaissance to enlightenment essay?

Hard copy - Physical copy

Renaissance essay 2000 words

Pride Fighter

delta_bravo wrote: »

Hard copy - Physical copy

Renaissance essay 2000 words

My tutor told us 1500 words. Ill probably go somewhere in between, that should be ok.

spaceman1

My tutor said 1200-1500. I thought everyone had the same tutor.

delta_bravo

I was told 2000, but 1500 would be accepted but that was the minimum. I had emma lyons as a tutor. Surely they shouldve known the word count. Although im not surprised, this year they have failed to respond to any emails i send the department looking for info. And then the tutors dont even know how much the essay is worth

Tom65

delta_bravo wrote: »

I was told 2000, but 1500 would be accepted but that was the minimum. I had emma lyons as a tutor. Surely they shouldve known the word count. Although im not surprised, this year they have failed to respond to any emails i send the department looking for info. And then the tutors dont even know how much the essay is worth

This is why they should be using Blackboard!


I assume the titles are the same for everyone (regardless of tutor)?

Brimmy

Is Renaissance and US History due in Friday and what times?

delta_bravo

Brimmy wrote: »

Is Renaissance and US History due in Friday and what times?

Yes.Times are unknown, i think 2nd yrs needed them in by 1 last year. but it probably is different

Wilde

Any word on the time yet? it's ridiculous.