University College Dublin

Style in film for its own sake has little value. The real merit of film style is its ability to bring a film story to life in a distinctive audio visual manner. This course is an exploration of motion picture production and technique. Specifically, it addresses the core crafts of editing, cinematography, sound, production design, and directing. The course explores how these core crafts collaborate to shape what has become the most popular art form of our time.

This course brings together a discussion of sociological debates on inequality and latest empirical evidence to explore the gaps between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged from a local, national, and global perspective. It encourages intersectional perspectives on different sources and forms of inequalities to highlight and challenge the assumptions on how they operate in contemporary societies. This course includes core sociological topics such as class, gender, and ethnicity and the emerging patterns of inequalities within social settings, such as education, income and wealth, health, citizenship, crime, and geography.

This course provides an introduction to the main areas of Linguistics and language study. It covers phonetics (the sounds used in human languages), phonology (the analysis of how sounds are organized in specific languages), morphology (how words are structured in languages), syntax (how phrases and sentences are made in languages), semantics (the study of meaning in words and phrases), and pragmatics (how meaning can be altered in context). It also provides an analysis of current theories of language acquisition.

This course presents important concepts of data mining and how these concepts are implemented and used in real-world applications. The course integrates the theory and practice of data mining with many references to real-world problems and cases to illustrate the concepts and the implementation issues throughout the lectures. The first chapter is devoted to a brief introduction to background information needed to understand the material. This is followed by data warehouse topics and how they differ from database concepts. The notion of data mining process is explained and how it relates to the complete KDD process, as it is very important to understand that data mining is not an isolated subject. The course reviews techniques used to implement data mining algorithms. The course then explores some core topics of data mining: classification, clustering, and association rules. Other concepts, such as prediction, regression, and pattern matching, are also covered, but viewed as special cases of the three core topics.

This course introduces the concepts of nutritional epidemiology, the methods employed to analyze the relationship between diet and nutrition status, focusing on specific nutrient deficiencies, dietary patterns, and growing chronic disease. The role of nutrition at each stage of the lifecycle is examined while considering approaches to promote health and prevent adverse health outcomes. The effect of policy on dietary intake is also considered and its impact on over and undernutrition in both developing and developed countries. Psycho-social and cultural factors influencing dietary intake are explored throughout the course particularly in the context of developing strategies for improving nutrition at the population level.

This course introduces students to a variety of sociological debates that surround the human body. It explores various theoretical perspectives of how we experience and live in our bodies, including theories by Foucault, Elias, Goffman, Judith Butler and others. It focuses on the roles our bodies are prescribed to, or play in our everyday interactions, and how they are socially constructed. Main topics range from exploring the mind/body relationship, the historical accounts of how attitudes to our bodies have been changing, the politics of the body, including gender and racial inequalities, disabilities, medicalization and commodification of bodies, and also the processes behind sexualzation, ageing, and dying.

This course offers an exploration of the derivation, development, and practice of Irish foreign, security, and defense policies, with a particular focus on contemporary challenges. Students gain a detailed insight into Ireland's place in the contemporary world order, the transformation of Irish national foreign, security, and defense policy through its membership of the European Union, and the efforts of Irish policy makers to pursue Irish interests and values within an evolving global order. This includes an analysis of Irish foreign policy strategy, policy making, and economic, political, and military engagement. This course provides a solid theoretical and empirical grounding for further advanced study, and encourages students to compare and to evaluate critically competing understandings of Ireland in the world.

This course shows how the Irish landscape can be read as a document in which are locked many clues about Irish identity: ancient, medieval, and modern. The course focuses on the idea of heritage: cultural landscape as a key element of Irish heritage. The course is conducted exclusively in the field and through online work. Students visit Wicklow, Carlow, and Meath, and also use course materials to conduct self-led excursions around Dublin. This course is for students who are new to Ireland and largely unfamiliar with Irish archaeology and Irish history.

This course provides an overview of key environmental challenges and explores the potential impact of these on human populations over coming decades, e.g. climate change, degradation of soil and water resources, and loss of biodiversity. The evolution of the farmed landscape is explored and the impacts of modern agricultural systems discussed. The role of biodiversity in terms of facilitating ecosystem services that underpin agricultural production systems is explored. Key policy and legislative initiatives that impact on agricultural production systems and the agri-environment are outlined and suggestions regarding changes that need to be made to facilitate sustainable food production systems are presented.

This course provides students with an understanding of operations and supply chain management (SCM) within a contemporary business and global context. Operations management processes convert inputs of materials and resources into added value outputs, and distributes these outputs to its customers. The topics include an introduction to operations and supply chain management (SCM); the input sources (suppliers); the conversion process and distribution/logistics to customers; the management of procurement, sourcing, selection, and suppliers; inventory management; facility location; process systems and layout; capacity planning and demand management and scheduling; the concepts of "lean" organizations, JIT, and TQM; the strategic role of operations management in an organization's competitive success; understanding product/process costs; technology; and the role of innovation in gaining cost and other competitive advantages.