Arts in Nuig??

english4490

I'm planning on doing Corporate law but with the amount of studyin i am doing i might want to have a back up, i.e. Arts! i'd be doing legal science and probably economics, but which subjects in arts are worth the paper they are wrote on??? thanks! any info please!

-Quinn-09-

thats weird man im thinkin the exact same but if i get arts not corporate law i might dopsycology yet im not sure.........how do you think yul get on????

english4490

-Quinn-09- wrote: »

thats weird man im thinkin the exact same but if i get arts not corporate law i might dopsycology yet im not sure.........how do you think yul get on????

haha i could imagine half the legal csience class is off people who didn get law! ah a year ago i'd have say 500 would have been achievable! but after doing TY i have stopped workin completely! and then i am doing subjects i have no interest in and hate... i.e. physics!!! if i start workin now i would be hoping for 440/450ish.... i got 6 a's and 4 b's in the JC i know its no comparision but i have just stopped working completely! if i fail the pre's in 2 weeks it might jumpstart me!!

Lockstep

english4490 wrote: »

haha i could imagine half the legal csience class is off people who didn get law!

Quite the claim to make.
Most of the class is made up of people who have an interest in law but aren't sure if it's for them. Mixing it with an arts degree gives them much more leeway

english4490

kickoutthejams wrote: »

Quite the claim to make.
Most of the class is made up of people who have an interest in law but aren't sure if it's for them. Mixing it with an arts degree gives them much more leeway

i was not trying to insult arts by any means or lookin down at it! i could very well be an arts student come september! but thats not very clear by the way i put it down sorry! do you do legal science yourself? it yes, whats it like?????

Brooke01

Is it a good idea doing economics now?? After all their wage had descend largely

english4490

Brooke01 wrote: »

Is it a good idea doing economics now?? After all their wage had descend largely

Dont say that i want to do economics!!!

Lockstep

english4490 wrote: »

i was not trying to insult arts by any means or lookin down at it! i could very well be an arts student come september! but thats not very clear by the way i put it down sorry! do you do legal science yourself? it yes, whats it like?????

Legal science is great in that it's far more flexible than law. If (like me) you find the law very interesting but have no interest in becoming a lawyer, it's great as can mix it with other subjects. Even if you don't like it, you can drop it at the end of first year and continue on with two other subjects.

It also acts as a back door into law, so if your unsure whether or not you want to do law, you can do this leaving you with more options in the future.

english4490

kickoutthejams wrote: »

Legal science is great in that it's far more flexible than law. If (like me) you find the law very interesting but have no interest in becoming a lawyer, it's great as can mix it with other subjects. Even if you don't like it, you can drop it at the end of first year and continue on with two other subjects.

It also acts as a back door into law, so if your unsure whether or not you want to do law, you can do this leaving you with more options in the future.

yes thats me, like how do you really know if you will like law and commit yourself to a fairly narrow course of study, thats why i like the sounds of corp law and legal science! but then again how do we know if we will like anything till we try it!:cool::P

leninbenjamin

Brooke01 wrote: »

Is it a good idea doing economics now?? After all their wage had descend largely

what kind of idiotic statement is that?

first off what area is it that interests you? economists don't all work for investment banks and gamble other people's money. there are state jobs, academic jobs, journalistic jobs, managerial jobs among plenty other things, to be had out of economics... if you think economics is for you, first you have to find your niche. then you worry about the availability of jobs.

second, you're arts degree is going to be three years. Arts is great and all for the variety of subjects you can choose from, but the downside is you aren't as well schooled up on the subject as someone who has done a pure degree in this sh*t. so factor in another year or two doing a masters before you're up to scratch for the workforce. that's about 4 to 6 years down the line... and you care about what they are making today? sh*t...

there's never a good time, or a bad time to do anything. only bad advice. choose what suits your aptitudes and more importantly, what stimulates and motivates you. that's how you get a decent job out of anything.

now, onto arts itself: it's great, if you were like me not entirely sure what is was you wanted to do with the rest of your life. even the content you will cover within the subjects is much broader in scope than more specific degrees, but as mentioned above this results in a tradeoff of not really being qualified for anything when you get that degree. Going down the Arts route pretty much guarantess you're going to have to do a masters at some stage. something to bear in mind.

i did Economics and IT, it was great. I'm now doing a masters in an area i like and i'm happy out.

in terms of Economics though, NUIG has some very obvious weaknesses. That's the math side of things. Frankly, they don't even bother to try and teach it properly. You can get by economics in NUIG without having decent math skills, but at the same time, if you want to understand it fully and specialize in it further you will really need those Maths down the road.

So i would really recommend that anyone who's interested in doing Economics give serious though to do doing a B.A. in Economics and Maths. Anyway, if you've a Math degree you can pretty much go anywhere you want anyway, mathematicians are always in short supply. i know of at least one person who did this for their degree and they're doing a masters in cambridge at the mo, it opens up a lot of doors, much more than doing something like financial maths which is much more narrow in scope from what i've heard about the course.

-Quinn-09-

english4490 wrote: »

haha i could imagine half the legal csience class is off people who didn get law! ah a year ago i'd have say 500 would have been achievable! but after doing TY i have stopped workin completely! and then i am doing subjects i have no interest in and hate... i.e. physics!!! if i start workin now i would be hoping for 440/450ish.... i got 6 a's and 4 b's in the JC i know its no comparision but i have just stopped working completely! if i fail the pre's in 2 weeks it might jumpstart me!!

im the same im repeating though i did nothing for 2 years and im payin for it now:(