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GY310 Marine Science

  • 11-03-2013 8:32pm
    #1
    oplain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭


    Does anyone study Marine Science in NUIG at the moment?
    I have question about subject module, When i read prospectus of NUIG, i can choose my interesting subject during year2 to year4. I'm interesting about Botany and Zoology. And i wonder about are these module studying Marine botany and zoology or General botany and zoology? i cannot find this info either web-site and prospectus.

    Could you give me an advise about this?

    Thank you very much!


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  • #2
    ChemHickey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭ChemHickey


    oplain wrote: »
    Does anyone study Marine Science in NUIG at the moment?
    I have question about subject module, When i read prospectus of NUIG, i can choose my interesting subject during year2 to year4. I'm interesting about Botany and Zoology. And i wonder about are these module studying Marine botany and zoology or General botany and zoology? i cannot find this info either web-site and prospectus.

    Could you give me an advise about this?

    Thank you very much!

    Hi, I'm not studying this but my sister did her degree in this a few years ago and from what I remember you are with the other zoology (undenom science) for 2nd year but as you go into 3rd and 4th year, you focus mostly on marine zoology/botany. She ended up doing her 4th year theses on periwinkles in Salthill and a botany one on marine plants or swamp plants or something like that. I may be completely wrong but definitely in the final year anyways it's more focused on the marine aspect.


  • #3
    steel_spine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭steel_spine


    Although you do specialise after 2nd year, in the Marine Science degree you'll do very little in the way of marine zoology that isn't already part of the standard zoology course anyway. And you can be in undenominated and pick the 3rd year marine zoo module anyway, so it's not like you'd miss out by not being in the Marine Science degree.
    Botany is much the same, I don't think you really do anything on algae that you couldn't get by picking Botany as past of the Undenominated degree. In fact our classes were combined with Undenom in 3rd year, and 4th year module wasn't really anything that hadn't already been discussed in previous years of algae lectures.

    As a final year, and someone who has spoken to people in my year, people in the years below me and alumni, I hand on heart cannot recommend this degree in it's current state and regret it deeply myself, if Zoology is your thing I'd recommend specialising through Undenominated or going elsewhere.
    I don't want to write a saga, but it's a huge disorganised mess of a degree that doesn't really belong to any one department.
    I understand they are planning on making changes to the degree, so it may be worth doing at some point in the future.


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