Trinity College Dublin

This course examines issues of gender and sexuality in either the Greek or the Roman world. Students study contrastive portrayals of women and men, ideals of masculinity and femininity, sexual norms and codes, theories about the male and female body, views on marriage, rape, adultery and prostitution, and the relation between art and ‘real life’: what we may deduce from texts and visual sources about the gender roles men and women were expected to play within family and state.

The problem facing less developed countries are among the greatest challenges facing the world today. This course focuses on the diverse structures and common characteristics of less developed countries and offers an evaluation of policies being pursued. The course provides an introduction to the micro-economic approach to development economics. The course presents key theoretical models and related empirical evidence that shape our thinking of economic interactions and policy-making in developing countries.

This course facilitates students in the formulation of their own, critically aware, understanding of the nature of law and its features. Students develop their ability to articulate a reasoned position on distinctive features of law and a legal system and on questions such as the relationship between law and morality, law’s legitimacy and function in a social order. Among topics that may be explored are the concept of law, the rule of law, authority, and connections between law and morality. 

This course introduces the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. Modern psycholinguistic research makes use of biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and information theory to study how the brain processes language. Topics covered include the biological bases of language including methodologies used to study brain processes underlying language comprehension and use, the time course of linguistic processing, infant language acquisition, speech processing and production, and developmental language disorders and aphasia.

The intention of this course is to build upon students’ knowledge and understanding of Modern Hebrew through regular in-class practice with reading, writing, grammar, and conversation skills. In addition to the completion of homework assignments included in the text and unseen. Students must have taken an elementary Hebrew class or equivalent.