Arts (Omnibus Entry)?

stainluss

Im considering doing this. It is only around 340/350 points and you can do subjects, which, on there own are around 480(law) and 515(psycology). Why is this? Are you not taught as broadly on each subject or something?thanks:D

tangerinepuppet

The points are lower because supply outstrips demand.

The Arts course is always going to be a foundation for further study (worth very little without a postgrad), but it's a great option if you're not sure which subject you want to specialise in. You get to study four (equally-weighted) subjects in first year, then narrow it down to two for second and third years. If you were to keep psychology on, it would be your only subject in your second and third years, and you'd need to do very well in first year exams to get into the class for a single honours psychology degree. For Law, you would do Legal Studies with another subject, followed by a postgrad such as the LLB.

It's a great course in a great city, and when people go their separate ways after first year you will be left with a cool and motley group of friends with very different interests (at least that's the best thing I took away from my omnibus entry Arts degree!). I thoroughly enjoyed it both socially and academically.

leninbenjamin

stainluss wrote: »

Im considering doing this. It is only around 340/350 points and you can do subjects, which, on there own are around 480(law) and 515(psycology). Why is this? Are you not taught as broadly on each subject or something?thanks:D

actually it's the opposite. you're given a broad overview but not taught as in depth as you would on the specialised courses. not saying that this is necessarily a bad thing, it's great for people who only have a vague idea of what they want to do, but if you know already you're better off doing the specialised courses as going through arts will probably require an extra year of post grad at least to get fully qualified in something.

this also contributes to why the course points are so low, as say law thorugh arts isn't as desireable as a B.CL or B.Corp Law.

tangerinepuppet

leninbenjamin wrote: »

actually it's the opposite. you're given a broad overview but not taught as in depth as you would on the specialised courses.

Fairly sure that's what the OP meant in his first post.

english4490

are economics and legal science good subjects?? i love econ in school and want to do corp law or arts including the above two!:D

leninbenjamin

english4490 wrote: »

are economics and legal science good subjects?? i love econ in school and want to do corp law or arts including the above two!:D

economics is pretty alright. in final year you have loads of options available to you so you can specialize in whatever area you want, the downside obviously is that these aren't taught at in depth a level and it isn't the most challenging of subjects to do.

dunno about legal science, but i've plenty of friends who did it and have moved onto the LLB and seemed pretty happy with it.

if you're thinking of combining the two though to practice corporate law, the B.Corp Law is the way to go though, legal science is a broad general law course and wouldn't allow you a huge amount of opportunities to specialise in those law specific areas.

english4490

leninbenjamin wrote: »

economics is pretty alright. in final year you have loads of options available to you so you can specialize in whatever area you want, the downside obviously is that these aren't taught at in depth a level and it isn't the most challenging of subjects to do.

dunno about legal science, but i've plenty of friends who did it and have moved onto the LLB and seemed pretty happy with it.

if you're thinking of combining the two though to practice corporate law, the B.Corp Law is the way to go though, legal science is a broad general law course and wouldn't allow you a huge amount of opportunities to specialise in those law specific areas.

ya corp law is the way i want to go but i will probably put arts done no 2 in case! if you were really into economics would you say do arts and econ and whatever else or would you say do commerce and specialise in 3rd year??

leninbenjamin

english4490 wrote: »

ya corp law is the way i want to go but i will probably put arts done no 2 in case! if you were really into economics would you say do arts and econ and whatever else or would you say do commerce and specialise in 3rd year??

if you're really into economics, then commerce is the way to go as you get to take more economic modules than in arts. However, math is crucial to economics and frankly NUIG doesn't make enough effort in this area (in fact they do sweet **** all to bring their students Maths ability to the levels needed for the real world), so i would recommend anyone interested in this area have a good long look at doing a BA with Economics and Maths. (there's also the financial maths course, but i think it's much more specific than doing a BA, but not entirely sure on that as i know no one who did that course).

english4490

leninbenjamin wrote: »

if you're really into economics, then commerce is the way to go as you get to take more economic modules than in arts. However, math is crucial to economics and frankly NUIG doesn't make enough effort in this area (in fact they do sweet **** all to bring their students Maths ability to the levels needed for the real world), so i would recommend anyone interested in this area have a good long look at doing a BA with Economics and Maths. (there's also the financial maths course, but i think it's much more specific than doing a BA, but not entirely sure on that as i know no one who did that course).

ya i have heard that said, how good at mths would you want to be if you were serious about a career in economics?? ive dropped down to pass, but i would be hopin for an A. anything with figures and that i am great, then calculus and geometry and all that im not so good at all...:eek: