Ireland

Position with a member of the Irish parliament or with a nongovernmental organization affiliated with the EU government. The internship is an officially authorized program working within the Irish Houses of Parliament: the Dail and the Senate. It is governed by the House Committee on Procedures and Privileges. Interns have the status of adjunct staff. Work in parliament is subject to conditions laid down by the Committee on Procedures and Privileges covering such matters as access to facilities, dress code, dealings with press and televised media etc. Each intern is part of a small staff: Irish parliamentarians commonly have a staff complement of just one or two. Interns are expected to work between two and three days per week. The nature of the work varies greatly but can be summarized as either administration or research. Typically a student will undertake some combination of these research and administration tasks. Throughout the internship, students are required to give an account of progress to the program director.

This course is about travel and cultural encounters, the ways in which these experiences are recorded, and the exploration of the significance of such records through a journey around Trinity Library collections and students' own personal memories. The course introduces students to the methodologies applied to the analysis of travel writing in its various forms (e.g. historical narratives, autobiographical memoirs, travel fiction) and to the analysis of visual and material objects. Primary material are drawn, where possible, from the Library’s collections of remarkable texts and objects from around the world. Students engage with appropriately selected items available for viewing in person or in digital form on the Trinity Digital Collections website.  

This course presents traditional Irish step dances, introducing students to both their technique and a study of their history. Students receive instruction in small groups in Irish step dancing. There is a practical exam at the end of the term. Students in this option undertake only one term of STEP DANCING 2.

This course covers the principle of vaccination and how different types of immune responses are required for different kinds of pathogens, e.g. bacteria versus virus. Students discuss how researchers use different strategies to make different kinds of vaccines and ethical issues that arise.