Course Stuff

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Lectures, Tutorials & Seminars

Lectures Lectures are the primary form of teaching in College. They will be your main point of academic contact throughout your time here. This is where the course material is covered, notes are given out and the lecturers lecture. It’s always a good idea to know what you need to know come study time. During your first few weeks you should be able to get a hold of your lecture timetables, syllabi and reading lists, which will fill you in on the who, what, when and where of your lectures. Attendance in lectures is usually compulsory in the freshman years,…

Labs & Practicals

In the EMS (Engineering, Maths and Science) and Health Sciences faculties a significant amount of emphasis is put on the practical application of what you learn in lectures and tutorials. Attendance in labs and practical sessions is compulsory, and the work done in them usually counts towards your results as part of continuous assessment. You don’t necessarily get marks for the work you do in a practical session. This happens particularly in natural sciences and engineering, where the marks are awarded for the lab report, which is handed in separately. Note: You may be required to read a health and…

Assignments, Essays & Projects

Apart from sitting exams, a lot of courses grade students through continuous assessment. This means doing work during the year which, combined with your exams, gives you your end of year mark. Everyone has to do assignments or essays or projects at some point during their time in college, and usually a lot of them! These can be seen as both a gift and a curse. They are an opportunity to show how brilliant and innovative you are, and to earn big chunks of your marks in advance of your exams. However, they seriously eat into your mid-term social life,…

Broad Curriculum

Broad Curriculum courses are designed to allow you to study something that is different to what you normally study. The regulations on this vary from course to course, but, generally, you will get marked in a Broad Curriculum course as if it was a regular part of your degree programme. It’s a great way of taking advantage of the teaching resources of Trinity and you can read all about it on www.tcd.ie/Broad_Curriculum