Stuck on which modules to choose for my second year

Need some help trying to be objective about my year 2 choices are I feel overwhelmed and see potential in all of them. I want to specialise, as I want to go on to a masters or enhance my career opportunities. A broad degree may not be ideal...
I'm interested in music but I struggled greatly with music theory in college when I studied it and dropped out but I really would love to learn to play an instrument.
I'm interested in learning a language but I'm not sure it would get me much career wise. I love Spain and foreign places.
I'm interested a bit less in English and literature, because I'm not the best at analysing texts, and a lot of authors writing especially shakespeare is too complex for me. but I would like to be a publisher and work with books. I enjoy stories.
I struggled with the analytical part of art history and got told I was too emotionally invested in the intuitive side of it... but I'd like to go on to do design after my degree and I don't have any speciality arts qualification at a job level.
Religion and some aspects of philosophy seem to interest me intellectually and up my street. But not sure careers wise again.
Highly interested in history and enjoyed it so far in my first year. Then Classics, I struggled with more so far in the module, so much detail that it got a bit boring....but interested in the subject itself still, ancient stuff I love 😵*💫
Creative writing I aspire to write and entertain and move others and myself. Be a person of culture and take others to worlds to escape. Emotional based person. I get writers block tho, I hate the academic rules behind it and it takes away the creativity and makes me doubt myself. But got an A in creative writing for A level English. There's potential there clearly as I'm clearly not crap at it.

HELP ,💀

Reply 1

InnateImpunity

I think it would be best to get into contact with some second-years that are already doing some of the modules you’re thinking about

Reply 2

gjd800

If you struggle with textual analysis, I'm not sure that philosophy is really for you.

Reply 3

artful_lounger

Universities Forum Helper

I'm confused, what degree are you actually studying...?

Reply 4

HistoryFan96

Original post by artful_lounger

I'm confused, what degree are you actually studying...?

Why are you confused?
Arts and humanities with the second year being a chosen speciality or two

Reply 5

artful_lounger

Universities Forum Helper

Original post by HistoryFan96

Why are you confused?
Arts and humanities with the second year being a chosen speciality or two

Most degrees in the UK you specialise in one or two areas from the beginning so it's unusual to have so much choice across the full range of credits for a year.

Reply 6

PurplePaintDrop

Original post by artful_lounger

Most degrees in the UK you specialise in one or two areas from the beginning so it's unusual to have so much choice across the full range of credits for a year.

Well this one does, idk why, the first year is an introduction to each of the subjects like you cover Elizabeth the first then mother Mary and Plato etc, it's kind of flexible where you can study whichever you like

Reply 7

hotpud

I think you need to focus less on what might have been and more on the now. Do what you love. Study what you find easy and see where that takes you. There will always be a "What if" at every stage of your life and the secret to being happy in life is to not worry about those "what ifs" and instead accept that the amazing person you are at that moment in time is a product of everything that went before.

The other top tip is that at every stage in life you have choices. Each choice you make shuts some options down but equally opens new ones. And that is fine. If you know where you are going, then making decisions is easy, but if you are unsure, take a guess and hope for the best knowing you can always back out and do something else later on. You have 40-50 years of work ahead of you. No one said you had to get it spot on in the first 2 years!