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Arts courses at Trinity College – an overview
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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While the arts subjects cover a very wide range, they have in
common the study of the human mind and its historical, cultural
and linguistic manifestations.
Some of the arts courses offered in Trinity College have a strong
vocational element, for example Music education, Drama studies
and Law. Many arts courses do not have a vocational focus but
provide an excellent preparation for a wide variety of careers.
All are designed to develop high levels of analytic and
communication skills: the ability to understand unfamiliar ideas
and to look at familiar ideas in a new light, to work out your own
ideas and express them lucidly and convincingly are skills you
will acquire through an arts course.
Three types of Arts courses:
Single honor courses
In a single honor course one subject is studied almost
exclusively for the four years; however many subjects offer
students a wide range of module choices, particularly in the
third and fourth years.
Joint honor two-subject moderatorship
(TSM) programmes
You choose two subjects from a list of possible combinations
(see page 92 for possible combinations and page 29 for CAO
course codes). In most combinations both subjects are studied
equally for the first three years and one subject only is studied
in the fourth year. The two subjects are taught as separate
disciplines and both are taught to honors degree level. The
combined workload from two TSM subjects is similar to that
of a single honor course.
Specially designed ‘packages’ of different
subjects
These may be organised around a particular theme, as in
History and political science, or European studies; or around
the development of a particular skill, as in the moderatorship
in Music education, or Law and a language.
Arts: what comes after graduation?
A high proportion of vacancies for new graduates are open to
students of any discipline and while an arts degree may not
lead directly to one profession, arts graduates can be found
in everything from accountancy to voluntary organisations
(see the individual course entries for further details about
career opportunities). The arts graduate has no shortage
of choices! Details of first destinations for graduates of all
disciplines are available on the Careers Advisory Service
website:
www.tcd.ie/Careers/students