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This course explores how archaeologists discover, investigate, and engage with archaeological landscapes. Through lectures and discussions, the first part of this course provides students with an understanding of the role of different methods and techniques in modern archaeological practice and approaches to landscape archaeology. The course then provides a chronological discussion of Irish archaeology using landscape-themed worked examples from Ireland and places them in their international context. Lectures cover the use of cartographic sources, aerial photographs, lidar, geophysical surveys, and other remote sensing methods, and the investigation of site-level and landscape-scale remains as explored by a series of worked examples. A staff-led fieldtrip allows students to better understand the concept of landscape and provides training for the end of semester project. The primary assessment requires students to complete an archaeological study which combines field, library, and desk-based research to explore a landscape of their own choosing. This encourages students to experience research and develop skills needed to work independently.

Drawing on a variety of texts from Britain, the Caribbean, and South Asia, this course examines the theoretical developments in postcolonial studies in relation to specific historical, social, political, and cultural contexts. Particular attention is given to contemporary postcolonial literature, enabling students to situate their study of postcolonial theory and literature in relation to current debates about race, ethnicity, and religion.

The weather controls the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. The atmosphere and oceans influence decisions about what we wear, how we travel, where we live and how we spend our weekends and holidays. This course explores how the atmosphere and oceans determine many aspects of our lives. Questions such as what controls when and where it rains, the surf on a beach, ocean currents, seasonal snowfalls, and tropical cyclones are explored. How the weather controls flooding and bushfire danger and why it is essential for water, energy and food security are discussed. Our health (heart attacks, allergies, respiratory and psychological wellbeing) is correlated with weather events. This course provides an introduction to understanding the weather and weather forecasting tools so important for the world we live in.

The course examines the study and practice of writing short creative pieces, both fiction and nonfiction. It provides a study of the fundamental principles of writing fiction, documentary, and memoir autobiography. Emphasis is placed on creativity, seeing and imagining a scene or story from a unique perspective or point of view, and using language effectively.

This joint seminar and internship placement presents the cultural and professional aspects that are involved in internship activities chosen by students and supports their cultural integration, their teaching practices and business practices in any other organization. Students work on the theoretical foundation of the activities of their practices based on selected readings for that purpose and investigate the most recommended resources and techniques to effectively develop the professional profile required for their internship.

Topics covered in this course include: individual decision-making under uncertainty; expected utility and the mean-variance criterion; portfolio choice and separation; capital asset pricing models (also without riskless asset) and complete markets for state contingent claims, spanning, consequences for investment decisions; market efficiency, information Paradox; theory of pricing of derivative assets, such as forward and futures contracts and in particular options. Also covered: basic theory of portfolio choice and different equilibrium models for financial markets under one-period uncertainty; when, how, and to what extent the models are applicable; some elements of empirical research in the field; implications of the theory for capital budgeting and financing decisions in the private sector; the basics of absence-of-arbitrage pricing models applied to financial options which include binomial trees in discrete time as well as diffusions in continuous time.

This course introduces and discusses key theoretical and thematic developments in the subfield of political anthropology. The course begins by providing a genealogical history of classical political anthropological studies of stateless societies, while situating these foundational studies in relation to relevant themes in political philosophy. It then engages with themes such as state power, national identity, globalization, colonialism, post-colonialism, global capitalism, neo-liberalism, violence and conflict. A crosscutting subject throughout the course is the ways in which political forms and practices are situated in local as well as global contexts, as well as a focus on how anthropology legitimates its own role as a critical discipline in the world outside of academia.