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Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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While the arts subjects cover a very wide range, they have in
common the study of the human mind and its historical, cultural
and linguistic manifestations.
Some of the arts courses offered in Trinity College have a
strong vocational element, for example Music education, Drama
studies, and Law. Many arts courses do not have a vocational
focus but provide an excellent preparation for a wide variety of
careers.
All are designed to develop high levels of analytic and
communication skills: the ability to understand unfamiliar ideas
and to look at familiar ideas in a new light, to work out your own
ideas and express them lucidly and convincingly are skills you
will acquire through an arts course.
Three types of Arts courses:
Single honor courses
In a single honor course one subject is studied almost
exclusively for the four years; however many subjects offer
students a wide range of module choices, particularly in the third
and fourth years.
Joint honor two-subject moderatorship
(TSM) programmes
TSM is a joint honors degree that allows students to choose
two subjects (from a list of 25) and study both to honors degree
level. See the next page for further details.
Specially designed ‘packages’ of different
subjects
These may be organised around a particular theme, as in
History and political science, or European studies; or around
the development of a particular skill, as in the moderatorship in
Music education, or Law and a language.
Arts: what comes after graduation?
A high proportion of vacancies for new graduates are open to
students of any discipline and while an arts degree may not
lead directly to one profession, arts graduates can be found in
everything from accountancy to voluntary organisations (see
the individual course entries for further details about career
opportunities). The arts graduate has no shortage of choices!
Details of first destinations for graduates of all disciplines are
available on the Careers Advisory Service website:
Arts courses at Trinity College – an overview
