History, History and Politics, or History and International Relations degree?
Hi,
I really love History, and its one of the things I'm considering doing at University (I'm starting Y12 next year btw) However, when looking at degrees I have also come across these joint degrees. I really like the political aspects of history, so I thought these would be for me. But I also like all aspects of History, and would be worried I'd get bored of focusing on only the political parts. Also, I'm not entirely sure how joint degrees work, and whether or not they are better or worse than focusing on one subject.
So, can anyone taking any of these degrees tell me what its like to do them to help me decide?
I really love History, and its one of the things I'm considering doing at University (I'm starting Y12 next year btw) However, when looking at degrees I have also come across these joint degrees. I really like the political aspects of history, so I thought these would be for me. But I also like all aspects of History, and would be worried I'd get bored of focusing on only the political parts. Also, I'm not entirely sure how joint degrees work, and whether or not they are better or worse than focusing on one subject.
So, can anyone taking any of these degrees tell me what its like to do them to help me decide?
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What uni are you thinking of attending? What career do you want? What are you doing for A-levels? All depends
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Original post by RevisionisKey1
What uni are you thinking of attending? What career do you want? What are you doing for A-levels? All depends
Most of the Universities I'm interested offer all three. Most of my colleges/Sixth forms made me apply to 4 A-levels. So I've applied to History, Politics, Biology and Chemistry because they are all subjects I enjoy and I want to keep my options open. If I do decide to drop down to 1 science after Y12 (Probably History, Politics and Chemistry because its my favourite of the two but I'll decide depending on which one I'm better at/enjoy more) then I am interested in working in publishing, teaching, being a political analyst or maybe even being a politician.
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Original post by Daisy._.7
Most of the Universities I'm interested offer all three. Most of my colleges/Sixth forms made me apply to 4 A-levels. So I've applied to History, Politics, Biology and Chemistry because they are all subjects I enjoy and I want to keep my options open. If I do decide to drop down to 1 science after Y12 (Probably History, Politics and Chemistry because its my favourite of the two but I'll decide depending on which one I'm better at/enjoy more) then I am interested in working in publishing, teaching, being a political analyst or maybe even being a politician.
Politician? Hopefully u won’t trick us like the rest of them, I have faith in you 😂
Just a heads up, don’t want to put you off or anything but the A-levels you’ve chosen are heavy on content, history and politics is manageable I guess if you have the right teachers but chemistry is a tricky one. Just have great time management and work hard, good luck!
As for the degrees, I suggest don’t pick history alone. I know it sounds really interesting on paper and I wanted to do it too but I was just put off from it. I have a friend who’s doing history at UCL and he even finds it exhausting learning about the same thing continuously and then taking 3 hour exams for it. I think go with the History and International relations cause you like a mix of both, I do too and I was gonna do that degree but I wanna choose psychology instead and go down that career.
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Original post by RevisionisKey1
Politician? Hopefully u won’t trick us like the rest of them, I have faith in you 😂
Just a heads up, don’t want to put you off or anything but the A-levels you’ve chosen are heavy on content, history and politics is manageable I guess if you have the right teachers but chemistry is a tricky one. Just have great time management and work hard, good luck!
As for the degrees, I suggest don’t pick history alone. I know it sounds really interesting on paper and I wanted to do it too but I was just put off from it. I have a friend who’s doing history at UCL and he even finds it exhausting learning about the same thing continuously and then taking 3 hour exams for it. I think go with the History and International relations cause you like a mix of both, I do too and I was gonna do that degree but I wanna choose psychology instead and go down that career.
Just a heads up, don’t want to put you off or anything but the A-levels you’ve chosen are heavy on content, history and politics is manageable I guess if you have the right teachers but chemistry is a tricky one. Just have great time management and work hard, good luck!
As for the degrees, I suggest don’t pick history alone. I know it sounds really interesting on paper and I wanted to do it too but I was just put off from it. I have a friend who’s doing history at UCL and he even finds it exhausting learning about the same thing continuously and then taking 3 hour exams for it. I think go with the History and International relations cause you like a mix of both, I do too and I was gonna do that degree but I wanna choose psychology instead and go down that career.
Ok, thank you for your advice!
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Original post by RevisionisKey1
Politician? Hopefully u won’t trick us like the rest of them, I have faith in you 😂
Just a heads up, don’t want to put you off or anything but the A-levels you’ve chosen are heavy on content, history and politics is manageable I guess if you have the right teachers but chemistry is a tricky one. Just have great time management and work hard, good luck!
As for the degrees, I suggest don’t pick history alone. I know it sounds really interesting on paper and I wanted to do it too but I was just put off from it. I have a friend who’s doing history at UCL and he even finds it exhausting learning about the same thing continuously and then taking 3 hour exams for it. I think go with the History and International relations cause you like a mix of both, I do too and I was gonna do that degree but I wanna choose psychology instead and go down that career.
Just a heads up, don’t want to put you off or anything but the A-levels you’ve chosen are heavy on content, history and politics is manageable I guess if you have the right teachers but chemistry is a tricky one. Just have great time management and work hard, good luck!
As for the degrees, I suggest don’t pick history alone. I know it sounds really interesting on paper and I wanted to do it too but I was just put off from it. I have a friend who’s doing history at UCL and he even finds it exhausting learning about the same thing continuously and then taking 3 hour exams for it. I think go with the History and International relations cause you like a mix of both, I do too and I was gonna do that degree but I wanna choose psychology instead and go down that career.
What’s psychology like? Funnily enough if I go down the science route that’s one of the courses I am interested in 🤣
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Original post by Daisy._.7777
What’s psychology like? Funnily enough if I go down the science route that’s one of the courses I am interested in 🤣
I did psychology A-levels, it’s tricky as any science tbh maybe a tiny less but SUPER interesting. As for the degree, not sure yet. I took a gap year to figure things out on what I wanted to do so I might do neuroscience with psychology or just on its own or history and international relations and then take a conversion masters into psychology. Still figuring it out
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kind of related, my daughter was looking at Politics and IR at Uni, as it happens she didn't get her first choice and ended up doing Economics, Politics and IR at her insurance choice
Two things I noticed, by having more than 1 topic area of interest at Unis she has had lots of flexibility in the modules which has kept it super interesting - she is now way more interested in the IR than Politics and finds Economics way more interesting than she expected
Also, the joint / multiple topic programmes seem slightly less competitive
Two things I noticed, by having more than 1 topic area of interest at Unis she has had lots of flexibility in the modules which has kept it super interesting - she is now way more interested in the IR than Politics and finds Economics way more interesting than she expected
Also, the joint / multiple topic programmes seem slightly less competitive
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