Liberal Arts - QQI Level 5

Course details

This course aims to provide opportunities for school leavers to gain access to Arts, Social Science & Humanities degree programmes at Universities and I.T.'s. It will provide a second chance for many school leavers who aspire to Third Level. This course is confined to school leavers. Similar programmes within CDETB are offered to non-school leavers.

The course provides an introduction to writing skills, research studies and gives a foundation in the academic subjects in preparation for third level.

Course Requirements

Students applying for this course should have passed the Leaving Certificate in five subjects, to include English. They must also have achieved at least 1 C3 grade in a Higher Level paper in a cognate area.

All applicants whose first language is not English will be tested at entry.

All applicants will be interviewed.

Course Modules

• Students will be offered a programme from the following modules:
• Research Skills
• Personal & Professional Development
• English Literature
• History
• Politics
• Applied Psychology
• Social Studies
• Applied Economics
• Communications
• Word Processing

Award

FETAC Level 5 5M3114

Education Progression

• QQI Level 5 Award holders are eligible to apply to a wide variety of Higher Education colleges including UCD,  NUI Maynooth and St Patrick's College who have reserved places to Arts and Humanities Degree Programmes.
• UCD DN500 (Arts) 25 reserved QQI places
• NUI Maynooth MH101 (Arts) 25 reserved QQI places
• St Patrick's College Drumcondra PD103 (Arts, Humanities) 5 reserved QQI places
• DCU (Contemporary culture and society) 50 places on course