University of Galway

The course examines how gender, and multiple other categories relating to personal and political context, has influenced personal and public effort and experience. It examines a variety of topics to show diversity and continuities across social class, political change, time, and place. Students learn about political, intellectual, and social contexts from the late 18th century to the present. Students analyze both historical and contemporary effort and lives. In so doing, they acquire critical insight into themes of international interest and the opportunity to discuss questions of personal interest. A core object is to reveal the complex extent of connections, continuities,and change in a variety of contexts.

This course further develops students' language skills acquired in the first year and refines their understanding of German vocabulary, communication, and sentence structures. It advances students' ability to write and speak correctly, fluently, and accurately in typical communication situations. 

The course introduces students to basic concepts in the study of human sexuality from a psychological perspective and encourages students to think about the personal, social, and cultural dimensions of human sexuality. It covers topics such as clinical sexology, the context of sexuality in Irish society, sexual health promotion, and a critique of contemporary issues including “hooking up,” pornography and sexualization, and sexuality, with a particular focus on youth and emerging adulthood.

This course provides an introduction to sensory and perceptual processes, blending classical and contemporary approaches to basic information processing. The course uses a flipped-classroom approach with the explicit aim of combining Information Transfer Teacher Focused (ITTF) and Conceptual Change Student Focused (CCSF) approaches. In the first case, and mainly via readings as well as pre-recorded lectures, students learn "facts" related to perception; in the latter case, via both class Buzz-group activity as well as a theoretically-oriented Capstone Project, students learn that perception is a complex multidimensional topic that is not completely understood . In Buzz groups, students present and discuss some of the key theoretical issues and methodological contributions in perception science. The course also touches areas in which the application of knowledge of sensory and perceptual processes is applied to other areas of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.