Dual Postgraduate Programme: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

1 YEAR AT MINZU + 1 YEAR AT TRINITY + 1 YEAR AT MINZU 2 Masters Degrees in 3 Years Discover Trinity Trinity College , the has been inspiring generations of brilliant thinkers for over 400 years. Trinity is an international university, steeped in history, with a reputation for excellence in education, research and innovation.

World Rankings Your Career Strong Research Trinity is ranked 1st in Ireland Trinity is committed to preparing Reputation and 101st in the world (QS World our students for the ever-changing Our students receive a University Ranking 2021). Trinity challenges of the 21st century world-class education in a also ranks in the top 100 in 18 workplace. Trinity ranks in the research-centred, collaborative subjects, globally (QS World Top 100 in the World for Graduate environment and have the University Rankings 2020). Employability (QS Graduate opportunity to work with global Employability Rankings 2020). Find leaders in their field. Trinity is Our Vibrant Campus Life out more at: www.tcd.ie/careers also the only Irish member of the prestigious League of 23 With over 170 clubs and societies, Join Our European Research Universities including many international (LERU). Find out more at: groups, there’s something for Diverse Community www.tcd.ie/research everyone. At Trinity, involvement Our current students come from 120 in student organisations is an countries around the world. 28% of Join Our Esteemed Alumni integral part of your education. the student body are from outside Find out more at www.tcd.ie/ of Ireland, providing a truly global Trinity has produced some of the students/clubs-societies community. world’s finest and most enquiring minds including the writers The Trinity Welcome International Reputation Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett Trinity is Ireland’s most international (Nobel Laureate), the scientists A warm Trinity welcome awaits university, ranked 17th in the world William Rowan Hamilton and all our students. We believe that a by the Times Higher Education Ernest Walton (Nobel Laureate) diverse campus adds to the Trinity 2020. Trinity is also 1st in Europe for and the former President of experience for everyone, enhances producing entrepreneurs for the 6th Ireland and United Nations High their personal development year in a row. (PitchBook Universities Commissioner for Human Rights, and enriches the culture of the Report 2020). Mary Robinson. university. Trinity is an open and inclusive university and we are proud to hold these values.

1 Trinity by Numbers

st 101 Trinity is 1st in Europe for producing entrepreneurs for the 6th year in a row 2021 (PitchBook Universities Report 2020)

Ireland’s Leading University 101st World Ranking (QS and THE World University Rankings 2021) (QS World University Rankings 2021)

Ranked as Ireland’s 1592 Most Innovative University (Reuters Most Innovative European Universities 2019)

1592 17th Most International Year in which Trinity University in the World was founded (Times Higher Education Ranking 2020)

250+ partner universities around the world for student exchanges

28% of the student body are 170+ Sports clubs and from outside of Ireland, student societies from 120 countries 131,000 Trinity alumni (graduates) in over 148 countries worldwide

TRINITY TOP 100 UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD FOR 18 SUBJECTS BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES LAW SPORTS-RELATED SUBJECTS

CHEMISTRY MATERIALS SCIENCE THEOLOGY, DIVINITY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES CLASSICS AND ANCIENT MODERN LANGUAGES HISTORY* NURSING* COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY* ENGLISH LANGUAGE POLITICS AND AND LITERATURE* INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

GEOGRAPHY SOCIAL POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION HISTORY (QS World Rankings 2020) *Ranked Top 50 in the QS World Rankings 2020 Trinity’s Location

Why Ireland? Ireland is a member of the European Union and is located in the North Atlantic beside the UK. Ireland is an English-speaking country with a young, vibrant population. It boasts a unique combination of cosmopolitan Ireland is ranked in the cities, breath-taking scenery, idyllic Top 12 Safest Countries countryside and historic sites. in the world (Global Peace Index 2020) The country is a European hub for innovation and industry with global companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Pfizer and HP based here.

Ireland has been renowned for its people, music, literature and art for centuries. It is world-famous Everything the city has to offer for its friendly citizens and warm is easily accessible to Trinity students from shops, restaurants Ireland is an welcomes. English speaking and coffee shops to theatres, country museums and clubs, ensuring Your University, Your City that there is always something Trinity’s is a unique, walled campus exciting for students to enjoy. located in the heart of one of the If you want to take time out to most popular and safest cities relax in nature, the city’s parks in the world. Dublin is a vibrant, (including Phoenix Park, one young and multicultural European of the largest urban parks in capital, which ranks as the 37th best Europe), an easily accessible student city in the world (QS World’s coastline, beaches and the Dublin Best Student Cities 2019). Mountains are all close by.

Ireland is the 7th most competitive economy in the world according to IMD (IDA 2019)

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3 Dublin Innovation District Be at the Centre of Things Trinity’s location is also Trinity’s central location makes advantageous when you are looking it highly accessible for all forms for a job. Dublin’s Innovation of public transport: Trinity has its District, the ‘Silicon Docks’ is own LUAS (tram) station, there within walking distance, as is the is a DART (Dublin’s suburban International Financial Services rail system) station opposite the Centre, and a large number of other campus and a large number of businesses and organisations which Dublin’s bus services pass by the have their Irish headquarters in University. Dublin airport is 13km Dublin. Dublin is also home to many (8 miles) from the campus and is global corporations across a range directly accessible via bus or taxi. of sectors. Find out more at: www.tcd.ie/maps

Lin Jiaojiao University: Minzu Did you know? Programme: MSc in Education Leadership and Management, th 2020/2021 Dublin is ranked 37 Best Student City in “Trinity is a world-renowned university, with world-leading the world academics and research-led curriculum. The three things (QS Rankings 2019) that students from China would like the most are the library, the scenery and the culture.”

The best way to explore Trinity's Browse campus maps and directions unique lively, traditional, urban to Trinity at: www.tcd.ie/maps experience is to pay us a visit. To sign up for a tour please visit www.tcd.ie/study/international/visit Or take our student led virtual tour at: youtu.be/XMchbHvzMOo

4 Postgraduate Collaborative Programme Spend the second year of your master’s programme at Trinity, Ireland’s leading university, and graduate with two worldclass postgraduate qualifications. After completing one year of your masters at Minzu, you will then join Trinity to complete your second year before returning to Minzu to complete your final year of study. While at Trinity, students from Minzu have the opportunity to join one of a wide variety of postgraduate programmes in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Why Study Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity? Trinity is Ireland’s leading university, steeped in history with a reputation for excellence in education and research. While our campus dates back over four hundred years, our research facilities and institutes sit right in the twenty first century. The University has produced generations of outstanding graduates. Some of the most famous people in Irish history have been educated here including the writers Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett.

The Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Science is the largest and most diverse in the University, Programme Information comprising 12 Schools and a total Students can choose to study any of the one year taught masters of 25 Disciplines. A large number programmes offered by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social of internationally regarded taught Science. Please note some of these courses have specific entry Master’s programmes are offered by requirements. Some of the more popular choices include: the Schools. The Faculty is also home to a major interdisciplinary research M.Sc. Comparative Social M.Phil. Linguistics institute in the Arts and Humanities, Change the Trinity Long Room Hub, and to M.Phil. Chinese Studies Trinity Research in Social Sciences M.Phil. Irish Writing (TRiSS), a broad-based endeavour M.Phil. English Language M.Phil. Children’s Literature Teaching encompassing the best of our research and thinking in the Social Sciences. M.Phil. Creative Writing M.Phil. Modern Irish History M.Phil. Comparative Literature M.Phil. International History International Dimension M.Phil. Literary Translation M.Phil. Gender and Women’s Trinity attracts a global community of Studies academics dedicated to addressing M.Phil. Identities and Cultures challenges of vital importance to the of Europe M.Phil. Public History and world around us and has a diverse Cultural Heritage student body with students from M.Phil. Applied Linguistics over 120 different countries. Chinese Note: Programme and students are the third largest cohort of programme titles may international students at Trinity from be subject to change. outside the EU. As Ireland’s oldest English Language Support and highest-ranking university, Trinity All modules on these programmes English skills to support their current strives to educate global citizens who are taught in English but students can and future university studies. All will shape the world’s future. avail of Trinity’s extensive language- students can enrol on the "English for learning facilities. The Centre for Academic Purposes" course. English Language Learning and www.tcd.ie/slscs/english/in- Teaching focuses specifically on the sessional.php development of student’s academic 5 Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 1 YEAR AT MINZU + 1 YEAR AT TRINITY + 1 YEAR AT MINZU

Trinity’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences has a long history of teaching and research. Notable past alumni include the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde, the writer Jonathan Swift and former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson.

Application Requirements: Admission Requirements: Application Deadline Apply directly to Trinity using online Please check individual programmes ▶ 2.1 degree or GPA 3.0/4.0 from a for application deadlines. Generally system: www.tcd.ie/courses. Please well ranked institution or at least 80% write 'Partnership Minzu' in the first students must submit their application to Trinity by 30 June at line of your correspondence address. ▶ IELTS of at least 6.5 or TOEFL (88 Internet Based) the latest but early application is ▶ Submit Scanned Documents strongly advised. Online

▶ Personal Statement Scholarships Fees Students taking this programme Fees are subject to change. ▶ Two Letters of Recommendation will be entitled to a 15% tuition fee Current fees can be viewed here: ▶ Evidence of English Language waiver. www.tcd.ie/academicregistry/ proficiency fees-and-payments

▶ Application fee

Yewa Zhang (Selina) MSc. in Comparative Social Change “Ireland is famous for its beautiful natural scenery and fantastic music. Trinity is obviously the best university in Ireland and definitely worth experiencing for a year. People here are really nice, it is a really nice place for foreigners to study and everyone treats you as an equal. I joined the Chinese society and photography society who organise regular walking trips, tea parties and other social events. Come here, you will love it!”

6 Coming to Ireland Trinity is committed to ensuring that all international students have a positive experience while preparing to make the move to Dublin. Trinity's support services are available to provide all the help and advice you will need to apply for your visa and find a place to call home.

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Accommodation Visas All students joining Trinity through Some, but not all, non-EU/EEA Please refer to the links below for this partnership are guaranteed students require an entry visa for Visa Guidelines: a room in Trinity approved Ireland. We advise students to apply accommodation. Students may for their visas early. The list of visa- www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/ apply for a room once they have required countries can be found at Students accepted a place at Trinity. the INIS website: www.inis.gov.ie. Find out more at: Online guidance is available at: www.tcd.ie/accommodation It is important to note that ALL non- https://goo.gl/FuvJhl EU students, whether visa-required Living in Trinity accommodation or not, must register with the Irish Contact details for embassies can brings a further dimension to your Naturalisation and Immigration be found here: participation in college life. You Service (INIS) for permission to www.dfa.ie/home/index. will be living as part of the Trinity remain in the state. Students must aspx?id=285 community and will have greater show their offer letter at airport opportunities for getting involved in immigration where they will Additional information on visas and many aspects of student life while receive a temporary stamp on your immigration can be found at: making lifelong friends. passport. You must register with INIS www.inis.gov.ie Students who wish to avail of within the time limit specified on the guaranteed Trinity approved their temporary stamp. accommodation, must confirm it by e-mailing [email protected] You can request a visa offer letter by Checking Your Visa Status before June 30th. emailing: [email protected] ▶ You should generally allow 8 For students who do not wish to avail weeks for processing time. of their guaranteed Trinity approved accommodation, an alternative is to Applying for a Visa ▶ You can check online for seek private rented accommodation, Students should submit their visa visa decisions using your visa usually sharing an apartment or a applications using the AVATS facility application number at: house with other students. at: www.visas.inis.gov.ie www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/ Visa%20Decisions The Trinity Accommodation The application will only be Advisory Service helps students find processed when the online form ▶ When your visa is approved, accommodation by providing them is completed and the required the Embassy to which you sent your with advice and access to house- documentation, passport documents will affix a visa hunting resources. photograph and appropriate fee are to your passport. For further information and advice see: received by the relevant offices as www.tcdsuaccommodation.org indicated by the online system. 7 Student Life at Trinity Note: subject to COVID-19 restrictions. Immerse yourself in a broad range of sports clubs and student societies and get a real sense of the ‘Trinity Experience’.

Student Societies and Trinity Publications A Sustainable Campus Sports Clubs Trinity students produce the widest In a world with finite resources, Trinity At Trinity, we have 120 student range of student publications of offers students a variety of ways to societies which are some of the most any third level institution in Ireland learn how to live sustainably, and dynamic and active university student including , the University to develop the kind of innovative societies in Ireland with everything Times, Icarus, , TCD thinking and adaptability to enable from the Animation Society to the Miscellany and Trinity Film Review. you to thrive in a rapidly changing Zoological Society. We are home to See: www.trinitypublications.info world. Trinity’s academics and the world’s oldest student societies, researchers are global leaders in the ‘Hist’ or Historical Society Restaurants and Coffee subjects such as climate change, founded in 1770 and the ‘Phil’ which nature based solutions, biodiversity, is the oldest debating society in the Shops on Campus environmental science, smart world, founded in 1683, and whose Students can choose from a wide technology and engineering. guests have included everyone from range of restaurants and coffee shops Our commitment to sustainability is Hollywood heavyweights such as on campus to suit all tastes and evidenced in key milestones over the Martin Scorsese to International budgets, including: last 15 years, such as: Space Station commander Chris ▶ The modern Buttery Food Court Hadfield. Find out more at: ▶ Student-led plan to reduce www.trinitysocieties.ie with a hot food counter, deli counter, disposable plastics on campus (2018) and gourmet coffee shop. The Sports Centre, located at the ▶ Divestment from fossil fuels, following a Westland Row end of campus, is ▶ The Old Dining Hall, where lunch is student-led campaign (2017) where the majority of our fitness enjoyed in traditional splendour, but classes and programmes take place, with a student budget in mind. ▶ Trinity is a Green Flag Campus for seven days a week. Facilities include the last 8 consecutive years. a 25-metre swimming pool, climbing ▶ The Pavilion Bar serving hot food all ▶ 50% reduction in paper wall, fully equipped gym with free day, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. consumption (in the last 9 years), 46% weights and cardio machines, virtual reduction in water consumption (in cycle and a wellness room. Students ▶ The Perch, a brand new café in the Arts the last 11 years) and 28% increase in are automatically members of the Building offering a range of hot and cold energy efficiency (in the last 14 years) Sports Centre. There are small beverages, pastries and sandwiches, additional costs for some classes. and grab and go food offers. ▶ 98% of staff and students use sustainable transport (public transport/ There are 50 sports clubs to choose ▶ Coffee shops in the Hamilton cycling/ walking) to commute. from including: aikido, badminton, Building and Áras an Phiarsaigh. basketball, boating, boxing, climbing, Students actively participate in cricket, cycling, equestrian, fencing, imagining, driving and implementing ▶ Forum Restaurant is a state of the art Gaelic football, golf, handball, hockey, campus sustainability initiatives dining outlet located in the brand new hurling, judo, karate, kayaking, tennis, through the Students’ Union, Student Trinity Business School. rugby, sailing, soccer, squash, surfing Sustainability Network, Green and bodybuilding, swimming, table Campus Committee, Young Greens, See: or follow us tennis, taekwondo, trampoline, www.tcd.ie/catering Vegan Society and the EnviroSoc on Facebook or Twitter ultimate frisbee, triathlon and (Environmental Society) to name a (@TCDbites) for further details and volleyball. Find out more at: few dynamic groups. The Students’ special offers and promotions. www.tcd.ie/sport Union and Graduate Students’ Union have Environmental Officers devoted to supporting and responding to environmental and sustainability Did you know? issues. We hope you will choose to Trinity is ranked 14th join your energy with ours to create a in the world for more just and verdant world. global impact Find out more at: (Times Higher Education www.tcd.ie/provost/sustainability Rankings 2020)

8 Support Network

International Student International Student Supports Orientation Trinity is an exciting place, full of During Freshers’ Week, Trinity runs opportunities to learn, make friends, a series of sessions for international and experience new things. While Trinity students addressing cultural delivers world class courses, it is not just adjustment as well as practical about your academic development: we concerns such as banking and also want Trinity to be a place where immigration. Find out more at: English for Academic you can develop socially, responsibly, www.tcd.ie/orientation Purposes culturally and personally. Trinity offers both pre-sessional and in- Student Mentors sessional English language programmes But with so much going on, we know for incoming and current students who that you might need a helping hand All undergraduate students are are non-native speakers of English. every now and then. From the first day, assigned a Student 2 Student (S2S) Please note places are limited. Find out undergraduate students are assigned mentor during Freshers’ Week. Your more at: www.tcd.ie/slscs/english a personal tutor and a student mentor mentor will ensure you meet your to make sure that you always have classmates during Freshers’ week, someone on hand to explain things to will show you around the campus Career Support for you, advise you or just listen. and will keep in regular touch, inviting International Students you to events on and off campus. Career support is available for students Our student support services include: S2S also offers Peer Supporters, looking to gain work experience while students available for one-to-one studying in Trinity, as well as for students ▶ Student Learning Development conversations on request. They’re looking to translate their experience highly trained, confidential and very in Trinity to a career back home or ▶ Student Counselling approachable. Find out more at: internationally. The Careers Service ▶ Student Health student2student.tcd.ie provides career guidance, advice and feedback on job applications and ▶ Careers Service interview preparation and organises Trinity Global Room employer events on campus throughout ▶ Disability Service With two full-time Student Support the academic year. Find out more Officers and a team of student at: www.tcd.ie/careers/mycareer/ ▶ Chaplaincy ambassadors who are a mix of Irish students.php and international students, the Trinity ▶ Academic Registry Global Room is a great first stop In order to encourage talented, skilled graduates to pursue careers in ▶ Students’ Union and Graduate for students with questions about Ireland, upon successful completion Students Union navigating Trinity, Dublin and Ireland. of an undergraduate or postgraduate Find out more at: www.tcd.ie/study/ programme at Trinity, undergraduate We also have specific support international/trinity-life/global-room. students have the possibility to stay in programs for international students. Contact us at: [email protected] Ireland to work for one year on the Third Level Graduate Scheme, while eligible Airport Meet and New to Dublin postgraduate students can stay for up Greet Service The Global Room Ambassadors run this to two years. This allows students to programme at the start of the academic gain work experience opportunities in New international students arriving at year aimed at undergraduate students Ireland in a wide range of industries and Dublin Airport can avail of this optional, who are new to Dublin. Groups meet organisations. free service. You will be met by a current in the Global Room every Monday student at the airport and shown how Students may also have the option of evening for the first six weeks of term remaining in Ireland for a longer period if to get to Trinity’s campus or to your and cover everything from Dublin accommodation. Find out more at: they are able to secure employment that grocery shopping and public transport meets the criteria for a Work Permit. www.tcd.ie/study/international/ to making friends and adjusting trinitylife/arrival to Dublin culture. They also run a For further information see: Note: subject to COVID-19 restrictions. ‘Getting to Grips’ programme aimed at www.inis.gov.ie postgraduate students. Please note that a hybrid of virtual and face to face supports may still be in place for 2021 entry due to Covid-19. 9 Starting your Career

Your Career Journey Innovation and Our graduates are highly sought after Entrepreneurship by employers across all sectors and many have gone on to successful Start Your Own Business / careers around the globe. See below Social Enterprise for just a few examples of the diverse Trinity is committed to empowering our organisations that have recruited students, enabling them to set up their Trinity graduates in recent years. own companies, realise their potential The Trinity Careers Service supports inside and outside of the lecture students in exploring their career theatre, and become entrepreneurially- ambitions for the future and minded graduates. planning how to achieve them. As a European leader in student Find out more about the Careers entrepreneurship, Trinity has established Service at: www.tcd.ie/careers Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace. This world-class facility, co-located within an expanded Trinity Business School, offers students, staff and the wider innovation Did you know? ecosystem a place to come together to st Trinity is 1 in Europe collaborate, build and innovate. for producing entrepreneurs for the 6th year in a row (Pitchbook Universities Report 2020)

Where some of our Trinity graduates are now employed

Trinity is a Top 100 University for Graduate Employability (QS Graduate Employability Ranking 2020)

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