Trinity College Dublin

This course examines a variety of theoretical perspectives on the reasons why people commit crime, what constitutes crime, and how states respond to crime. Students explore a range of theories from classical and positivist approaches, to sociological theories, to feminist approaches, and contemporary research. The relevance of these theories to the case of Ireland, and aspects of criminal justice internationally are also assessed.   

This course facilitates the exploration of the construction of childhood and youth in Irish writing. Students have the opportunity to analyze texts written for adult readers as well as texts written for children. The course examines texts through the lens of "childhood and youth," and students are introduced to a series of subject areas including myth, folklore, community, education, history, postcolonialism, race, ability, genders, and sexualities. With a focus on texts from the 20th and 21st centuries, discussions are positioned within the context of broader cultural debates and incorporate a number of theoretical approaches. 

The course explores the influential criminological theories of crime and criminality, it then proceeds to look at how responses to behavior defined as criminal have emerged and changed over time. The course explores the rationalities of punishment including deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation, and incapacitation, as well as the institutions and practices that have been developed to give these rationalities effect. This includes a focus on policing, prison, and wider sites of detention as well as probation and community sanctions. The course also explores the coverage of crime and justice in contemporary culture, and how this influences public perceptions. The course draws on contemporary criminological examples and historical case studies and explores these issues from both an international an Irish perspective.  

This course focuses on the development of the Irish economy since independence, and how various external pressures and policy choices have shaped that development over time. It then shows how various policies, on both demand and supply sides, have been used, and which have not been used, to shape outcomes.

The diverse history of experimental film practice is examined in this course through a lecture-based pedagogy that supports practice-based learning. The course examines the history of experimental film with reference to avant-garde, experimental, and moving image artistic practices. The course considers movements in other fine art practice and focuses on film as a medium of artistic self-expression. The course balances theory, history, and practice to address sometimes difficult and unfamiliar films that can blend subjective expressions of lyricism, tradition, personal experience, participation, technology, appropriation, performance, and mediation. 

This course teaches students to define the phases of a typical compiler, including the front and back end. Students learn to identify tokens of a typical high level programming language define regular expressions for tokens and design implement a lexical analyzer using a typical scanner generator. The course explains the role of a parser in a compiler and relate the yield of a parse tree to a grammar derivation design and implement a parser using a typical parser generator, and how to apply an algorithm for a top down or a bottom up parser construction construct a parser for a small context free grammar. The course describes the role of a semantic analyzer and type checking create a syntax directed definition and an annotated parse tree describe the purpose of a syntax tree. The course focuses on the role of different types of runtime environments and memory organization for implementation of typical programming languages. The course describes the purpose of translating to intermediate code in the compilation process. Students design and implement an intermediate code generator based on given code patterns.

This course introduces students to organizational psychology and wellbeing (brief history). It provides a definition and understanding of models and constructs of wellbeing. The course stresses the importance of workplace wellbeing for both the organization and the individual employee, a psychological perspective. 

Other topics that are included in this course are: Organizational process and procedures that enhance wellbeing are covered in this course, Leadership styles and wellbeing, Vertical and horizontal organizational communication and its impact on wellbeing, theoretical overlap of Social psychology and organizational psychology in wellbeing theory,  Organizational culture and wellbeing, Social norms within the organizational culture that enhance wellbeing, Individual psychology and wellbeing, and Measurements of employee wellbeing 

This course introduces French literature and cinema.

The writings included in the canon of the New Testament have been composed by different authors over a relatively long period of time. Translated in countless languages, the stories and ideas found in the New Testament have played a major role in shaping socio-political, ethical and religious discourses across the centuries and in different cultures and have been a constant source of inspiration in art, music, and literature. Students learn about the most relevant scholarly approaches to the study of the New Testament and its background in Second Temple Judaism and in the Graeco-Roman world. They examine the variety of literary genres and the diversity of sources and traditions, which contributed to the development of early Christianity and to the formation of new religious and cultural realities in the Graeco-Roman world, and are introduced to the history of interpretation of the New Testament in antiquity and in contemporary culture. 

Every object has stories –shaped by human uses– to tell. This course explores how visual and material culture offers a distinctive window for understanding the past by choosing specific artefacts from the ancient Mediterranean, reconstructing their "biographies" and using them as a prism for thinking about wider social issues. Using both iconic and lesser-known objects, the course focuses on themes such as image and text; religion, power and ideology; warfare; funerary rituals; daily life and its fictions; and gender and sexuality.