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Anyone tried changing subjects within a denominated degree?

  • 09-04-2011 9:26am
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    steel_spine
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    SO I've just finished 2nd year Marine Science, and I'm really disillusioned with the quality of Zoology teaching, and I'm seriously starting to consider whether I'll be leaving with a worthwhile degree.
    This year, I had Zoology & EOS (fundamental skills/seds & biosphere) as my main subjects, next year I get one choice, which will pretty much have to be Zoology.
    I don't get to pick any EOS subjects next year, but there is a 3rd year Seds & biosphere module I really want to do - that subject is what Zoology should be taught like.
    Now I'd really like to do Seds & Biosphere in 3rd year aloong with Zoology as the two subjects complement each other well, and I really enjoyed this years module. What I have to do instead is a Marine Geoscience EOS module which I have no interest in and doesn't dovetail with Zoo as nicely.
    I'm thinking of going to meet the head of the degree to see if I can take the subject I want without switching degrees. I get very high marks in both subjects, and to be quite honest this will probably make the difference between me staying at NUIG, or transferring to Cork, where they have a Zoology degree that NUIGs efforts compare unfavourably to (they've already had research field trips, and go abroad in 3rd year. We get absolutely nothing, and the labs are a joke). I WOULD like to stay in Marine Science though, and Cork would be an expensive upheaval, finding a job etc etc.

    Has anyone tried anything similar with success/failure stories?
    Should I just transfer my degree anyway if I'm having doubts about the quality? Tbh the only thing really stopping me is that the Cork degree is purely Zoology, there's no Marine Science equivelant :(


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