Visiting EU Students: Modules and Courses - Module Restrictions

There are a certain number of cases where restrictions on module choices have had to be imposed. Thus, students are, in general, not encouraged to take first year English modules, as classes are very large and it is difficult, if not impossible, to provide tutorial support. Other departments may also have certain restrictions. There is a quota on the number of modules which visiting students may follow in the Department of English. You may take modules to the value of fifteen credits for a semester and twenty-five credits for the full academic year.

The Departments of History and Applied Psychology have a necessarily tight limit on the numbers admitted to certain seminar courses, while admission to certain subjects such as Applied Psychology depends very much on what modules students have already taken in this discipline at the home university. The Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems restricts visiting students to modules valued at twenty credits per year and students are not permitted to take modules from different years and are only open to students studying at UCC for the full academic year.

On a more general level, and for the reasons set out already, we do try to ensure that an excessive proportion of visiting students do not "cluster" in certain modules. This inevitably means that a number of particularly popular modules may not be able to admit all those who want to take them.