Arts majors with the lowest contact hours?

[silva112]

When I get to Uni I want to do Law/Arts prefferably at Monash, and I want to make the arts component as much a bludge as possible.  I want to know which majors have the least contact hours, especially the humanities ones!

[/0]

lol why didn't you just do Law then?

[IntoTheNewWorld]

lol why didn't you just do Law then?

+1

[AppleThief]

lol why didn't you just do Law then?

Thirding.

Why are you planning to do Arts if you just want to bludge and not actually do Arts?

[*ryan777*]

When I get to Uni I want to do Law/Arts prefferably at Monash, and I want to make the arts component as much a bludge as possible.  I want to know which majors have the least contact hours, especially the humanities ones!

in that case stay away from languages, as fun as they are, they have more contact hrs and require a bit of work too

but yeah, perhaps just do law

[silva112]

Look up the Clearly-In's for Law, there a full ENTER point above the Law double-degrees. Besides, I enjoy the humanities equally so my choice for an Arts major would come down how little I'd have to do for it.

[dejan91]

lol why didn't you just do Law then?

Thirding.

Fourthing?

[silva112]

Arts/Law and Comm/Law =98.1-98.15. Law alone = 99.35. Do the math!

[simonhu81292]

things can change  . . . in the next few years...
you never know

[silva112]

Gosh I hope things do, I'd prefer not to have to do an extra two years at uni on a degree I'll never use again, but if that's what it takes to get into law....

[dejan91]

Ohh, sorry I misread what you posted above my previous post. If the double degree is lower (which is just weird :S ), then you've got a decent reason why you'd want to bludge haha. As for which subs to pick, no idea. Ask in the Monash subforum, perhaps?

[silva112]

I assume that low contact hour majors are common across all uni's, so this is open to all.

[ninwa]

Low contact hours don't mean low study hours.

Law subjects have one of the lowest contact hours (3 hours a week until week 6, 4 hours from week 6-12 only if the subject has marked tutorials), but they require the most work.

Most humanities subjects require a lot of outside reading and research to pass. A common misconception is that arts subjects are easy to do well in. Most of them are not.

Keep in mind that bad arts marks will negatively impact on your GPA, which potential employers will be looking at. Law subjects are incredibly hard to do well in - you're going to need your arts marks to push your GPA up, not further down. A credit in a law subject is an excellent result (I'm not making this up, I have heard several lecturers say this).

Top- and middle-tier law firms generally don't even bother with applications from graduates with less than a distinction average.

With that in mind, from personal 1st hand or 2nd experience, history, international studies, politics, English/literature and gender studies all have quite low contact hours (on average, 3-4 hours a week). Sociology is apparently extremely easy to do well in, not sure about contact hours though. Ditto for criminology.

[kendraaaaa]

Most are usually the same, 2x1 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tute in a week. However languages, as stated above, have about 5 hours a week in first year. Here's a run down on my subs if you're interested

International Studies - 90 minute lecture, 1 hour tute
Philosophy - 2 one hour lectures, 1 hour tute
European and EU studies - 2 one hour lectures, 1 hour tute
French - 1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour workshop, 2 hour tutorial

[*ryan777*]

do comm/law, a lot of comm subjets have around 3~4 contact hrs per week and its more usefull and interesting than arts subjects,
as u wanna study law, id assume u can handle writing/reading quite well so focus on management/maketing/buslaw subjects