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

Don't know how helpful this is but I know somebody who did nursing and she did History of Medicine as an outside course. It's a history course but obviously it's relevant to nursing too (plus it sounded really interesting, from what she told me).

I really want to take economics as my outside course next year as I hate linguistics and have to have to drop it because it makes me miserable. Is it usually an oversubscribed course? I know with english lit this year the people who wanted to take it as an outside had to be picked out of a hat because it's so popular.

Can you take first year courses in second year? Economics 2 requires Economics 1A.

Can anyone help me? I've searched the website but can't seem to find anything. The prospectus only covers the first 2 years.

Just wondering if it would be possible to pick up two new outsides?

With the outside subjects for second year, if you're a single honours student (as I am, straight English Lit) do you have to carry on one of the outsides from first year? I'm doing French and Philosophy at the moment, and really am not all that taken with the idea of doing either of them next year...

Just wondering if it would be possible to pick up two new outsides?

I'm really sorry if someone already asked this, but is it possble to do Fine Art as an outside subject?

It's just it's a longer course, and to get in initially you obviously need a portfolio, but at the same time I'm a bit of an art nerd and wouldn't mind having a go if it's possible. If not - I'm guessing History of Art is okay as an outside?

Sorry if someone's asked this but if you're doing Social anthropology can you take up a language from beginner level? I really really want to learn Italian.

Yeah, I did.

If you're doing anything you can take anything as long as it fits in with your timetable and there are places on the course etc. There aren't specific outside subjects available to specific degrees.

Can anyone tell me what type of optional modules you would be able to study doing languages at Edinburgh, especially in the 1st year?

I am particularly interested in literature and so would like to get stuck in straight away rather than waiting until the 2nd and 4th year to study any books.

I'm really interested in taking Foundations of Criminology and Archaeology as outside subjects. Anyone got any experience in these? Workload, interest, etc?

I do Archaeology (currently 3rd year so there might be a few differences in the course, although I believe we were the first year to go through a new course so it should still be similar) - the first year courses are pretty straightforward workload-wise, the same as most first year courses. An essay a term, 3 lectures and a tutorial a week, and an extremely wide-ranging breadth of topics covered that is pretty difficult to keep on top of if you don't put in quite a bit of work... that said you can get by without keeping on top of all the topics, so like all courses particularly pre-honours, it is as much work-load as you make it. As for interest the wide range of topics covered (some basic stuff about the practice of archaeology and then prehistory of the world (well Europe and the Near-East for the most part with a touch of African origins, so an old world outlook) with some basic introductions to key sites/etc.) means that if you have an interest in some part of archaeology you can focus on it in your essays and explore related themes; if you have no interest in prehistory you will find it uninteresting.