Which university courses give the best assuages???

[bubble sunglasses]

Just out of interest, which university courses give the best assuages.....
assuage (v.): To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).

What do you earn the most pleasure in

I find that I have an insatiable hunger to learn more mathematics, but my Bachelor of Science course is doing a pretty good job of assuaging it. 

What course are you doing and why do you enjoy it?

cheers

+1 on the maths. I can't get enough of it, which is why I'm doing only maths courses this semester, as well as add-on advanced studies courses.

I would love to do some more Latin/Ancient Greek, but unfortunately I can't really find space for it... Oh well.

 Have you done any analytical/reading type arts subjects? I'd be curious to know how much time you needed to spend on them [as in non-contact hrs pw]

[humph]

Just out of interest, which university courses give the best assuages.....
assuage (v.): To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).

What do you earn the most pleasure in

I find that I have an insatiable hunger to learn more mathematics, but my Bachelor of Science course is doing a pretty good job of assuaging it. 

What course are you doing and why do you enjoy it?

cheers

+1 on the maths. I can't get enough of it, which is why I'm doing only maths courses this semester, as well as add-on advanced studies courses.

I would love to do some more Latin/Ancient Greek, but unfortunately I can't really find space for it... Oh well.

 Have you done any analytical/reading type arts subjects? I'd be curious to know how much time you needed to spend on them [as in non-contact hrs pw]

Nah, not really. You'd be best off asking Eriny. My neighbour at college does do PhB Arts though, which is basically a research arts degree (same as Eriny). She doesn't go to much class or do much work, but she has to do loads of reading and several major essays over the course of a semester.

[ninwa]

arts - the language side of it

I have your "insatiable hunger" to learn languages

Which is why I'm retaking up german and chinese as well as french next year *can't wait*

 Ninwa, have you tried learning languages with Michel Thomas CD's? There really good, they give you a good base in a language in 8hrs so then you're ready to read/listen to stuff talk to people to further your knowledge of that language. They cost a pretty penny but check if there in any libraries you have access to

Nope, never heard of them, but will have a look into it! I've been looking for a way to learn languages like Russian and Spanish and Arabic without having to do a whole other degree(s)!
Thanks heaps

[excal]

Information Systems and Social Informatics

I don't get to study the latter much, but even just studying Information Systems gives you both the technical and the business applications of IT into creating information systems. This knowledge helps you to appreciate the impact of information systems has had on society and will have in future, in addition to the ethical and legal implications of such systems and the people who operate and develop them.

It's the kind of study where you do really need to know a bit of everyone else's disciplines (law, business, maths, physics, arts) because the reality is that IT does impact everyone, and developers and designers need to be aware of this in their work. It's this challenge that I particuarly enjoy.

I wanted to do this unit =( : http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/archive/2008/s1/fit3098.html

Also, sausages.

[clinton_09]

 and maths never ceases to make me wonder how a simple set of rules can produce such complicated outcomes.

The common facet of my thirst for these fields (including physics) is an appreciation of understanding how fundamental forces can build the world.

hmm my weather lecturer was telling us how they put alot of complicated physical and maths equations into some super computer that then runs for like 12 hours and simulates for like the next week and it comes with a weather forecast... pretty cool i reckon...lolz  that is maths equation= weather forecast.....

what course are you doing Stefanos?

[Eriny]

I'm in love with essay writing, which is so geeky. Part of the rationale for picking my subjects next semester was that the assessment would be essay based with no exams *happy sigh*. That's probably why I like arts, just essay writing. But also, you don't have to accept assumptions while essay writing like I think you have to in law (as in, you have to assume that upholding the law is a goal you want to work towards and that what's "right" is based on what already exists in writing).

Have you done any analytical/reading type arts subjects? I'd be curious to know how much time you needed to spend on them [as in non-contact hrs pw]

Non-contact hours in arts subjects like English can range from about 5 a week (like, the first few weeks) to countless (essay build-up time). When I did UMEP English I had to read one text a week, which was insane when I was reading stuff like A Portrait of a Lady. My now less ready subjects still involve quite a lot of readings a week. Probably not as much as law students get, but the difference is that I actually do my readings.

[TrueLight]

what course are you doing Stefanos?

im doing bachelor of science at monash and one of my units is called science of weather.

[midas_touch]

I'm a maths/chem/physics type of person as well, and so doing Chem Eng was a pretty logical choice, since it fuses all these disciplines together.

 and maths never ceases to make me wonder how a simple set of rules can produce such complicated outcomes.

The common facet of my thirst for these fields (including physics) is an appreciation of understanding how fundamental forces can build the world.

hmm my weather lecturer was telling us how they put alot of complicated physical and maths equations into some super computer that then runs for like 12 hours and simulates for like the next week and it comes with a weather forecast... pretty cool i reckon...lolz  that is maths equation= weather forecast.....

Good to also see someone interested in the weather . I was going to do a major in atmospheric science as part of my science degree, but changed majors to maths after realising the 2nd year weather and climate subject was being taught in a pretty crap way. But I still might consider doing an honours year in this field once I finish my double degree.

[aidansteele]

I think a hypothetical Arts/Science/Engineering degree would be best (even if it took 7 years!), it's the closest one could get to being a real life modern renaissance man. That said, I'm more than happy doing a BE/BSc, but there isn't nearly enough essay-writing. I look forward to later years and doing major assignments == lots of words

[brendan]

real life modern renaissance man.

If you want that then Economics is your best bet

“...the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature of his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.”  J. M. Keynes "Alfred Marshall,  1842-1924" The Economic Journal, (Sept.,1924)

[Neobeo]

I think a hypothetical Arts/Science/Engineering degree would be best (even if it took 7 years!), it's the closest one could get to being a real life modern renaissance man. That said, I'm more than happy doing a BE/BSc, but there isn't nearly enough essay-writing. I look forward to later years and doing major assignments == lots of words

Sounds like an interesting hybrid. My ideal course would be one that allowed me to do nothing but maths and languages .

[brendan]

My ideal course

My ideal course is closest to this:

http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/

[aidansteele]

Sounds like an interesting hybrid. My ideal course would be one that allowed me to do nothing but maths and languages .

I too would have liked to have done just mathematics and languages, but my desire to do "practical" things required Engineering as well. That said, I'll be starting a diploma in languages in second year and my major in computational maths before my compsci major, so hopefully I'll be skilled enough to pursue a project in linguistics for my computer science major assignment.

Brendan: I've given serious thought to post-grad economics, but until then economics columns and Freakonomics will have to tide me over.

[cara.mel]

I like mine. Lets me do less icky first year subjects and more proper 2nd/3rd year subjects :smitten:. Like next semester I have
    * ASP2062: Introduction to astrophysics
    * MTH2010: Multivariable calculus
    * MTH2032: Differential equations with modelling
    * PHS1022: Physics

where the first digit corresponds to first/2nd/3rd year. Silly physics being prereq/sleeping subject

Although I assume by 3rd year I'm going to be like 'borrrrrrrrrrrrringggggggggggggggggggg' again. I don't know. I can't see into the future very well at all.
(You should ignore the fact I stuffed up my 2nd year subject exam this semester)

[bubble sunglasses]

http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/courses/index.html

 For the subjects listed with 2 areas of study, you don't just study units from each subject, but also take a bridging course which incorporates both