UG Prospectus 2025

187 Explanation of Unfamiliar Terms Getting to campus atDCU Some of the terms in this Prospectusmay not be familiar to you. We have therefore provided a glossary to help you to understand them. Bachelors Degree: Aprimary degree, usually referred to as an undergraduate degree. This normally requires 3/4 years of full-time study. Credits: Eachmodule carries a number of credits (on average 5) and you are expected to complete enoughmodules in a year to amount to 60 credits. This wouldmean taking 12modules in a year or 6 per semester. Coremodules: These are compulsorymodules that youmust complete. Discipline: A subject area youwill be studying, for example, business, marketing, computing, physics, law, biology or politics. Elective : An optional module or subject that youmay select. Faculty: Agroup of departments in a college that specialise in a particular subject or group of subjects. Graduate: A student who has received an academic degree or diploma. Hackathon: Is a 24 hour event inwhich a large number of students meet to engage and establish a collaborative environment to build, create, produce and deliver a product/solution/idea in a short amount of time. Hybrid Learning: Lectures that are delivered onlinewith students attending face-to-face on-campus laboratory classes, practical sessions and small group interactions. Interdisciplinary: Involving 2 or more disciplines taken together that would usually be considered separate fromeach other, such as marketing and engineering or business and languages. Intervarsity: Competition between different universities or colleges. Module: Each course ismade up of modules which are different topics that are essential to your learning. NQT: NewlyQualified Teacher. Postgraduate: A student who continues studies after graduation. Semester: Adivision of an academic year, 15weeks in length. In DCU, the year is divided into 2 semesters, September-December and January-May with exams at the end of each semester. Specialism: The concentration on a particular field of study, such asmarketing or HRmanagement, software engineering or information systems. Tutorials: Small group discussions that compliment lectures. Optional modules: You are often providedwith a list of modules you can choose to take alongwith the required coremodules tomake up the required 60 credits in a year. There are currently 3 bike sharing/hiring schemes open to DCU students. bleeperbike.com mobybikes.com tier.app/en ActiveCommuting ByBus ByTrain transportforireland.ie/ plan-a-journey/ ByCar By Sea/Air For more information, please visit dcu.ie/travel-to-dcu/getting-to-campus