Module Outlines
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The following are previews of the modules for the forthcoming 2026/27 academic year, that will be available to Inbound (visiting) students to the School.
Each module (available in PDF format) includes 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.
Please consult the College's calendar for examination dates, as visiting students should bear in mind when making travel arrangements.
If you have any questions in relation to a module, please contact the School's Erasmus and Study Abroad Coordinator.
Please note the following procedure for enrolling in modules offered by the Department of French.
Failure to follow this procedure may result in your enrolment request not being processed and may lead to significant delays in receiving a response.
Module enrolment requests will not be processed before 1 September 2026. Emails received before this date will not be actioned.
To request enrolment in a module, please email the relevant Module Coordinator and copy French Erasmus Academic Coordinator Ms Florence Signorini (FSGNORNI@tcd.ie) to request permission to enrol.
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.
- The module code.
- The module title.
Requests that do not include all of the above information may be delayed while the missing details are obtained.
Michaelmas Term (Semester 1)
FRU22041-Early-Modern-French-Literature-Module-Descriptor
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Prof Sarah Alyn Stacey
FRU22051-Political-Thought-in-France-Renaissance-to-the-Enlightenment
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries Dr James Hanrahan
FRU22081-French-Linguistics-French-in-the-Twenty-first-Century
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Rachel Hoare
FRU33061 | How is Literature Possible?
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Hannes Opelz
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Rachel Hoare
FRU44111 | Enlightenment Origins
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries Dr James Hanrahan
FRU44131 | Experimental Translation
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Alexandra Lukes
FRU44151 | France from Versailles to Vichy
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Edward Arnold
FRU44211-Introduction-to-Postcolonial-Francophone-African-Lit-Module-Descriptor
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Théophile Munyangeyo
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
FRU22012-Modern-French-Literature-Module-Descriptor.pdf
FRU22022-Modern-Political-Thought-in-France-Module-Descriptor
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Edward Arnold
FRU22092-The-Diversity-of-the-French-speaking-World
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Rachel Hoare
FRU33032 | Enlightenment Fiction
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries Dr James Hanrahan
FRU33092 | Music, Literature and the Mind
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Alexandra Lukes
FRU33122-Françafrique-Module-Descriptor
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Théophile Munyangeyo
FRU44162 | Language and Society in Multilingual Francophonie: Status, Diversity and Function
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Dr Rachel Hoare
- please email module co-ordinator for enrolment queries: Prof Sarah Alyn Stacey
FRU44242 | Identity in the age of Plasticity
- please email module coordinator for enrolment: Dr Hannes Opelz
Academic Erasmus Co-ordinator: Dr Catriona Leahy cleahy@tcd.ie
Full Year
GRU1100Y-German-Language-1-Module-Descriptor
GRU1102Y-Introduction-to-German-Literature-Module-Descriptor
GRU1104Y | GERMAN LANGUAGE (BEGINNERS)
GRU2200Y-German-Language-2-Module-Descriptor
Michaelmas Term (Semester 1)
GRU11011 | German Area Studies
GRU22131 | German Cultural History I
GRU22241 | GERMAN LITERARY HISTORY
GRU33011 | GERMAN LITERARY HISTORY 2
GRU33121-Langweile-JS-Module-Descriptor
GRU44021 | DEUTSCHLAND IN EUROPA
GRU44101 | KUNST NACH AUSCHWITZ PART A
GRU44151 | GERMAN, AUSTRIAN AND SWISS POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
GRU44181| APPLIED ASPECTS OF GERMAN LINGUISTICS
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
GRU11012 | GERMAN AREA STUDIES
GRU22132 | GERMAN CULTURAL HISTORY II
GRU33002-German-Language-3-Visiting-Students-Module-Descriptor
GRU33012 | GERMAN LITERARY HISTORY
GRU33092-The-Art-of-Revolution-Expressionism-and-Dadaism-Module-Descriptor
GRU44182 | Innovative Approaches To Teaching German As A Foreign Language
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
Academic Erasmus Co-ordinator: Ms Virginia Segura SEGURAV@tcd.ie
Full Year
SPU2206Y | Portugese 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 & TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
SPU44211 | Dissident Voices Indigenous Activism and Cultural Politics in Contemp
SPU44223 | POLITICS & POETICS OF FOOD IN MEXICAN AND CHICANX CULTURE
SPU44233 | ASPECTS OF REALISM & MODERNISM IN THE MODERN SPANISH NOVE
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
SPU33082 | Third Year Spanish 1
SPU33094 |Translation Theory and Practice
SPU33204 | Bordercrossers and Dreamers Migration in Mexican and Chicanx Cultures
SPU33214 | SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
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
ITU33092 | Historic & Postmodern Italian Narrative 19th 21st Centuries ITU33192 | Italian Fashion
ITU33102 | Boccaccio and Other Novelists (5ECTS)
ITU33104 | Boccaccio and Other Novelists (10ECTS)
ITU44142 | From Epic to Novel the Textual Journey of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
Modules will be available in mid August.
The following modules are not owned by a Department however as they are offered by the School of Languages, these modules might be accepted on your Learning Agreement.
Michaelmas Term (Semester 1)
CPU22071 | The -isms: Past and Present
CPU33003 | Nobel Laureates in Literature
Hilary Term (Semester 2)
Erasmus and Study Abroad Coordinator
For all queries about the School's Erasmus or study abroad programmes, students are welcome to contact our Erasmus and Study Abroad Coordinator, Mo Kilgallon, by email, or by calling in to the Undergraduate Office during office hours.