Some of these questions were posted ages ago, but meh. I did one semester of International Studies before I transferred to Arts, but I know enough to be of some help.
Miffstaa said:
Hi,
I was wondering if any of the streams in the degree have a larger focus on history?
I know that Macq do but i'm not so sure about UNSW.
The European Studies stream contains many European history courses. The other streams contain little or no history orientated courses at all, although you can study history as an elective in every single stream.
oth16 said:
Hi, i am keen on doing the International Studies degree @ unsw
but im torn between this course and the media&communications course
in the UAC guide it says students who do this course may have a career in journalism which is what i like about it. I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if they know of people who have done this course and what they are doing/planning to do as a career now.
I don't know any graduates, I'm afraid. International Studies itself is a relatively new course at UNSW - it's only about seven years old.
One thing though: I don't know much about journalism, but whether this degree is suitable for you depends on what career you want to pursue, and what employers in that area want. If you want go into journalism, I would check whether employers accept International Studies degrees. The problem is that International Studies doesn't actually have any courses on journalism itself, so this might be problematic if employers are looking for people who have studied journalism proper.
-Cake-or-Death- said:
sorry ive written this in a few threads but i like to obtain as many opnions as i can. Is it better to do Int studies at Macquarie uni. or do BA/Int Relations at UNSW and attempt to internally transfer to Int studies at unsw with my current uai of 86.05 (91.05 with hsc plus scheme). my main issues being that macquarie is a little far, and the fact that macquaries int studies is 3 years while UNSW's is 4 years.
I would lean towards Macquarie, because their Arts faculty is generally better than UNSW's. UNSW's faculty has become increasingly substandard in recent years (don't let the comparatively high UAI fool you), and I think Macquarie offers more courses in the degree anyway.
The only reason that I can think of to go to UNSW is because of the compulsory overseas exchange program, which explains why the degree is a year longer than what most other universities offer. If you don't care about going on exchange, then this is obviously irrelevant.