IRELAND
Ireland, also described as the Republic of Ireland, is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, which is located on the eastern part of the island,
and whose metropolitan area is home to around a third of the country's 4.75
million inhabitants. The state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise
surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, Saint George's
Channel to the south-east and the Irish Sea to the east.
GALWAY
Galway is a city in
the West of Ireland in the province of Connacht. Galway City Council is the local authority for the city. Galway lies on the River
Corrib between Lough
Corrib and Galway
Bay and is surrounded by County Galway. It is the fourth
most populous urban area in
the Republic of Ireland and the sixth
most populous city in the
island of Ireland.According to the 2011 Irish Census, Galway city has a population of 75,528; however, the rural county agglomeration is far bigger.
Galway will be European Capital of Culture in 2020, alongside Rijeka, Croatia.
Public Transportation
The main Public transportation in Ireland is Bus. Bus are budget-friendly transportation and convenient way to travel Ireland. Connections between the major towns are generally fast, frequent and reliable.in another hand there is railway but the choice of places to visit will be limited. Generally the railway will bring you to a central destination and from there you will have to rely on other modes of transport. More than likely buses. Add the fact that Irish railways are not known for either cheap fares or luxury and bus travel becomes a sensible option in many cases.
But on longer journeys the train may be better value for money - travel
times are usually shorter than on a bus, there are toilets on board and you can
stretch your legs by walking about a bit.
The
university was founded in 1845 as Queen's College, Galway, and was more recently
known as University College, Galway (U.C.G.). It is divided into several
colleges including the College of Arts, Social Science and Celtic Studies, the
College Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, the College of Business, Public
Policy and Law, the College of Science and the College of Engineering and
Informatics. The university has an enrollment of 16000 (2010).
In our group, for degree we choose Bachelor of Art (BA), School of
Languages, Literatures & Cultures and for the major is Major of Classics. So
what kind of study that we can learn in Classics ?
The Major of
Classics in
NUIG will introduce you to some of the oldest
(and newest) ways of answering such fundamental questions as ‘What makes us
human beings?’ Classics in this university takes on that challenge by
orienting ourselves first from ancient Greece and Rome and then broadening the
scope, moving back into prehistory and forwards towards the rise of Christian
Europe and the Middle Ages, including the place of Ireland in this international
process.
There are three basic themes in this study:
- Literature
and thought
- Art and
archaeology
- Languages
and texts
This terms of study will take three years to finished our study. In the
first-year you will be introduced about the above three themes in turn, assuming no prior
knowledge of the subject and presenting a multi-disciplinary view of Antiquity
and its legacy. And
for semester one the subject are Myth and Religion in the Ancient City, Written Words and Spoken Languages 1, and Classics in Twenty Objects 1. Mean while for semeter
two the subject are Rome and the Genesis of Europe, Written Words and Spoken Languages 2, Classics in Twenty Objects 2.
In
your Second-Year Arts you have the opportunity
to specialize, either by following a linguistic path and beginning the study of
Latin or by focusing on art, archaeology and the history of ideas without
language. For semester one the subject are Texts and Transmission, History of the Roman Empire, Visualising Antiquity and Beginning Latin 1. And for semester
two the subject are Studies in Ancient Literature and Thought, Introduction to Reception, Studies in the Ancient
Imagination, Cultural Impact of Christianity, Beginning Latin 2, and Latin and
Historical Linguistics.
In
Final-Year Arts and continuing into the MA in Classics, the pattern develops further:
material culture is studied in greater depth, literary histories broaden, and
original texts in Latin are studied in depth. Final-Year subject for Semester One are Barbarians.There are some options in literature, such as Visual
culture and the history of ideas, Representing Rome, Ireland &the Ancient World,And for Language options there are Beginning Latin 1 , Intermediate Latin 1, Advanced Classical &Medieval Latin 1, Reading Ancient Greek
Texts, Interdisciplinary
option Cultural Impact of
Christianity.
Final-Year
subject
forSemester
Two are Expressions of Power in Antiquity,the options in literature there are Visual culture and the history of ideas, Classics & Continuity:
From Seneca to Shakespeare, Iconography: The Classical Tradition in Western Art , Special Research Project
in Classics, Language options
are Beginning Latin 2, Latin &Historical
Linguistics, Advanced Classical & Medieval Latin 2 Intermediate Latin 2, Studies in Ancient Greek Literature.
The Reasons
Why we choose
Ireland and Galway to study ? there are some reasons why we choose
it. The first one is because Ireland is a countru full of fresh air and outdoor
lifestyles with breathtaking svenery, its a great place to study or live for a
short terms. Ireland is one of the attractive country because of the nature and
the society. And becuse Irish is rich a heritage in arts and literartures,
plenty of literary works was created in there and we can study the background
of a literary works in there, so this is the right place to study literature
and culture in there. And also because Ireland is one of the best education
systems in the world for higher education achievements.
Why we choose
the National University of Ireland (NUI) as a place to study ? Because NUI
Galway offers a welcoming and supportive environment to help students adjusts
university life in Ireland such as visa and immigration advice, counselling and
career development. And NUI Galway is ranked among the top 2 per cent of
universitie in the world. Galway is known as Ireland's Cultural Heart because of that NUI is the perfect place for everyone who wants to
study about literature and culture.
What kind of passport and visa do
we need to go there ? As a student who wants to study
abroad of course we need some documents like pasport and visa. So what kind of
passport and visa do we need ? For the passport we only need the common passport because our purpose is
to study not to conduct travel on diplomatic assignment or mission. And for the
visa we need Limited-stay Visa
because as a student our purpose is to finished our study in that country. So
we need to stay for a while in that country thats why we need the Limited-stay
Visa.
In
our group, we decided to choose British Airways as an airline to go to Ireland and
it will transit two times, the first transit is in Hongkong International
Airport. Because Hongkong is free visa for Indonesian so we don’t need Visit
Visa. And the second transit is in London Heathrow. In London as long as we
don’t get out from the airport and as long as we stay in there less from 24
hours we don’t need the Visit Visa.
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