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Media in DIT or Englilsh, Media & Cultural studies in IADT??

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  • 03-03-2009 8:15pm
    #1
    TEA!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭


    Heyy
    I know that these two courses are different - different colleges too - but please leave out any comments which are biased towards a specific college or course, i'm not asking who prefers what!!

    What I am asking is...

    Which course out of these would be better to get into the advertising side of life??

    I'm thinking IADT...
    Hmmm
    And if I post this on the DIT forum... DON'T BE MAD!
    I'm just asking for my benefit, not to start a row.

    Does anyone know, honestly, which course is better for the area I'm interested in?

    I know at the end of the day, it's all down to what i get offered but ya knooooow.... I just wanna know! :]

    Thank youuh
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    #2
    Riveam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Riveam


    I would say that DIT would be better for advertising. Depends on what part of the advertising industry you wanna get into, I'd say the DIT course is a little more practical. In IADT you'll do a small amount that focuses on advertising such as semiotic and theoretical critical analysis of advertising but over all it's quite a broad degree (great cinema aspect of the course).

    I'm not saying that it's no use for going into advertising, but you would almost certainly have to do a post grad in order to go into advertising, which means 5 years before you get to start looking for proper work in the industry, whereas the DIT course seems to be a little more grounded in practicality.


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    *Honey*
    Registered Users Posts: 320 ✭✭*Honey*


    To be honest, I don't know anything about either course - would it be worth phoning some advertising agencies and seeing what sort of qualification they're looking for?

    Either course should have some industry experts attached - query it with the Admissions/School office in each case - which industry experts in advertising sat on their validation boards. That way you'll see which one has had more input from the advertising sector.


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