Considering NUIG Arts (shout out for anyone doing welsh..?)

watko77

Hi there! Apologies, I'm new...just came to check out the forums because I'm tryna gather some information about colleges, so ignore the potentially silly questions

Anyway, I did my LC last year and took a year out. I'm considering studying arts next year either at nuig or ucd, because both these colleges offer welsh as an option. Non surprisingly, I wasn't able to find any immediate threads with people who had studied it, so I was wondering if there was anyone about who has done it and could tell me what the modules are like, how many hours, are you able to take it for the duration of the degree, class sizes etc. There seems to be very little info available.

Also, is it four subjects you take in first year and then two you continue with? The subjects I'm interested in are maths, psychology, legal studies, welsh, classics, economics and English. So I'd have to see what combinations work out. Any insight into the above listed would be appreciated as well.

UCD is half winning because I could do music as part of the arts degree but then NUIG is half winning because it seems to offer welsh on its own and not just part of celtic studies, which hopefully means theres more welsh language modules?

shenanagans

If you do maths or psychology in NUIG (Arts) you must get high grades to progress to second year. I think it's 60%+ for maths. Psychology is very popular so I'm sure it equally high - not sure of the requirement.It's probably the same in UCD.

So don't assume you will be able to study what you like, you'll have to make the grade to progress into second year. Be careful with your subject choices and known if there's any restriction for second year.

sunflowa

Hey, I'm in 1st year Arts in NUIG. I'm not actually doing any of these subjects but I noticed in the prospectus that Welsh is only available as an option in first year, you'll find it on the NUIG webpage- http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/undergraduate-courses/arts.html

"Students should note that the subject Welsh is only available as a First Arts subject."

I don't know if that helps at all!

Janeh9

I wanna do arts in september too and I wanna do Psychology english and welsh but I've read on the prospectus that you can't continue welsh into second year unless you do celtic studies in classics or something like that I'm only looking to do it as a filler as I don't really know what I want to do aside from Psychology and English and Welsh is something different :P

RadioNowhere

You can still get through to second year maths even if you didn't get 60%, it'll just be mathematical studies instead of just mathematics.. Not sure if there's even a difference. When I did second year in 2010/2011 there was very little difference and we shared a lot of the same modules.

Lockstep

I did Legal Studies but it was a few years ago so it's changed a fair bit since then.
It starts out quite dull but it gets a lot better in second and third year as you get onto more interesting areas. Really recommend it.

I took it on a whim and ended up doing a PhD in it.