Trinity College Dublin

https://www.tcd.ie/English/undergraduate/sophister/js-module-descriptions-2022-23.php

Course can be found in List C. 

This course explores the representation of Irish history in Irish literature over the one hundred years since the foundation of the independent state. By examining prose and drama works covering the whole period, students survey the changing modes of retelling recent and ancient history, and assess their role in critiquing established historical narratives. In seminar discussions students pay critical attention to the impact of the stage on Irish cultural discourse; writing the Protestant tradition in the early years of the state; reimagining Northern Ireland; the literary representations of women; and the literature’s relationship to Modernism, Post-Colonialism, and Gothic.  

This course looks at the trends in the digital society: inequality, connectedness, big data, changing norms, loss of privacy, gamification, changing ways of producing and consuming new, and asks what are the implications for our everyday lives, and for the institutions and norms which shape how we live, of the increased connectedness of our age? Students explore the structure and features of digital technologies and social networks and their implications for collective behavior from economic, political and social perspectives.

The course covers key aspects such as website analysis, game design, and avatar interactions. Students learn to measure and analyze digital engagement via metrics and analysis and to understand and evaluate ethical and privacy issues. They attend a series of lectures from world-renowned scientists to get a deeper understanding of how the algorithms behind digital engagement work and what data they use. They identify approaches to maximize the effectiveness of media engagement in areas such as immersive games, and social media, and evaluate case studies with respect to digital engagement usability and effectiveness.

The course introduces students to a diverse selection of medieval literature, including works by both highly influential writers and less familiar figures. The medieval period witnessed many turbulent events, including war, plague, religious conflict, and social revolt, but was also a period of dynamic cultural invention, as English writers drew on rich Classical and biblical traditions, while also engaging in cross-cultural dialogue with works in other European vernaculars, such as French and Italian. These early writers test the limits of literary possibility across a range of genres, from tragedy to comedy, romance to exemplum, dream-vision to autobiography; as they imagine a world of gods and fairies, of heroes and monsters, they challenge modern readers to question our assumptions about what literature can or should be.