Please find below previews of the modules that will be available to Inbound (visiting) students for the academic year 2026/27. For each module, there is a brief module description, module outline and assessment requirements.
Full-year visiting students, students who are visiting for Michaelmas Term (Autumn semester) and students who are visiting for Hilary Term (Spring semester) are expected to fulfil the same course requirements, in terms of course work and exams, as Trinity students.
Module Descriptors for Inbound Students (2026-27)
If you have questions about specific modules, contact the Module Coordinator directly.
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
Enrolling in Department of French modules
Due to staff leave arrangements, module enrolment requests will not be processed before 1 September 2026. To request enrolment in a module, please email the relevant Module Coordinator and cc Florence Signorini (FSGNORNI@tcd.ie), Study Abroad Coordinator, Department of French.
Your email must include the following information:
- Your Trinity College Dublin student ID number
- Your Trinity College Dublin email address
- The name of your home university
- Module code
- Module title
Michaelmas Term (Semester 1)
FRU22041 | Early Modern French Literature
FRU22051 | Political Thought in France (Renaissance to the Enlightenment)
FRU22081 | French Linguistics: French in the Twenty-first Century
FRU33061 | How is Literature Possible?
FRU44111 | Enlightenment Origins
FRU44131 | Experimental Translation
FRU44151 | France from Versailles to Vichy
FRU44211 | Introduction to Postcolonial Francophone African Literature
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
FRU22012 | Modern French Literature
FRU22022 | Modern Political Thought in France
FRU22092 | The Diversity of the French speaking World
FRU33032 | Enlightenment Fiction
FRU33092 | Music, Literature and the Mind
FRU44162 | Language and Society in Multilingual Francophonie: Status, Diversity and Function
Full Year
GRU1102Y | Introduction to German Literature
GRU1104Y | German Language (Beginners)
Michaelmas Term (Semester 1)
GRU11021 | Introduction To German Literature
GRU11011 | German Area Studies
GRU22001 | German Language 2
GRU22131 | German Cultural History I
GRU22241 | German Literary History 1
GRU33011 | German Literary History 2
GRU33151 | Introduction To German Linguistics - From Sounds to Meaning
GRU44021 | Deutschland In Europa
GRU44101 | Kunst Nach Auschwitz (Part A)
GRU44151 | German, Austrian and Swiss Postcolonial Studies 1
GRU44181 | Applied Aspects of German Linguistics
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
GRU11011 | German Area Studies
GRU11022 | Introduction to German Literature
GRU22132 | German Cultural History 2
GRU33002-German Language 3 (Visiting-Students)
GRU33012 | German Literary History 2
GRU33092 | The Art of Revolution: Expressionism and Dadaism
GRU44182 | Innovative Approaches to Teaching German as a Foreign Language
Full Year
SPU2206Y | Portuguese Language (Beginners)
Michaelmas Term (Semester 1)
SPU22061 | Portuguese Language (Beginners)
SPU33013 | Spanish Linguistics
SPU33064 | Voicing Conflict in Latin America
SPU33081 | Third Year Spanish 1
SPU33133 | Character Exemplarity in Cervante's Novelas Ejemplares
SPU44171 | Screening Cuba: National And Transnational Perspectives
SPU44211 | Dissident Voices: Indigenous Activism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary Mexico
SPU44223 | The Politics and Poetics of Food in Mexican and Chicanx Culture
SPU44233 | Aspects Of Realism and Modernism in the Modern Spanish Novel
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
SPU33082 | Third Year Spanish 1
SPU33094 |Translation Theory and Practice
SPU33204 | Bordercrossers and Dreamers: Migration in Mexican and Chicanx Cultures
SPU44122 | Final Year Spanish 2
SPU44162 | Spanish Medieval Literature
SPU44182 | Don Quijote: Cervantes’s Epic Comedy
SPU44244 | Transatlantic Identities: Ireland and Argentina
Academic Erasmus Co-ordinator: Dr Serena Vandi VANDIS@tcd.ie
Full Year
Michealmas Term
ITU22032 | Dante's Divine Comedy Purgatorio and Paradiso
ITU22221 | Lemon Trees Italian Poetry in the 1900s and 2000
ITU33041| ITALY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
ITU33251 | Episodes Italian Short Stories & Serial Storytelling From the 1950s
ITU33261 | The Discovery of the Self Petrarch and the Lyric Tradition
ITU44191 | Renaissance History & Politics Critical Reading of Machiavelli's...
ITU44231 | From Dante to Memes Italian Satire
Hilary Term
ITU11092 | Florence and the Birth of the Renaissance
ITU11172 | Breakthroughs 20th Century Italian Literary Turning Points
ITU22042 | Italian History and Society in the 20th Century
ITU22181 | That's Amore Love and Nation in the Italian Risorgimento
ITU33254| EPISODES: ITALIAN SHORT STORIES
ITU33271| THE GOLDEN AGE OF PETRARCH AND BOCCACCIO
ITU33273| THE GOLDEN AGE OF PETRARCH AND BOCCACCIO (10 ECTS)
ITU33282| HOW WE BECAME POSTHUMAN
Michaelmas Term (Semester 1)
MLU22001 | Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: The Middle East And Europe
NMU22001 - Introduction To Hebrew (2026-27)
NMU22011 | Modern Standard Arabic (Level 1)
NMU23021 | Introduction to Turkish Language
NMU22221 | Jews And European Society
NMU22251 | International Relations of North Africa
NMU22281 - Approaches to Middle East History: Schools, Sources, and Arguments
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
NMU11102 | Islamic Art: A Historical and Theoretical Approach
MLU22002 - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: The Middle East And Europe
NMU22002 | Introduction To Hebrew
NMU22012 - Modern Standard Arabic (Level 1)
NMU22212 - Early Jewish History and Literature
Modules will be available in mid August.
The following modules are not managed by a department, they are offered by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies.
Michaelmas Term (Semester 1)
CPU22071 | The -isms: Past and Present
CPU33003 | Nobel Laureates in Literature