Information technology through arts

mossy95

So, I was just looking at what courses to do for arts and I saw this course. It looks pretty interesting. Just have a few questions involving this course.
Do you need a good standard of maths to do it?
Is it a difficult course?
Are the lecturers decent?
If you have done it in the past how did you find it?

takamichinoku

Didn't do it myself but I've seen the kind of standard involved in some parts of it and know some people who done it. There's a very wide range of people doing it (in first year at least) so the people who have a flair for it are kept at a slow pace.

Feel free to PM me if you want more info.

mossy95

takamichinoku wrote: »

Didn't do it myself but I've seen the kind of standard involved in some parts of it and know some people who done it. There's a very wide range of people doing it (in first year at least) so the people who have a flair for it are kept at a slow pace.

Feel free to PM me if you want more info.

Is it a demanding course in terms of work load?
Ill be doing Psychology and this together, would I have too much work by doing those two together?

RoutineBites

mossy95 wrote: »

Is it a demanding course in terms of work load?
Ill be doing Psychology and this together, would I have too much work by doing those two together?

Haven't done either of those, but I'm fairly confident your not going to find any "work load" too strenuous in first Arts. An honest interest in your chosen subjects and a solid attendance record and frankly you'll be well on your way. Choose whatever subjects you like, just be sure to enjoy your first year.

aisinikins2121

In first year of IT through arts there are two parts of the course. One part is continuous assessment, you do an essay, make a powerpoint presentation about hobbies (you dont present it just upload it to lecturer),small excel exam where you copy whats on a sheet. Also in the essay high marks were given not just for the content but for the use of microsoft word. So show that you can change fonts, font colors, bold, italics, insert images, links from the web etc.Show up for lectures and you get another 10% I think. Great course for marks

The second part of the course in first year is programming. It was python programming when I was there, it was my first introduction to programming but they start at the basics. You do an exam at christmas and summer but you pick up marks along the way for assignments. They also have set lab times and tutors that if you needed a bit of advice or help with the assignments you can get it there. The programming part does take up some time during study week but if you are interested in I.T its worthwile.

I did it in first year arts with psychology and two other subjects. My plan was to carry on the two other subjects and go into teaching afterwards. Ended up getting the marks to do psych studies & I.T so carried on and graduated with those.

I.T gets tough in 2nd and third year - harder assignments, more programming languages, final year project. But if you are just looking to try it out in first year you dont have to be worried about that now.

As for lecturers, I think some have left or changed courses since I was there but most of them are top notch. Couple of them are standouts that you'll come across in 2nd/third year.

Blackpanther95

You don't need good maths for it. You don't really need good anything for it tbh.

mossy95

aisinikins2121 wrote: »

In first year of IT through arts there are two parts of the course. One part is continuous assessment, you do an essay, make a powerpoint presentation about hobbies (you dont present it just upload it to lecturer),small excel exam where you copy whats on a sheet. Also in the essay high marks were given not just for the content but for the use of microsoft word. So show that you can change fonts, font colors, bold, italics, insert images, links from the web etc.Show up for lectures and you get another 10% I think. Great course for marks

The second part of the course in first year is programming. It was python programming when I was there, it was my first introduction to programming but they start at the basics. You do an exam at christmas and summer but you pick up marks along the way for assignments. They also have set lab times and tutors that if you needed a bit of advice or help with the assignments you can get it there. The programming part does take up some time during study week but if you are interested in I.T its worthwile.

The first part sounds pretty disappointing but the second part was more what I was looking for in the course.

Blackpanther95

mossy95 wrote: »

The first part sounds pretty disappointing but the second part was more what I was looking for in the course.

Nah, you're probly best to do science if you want that stuff, or else get good results and change course (easier to do than you think), really really basic programming there, probly 25-30% of what would be done in a science course. For some reason the lecturers think the guys in arts aren't very capable.