Foreign Perspectives

Since about November last year I’ve been thinking about what course I might do in 2009.

Up to this point it’s been pretty easy to choose in that I was sailing along the path of the BA (Hons) Modern Language Studies since 2002 but that ship has finally docked so I’ve run off the end. Anyway, last November in a fit of optimism I figured that I should start looking around to see what I might be interested in doing after the degree was finished.

Along the way I looked at just about everything or so it seemed. To begin with I figured that I really should finish off the Diploma in English Language which consists of two courses of which my final course for the degree is one. However, as it turned up, excellent marks not withstanding, English just ain’t really my subject or at least the two potential courses I could do aren’t appealing at the moment.

Then I thought that it might be nice to consider either history or perhaps the history of art. Whilst the history book was definitely interesting it didn’t feel like a subject I’d fancy doing for a degree. One look at the art history book was enough to put me right off that one.

Which brings me to the two strands that I’ve been interested in for quite a while but haven’t gotten around to doing anything about until now. First there’s physics which is difficult at times but really interesting and then there’s psychology which can make for some really interesting anecdotes.

In the end I found myself down to a choice of two courses yesterday. Planetary science and the search for life  and child development. Both are interesting for different reasons. Planetary science appears to be one of the most interesting courses in the university if the comments are anything to go by and it also has the plus point that it’s a 30 point course which means around 4 to 7 hours a week vs about twice that for the child development one. What swung the argument for the child development is that the little guys are 4 and 6 and it seemed a better idea to go for that course now so that they’ll get more benefit from it than they would do if I did it in a couple of years time.

The problem now is that I’m notionally signed up a BSc (Hons) Psychology….