Outside subject(s) in 1st and 2nd year *post here with questions*

Thanks for your reply. I'm eager to spend 3rd year in europe so I might consider trying to do 40 credits of languages during each of my first two years and trying to cope with 140 credits a year.

Thanks for your reply. I'm eager to spend 3rd year in europe so I might consider trying to do 40 credits of languages during each of my first two years and trying to cope with 140 credits a year.

I have applied for MA Politics.
I would like to know whether I am going to be able to take economics as an outside option and maybe to convert my degree to Economics and Politics or purely Economics.
As far as I am concerned economics is a quite oversubscribed degree, that's why I am asking.

If you do a Modern languages degree (2 languages), is your outside subject allowed to be another language?

Yes, provided there's no timetable clash. But it really depends on circumstances - most DoS' (and whatever their replacements will be from next year) will not be keen for you to take 3 languages with 2 of them ab initio. I would suggest that if you intend to progress to single or joint honours in just languages, that you might benefit from doing something a little different as your outside (maybe something in SPS or History) because the interdisciplinary nature of honours languages means you'll benefit from having studied other stuff.

Wondering if you could maybe mix Economics with Physics at Edinburgh? I know it's an odd combination so was just wondering.

Is it possible to change degree programs right away? If the system is flexible, that should be okay, right? As long as the course isn't oversubscribed?
I have an offer for Physics but I really wanted to study Civil Engineering or Architecture (my school wouldn't let me apply for these- as in my head of sixth form flat out refused to let me- because they assured me I wouldn't get an offer (AAAb student)), so what's the likelihood of being able to change?
As I understand it, architecture is 120 credits per year, so I wouldn't be able to take any outsides (I would quite like to do a term of literature), but what about Civil Eng?

With civil engineering, you'd have 40 free credits in the first year. But as I understand English lit is really oversubscribed, so you'd have little chance of getting to do that as an outside course. Especially being in the science and engineering college, and they'd give anyone in humanities first choice of doing it as an outside course.

The easiest way to change from physics over to civil eng, would be to continue with physics in first year, but with doing engineering 1 and civil engineering 1 as your outside courses.

Hope this is some help

Okay. Question, even though I haven't heard back on my application yet. In terms of outside subjects for a Linguistics degree, how far outside are you allowed to go? My eventual aim is to do multifield research, so is it possible to combine Linguistics (MA) with, say, Cognitive Science (Bsc) or even Neuroscience? It seems like you wouldn't be able to because one is an art, the other a science, and they're in different schools, but that's the most like the work I hope to do in university. I want language and brain as well as language and mind!

Possibly, although a brief look shows that the Neuroscience courses all appear to be level 10 courses which are too advanced as pre-honours outsides. Can't find any Cognitive Science courses right now, but they may well fall into the same category. If you follow the instructions in the OP you'll see how to match up courses - of course they may be timetable clashes, particularly between George Square/KB courses. It may be something that your DoS also discourages. After all, if your eventual aim is to do interdisciplinary research then a common route to that is to specialise in one area before branching out. A 1st year undergraduate course is hardly going to turn you into a researcher...

Okay. Question, even though I haven't heard back on my application yet. In terms of outside subjects for a Linguistics degree, how far outside are you allowed to go? My eventual aim is to do multifield research, so is it possible to combine Linguistics (MA) with, say, Cognitive Science (Bsc) or even Neuroscience? It seems like you wouldn't be able to because one is an art, the other a science, and they're in different schools, but that's the most like the work I hope to do in university. I want language and brain as well as language and mind!

Have you considered doing the cognitive science degree course, either the BSc or the MA route, rather than linguistics specifically? or doing psychology and linguistics? These sound like they might appeal more to you.

If you want to swap to cognitive science at all you will need to do informatics modules in first year. If you want to swap to the BSc one then you'll need to do 80 credits of informatics in first year plus linguistics, or if you want to do MA cognitive science (hums route) then you don't have to do as many informatics modules but you also have to do either psychology or philosophy.