Ireland

This course provides the opportunity for students to engage critically with the philosophical literature on the concept of political liberty. Students read and discuss key texts in modern political philosophy, beginning with Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. Students critically analyze the various ways in which liberty has been conceptualized by the most important political thinkers in the modern era.

This is a course that focuses on student wellbeing, personal growth, and coping with stress, so that students can equip themselves with lifelong skills for learning, working, and being well. Students learn how to thrive in university life and beyond - including leadership skills for future employment - through fostering physical, cognitive, emotional, and social skills that will support their wellbeing. The course is delivered in the context of our digital world: understanding data and finding digital supports and strategies for life management. Expert speakers join for sessions around areas such as nutrition, sleep, and mental health, and students track their own personal data and progress in areas of their choice (e.g. emotional wellbeing, study habits, time management, exercise). 

This is a 15 ECTS course focused on children with special needs in family, community, and educational contexts. The course delivery is through a blended mode of lectures, tutorials, and inquiry-based project work. Students explore holistic models of conceptualizing the diverse needs of children, as well as examining and reflecting upon practical support strategies for inclusive environments. Students explore and understand the Disability Act (2005) and the process of Individualized Education Plans (IEPs).

This course helps students look differently and critically at objects from the past (and the present) and to appreciate the huge importance material culture holds for understanding human society. Much older than the written record, objects are a major category of archaeological evidence and a vital tool for the archaeologist. Students review key artefact assemblages from prehistory through to the medieval period. While there is a general focus on Irish artefacts, students also consider things from Britain and continental Europe. Students explore such topics as object classification (typologies), the scientific analysis of archaeological materials, and the contribution of experimental archaeology. Alongside this, students examine the many different roles and functions that objects had in the past and how these often diverge from our modern views and practices. They explore concepts such as ownership and wealth, object deposition and discard, and the life-cycle of objects.

This course considers how technology may influence the transmission of languages and the implications this may have for minority or endangered languages. 

This course introduces concepts from psychology (e.g. beliefs, emotions, or personality) to better understand politics (e.g. elite decision-making, voting behavior, or popular uprisings). Topics are structured around three types of methods that are frequently applied in psychology: experiments, surveys, and interviews. Students gain first-hand research experience by working in small teams to evaluate primary data on a topic of their choice (e.g. right-wing voting, state decisions to go to war, or emotional effects of terror attacks). 

This course introduces students to key concepts and research in the study of developmental psychology, with particular focus on cognitive development, social and emotional development, moral development, and gender development.

This course deals with the analysis and design of electronic circuits containing diodes and transistors. Topics that are covered include physical operation and modeling of diodes (pn junction diode, zener diode) and transistors (MOSFET, BJT); DC analysis, large-signal and small-signal analysis of basic electronic circuits containing diodes and transistors; and design of basic electronic circuits, including simulation and laboratory exercises.

The course introduces students to the early literature of the Celtic countries (which is studied in translation). This course deals with the early heroic literature of the Celtic countries, with a focus on Irish texts from the Ulster Cycle and in particular on Táin Bó Cúailnge, THE CATTLE-RAID OF COOLEY, the most important extant epic from medieval Ireland.