CS & IT - What the f%£k!

Gentlemanne

I'm a first year CS and It student.

The course is mostly OK - there is calculus, algebra, programming, algorithms, electrical engineering etc.

However there is also some "Arts in Action classes". These involved music and sound editing on computers at the start (great!) but suddenly became "movement classes". We were told they were meant to teach movement for animation but when we got there we learned what they truly were: yoga classes. Yoga and dance. They're an hour and a half long and not only exhausting but frustrating as well.

On top of that, there is mandatory attendance for concerts. they ask us for money for them as well. They were awful and we were asked to write 250-word reflective pieces on them (COMPUTER SCIENCE!!)

I'm extremely confused as to why this part of the course exists.

JerryHispano

I'm not in the business of telling students not to go to "lectures" but I'd wonder what the consequences of not going would be?

srsly78

Yeah a lot of cs courses include some kind of bull**** arts component. They can say they produce more "rounded" graduates then.

Just bunk off them if possible. Or do whatever minimum needed to pass, usually it won't count for **** all against gpa etc.

It's Galway after all right, has to have some kind of krusty component.

Ward670

Yea that thing last night was bull. If you do the report that's due today and next week I'd bunk the rest. Next week is last class this semester

BhoscaCapall

Hahahah seriously? As in, you actually do yoga, or is it some sort of theory work related to it?

A lot of lecturers in NUIG are basically robbing their salaries, it's fairly impressive tbh

edit: Wait I've just read the rest of your post, the bit about concerts. Are you on the wind up?

Just Like Heaven

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

edit: Wait I've just read the rest of your post, the bit about concerts. Are you on the wind up?

Nah my house mate is 1st year CS student and they had to go to a dance concert in the town hall last night, and they do have dance classes every week.

He was telling me about this guy he was sitting by who instead of actually writing 250 words about the dance thing just had a furious rant about what a load of crap it was :P

My guess is it's the OP :pac:

BhoscaCapall

Maybe it's one of those contemporary assessment exercises where they want to see which students sit there like fannys without objecting to such ridiculous carry on.

httpete

Is this for real?? It is an absolute disgrace if true. There's no two ways about it, having computer science students doing yoga and dance classes as of part of their course is utter boll*x. You wouldn't see this nonsense happening in Harvard or MIT. The time pissed away on this could be spent learning some computer language or theory..you know the stuff the students signed up for when they put the course down on their CAO form. I did my degree in UCD and I always thought the NUIG course was well regarded...it won't be well regarded for much longer if this is what they have students doing.

If I found myself in the position of the OP I would flat out refuse to partake in this ridiculous degrading nonsense and I would make a formal complaint to the I.T. dept.

BhoscaCapall

There should be a lot more naming and shaming of these lecturers too lazy to do their jobs. I know someone doing some creative writing course in NUIG and for some of his classes their lecturer just tells them to go for a walk around town for 'inspiration' aka piss off I haven't planned to teach anything today.

I'm close to putting in a formal complaint about one of my own modules, although I'm not sure how to go about it or if it won't blow back on me. Might have to wait until I'm done with it.

If they insist on raising college fees every year then they should look at raising their own standards accordingly.

Skill Magill

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Just Like Heaven

httpete wrote: »

You wouldn't see this nonsense happening in Harvard or MIT.

Ahh yeah well I always said if I didn't get into Harvard I'd settle for NUIG.

Gentlemanne

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

Nah my house mate is 1st year CS student and they had to go to a dance concert in the town hall last night, and they do have dance classes every week.

He was telling me about this guy he was sitting by who instead of actually writing 250 words about the dance thing just had a furious rant about what a load of crap it was :P

My guess is it's the OP :pac:

Haha, no wasn't me, I didn't even go to the concert.

One of the lads put this up on facebook though: http://youtu.be/3evLBqBhxmI

Just Like Heaven

That's the most fitting video title ever.

httpete

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

Ahh yeah well I always said if I didn't get into Harvard I'd settle for NUIG.

What exactly is your point?

Just Like Heaven

httpete wrote: »

What exactly is your point?

Relax bro, it's like an hour a week for one semester in first year and they're supposed to be able to apply it next semester for programming robotics. It's not like the CS class are just skipping around all day.

barry181091

Ahahahahahhahaa, this is the funniest thing I have read all week! Thank god we weren't hit with that crap!

shruikan2553

I heard about that from some friends last year, we lost a programming lecture because of it. Things like this make me glad Im doing engineering where there's no time available for them to add stuff like that.

TheCosmicFrog

I'm in Final Year CS&IT. There's a lot of modules which flat out shouldn't be on the course. I thought they were seriously taking the p*ss when they brought in the dance classes though. That was almost too ridiculous to believe.