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Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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Assessment
A combination of end-of-year examination and continuous
assessment (e.g. essays, seminar presentations and team
projects and commentaries on texts), and a thesis is written in
the final year.
Study abroad
Trinity College maintains a wide range of international links
with universities across Europe – from France to Cyprus. Many
foreign universities now teach courses in English too and
through the Erasmus exchange programme it is possible to
spend the Senior Freshman (second) year abroad.
Career opportunities
Graduates in the disciplines studied on the course have entered
an exciting variety of fields after leaving university, including
accountancy, advertising, archaeology, art restoration, business,
civil service, diplomatic corps, heritage and museum work,
human resources, journalism, management, publishing and
teaching. Several others have progressed to postgraduate study
at universities across Ireland, Europe and America.
Further information
www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/amhc
Tel: +353 1 896 2625
Business, economic and
social studies (BESS)
common entry programme
leading to 10 degree options
COURSE CODE:
PLACES 2011:
POINTS 2010:
DEGREE AWARDED:
TR081
236
475*
B.A. or Bachelor in
Business Studies (B.B.S.)
Special Entry Requirements:
Leaving Certificate
OC3/HD3
Mathematics
GCSE
Grade B
Mathematics
See also:
TR001: TSM, page 92
TR005: Philosophy, page 79
TR012: History and political science, page 63
TR015: Philosophy, political science, economics
and sociology, page 80
TR017: Law and business, page 72
TR020: Law and political science, page 74
TR029: Political science and geography, page 83
TR085, TR086, TR087, TR089, TR090: Business studies
and a language, page 42
TR082: Computer science and business, page 120
TR083: Sociology and social policy, page 89
Political science: page 82
Course overview
BESS is a uniquely flexible programme offering 10 different
degree options: Business (B.B.S.) and nine other (single honor
and joint honor) possibilities, in the disciplines of Business,
Economics, Political science and Sociology (see Degree options,
below). It provides students with a broadly-based education,
offering a high level of flexibility in two very important ways from
the second year onwards: (a) in choosing the specific degree
you wish to read; and, (b) in choosing individual modules.
Is this the right course for you?
The common first year of BESS introduces you to a broad range
of disciplines that will help you make sense of the complex world
in which we live today. It gives you the freedom to discover and
develop interests that you may not be aware you have until you
enter university. From the second year onwards, the flexible
structure of the BESS programme allows you to pursue these
specific interests in greater breadth and depth while still retaining
considerable freedom over the selection of individual modules.
Graduates of former years invariably tell us that it is this broad
flexible approach that allowed them build the knowledge and
insights that they rely on progressively as they advance to more
senior positions in their careers.