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Optional courses
Broad Curriculum
The University of Dublin is renowned internationally for the
breadth and depth of the degrees it awards. Trinity College is
dedicated to encouraging the following qualities in its students
and graduates: inquisitiveness and analytical ability; creativity
and reflectiveness; adaptability; breadth of reading; ethical
responsibility; international outlook; articulacy; literacy; and
numeracy.
To assist with the development of these qualities, Trinity College
offers students the opportunity to study one module outside
their chosen course, via the Broad Curriculum. These Broad
Curriculum modules are usually available to students in the
Senior Freshman (second) or Junior Sophister (third) year.
The chosen module would typically account for approximately
10% of the teaching for the year.
At the time of publication, Trinity College offers 17 broad
curriculum modules in literature, film studies, language and
society (2 modules), philosophy, psychology, political science,
development economics, living sustainably, criminal law,
business, planet earth, art in Ireland, science and technology,
gender and society, and history (2 modules).
Find out more at
www.tcd.ie/Broad_Curriculum
Optional language courses
Some places in optional evening language courses (for students
who are not studying a language as part of their degree) are
available. The courses take place at the Centre for Language
and Communication Studies (CLCS), and are designed to
help develop practical communication skills for study or work
experience abroad. CLCS language modules may also be taken
for credit (5 ECTS) by undergraduate students under the Broad
Curriculum.
The following language modules are available:
Irish (A1, B1); French (B1, B2); Spanish (A1, B1); Italian (A1,
A2); German (A1, A2, B1, B2); Turkish (A1, A2); Korean (A1);
A1 level classes are for complete beginners; A2 classes are for
post-beginners. For B1 and B2 level classes, the minimum entry
requirement is a Leaving Certificate (or equivalent) qualification
in the relevant language. The number of places available for
first-year students is limited, but students may apply for optional
and credit-bearing language courses in subsequent College
years.
Find out more at
www.tcd.ie/slscs/undergraduate/clcs-
language-modules