Course details

This programme is popular with students, academics and lecturers who seek to improve their English language ability in the field of education.

The English for Academic Purposes programme has been devised around the acquisition of skills required to perform in an English-speaking academic environment across subject areas which are generally encountered in a university setting.

About the Programme

  • Participating in tutorials and seminars
  • Listening to lectures and note-taking
  • Giving presentations
  • Research study reading
  • Academic writing (essays, reports, reviews)
  • Answering examination questions
  • Organised note-taking
  • Developing reading skills for academic purposes
  • Presenting academic papers
  • Citation, referencing and avoiding plagiarism
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Dublin City University

DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious university with a distinctive mission to transform lives and societies through education, research and innovation. Since admitting its first students in 1980, DCU has grown in both student numbers and size and now occupies a 72 acre site in Glasnevin, just north of Dublin city.

To date over 43,000 students have graduated from DCU and are now playing significant roles in enterprise and business globally. Today, in 2012, DCU delivers more than 120 programmes to over 10,000 students across its ftheir faculties – Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Health, Engineering and Computing and DCU Business School.

DCU's excellence is recognised internationally and it is ranked among the top 50 Universities worldwide (QS 'Top 50 under 50' 2012). In the last eight years, DCU has twice been named Sunday Times 'University of the Year'.

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