1st year Arts thread

musical.x

thought it'd be nice to set up a little thread for all 1st year arts people to talk and get to know each other
plus if anyone has a problem with their subject maybe someone here will be able to give a hand

i'm thinking of doing psychology,archaeology but stumped on the last two. thinking of maybe history philosophy or geography

how about the rest of you?

Galway_Girl767

musical.x wrote: »

thought it'd be nice to set up a little thread for all 1st year arts people to talk and get to know each other
plus if anyone has a problem with their subject maybe someone here will be able to give a hand

i'm thinking of doing psychology,archaeology but stumped on the last two. thinking of maybe history philosophy or geography

how about the rest of you?

woooo!! im thinking of english geography psycology and undecided about the last one!!

monkeybusness2

im nearly 100% sure i want to pick geog,spanish and psycology:)dont know whether to choose english or maths as my forth.i got a C1 in honours english,just not sure if i feel confident enough 2 choose it as a college subject now:/..im reali excited but dead nervous like theres a 1000 people on the coarse :O

musical.x

monkeybusness2 wrote: »

im nearly 100% sure i want to pick geog,spanish and psycology:)dont know whether to choose english or maths as my forth.i got a C1 in honours english,just not sure if i feel confident enough 2 choose it as a college subject now:/..im reali excited but dead nervous like theres a 1000 people on the coarse :O

oh loads of new psychology friends
a C1 is brilliant! if you like the subject then give it a go. remember the college mark diffrently compaired to the L.C so dont worry about it and we get 2 weeks to try them out so if your not sure then you have time to give it a go

Galway_Girl767

musical.x wrote: »

oh loads of new psychology friends
a C1 is brilliant! if you like the subject then give it a go. remember the college mark diffrently compaired to the L.C so dont worry about it and we get 2 weeks to try them out so if your not sure then you have time to give it a go

that is exactly what im thinking about english too! i got a C1 aswell! im kinda worried it will be really difficult!

monkeybusness2

musical.x wrote: »

oh loads of new psychology friends
a C1 is brilliant! if you like the subject then give it a go. remember the college mark diffrently compaired to the L.C so dont worry about it and we get 2 weeks to try them out so if your not sure then you have time to give it a go

yea i'm guna try out maths and english.i loved english up to the lc year so if i like it in the next 2 weeks il defo pick it ..the other 3 subjects i'm sure i'm guna pick

musical.x

if you liked it then give it a bash like. you'll regret it if you dont
i'm steering clear of the basics eg math,english irish french. after being forced to do them for 6 years i'm looking for something new :P plus i know i'd have more interest in the subjects i listed already.

hokeypokey

English, History, French and maybe IT, Philosophy or Classics...

mmmchoccy

I'm doing English, History, Classics and Celtic Civilization... still kind of torn though... I'd love to do Archaeology... well... I'll see...

Galway_Girl767

mmmchoccy wrote: »

I'm doing English, History, Classics and Celtic Civilization... still kind of torn though... I'd love to do Archaeology... well... I'll see...

you should go to the introductory lectures and see what you like! i know someone who did archaeology last year and said it was really interesting and not what you would expect!

mmmchoccy

Galway_Girl767 wrote: »

you should go to the introductory lectures and see what you like! i know someone who did archaeology last year and said it was really interesting and not what you would expect!

Oooh i know ha. I think those lectures will be my only hope in choosing:p

Galway_Girl767

mmmchoccy wrote: »

Oooh i know ha. I think those lectures will be my only hope in choosing:p

ya thats the exact same way with me! i think im defo gonna do geography and psychology!

WallyGUFC

Economics but havn't a clue what else. Definitely not a language...I'll probably end up doing IT and Legal Science and something else...really havn't a clue!

Vurnon San Benito

English, History, I.T & Archaeology.

Anyone who's finished 1st year Arts in any of those subjects mind telling us what's involved?
English isn't Shakespearian stuff I hope? :pac:

xp90

Poor overenthusiastic 1st years


i pity you

Ms January

monkeybusness2 wrote: »

im nearly 100% sure i want to pick geog,spanish and psycology:)dont know whether to choose english or maths as my forth.i got a C1 in honours english,just not sure if i feel confident enough 2 choose it as a college subject now:/..im reali excited but dead nervous like theres a 1000 people on the coarse :O

I got a c2 in lc and im defo doing english

musical.x

xp90 wrote: »

Poor overenthusiastic 1st years


i pity you

you are not a first year and you clearly have very little to add to this thread.please do not comment again unless you have something helpful to say.

musical.x

Doocey wrote: »

English, History, I.T & Archaeology.

Anyone who's finished 1st year Arts in any of those subjects mind telling us what's involved?
English isn't Shakespearian stuff I hope? :pac:

a mate of mine is doing archaeology (in her last year now) and told me that there is a fair bit of art history stuff in it. so if you have an interest in that it'll be nice to give it a go

Ficheall

musical.x wrote: »

you are not a first year and you clearly have very little to add to this thread.please do not comment again unless you have something helpful to say.

Welcome to the internet.

UrbanSea

When have you to have your subjects chosen by?

brianthebard

musical.x wrote: »

you are not a first year and you clearly have very little to add to this thread.please do not comment again unless you have something helpful to say.

No back seat modding musical.x. Mod.

Vurnon San Benito

Second that, when do we actually have to choose our subjects by?

musical.x

we have like 2 weeks to try out the subjects i think. then you have to pick the four that you would like to do. they have some information on the website for each subject.might be worth a glance.

Da Shins Kelly

English, Spanish, Philosophy, Sociology and Politics.

Lockstep

I did history, legal science, sociology/politics and archaeology in 1st year.
Kept on history and legal science.


Can offer advice on any of these subjects if anyone needs.

musical.x

kickoutthejams wrote: »

I did history, legal science, sociology/politics and archaeology in 1st year.
Kept on history and legal science.


Can offer advice on any of these subjects if anyone needs.

oh great thanks. what was history like for first year?

Lockstep

History was brilliant, by far my favourite subject.

First semester you do War and Society in the Age of Revolutions; the United Irishmen 1798 Rebellion with Niall Ó Ciosáin and Europe 1789-1815 (French Revolution and Napoleon) with Caitríona Clear.
You do War and Society in the Age of Great War in the Second semester. In normal English that's World War I (Géaroid Barry) and the 1916 Rising with Mary Harris.

All of these are excellent lecturers so you'll have no problems if you do the work. If you decide to keep history on after first year you can specialize in things like Northern Ireland, Military History, Women's History, American Civil War and so on.

Carolanne..

xp90 wrote: »

Poor overenthusiastic 1st years


i pity you

You were in 1st year too remember??

Vurnon San Benito

Is Archaeology a long course?

BlueLithium

I'm doing English, Geography, Celtic Civilisation - thought it would be interesting. I have also chosen French but I'm not sure because I got a C2 in the LC and I'm not sure if that's a good enough grade to carry on with french at college. I think Archaeology would be really interesting to do.

BlueLithium

greetings wrote: »

When have you to have your subjects chosen by?

When you register with NUIG you have to must choose 4 subjects that you think you would like to do. You can attend the introductory lectures starting on the 13th and then change your subjects online if you want. Formal lectures begin on the 21st. I'm not sure exactly when you have to have the finalised but I think it's the 30th. I'm not certain about that date but it's around then anyway.

Here's a link to the introductory lectures timetable for anyone who wants it.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/faculties_departments/arts/documents/introduction_timetable.pdf

ginger_blue

I was thinking of doing Sociological and Political Science, German, English and Philosophy. But I'm actually unsure about all of them, except Philosophy. Would love Classics as well.. or Spanish, Celtic Civilisation, maybe even Mathematical Studies (though.. that might be a bit too brave)
Does anybody else not come from Ireland?

filmbuffboy

Im probably gonna do English, Classics, Philosophy and HIstory.

A few ppl that have already been through NUIG have told me that Ive chosen 4 subjects that are a tough mix. All reading and writing heavy.

THis mabye true but surely any subject combo would be hard. Like there are no easy subjects at University surely? LOL

anyone any opinions on this?

brianthebard

It depends if you are the type of person to avoid work then it will be intense and hard. If not then there's no problem. I didn't do my BA at NUIG but I assume first year is the same pretty much everywhere in that its fairly easy (too easy really, unless you are new to a subject).

filmbuffboy

brianthebard wrote: »

It depends if you are the type of person to avoid work then it will be intense and hard. If not then there's no problem. I didn't do my BA at NUIG but I assume first year is the same pretty much everywhere in that its fairly easy (too easy really, unless you are new to a subject).

Nah, i defo wouldnt avoid any of the work. Im 27, so Ive done the whole party 24/7 thing already. Work first, play later lol.
Seriously though, any 4 subs will b challenging? wont they?!

brianthebard

Yes pretty much but besides that you only have the 4 for a year so its only temporary, I wouldn't worry about it.

filmbuffboy

brianthebard wrote: »

Yes pretty much but besides that you only have the 4 for a year so its only temporary, I wouldn't worry about it.

cool thanks man! :-)

UrbanSea

I've decided on Legal,History,English and Classics.

Lockstep

Here's my synopsis of what I did in first year;

Legal Science; this can be quite weighty. Most of the year (1st and 2nd Semester) is contract law. Fairly self explanatory. You'll get sick of hearing about the Carbolic Smokeball though.
You also do Irish Legal Systems (basically how Irish law is laid out; district courts, High Court etc) although this is a smaller aspect and is tested by a single assignment rather than the exams for Contract Law.
It can be quite tricky as people don't realise how to approach a question. Only a limited number are allowed onto 2nd year but if you do the work you'll be fine. Lots of case law and reading involved but it's common law so if you're a good arguer then it'll stand to you. Even if you drop it after 1st year, the knowledge of contract law is useful in general life. If you continue on, you will do things like Tort Law and Constitutional law in 2nd year (with a range of optional modules like Law of the Sea and Human Rights Law). In 3rd year you do Company Law, Criminal Law and EU Law. If you want to become a lawyer then this is a great course as at the end of your BA, you can enter onto the LLB course (the LLB is a postgrad which grants a full law degree. It normally takes 3 or 4 years but if you do legal science, you'll have done so much undergrad law that you'll be awarded the LLB after one year) The LLB lets you go into King's Inn or sit the FE1s.

History; I already explained this above. Great subject. My personal favourite. Excellent range of modules and I found the analytical skills to transfer extremely well into Legal Science.

Sociology and Political Studies; Nice mix here. Often seen as the soft option as so much of it is common sense. Some amazing lecturers (especially Brendan Flynn, the man is a campus legend) and you'll do things like deviance and feminism (in sociology) and Irish Politics (how Irish politics works; the Oireachtas, the President, elections, the Single Transferrable Vote) and Political Ideologies (The 'macro-ideologies; Liberalism, Socialism, Conservatism as well as the advent of new ones like green politics) I recommend this one as it's a great general course which explains a lot about real life, although often people veer towards sociology or politics and dislike the other.

Archaeology; this was my 4th subject. You study things like the Stone Age, Celts, Vikings, Normans, castles etc. Different people appreciate different aspects (I found the Stone Age to be incredibly dull but the sections on castles and Normans to be incredibly interesting). The university archaeology society is a good place to look here as they organise a lot of field trips and speakers who'll really help out your understanding.

king999

when do the timetables come out for the full year:) also which subjects are easy to pass for first year if you know the 2 you want to keep on whats it and legal science like:D

tkeane

I think I will be going for English, French, Classics and possibly

1. Psychology
2. Sociological and Politcal Studies
3. Italian
4. Spanish
5. Philosophy

Any opinions

WallyGUFC

Anybody have any advice / info on Economics?

Lockstep

king999 wrote: »

also which subjects are easy to pass for first year if you know the 2 you want to keep on

Hard to say, I found legal science to be a doddle whereas others found it an abolute nightmare, likewise, I'd have probably found English to be harsh whereas my friend got a first in it.
I'd advise against taking subjects just for their easiness, I did archaeolgy as I thought it'd be a soft option. I found it interesting enough and I got a 1st in ut but I'm now wishing I'd done something else. A first year subject is a great introduction to a subject so you can really broaden your knowledge without having to keep on a subject in later years.

king999 wrote: »

whats it and legal science like:D

Can't help you on IT, see my post above for legal science.

Ficheall

WallyGUFC wrote: »

Anybody have any advice / info on Economics?

Advice: don't do it.

musical.x

BlueLithium wrote: »

When you register with NUIG you have to must choose 4 subjects that you think you would like to do. You can attend the introductory lectures starting on the 13th and then change your subjects online if you want. Formal lectures begin on the 21st. I'm not sure exactly when you have to have the finalised but I think it's the 30th. I'm not certain about that date but it's around then anyway.

Here's a link to the introductory lectures timetable for anyone who wants it.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/faculties_departments/arts/documents/introduction_timetable.pdf

i cant see the timetable.says its damaged and cannot be fixed can anyone fix it of post a diffrent one?

WallyGUFC

Ficheall wrote: »

Advice: don't do it.

Really? I feckin loved it in LC...must be much harder is it?

RolandIRL

musical.x wrote: »

i cant see the timetable.says its damaged and cannot be fixed can anyone fix it of post a diffrent one?

attached it for ya there.

link seems to fine for me. try right-clicking and "Save Link As..."

brianthebard

Ficheall wrote: »

Advice: don't do it.

That's not advice. If you're going to start scaring first years off topics at least give some solid reasons for it. Mod.

musical.x

whiteman19 wrote: »

attached it for ya there.

link seems to fine for me. try right-clicking and "Save Link As..."

aw thanks! really appreciate it. i think its my computer because it still says the file is damaged

RolandIRL

musical.x wrote: »

aw thanks! really appreciate it. i think its my computer because it still says the file is damaged

took them as images and attached them for ya then



..........................MONDAY.....................TUESDAY.........................WEDNESDAY......................THURSDAY.....................FRIDAY

This is quoted underneath the timetable

Notes
The Web Resources Introductory Lecture introduces the web-based resources available to you as a student. It includes: navigating
the University website, using the PC Suites, Blackboard, the library on-line, and other web-based resources you will need at
University. These lectures will be useful for every student and you should aim to attend one during the first week

*Students who wish to study Welsh should attend the Celtic Civilisation talk for information

You will register your subject choice online by October 8th and you need to have informed yourself
fully, and attended the subjects you choose before then. You must have met with your Advisor and
submitted the Advisor form to them before then (available at
www.nuigalway.ie/faculties_departments/arts/firstyearba.html).
Introductory material will be provided in each subject to help you choose.
• At special Introductory Lectures (Schedule above)
Each subject will cover introductory material, repeated in each of the time-slots allocated, so
you can attend the introductory lecture for all subjects.

EDIT: The second image is larger so be sure not to confuse the columns there's nothing on a friday after 2pm

musical.x

awwh thanks so much! so nice of you