University College Dublin

This course offers an introduction to Landscape Design for those who are not majoring in Landscape Architecture. Topics discussed in lectures and in a series of short design exercises explore the design process from inception to completion, including the use of soft and hard landscape materials. Students prepare landscape design proposals for a garden or a commercial property. 

This course is taken in stage 4 of the Food Science degree program. Course lectures focus on how raw materials, processing, and microbial interactions affect the quality of fermented foods.  Students focus on bread and beer but a range of other plant and animal-based fermented products is also a feature of group project work. Students are given a substantial group challenge in which they examine in detail the fermentation processes exploited in selected food systems, the processing steps involved, and the impact of processing parameters and raw material components on the quality of the finished fermented products.

 

The course introduces students to philosophical debates concerning emotions and morality in the 18th century. Students discuss topics such as human nature and personal and moral development, love, and empathy. They read selected texts by philosophers such as Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, David Hume, Adam Smith, Sophie de Grouchy, and others.

This course explores contemporary theatre and performance in English, staged primarily in western contexts, including, Ireland, the UK, the U.S., and Europe. The course connects performance practices with their contemporaneous and historical contexts: political, aesthetic, theoretical, social, and cultural. By doing so, it acquaints students with historical trends in theatre and performance, paying particular attention to the ways in which aesthetics and politics have been investigated through diverse practices of theatre-making. Watching live and mediated performances, students conduct analyses of theatrical works and develop arguments about their meanings.

This course argues for the importance of animals in the history of human society and culture. It examines the evolution of human and animal relationships, the role of animals in agriculture and society, animals in war, conquest, and empire, and the interconnected histories of human, animal, and environmental health. It analyzes the historical construction of the categories of "human" and "animal," and its implications for medicine, science, and animal rights. Themes examined include a history of domestication, animals as vectors of illness and plague in the Middle Ages, the Scientific Revolution and animal experimentation, the discovery of America and the Columbian Exchange, the emergence of animal rights in the 19th century, and animals, extinction, and climate change in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

Project management and leadership skills are relevant to all people throughout their professional and personal lives. Many people think that only "senior" people in an organization or society are leaders. This course emphasizes on leadership skills that everyone can acquire. These leadership skills are directly relevant to daily life as a student and to all careers. Students focus on real life practical problems and how to address them. They work in teams when addressing typical problems project managers face. Students also become familiar with Microsoft Project (or similar package) as a tool to help in project management.
 

This course examines information systems and the social context of information and communication in organizations. Consideration is given to information systems requirements and design, information processes and flows in organizations, and the character of formal information systems and informal communication patterns. Emphasis is placed on contextual design principles of contextual inquiry and communication in computer-mediated communication and computer-supported cooperative work.

This course introduces the theory of performance, analyzing how an understanding of performance in everyday life, and in culture, gives a context for the study of performance in theater. Students learn basic tools of performance analysis, to develop the practice of analysis in practical sessions, and to discuss lecture materials in small group teaching. The course offers an introduction to ways of examining, reflecting on, and critically evaluating the phenomenon of performance in a highly technologized and globalized world.

The course covers aspects of physics including atoms, lasers, nuclear, and light in agriculture science. The course uses online lectures, while assessment contains lab-based experimental work and tutorials support learning.

This course explores, for students with and without a science background, the linkages between forests, climate (change), and carbon (as well as other greenhouse gases). Topics include forest types, tree species; environmental factors determining tree growth/health; impacts of forests on climate and ecosystems; climate predictions, expected consequences and dendro-climatology; mitigation: carbon sequestration, biomass, renewable energy, product lifecycle, conservation of existing forests and forest expansion, land-use change and context of forestry among other land-use types e.g. agricultural systems; adaptation: forest management and sustainability, forest conversion/transformation, species selection, silvicultural systems; carbon trading: reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD); international cooperation (Kyoto, Copenhagen, Madrid, Cancun, Paris etc.) and current position for Ireland. Course includes a compulsory one-day fieldtrip.