Visiting Students

The Department warmly welcomes visiting students who may be attending Trinity College for just one academic year (or one semester). Such students may take any of the JF, SF or JS courses (first, second or third year courses) and should consult the visiting student timetable for module times and locations (subject to change during the first few weeks of the academic year).

Current Visiting Students

If you are a current visiting student and need to get the Department's permission to take a module for the 2012-2013 academic year, please bring the form into the Departmental Office (Room 5.02 in 1 College Green) during office hours.

If you have a special situation including, but not limited to, requiring a special amount of ECTS credits for a module or having to take another module in the Department that is not normally on offer for visiting students, please contact our Visiting Student Coordinator, Dr Jeff Weber. You should also consult Dr Weber if you are coming to Trinity on an Erasmus or Socrates exchange organized through the Department.

Course Requirements

Visiting students are expected to fulfil the same course requirements, in terms of coursework and exams, as Trinity students. It is important to note that full-year visiting students are expected to sit the summer exams and no exceptions will be made. So visiting students here for the whole academic year should bear in mind, before making arrangements to return home, that the examination season does not finish until near the end of May. All the modules that are normally open to visiting students are 10 ECTS credit modules.

One-Term Students

Although all of our modules (with the exception of the BCPOL module) are offered for the full year, the modules are open to visiting students who may be only here for the Michaelmas term or the Hilary Term. If you are here for only one term, you will receive 5 ECTS credits and you will be expected to write two essays (this is the expectation for all modules except PO3600 that has multiple assignments that would be the equivalent of the essays - please consult with the lecturer for more details).

If you are a one-term-only student, you should note that you are expected to write two essays although full year students will only be required to write one essay each term. Be sure to coordinate this second essay directly with the lecturer of the module.

Prospective Visiting Students

Further details on how to apply to come to Trinity as a visiting student are available from the university's International Admissions Desk.