Forensic science

elvis99

Anyone any thoughts on the course?

Rooneysdaman

You should know that the first year of the Forensic Science course will be spent doing general science with everybody else in First Year sicence anything (Physics, Biology, Chemistry & Maths) and apart from a couple of little things in Physics Lab, you will be doing nothing speficic to forensics until second year.
What I like about this degree is that it will qualify you for a lot of job options, there are a number of ways you could go with it from joining the guards and becoming a forensic scientist a la CSI Irish style to private practice to laborotary work to corporate security for large firms etc.

elvis99

Rooneysdaman wrote: »

You should know that the first year of the Forensic Science course will be spent doing general science with everybody else in First Year sicence anything (Physics, Biology, Chemistry & Maths) and apart from a couple of little things in Physics Lab, you will be doing nothing speficic to forensics until second year.
What I like about this degree is that it will qualify you for a lot of job options, there are a number of ways you could go with it from joining the guards and becoming a forensic scientist a la CSI Irish style to private practice to laborotary work to corporate security for large firms etc.

Thanks for the feedback, are you a student on the course itself?

I've kind of gone off the idea of it. I just don't see the viability of it career wise. It seems there are just too many people jobless in the area of forensics. The CSI effect seems to have drawn to many people towards it.

A degree in law looks like a better bet at the mo for a career in the gardai imo.

Rooneysdaman

Yes, I just finished First Year on the course but am not continuing onto Second Year - for no other reason than there is another course I really want to do instead which I pretty much tried talking myself out of last year because it's in England and I wanted to stay at home. I very much enjoyed my time at GMIT and thought most of the lecturers were great etc.

I'm not sure I agree with you about too many people doing it though. This past year was the first year GMIT have offered it and had a total intake of 16. At least 4 and possibly 5 are not continuing on - all for reasons other than dissatisfaction with the course. So that is going to be a very small group of people that will get incredible individual attention and be highly qualified when they graduate!

If your ultimate goal is a career with the gardai and law will get you where you want to go, great! But if you have an interest in science and analysis you're far better off in the long run doing something you enjoy and will find fulfilling.

Best of luck!

elvis99

Rooneysdaman wrote: »

Yes, I just finished First Year on the course but am not continuing onto Second Year - for no other reason than there is another course I really want to do instead which I pretty much tried talking myself out of last year because it's in England and I wanted to stay at home. I very much enjoyed my time at GMIT and thought most of the lecturers were great etc.

I'm not sure I agree with you about too many people doing it though. This past year was the first year GMIT have offered it and had a total intake of 16. At least 4 and possibly 5 are not continuing on - all for reasons other than dissatisfaction with the course. So that is going to be a very small group of people that will get incredible individual attention and be highly qualified when they graduate!

If your ultimate goal is a career with the gardai and law will get you where you want to go, great! But if you have an interest in science and analysis you're far better off in the long run doing something you enjoy and will find fulfilling.

Best of luck!

My original goal was criminology but it doesn't seem viable career wise in Ireland. The Gardai is my goal but again ill probably have a long wait no matter what path I choose, and the competition is fierce im sure.

Cheers for the info on the course, uve certainly made a good argument for the potential benefits of it.

Best of luck with England