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Joint Honours Arts Degree

  • 13-11-2012 7:20pm
    #1
    andrew369
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    Hey, I am in 6th year and am thinking of taking a the joint honours degree with maybe English, Philosophy and Psychology, computing maybe too (if I feel like doing anything practical :p ). Just wondering how people felt about Arts at UCD. I am slightly stuck between NUIM and UCD and will be going to the open days for both, but would be great for some input from students. Thanks a lot. :D


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  • #2
    Siuin
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    I'm just finishing a joint honours degree in English and history and am going on to do secondary teaching. My primary advice is; of course you should be interested in what you're studying, but at the end of the day you will need to be *employable* too. Don't leave it until the last minute to decide what way you're directing your degree and try and do work experience / volunteering / extra curricular activities outside of your degree to compliment your career choice.


  • #3
    Maldesu
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    Currently in 2nd year Arts doing English and Geography. I like the arts program and it offers loads if you look for it.

    There is some crossover in Eng and Phil, but more if you look at Sociology.
    English takes up a lot of time and there are group projects, so if you plan to take it, go in knowing there is a heavy workload. Lots of analysis of texts. Should really be described as the History of English. With the Computing (I'm assuming its the Information and Social Computing) I'm not sure how much practical work there is (something to look into at the open day).

    Some things to consider if you stay with your subject choices:
    If you plan to take Psychology on in your degree (into 2nd year), you have to apply to the school to take it and you can only take it as a minor in that case. If you aren't successful in the application, you would have to pick out of either Philosophy or Computers.
    Also, last year there is a compulsory module that 1st years have to do, so it uses up one of your module places - this could be an issue as you have to complete 2 modules to progress on a subject: If you only have 1 module in Computing and 2 in Philosophy, you'd have to take Philosophy.

    Do what interests you, but as Siuin said, you have to think of employability too. Not sure how NIUM works out for you, but that's a brief mention on the UCD system.


  • #4
    Musefan
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    What is important to remember about psychology, is that if you take it through the arts program in UCD, you are not qualified to work professionally within psychology unless you do the pure, denominated psychology degree.

    In short. If it is psychology you are interested in as a career, you need to do the denominated entry course (the 530 point one). Taking it as a minor is of no use except for your own interest.


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