Medicine Module question

!?!

Hi, I got accepted into medicine and in the orientation pack it says I can choose between the Science and Humanities module or the European Language, which would be French for me. Can anyone tell me what these modules involve? Especially the Science and Humanities one, and is the French one much more work that Leaving Cert French? If I do choose the language I'm thinkiung of putting down B2 as my level as I got an A1 in the Leaving and can hold a conversation with a French person quite well.

Thanks :P

AndrewJD

I'd wondered that as well, from the TCD website:

A new module in the Philosophy of Science and the Humanities was introduced in 2009/10. Students undertake a core lecture series in the philosophy of science and an elective module in one of the following: Advocacy, Biomedical Ethics, Creative Writing, History of Medicine, Literature, Perception or Philosophy in Medicine.

What clinched the decision for me was the line in the letter indicating the language would be more intensive. Less work = happy student.

Psychedelia

i got some info on this here:

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=67663359#post67663359

theowen

I was told to do english. All you have to do is write a poem and you've passed. Others, you have to actually work...

!?!

Thanks for the info, anyone done French though? I just naturally click in with it did no study for the Leaving so I was thinking that would be easy, but what is the written test like at the end?

bythewoods

Don't do a language. They're all the work. All the work ever.

Pick Literature, Creative Writing or Perception of Art and live happily ever after, with no stupid extra work.

theowen

bythewoods wrote: »

Don't do a language. They're all the work. All the work ever.

Pick Literature, Creative Writing or Perception of Art and live happily ever after, with no stupid extra work.

Which one of them has the least amount of work?

bythewoods

theowen wrote: »

Which one of them has the least amount of work?

They all have fuck all. I did Literature and we just had to do a presentation of an extract of a book one of the weeks. With some wiki-help, took NO time.

I liked it anyway. Your man brought us to the cinema one week, and usually we just sat around having the chats, so it was grawndddd.

!?!

bythewoods wrote: »

They all have fuck all. I did Literature and we just had to do a presentation of an extract of a book one of the weeks. With some wiki-help, took NO time.

I liked it anyway. Your man brought us to the cinema one week, and usually we just sat around having the chats, so it was grawndddd.

what do you do in perception of art? that sounds cool I did art for the leaving too

Abby19

If you do one of the modules, they tend to be timetabled during normal hours, last year was 3-5 on a Monday. And either in Semester 1 or in semester 2 (not both). Some of the modules only had a few weeks. You do an assignment and while you get a mark, you really only have to pass the module.

If you choose a language, chances are that you will have lectures every week during both semesters, and frequently in the evening, I think some were 6-8. this could be on top of a normal 9-5 day depending on lectures and labs. Also some people had assignments and/or presentations and some were in the same week as other exams and could not be shifted.

Really depends on what you want to get out of it. However, quite a few people did end up switching out of the language module due to the time involved, and still ended up have to do an assignment for whatever module they ended up switching to. You do have to successfully pass this module (whatever you end up doing) to pass 1st year as a whole.

bythewoods

!?! wrote: »

what do you do in perception of art? that sounds cool I did art for the leaving too

It's a bit of a pisstake from what I heard. Look at pictures and play join the dots or something... Probably.

A Neurotic

Creative Writing was great, the tutor for it was brilliant and it required very little work (ie, writing a poem) to pass.

theowen

A Neurotic wrote: »

Creative Writing was great, the tutor for it was brilliant and it required very little work (ie, writing a poem) to pass.

Do you have to read it out? Potentially embarrassment right there.

theowen

bythewoods wrote: »

It's a bit of a pisstake from what I heard. Look at pictures and play join the dots or something... Probably.

Yeah I read you go to museums and then write an essay on a piece of art or some crap.

Psychedelia

did i see something about an advocacy module?
What does that entail?

EDIT:
Here it is:

Module 5: Science and Humanities (5 credits)
A new module in the Philosophy of Science and the Humanities was introduced in 2009/10. Students undertake a core lecture series in the philosophy of science and an elective module in one of the following: Advocacy, Biomedical Ethics, Creative Writing, History of Medicine, Literature, Perception or Philosophy in Medicine.

bythewoods

Psychedelia wrote: »

did i see something about an advocacy module?
What does that entail?

EDIT:
Here it is:

Pretty sure they got to go to a Methadone clinic for a trip. Um, maybe?

Don't know exactly what it entailed, but there was the trip...