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Ahhh, okay, got it now, I'll have to investigate NUI then

irishlady wrote:Ahhh, okay, got it now, I'll have to investigate NUI then

http://www.nui.ie

páidín wrote:

irishlady wrote:Ahhh, okay, got it now, I'll have to investigate NUI then

http://www.nui.ie

GRMMA!!!

Ná habair é, a chara. i'm just good like that, and i've been investigating meself. the royal college of surgeons in ireland looks good for my med-school

Yeah, I'm getting a history major and then moving on to archaeology, so I've been hoping to get into university over in Ireland, or the UK if I can't get in in Ireland. I can't stand the US colleges and universities, I've just never liked the way they teach history and humanities.

irishlady wrote:Yeah, I'm getting a history major and then moving on to archaeology, so I've been hoping to get into university over in Ireland, or the UK if I can't get in in Ireland. I can't stand the US colleges and universities, I've just never liked the way they teach history and humanities.

hence the american history book i'm reading entitled "lies my teacher told me." it has a lot of the real stuff behind US history instead of the heroism and enevitability of everything (including the revolution) happening.

Yeah, I won't be getting into the US history, I mean 200 years spread out over an entire year of college, yeah right!! Now that I've taken a closer look at that link, the Celtic Studies program might just be what I'm looking for!!

irishlady wrote:Yeah, I'm getting a history major and then moving on to archaeology, so I've been hoping to get into university over in Ireland, or the UK if I can't get in in Ireland. I can't stand the US colleges and universities, I've just never liked the way they teach history and humanities.

How can you know, if you're just now entering undergraduate school? I have an English degree from a little American college you've probably never even heard of (but one that happens to have the finest English and Humanities departments in the Northwest. Whitworth College, if you're curious...go Pirates!), and I can tell you that, at the college level, more depends on the school you choose than on the country in which you study.

At the undergraduate level, Ríobhca, your history classes are just surveys...they're not supposed to be comprehensive. You get into that sort of depth in graduate school.

Redwolf

Yeah, I know what you mean Red, but I've quite a few friends in graduate giving me some (non-bias) feedback and skipped through more than one or two graduate-level books and have done a compare and contrast with some European hist. book exerpts. I can't tell you exactly why, and I'm probably bias in some areas of my thought, but the European style of history has always appealed to me, I'm not really talking about in-class (sorry if my words earlier were misleading), but rather the way in which the text follows itself. It's not as much the college itself, but rather the material which is used, and I'm afraid I'm just partial to the European format and flow, that's all!

P.S. if you have any links to some good universities you know of I always welcome those, and will gladly look through them with an open mind.