Joint/combined degrees

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I am thinking about doing a join or a combined degree. For a joint degree, do you learn both subjects fully or half of each subject? For combined degree, do you learn half of three subjects?

Do you think a joint/combined degree is good?

Reply 1

~Sam~

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trev1122

I am thinking about doing a join or a combined degree. For a joint degree, do you learn both subjects fully or half of each subject? For combined degree, do you learn half of three subjects?

Do you think a joint/combined degree is good?

For a joint honours, you do half of each subject and in a combined honours you do the appropriate amount of work, depending on the number of subjects you are doing (e.g three subjects = 1/3 in each). So you end up doing the same amount of work as a single honours student.

I think joint/combined degrees are good, as they give you the option to explore more than one subject, and are especially good if you are likely to get bored of doing a single subject for three years. What subjects are you thinking of combining?

Reply 2

ThePants999

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Not quite Sam - both joint and combined honours can be any number of subjects, but the difference is in the proportions. For example, I study Economics AND Management - a joint honours course that's 50/50. PPE is a joint honours course that's 1/3 on each. Combined honours have major/minor components, and tend to be characterised by the word "with" rather than "and". So Mathematics with Computer Science, for example, would probably be somewhere around 3/4 Maths and 1/4 CompSci.

I agree that they're good.

Reply 3

lou p lou

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i think joints are good, you can do really odd combinations. i'm going to to do 50-50 maths and psychology (although i think it's only a 1/3 in first year with an extra subject)

lou xxx

Reply 4

~Sam~

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ThePants999

Not quite Sam - both joint and combined honours can be any number of subjects, but the difference is in the proportions. For example, I study Economics AND Management - a joint honours course that's 50/50. PPE is a joint honours course that's 1/3 on each. Combined honours have major/minor components, and tend to be characterised by the word "with" rather than "and". So Mathematics with Computer Science, for example, would probably be somewhere around 3/4 Maths and 1/4 CompSci.

I agree that they're good.

Yeah, you're right. I was just trying to simpliy things

Reply 5

username5154

OP

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Thanks for all your comments! If you want to know what subjects that I want to combine, I want to combine two different IT related courses together.

I saw some uni's offereing joint honours degree by studying everything in the two subjects...

Reply 6

Leachboy

Look carefully at the modules and work that you do. I get the impression that some joint or combined degrees can be unsatisfying in that you can be "spread too thin". On the other hand lots of people I know loved their joint degrees, so just get your hands on the module handbook or whatever and check it out carefully.

Reply 7

rednirt

check whether its dual honurs or combined, cos otherwise you could end up majoring and minoring like me (which hasn't turned out to be a bad thing). Combined is the 1/3 split btw.

Reply 8

~Sam~

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Leachboy

Look carefully at the modules and work that you do. I get the impression that some joint or combined degrees can be unsatisfying in that you can be "spread too thin". On the other hand lots of people I know loved their joint degrees, so just get your hands on the module handbook or whatever and check it out carefully.

by "spread too thin" what do you meant? I'm one of those people who likes studying lots of things in small amounts rather than one subject in great depth so I think a combined will suit me

Reply 9

username5154

OP

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rednirt

check whether its dual honurs or combined, cos otherwise you could end up majoring and minoring like me (which hasn't turned out to be a bad thing). Combined is the 1/3 split btw.

It's a combined honours kind of thing.

Reply 10

sashh

trev1122

Thanks for all your comments! If you want to know what subjects that I want to combine, I want to combine two different IT related courses together.

I saw some uni's offereing joint honours degree by studying everything in the two subjects...

That can actually be more difficult to arrange than two totally different subjects, that's because there will be 'excluded combinations' or such like. It's to stop you studying the same thing twice. However if it is listed in the propspectus then that should be fine.

Reply 11

username5154

OP

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It's good and bad in a way doing joint or combined honours degree. The good thing is that you can study two favourite/interested subjects. The bad thing is that you learn only some stuff from the two subjects. Also, you are not "concentrating" on one subject, and you might have a lot of work to do.

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