Trinity College Dublin

This course focuses on the behavior of individuals and groups in organizations. Students review core concepts and theories from the fields of management and organizational behavior that provide a lens and a framework for analyzing issues relevant to individual and group behavior in organizational contexts. Throughout the course, students discuss and critique these concepts to explore their contributions in helping us understand organizational behaviors.

This course involves the study of a range of literary styles in the genre of the short story and novel: contemporary realist fiction, historical novels, children’s literature, counter-factual narratives, even dystopian novels of the future. Literary works studied may include such works as Jane Austen, NORTHANGER ABBEY (1817); Andrew Miller, PURE (2011); James Joyce, DUBLINERS (1914); Philip Roth, THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (2005); Esi Endugyan, WASHINGTON BLACK (2018); Kate Grenville, THE SECRET RICER (2004); Margaret Atwood, ORYX AND CRAKE (2003).

This course introduces students to intellectual, political, social, and cultural trends in the Middle East (19th-20th centuries). Important political, social, and cultural developments in the region are studied. In this case, Lebanon serves as a case study for various trends that influenced the Middle East during the period in question.

The course provides a brief introduction to prehistoric Ireland, and it covers in more detail the period from the arrival of Christianity in the fifth century to the eve of the first Viking attacks at the end of the eighth. The focus is wide-ranging, from early Irish politics and the emergence of a high-kingship to St Patrick and the impact of Christianization, from Brehon law and the bonds of society to the study of landscape and settlement and early Irish farming, and from Hiberno-Latin and Gaelic literature to the visual art that culminated in the creation of the greatest masterpiece of the Golden Age, the Book of Kells.

The course provides an introduction to, and survey of, the theory of welfare economics. Studets examine the broad philosophical and legal basis of a market economy, paying particular attention to the issues of property rights and the rule of law. Students then explore the issue of collective benefits arising from public goods, highlighting the information problem associated with the optimal provision of such goods. This is followed by a detailed discussion of externalities, where, among other things, students study the different ways in which they are addressed: private solutions, public policy, and prohibition of markets.