Joint Honors Computer Science/Economics

Michael..

Has anybody done this.

I'm thinking about doing it next year - still undecided though.

Neodymium

Michael.. wrote: »

Has anybody done this.

I'm thinking about doing it next year - still undecided though.

I could be wrong but I don't think the joint compsci/economics option is still offered.

Michael..

Neodymium wrote: »

I could be wrong but I don't think the joint compsci/economics option is still offered.

It's still being offered alright. I was talking to the course director today.;)

He was saying it's a good course, but he's going to say that I suppose. I wouldn't mind hearing from students who have actually done the course.

Neodymium

Michael.. wrote: »

It's still being offered alright. I was talking to the course director today.;)

He was saying it's a good course, but he's going to say that I suppose. I wouldn't mind hearing from students who have actually done the course.

Oh sorry about that ,its just I didn't see that option on the ucc website.

Michael..

UCC's website is like a maze. I'm not surprised you couldn't find it

hoodwinked

are you in first year this year or are you starting next September?

Rasberryjam

What do you want to know?

Michael..

hoodwinked wrote: »

are you in first year this year or are you starting next September?

I'm in first year at the moment.

Rasberryjam wrote: »

What do you want to know?

I'd appreciate any info about the course. Pros & Cons.

Sepulchrave

I'm in fourth year of the single honours CS course, hopefully graduating in September. We shared three modules with the joint CS/Econ degree, Advanced Software Engineering, Introduction to Network Security, and Introduction to Computer Systems Security. The only reason I know this is because I just happened to be sitting next to one of the joint CS/Econ students in a Software Engineering lab session. I had actually never met or seen him before. He told me that he was the only student doing the joint degree in our year, and that he would be "graduating alone" (I am sure the CS ceremonies happen at the same time), but technically so he is the only student. We had a cloud based programming assignment to do in the labs, but he had difficulty with it because he had not done any significant programming since second year, and had to get help from the demonstrators because he was not sure how to do it.

He didn't say if it was good or bad doing the joint degree, but I believe he enjoyed it, he is more into the economics side of things. I can't speak for the years below me but that is just what he told me for this year.

sarahm1994

My friend did it and said he enjoyed it but like the other poster said, he was kind of caught in the middle sometimes of being good at both subjects but not great at either of them. I know he often said he felt a little abandoned in the middle of both and complained about not being informed of things.

He's finished now and can't get a job but then he didn't come out with a very good degree either so maybe it's that.

I suppose at the end of the day the course is what you make of it, so long as it puts you where you need to go career-wise? What do you want to do after college?