Choosing additional modules

Hello everyone,

I am just curious about how it works..

As I got in for certain subject, therefore I will be taking modules from the subject, but I also have to? take another two subjects in first, possibly second year?

Can I choose whatever I want? Or are there any restrictions? (like I got into Arts faculty, therefore I can not take science subject?) and how it is with oversubscribed courses? (like IR, Economics - still possible to taking them?)

Thank you)

Not necessarily, it depends on other modules your department offers and how many of those modules in second and third year are compulsory. As long as you fill the credit it doesn't really matter what module it is whether its another department or the same.

For some oversubscribed modules like International Relations, you'll be put on a waiting list and they'll draw names from a ballot. There aren't many courses like that though. I think some subjects (sciences?) require a certain grade at a lower level of education. If they do, it'll say so on their section in the catalogue.

https://portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/catalogue/advanced.htm

Apart from that, yes, you can take whatever you want as long as it doesn't clash on your timetable. For example, my main degree is psychology but my other 2 modules are in history. You can change your choice in the first 2 weeks as well.

No problem

I'm in first year and the psychology course is great. The lecturers are amazing (especially Paula) and I've made some good friends in that class.

I have no idea the ratio of people that get accepted into IR, sorry. But I can tell you about my experience with that.

I originally chose IR as one of my modules and was told there were limited spaces and I'd be put on the waiting list. I was told to choose a back-up option, which I did (ME1003, medieval history). I was told by my advisor that there was pretty much no chance of getting in. So I decided to go to the lectures for my back-up option while I was waiting to hear back. About a week later, I was emailed and told I had been accepted into IR. It was at that point that I realised I'd prefer to do my back-up. So I emailed my advisor telling her I changed my mind and within a few days it was official.

No, we don't unless it's research for lab reports etc.

I only have 3 of the recommended books and I'm doing fine so far! One of the books that I have, Research Methods and Data Analysis for Psychology, I don't really use. Paula (the lecturer for the lab classes) will give us the relevant pages as extra reading if we didn't fully understand what we were taught that session. I generally find that I don't need that though because she's very good at explaining things.

If I'm perfectly honest, I don't use the other two books either. Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classics was interesting but not necessary. I haven't even picked up the one written by Gomez since I first bought it.

Thank you, but can you take whatever else you want? Even the oversubscribed courses? Or do they offer you other modules from ''what's left'?

Do you have an idea how oversubscribed courses like IR or Comp Science are on it? For example, 500 people want to study that in first or second year and they allow 200? Just to get a notion)