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What are 'easy' degree's...
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Or, what are 'hard' degree's?
I've read in the New's numerous time's that students are choosing easier degree's, or 'micky mouse' degree's as I once read.
What would you consider an 'easy' degree that a lot of students are taking nowdays, and which degree's do you consider as 'hard' degree's?
I've read in the New's numerous time's that students are choosing easier degree's, or 'micky mouse' degree's as I once read.
What would you consider an 'easy' degree that a lot of students are taking nowdays, and which degree's do you consider as 'hard' degree's?
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a hard degree is traditionally considered to be one of your more traditional ones e.g. biology, engineering, french, english Lit.
OK, lets put it this way.
How many of hours a week of lectures do you have? Tutorials? Reading?
No offence, but something like Media Studies *is* easier than something like Physics or Law, because there isnt the difficulty of reading involved- and if you dont believe me, try wading through a topical law case such as Douglas v Hello!.
As fopr the original question- any degree which doesnt teach you correct usage of apostrophes is FAR too easy.
So I have experience with 2 "kinds" of degrees, and I find it really annoying when people pick on media studies. Any kind of degree involves reading, writing essays, not just attending classes and lectures but working in your own time if you wish to be successful in your studies.
I find the two courses I have done to be equally intellectually demanding, you can go as deep into issues as you wish. Believe it or not but in media studies we don't just watch TV, contrary to what the press would have you believe! It involves many disciplines, such as politics, history, sociology and psychology.
In fact I find this course more fulfilling as it is not so "up in the air" and "pointless" seeming as the English and Philosophy one was. This course is related to real life and helps me understand the way the world works, philosophy just made me more confused about the world. I found studying English at degree level unsatisfying and pointless, for someone who loves reading that was sad.
People should take a reality check and not be so snobby. People taking Law degrees and Physics degrees are not going to be going for the same kind of jobs in the future as those on other courses so why does it concern them what other people choose to spend their time and money studying?
People are not 'snobby' about Media, they are rightly concerned. There is a serious fear that our's will be a generation without great scientists. We are on the verge of slipping into a technological black hole. All the great progress that has been made over the last century is going to come grinding to a halt. It is a very sad state of affairs when more people are interested in studying Reality TV, than they are in trying to find a cure for cancer.
That's what's causing the major problems in the IT employment market.
I'd say a good 50% of all students were refered in all modules (i.e. they dropped out).
That means that degrees in physics, mathemathics, chemistry, engineering (most kinds at least) etc. would be teh hardest, as there's a correct answer to everything and you can't bend the rules a bit to make it fit you. It just is.
That said, I am either gonna study International Relations and either Communication, Modern History or Politics.
Or, if I get the grades, Architecture.
I think that depends a great deal on how your mind works though.
My brother is fantastic with numbers, computers, sciences, where everything 'just is' as you put it. But if you asked him to put forward an argument and back it up (for example, History or English), with conclusions and so on, he'd be absolutely useless.
And it's the exact opposite with me. I can't work with numbers, but I'm much better with arguments, reasoning and so on.
People don't necessarily study the media so they can go and work in television. Just as people who take English degrees don't necessarily want to become novelists. An arts degree is about reading material, producing arguments, analysing information and becoming well rounded on a certain subject. Whether that subject is the media (which is surely a very important thing in the world today, try to deny it), or novels, or world politics, is somewhat irrelevant.
Degrees considered to be "easier" will probably have a higher workload to compensate, than say, something as complicated as Astrophysics etc, that might take more prior knowledge to understand.
I'm doing Biology, and I don't expect that because it's Scientific that it's gonna be especially difficult in relation to other subjects.
Doesn't it all relate to an individual's strengths and weaknesses? What one person might find impossible, another may find a walk in the park.
A degree, is a degree?
- however, being a five year course, undertaking many challenging and morally difficult tasks, and requiring especially high entrance grades and gruelling interviews, plus a position of immense responsibility at the end, it's obvious this would be the case. Medicine candidates are also only allowed to select Medicine four (instead of six) times on their UCAS forms.
I know this sounds like a contradiction, but Medicine is something else entirely.
Its quite interesting, but its very hard work. The reading is quite tough, theyll use 14 words when one two-letter word will do, but if you maqnage to get your teeth inot it youll enjoy it.
Which uni, Im at Durham