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Anyone doing Business Studies?
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29-06-2010 1:25pm#1
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Just wondering if anyone here is studying Business Studies at DCU?
- What is first year like?
- Is Economics mostly Micro or Macro or 50/50? What topics are covered in semester one and two (e.g. Micro only in semester one, Macro only in semester two)
- Is Accountancy mostly Management or Financial or 50/50? What topics are covered in semester one and two (e.g. Management only in semester one, Financial only in semester two)
- What are the main topics covered in Maths?
- How difficult is it begining a new language?
- How many hours of lecturers & tutorials per week?
- What is the most difficult module(s)?
- Any other relevant info or tips appreciated!
Hoping to do this course too so any info from current students would be greatly appreciated
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I've just finished first year in this course, and have to say I really enjoyed it. There's a wide range of modules, including Marketing, Law and Psychology, and I really loved the social aspect of this course. Even though it's quite a big one (and you are mixed with other courses for some lectures) it was really good.
Yes, Economics is split in halves, Micro in Semester One and Macro in Semester Two. The same with Accounting, Financial accounting was done in Semester One, and Management Accounting in Semester Two. Maths, I found, was linked to some things I had done for my Leaving, Differentiation and so on.. wasn't one of my favourite modules so maybe I'm not the best to be giving advice on that! I didn't do a language, and instead chose to do the other modules that we could do...Communications and Skills for Skills, both pretty handy. There was about 15 hours of lectures a week, which was really good.
The most important modules would probably be Accounting and Economics, because they're both year long, and aren't examined until May, although there was aspects of Continuous Assessment for both of them. Maybe people say that Business is a course that you go into because you don't really know what you want to do, but this was the course that I wanted all along, and I really enjoyed first year in it. Hope that helps a bit 0 -
biscuitcake wrote: »I've just finished first year in this course, and have to say I really enjoyed it. There's a wide range of modules, including Marketing, Law and Psychology, and I really loved the social aspect of this course. Even though it's quite a big one (and you are mixed with other courses for some lectures) it was really good.
Yes, Economics is split in halves, Micro in Semester One and Macro in Semester Two. The same with Accounting, Financial accounting was done in Semester One, and Management Accounting in Semester Two. Maths, I found, was linked to some things I had done for my Leaving, Differentiation and so on.. wasn't one of my favourite modules so maybe I'm not the best to be giving advice on that! I didn't do a language, and instead chose to do the other modules that we could do...Communications and Skills for Skills, both pretty handy. There was about 15 hours of lectures a week, which was really good.
The most important modules would probably be Accounting and Economics, because they're both year long, and aren't examined until May, although there was aspects of Continuous Assessment for both of them. Maybe people say that Business is a course that you go into because you don't really know what you want to do, but this was the course that I wanted all along, and I really enjoyed first year in it. Hope that helps a bit
Thanks Biscuitcake! Much appreciated. It must be a bit of a pain having no Economics & Accounting exams in January and instead being examined in May?0 -
biscuitcake wrote: »I've just finished first year in this course, and have to say I really enjoyed it. There's a wide range of modules, including Marketing, Law and Psychology, and I really loved the social aspect of this course. Even though it's quite a big one (and you are mixed with other courses for some lectures) it was really good.
Yes, Economics is split in halves, Micro in Semester One and Macro in Semester Two. The same with Accounting, Financial accounting was done in Semester One, and Management Accounting in Semester Two. Maths, I found, was linked to some things I had done for my Leaving, Differentiation and so on.. wasn't one of my favourite modules so maybe I'm not the best to be giving advice on that! I didn't do a language, and instead chose to do the other modules that we could do...Communications and Skills for Skills, both pretty handy. There was about 15 hours of lectures a week, which was really good.
The most important modules would probably be Accounting and Economics, because they're both year long, and aren't examined until May, although there was aspects of Continuous Assessment for both of them. Maybe people say that Business is a course that you go into because you don't really know what you want to do, but this was the course that I wanted all along, and I really enjoyed first year in it. Hope that helps a bit
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Thanks Biscuitcake! Much appreciated. It must be a bit of a pain having no Economics & Accounting exams in January and instead being examined in May?
Yeah, it was pretty annoying not having exams in January for these modules, but if you get your head around it first time around, such as when doing the CA for both semesters, when it comes to exam time in May, the stuff seems to come a bit easier to you. I think the CA for both of these modules was 30% (or 20% for Acc, not too sure) so you find that if you do well in this then doing the exams in May is not so nerve-racking knowing you had a certain percentage under your belt 0 -
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Hi isabell,
All the official info is availible here : http://www.dcu.ie/prospective/deginfo.php?classname=EBG
But as a current student who will be heading into 3rd Year this Sept I rekon that qualifies me to give you a good idea of how it feels on the ground!
This info applies to all of the EB courses at DCU:
Overall this is an EXCELLENT degree, infact these are EXCELLENT DegreeS - as it is a DOUBLE Degree Course, which means you receive 2 Honours Degrees at the end of the 4years.
Course Structure: 4 Years long (college years that is
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Year One is traditional business lecutre based year at DCU doing modules like Economics, Accounting, Marketing, Law which are the same as Business Studies. BUT then you also do subjects related to your Language ie. German/Spanish etc. So there will be roughly 6 hrs related to your language and 9 for business subjects.
Year Two begins up to April with Lectures at DCU which are followed from April to July by a work placement on the INTRA program. (for more info see: http://www.dcu.ie/intra/index.shtml) which is basically a work placement.
The lectures in Year two are like Financial Management, Applied Market Research, Business Statistics etc. and obviously there are Language related classes too as per year one.
Year Three is where you get a chance to go abroad! This is not Erasmus, which is basically a year out in a different university, this is a swap of university. This is where you will earn your second Degree.
You do 1 semester of Classes followed by another work placement form Feb - Aug.
Year Four can also be abroad. There is an option to come back to DCU for year four or stay at your respective country, where you will finish out your final year.
Overall this is an excellent course of study. It covers the business degree and more! it is entertaining, challenging but very enjoyable. You will meet new people and create contacts all over the world. ( which is always nice when you are looking for a place to holiday!) You dont have to be of a fluent level of language to do this course (leaving cert HC3)
I couldnt recommend it more highly!
Any Qs drop me a post!
Cheers for listening!
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