Ireland

This course focuses on the use of market based instruments (MBIs) for environmental management and sustainable development. It compares the regulatory approaches of environmental management to those employing MBIs at different special scales and examines the types of policy instruments that can be utilized for environmental management (e.g. EU Emissions Trading Scheme, Environmental Tax Reform etc.). It examines the institutional and agency frameworks necessary for the successful implementation of MBIs.

 

 

This course introduces the concept of mathematical and analytics modeling in decision problems, and surveys some of the major mathematical models and solution techniques. Students learn how to conceptualize complex business problems and transform them into a set of equations (models) that describe the problem. Once modeled, the problems can be solved using optimization techniques such as linear or mixed integer programming. Students are introduced to the use of computer packages to implement models for sample problems and assignments. The principles of active learning guide the face-to-face contact sessions with students engaging in hands-on mathematical modeling exercises.

This course is a study of 19th-century adaptations in fiction of traditional Gothic forms, emphasizing their potentially subversive nature. Victorian theories of gender, class, and psychology are examined in terms of their impact on the literature of the time.

This course examines a part of the Roman Empire which has been much studied by both historians and archaeologists. But Roman Britain is also constantly the subject of fresh discoveries and changing perspectives, creating a challenging topic for study. This course examines the Iron Age background and assesses the impact of the invasion of AD 43 as well as the effect of Roman culture on this remote province. The location of Britain on the fringes of the Roman world highlights particular issues of imperialism, acculturation, and cultural identity.

This course explores the development of non-western cinema with particular reference to films from the last twenty years. Studying films from the Middle East, Asia, and Australia, the course explores the historical development of film-making with reference to specific national and cultural identities. With reference to the manner that cinema is a powerfully ideological medium the course examines how film is used to express marginalized political positions. The course examines cinematic representation through a number of diverse theoretical methods.

This course explores the intersection between landscape, culture, and literature in modern Ireland. It examines how ideas of "placemaking" and "sense of place" are defining features of Irish cultural traditions, particularly as expressed in Irish literature. Through a close reading of texts written in the English language, the course examines how the Irish landscape (and ideas of space and place) has played an important role in shaping the Irish cultural and literary imagination. It also looks at the ways in which Irish writers in the English language tradition deal with a sense of displacement which is a characteristic of the Irish experience in the modern period. Key critical approaches include ecocriticism, environmental humanities, translation studies, and cultural geography.

This course explores the evolution of the indigenous art forms of Ireland, through the media of music, film, drama, song, oral presentations, and performances. It emphazises on the Irish language and its links to traditional art forms, culture, and identity. Traditional art forms that may feature in this course are the performance arts of music, dance, song, drama; written art forms (Irish language poetry and prose in translation); and film (exemplars of Ireland's indigenous arts in audio and visual media). During workshops, students engage with the practices of traditional song and dance.

This course offers an understanding of the psychology of criminal conduct. It investigates a range of perspectives from psychological literature that seek to shed light on crime and its commission. The course introduces knowledge regarding the measurement and distribution of crime in society and official responses with regard to crime prevention and investigation. It promotes an understanding of crime categories, offenders, and how a psychological understanding impacts prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment. It also offers an overview of applied professional practice in forensic and investigative psychology.

To write a letter – whether a formal, public composition or a private letter to a friend – is to create an image, consciously or unconsciously, of oneself as writer and of one's relationship with the letter's recipient. This was just as true for Roman letter-writers as it is for us today. This course explores a selection of the wide range of letters that have survived from Roman antiquity, from the highly personal correspondence of Cicero to the self-consciously artful letters of Pliny the Younger. The course also looks at the fictional letters of Ovid, the Heroides (Letters of Heroines), which take the form of first-person compositions sent by the heroines of myth to their lovers. Taken together, these varied texts offer a fascinating window onto the thought-world of writers and readers from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD and prompt reflection on such issues of self-representation and political "spin"; on the relationship between the public and private spheres; and on male and female "voices" in Roman literature.