The following modules are subject to change due to availability and demand:

• • Local History
  • History
  • Political Studies
  • Research and Study Skills
  • Communications
  • Folklore and Ethnology
  • Word Processing
  • Archaeology
  • Work Experience
  • Language option

This one-year course will aim to prepare students for entrance into Arts programmes in Irish universities and colleges as well as preparing students to work in a European environment both in Ireland and abroad.

Students will be able to take this cultural option through Archaeology, Folklore and History modules or concentrate on a language option with European Studies.

Graduates may pursue certificate or degree courses in TCD, UCD, DCU, TU Dublin Grangegorman/Tallaght, South East Technological University Carlow, Technological University of the Shannon Athlone, UCC, Atlantic Technological University – St. Angela’s College, Sligo as well as other ITs and colleges around the country or in the UK.

For example, there are up to 21 places in Maynooth University, 30 places in UCD science courses and 10 places in Trinity College in First Science for QQI graduates.

The following modules are subject to change due to availability and demand:

• History
• Communications
• Work Experience
• English Literature
• Literary, Visual and Performing Arts
• Creative Writing
• Word Processing
• Political Studies
• European Studies
• Language option
• Philosophy

This one-year course, similar to our other arts programme, aims to prepare students for entrance into Arts degrees in Irish universities and colleges, as well as preparing students to work in a European environment both in Ireland and abroad. The Liberal Arts option attributes more of a focus on The Arts, English Literature and European languages. Students will have the option of taking a language, Irish or Spanish, along with European Studies or can focus on a more English Literature based course, which will lead to a general studies option.

There are now over 175 places in First Arts in Maynooth University, 30 places in UCD as well as numerous

places in DCU, Milltown, UCC, Technological University of the Shannon Athlone, South East Technological University Carlow, NUIG, TU Dublin, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Marino Institute of Education, American College Dublin, Dun Laoghaire IADT, NCAD, and other colleges and universities for students who hold a

QQI qualification in General Studies or Language and European Studies.

There are also opportunities in education, travel and tourism, European administration, local heritage concerns as well as in the business world through insurance, banking, or international trade.