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Changing course.

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  • 11-04-2017 7:50pm
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    HiddenPixel
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi There,

    I'm currently studying Media Arts & technologies in DKIT, However I have been finding it hard to engage with the course as most of the modules (bar 1-2) feel like filler. I have been doing a little digging on other courses and came across Multimedia web development. Does anyone know what I can do to try a transfer to the course ? I have no problem with starting in first year again. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great.

    Kind regards.
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    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    The careers dept can advise you on changing courses.


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    Tenigate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Tenigate


    My criticism of DKIT is the amount of filler they shove into a course at the expense of acquiring basic technical knowledge.

    Having studied there a few times rather than elsewhere due to financial constraints, I'd probably recommend another college if you want to take your coursework seriously.

    I feel the filler is just substandard. They'll call the class something like "Entrepreneurship for High Tech Startups", "Business for Media Arts students" and "Marketing in a Media Arts & technologies context", then send a business studies lecturer with powerpoints, working through several chapters of bordering-on-nonsense academic waffle from the prescribed text, dishing out time-sapping CAs (often group CAs), and setting exams that rely on hundreds of pages of rote learning.

    Maybe it's a problem in other colleges and universities too and not specific to DKIT.


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