[CUFCDan]

Hi guys,

At the moment I'm studying Politics at Essex. I'm only in my first year but I know I want to do a masters and beyond.

I have a chance to change to Politics and History as my dissertation ideas lie more in the area of history - Essex has a very quantitatively focused government department that won't welcome much about theory, whereas history will.

But joint degrees don't seem, to me, to be quite as respectable. I'm looking to go to a top Uni for my post-grad as I will, I feel, almost certainly have a First by the end of it judging by results so far, though of course it's hard to tell.

Is it, or am I better sticking to just one?

Thanks

[evantej]

(Original post by CUFCDan)
Hi guys,

At the moment I'm studying Politics at Essex. I'm only in my first year but I know I want to do a masters and beyond.

I have a chance to change to Politics and History as my dissertation ideas lie more in the area of history - Essex has a very quantitatively focused government department that won't welcome much about theory, whereas history will.

But joint degrees don't seem, to me, to be quite as respectable. I'm looking to go to a top Uni for my post-grad as I will, I feel, almost certainly have a First by the end of it judging by results so far, though of course it's hard to tell.

Is it, or am I better sticking to just one?

Thanks

I would not stick where you are if your interests lie elsewhere. If you apply for a history masters programme you are not going to be disadvantaged having only doing joint honours. You will be disadvantaged if you stick on single-honours politics and try to force through an unrelated dissertation through the department.

[aeterno]

It isn't any less respectable than a single honours degree. Assuming you'll be choosing a Masters which may have a more historical focus, it would make more sense to do a joint honours degree as it will better expose you to that subject.