University College Cork

The course introduces the concept of disistance and its importance for life-course criminology - theories and research. Topics include early formation - the family as precursor?; onset and maintenance in adolescence; the role of place and community in offending; understanding recidivism; the impact of imprisonment - living with conviction; pathways to desistance; models of desistance; disistance and the criminal justice system; influencing the life-course: models of intervention; and forms of intervention in Ireland.

In this course, students examine a selection of key theater texts by contemporary Spanish dramatists from the early 18th century to the present. Students analyze how the selected plays are representative of trends and innovations in the contemporary Spanish stage. Throughout the course, students work not only with the dramatic texts but also with documents illustrative of their performance histories, such as filmic or journalistic records, in order to contextualize the dialogue between writing and performance from a historical, cultural and theatrical perspective. Special attention is paid to the ways in which theater is disseminated and how commercial and/or political considerations can affect the trajectory of a dramatic text, from page to stage.

The course explores in theory and practice the interactions of theatre and performative practices with cognate art forms and/or new media. The course is taught by specialist Theatre and Performative Practices staff or visiting staff with appropriate expertise. The precise specialization may vary from year to year but examples of such interactions would include theater and music, theater and voice/vocality, theater and dance, theater and somatic practices, theater and new media, theater and visual arts, theater and performance, and live art.

The course explores the nature, extent, and social impact of corporate crime around the world, and assesses the forms of social and legal regulation of corporate malfeasance.

Students review and apply research on social behavior and collaborative practices from the broad range of social sciences to the context of online social interaction and computer-mediated collaboration. They explore how social identity theory, network theory, actor-network theory, and research on communities of practice, public formation and computer-supported cooperative work explain online and digitally-mediated social interaction. Research frameworks and methods such as text-based qualitative analyses are introduced and applied. The challenges in working collaboratively in online distributed teams is examined critically.

The course gives students a comprehensive introduction to the Irish language and culture, and enables them to carry out a basic conversation in Irish. The course focuses on listening and speaking skills, and also on reading and writing skills. 

Topics include the development of the study of victimization; measuring victimization; theoretical perspectives on victimology; the ideal victims and claims to victimhood; victims' role in the criminal justice system and rebalancing in favor of the victim; victim offender overlap; the vulnerable victim; victims of sex crimes; victims of state and corporate crime; overcoming victimization; and victim support organizations.

The course identifies and discusses some of the major theoretical positions that have shaped 20th and 21st-century theatre practice.

The course considers the role(s) of particular specializations in theatre production, analyzes examples of contemporary practices in the field, and presents a program of work within which students will be expected to develop individual or group projects. Topics vary from year to year depending on availability of appropriate in-house or visiting expertise. Topics might be lighting, design, sound design, stage management, and production management.

The course identifies, discusses, and surveys some of the major practical approaches to making live work that have shaped 20th and 21st-century theatre and performance studies discourse, in both traditional and "expanded" practice contexts.