For satisfactory participation in the program, participants will receive six semester hours of undergraduate or graduate credit in two of the following Communications or English courses. The courses takenwhile participating in this program cannot be audited. Students will generally spend three hours in the morning attending lectures by various Irish scholars and experts in the area. In the afternoon, students usually spend about four hours per day on excursions to places of cultural and historical interest in the Dublin area.
Students are free to travel where they wish on the weekend.
Past students have organized trips to Galway, Cork, Belfast, and Donegal during the weekends. Students will be expected to write academic journals for course credit. This paper will be due by no later than August 5, 2001.