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Advice needed.Computers or arts

  • 20-09-2002 10:20pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 551 ✭✭✭


    Advice needed college course .arts..
    Hey,I'm in a bit of a dilemma at the moment and i've posted in the hope that someone may have studied the subjects or can be of any help.
    Last year I studied Arts in UCD,but found out early on that i wasn't into the subjects that i had chosen ,plus the fact that i was commuting every day and found it difficult to settle in.I've always been good at arts type subjects but my combination that i chose was wrong and I realised that soon to christmas that i wasn't going to stay there.So i left,anyway this year
    I've been offered a place to do Computing in It tallaght,I was offered a degree course but decided I mightn't have good enough knowledge of computers/maths to do well enough so chose the cert/diploma level of progression.
    I'm still a bit worried about the level of maths in this course,and if i'll be able to get on to do a degree,ie get good enough grades at cert/dip. level.I've decent knowledge of computing,but no idea about programming etc. To cut the crap,has anyone studied computing like this and have any advice to offer?
    Trouble is!-I've also got the offer to repeat Arts which I'd like to try with different subjects from what I did last year.Hist,Geog,Hist of art.I'm unsure of gography however,how difficult is this at degree level?I only did it for junior cert. and question my enthusiasm of it at degree level.
    So anyone have an idea?! I'm wreckin my head about it.Degree or cert level of progression,and there pretty much two courses completely different.I've no real preference at the moment,each has advantages/disadvantages.Just don't wanna not like one of 'em and drop out like last year! So if anyone has done Arts,geog advice would be handy,or computers,and you've any ideas .
    Thanks


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    Well to be honest it really is up to you at the end of the day :)

    Do you want to work in computers or as a teacher or whatever arts get's you :)

    You can do arts with computer science in ucd as well which might be a idea

    I was offered a degree and cert course this year, I took the cert just in case :)

    The maths are deadly easy and I find the programming simple although I have been doing web programming (jscript, asp etc.) so would already have a decent idea of how it all works


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭Colly


    Mynooth also offer the combo course in Arts and computers may be also cool to compare it in your choice.

    http://www.cs.may.ie/noticeboard/courseupdate.html

    Bye


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