Corvinus
About Corvinus
Transition Year Programme in the Arts and Humanities
Corvinus 2025 - 2026 programme: March 2 - 6 2026
Transition Year Programme in the Arts and Humanities
Corvinus 2026 invites applications from all TY students interested in studying Arts at UCC. If you want to experience life as an undergraduate and are thinking about the literary/creative and historical humanities, this course could be for you.
As a Corvinus student, you will attend lectures with undergraduates and will experience focused study in special tutorial groups, workshops and seminars in the following subjects:
You will also visit the library and its special collections, tour the campus and discuss what careers and opportunities are open to you after an Arts degree. Entry is by application and places are limited to twenty students. Please fill out the application form and send it to Dr Catherine Ware (Catherine.Ware@ucc.ie). The deadline for submission is 5pm, December 1, 2025.
Applications must be submitted on the application form, available at (Corvinus Application Form 2026) typed and sent by email. For further information, please contact Programme Co-Ordinator, Dr Catherine Ware (Catherine.Ware@ucc.ie).
Note: Because places are limited, students may not attend both Corvinus and the Film and Theatre TY programme.
Past Participant Testimonies
Corvinus truly opened my eyes not just to what UCC has to offer but also what the College education entails, which isn't an opportunity people my age get very often. All of the lecturers and staff were very engaging, and it was obvious that they really made an effort to show what each subject/module entails. I really enjoyed my time there and I hope more people avail of such an eye-opening opportunity.
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Corvinus students in Special Collections, UCC Library
Ogham and Palaeography was another of my favourite workshops. The lecturer was also clearly eager and passionate about the topic and really engaged the whole class. I love codes and puzzles and replacement alphabet codes so learning ogham and insular miniscule was a fun decoder. In college, this is definitely a subject I will consider.
Corvinus Students receive their certificates of completion from Professor Nuala Finnegan, the Dean of Undergraduate and Postgraduates Studies.
"‘I had not expected to enjoy it so much. I thought you needed to be an artist to like art history, but I found really you just need to like history and work on your visual literacy.’"
Studying old maps of Cork in Special Collections.
"The career talk was probably the first actually helpful career talk I have ever had. The only problem is, now thanks to this amazing programme, I want to sign up to too many courses."
