Ireland

Digital Business is rapidly evolving and today it should be regarded being a central resource in the pursuit of business objectives and strategies. As a result, the role of Digital Business in organizations needs to be re-evaluated to develop a sophisticated understanding of how it supports today’s organization to gain and sustain competitive advantage in the marketplace. Incorporating a generic Digital Business Framework, this applied course evaluates and discusses components of a comprehensive Digital Business strategy and investigates its impact on different industry sectors.

This course focuses on understanding organizations in terms of structures, shared beliefs, identities and practices, concepts of efficiency and power and the implications of these insights for how we intervene to change organizations. The course helps students build their understanding of organizing beyond simplistic, functional frameworks and provides them with the necessary sociological and psychological concept to help them make sense of why organizations act in certain ways.

This module is designed for those students who have successfully completed Beginner level in Spanish and aims toward achieving an B1+ level of fluency (CEF).

The imagining of history is such a prominent trend in popular culture that students need to be equipped to deconstruct representations of the past and to interrogate their own working assumptions about history imbibed from film and literature. This course explores three examples of how historical events and themes have been imagined in the world outside of professional historical scholarship. Students will examine how these subjects have been "brought to life" in film and literature. Students also have the opportunity to consider wider questions and problems which link together the three subjects addressed in the course. This is not a course designed to test the accuracy, in a narrow sense, of "historical fiction" in literature and film. Students rather examine the ways in which the past has been presented, interpreted, and re-interpreted in various genres; to uncover the assumptions or agendas that shaped creative decisions and the responses of audiences to genuinely popular representations of the past; and to reflect critically upon the qualities that make for a great work of historical imagination or reconstruction, qualities which cannot easily be replicated by the conventional methods of historical inquiry.

This is an introductory course to literature in Ireland in the English language. It gives students a general overview of literature in Ireland in the English language and a detailed knowledge of a limited number of specific texts. Students read a range of Irish literary texts with a particular focus on literature written since the Revival period that began in the late 19th century. It is divided into the following sections: contexts, poetry, drama, and fiction. Key texts include ones by W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Marina Carr. The course ends with a survey of Irish literature across a range of genres in the early part of the 21st century.

There are so many topics to explore: generic status; thematic inclusiveness; the incorporation of contemporary epistemology—and the ongoing ethical and environmental concerns that Melville raises. Students discuss the content of the "novel" and its shifting tones from the comic to the tragic, but there’s no end to the sense of things that the book raises. Students reflect on topics such as political dictatorship, obsession, absolutism, oil, modernity, etymology, capitalism, Christianity, slavery, and the roots of belief systems. 

This course introduces students to the field of Human Geography, which is the study of the dynamic relations between people and places. Students gain an understanding of such complex processes as globalization and development, and the regional disparities in prosperity and inequality that result from these. The discussion evolves around the three main themes of economic, political, and social actions, all of which significantly shape the spatial organization of human activities. The course presents a general overview of the discipline, provides the opportunity to develop independent critical thinking skills, and offers insight into practical skills and tools that can be applied to a wide range of research settings. Overall, the course supplies the foundation for further, more topic specific, courses that focus on the spatial analysis of political and socio-economic phenomena at later stages.

In this course, students develop performance skills as set dancers. They learn to execute a set dance performance at the relevant level of competence and in an appropriate style; demonstrate specific set dancing styles; perform sympathetically within the context of a group; and critically understand the act of performance.

The course provides a thorough introduction to graph and network analysis from a computer science perspective. It covers the basic concepts and key algorithms in network analysis, and discusses their use in the context of many real-world applications across a variety of domains. Students learn to apply network analysis methods in practice through the medium of the Python programming language. Students taking this course must have previously completed the module COMP30760 "Data Science in Python". or an equivalent class at their home university.