Ireland

The course considers various directions taken by Irish poetry over the last eighty years. It concentrates on key volumes published from the 1940s to present day. The course emphasizes relevant historical and cultural contexts, attending to questions of poetics and ideology.

In this course, students study the theory and research on human intelligence and personality. They explore topics including the measurement of intelligence and personality, measurement driven theories of intelligence and personality, theories that add to our understanding, the biological basis of human intelligence and personality, the genetics of human intelligence and personality, emotional intelligence, the race and IQ debate, and environmental influences on intelligence and personality.

This course explores the impact of digital technology on the production and consumption of film and other image-based media. Through task-based learning, students are asked to consider the impact of digital media on our relationship to the world which we inhabit. How do we use digital technology to construct our sense of personal identity? How has our relationship to cinema and photography been transformed by digital technology?

This course examines the evolution of environmental concern in Ireland, in a comparative sociological perspective. The course looks at the formation of voluntary organizations, the construction of a state apparatus for environmental protection, and the key changes in environmental concern up to the 1980s. The course focuses specifically on recent developments in social theory regarding the relationship between culture and nature. In particular, the course explores the basis of environmental controversy in Ireland, in the context of broader changes in attitudes towards nature.

Beginning with a brief review of music fundamentals, this course introduces students to concepts of musical space and time, melody and two-part counterpoint, triads, seventh chords, and texture. Building on these elements, the course examines the convergence of harmony, melody, and rhythm and concludes in an examination of tonic and dominant as tonal pillars and introduces voice leading.

This course is an introduction to digital signal processing (DSP), the processing of signals that are represented as sequences of finite-precision numbers.

This course examines virtue ethics' history, and compares its ancient and modern traditions. Students consider whether Plato and Aristotle represent a distinctively “Greek” approach to ethics; in what ways their theories resemble modern virtue ethical theories; and whether there are still lessons to learn from ancient ethics.

This course introduces students to the use and application of a geographic information system (GIS). GIS allow the acquisition, processing, analysis, and visualization of spatial data, i.e. any data that can be assigned a location. GIS combine two of the major strands in geographic research: cartography and spatial analysis. The course uses an open source GIS application, familiarity with which forms the core of the work for the course. While learning how to use the software is an important part of the course, the focus of this course is on the basic components of GIS, the use of data and analysis and visualization of geographic data, and conducting research on substantive and topical issues. The lectures initially focus on mapping and the main parts of a GIS. Later lectures and the assessments are concerned with the tasks that a GIS is designed to handle, i.e. digitization, spatial analysis, and data management. An aspect of the course is the integration of GIS work with broader analyses and writing skills to produce relevant and comprehensible reports.

This course looks at the development and experience of Irish landscapes through various multidisciplinary perspectives. It examines the relationship between the environment, society, culture, and ideology in relation to forming landscape in Ireland. The course looks at landscape through different disciplines and the use of digital technology to construct a spatial narrative of a landscape.