Two degrees at once (1 Viewer)

[BlackDragon]

I am going to sort this all out with course advising at open day, but i was just wondering if it is at all possible to do two degrees at once. not a double degree which is sort of different like b art/ b science, but like b international studies and b science at the same time. i'm a diverse sort of person and want to do many degrees but i don't want to spend up to 12 years at uni. (although i may) but am i wrong? is b art/b science two full degrees at once or different from that? anyway i still need to know because i'm interested in the following things which aren't set double degrees.

B International Studies
Philosophy
B Science
B Education (primary)
B Environmental Science
B Science/ B Teaching

so yeah, how many of those can i do at the one time? also, if i do say b arts/ b science, can i do a language major for the b arts? and if so can i have an exchange year? and if so do i still study the b science when i am away? cheers. don't worry if you can't answer. lol

 

[machine169]

I do a double degree but i'm not sure about doing seperate degrees. Fill out this form and someone can answer your questions. http://study.une.edu.au/enquiries.php3

 

[ObjectsInSpace]

As far as I know, double degrees are limited in what you can and can't do. I'm fairly certain you can do a Science/Teaching degree since you'd have to know your stuff to be able to teach it, but I don't think you could do, say International Studies/Primary Education. You should check the UAC guide as it has every course you can do. I'm not entirely sure if you could do a languages major in an Arts/Science degree since you'd be on exchange for part of you degree, however, it may be possible to do a plain vanilla Science and pick up the Arts component later in your time at university and mostly do Arts subjects in you final year. I'm fairly certain all languages do an exchange year, but I'm not sure how long it goes for. One of the Freshers around college is doing Business/Languages and is going to China for six months in ihs final year while another is doing a double languages degree, but I don't know how long she'll be gone for ...

 

[BlackDragon]

okay okay, can someone answer or research and answer this as fast as possible, as i am having trouble in finding an answer. is it possible to do a b arts and b environment studies at the same time (a double degree).

thanks!

 

[ObjectsInSpace]

As far as I know, the only Arts double-degrees are Arts/Business, Arts/Law, Arts/Science and Arts/Teahcing, however, it may be possible to do environmental studies as a major in Science (I really don't know what it would fall in). Otherwise, you might be able to do a double-major (they're rare but doable) if you had something else in mind for the Arts component and still want to do it.

Don't take any of that as gospel though; your best chance is to check out the UNE website under the Courses section.

 

[lawgrad1]

There isn't a B Arts/B Environmental Science double degree at UNE as per http://study.une.edu.au/courselist.php3?coursetype=2&p=MCOURSE . If you are really set on doing that sort of degree, then I would recommend doing something like B Arts/B Science and including environmental studies as a major - since that would be the closest degree available to what you want. Other than that, you could just do both degrees individually.

 

[BlackDragon]

can you do two seperate degrees simultaneously?

 

[ObjectsInSpace]

I'm not sure. You can do double-majors, but a standard week is of roughly 15-20 hours regardless of how many years you're doing, and Science degrees have 25-30 hour weeks. There simply wouldn't be enough time to do it all and logisitically, you'd be guaranteed to have clashes and some units have compulsory attendances (ie you have to sign in to say you were there). If you had two of those clashing, you'd be screwed for sure. We do four units per semester, but two separate degrees would take eight units. You'd collapse from exhaustion before the end of the first term.

Actually, now that I think on it, the answer is your question is probably a very big 'no'. You can do singe degrees, you can do pre-determined double degrees and you can do rare double majors, but you simply wouldn't be able to do two separate degrees even if you managed to work a timetable that allowed you to eat, sleep and breathe.

 

[BlackDragon]

cheers. thanks for your help. b arts/b science for me next year!

 

[BlackDragon]

another question. sorry i'm full of these. is b education a good degree to do if i THINK i want to be a primary teacher? if i do a b edu (primary) does that qualify me to teach secondary at all? my issue is that i think i want to do teaching but i am not sure and i won't know until i start training to be one. HOWEVER, i think i may want to teach primary because otherwise i'd just do a different degree and chuck a dip ed on that back. so yeah, my question is: is a b ed primary a good idea if i'm not completely sure i want to be a primary teacher and i have numerous other interests that this degree won't fulfill? and can i teach in secondary schools with this degree ?

 

[ObjectsInSpace]

I'm not an Edu student and all my contacts in the Faculty have dried up lately, but I'd say you probably couldn't teach in secondary school with a Primary Edu degree. Primary Education is fairly broad-spectrum because you're teaching everything as opposed to secondary schooling where you have to specialise in some areas (ie Maths, Science, IT, etc). Also, Primary Edu allows you to teach at both Infant and Primary level within a primary school and the development of the human mind in the early formative years of learning is markedly different to the development of the human mind in secondary and tertiary education. From the little information I've managed to gather, Edu students in primary and secondary schooling do different degrees.

But your best bet it to contact the institution. It might seem like you're annoying them, but it's better to get everything sorted out now as opposed to later when you find you're enrolled in a course you don't want to do, because then it really gets messy.

 

[thorrnydevil]

Teachers with a B. Ed. can teach only casually in High Schools. So, you'd probably have enough work anyway.