Language & Study Abroad

Junior Freshman (First)

Students in their Junior Freshman (first) year can choose a langauge along with their five mandatory options. Currently French†, German†, Russian and Polish are available.

† Minimum entry requirement C2 Honours Leaving Certificate, C at A Level.

Senior Freshman

In the Senior Freshman (second) year students may choose to study French, German, Polish* or Russian* provided these options have been taken in the Junior Freshman year. A Certificate of Competency is awarded at the end of the year should these courses have been successfully completed.

*Subject to demand

Junior Sophister

In the Junior Sophister (third) year, students can apply to participate in a Socrates or international exchange to study at an overseas university for either half a year or a full year.

Socrates exchanges are normally in the third (JS) year for either the whole year or half the year and are available with leading universities in a number of countries.

These include :

Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

University of Helsinki, Finland

Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany

University of Malta, Malta

Umeå University, Sweden

University Lille 1 (Sciences et Technologies), France

Australian National University, Australia

University of Melbourne, Australia

University of California (all nine campuses), USA

Boston College, USA

Seoul National University, South Korea