Journalism

Sindy1990

Hi,

I'm due to start Journalism in DCU this month and I'm just wondering does anyone know how many hours a week is the course or is there ever a day off during the week?

Thanks!:D

robby^5

http://www.dcu.ie/timetables/feed.php3?prog=JR&per=1&week1=1&week2=12&hour=1-20&template=student

If I'm not wrong that'd be your timetable.

Choc123

think we might get fri off,20 hours per week supposedly,plenty of free time to relax aka drink:D

Paddy-Megans-Lo

I heard it can be between 12-15 hours per week but not sure..

but i would take the timetables printed on the website as a very basic template because they are known to not be finalized until week two or three of the academic year..


Im starting too

Sindy1990

hah! That's brilliant if that is our timetable! Sweet! Are use looking forward to it?:D

g5fd6ow0hseima

the hours jump a bit in semester 2 if im correct

Sindy1990

Yeah they do I just pulled up semester 2 there. Assuming tutorials don't interfere I should be off on Monday's in semester 2. And the friday in semester 1 with everyone else! are you starting too?

g5fd6ow0hseima

Nope, has friends in 1st year of the course last year.

You cant afford to ignore tutorials, so you have mondays by the sound of it

Sindy1990

No no of course I didn't mean ignore them! I meant as long as they aren't on a Monday I should have that day off!

Rosstafarian

love that timetable if it's accurate...

looking forward to starting now..

Sindy1990

Yeah me too! Even a few changes wouldn't be too drastic! Loving the late mornings of Semester 1! What module did you pick when you registered?

Choc123

Our timetable is savage,weve so much free time and one of our first classes is introduction to politics ha cant wait lecturer is Eoghan O'Malley aka a member of the family that partly formed the PDS ha sorry im just such a politics nerd.
Anyway my names Niall Sindy so nice to meet u and sure ill see ya next week!!!:D

Sindy1990

And I'm not actually Sindy, it's just a name my boyfriend made up, I'm Sinead!Oh and thanks for that little piece of knowledge!

Rosstafarian

I picked Analysing Media Content..It just sounded the best....U?

Sindy1990

Yeah me too! Trying to read the info on the other two made me extremely confused so I went with the one I understood and thought I'd get most use out of! haha! Looks like we may get Monday Semester 2 off then!

Paddy-Megans-Lo

Rosstafarian wrote: »

I picked Analysing Media Content..It just sounded the best....U?

me three
Niall picked stupid law....:eek:

Sindy1990

Paddy-Megans-Lo wrote: »

me three
Niall picked stupid law....:eek:

Uh, let's hope he's not too hungover on Monday's for it then :eek:

Rosstafarian

Sindy1990 wrote: »

Uh, let's hope he's not too hungover on Monday's for it then :eek:

Do all the boardsies doing Journalism know each other?

Sindy1990

No, I know no one
I just assumed from the last post that they knew eachother!

Rosstafarian

Sindy1990 wrote: »

No, I know no one
I just assumed from the last post that they knew eachother!

Looking back it's a fair assumption!

Paddy-Megans-Lo

I know choc, who posted earlier, but only through boards...
Also know of another girl doing it called megan i think, that was from the freshers bebo group....
Where could the other 30 students be? :L:P

Sindy1990

Yup, guess so!

Sindy1990

Paddy-Megans-Lo wrote: »

I know choc, who posted earlier, but only through boards...
Also know of another girl doing it called megan i think, that was from the freshers bebo group....
Where could the other 30 students be? :L:P

Hmmm I propose that we set off on an internet-wide search to find our missing class members! lol!

Oh yeah....meant to join that freshers group on bebo...shall do it now!:pac:

Paddy-Megans-Lo

It's kinda the place to be...
there are a whole 40 odd members...

:pac::pac::pac:


I second that proposal! But there are a hundred million communications students so we will be probably lodged in with them!

Sindy1990

Balls, can't find the group. Saw it the other day! Ah well!

Grrr...we deserve our own identity! How dare they! It was a good idea while it lasted-the whole 3 minutes!

Paddy-Megans-Lo

Sindy1990 wrote: »

Balls, can't find the group. Saw it the other day! Ah well!

Grrr...we deserve our own identity! How dare they! It was a good idea while it lasted-the whole 3 minutes!

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=7714849231
voila!



or shuuuwaaahhh as the magic mobile genie says!

Sindy1990

Thanking you!

The only thing that I can think you are referring to is the Meteor add but I could be, and most probably am, wrong!

Paddy-Megans-Lo

Yep....!! funniest and kinda creepiest ad goin! :L

Sindy1990

Yeah can't argue there!

But the Cadbury's add is defo the best!

cviewarts

All you newbie journos should get involved with the DCU newspaper!
Its called The College View, and is independently run by students.

You'll be hearing more from us in the first couple of weeks hopefully..

Spread the word....







p.s. your timetable could change over the next week, so just keep checkin it. from what i remember the work and hours in 1st and 2nd semester was pretty similar, but 2nd semester was more interesting..

Sindy1990

Sweet, thanks for that!

Paddy-Megans-Lo

cviewarts wrote: »

All you newbie journos should get involved with the DCU newspaper!
Its called The College View, and is independently run by students.

You'll be hearing more from us in the first couple of weeks hopefully..

Spread the word....







p.s. your timetable could change over the next week, so just keep checkin it. from what i remember the work and hours in 1st and 2nd semester was pretty similar, but 2nd semester was more interesting..

Yeah I was wondering how/who to ask to get involved in any college publications..?

Sindy1990

Paddy-Megans-Lo wrote: »

Yeah I was wondering how/who to ask to get involved in any college publications..?

Yeah.....should be good experience for, gulp, real life! Shhhh!:eek:

Paddy-Megans-Lo

Sindy1990 wrote: »

Yeah.....should be good experience for, gulp, real life! Shhhh!:eek:

Yeaaa...I already have experience wit a local paper but nothin major at all
What you wanna do wit journalism after your degree?

Sindy1990

Uh, lucky you. I have no experience just a few connections.

Umm, well, ideally fashion but I'm sure every girl says that and strives for it so no matter how much I'd like it it may not be feasible. Anything really maybe bar sport and politics!

You?

mickmickh

d gud oul journos!!!....i bettr keep on your good sides i dont want ne bad publicity goin out in d papers like!!:D

Paddy-Megans-Lo

Sindy1990 wrote: »

Uh, lucky you. I have no experience just a few connections.

Umm, well, ideally fashion but I'm sure every girl says that and strives for it so no matter how much I'd like it it may not be feasible. Anything really maybe bar sport and politics!

You?

Thats deadly im gonna do fashion journalism afterwards. Like you ever read like Wonderland or POP? POP is my ideal magazine to work for cause its deadly. Dont wanna work for any of that teen vogue and the like crap.
But i kinda wanna get into photography too...
One of my sisters is doing a fashion design course in Limerick and my little sister is gonna do the same in a few years lol ...
so ideally, fashion or music journalism, or both!
Think i'm gonna do a masters in London after DCU

Sindy1990

Yeah music would actually be good too. Or anything in the entertainment industry!
Yeah for a millisecond I toyed with applying to colleges in London but there was far too much here to leave behind and it was more important. I'm happy with my decision not too.

Paddy-Megans-Lo

Sindy1990 wrote: »

Yeah music would actually be good too. Or anything in the entertainment industry!
Yeah for a millisecond I toyed with applying to colleges in London but there was far too much here to leave behind and it was more important. I'm happy with my decision not too.

Yeah, entertainment basically
Except the following useless pieces of paper stapled together:
OK!
Hello!
Heat!


Or anything celeb-crazed and papparazi orientated.
And pretty much anythin with an exclamation mark


.....;)

Sindy1990

Ha yeah I couldn't agree more.
Gossip is fine, if you are writing a gossip column, but not in an entire magazine.
Vogue wouldn't be bad! ha, here's hoping!!!!

Paddy-Megans-Lo

Sindy1990 wrote: »

Ha yeah I couldn't agree more.
Gossip is fine, if you are writing a gossip column, but not in an entire magazine.
Vogue wouldn't be bad! ha, here's hoping!!!!

Yeah i'd love to work for a really top class magazine like that, even if i would end up havin no life..
*did u see the devil wears prada? lol*
Im just afraid i'll end up working for an ok! knock off or something....

...scary....

Sindy1990

Yeah but sure we can cross that bridge when we come to it! lol!
Havn't even started yet and we're already stressing about the future!lol!
Our 2nd orientation day is quite long aint it.

Paddy-Megans-Lo

Yeah i was just lookin at that earlier on actually!! The wednesday is grand like, off at 1pm or so!

Thursday, Its a jam packed full day, but we get student card and meet tutors and stuff so im sure it will be grand! Hopefully get to know the other journo's well
You commuting? I gotta commute from drogheda all year

Rosstafarian

It's sport journalism for me hopefully.... I love music too much to make it my work..don't know if that makes sense.. I find it easy to talk about sport so I think I'd enjoy it....

It's a pretty broad area too....plenty work i hope...:o

Sindy1990

yeah well off earlier on the wednesday if we don't hang around for lunch.
Nope I live in Clontarf, about a 40 minute bus journey away on a bad day. 20 on a good.
You poor thing. I know a girl from Drogheda who's going to UCD but she moved down here.

Sindy1990

Rosstafarian wrote: »

It's sport journalism for me hopefully.... I love music too much to make it my work..don't know if that makes sense.. I find it easy to talk about sport so I think I'd enjoy it....

It's a pretty broad area too....plenty work i hope...:o

Yeah that makes sense. I love fashion and everything that it encompasses but I think that with music you would have to be quite broadminded and couldn't just enjoy something you wanted to enjoy for the sake of it whereas with fashion writing it dosn't require the same openmindedness as music does since the clothes are there in front of you and nobody can dispute what you say so long as it's obviously the truth!

Rosstafarian

Sindy1990 wrote: »

Yeah that makes sense. I love fashion and everything that it encompasses but I think that with music you would have to be quite broadminded and couldn't just enjoy something you wanted to enjoy for the sake of it whereas with fashion writing it dosn't require the same openmindedness as music does since the clothes are there in front of you and nobody can dispute what you say so long as it's obviously the truth!

Fair point... I haven't ruled out Music journalism completely though...I just don't think I would pursue it right away.... But if an opportunity arose....I would totally take it... As would anyone I guess.

Ye living in Larkfield yes?

Sindy1990

What's Larkfield?

Rosstafarian

Sorry don't mind me I'm an idiot I hadn't read ye're other posts when I said that....Larkfield is On-Campus accommodation but as I just found out you are both commuters...:rolleyes:

Sindy1990

Yup! Luckily I'm nowhere near as far as Drogheda! Where are you from?

Rosstafarian

Lismore, Co. Waterford.....I'll be a long way from home but I'll live...:)