Help with UCAS!!!

[Laylah]

<p>There’s not really any ‘normal’, unfortunately - all universities do it differently. </p>

<p>For example, if your university requires you to take 120 credits per year, this could be made up of two 60 credit modules, four 30 credit modules, one 60 credit module and two 30 credit modules… etc!</p>

<p>From looking at the Edinburgh Celtic degree outline it looks like in your first year you take 40 credits of Gaelic and 80 credits of optional modules.</p>

<p>[DPT:</a> Celtic (MA Hons) (UTCELTC)](<a href=“http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/12-13/dpt/utceltc.htm]DPT:”>http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/12-13/dpt/utceltc.htm)</p>

<p>What tends to happen is that as you move up through the years the balance shifts towards an increased number of credits in your own department and fewer optional modules available.</p>

<p>But - this isn’t the case for all universities. I went to Oxford - we didn’t have modules and there were no optional courses available for the first two years. Plus when I finally did have options, they were all within my department anyway!</p>

[hedgehog123]

<p>Hm… interesting. Over here there is a similar mix of required and optional courses, but pretty much all courses are worth 3 credits and you usually take 4 (5 occasionally) courses per semester. It sounds like there’s a lot of variance within any given year, course, and university in the UK. Hopefully I’ll be able to figure it all out when/if I’m over there. Thank you all!</p>