Economics, Politics and Law-DCU.

pinkeeeee

Hi I was wondering if anyone knows much about this course? My main interests lie with Business but I find Economics helps that and was wondering if this course would bring me right off the mark. I'd like to use Economics more so to improve my Business like. I can't decide whether to put it as option 2 on CAO or another business course. Can anyone help?

nesf

Eh, are you interested in pursuing Economics as a discipline? The Business courses in UCC at least tend to have Economics as part of them (I can't remember whether it's optional or not).

Personally I wouldn't go for Economics unless I wanted to study Economics. If I wanted to do Business I'd pick a different course that contained some Economics but didn't consist solely of Economics. Others may disagree with me here.

pinkeeeee

nesf wrote: »

Eh, are you interested in pursuing Economics as a discipline? The Business courses in UCC at least tend to have Economics as part of them (I can't remember whether it's optional or not).

Personally I wouldn't go for Economics unless I wanted to study Economics. If I wanted to do Business I'd pick a different course that contained some Economics but didn't consist solely of Economics. Others may disagree with me here.

I'm inclined to agree with you actually.

The_Minister

Moved to DCU forum.

MonaghanPenguin

if you wanna do business I wouldn't do this course. There are some modules that are shared or are options for both courses but there aren't many

leavo08

Which area of the course is taught best, or studiest most in this degree? Is it a good base for a career in law or not??

MonaghanPenguin

leavo08 wrote: »

Which area of the course is taught best, or studiest most in this degree? Is it a good base for a career in law or not??

All three are given equal weighting in first and second year. Final year you can specialise in one or two but still take 15 credits out of 60 in a compulsary module that covers all three.

If you wanna do Law, this isn't a great course no. If you want to be a Barristor you have to do a two year part time conversion course before you even get into Kings Inn to study. A pure law degree allows you to skip this. If you want to go on to be a solicitor then you'd almost certainly have to take a preparatory course before you attempted the FE1s. Although that said a lot of people with no background in Law at all do the FE1s and you'd have some advantage over those people, likewise those who do pure law would have an advantage over you.

All that said, unless you are 100% certain that you want to be a solicitor or barrister then I’d still consider this course, it’s interesting, it’s a great degree and it doesn’t limit your options. I was all about Law in first year, but by third year I wasn’t picking a single Law option. People change a lot during their time in Uni.

JoeBish

MonaghanPenguin wrote: »

All three are given equal weighting in first and second year. Final year you can specialise in one or two but still take 15 credits out of 60 in a compulsary module that covers all three.

If you wanna do Law, this isn't a great course no. If you want to be a Barristor you have to do a two year part time conversion course before you even get into Kings Inn to study. A pure law degree allows you to skip this. If you want to go on to be a solicitor then you'd almost certainly have to take a preparatory course before you attempted the FE1s. Although that said a lot of people with no background in Law at all do the FE1s and you'd have some advantage over those people, likewise those who do pure law would have an advantage over you.

All that said, unless you are 100% certain that you want to be a solicitor or barrister then I’d still consider this course, it’s interesting, it’s a great degree and it doesn’t limit your options. I was all about Law in first year, but by third year I wasn’t picking a single Law option. People change a lot during their time in Uni.

I'd definitely agree.. was all for law in first and second year but am definitely leaning towards the politics side of things. Some interesting lecturers in the political side have attracted me towards that side of things.. and some not so interesting one's in Economics have confirmed my initial belief that economics is not for me.

But still a very good course, and great if you're interested in any of the topics as it will open your eyes to all three core topics helping you make decisions down the line.

devinerocks

OH SWEET JESUS NOT THE ECONOMICS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im going into 2nd year of this course now. Never had any interest ine conomics but it was my number 1 choice simply because economics,politics&law all go hand in hand and overlap and work to an extent together.
In first year you do economics for a whole year about 2 lectures a week and in the first semester you have to do 2 hours of business maths which tie in with the economics and believe me when I say its hell.
After second year you can then specialise in what you want.
The politics & law bits are great though!!:)