BA Admission Requirements

Year I
Year II
Final Year
International

Visiting Students

The minimum academic requirements for admission to the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies are a pass in at least six subjects (including Irish, English and another language) at the Leaving Certificate Examination with at least grade C3 in two subjects on the Higher course and at least Grade D3 (Ordinary or Higher course) in the remaining four subjects. Applicants may present the results of other examinations to satisfy the minimum entry requirements. Details are available from the Admissions Office. Candidates are selected in accordance with the College's selection scheme, a copy of which may be had on request from the Admissions Office.

Mature Students

A number of places are reserved to facilitate the admissions of students wishing to be matriculated by reason of mature years (23 years of age on 1 January of the calendar year of entry to the College) and of matriculated students who have been some years away from school. Applications should be made in the normal way to the Central Applications Office.

Structure of the B.A. Degree

The length of the full-time day programme leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts is three years although, prior to entering their final year, students majoring in modern Continental languages are strongly advised to spend an agreed period of time in a country where the language they are engaging is spoken. The B.A. International, a four-year programme, offers students the opportunity to do this while attending a university in the country of the target language.

Twenty-two subjects are on offer in First Arts, from which four must be selected. The subjects are organised in seven groups and only one subject from any given group may be selected. A list of the subject groupings is given below.

At Second Arts and continuing to final year, two of the subjects successfully passed to the requisite level at First Arts are pursued and completed before the B.A. degree is awarded.

The full-time day programme leading to the B.A. is an honours programme, i.e. there are no separate pass and honours streams except in some of the Mathematics subjects.

Aims of the Course

The aims of courses in Philosophy are to provide students with a sound knowledge of the history of ideas, and to train them in critical thinking and problem solving, especially in the areas of ethics, hermeneutics, theories of science and the critique of ideologies.

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