It should have an arts faculty where you can study arts subjects not bloody media studies and communications.

Eh you can study all languages WITH intercultural studies included, if you have only spoke to one person out of the hundreds of thousands that have gone to DCU, and the thousands that study languages, how can you make a fair assesment. PS there are better univesities than trinity, just because a place has a name doesnt make it the best.

You cant just learn a culture, you have to live it and maybe she was planning on doing that if she moved to Spain. Most irish people can tell you all about irish culture yet shun it and dont live it.

Brendan – apologies if I have misinterpreted your comment but DCU does indeed have a vibrant and thriving arts department – just wanted to clear that up in case people think it’s all accountants and biz students. I did a BA in Communication Studies with a specialism in Photography at DCU. It was a classic arts course- tons of amazing learning and wonderful creative opportunities with, shall we say, “less emphasis” on actually getting a job at the end. I loved it and benefitted massively from it all the same as did the majority of my former classmates. On a personal note I am deligthed to see DCU on the new universities list. I think the level of recognition and excellence they have achieved in less than 50 years is phenomenal.

Brendan, might I suggest you come to DCU some day and take some time to visit the vibrant Arts & Humanities building. Also, I think it might be best if you didn’t base your entire judgement of a University on an encounter with a single student, otherwise we might all start sharing some interesting tales of conversations with our contemporaries in other Universities.
Finally, it actually saddens me that you’re the sort of person who would rather run down a third level institution from your own country than celebrate its achievement on what must be regarded as a prestigious list.

p.s. In the interests of full disclosure, I am a current DCU student. However, being a proud Irishman and one who likes nothing more than to see this great little country outperform expectations, I have no hesitation in saying that I would equally celebrate similar achievements from any other educational institutions, Universities or otherwise. I’m not the sort of person who seeks to pull us down at every opportunity.

It’s the 21st century. The economy (as well as all human progress and innovation from now until the end of time) is dependent on science and technology. Subjects like Latin might make a university sound old and respectable. But there’s nothing respectable about its graduates being on welfare. Or the 50 odd k it costs the taxpayer to put someone through a bullshit course. As for DCU not offering joint majors in generic secondary school subjects. Those are done through its subsidiary colleges St Pats Drumcondra and Mater Dei. All of their agrees are rewarded and accredited by Dcu.

Degrees*

DCU IS a university. DIT is an Institute of Technology.

Brendan I’m actually surprised at what you seem to believe constitutes a University. The primary reason for my surprise is that you’ve been advocating the study of Latin and how its absence in DCU negates our status as a University. This led me, admittedly foolishly, to assume that you might actually understand Latin. Clearly not. The word University, like so many other words, comes from a latin word. In this case “universitas”, not exactly complicated. Even us lowly DCU students can probably spot the similarities. In an academic context, this roughly translates to “a group of people associated into one society, body, community, etc.” I missed the part where it says “a group of people who come together to learn latin, greek and discuss philosophical matters”. Perhaps I should look under ‘pretentious’.
In case you’re actually a Greek scholar who just enjoys the feeling of academic superiority achieved by advocating the learning of latin, perhaps you should brush up on your knowledge. Maybe it’s been a while. The word ‘Academia’ of course comes from Plato’s Akademia of roughly the 4th Century BC, which simply meant a place of learning.

Perhaps everything you learned is severely outdated. Might I suggest enrolling in a younger University. Perhaps one of the World’s Top 50? Graduates and Mature Students in search of more up to date knowledge are always welcome In DCU.

Latin, greek, philosophy etc? Get a grip man! Get a real qualification ffs!