Question About Arts/Humanities Degrees (1 Viewer)

[GL1001]

not to sure how uni works....I am trying to understand how it works at UOW CourseFinder - Future Students @ UOW
click undergraduate.

If i were to choose Arts and Humanities, how many subjects could i choose?

is it more expensive/wise to choose multiple subjects?

what is studied under philosophy and international studies?

Is anyone doing subjects from Arts and Humanities? what job do you plan to get after graduation?

sorry for the newb questions, Our career's adviser is on maternity leave and we really dont do the subject anymore..

 

[SpoonSamba]

Well I do B arts at UNSW but the structure among most aussies unis is the same


for the degree you do 6 semesters

4 courses in each semester

in first semester of first year you would choose 4 courses from different disciplines (eg: philosophy, english, sociology and spanish) and the courses would probably be titled something like introduction to philosophy etc etc

necst semester if you have chosen your majors (eg spanish and english) from the 4 courses you did in first semester you pick the second semester course for that major, you have too look in the handbook of your uni to find out what courses they are. For your second 2 courses in 2nd semester you can do any first yr course form the arts facullty.

the necst yr you only choose courses from the disciplines of your majors. and would do 2 courses from each major each semester. so you do 4 a semester.


thats the simplest degree program, it obviously can change a lot but thats a basic structure if youre gonna do things simply.

My BA is in French and History, at the moment I'm gonna do my degree bum around for a while then go do a masters in arts management, and hopefully be the manager of a theatre and later maybe work in cultural policy.

I'm not gonna lie a degree in arts/humanities is vague, undirected and sometiems frustrating. But it does put you in a position to undertake postgrad studies which are more specialised and most masters or grad diploms only take an ecstra yr and given youve already been to uni you'll probably actually know what you want by then and what you enjoy. Being an arts student means you learn a lot about the world, and dont undervalue being a knowledgable person generally. I never planned to do history at uni btw i just did it cos it gave me a good timetable an di absolutely love it, here as i did english assuming i would major in it and i hated it. SO arts is good for finding out what you like cos uni IS very very different to school.

i hope i didnt confuse you too much.

 

[SpoonSamba]

Sorry i forgot about you actual qestions

is it more expensive/wise to choose multiple subjects?

-Well the more you do the more it costs, but you have to do a certain number of subjects to get your degree, at unsw arts courses are 650 each so my degrees gonna cost $15600 all up. note that postgrad is much more ecspensive (but it will get you a job!)

what is studied under philosophy and international studies?

i havent done philosphy but yeah its basically wanky, how do we know this? what makes us think like this? its lots of questions

I did a few subjects that can count to a degree in international studies. You generally have to do a language and international relations. International relations usually sarts with modern history but puttin a focus on the interactions of the countries involved in differnet things, the efforts of politicams and diplomacy on a n internatoinal scale. i dno what it goes into after thta, probably theories of diplomacy, case studies, ideologies, trade, treaties etc

im not sure what other courses you have to do in international studies.