Ireland

https://www.tcd.ie/English/undergraduate/sophister/js-module-descriptions-2022-23.php

Course can be found in List C. 

This course explores the representation of Irish history in Irish literature over the one hundred years since the foundation of the independent state. By examining prose and drama works covering the whole period, students survey the changing modes of retelling recent and ancient history, and assess their role in critiquing established historical narratives. In seminar discussions students pay critical attention to the impact of the stage on Irish cultural discourse; writing the Protestant tradition in the early years of the state; reimagining Northern Ireland; the literary representations of women; and the literature’s relationship to Modernism, Post-Colonialism, and Gothic.  

This course looks at the trends in the digital society: inequality, connectedness, big data, changing norms, loss of privacy, gamification, changing ways of producing and consuming new, and asks what are the implications for our everyday lives, and for the institutions and norms which shape how we live, of the increased connectedness of our age? Students explore the structure and features of digital technologies and social networks and their implications for collective behavior from economic, political and social perspectives.

This course explores topics and questions in political and moral philosophy, such as: What, if anything, legitimizes governmental authority and the exercise of political power? What is justice? What is the nature of citizenship? Is a free market a necessary component of a free society? What principles ground our fundamental notions of property rights, freedom, and equality? To explore these questions, students read extracts from the Ancients, primarily Plato. Students then examine the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Finally, students review texts by 19th-century authors, like J.S. Mill and Karl Marx.