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Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: 90+FTW on December 02, 2014, 01:36:26 pm
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Hey, so I'm interested in taking a subject that many consider an "easy H1." Now, I am not doing this because I'm 'lazy' I actuallly have a valid and significnat reason for asking this question (obv quite personal) so please don't get the wrong idea. Anyway, I'd really appreciate any personal opinions (currently BA undergrad) about the breadths or any 'easy' subjects that you took. Hopefully, you managed to H1s in these!
I really do appreciate your help everyone :)
Sorry for the odd question.
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Making Movies 1 is a piece of piss if you know how to take a photo. I probably spent 5 hours tops on the entire assessment of that subject and got a 93.
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Making Movies 1
Isn't that located in Southbank?
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Making Movies 1 is a piece of piss if you know how to take a photo. I probably spent 5 hours tops on the entire assessment of that subject and got a 93.
Man I wish I did this subject
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The Secret Life of Language is a good subject if you want an H1. The assignments are easy to score very highly on if you collab on ideas with a friend (which is allowed), and the exam was not hard at all. I only had one night to study the whole course for the exam due to preceding subjects and I think I got an 83 on it (90 overall, and it's definitely not too hard to get a score like this, or higher). I hear the pre-2013 version was much harder in terms of the exam.
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The Secret Life of Language is a good subject if you want an H1. The assignments are easy to score very highly on if you collab on ideas with a friend (which is allowed), and the exam was not hard at all. I only had one night to study the whole course for the exam due to preceding subjects and I think I got an 83 on it (90 overall, and it's definitely not too hard to get a score like this, or higher). I hear know the pre-2013 version was much harder in terms of the exam.
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The Secret Life of Language is a good subject if you want an H1. The assignments are easy to score very highly on if you collab on ideas with a friend (which is allowed), and the exam was not hard at all. I only had one night to study the whole course for the exam due to preceding subjects and I think I got an 83 on it (90 overall, and it's definitely not too hard to get a score like this, or higher). I hear the pre-2013 version was much harder in terms of the exam.
Thanks LeviLamp :) but I think I want a subject that DOESN'T involve much essay writing. I'm already majoring (Classics Latin/Ancient Greek) and minoring (Law and Justice) in two courses that are heavily essay based and I don't want to overload, particularly with the personal issues going on in my life right now. The most important thing is that I continue to maintain my 90s+ H1 average in all my subjects. I need to do something that's far more relaxing next year but still easy to do exceptionally well in, for the sake of health at least. It sounds awesome though LeviLamp :)
UPDATE: ALSO, do you think science subjects would be a bad idea? I do love looking at things like evolution etc....I guess this is directed towards BS students.
Or should I just stick to the music type of subjects? Anyone?
I heard Music Psychology is good.
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I don't think LING10001 has any essay writing in it, if I'm not mistaken. Former students, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the take home assignments are problem-based. I am thinking about saving this subject until semester 2 third year.
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Stick. Nah, I think it actually DOES involve essay writing, a few of my friends did the subject and didn't particularly like it :/
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Really? I just checked the reviews and there seems to be no indication of any essay writing. Bummer, I was really interested in taking it. :/
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Hey Stick :)
From the Handbook
Two research assignments: the first worth 40% (approx. 1500-words), due mid-semester; the second worth 60% (approx. 2500 words) due end of semester).
Not interested in essay writing subjects? Or is it too demanding?
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Uhh... That's not for LING10001
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2015/LING10001
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OH SHIT! My apologies, haha. Sorry, I must've added a 2 instead of a 1 at the end. Yes, forget everything I said. And here we can see the dangers of fast typing without editing.
I was looking at this, which is the one a few of my friends did.
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2014/LING10002
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Haha, no worries! :P It seems very manageable which was why I intend to save it up until my last semester.
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Stick :)
Definitely, that actually sounds pretty awesome! Not a fan of essay writing eh Stick? Is it just because it involves a lot of work...or...just hate essay writing in general?
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Both. It's not terribly enjoyable because they take me a lot of time. Despite the stress, I much prefer sitting exams and tests.
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Perfectly understandable :) I'm very meticulous with my essay writing (so it can often take me a lot of time as well). I can certainly see where you're coming from, at least with science there is a right and wrong answer. Grading essays are purely subjective.
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You've hit the nail on the head! Even science reports/essays don't seem that bad in comparison.
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Isn't that located in Southbank?
It is but it's not really a hassle. From Parkville you can just hop on basically any tram down Swanston and it takes a bit over 15 minutes. Or, if you come to uni via Flinders St, you can just walk down (about 10 minutes) or get a tram (about 5). Either way, it really doesn't take that much longer than walking from one end of the Parkville Campus to the other.
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I've noticed from the subject review that you did take Latin 1, and seeing your exceptionally high mark there, would you recommend that subject yourself in that category?
If I may add, another interesting and perhaps more specific question to others is this. Which language subject is well taught, rewarding, as well as easy to do well in?
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If I may add, another interesting and perhaps more specific question to others is this. Which language subject is well taught, rewarding, as well as easy to do well in?
ITALIAN ITALIAN ITALIAN ITALIAN ITALIAN
(see my reviews for a more informative explanation lol)
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Well, Italian is actually my FIRST language (of course that's been overshadowed by the fact that I was raised in an English speaking country and I am considered a native speaker by...everyone. I was NEVER considered an ESL student but I did pick up English a few months after Italian so... makes sense). ANYWAY (sorry for the rambling) what I'm trying to say is that there's nothing University could REALLY teach me about the basic stuff. Having been to Italy for quite some time, I can tell you that the Italian they teach in school is quite different to the Italian, applied in real life. I basically did Italian all through high school (lied to the teachers that I had never done it before) and aced every class. I wasn't prepared to do Japanese and the French teacher at my school was absolutely terrifying :0
Latin IS wonderful and I have been doing exceptionally well in it (I am majoring in Classics) but that doesn't necessarily mean I'll do well in French or Spanish. In fact, I did French once and I was absolutely shit at it. Don't trust me when it comes to languages, I think Latin was just a fluke.
I have to do Ancient Greek eventually (it's a requirement for Classics). Not sure if it's harder than Latin?
If I may add, another interesting and perhaps more specific question to others is this. Which language subject is well taught, rewarding, as well as easy to do well in?
Well, Latin is certainly NOT easy to do well in. Most people do badly but it IS incredibly rewarding, so if you're willing to put in the hard yards, you should do very well :)
I heard Japanese is easy? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Well, Italian is actually my FIRST language (of course that's been overshadowed by the fact that I was raised in an English speaking country and I am considered a native speaker by...everyone. I was NEVER considered an ESL student but I did pick up English a few months after Italian so... makes sense). ANYWAY (sorry for the rambling) what I'm trying to say is that there's nothing University could REALLY teach me about the basic stuff. Having been to Italy for quite some time, I can tell you that the Italian they teach in school is quite different to the Italian, applied in real life. I basically did Italian all through high school (lied to the teachers that I had never done it before) and aced every class. I wasn't prepared to do Japanese and the French teacher at my school was absolutely terrifying :0
Latin IS wonderful and I have been doing exceptionally well in it (I am majoring in Classics) but that doesn't necessarily mean I'll do well in French or Spanish. In fact, I did French once and I was absolutely shit at it. Don't trust me when it comes to languages, I think Latin was just a fluke.
I have to do Ancient Greek eventually (it's a requirement for Classics). Not sure if it's harder than Latin?
Well, Latin is certainly NOT easy to do well in. Most people do badly but it IS incredibly rewarding, so if you're willing to put in the hard yards, you should do very well :)
I heard Japanese is easy? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Since you have familiarised yourself well with the basics of Latin, you may find that learning Ancient Greek to be easier as they have similar grammar and syntax. A bit of Latin vocabulary also comes from the Ancient Greek language and you will be able to see the similarities in words once you start studying.
(A bit off topic)By the way, how is studying Latin at University? Is it quite fast? I've thought about continuing VCE Latin at UoM as breadth and always wondered how people are able to learn Latin from scratch and be able to read/translate and anaylse texts so quickly. Seems mind-boggling to me :o
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Well, Italian is actually my FIRST language (of course that's been overshadowed by the fact that I was raised in an English speaking country and I am considered a native speaker by...everyone. I was NEVER considered an ESL student but I did pick up English a few months after Italian so... makes sense). ANYWAY (sorry for the rambling) what I'm trying to say is that there's nothing University could REALLY teach me about the basic stuff. Having been to Italy for quite some time, I can tell you that the Italian they teach in school is quite different to the Italian, applied in real life. I basically did Italian all through high school (lied to the teachers that I had never done it before) and aced every class. I wasn't prepared to do Japanese and the French teacher at my school was absolutely terrifying :0
Latin IS wonderful and I have been doing exceptionally well in it (I am majoring in Classics) but that doesn't necessarily mean I'll do well in French or Spanish. In fact, I did French once and I was absolutely shit at it. Don't trust me when it comes to languages, I think Latin was just a fluke.
I have to do Ancient Greek eventually (it's a requirement for Classics). Not sure if it's harder than Latin?
Well, Latin is certainly NOT easy to do well in. Most people do badly but it IS incredibly rewarding, so if you're willing to put in the hard yards, you should do very well :)
I heard Japanese is easy? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I come from an Asian background but predominantly Chinese so my opinion might be useful. Japanese isn't a necessarily easy language but is the easiest out of the 'main' Asian languages. I'm not sure how easy/hard it is compared to European languages since I didn't really learn one. Although I tried learning French which I found hard to grasp but I never really tried in it.
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By the way, how is studying Latin at University? Is it quite fast? I've thought about continuing VCE Latin at UoM as breadth and always wondered how people are able to learn Latin from scratch and be able to read/translate and anaylse texts so quickly. Seems mind-boggling to me :o
Haha no prob and yes, it is mind-boggling :)
Well more than half the students drop off after the first semester in Latin:/ Surprisingly enough, I've actually met a lot of VCE Latin students and to be honest, I'd say we are at exactly the same level (that is the aim of the first year after all). For example, I managed to match them in everything (surprisingly enough I even managed to out do them in certain areas) but I suppose that it comes down to the person as well. I never thought I'd be good at Latin until my professor asked me to continue with it...
Latin, from what I understand, is much harder at University. A lot of the VCE students get a shock coming in to it and many of the 2nd year students have had a year to perfect their essay writing skills for University, while VCE students have not. With that said, VCE students have had a longer time to learn the language. It's really hard for me to speak on behalf of everyone, I can only speak for myself. Personally, I didn't find learning the entire language difficult in a year (we are still studying the exceptions next year though) but that's because I worked ridiculously hard and I love it so much! Two of the best tutors I've ever had, started Latin at University and now they're at Yale and Harvard (not joking) completing their PhD.
Please remember that I also had Italian to back me up, which CERTAINLY helped. All in all, I think it really depends on the person. To be honest I'd say that both university students AND VCE students get quite a shock in Latin 3. Although, I've got some pretty hardcore Latin GENIUSES in my class right now, so I'm sure THEY'LL be fine.
The best advice I can give you is, do what you love and the rest will follow :) Latin 3 is more literature based than grammar focused. It involves analysing the language at sophisticated levels etc but if you like this sort of thing, then I'm sure you'll do VERY WELL in it :)
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Japanese isn't a necessarily easy language but is the easiest out of the 'main' Asian languages.
Well, I think any Asian language is difficult to learn. What makes Japanese the "easiest" out of the rest?
P.S if anyone has any other subjects that they consider easy H1s (not just languages) please contribute :)
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I highly recommend Glee Singing 1 , not only it is easier to do well in, but it does not requires much work, very little in fact. Singing also makes you happier and alleviates stress! :)
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Haha no prob and yes, it is mind-boggling :)
Well more than half the students drop off after the first semester in Latin:/ Surprisingly enough, I've actually met a lot of VCE Latin students and to be honest, I'd say we are at exactly the same level (that is the aim of the first year after all). For example, I managed to match them in everything (surprisingly enough I even managed to out do them in certain areas) but I suppose that it comes down to the person as well. I never thought I'd be good at Latin until my professor asked me to continue with it...
Latin, from what I understand, is much harder at University. A lot of the VCE students get a shock coming in to it and many of the 2nd year students have had a year to perfect their essay writing skills for University, while VCE students have not. With that said, VCE students have had a longer time to learn the language. It's really hard for me to speak on behalf of everyone, I can only speak for myself. Personally, I didn't find learning the entire language difficult in a year (we are still studying the exceptions next year though) but that's because I worked ridiculously hard and I love it so much! Two of the best tutors I've ever had, started Latin at University and now they're at Yale and Harvard (not joking) completing their PhD.
Please remember that I also had Italian to back me up, which CERTAINLY helped. All in all, I think it really depends on the person. To be honest I'd say that both university students AND VCE students get quite a shock in Latin 3. Although, I've got some pretty hardcore Latin GENIUSES in my class right now, so I'm sure THEY'LL be fine.
The best advice I can give you is, do what you love and the rest will follow :) Latin 3 is more literature based than grammar focused. It involves analysing the language at sophisticated levels etc but if you like this sort of thing, then I'm sure you'll do VERY WELL in it :)
No doubt that your english/writing/language background help you a great deal in Latin. It's great that you find yourself on the same skill level as VCE students. Maybe because my VCE cohort was pretty beastly at Latin, but I would expect that all VCE Latin students to have known almost, if not all Latin grammar and have studied the Aeneid Book II and the works of Cicero to a great depth. We didn't do essays of the length that are required in University Latin, but essay writing was a skill that was developed through the whole of VCE. But as you have suggested, hard work and good teaching of the language can really get you anywhere.
Also, your enthusiasm and love for the language is very nostalgic. It reminds me of the time when I was learning Latin. :) I may not be able to enrol in Latin 3(breadth requirements etc.) but I still have my old Latin stuff and I will read/translate texts in my own time. :D
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Well, I think any Asian language is difficult to learn. What makes Japanese the "easiest" out of the rest?
P.S if anyone has any other subjects that they consider easy H1s (not just languages) please contribute :)
I can only compare it to Chinese since I don't have much experience with Korean. I learnt Chinese first so I may be a little biased. I find when learning Japanese it's easier to pick up because there are fewer tones and they're easier to pronounce. I also find writing Japanese easier compared to Chinese especially Traditional Chinese.
Although a lot of people can argue the opposite, I don't really like comparing languages since it usually turns in to a heated argument especially between my fobby friends :P
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but I would expect that all VCE Latin students to have known almost, if not all Latin grammar and have studied the Aeneid Book II and the works of Cicero to a great depth.
That's wonderful!!! Did you study Cicero's Pro Caelio?
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Well, I think any Asian language is difficult to learn. What makes Japanese the "easiest" out of the rest?
P.S if anyone has any other subjects that they consider easy H1s (not just languages) please contribute :)
To be honest I think Latin is much easier than Ancient Greek. Contrary to what notveryasian says, I think it works the other way. If you really understand Ancient Greek, then Latin (and I hate to say this phrase) seems piss easy. After all, Latin basically takes all of its grammar from Ancient Greek, but it doesn't take all the Ancient Greek grammar, if that makes sense. For example, there is no optative in Latin nor is there a medio-passive voice, to name twotwo instances. There is also an Aorist tense in Greek, which is similar to French passé composé. Also, there are no real regular verbs in Ancient Greek and verb tenses are derived through root and consonantal vowel changes rather than the common -o -ere/ire -ivi/ii - itus/tus endings. In my opinion, the Greek verb system works much better even though it is more complicated. So for example the principle parts of the word 'to carry/bear' (from which the latin word fero is derived):
phero, oiso,enenkon/enenka,enenoka,enenegmai,enekthen, enekhthesomai
but then the verb 'I think': oiomai, oiyesomai, oiyethen
I actually find that Greek is a much more rewarding and beautiful language than Latin. Latin seems rather boring after Greek...I'm sure you will really enjoy it!
That said, definitely not a subject to do if you want a certain H1 without doing much work. Class average for translation tests last year was about 6/20 (but it may just have been my lecturer who liked to give beginners Greek passages from Aristotle's Metaphysics, which was actually really great but just really difficult). But then there were only about 7 people in the class, and some of them weren't very hard-working at all. If you want to do really well, you need to knuckle down big time. It worked for me, but it depends how good you are at unseen translation and contextual semantics.
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That's wonderful!!! Did you study Cicero's Pro Caelio?
Unfortunately we only looked at the history behind Pro Caelio. From memory, we studied extracts from "Pro Plancio", a bit from his defence of Verres(can't remember the name), as well as some of the more philosophical works "De Divinatione" and his some parts of his famous speech against Marcus Anthony in "Philipics." Analysing the rhetoric in his political speeches was probably the best part of learning Cicero, in my opinion.
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To be honest I think Latin is much easier than Ancient Greek. Contrary to what notveryasian says, I think it works the other way. If you really understand Ancient Greek, then Latin (and I hate to say this phrase) seems piss easy. After all, Latin basically takes all of its grammar from Ancient Greek, but it doesn't take all the Ancient Greek grammar, if that makes sense. For example, there is no optative in Latin nor is there a medio-passive voice, to name twotwo instances. There is also an Aorist tense in Greek, which is similar to French passé composé. Also, there are no real regular verbs in Ancient Greek and verb tenses are derived through root and consonantal vowel changes rather than the common -o -ere/ire -ivi/ii - itus/tus endings. In my opinion, the Greek verb system works much better even though it is more complicated. So for example the principle parts of the word 'to carry/bear' (from which the latin word fero is derived):
phero, oiso,enenkon/enenka,enenoka,enenegmai,enekthen, enekhthesomai
but then the verb 'I think': oiomai, oiyesomai, oiyethen
I actually find that Greek is a much more rewarding and beautiful language than Latin. Latin seems rather boring after Greek...I'm sure you will really enjoy it!
That said, definitely not a subject to do if you want a certain H1 without doing much work. Class average for translation tests last year was about 6/20 (but it may just have been my lecturer who liked to give beginners Greek passages from Aristotle's Metaphysics, which was actually really great but just really difficult). But then there were only about 7 people in the class, and some of them weren't very hard-working at all. If you want to do really well, you need to knuckle down big time. It worked for me, but it depends how good you are at unseen translation and contextual semantics.
Wow, well all my friends did Ancient Greek this past year and aced it :o so that is quite odd! But yes, you'll always hear conflicting things. My professor actually thinks Latin is much harder and you seem to be the only person I've met whose found it the other way around, which relates back to exactly what I said, "it depends on the person." I think talking about languages is SUCH a subjective thing (which is why I was hesitant to mention it in my question). Whether I want a H1 or not, Ancient Greek is a requirement for a Classics Major (but I do work extremely hard and I managed to get 98 in Latin without much difficulty so I have a lot of faith in myself. I've never gotten less than what I've aimed for in life...not about to start). But I can certainly see where you're coming from :) Just a side note, I'm pretty sure Latin does have the aorist - this is pretty obvious when you use the sequence of tense. In fact, it's important that you're able to distinguish between the two aspects, lest you end up using the wrong subordinate subjunctive. But yes, the middle voice is something that really only belongs to Ancient Greek, although you can see the subtle connection when studying deponents.
To each their own, I suppose. If it were up to me I would just do Latin, but Ancient Greeks seems fascinating and if you work hard, I'm sure a H1 is more than possible :)
And nah, haha I'm far too committed to Latin, I will defend its beauty until the end! Plus, it's important for me to learn since I'm interested in Roman Law :)
With that said, Ancient Greek seems lovely as well.
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Unfortunately we only looked at the history behind Pro Caelio. From memory, we studied extracts from "Pro Plancio", a bit from his defence of Verres(can't remember the name), as well as some of the more philosophical works "De Divinatione" and his some parts of his famous speech against Marcus Anthony in "Philipics." Analysing the rhetoric in his political speeches was probably the best part of learning Cicero, in my opinion.
He's quite interesting and you've definitely sparked my interest with "philosophical works!"We did a fair bit of Virgil but not enough in my opinion haha. I'm just looking forward to Horace!
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He's quite interesting and you've definitely sparked my interest with "philosophical works!"We did a fair bit of Virgil but not enough in my opinion haha. I'm just looking forward to Horace!
Awesome! If you liked Virgil and poetry than you'll definitely love Horace's Satires or Odes. Also, if you haven't studied him already, Catullus' is another great poet and you might enjoy some of his work(although he can be quite crude and explicit.) :P
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Wow, well all my friends did Ancient Greek this past year and aced it :o so that is quite odd! But yes, you'll always hear conflicting things. My professor actually thinks Latin is much harder and you seem to be the only person I've met whose found it the other way around, which relates back to exactly what I said, "it depends on the person." I think talking about languages is SUCH a subjective thing (which is why I was hesitant to mention it in my question). Whether I want a H1 or not, Ancient Greek is a requirement for a Classics Major (but I do work extremely hard and I managed to get 98 in Latin without much difficulty so I have a lot of faith in myself. I've never gotten less than what I've aimed for in life...not about to start). But I can certainly see where you're coming from :) Just a side note, I'm pretty sure Latin does have the aorist - this is pretty obvious when you use the sequence of tense. In fact, it's important that you're able to distinguish between the two aspects, lest you end up using the wrong subordinate subjunctive. But yes, the middle voice is something that really only belongs to Ancient Greek, although you can see the subtle connection when studying deponents.
To each their own, I suppose. If it were up to me I would just do Latin, but Ancient Greeks seems fascinating and if you work hard, I'm sure a H1 is more than possible :)
re Aorist. Well Latin doesn't have a dedicated Aorist tense, which is what I mean. Yes, the perfect changes to an aoristic sense in some cases of the sequence of tense in Latin, and sometimes has an aoristic sense in itself (and these things are disputed by scholars,too). But again this just comes to the problems in some of the grammatical terminology in Classical languages. Thankfully lots of textbooks are moving to a method that teaches verbal aspect rather than set terms like 'perfect' 'pluperfect' blah blah which is much better.
lol ye I'm sure you'll be fine at Ancient Greek, you absolute gun. Congrats on your score, that's amazing. But since this is a 'H1 subjects' thread I thought I'd just warn people that it's no walk in the park :) My views were naturally absurdly biased because I did 6 years of Latin at school before doing Greek-Latin is of course extremely difficult! I wasn't saying that one is harder than the other. I meant that doing Greek makes Latin seem easier, because all the grammar in Latin is taken from Greek, and Greek has quite a few things that Latin does not have. I think you'll understand what I mean when you finish Greek next year. I feel like you were a bit defensive about it so hope I didn't convey the wrong idea in my response (the guilt!) - just shows how much you love Latin ;)
And yeh I have heard 2nd year Greek is much better! (No one in first year Greek was doing first year Latin, so I presume your friends were in 2nd year Greek?) I'm looking forward to it haha. It gets so much better when you can just focus on the texts etc.
Ye I agree Latin is good for Law but Greek is brilliant for philosophy. If you're interested in speeches/ Cicero you should read Demosthenes - sheer brilliance of oratory without Cicero's,umm arrogance ( it annoys me when Cicero praises himself, and he does it a lot-so I am annoyed a lot when reading Cicero). Seneca in Latin is also really great (his Moralia especially). Check it out.
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lol ye I'm sure you'll be fine at Ancient Greek, you absolute gun. Congrats on your score, that's amazing. But since this is a 'H1 subjects' thread I thought I'd just warn people that it's no walk in the park :) My views were naturally absurdly biased because I did 6 years of Latin at school before doing Greek-Latin is of course extremely difficult! I wasn't saying that one is harder than the other. I meant that doing Greek makes Latin seem easier, because all the grammar in Latin is taken from Greek, and Greek has quite a few things that Latin does not have. I think you'll understand what I mean when you finish Greek next year. I feel like you were a bit defensive about it so hope I didn't convey the wrong idea in my response (the guilt!) - just shows how much you love Latin ;)
Waaaa? Haha, geesh I need to be more careful about how I present myself!I'm so sorry if I gave off that vibe, I was definitely not trying to be defensive!!! Like I said, to each their own - how can I possibly criticize someone's opinion? I'm just impressed with anyone who's able to do Ancient Greek and mega jealous.
And BINGO, my friends were all second year Greek students - except for one. Seneca is lovely but I really love Horace! Nobody loves Tacitus though...well, I just I can't imagine anyone loving him.
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Also, if you haven't studied him already, Catullus' is another great poet and you might enjoy some of his work(although he can be quite crude and explicit.)
As crude as Martial? lol
He has the best epigrams I've ever read. Check them out. A personal and famous favourite that makes me cringe every single time. "Mentula tam magna est, tantus tibi, Papyle, nasus ut possis, quotiens arrigis, olfacere." Instead of intellectual philosophy, I read satirical plays (putting my Latin to good use, I see). Although I do enjoy the poets and their much more, refined language.
aaaaaaaaaand this topic has gone...off topic. Anymore H1 subjects? I really appreciate all these suggestions.
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As crude as Martial? lol
He has the best epigrams I've ever read. Check them out. A personal and famous favourite that makes me cringe every single time. "Mentula tam magna est, tantus tibi, Papyle, nasus ut possis, quotiens arrigis, olfacere." Instead of intellectual philosophy, I read satirical plays (putting my Latin to good use, I see). Although I do enjoy the poets and their much more, refined language.
aaaaaaaaaand this topic has gone...off topic. Anymore H1 subjects? I really appreciate all these suggestions.
I've never read any of Martial's work, but it is as bad as Catullus 32? Or even 16? :P I guess I'll form an opinion in my own time, haha.
On the topic of H1 breadth subjects, your best bet would be to look into the Faculty of Fine Arts, or even subjects offered by the music department. A lot of my friends have been scoring free H1s from Glee Singing 1, which has been suggested by Pup in this thread. If you're feeling a bit edgy, you could also do some University Breadth subjects, but they can be a bit dry in content and difficult to score well in(Food for a Healthy Planet rekt me.)
I have no experience with Arts subjects so I can't help you much with core/elective subjects.
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I've never read any of Martial's work, but it is as bad as Catullus 32? Or even 16? :P I guess I'll form an opinion in my own time, haha.
I don't think anything is quite as bad as Catullus 16. :P
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I don't think anything is quite as bad as Catullus 16. :P
So inappropriate.
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Oh dear God, I take back everything I said...Catullus wins. WOW. That was quite graphic...
I think I choked after the first line "pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo" GEESH!!!
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Sports Coaching...Absolutely hands down the easiest thing I have ever done!
And 'Deafness and Communication' :)