UG Prospectus 2025

141 Visit Us Online dcu.ie/arts Contact Details studenthelp@dcu.ie Additional Information The course also provides a strong foundation for further study. Optional StudyAbroad / INTRA Final Year Research Project | Psychopathology | Social Psychology | Counselling and Psychotherapy | Contemporary Perspectives inHumanDevelopment and Education | Social Philosophy | ResearchMethods | Philosophy: Existentialism | Contemporary Issues in Educational Contexts FutureCareer Through the combination of lectures, workshops, educational visits/trips and tutorials offered, youwill have the opportunity to develop intellectually and critically. Many students who takeHumanDevelopment move into education or community-typework. You can also choose to do further courses in the fields of counselling, human resources (HR) and business. Postgraduate study in the humanities or education has been a strong tradition withHumanDevelopment students. International Languages Why are these subjects forme? Youwill develop excellent communication skills in your chosen language. Youwill enjoy the profound satisfaction that being really proficient in a foreign language brings. Youwill also be able to explore the linguistic and cultural diversity associated with your chosen language and discover a range of perspectives that will encourage you to think critically about how cultures relate to one another. Youwill develop a cultural sensitivity that will help you to negotiate increasinglymulticultural societies andworkplaces. Throughout, youwill be taught by experienced, committed and enthusiastic teachers and researchers, who embrace areas such as cinema, cultural studies, linguistics, literature, translation, digital technologies and visual arts as instructional tools. The languages available on the BA Joint Honours course are: − French (intermediate level only) − German (intermediate level only) − Spanish (intermediate level only) (Aminimumof H4 is required in your chosen language) FutureCareer Foreign language graduates are consistently among themost employable of all university graduates, and can join awide range of professions. Your skills will be valued in particular in the export sector, multinational corporations and international organisations. Some graduatesmay become career linguists (language teachers or language specialists of other kinds), sometimes after further study. This coursewill suit you if youwish to pursue a teaching career, as it complies with current requirements set down by the TeachingCouncil of Ireland for teaching French, German or Spanish at post-primary level. French Why is this subject forme? Studying Frenchwill bring you on a linguistic and cultural journey through France and also through the different parts of La Francophonie, the French- speakingworld that extends fromCanada through to South America, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia andOceania. French, an official language of theUnitedNations and several other major international organisations, is one of the great languages of diplomacy and is also highly sought after in the business world, reflecting France’s status as one of theworld’s largest economies. After English, French is themost widely taught foreign language in theworld, and France is themost visited country on the planet, so there is never a shortage of opportunities to use your French. Bachelors of Arts: Joint Honours Honours Bachelor Degree DC009/291/292/293/295