University College Dublin

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.

This course charts the evolution of modern Ireland from the height of colonial expansion in the 17th Century, through the era of the landlords to the Act of Union, and through the Great Famine to the revolutionary period of the War of Independence and the creation of the Irish Free State. This course examines the historical geography of Ireland through the prisms of colonialism and decolonialism and challenges the notion of Ireland as a 19th Century colony raising questions about this island's position within the British Empire. The course focuses on both urban and rural areas and discuss the importance of historical geography in understanding the contemporary Irish landscape. Course includes a compulsory one-day fieldtrip.

Students are introduced to the Medieval art and architecture from 4th to 15th century AD and to an understanding of the principles, the technological developments, and innovations of cultural diversity and assimilation. The lectures examine material histories of objects and works of art of this period, which reflect the varied connections of European Art of the Middle Ages. Themes to be explored include the heritage of the post Classical world of ancient Greece and Rome; identity and diversity in the post Roman world; aspects of continuity and transformation in the arts of the Byzantine world in the east and the development of monasticism and the formation of the Early Medieval Monastery in the west, with reference to the Carolingian and Ottonian period including the specific contribution of Irish monasticism to Medieval art; and the impact of the pilgrimage tradition on art and architecture during the Romanesque and Gothic periods. The course also examines characteristics of the Gothic style as it emerges at the end of the 12th century, and the late medieval period is examined through reflections in urban and secular architectural developments. 

This course offers an introduction to qualitative research methods in social sciences. Students learn about the advantages and limitations of qualitative research methods and how apply the knowledge to small scale research studies.

This course explores ethical issues in the design and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It examines ethical theories and practices from historical, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural perspectives relating to current and emerging ICTs. Students  study the major ethical frameworks such as consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics etc. They look at how they are applied to issues around privacy, security, social media interactions, access, health, game design, and so on. And they explore how the design of technological systems and structures can support ethical principles.

Through an exploration of the complex and contradictory relationships between the global, local, regional, and national, this course focuses on the key issues and scholarly debates in the field of global media studies. Students explore a broad range of media as case studies to understand the relationship between location, culture, and identity. This course equips students with a broad-ranging and comparative understanding of the many ways in which media are produced, consumed, distributed, and circulated across the globe and their impact on our imaginations of a global world.