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Is doing English & Psychology in the TSM taking on too much?

  • 14-10-2008 9:20pm
    #1
    damienricefan
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    Because I want to do them both and then see which one I prefer. The thing is I know you do both subjects for three years and one in the fourth year but I think doing both those subjects would be a nightmare. They are too different and say if i chose Psychology as my major , I could have English on the side adding to the workload. It just seems a bit annoying that you can't drop one of them after 1st year and do just English or Psychology!!!

    Anyway, I know i could choose the denominated versions of each but i'm afraid I won't like the one I pick and then have nothing to fall back on!

    comments on if you think this is a crazy combination or a challenging rewarding juxtaposing of subjects ! :)


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  • #2
    PurpleFistMixer
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    Well...

    1. If you think doing both of them at the same time would be a nightmare, I would advise against doing English and Psychology TSM.

    2. It's possible that you could start in English/Psychology, and if you made your mind up early enough, switch to either one, provided you got matriculation for doing that subject on its own. Of course, don't count on being able to do this easily/at all.

    3. TSM isn't designed to torture you with having to do 2 concurrent degrees. You'd only be doing half of each course really, so the workload shouldn't be any more than any other course.

    Also, I've a friend in 2nd year Psychology/English TSM, and she seemed to rather enjoy first year. No nervous breakdowns or anything!

    And as far as crazy combinations... well, people do English and Maths, which is pretty damn weird. Psychology almost makes sense with English. : p


  • #3
    Time Magazine
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    Arts' workload is almost never a nightmare.

    You'll be fine.


  • #4
    damienricefan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭damienricefan


    PurpleFistMixer wrote: »
    Well...

    1. If you think doing both of them at the same time would be a nightmare, I would advise against doing English and Psychology TSM.

    2. It's possible that you could start in English/Psychology, and if you made your mind up early enough, switch to either one, provided you got matriculation for doing that subject on its own. Of course, don't count on being able to do this easily/at all.

    3. TSM isn't designed to torture you with having to do 2 concurrent degrees. You'd only be doing half of each course really, so the workload shouldn't be any more than any other course.

    Also, I've a friend in 2nd year Psychology/English TSM, and she seemed to rather enjoy first year. No nervous breakdowns or anything!

    And as far as crazy combinations... well, people do English and Maths, which is pretty damn weird. Psychology almost makes sense with English. : p

    good stuff! now all i need is 555 points ! :D


  • #5
    Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    The Economist wrote: »
    Arts' workload is almost never a nightmare.

    You'll be fine.

    Bitter, neh?


  • #6
    Time Magazine
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    Nope. In final year I only had about 10 contact hours and had more fun than I ever had in my life.* Psychology and English is only about 16 I think.

    *Socially. Final year gave me insomnia, panic attacks and made me throw up whenever I ate. Fun times!


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  • #7
    gaybitch
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    I was talking to a guy in one of my classes who does it. He didn't complain about it being a nightmare, he seemed to like it.


  • #8
    claire h
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    I wouldn't worry too much about the 'too different' angle - none of the courses in TSM are designed to really 'go with' each other. It's a happy accident if they do but generally it's more about taking half your courses in one department and half in another.

    You might get a better 'feel' for one area by taking more courses in it, a la single honors, but generally speaking the material isn't going to overlap and anything you 'need' will be a course open to both single honors and TSM students.

    IMHO English and Maths is a far crazier combination. The one big difference really would be the way in which you're presenting your work: psychology is more report-style (and I think use a different referencing system but that's a minor detail) for a lot of the assignments, whereas in English you're writing up essays. Might be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at, certainly it gives you some variety.

    If you've come from Leaving Cert you've been juggling 6/7 completely different subjects - 2 different disciplines aren't going to be too challenging from that point of view.

    (Except when it comes to Freud, who the English lecturers will revere and worship, and the Psychology lecturers will scoff at. But that's just amusing.)


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