Economics-History TSM

Crania

Just wondering does anyone do this TSM combination? How many people in are in the class and stuff like that? I know that they have the lectures with the BESS/History/pure Econ/whatever else but I'm just curious as to how many are actually in the HistEcon class. The website is very scant on the details of the TSMs, like they say about what classes you shall be taking, but they don't mention how many are in the class with you and things like that. They also don't mention how much the points were in previous years apart from 2007, which they were 510. For other courses, you can look back on how the points fluctuated for the last number of years.

Thanks very much.

claire h

CAO will have points for previous years - with TSM it's all under TR001 (or sometimes just listed at the end of the Trinity course list) and it's whichever the higher of your two subjects is (usually history) that gives you the points you need - you're probably looking at 500-515ish.

I don't think History/Economics is a particularly popular combination but maybe it varies from year to year. There are three or four History/Economics types in third year at the moment. But the thing with TSM is that you don't generally get the 'class' vibe with people who are taking the same subjects as you (it's more you're part of two classes), because there's no subject that will just be you lot. (Don't know about economics, but with history you're picking your courses for yourself from the start, so you may not even be in any classes with other History/Economics people.)

Hope that's at least somewhat helpful.

Corruptedmorals

Well I can tell you that the points for 2006 TSM History were 510 but they dropped to 500 in the second round, which they did in 2005 also, I'm pretty certain. I was sitting on the 2nd round points last year- and they didn't drop. Ughh. Anyway, I'm doing Irish which is merged with History of Ireland, so I'm kind of in it. History can be combined with a lot, English and languages would be most common. With HistEcon, I'd say you'd be looking at 10-15 people. BESS obviously has huge JF lectures, History is smaller..there's about 60 in History of Ireland, think Britian and Europe are about the same too.

Also, you might want to look up the Department of History website- the format changed this year. History of Europe is no longer compulsory, and some other changes too.

Time Magazine

I'll ask my History & Economics friend how many are in her class if I remember tomorrow.

europerson

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I'll ask my History & Economics friend how many are in her class if I remember tomorrow.

Time Magazine

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I'll ask my History & Economics friend how many are in her class if I remember tomorrow.

Five.

But up to 400 in her lectures.

Crania

Whoa, that's small.

But thanks very much for finding that out for me Ibid, I appreciate it.

howaya

thank would be a cool combination CoolCiaran. Don't get hung-up on how many people are in your class. If you're interested in the stuff, you'll be spending your time on your own with books, and there's a whole university and city of pals to make without having to rely on classmates. good luck

dan719

Hey Ciaran how are you? How's GCC treating you? Sorry I only just saw this thread, I know a couple of people doing TSM Econ/Hist, it's a tough enough combination, the balancing of reading and essay writing with more maths based work for econ(according to those doing it). It seems a very interesting degree though, in that it is both pure(in terms of not merely practical but cerebral) but eminately employable afterwards. I will warn you though- economics lectures are
extremely boring in first year and very repetitive(too much crossover between econ pol and econ). What ddid you put on your CAO after(I just realised the deadline has passed). Good luck in your mocks btw.

_Bella_

I am interested in doing this course and was wondering if anyone who did it or these subjects in a TSM combination could help me. Firstly I am a bit confused how TSM history works, how many modules do you and are there any mandatory or is it all choice? Then if anyone does this course/ either combination would they recommend it? Thank you in advance for your help!