University College Cork

This course examines anthropological engagements with "nature" and the more-than-human world. It explores how ideas about "nature" have been theorized and critiqued within anthropology, how such ideas are put to work in different world-making projects, and how rethinking human relations with the more-than-human world might offer insights into navigating uncertain ecological times.

Through intensive directed learning, this course combines the analytical, creative and expressive skills already acquired in Years 1 and 2. The course explores means and ends of making theater performance and develops team performance projects in response to a specific remit. In groups, students create theater performance either text-based, adapted or devised.

This course introduces the concept of the 'First' and 'Second' nuclear ages, in addition to questions about proliferation's impact on world security, crisis decision making, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, deterrence, arms control, civil-military nuclear links, the non-proliferation regime, nuclear safeguards, and 'new' nuclear threats (smuggling and terrorism). Recent and contemporary case studies such as Iraq, Iran and North Korea are considered.

This course explores a range of contemporary Irish writing and film in the context of recent Irish culture, history and society. The course discusses a range of work in various genres (fiction, poetry, drama and/or film) from the 1960s to the present. On successful completion of this course, students are able to: Read and analyze a selection of Irish works - novels, poetry, plays and/or films from the 1960s on; Discuss the shifting social and cultural conditions which these works both reflect and help to shape; Apply a range of key critical concepts to the works studied; Write critical essays at an advanced undergraduate level in response to set questions on the course material.

This course aids students to develop ensemble performance skills in the area of early music. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to successfully execute a performance at the relevant level of competence and in an appropriate style, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of specific performance styles, demonstrate an ability to perform sympathetically within the context of a group, demonstrate a critical understanding of the act of performance, and discuss the issues surrounding the performance practice of select genres.

This course provides an understanding of the key concepts underlying Geographical Information Systems (GIS), how Geographical Information (GI) may be defined, measured, structured and represented in a GIS, and the development of skills in the use and application of GIS through practical exercises. The course also covers the role of GI in society; the nature and construction of GI; measurement of location; principles and techniques of spatial data modelling; field-based and object-based conceptualizations of space, and their expression as spatial data structures; and concepts of spatial and non-spatial data retrieval, manipulation and analysis. Hands-on training in GIS will be provided in the laboratory sessions.

This course explores key sustainable development challenges, including climate change, poverty, inequality and social justice. It explores the concept of sustainable development and assesses the effectiveness of a range of approaches to development. The role of government, business and civil society in addressing global challenges is considered.

This course examines the historical trajectories and contemporary interpretations of the concepts of race, ethnicity and nationhood. Through critical engagement with classical and contemporary theories of race, ethnicity and nationhood, the course examines the role that these play in the construction of social and political identities, and in the development of the modern nation-state and nationalist politics. The course also investigates the co-constitutive relationship between interpretations of race, ethnicity and nationhood, and historical and contemporary migration. Emphasis is placed on the role of migration in the constitution of the modern nation- state, the relationship between migrant and minority politics, and the manner in which contemporary migration continues to be affected by discourses of race, ethnicity and nationhood.