Trinity College Dublin

This team-taught course introduces students to a broad range of texts, authors, and issues in Irish writing. Students work across genres and forms, encountering canonical and less often studied works. This comparative course proposes various ways of thinking about Irish literary texts, while at the same time providing a sound knowledge of the social, cultural, and political conditions in which these texts were written, produced and read.

This course is to deepen students’ understanding not only of the substance of Irish politics, north and south, but also of the academic research that aims to interpret and understand it. The course covers the Irish governmental system, and politics in Northern Ireland.
 

The "hero" is one of the central, if particularly diverse and changeable concepts that define and structure private identities and public patterns of authority in the ancient Greco-Roman world and beyond, right up to the present. In this course, students examine and interrogate the idea of the hero through the lens of ancient epic, exploring Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey as well as Virgil’s Aeneid in search of what heroism might mean, then and now.

Equality is a value that commands wide support and it is commonly guaranteed by national constitutions and human rights instruments. Yet differences emerge over the appropriate role for law in combating discrimination and when equality demands the same treatment or recognition of diversity. The enduring salience of equality has been reflected in social movements, such as MeToo or Black Lives Matter. Students examine Equality Law from a national, international, and comparative perspective. The course introduces students to the legal framework on equality found in Irish Law and European Law (EU and ECHR). It examines key topics, such as the prohibited grounds of discrimination, the forms of discrimination prohibited by the law, and the role for law in promoting equality.

The course provides future marketers with a fundamental understanding of digital marketing tools and techniques and helps them to become proficient in digital marketing practice. Practical assignment include the development of a digital marketing plan for a hypothetical company by formulating a digital marketing strategy, including the planning of campaigns.

In this course, students engage in practical fieldwork to map, measure, and describe saltmarsh geomorphology, ecology, and the action of biophysical processes that shape coastal wetlands through a mini-project carried out on the wetlands in Dublin Bay. In this endeavor, they place particular emphasis on the socio-economic and political dimension of saltmarsh restoration in an urban context.

This course draws from sociological, anthropological, and psychological theory to provide a contemporary view of consumer behavior that moves beyond predominant behaviorist approaches to the subject area.  Students are introduced to research methods for studying consumer behavior, while also putting these methods into action to examine their own consuming behavior and others'.  They consider the multi-sensory nature of consumption, asking themselves why sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell are so important in understanding how and why people consume.

This course covers the concepts, theories, and techniques of ecological innovation: Innovation within the context of the environment in which we live and are interconnected. The course is both theoretical and practical. It begins with a study of innovation. The idea of ecological innovation is explored and critiqued. Systems innovation is addressed as a core innovation process for ecological innovation, but other methods of innovation are also relevant. The latter part of the course is a group project applying an innovation methodology in a business context.  

This course considers how technology may influence the transmission of languages and the implications this may have for minority or endangered languages. 

This course provides students with a systematic introduction to the transformation of work in the context of rapidly changing aspects of labor markets in advanced market economies. The changing structure of labor markets is associated with new technologies, deregulation, flexibilization, and individualization. Students examine the increasing participation and changing position of women on the labor market. They further examine theories and empirical findings regarding the divisions of paid and unpaid labor, precariousness and impermanence, labor market participation of women. Wage and career inequality are discussed with a special emphasis on the interplay of individual decisions and formal and informal societal institutions. Students examine jobs, employers and careers/life cycle issues in a globalizing world, and the possible consequences of the rise of digitalization and artificial intelligence for the world of work.