Dublin

Your Dublin Experience

• Dublin Business School Campus | Big Pond Education

  You'll study at the Dublin Business School Campus (DBS) through a partnership with Big Pond Education.

  • Located in the heart of the city.
  • Strong reputation as one of the top schools in Ireland.
  • Near St. Stephen's Green, a public park with beautiful scenery and calming ponds, making it a great location to study.
  • Near Grafton Shopping District. THE place for shopping in Dublin with a mix of fast fashion chains, department stores and independent boutiques.

  Site Director

  You'll also have a dedicated iCharleston site director – a College of Charleston graduate who has several years of experience working with first-year students. Your site director will be a mentor, program coordinator and sounding board.

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• Housing

  Highfield House Apartments

  As a Dublin participant in iCharleston, you'll live in fully-furnished apartments in Highfield House with other iCharleston students.

  • Location
    • Near Dublin city center
    • 25-minute walk to the Dublin Business School (15 minute tram ride).

  • Amenities:
    • Private room and bathroom within the apartment with a shared common area and kitchen.
    • Fully equipped kitchen (no meal plan is offered). One shared kitchen per apartment equipped with stove tops, full oven, microwave, and cooking utensils (pots, pans, plates, bowls, silverware, etc.)
    • Within walking distance of grocers, coffee shops and restaurants.
    • Dedicated Big Pond Education live-in staff members.
    • 24/7 security presence and security patrols evenings and nights.
    • Duvet and pillow included.*
    • Full gym facilities, common space and laundry center.

  * Students will need to purchase sheets and towels after arriving in Dublin.
• Academics

  Your iCharleston academic experience in Dublin includes 15 hours of transferable academic credits upon completion of the iCharleston program.

  • You'll need to earn a "C" or better to transfer to the College of Charleston.
     
  • Time in class: Each of your classes meet for three hours each week.
    
    
  • Your classmates: Most of your classes will have a combination of iCharleston participants, study abroad students from other colleges and universities and enrolled Irish students.
    
    
  • Academic accommodations: Accomodations are available for those requesting support.
    
    
  • Passport to College of Charleston: You will also participate in a non-credit seminar each week - Passport to CofC - to bond, develop skills and ultimately support your transition to the College of Charleston in the spring.
    
    
  • Go to Class! Big Pond Education and iCharleston policy do not tolerate absences from class. Participants can lose their study visa if they are not present for class. 

   

  COURSE SCHEDULE

  Your 15 hours will include two courses required for all iCharleston Dublin participants:

  • Irish Culture & Society
    Dublin Business School Course Number: CSIR 150L
    The aim of the course is to introduce students to the key features of Irish culture and society and the key currents underpinning social change in Ireland in the 21st Century. Ireland, as a society, has experienced both incremental and accelerated social change in the latter half of the twentieth century. The former is characterized by the struggles that emerged between the forces of tradition and the forces of modernity whereas the latter emanates from radical economic change. In order to understand change we must first understand what has gone before. Thus, the course begins with a profile of Irish society and a historical overview of its core features in the latter half of the 20th century. It then moves on to examine continuity and change in some of the key categories of Irish society such as religion, culture, economy and politics via their two-step encounter with modernity.
    
    Students will embark on two study tours that will provide context for the topics covered in the classroom – one to Northern Ireland (Belfast and Derry) and the other to Western Ireland (Galway, Connemara and the Aran Islands).
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: ANTH 109
    College of Charleston Course Title: Special Topics in Anthropology

  • Writing for College
    Dublin Business School Course Number: ENG 120L
    Writing for College develops writing skills by teaching students the process and protocols associated with producing quality, college-level essays. The course also aims to foster a degree of literacy around an issue of significant public debate. Students work on four “projects” in response to texts on a theme. These projects are collated into a portfolio of work that includes drafts and finished essays, shorter assigned writing assignments, completed Homework (HW) assignments, peer reviews and self-reflections. 
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency:ENGL 110
    College of Charleston Course Title: Introduction to Academic Writing

  
  Select Three Courses from the Elective List:

  • War and Peace in the 20th Century
    Dublin Business School Course Number: IHST 120L
    This course offers a broad overview of the dominant themes and major events in European and international history from the First World War to the end of the Cold War. Special prominence is given to major ideological forces that have shaped political, social, and economic developments. 
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: HIST 241
    College of Charleston Course Title: Special Topics in Modern European History
    
    
  • Literature in the Modern World 
    Dublin Business School Course Number: ENG 255L
    This module offers an introduction to the formal analysis and contextual study of literature through a close examination of a small number of poetic and fictional texts. Throughout the module the focus will be on the development of skills of practical criticism and close reading, on understanding the relation between text and context, and on encouraging use of secondary reading. The course aims include:
    1. To introduce some of the concepts, methods and language used in the academic study of literature.
    2. To explore a number of literary texts in terms of their formal elements and contexts.
    3. To encourage wide and exploratory reading and to foster effective use of secondary reading.
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: ENGL 192
    College of Charleston Course Title: Appreciation of Literature & Film

  • Psychological Foundations
    Dublin Business School Course Number: PSYC 100L
    This module introduces the learner to psychology and related fields of study. It distinguishes the scientific discipline of psychology from popular psychology and highlights the importance of research, statistics and ethics. The module presents an historical overview focusing on famous figures and landmark studies and highlights for the learner recurring issues in psychology which will resurface throughout their degree. Learners will be encouraged to reflect on their own thoughts and biases to develop greater critical thinking. 
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: PSYC 103
    College of Charleston Course Title: Introduction to Psychological Science
    
    
  • The Moving Image
    Dublin Business School Course Number: IMDA 210L
    The Moving Image aims to encourage and develop the comprehension of the media industries in Ireland. The module is an introduction to the political, economic, and regulatory environments of the Irish press, broadcast and online journalism. Surveying the industry in a period of rapid economic and technological change, students will examine the main trends in journalistic media. It will also assess the challenges and future of the industry in the 21st Century.
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: COMM 1EE
    College of Charleston Course Title: Communication Elective 100 Level
    
    
  • Event Planning and Operations
    Dublin Business School  Course Number: ICOM 203L
    This module will guide students through all aspects of event planning and operations from concept development, to budgeting, marketing, sponsorships, logistics and managing and coordinating memorable and successful events. The module will explore issues and challenges relevant to a range of situations and give students a clear roadmap for the creation and execution of special events in a professional manner. 
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: HTMT 1EE
    College of Charleston Course Title: Hospitality & Tourism Management Elective 100 level
    
    
  • Drama and Theatre: Page and Stage
    Dublin Business School Course Number: ENG 150L
    This module introduces the study of drama and theatre through a series of activities including structural analysis and close reading of plays, thinking about genre and context, rehearsed scene readings, and reviewing a play in performance. 
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: THTR 176
    College of Charleston Course Title: Introduction to Theatre
    
    
  • The Sociological Imagination
    Dublin Business School Course Number: SOC 101L
    This module introduces the learner to the discipline of sociology. It will introduce essential concepts such as norms and values as well as critical sociological topics such as identity, gender, class. Learners will gain an understanding of key sociological perspectives and learn to relate these to relevant social problems. Learners will also become familiar with the historical development of sociological thought and will gain an understanding of the application of such theory in the modern world. 
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: SOCY 101
    College of Charleston Course Title: Introduction to Sociology

  • Art and Architecture of Ireland
    Dublin Business School Course Number: ART 293L
    This course introduces students to Art and Architecture through a process of answering key questions about the art (and artists) and architecture of the city where they will live and study – Dublin. Students will examine Ireland by drawing on Art and Architecture as a lens through which a comprehensive perspective of how the country developed and will develop. The course has five main themes (Power; Public; Opulence and Ecclesiastical; Domestic; Modernity and Movements) which are supported by key readings, exploratory site-visits, and a minor research question for student response. 
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: ARTH 290
    College of Charleston Course Title: Special Topics in Art History
    
    
  • Understanding Civilizations: Islam and the West
    Dublin Business School Course Number: REST 394L
    This course focuses on the historical, political, and religious relationships between ‘Islam’ and the ‘West’. Islam has for centuries been Europe’s neighbour and cultural contestant with a history of conflict and co-existence. Since September 11, 2001 there has been increasing talk of a ‘clash of civilisations’, but globalisation has also created an interdependency of faiths that requires greater co-operation, understanding, and dialogue. A recurrent theme of this course is whether it is possible to separate the world into monolithic entities called ‘Islam’ and the ‘West’. Why is one defined in terms of religion and the other a geopolitical designation? Further, we are increasingly witnessing ‘Islam in the West’. Muslims are not confined to the Middle East but have spread in large numbers to Europe and the United States and there have been Islamic communities living in the Balkans and in parts of southern Europe for centuries. This course is not designed to find out who is right or who is wrong between Islam and the West. Rather, the task is to deconstruct commonly assumed ideas about the other and to look at the historical development within the specific context of abstract ideas like secularity, religiosity, gender, human rights, freedom, and many more. 
    
    College of Charleston Transfer Equivalency: HIST 250
    College of Charleston Course Title: Special Topics in Comparative/Transnational History
• Sample Class Schedule

  Monday
  Event Planning and Operations: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
  War and Peace in the 20th Century: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

  Tuesday
  Passport to CofC: 9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
  Irish Life and Cultures, Part 1: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  Drama and Theatre 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  Irish Life and Cultures, Part 2: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

  Wednesday
  Drama and Theatre: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
  College Writing: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

  Thursday
  Irish Life and Cultures, Part 3: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
  War and Peace in the 20th Century: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

  Friday
  Event Planning and Operations: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
  College Writing: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

  Note: Big Pond Education and iCharleston policy do not tolerate absences from class and participants can lose their study visa if they are not present for class.

• Expenses

  $19,995* includes:
  
        • 15 transferable academic credits upon successful completion of the iCharleston program.
        • Shared apartment-style living with 24-hour security.
        • Orientation program.
        • iCharleston site director supporting academic and social transition to Dublin.
        • iCharleston-specific programming.
        • Associated tours for Irish Life and Cultures course including Northern Ireland (Belfast and Derry) and the other to Western Ireland (Galway, Connemara and the Aran Islands).

  Flight costs are not included in program fees. A group flight will be arranged and instructions for securing your reservation will be provided. It is required to fly on the iCharleston group flight.
  *NOTE: All costs are subject to change. No financial aid is available for this location.