Study Abroad | Dublin
Fall 2024: Academics

Course Code: LC 103

Instruction Language: English

To describe the social, economic and political features of modern Irish society. To highlight the controversial issues surrounding recent changes in Irish society. To provide a familiarity with the topical issues, political traditions and social attitudes of modern Ireland.

Course Code: BE 230

Instruction Language: English

To give a basic understanding of the structures and functions of membranes and subcellular organelles in the life of a cell ,to overview the process by which cells communicate with their environment, to outline how membranous organelles in the cell are integrated into a network for protein trafficking, to cite examples of abnormal transport, signaling and trafficking systems in human disease, to introduce special techniques for the study of cell structure and function.

Course Code: BE 301

Instruction Language: English

To develop a good understanding of the biology of bacteriophages and plasmids. To teach the basis of techniques used in the manipulation of DNA/RNA and to provide a theoretical background that would enable students to learn the skills involved in nucleic acid manipulation. To develop an appreciation and understanding of the complexity of gene expression and its control, with an emphasis on eukaryotic systems. To give an overview of the content of Eukaryotic genomes and their functionality.

Course Code: BE 202

Instruction Language: English

This module aims to impart an appreciation of the diversity, structure and relevance of microbes and the relationships between the field of microbiology and other biological disciplines. It will promote an understanding of the structures of nucleic acids and the biological processes associated with these molecules. It also provides a theoretical background for experiments in microbiology and microbial genetics.

Course Code: MG 308

Instruction Language: English

This module emphasizes the centrality and breadth of consumption in contemporary consumers’ lives. Students will also be challenged to reflect on their own experience as consumers. Throughout the course, students will be required to examine how facets of consumer behavior can drive and inform managerial decision-making in the marketplace.

Course Code: CS 107

Instruction Language: English

The purpose of this chemistry module is to introduce students to the basic concepts of General, Organic and Biological chemistry.

Course Code: CM 152

Instruction Language: English

This module introduces first year Communication and Multimedia students to concepts and theories that will assist them in contextualizing an introduction to broad psychological theories of communication. It aims to familiarize students with a range of ideas and theories which have influenced the broad multi-disciplinary area and facilitate an overview of social-psychology’s importance and relevance. Many of these theories will feed directly into student’s research and production in subsequent years and help to build critical and creative awareness, as they work towards their final production/dissertation.

Course Code: MG 116

Instruction Language: English

To introduce students to creativity and discovery and to develop their creative and thinking skills with a view to making them better learners in their area of expertise and leaders in their future careers.

Course Code: CM 261

Instruction Language: English

This module focuses on the sociological analysis of crime and its representation in news and current affairs media. The first half of the module examines and evaluates key sociological perspectives that offer explanations for the existence of crime and also examines the key institutions that deal with crime in Irish society. The second half of the module examines the portrayal of crime by the media and evaluates whether such representations are a true or distorted reflection of social reality and what effects such representations might have on public opinion and our political system.

Course Code: CM 102

Instruction Language: English

This module explores the key theoretical schools of thought in the study of culture. It encourages independent, critical analysis of cultural artifacts and practices, including students’ own, taking into account the social, historical and political contexts in which they occur. The module compares and contrasts the diverse theoretical approaches to culture, facilitating a comprehensive overview of the main debates in this field.

Course Code: LC 202

Instruction Language: English

The aim of this module is to introduce the concept of global culture and consider its relevance to our modern cultural experience; to analyze modes of international interaction between cultures and the potential benefits and problems arising out of it.

Course Code: LC 120

Instruction Language: English

To introduce students to the fundamental concepts and theories of intercultural communication, and help them develop the communicative skills and attitudes necessary to adjust to and interact effectively within new cultural environments by: raising awareness on issues of culture and identity; analysing the complex meanings and values of national culture; examining how cultural values are reflected in cultural artefacts (e.g. language, literature, film, food, education, politics, etc.); studying the nature of stereotyping, prejudice, racism; stimulating thought on the diversity of cultural mind-sets and their implications for living in/with different cultures; highlighting the relevance of intercultural issues in the students’ lives and studies; examining the applicability of cross-cultural adjustment theories/studies to the students’ experience living abroad.

Course Code: LC 279

Instruction Language: English

This module will offer an introduction to the study of images of racial/national/social/sexual alterity or otherness and their representation in encounters both within Europe and between Europe and other continents. Each topic will be introduced with a lecture giving the necessary historical context. Materials discussed in class will consist of literary and documentary texts, together with representations from the visual arts, especially painting, film, cartoons, visual novels. Students will be expected to contribute individual presentations on one of the topics, which will serve as the basis for their final essay assignment.

Course Code: ED 1021

Instruction Language: English

Students will critically examine current issues and international research on best practice in literacy in the Early Years. They will identify and critically evaluate the key components of an effective balanced language and literacy framework for the Early Years classroom. There is a focus on developing a range of essential literacy skills within authentic contexts in developmentally appropriate ways. Within workshops students will have the opportunity to explore a range of pedagogies with particular emphasis on the integrated nature of language learning and to develop knowledge of a range of assessment tools.

Course Code: ED 3048

Instruction Language: English

This module critically engages with a range of philosophical theories and links them to education practice and curricular development in Ireland and internationally. Emphasis is placed on fostering critical evaluation skills, multiple perspectives, mutual understanding and teaching for social justice and change. Students will experience and critically deconstruct a range of pedagogical approaches which can be used to engage children in themes related to ethical education and Education About Religions and Beliefs (ERB). The module will support students in planning and resourcing lessons across these curricular areas.

Course Code: EL 303X

Instruction Language: English

The aim of this module is for students to recognize key features of Irish writing from the later nineteenth century to the contemporary moment and trace central preoccupations of Irish writing such as national identity; religion; gender; class, language. They will also appreciate the complex creative relations at play between Irish writers from various periods and engage with Irish writing in relation to significant cultural and political developments in local and global contexts.

Course Code: EL 302X

Instruction Language: English

This module analyses poetry’s ability to explore themes and demonstrate ideas, focusing on its responsiveness to history, culture and politics. The module will move across history and tradition, demonstrating poetry’s ability to regenerate thematic discourses, both local and transnational.

Course Code: AC 116

Instruction Language: English

The aim of the module is to develop students’ understanding of the role of financial accounting for decision making in organizations. More specifically, it will develop students’ competence to analyze, understand, critically evaluate and use Financial Statements for decision making purposes.

Course Code: EF 305

Instruction Language: English

The purpose of this module is to provide students with an understanding of international finance. Our perspective is that of the financial manager who must determine the best method for finding and allocating capital to increase the wealth of the firms’ shareholders. The objective of this course is, therefore, to equip the financial manager with the theoretical background to maximize firm value from international operations. Concepts such as exchange rates, hedging, FDI and international markets are studied. Special emphasis is placed on practical example and the relevance of international finance to managers.

Course Code: EL 202X

Instruction Language: English

This course considers Irish, British, and American textual and visual works from the eighteenth century up until the present that explore cultural constructs of gender and sexuality. It includes work in different genres by both prominent and lesser known writers/artists who show that gender and sexuality might be more complex than we initially assume. In so doing, it examines a range of topics including the relationship of power and gender, the significance of body image, concepts of feminine and masculine in relation to nature, theories of the gaze.

Course Code: GY 101X

Instruction Language: English

This module provides an introduction to some of the key concepts, seminal thinkers, theories and contemporary debates in Human Geography. It details the significance of the rise, reign and faltering of the ‘West’ over the past 500 years in shaping the key social, economic, political, demographic, environmental and cultural processes evident across the globe both historically and in the present day. These concepts and themes will be illustrated using a wide range of case studies that explore human geographies which are being made today in both Western and non-Western regions, including Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Course Code: NS 370

Instruction Language: English

The purpose of this module is to examine the global health problems that confront populations of the world and how they can be challenged.

Course Code: NS 141

Instruction Language: English

In contemporary societies, drug use is variously a pervasive part of everyday life, a symbol of deviance, an aspect of one’s identity, a pleasurable activity, a sociable activity, a medical necessity, a means of enhancement, a source of harm, a commercial opportunity and a focus for dispute. Using particular songs from popular music as a starting point, we explore all these aspects of drug use and deal with some fundamental questions about human nature, freedom, responsibility and risk-taking.

Course Code: SS 102

Instruction Language: English

The module will introduce the fundamental components of fitness and principles of training and as they apply to the design and development of training programs for different populations. Students will apply these core theoretical concepts to training program the design as well as field-based fitness assessment.

Course Code: NS 329

Instruction Language: English

This module introduces students to sociological concepts and theories relevant to mental illness and mental healthcare. It critically explores issues such as culture and mental health, stigma and labelling, the psychiatric professions, the organization of mental health care, and the patterning along class, gender and ethnic lines of mental health inequalities. The module seeks to foster students’ sociological imagination and to assist future mental health nurses to ask socially relevant questions as well as reflect upon wider social factors influencing the care of individuals.

Course Code: NS 280

Instruction Language: English

The module aims to introduce students to a critically informed sociological perspective on health and society from the perspective of their interaction with individual behaviors and thinking, as well as the environment. The module overviews the manners in which social arrangements influence health outcomes and the impact contemporary social processes have on health and health care. The module dwells on issues such as the sick role, medicalization; the impact of ethnicity, gender and class on health; global health inequalities; neoliberalism, health risks and responsibility.

Course Code: SS 213

Instruction Language: English

The aim of this module is to evaluate the relationship between nutrient intake and exercise performance and be able to describe the role of nutritional supplementation in exercise performance.

Course Code: SS 124

Instruction Language: English

The module analyses and provides an understanding of the key physiological and metabolic responses to acute and chronic exercise. Students will investigate and evaluate the key changes that occur to the various physiological systems at rest and during a single bout of exercise as well as following a period of training.

Course Code: Sports Psychology

Instruction Language: English

This module provides an overview of sport and exercise psychology topics at an introductory level. The role of theory in the design and application of individual and group interventions to enhance sport participation is explained.

Course Code: HY 321X

Instruction Language: English

A History of Northern Ireland, 1912-98 examines the evolution of Northern Ireland from its conception during the Third Home Rule Crisis in 1912-14 to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

Course Code: HY 205

Instruction Language: English

This module considers constructions of gender in nineteenth-century Ireland with a focus on the manner which women’s lives were shaped by the prevailing ideology of separate spheres. This determined a largely private and domestic role for women with due attention to issues of class. The module will consider the treatment of so-called ‘deviant’ women who existed outside the domestic paradigm. The module will then focus on the campaigns for greater equality for women in society, with a focus on the suffrage campaign. The module will conclude with an examination of women in nationalist campaigns with an emphasis on the revolutionary period 1913-1921.

Course Code: HY 324

Instruction Language: English

This module explores the politics of Ireland in the years 1900 to 1923, a period of profound political instability marked by protest, war (on the island and in Europe) and revolution. Students will assess the chain of events that witnessed the establishment of an independent Irish state within the British Empire and the partitioning of the island. They will examine the conflicts that developed within Ireland, while placing these in their British, European, imperial and global contexts. Students will assess the influence of political ideologies upon change in Ireland, including nationalism, republicanism, unionism, syndicalism, female suffragism, liberalism, and imperialism.

Course Code: HY 105

Instruction Language: English

This course introduces students to the main developments in Irish landscape history, from the arrival of the first humans in Ireland c.9,000 years ago, to the modern, urbanized Ireland of today. Students will learn about the principal sources that inform us about landscape history, the impact of humans on the landscape, and how the landscape itself can be used as a valuable source for studying the past. The themes and topics addressed in this course embrace early human settlement, the impact of Neolithic settlement patterns, iron age fort development, the early medieval landscape, the Vikings and the beginnings of urbanization, the impact and legacy of plantation and of the landlords system, early modern urbanization, the environmental origins and legacy of the Great Famine, and the creation of the modern landscape. In addition, students are provided with a number of more particular cases studies that explore particular monuments and landscape forms – the megalithic tombs; small towns and villages, and the local impact of the Great Famine.

Course Code: AC 115

Instruction Language: English

The aim of the module is to develop business students’ understanding of the role of management accounting in organizations. More specifically it will develop students’ competence to use management accounting information for planning, performance evaluation, decision making and costing activities within organizations.

Course Code: MG 329

Instruction Language: English

This module will develop students’ knowledge of digital marketing, and allow them to develop tactical and strategic digital marketing strategies.

Course Code: HR 101

Instruction Language: English

To enable students to gain an understanding of the major decisions faced by marketing management in their efforts to balance the organization’s objectives against the needs and opportunities in the global marketplace.

Course Code: MS 111

Instruction Language: English

This module introduces students to core mathematical concepts and supports their development of proficiency in basic mathematical skills. The module focuses on the concepts of variable, equality, set, number, function, graph and logic, and introduces students to mathematical proofs.

Course Code: GY 218

Instruction Language: English

The purpose of this module is to give the student a sound introduction to climate change and climate change science. In this module students develop knowledge on the basics of climate change, the history of climate science, the current state of the knowledge of climate change and how climate science is used to develop projections of the future and how it can be used to inform national, supra-national and global policy. The 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is examined to assess anthropogenic climate forcing, indicators of climate change, observations in climate system, climate models as well as an examination of COP21 and its impact on human activities and climate change.

Course Code: Global Climates

Instruction Language: English

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to elements of the global climate, allowing them to understand how the atmosphere works, what causes and affects the weather, and what is the science behind climate change. In this module students develop knowledge and skills to classify global climates in relation to the dynamic processes and related physical structures on the ground influence climate and weather patterns across the globe as well as here in Ireland. The impact of climatic change will be discussed in terms of its effect on the spatial variation of weather and precipitation.

Course Code: TP 133X

Instruction Language: English

This module provides a comprehensive introduction to ethics to enable course participants to further explore key contemporary ethical issues from an informed philosophical perspective. The module provides a more in-depth examination of the texts that are at the source of the major traditions in the field of ethics, i.e. virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism. Students are invited to study and discuss these texts crucial for the development of the main ethical theories. In addition, the course looks at some of the most important contemporary exponents of the above mentioned three traditions. In this way, the module broadens the students’ understanding of contemporary ethics and its historical development.

Course Code: TP 230

Instruction Language: English

This module provides a critical survey of important Irish philosophers, concentrating on the ‘long eighteenth century’. The module focuses on four thinkers – Toland, Berkeley, Hutcheson and Burke – and, in doing so, engages with a wide range of philosophical issues: metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of religion.

Course Code: LG 211X

Instruction Language: English

To develop an understanding of the foreign policy of the U.S.A. in the 21st century. To understand the United States’ role in world affairs as a security actor and as a significant political force. To examine the United States role in the development and operation of international institutions.

Course Code: LG 245

Instruction Language: English

The events of 9/11 spectacularly highlighted the destructive capacity of international terrorism, whilst also demonstrating its profound capacity to affect the international system. Though the phenomenon of ‘Islamist Terrorism’—as it is commonly denoted—subsequently came to dominate modern conceptions of terrorism, it is important to recall the history of terrorism and take note of the changing landscape around contemporary political violence. As such, this course examines some of the key dimensions of international terrorism, both historical and contemporary, and provides students with a broad range of perspectives from which to engage with the subject.

Course Code: LG 123

Instruction Language: English

This course introduces students to the challenges of global development. Why does poverty and inequality persist? What explains regional variations in levels of development?

Course Code: PSYC 202

Instruction Language: English

To extend the description and explanation of the biological basis of human behavior and the theories of biological influences on behavior.

Course Code: PSYC 108

Instruction Language: English

To provide students with a critical historical and philosophical perspective on the development of modern psychology

Course Code: PSYC 206

Instruction Language: English

To describe and explain the essentials of psychopharmacology, i.e., how psychoactive drugs interact with the body and the brain, and how psychoactive drugs are used to treat neuropsychological/psychiatric conditions and disorders.

Course Code: PSYC 102

Instruction Language: English

To provide the student with an introduction to the study of social psychology, utilizing a synthesis of the cognitive and social and individual and group influences that shape social behavior. To present to the student, in a comprehensive and meaningful way, key influential social psychology studies alongside contemporary and cross-disciplinary developments that have impacted on many areas of life, including education, health, and counselling and clinical psychology.

Course Code: TP 101X

Instruction Language: English

The purpose of this module is to provide an introduction to the history of Christianity. It attempts to introduce the study of the Christian Church from biblical times to the present. The module considers how the Church survived after the death of the first apostolic leaders; the achievements and failures of the Church in the patristic, medieval and modern periods; the biblical images of the Church; the eleventh-century schism; the sixteenth-century reformation, the renaissance in Catholic thought in the twentieth century, and the history of Vatican II. In this module, students develop knowledge and skills in reading original texts studying the methods of historical and theological investigation reading introductory and advanced historical and theological textbooks collaborative learning critical analysis of historical and theological data.

Course Code: TP 105X

Instruction Language: English

The purpose of this module is to introduce learners to Islam as a religious, social, literary and historical phenomenon. The module will explore the historical foundations of Islam and some of its most important subsequent developments. It will survey the major practices and beliefs of Islam through a close reading of key selections from the primary sources of Islamic religious literature. Although the major focus of this module is Islam as lived and experienced by Muslims, some attention will also be given to issues relating the representation of Muslims by non-Muslims, especially in the contemporary period.

Course Code: PS 114

Instruction Language: English

Life, the Universe and Everything is an introductory module to the astronomy and biomedical sciences streams in our suite of physics degrees.

Course Code: PS 213

Instruction Language: English

Module Aims: To introduce students to the space industry and bring them up to date on the recent developments in space and space technology. To demonstrate how space technology applies to everyday life (e.g. satellite tv, mobile communication, GPS systems etc..) To introduce the basic principles of space science & technology such as: Orbits, data transfer, communications, rocket propulsion, human space flight, history of space technology, stage separations, launch systems, organizations- NASA, ESA. To illustrate in particular the astronomical applications of space science.

Course Code: LG 113X

Instruction Language: English

This module aims to introduce most of the aspects which comprise contemporary Irish life. It does not privilege history, politics and (high or traditional) culture, as is common in other introductions to Ireland. The module does not dwell on the issue of identity, but rather on what Irish people do. This concrete approach argues that what Irish people do helps us understand who they are. What they do also helps us understand how being Irish interacts with other less abstract identities, like class, gender, and age. It also provides a basis for understanding what is uniquely Irish about Ireland.

Course Code: SS 209

The aim of this module is to develop participants understanding of the role of sport as an important aspect of social structure and cultural behavior. The module begins by charting the historical background to the development of sport in society with a particular emphasis on Irish and international sports development in the modern era. The links between sport and social structures such as politics, social class, the commercial and business sectors, education and the media will be analyzed. There will be a particular focus on how issues such as identity (local and national) social class, race and gender are dealt with and impact on the sports

Course Code: BE 101

Instruction Language: English

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the concept of the cell and focus on the basic biochemistry, physiology and molecular detail of animals and plants.

Course Code: BE 102

Instruction Language: English

Following on from module BE101, this module introduces genetics and animal physiology.