Ireland

This course provides an introduction to sociology as both a field of study and an academic discipline. Organized around key sociological concepts, it explores fundamental aspects of human societies, including inequality, gender, power, culture, and social change. Through these themes, students critically examine how societies function, evolve, and shape individual and collective experiences.

This courses introduces students to the basic concepts of financial economics. Topics covered include how to value assets that generate a sequence of cash flows over time for their owners; guidelines for capital budgeting decisions by firms; how firms raise money from equity markets and bond markets; the trade-off between risk and return in financial assets; basic principles for investing wealth in a portfolio; and the theory and practice of corporate financial structure.

What is myth? How do myths deal with fundamental human concerns about who we are and the world we live in? What is the relationship between myth and religion? Why did the Greeks and Romans worship many gods, believe in oracles, or perform animal sacrifice? This course is an introduction to the major myths and religions of the classical world using the full range of primary source material: literary, artistic and archaeological. The course CLU11200 is only available to full-year visiting students. 

Because ULYSSES rewards careful attention to detail, the main focus of this class is a slow, patient, and close reading of Joyce's novel. The course begins with A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN before moving into ULYSSES. The course ends with a few classes that present an introduction to FINNEGAN'S WAKE. The general theme of the class is the evolution of Joyce's artistic sensibility contrasted with Joyce's representation of that evolution. The course also approaches the texts from a variety of perspectives: Joyce as an “Irish writer”; Joyce as an “English writer”; Joyce as a “European writer”; the poetics of style and form; the politics of style and form; humor as style; modes of ideology (race, religion, gender, and nation); framing a literary tradition; and the production and reception of Modernism. The course also discusses the composition of ULYSSES as is indicated on the NLI ULYSSES drafts.

This is an introductory Italian language course offered to visiting students who are at the University of Galway for one semester only.