Joint honours
A ‘joint’ honours course is not a degree in cooking roasts of meat or rolling spliffs, but a course where you study two subjects equally. You gotta juggle.
Some joint honours students complain that they don’t feel properly involved in either of their subjects and they’re not at home in either department.
Others reckon it’s the best way of avoiding ever getting bored with your subject and, at the end of the day, they’ve got broader qualifications than other students.
In reality, most joint honours students end up getting more into one subject than the other and, as the course goes on and they pick options for their second and third years, they find it amounts to little more than a delicious single honours degree that comes with with a particularly demanding sidesalad. More on the application process..
On which topic it’s worth mentioning that, since your time’s already divided, most joint honours courses don’t allow (let alone offer) subsids. Most, but not all.
Last updated on: 23 April 2008