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Chuchoter · 23-05-2012, 19:32

I'm making a few changes to my CAO and I'm wondering, if a course does not mention erasmus but says there are a limited number of places available to study abroad, are those places very hard to get? Just spending a year away is really important to me and I don't want to pick a course I want get to do it in. For example, in courses like law and law and political science, how many get to go away and how good would your language need to be?

blubloblu · 23-05-2012, 20:16

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Originally Posted by Chuchoter

I'm making a few changes to my CAO and I'm wondering, if a course does not mention erasmus but says there are a limited number of places available to study abroad, are those places very hard to get? Just spending a year away is really important to me and I don't want to pick a course I want get to do it in. For example, in courses like law and law and political science, how many get to go away and how good would your language need to be?

Have you had a read of this? http://www.tcd.ie/Law/undergraduate/study-abroad.php

zam · 23-05-2012, 22:24

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Originally Posted by Chuchoter

I'm making a few changes to my CAO and I'm wondering, if a course does not mention erasmus but says there are a limited number of places available to study abroad, are those places very hard to get? Just spending a year away is really important to me and I don't want to pick a course I want get to do it in. For example, in courses like law and law and political science, how many get to go away and how good would your language need to be?

Yo,

In most artsy courses you can expect that there'll be a good few study abroad opportunities. Getting these is based on your results in first year. Usually not too competitive but I wouldn't know about law specifically.

Rhadamanthus · 25-05-2012, 11:36

In law it seems a fair few get to go on Erasmus, really. As long as you get a solid II.1 in your 1st year summer exams you have a really good shot. I don't know what the language requirements for foreign universities are like, as the vast majority of French and German universities are given to students from Law and French and Law and German, respectively. If you have ambitions to go to either of those countries, be aware that pure Law students are very unlikely to get anything remotely near their first choice.

Law and Political Science is more tricky, since they have more restricted law options, but they get some exchanges we (and I mean "we in pure law" by that) don't. I don't really know how their exchange options work, but hopefully there's a LawPol student around here somewhere who does.

Most of the exchange options for law will end up being English speaking, basically, since the language-centric ones are understandably taken up by the language-focused degrees. That's my understanding of how it seems to end up working, anyway. As far as the "merit" requirement goes, a I in your annual exams will probably guarantee your your first choice (since usually only about three or four at most get a I overall in the first year exams) and a good II.1 should get you your first preference or at least something very near to it.

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Rhadamanthus Registered User Join Date: May 2012 Location: In front of my computer Posts: 16 Adverts \| Friends	In law it seems a fair few get to go on Erasmus, really. As long as you get a solid II.1 in your 1st year summer exams you have a really good shot. I don't know what the language requirements for foreign universities are like, as the vast majority of French and German universities are given to students from Law and French and Law and German, respectively. If you have ambitions to go to either of those countries, be aware that pure Law students are very unlikely to get anything remotely near their first choice. Law and Political Science is more tricky, since they have more restricted law options, but they get some exchanges we (and I mean "we in pure law" by that) don't. I don't really know how their exchange options work, but hopefully there's a LawPol student around here somewhere who does. Most of the exchange options for law will end up being English speaking, basically, since the language-centric ones are understandably taken up by the language-focused degrees. That's my understanding of how it seems to end up working, anyway. As far as the "merit" requirement goes, a I in your annual exams will probably guarantee your your first choice (since usually only about three or four at most get a I overall in the first year exams) and a good II.1 should get you your first preference or at least something very near to it.