Semester/Year with Trinity College Dublin

FIE has partnered with Trinity College, an institution ranked among the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide, to present a semester-long program combining direct enrollment at Trinity with FIE’s unique Irish Life and Cultures course.

About Trinity College

Trinity College builds on its four-hundred-year-old tradition of scholarship to confirm its position as one of the great universities of the world, providing a liberal environment where independence of thought is highly valued and where staff and students are nurtured as individuals and are encouraged to achieve their full potential.

Trinity College Dublin is ranked in 52nd position in the top 100 world universities, with more than 16,000 enrolled students. Alumni of note are almost innumerable, including the likes of authors Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and Samuel Beckett as well as former Irish President Mary Robinson. Trinity College occupies more than 51 acres in central Dublin, home to both historic architecture and state-of-the-art facilities.

Eligibility

3.3 GPA
Junior standing and above

Academics

Irish Life and Cultures

All FIE students undertake an intensive Irish Life and Cultures Course, which begins prior to the Irish academic calendar and continues throughout the term. Students explore a variety of modules relation to Irish history, language, culture, and politics, with special emphasis on the history of peace and conflict in Ireland. Complementing the Dublin-based course lectures and co-curricular excursions, two study tours take students to Northern Ireland (Derry and Belfast) and Western Ireland (Galway, Connemara and the Aran Islands) to contextualize the topics at hand.

Additionally, a series of FIE-led required and optional Mobile Seminars throughout the semester address topics such as:

  • On the Fringes: Ireland’s Indigenous Traveler Communities
  • Ag labhairt as Gaeilge: Irish Language Preservation Efforts
  • A Hundred Years of the GAA: Sport in Irish Society
  • Taking the Boat: Irish Youth and Emigration
  • Irish Neutrality and the Armed Forces
  • Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation: Conflict Mediation and Nonviolence
  • Socialized Medicine: Inefficient or the Way Forward?
  • The Irish-American Connection: Contemporary Relations between Friendly Neighbors
  • Digicel: Entrepreneurship and Social Responsibility

Trinity Coursework

With particular strengths in the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, Business, and Mathematics, Trinity offers students plentiful opportunities to undertake coursework within and outside their home-school majors. The full range of disciplines available include:

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Business; Drama, Film and Music; Education; English; Histories and Humanities; Languages, Culture and Literature Studies; Law; Linguistics, Speech and Communication; Psychology; Social Sciences and Philosophy; Social Work and Social Policy; Religion and Theology

Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science
Biology and Immunology; Chemistry; Computer Science and Statistics; Engineering; Genetics and Microbiology; Mathematics; Natural Sciences; Physics
Note: Computer Science, Statistics and Engineering courses only available for year-long study abroad students. Pre-requisites may apply.

Orientation, Student Services and Housing

Students will participate in comprehensive on-site orientations with both FIE and Trinity to help acclimatize them with the program and their surroundings, as well as provide a basic underpinning for the cultural learning they will undergo during their term abroad.

FIE’s outstanding Resident Staff provide students with both individual support and a variety of group opportunities, from the Mobile Seminar Series to an extensive extra-curricular calendar that might include theater events, literary festivals, comedy shows, and sport matches.

Students on the FIE-Trinity program will live in multi-bedroom apartments located in the city center, a brief walk from Trinity College. Apartments consist of 3 to 4 single bedrooms with a sink, shared bathroom and living/dining/kitchen area.  The apartments are fully furnished and the kitchen is equipped with utensils such as cookware, silverware and dishes.  Each bedroom also has private study facilities with non-wireless internet access.