Visiting Students (Study Abroad)/Incoming Erasmus Students

Dr Ema Vyroubalova currently serves as the School's coordinator for all incoming visiting students. She can be reached at vyroubae@tcd.ie and during her office hours (by appointment). 

Visiting Student Handbook 2025-26

Timetable 2025-26

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Michaelmas Term 2025 Dates: The Welcome Meeting for Visiting Students is September 8. The FIRST DAY of Michaelmas Term teaching will be 15 September and the LAST DAY will be 5 December. Teaching of first year (Junior Fresh) modules will begin 22 September. Reading week will be 27 – 31 October. The assessment period for all modules will run 11 – 22 December. The mode of assessment will be confirmed at the beginning of time. We advise students to plan to be in Dublin during assessment week as some assessments may be in person.

The FIRST DAY of Hilary Term for all modules will be 19 January 2026 and the LAST DAY will be 10 April 2026. Reading week will be 2 – 6 March. The assessment period runs from 20 April until 1 May. The mode of assessment will be confirmed at the beginning of term. We advise students to plan to be in Dublin during assessment week as some assessments may be in person.

Module enrolment for Fresh (1st and 2nd year modules) offered by the School of English will be managed by Academic Registry and take place online, from the second week of December. You will receive details of this process in December directly from Academic Registry.

If you have been also approved to take sophister (upper level) modules in the School of English, you will need to choose your sophister modules in an individual meeting with the Visiting Student Co-Ordinator or Global Officer during Orientation week.  A Doodle Poll to sign up for these meetings will be circulated to the approved students in early January.

If you are only taking Fresh (lower level) modules with us, you will not be signing up for these meetings and should complete your registration online only. Please do not attempt to enrol for any sophister modules for which you have not been pre-approved because you will not be able to take them and may therefore end up short of credits. If you want to take modules based in other Schools, you will need to consult with their coordinators and find out what sign-up policies they have.

You will also receive an email informing you of an induction meeting that will take place on 13th of January.

Most School of English modules with codes in the form ENU1XXX and ENU2XXX as well as the School's Trinity Elective, Travel and Literature count for 5 ECTS per term (the exceptions are Genre, Irish Writing, Origins of English, and US American Identities, all 10 ECTS); most modules with codes in the form ENU3XXX and ENU4XXX count for 10 ECTS per term, but there are also a number of 5 ECTS modules. Students are allowed to take a maximum of 30 ECTS per term. Students can take less, if this is allowed by their home university and/or study abroad provider. 

Links to detailed information on the modules to be offered during academic year 2025-26 can be found below. Please consult these when deciding which modules you would like to register for: 

Senior Sophister Module Descriptions 2025-26

Junior Sophister Module Descritpions 2025-26

Fresher Module Descriptions 2025-26

Special sophister modules for Visiting Students:

Reading Ireland A - ENU44055

Reading Ireland B - ENU44056

These are two special Sophister modules focused on Irish literature for visiting students. Reading Ireland A is offered in Michaelmas Term and Reading Ireland B in Hilary Term and each is worth 5 ECTS. Each term different texts are covered and visiting students can take both modules or only one. It is only available to students approved for Sophister modules in advance.

Students studying in the School of English should consult the School of English Style Booklet for citation guidelines and the Junior Fresh Guidelines on Essay Writing for Visiting and Erasmus Students

Information on the application process for Visiting and Erasmus students can be found on the  Study at Trinity  webpage.  We can only sign you up for modules in the School of English (which start with the prefix ‘ENU’). 
 
You will have to enrol with the co-ordinators in other departments if you also wish to take modules there. English is one of the most popular subjects chosen by Visiting Students, and so we generally have a very large and geographically diverse body of international students with us at any one time. For this reason, places here are limited, and we cannot guarantee that a student will be able to enrol on all the modules that they have applied for, particularly at Sophister level. Other departments in which you may wish to take classes include History, Linguistics, and Philosophy. 
 
We ask that all students who are accepted to study here carefully study our Visiting Students Handbook and list of available modules prior to arrival so that registration goes as smoothly as possible. 
 
Many of our Visiting Students are particularly interested in Irish Writing, and this is indeed one of the School's major strengths. However, we also have several other areas of research and teaching specialty - amongst them Old and Middle English, Renaissance, eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century literature, contemporary writing, and popular literature, American and postcolonial literature. We encourage prospective students to consider the full range of courses available. 

• General information about module registration, module enrolment forms and change of mind forms will be found on the Academic Registry Study Abroad webpage  later in August. 
• The latest up-to-date information on application procedures and Visiting/Erasmus Student life at Trinity College Dublin can be found  here. 
• A helpful Orientation Map of Trinity College Dublin can be found here. 
• Arrival and Securing Housing in Dublin: 
  For those students planning to secure their accommodation after they arrive, please note that there has been a serious shortage of accommodation in Dublin and prices are high. Please plan to spend some time looking for a place and do plan to arrive before the beginning of the term so that looking for a flat/room does not keep you from starting your academic work. Beware of scams that offer to secure you a place and request that you send them money before you arrive. You can find more information on finding housing in Dublin on the Students’ Union webpage  here. You can also find information on what to do after you arrive  here. If you need a document verifying your status as a visiting student at Trinity in order to secure a lease, Dr. Vyroubalova can issue you with this. 

The School of English has a lively and very welcoming body of undergraduate and postgraduate students who have set up their own literary societies, journals, magazines and reading groups. We encourage visiting students to get involved in student life in College. More information about student societies can be found here. You can also follow information about the School events on our Facebook page.

Students studying at Trinity College Dublin have access to a comprehensive level of student support. Information about student support can be found here.

• College Map
• Meet the Study Abroad Team, Global Relations

Email Dr Ema Vyroubalova or Annelise Berghenti, or make an appointment with Dr Vyroubalova for virtual office hours in the first instance.