Trinity College Dublin

Reflecting the increased focus on social and cultural themes in Irish historiography, this course addresses the ways in which historians are tackling a broad range of societal questions.  What characterised peoples’ family, working, and social lives? How did people interact with the apparatus of the state and of religious bodies? How did the evolution of media affect daily life? What forces and ideas shaped the provision of education and welfare? What impact did emigration have on both host and home societies? Key to the course is an understanding of what differentiated experiences; how did gender, class, geography, and moral/status hierarchies of different kinds shape individual lives? It also places the social history of Ireland in comparative and global contexts, in order to question ideas of Irish insularity and exceptionalism.

This course looks at practical applications of wildlife biology to the conservation and management of animals, both in- and ex-situ, including the role of zoos in captive breeding programs. Among the topics covered are planning for wildlife management, wildlife survey and census techniques, the principles of managing wildlife for sustainable harvest or control, management of scarce or endangered species, practical issues associated with the ex-situ management of species, and the design and management of conservation areas.