Info about courses in UL

alright_dave wrote: »

Anyone know how many hours a week is in the business studies course?

it depends what year your in....just finished first semester in second year and i had 16 a week...it was handy enough

Downing wrote: »

I'm very interested in this course! can u give me an insight...Thanks

Just finished my first semester in this course and I have found this very tough, I'm not going to lie. I think everyone found the first semester fairly intense as there was a nice workload and it only gets heavier as the semesters progress. We had 25hrs I believe in the first semester, mostly labs and tutorials (practicals) with only a small few lectures. A lot of lads who didn't have drawing before they came into the course have struggled with that aspect but the lads who didn't have woodwork seemed to have picked it up fairly fast. There is a lot of project work that can build up if you don't do it when you get it. For instance I was in my shed the morning of the project hand up date for wood tech, redoing two of my projects. A friend of mine stayed up until 6am doing tech drawings the morning they were due. Little lesson, do your work for this course when you get it :pac: It's an enjoyable course once you hand up everything and don't leave things build up during the course of the semester. If there's anything specific you'd like to ask then just fire away.

dunphylad wrote: »

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SCIENCE CHOICE

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well lads. I'm thinking about doing science choice when I finish school and would like to get information from people who done this course or are currently doing the course on like lectures and personal experience on science choice ? Thanks

Right,
A few fundamental things you must know before you start this course.
The most obvious, you must have a genuine interest in all aspects of Science.
You'll touch on all of them, Chemistry, Biology and Physics.
Also, one of the things I overlooked was the Maths module.
Essentially it's certain aspects of Honours Leaving Cert Maths,
Namely Limits, Ranges, Differentiation, Matrices, Asymtotes, quite a lot of topics which require the ability to create graphs and use the information on them in a variety of questions.
You also need the ability to pick up what you don't know quite fast,
If you miss out on the fundamentals, you'll struggle massively throughout and find yourself learning off what you need to do do instead of understanding it.
This module was the one that took up the majority of my time first semester.
In regards to Chemistry, Biology and Physics,
The ones you've already covered will be very basic for you but don't get complacent but realistically, an hour or two at the end of the week just to jog your memory and you're sorted.
The ones you haven't done, assuming there are any, are pretty basic as well, but depending on the lecturer, you might have to read up on some of the topics before doing them as some can fly through them, but again, they're still only teaching the essentials of each Science.
I'll touch on each;
Chemistry is Leaving Cert Chemistry, summarized massively with emphasis on the first few chapters of "Chemistry Live" (if you're still using that textbook) famous scientists, Boyle, Rutherford, Mendeleev etc.
Also the basics of bonding and a few different ones to do with calculations like mixing isotopes and getting % of each of them present, Water of Hydrolisation, Acid/Base calculations pH etc.
Biology is pretty simple if you've done it before, a lot of it was the food chain and plant biology, nothing too difficult.
Physics was the only one of the sciences I hadn't done before and to be honest took me a while to pick up as there was the odd symbol I had to learn in the Greek alphabet.
Practicals are great though, pretty simple to carry out but you get to wear a labcoat and is all explained to you before and during.
Unsure if you do it or not but there's a Computer Science as well,
All this is is Microsoft Office, an easy place to get a high grade.
However, he can be a bastard, and doesn't like it when you do things your own way and docks you massively for doing so, so you best follow his rules to some extent... Word, Excel (his way or no way) Powerpoint (speed is essential) and Database, which he said to us, it was basically a fun project kind of thing where you are given a rough topic and have to reference your information from it's source. I don't know how he marked this and due to my past emails I chose not to delve further as my previous emails seemed to have agitated him somewhat...

These are the only modules I did and the only modules I can give information on, Science choice is a vast variety of choices of different aspects of Science (might have something to do with the origin of it's name) and there are more available to you, Microbiology and the like, which aren't included in the Pharmaceutical and Industrial Science course.

I must emphasize though, when you decide to pick your course, see if it has Physical Chemistry in it, if it does, please get back to me as it definitely needs an acquired taste.
This module is the reason the rest of my modules have dropped,
It is a killer module, so much so that even the practicals make no sense to me and I'm given instructions...
However if you've a taste for Physical Chemistry working with temperature, kinetics and pH, you might actually enjoy it...

Again, these are just the modules I've covered and I've left out a few I'm doing this semester Organic & Inorganic Chem, Physics and Maths, all Honours LC level again for the most part.

That's about everything I can give summarized as much as I can without missing out any fundamental parts, feel free to PM if you've any more Q's.
****, just checked PM and found out I meant to send you notes,
Will do so before the day is over, sorry about that

Hey new to this but was wondering if any of you have any info on the economics and sociology course and if ye would recommend it??

Thanks essays wouldnt be a problem,,would probably struggle at a high level of maths though..any idea how many hours a week it is

Hey folks considering doing this course (pgde music UL) next year and would really appreciate some advice from people who have done it or currently doing it.
Also considering the music technology masters if anybody has done it.
Thanks.

The new course Maths and Physics, can anyone tell me what it's like? Is it difficult?

What are the hours like? What are the lectures like?