Trinity College Dublin

Students study the broad concepts of sustainable development. This course covers the topics of sustainability as a holistic and urgent societal issue, the role of diets in sustainability, environmental impacts of agriculture, sustainability advances in the food, drink, and drug industry, including how these are assessed using Life Cycle Analysis. This course focuses on societal aspects of a sustainable transition and practical sessions focus on techniques relevant to the biotechnology industry, sustainability of food production, and health indices of global diets.

This course begins with the rise of Brian Boru, who became Ireland's most famous high king, to his fall which occurred at the iconic battle of Clontarf in 1014. Students explore how Irish society and kingship changed in the aftermath of Clontarf as a result of inter-provincial warfare and the changing role of the church. The second half of the course examines the causes and implications of the English (or Anglo-Norman) invasion of the late 1160s, perhaps the single most formative development in Irish secular affairs. Students study the interaction of cultures in its aftermath and the Irish opposition to English rule that saw the emergence of England's ongoing Irish problem through later centuries. The course closes with the most serious challenge to English power in medieval Ireland: the Scottish invasion (1315-18) led by Edward Bruce, brother of Robert Bruce king of Scots.

This course teaches linguistic and intercultural skills, contemporary cultural issues that present a societal challenge in its linguistic context, and metacognitive skills and strategies in the German language.

What is myth? How do myths deal with fundamental human concerns about who we are and the world we live in? What is the relationship between myth and religion? This course is an introduction to the major myths of the classical world using the full range of primary source material: literary, artistic, and archaeological. This course is offered in semester 1, and the course GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGION taught in semester 2 builds on it. Both can also be taken as a year-long course. 

This course examines modern and contemporary US wring in a variety of genres, interrogating the changing ideas of national literature and exploring the emergence of a variety of voices laying claim to being American. Texts are drawn from the main genres of prose fiction and nonfiction, drama, and poetry. The course starting with the Harlem Renaissance is both a historical marker and a cultural statement, taking Langston Hughes’s  ‘I, too, sing America’ as one of its core themes.