Not sure what to study... History? Medieval? English?

My English teacher told me that English is only advantageous if you want to be an English teacher. I know English/History students and they all specialised in History postgrad. You will get modules if you took single honours History to specialise in medieval anyway, permitting your university does it.

thanks for the reply!

Ah I see.. I wouldn't mind being a teacher, but only have ever imagined myself being a history teacher.. just thought maybe it would come in handy if I ever became a history writer and such, but I suppose I will learn how to write accurately in history Yes I have been told I can select medieval modules if I take only history (or history with english).

It's a tough choice! Mainly because I'm not sure how employers would feel if I had a joint honors of history with medieval... Or do you think they would not take that into account?

You will learn how to accurately write in History within the first semester. It's possible that English will have a different style anyway.

Two of my history teachers were joint honours (that I know of) and one was totally unrelated to history and the other was medieval. I'm pretty sure the syllabus may be changing to include medieval history up to A-Level - I may be wrong!

Employers are concerned with skills and whether or not you can do your job - generally.

I see Yes that is true.

Stupid question maybe, but I am guessing you're studying history? Or have studied!

Yes I can imagine... which is one of the reasons I am choosing history in the first place, apparently it gives you great skills.

Yes, joint honours

In what? I am very interested in archaeology too, but I feel there is close to zero chance of employability after it

History and Criminology and Criminal Justice, a mouthful, I know. I'm very interested in joining the civil service, local government, council (hopefully you get the idea) jobs following graduation. Criminal Justice is helping a lot with this.

My university offers archaeology as a sole and joint honours degree and the history department frequently offers work experience regarding this so that would give you a foot up in the work place if you were to pursue this. I assume your university will offer this in some capacity too.

That sounds great My sister recently graduated from Swansea university doing some sort of criminology and criminal justice Yes I get it.. sounds like you have what you want to do planned out well!

Yes my university does offer the same also It's very close to many sights being in Lampeter.. not sure about the work experience though!

It's a thought I suppose Should have probably thought about this sooner.. but I applied so late so it's all happened so quick!

Trinity St. Davids? I'm Bangor.

Hi guys

Will be attending university very soon (under 2 weeks) and still not 100% sure what history to study... are things like medieval and ancient, as respected as just pure history?

My main interest is medieval so I was thinking of doing a joint between history and medieval studies.. but I have been recommended by family to do history and english?!

Any information/advice would be great!

Thanks

I love history, used to have straight 10-9 from it in secondary school, however as much as I enjoy it never saw myself working as something to do with history like history teacher, because most people don't give a **** about it. So It's like a hobby of mine, reading up on history and annoying people with my knowledge about certain things that happened.

I think history and English would be a lot better. Medieval studies, sigh, why focus on just one era.. If it was modern history, I feel like it would have more merit as you'd have better understand of why certain countries and people over there are how they are right now.

I love history, used to have straight 10-9 from it in secondary school, however as much as I enjoy it never saw myself working as something to do with history like history teacher, because most people don't give a **** about it. So It's like a hobby of mine, reading up on history and annoying people with my knowledge about certain things that happened.

I think history and English would be a lot better. Medieval studies, sigh, why focus on just one era.. If it was modern history, I feel like it would have more merit as you'd have better understand of why certain countries and people over there are how they are right now.

I see.. So what is it you do, if you don't mind me asking of course? I always wanted to be a alarm engineer, but getting a job like that seems about as easy as getting blood from a stone

I'm not sure really, it's just an era i'm really interested in! Read books, watch documentaries about etc... Just a passion of mine I suppose

I got an Information Systems degree. And I'm mainly working on getting into web development for a start, currently.

But I'm also interested in working with data like data modelling, analysis, understanding what makes people do, buy things and what's working and what's not, from all the data that's being gathered by companies and figuring out how to make sense and manage it all.

I don't think it's gonna be easy to get a job with a history degree either, essentially with good grades all it's gonna say is that you are good at learning and you know about history and you'll have to learn other things for the job unless you plan going for ones that are history related.
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_history.htm

I also love watching documentaries and reading, even go on searching on google to read up about history. And world war documentaries are my jam, even though I already know about it, still gotta watch it.