Trinity College Dublin

This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of human rights in the Middle East and North Africa from theoretical and practical perspectives. The course gives an overview of the state of international human rights discourse and looks at the implementation of human rights law in the regions of the Middle East and North Africa. The theoretical perspective both engage the international human rights system and also consider debates around the universality of rights and the relationship between Islam and human rights.

Hugh Kenner described Faulkner as "the last novelist," because in spite of his complex and challenging modernist narratives he maintained a 19th century-rooted belief in fiction’s humanist power and social relevance, and that the writer’s job is "to bring news of the world." This course is an opportunity to read and reflect on Faulkner in a sustained way, where students read and discuss Faulkner’s most significant and influential fiction and consider his iterative stylized representation of the American South. 

The course teaches students about the process of social innovation, and how do develop and work within a temporary innovation system. It explores how processes of social innovation are used to address key societal challenges, focusing on topics such as housing and homelessness or development of nature-based solutions for sustainable cities. Students learn how to engage with key individuals within the fields of social innovation and social change in Ireland and abroad, including academics, practitioners and activists, and record and disseminate their interaction with them.

The course equips students with a critical understanding of the major issues facing the European economy. The course provides a blend of descriptive information, theory, and empirical analysis. The emphasis is on economic issues but these issues are studied in their political, institutional, and historical context. Theoretical analysis forms an essential part of the course and requires knowledge of intermediate micro- and macroeconomics. Attention is devoted to some policy areas in which EU co-ordination has progressed furthest: internal market, regional policy, factor mobility, agriculture, and competition policy. The course is suitable for any student who has taken Economics and all Visiting Students who have acquired an equivalent level of Economics training.