Prospective Students - Arts

coffeelover

Luno wrote: »

There's so much you can do with an arts degree, you should really look into it further before jumping to repeat

Really? I just thought it was mainly teaching you can do

Canard

I think Luno's statement is a little too broad. I'm not 100% sure of everything you can do but, for example, with something like Ancient Greek Civilisation I don't think you could even teach since that's not a subject, whereas something like geography would be mainly teaching and something like English could be a lot more than that.

coffeelover

Patchy~ wrote: »

I think Luno's statement is a little too broad. I'm not 100% sure of everything you can do but, for example, with something like Ancient Greek Civilisation I don't think you could even teach since that's not a subject, whereas something like geography would be mainly teaching and something like English could be a lot more than that.

I get what your saying Ya i don't know. I feel like arts is a bit too broad for me

Luno

coffeelover wrote: »

Really? I just thought it was mainly teaching you can do

Nonsense, that's the general conception of an arts degree but there's so many paths you can take. Take a look into it, you could become a psychologist, journalist, translator or you can go down business routes and even things such as computer science. I think it's not about what degree you do but what you do with it. If you make the most of your arts degree it can open loads of doors for you. Don't be put off by people and their negativity

Canard

coffeelover wrote: »

I get what your saying Ya i don't know. I feel like arts is a bit too broad for me

Why not narrow it down? I'm just doing languages for example. Nice and narrow. :P I know in most colleges you can do up to 5 subjects in your first year then slowly give up the ones you don't like as much - seems pretty versatile.

Luno

Patchy~ wrote: »

I think Luno's statement is a little too broad. I'm not 100% sure of everything you can do but, for example, with something like Ancient Greek Civilisation I don't think you could even teach since that's not a subject, whereas something like geography would be mainly teaching and something like English could be a lot more than that.

I'm not denying that those type of subjects aren't the most useful but realistically if you pick a subject like ancient Greek your career prospects mustn't be very important to you. I just think that arts shouldn't be seen as "just a teaching degree"

coffeelover

Patchy~ wrote: »

Why not narrow it down? I'm just doing languages for example. Nice and narrow. :P I know in most colleges you can do up to 5 subjects in your first year then slowly give up the ones you don't like as much - seems pretty versatile.

Ya that's what I was thinking of doing and maybe become a translator

Whatsernamex33

I'm hoping to go into teaching or journalism afterwards...
Was initially interested more in studying journalism before Arts, but my guidance councillor pretty much pointed out it'd be more of an advantage to specialise in a particular say language or whatever, and then go back and study journalism... Well it's my opinion also, I know alot of people that think differently...

Also, teaching... That's apparently getting harder to get into... So I'll see. (:

Geo10

I'd agree with what's already been said, an Arts degree is really what you make of it!
For example a degree in Latin and Philosophy doesn't have much prospects but subjects like Geography, Business, Economics, Irish, modern languages etc. have lots of career prospects! They are all teaching subjects first of all and with subjects like geography you can find work in climatology/ GIS/ research/ tertiary education/ government departments/ urban planning/ community development/ management/ public administration etc.

I would also say to work very hard at your arts degree because really you're going to need a 2.1 at least to get into the PDE (for secondary education) or masters courses!
In that respect a third class honours or pass arts degree won't be much use to you!

Nicole.

Whatsernamex33 wrote: »

I'm hoping to go into teaching or journalism afterwards...
Was initially interested more in studying journalism before Arts, but my guidance councillor pretty much pointed out it'd be more of an advantage to specialise in a particular say language or whatever, and then go back and study journalism... Well it's my opinion also, I know alot of people that think differently...

Also, teaching... That's apparently getting harder to get into... So I'll see. (:

I'm pretty much the same as you; I've been caught between the two (secondary teaching and journalism) for ages. I'm going to do the arts degree in English etc and then work from there. I might even specialise in secondary teaching and hopefully gain work in journalism through experience at some point.

Yeah, it is harder to get teaching now, you need a really good degree.