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Taught Postgraduate GOOD UNIVERSITY Programmes GUIDE 2019 IRISH UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020/2021
Contents Introduction 04 How to Apply 18 Summary of Faculty of Arts, Humanities 20 Taught Postgraduate & Social Sciences Programmes The University of Limerick Faculty of Education 62 offers a suite of taught & Health Sciences postgraduate programmes. The entry requirements for the programmes vary due to the nature of each subject area. Irish World Academy 110 of Music & Dance The entry requirements are based on the NQAI (National Qualifications Authority of Kemmy Business School 134 Ireland) definition of award levels, but an approved professional qualification, Faculty of Science 162 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 equivalent award levels, or & Engineering recognition of prior learning (RPL) may also be considered. In some cases auditions/ portfolios of additional work/ interviews may be required. 2
Welcome to the University of Limerick GOOD UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2019 IRISH UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR Deciding to undertake a postgraduate We offer 100 programmes across degree is a big decision. The course you our faculties, including part-time study and the institution you choose will and flexible learning programmes, be fundamental to your future success. structured PhD programmes, professional doctorates, post doctorates, taught UL is a QS five-star rated university on and research Master programmes. the south west coast of Ireland, and our graduates work in highly-recognised With a cost of living that’s 38 percent companies around the globe. cheaper than comparable universities, internationally-renowned programmes, Our four faculties include: world-leading research collaborations, and an unrivalled employment rate • Kemmy Business School that has been higher than the national • Education & Health Sciences average for Irish third-level institutions • Science & Engineering for over 10 years, UL has everything you • Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences need to get ahead in your career. If you are innovative, enterprising and ambitious, UL is for you. Taught Postgraduate Programmes 20120-2021 How to Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Apply? Welcome to UL. Welcome to your future. You can apply online by visiting ul.ie/graduateschool/how-apply to find the information you need. 4 5
Professional Education at UL. The University of Limerick offers a wide range of part-time flexible delivered professional education programmes and continued professional development opportunities for individuals and their organisations. Our programmes are designed with the adult and professional learner in mind whether they want to upskill to progress in their profession or reskill to change career. We understand that these students have complex needs, juggling work, study and home life and in response to this, our programmes are delivered flexibly using blended and on-line delivery mechanisms. Why UL? Unrivalled Home away Ready-made options from home career More students than ever are going on • Four faculties: • 7 purpose-built student villages, outdoor • Work experience, internships, to study at postgraduate level – which 1. Kemmy Business School. and indoor entertainment venues, shops, and graduate programmes – with means an increasingly competitive a bank and a bookshop on campus industry links and relationships 2. Education & Health Science. jobs market. A postgraduate award as well as numerous eating venues. with over 1,700 companies. could be the competitive edge you 3. Science & Engineering. • A 133-hectares campus that features • Host to Ireland’s largest annual need to get ahead of your peers. 4. Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Olympic-standard training facilities. careers fair with over 165 exhibitors (including Irish World Academy). and 8,000 jobs on offer. • A low cost of living, at 38% cheaper Whether you choose a research or taught • Over 100 postgraduate programmes. than other institutions. • Multi-partner, academia/industry postgraduate degree, your university • A range of available scholarships and • 70+ clubs and societies. collaborative research centres including should give you actionable insights, bursaries for postgraduate students. the Health Research Institute, and help you establish an expanding • The University Concert Hall, home • The world-class Bernal Institute, a the Bernal Institute, an €86 million network of contacts, and give you to the Irish World Academy of purpose-built research facility with investment, led by a team of world- transferable skills and knowledge Music and Dance, the Irish Chamber world-leading technology. leading scientists and engineers. to move forward in your career. Orchestra, and 11 national visual • The newly extended and refurbished arts collections of 1,700 artworks. • 36 research centres based across our UL offers all of this and more across Glucksman Library that has doubled faculties, and four world-class centres of our four world-class faculties. in size to accommodate 2,200 reader excellence. We offer an extensive range stations and over 5,000 PC’s. of graduate research opportunities. • The Glucksman Library is the largest and most technically advanced library in Ireland. One standout feature is the ARC (Automated Reserve Collection) - a 10 metre high book vault with a robotic crane and with the capacity to store 500,000 volumes in a space 1/9th of Colleen Siobhán conventional shelving. Kelly Curley A global university Taught Postgraduate Programmes 20120-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty: Science & Engineering Studying: Master of Laws (General) LLM Studying: MEng Mechatronics • UL ranks in the top 3 percent of universities in the world. Bio: Originally from America, Colleen Bio: A UL ‘lifer’, Siobhán completed has made Limerick home following her undergrad in metalwork teaching • 15,000 students. stints spent studying in Pennsylvania before moving to the emerging field of • 2,700 international students, and England. Mechatronics. from 100 countries. • 400 partner universities in 38 countries. What’s next? Colleen intends to become a What’s next? Siobhán wants to work at the judge and work in prison reform. forefront of engineering, in research and development. 6 7
Why UL? Why UL? Sport Campus Ireland’s Premier 133-hectare Sporting Campus parkland campus Ireland’s only Indoor 6th in the world for a Rowing Tank suburban campus in the UI Green Metric Ireland’s First World University University-based Ranking 2018 Golf Academy Green Campus under Ireland’s First the themes of Energy, Olympic Standard travel, transport 50m Pool and biodiversity *Foundation for Environmental Education. Reaching Engineering 25 metre Diving Pool for the stars brilliance Ireland’s only 4G Irish National Walking Dr. Norah Patten Professor Michael & Cycling Campus Pitches Zaworotko of 2017 Training Centre for Road Safety Authority Munster Rugby National Best Campus Title: Scientist-Astronaut Candidate and Title: Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering 2015-2017 Aeronautical Engineer Home to SWIM Bio: Professor Zaworotko is a British- Bio: Originally from Co. Mayo, Dr. Patten Canadian chemist and, as per Reuters, one Ireland 2018 Curriculum is one of 12 participants from around the of the 20 most cited chemists in the world. Development Award world who takes part in the prestigious Outdoor Pursuits With decades of experience in teaching Winners at the Smarter Taught Postgraduate Programmes 20120-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 scientist-astronaut training programme in universities around the world, Professor Climbing Wall in Florida. Travel Awards 2018 Zaworotko currently serves as Bernal Chair Her interest in space sparked at 11 when of Crystal Engineering & Science Foundation 700,000 Annual she visited NASA on a family trip, and she of Ireland Research Professor at UL. visitors to UL went on to earn her PhD in Aeronautical Sports Arena He has published over 390 peer reviewed Engineering from UL. papers, review articles and patents that have She’s currently a faculty member at the been cited over 35,500 times. He currently International Space University. serves as Associate Editor of the ACS published journal Crystal Growth & Design. 8 9
Why UL? Student life A bustling campus with an international feel, “We had a CV clinic, a module on UL is home to 15,000 students. The seven professional skills and professional student villages and endless amenities development. An entire module helps it feel like home. was devoted to getting equipped UL’s six on-campus student villages are to apply for these jobs. Along with within a 10-minute walk to the main lecture that, we met with people from the theatres, student services, restaurants and likes of Musgrave, Lidl, Enterprise retail outlets while Troy, UL’s off-campus student village, is only a 15-minute walk to Rent-A-Car campus. …I don’t know if I would have got that opportunity elsewhere.” Postgraduate students have access to postgrad-only facilities and longer let stays – Steph Creaner, MA in Work and UL has it all An international Organisational Psychology over the summer at a discounted rate, as university well as the host of amenities on campus. From sporting to cultural events to nightlife For more information about and restaurants, Limerick is a vibrant and renting in Limerick and how to While your core goal may be to study for Students from affordable city with something to offer every apply to live on-campus, visit your postgraduate, UL’s range of facilities 100 countries. student. offer a vibrant on-campus experience studentliving.ul.ie including: 1 in 5 UL students are • A farmer’s market every Tuesday. international. • The Student Centre, a hub where students meet, relax, 400 partner universities and check out societies. in 38 countries. • An on-campus convenience store. • The UL Sport Arena, Ireland’s largest Voted 1st in Ireland by indoor sporting complex, its events, international students for: exhibitions, and training space including a 60m indoor sprint track English Language Support, Taught Postgraduate Programmes 20120-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 and Ireland’s only Olympic-sized pool, Campus Environment, alongside a new diving pool too. Social & Cultural Student • Outdoor music performances are Integration, Accommodation often held in King John’s Castle and Support*. the Milk Market, Limerick City. • Riverfest every May bank holiday weekend and larger festivals including Top 10 for academic English & the renowned St. Patrick’s Day Festival. Learning Support in Europe*. 10 *ISB Results 2017 11
Unrivalled research opportunities While on-campus amenities, a lower cost of living, and a bustling city backdrop are all major advantages to studying at UL, the true benefit is in our world-leading research facilities, innovative environment, and academic expertise. Unrivalled research opportunities 429 labratories including teaching, 182 Research collaborations with industry research, specialist and high-tech facilities. Home to the Titan Themis University-founded a double-corrected spin-out companies monochromated sold €100 million+ Transmission Electron including the biggest Microscope. It’s the only spin-out company in the microscope of its kind in history of the Irish state. Ireland and one of few in the world. Taught Postgraduate Programmes 20120-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Awarded the Athena SWAN bronze award A newly established for best practice in Science Zone which recruiting, retaining includes purpose- and promoting women built research centres in STEMM. including the Analog Devices Building. 12 13
A Research-led University UL is home to multi-partner, academia/industry collaborative research centres including: The Bernal Institute The Health Research Institute is an €86 million investment in research focuses on the themes of lifestyle and excellence led by a team of world-leading health, health service delivery, and scientists and engineers in areas including technology-supporting health and well- advanced materials, fluid dynamics and being through combining the expertise manufacturing and process engineering. of UL faculty and Irish and international healthcare partners. UL is home to 3 national Science Foundation Ireland research centres including: LERO - The Irish Software SSPC – the Synthesis and Confirm Research Centre Solid State Pharmaceutical Ireland’s Research Centre brings together leading Centre for Smart Manufacturing software research teams works to position Ireland Technology is located on from higher education as a global hub for the University of Limerick institutes to collaborate with process innovation and campus. The centre UL research strengths industry, state agencies, advanced manufacturing benefits from 42 different educational bodies and in the pharma industry, industry partnerships Taught Postgraduate Programmes 20120-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 international collaborators focused on developing across MNC and SME and is one of the most highly more environmentally sectors and 16 international Software Health Materials regarded software related sustainable methods Collaborations. research centres in the for drug manufacturing, world. increasing the range of medicines available to the public and reducing drug Advanced Applied mathematical manufacturing costs. manufacturing sciences 14 15
Our students are from all over the world Belfast Galway Dublin Limerick London Only 30 minutes drive from Shannon International Airport Why you’ll love Limerick Situated on the banks of the beautiful River Dance, RTÉ Lyric FM, and the Lime Tree companies offer affordable fares to Taught Postgraduate Programmes 20120-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Shannon, Limerick is a historic city that’s Theatre, alongside a rich tradition of Dublin airport, Dublin city centre, been revitalised as a sci-tech hub literature, culture, arts, and music. Killarney and many other destinations. and a bustling centre of culture. Limerick is well serviced by bus and trains To top it all off, Limerick is the gateway Limerick’s big selling point is its value for and is only 20 minutes from Shannon to the Wild Atlantic Way, a beautiful, money: with rent prices costing 50 percent Airport, while UL itself is just 5km outside rugged coastal route that includes less than in Dublin and 25 percent less of the city – a 15-minute cycle or bus ride. the nearby Cliffs of Moher. than Cork. Regular buses pick-up and drop-off If you’re looking for hobbies, Limerick has Limerick is a cultural mecca with UL’s at the Stables on UL’s campus, linking plenty of those too, with everything from own Irish World Academy of Music and students all over Ireland. Private bus cycling to kayaking and hill walking. 16 17
How to apply Thinking of choosing UL for your postgrad? The application process is simple: 2. Check closing 1. Choose your date for the programme programme 4. Have your 4. Have your 3. supporting Apply online supporting documentation at www.ul.ie documentation ready to upload ready to upload 5. Pay the application fee 6. Submit your (€35 online / €40 bank application draft or cheque) Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2018-2019 All courses have a minimum entry requirement and an English language requirement, so please check the prospectus before applying. We look forward to welcoming you to your future. 18 19
—Arts, Arts, Humanities Humanities & Social Sciences & Social Sciences The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is a vibrant centre of critical thinking and a generator Departments & Schools of nationally and internationally esteemed scholarship. — English, Irish & Communication — History It prides itself on the quality of The mission of the Faculty of Arts, its teaching and its commitment Humanities and Social Sciences is — Law to research in a disciplinary and to create knowledge and a better interdisciplinary context where world. The faculty prides itself — Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics debate and discussion are integral on the quality of its teaching and Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 — Politics & Public Administration features in the development of its commitment to research and knowledge and of analytical skills. places a strong emphasis on the — Sociology role of debate and discussion in the development of knowledge — Irish World Academy of Music & Dance and analytical skills. 20 21
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences MA in Technical Communications and E-Learning Seán Daffy I am a postgrad student here in programme is excellent, there are UL studying the MA in Technical aspects I thought would never be Communication and E-Learning part of it and the programme itself part-time. This is a career change is very interesting and engaging. for me because I was a working I find with this programme archaeologist and lecturer with you have to dedicate two and a a PhD. I am living in Galway so I half working days a week to it am studying online and attending otherwise you might not get the workshops in UL, it’s what they most out of it. call blended learning and it works This MA is within the humanities really well. I didn’t want to leave stream and there is a structured Galway, my wife has a permanent approach to it making it quite job, we have two daughters and enjoyable. This programme is we are living in a beautiful place. about technical writing, content My decision to do this programme writing and information design. was focused on employment, I If you like and are interested wanted something to get me a in design and how different job and that would be family- elements work together this friendly. I know people who did programme is for you. the programme before, fellow It’s the process, the approach in students last year who did the UL that has impressed me, people This MA complemented my skills and I technical writing cert and they are all getting jobs. talk about standards all the time but it’s the approach that sets the didn’t feel like I was starting from square This MA complemented my skills standards. Good standards come Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 and I didn’t feel like I was starting about because institutions put in one again. Technical Communication and from square one again. Technical place the processes that students Communication and E-Learning need to achieve good standards. E-Learning appealed to me as I have an appealed to me as I have an interest in podcasts and creative interest in podcasts and creative and and educational content. With a educational content. lot of the projects I am working on I use my previous experience as an archaeology lecturer as my own subject matter to keep my Seán Daffy MA in Technical Communications and E-Learning love of archaeology alive. The 22 23
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — English, Irish & Communication — English, Irish & Communication Creative Writing, MA English, MA 1 Year, Full Time 1 Year, Full Time or 2 Years, Part-Time This programme enables the requirements of the submission The MA English programme broadens and resources. Importantly, the programme students to develop their skills in and publication process. Through deepens learner knowledge of literatures offers the opportunity for advanced creative writing through careful coursework students will consider in English, literary and cultural theory, and studies in English literature and the consideration of the work of the role of plot, characterization, textual practices. chance to complete a substantial original established writers; through dialogue, and point-of-view in The programme affords students the research thesis. Ultimately, students of study of the elements and formal crafting compelling fiction and opportunity and skills for independent this programme graduate with enhanced structures of a piece of creative drama; they will consider how research and self-directed learning, while career opportunities in a variety of fields, writing; through assignments figurative language, syntax, rhythm enhancing analytical and critical thinking including the knowledge and skills that enable students to employ and imagery contribute to a poem’s skills and instructing learners in the use required to advance to doctoral degree and master strategies for revision meaning; they will learn the different of traditional and technological research studies. and refinement of their work; conventions associated with non- and through an understanding of fictional forms. Programme Content Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester Programme Content • Literary and Cultural Theory • Research Methods in Literary • Dissertation Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester • Advanced Editing: Creating and Cultural Studies • Thesis research a Literary Journal • Advanced Editing 2: and writing • Applied Writing and Editing Skills • Elements of Narrative and Drama • Dissertation Creating a Literary Journal • Creative Writing 1 • Creative Writing II portfolio 15,000 Electives (choose two) • Project Development • Individual Writing Project words of creative • Literary Modernism Electives (choose two) for Creative Writers writing • Gender & Sexuality • Politics and American Literature Electives Choose 1: in Irish Writing • Post-colonial Theory Electives Choose 1: • Issues in Modern & • Literature of Migration and Literature • Literary Modernism Contemporary Poetry • Cultural Constructions • Feminist Literary • Gender & Sexuality in Irish • Politics & American Literature of the Past Theory: Perspectives on Writing Literature • Post-Colonial Theory • Literature, Film, and Women & Literature • Literature, Film & Human Rights & Literature Human Rights • Utopian Theory and Texts • Literature of Migration • Feminist Literary Theory • Textual Constructions • Comparative Literature: Cultural • Textual Constructions of Cultural Identity Constructions of the Past of Cultural Identity • Issues in Modern and Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 • Principals of Professional and • Utopian Theory & Texts Contemporary Poetry Technical Communication • Workplace Issues in • Irish Americas in and Information Design Technical and Professional Literature and Culture Communication • Situating Irish Gothic CONTACT Course Director CONTACT Course Director Prof Joseph O’Connor Dr Tina O’Toole Tel: +353 (0) 61 202623 Tel: +353 (0) 61 234269 Email: joseph.oconnor@ul.ie Email: tina.o’toole@ul.ie 24 25
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — English, Irish & Communication NEW FOR 2020 Global Irish Studies, MA 1 Year, Full Time or 2 Years, Part Time The MA in Global Irish Studies brings together a wide range of historical, literary, and musical disciplines to examine the interconnected notions of local and global Irishness. By exploring the global positioning of Irish identity and culture we aim to bring fresh perspectives to the understanding of Irish identities and cultures. Programme Content Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester • Global Irish Studies: Core • Global Irish Studies 2: • Global Irish Issues and Texts Literatures and Contexts Studies • Global Irish Studies Research • Global Irish Studies Research Dissertation Seminar 1 Seminar 2 Students must choose two Students must choose two modules among the following: modules among the following: • Irish Americas in • Literature of Migration Literature and Culture • Gender and Sexuality • Situating Irish Gothic in Irish Literature • People on the Move: • Graduate Seminar in Irish Studying Migration Cultural History • Irish Folklore, Oral Tradition • Sex, Family and Gender and Ethnology in Eighteenth-Century • Textual Constructions Britain and Ireland of Cultural Identity Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 • Framing Irish Music: Sources • The ‘Long War’ in and Discourses 1 Ireland, 1968-98 • Framing Irish Music: Sources and Discourses 2 CONTACT Course Director Dr. Christina Morin Tel: +353 (0) 61 234111 Email: Christina.Morin@ul.ie 26 27
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — English, Irish & Communication Journalism, MA 1 Year, Full Time or 2 Years, Part Time Incorporating MA in Journalism, Sport pathway (New) The MA in Journalism is a one The application of these skills year full-time, or two year part- across print, broadcast and time programme. Students multimedia journalism is a major will learn vital professional part of the course. Students will skills including: news and also examine the role of journalism feature writing; broadcasting; in society and study media law, as multimedia journalism; well as hearing leading Irish and interviewing; investigative international media commentators reporting and research methods. discuss current affairs. Programme Content Autumn Semester Spring Semester • Journalistic Writing for News • Advanced Journalistic • Professional Skills for Writing (News and Features) Journalism and Team Project • Investigating Current Issues • Introduction to Broadcasting in Irish Journalism and Media Law • Researching Media • Broadcasting and Multimedia Journalism MA in Journalism, Sport pathway Autumn Semester Spring Semester • Journalistic Writing, Sport • Advanced Sports Writing • Sports Communications • Media, Sport and Society • Introduction to • Advanced broadcasting, Sport Broadcasting, Sport • Researching Media • Media Law Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 CONTACT Course Director Fergal Quinn Tel: +353 (0) 61 233670 Email: fergal.quinn@ul.ie 28 29
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — English, Irish & Communication — English, Irish & Communication Technical Communication & E-Learning, MA Technical Communication & E-Learning, MA 1 Year, Full Time or 2 Years, Part Time Part Time programme content Offered on-campus and online The MA in Technical Communication and and responsive” and exceeds students’ E-Learning focuses on online content expectations. development for technical and professional communication, and e-learning. UL has run The MA in Technical Communication and programmes in technical communication E-Learning is offered full-time over one-year, and instructional design for over 20 years. or part-time over two years. Alternatively, This MA programme won the Grad Ireland it is possible to pursue this qualification Best Postgraduate Course (Arts and through online/blended study (either full- Humanities) in 2018 and 2019. The judges time or part-time). observed that the programme is “engaged Programme Content YEAR 1 Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester • Principles of Professional and • Workplace Issues in • Dissertation/ • TW5211 Principles of Professional • TW5212 Workplace Issues in • (No modules Technical Communication Technical and Professional Project and Technical Communication Technical and Professional in the summer and Information Design Communication and Information Design Communication semester of • Instructional Design • E-Learning Theories • EL6041 Instructional Design • EL6072 Interactive year one) • Theory of Technical and Practices Courseware Workshop Communication • Interactive Courseware • Research Methods in Technical Workshop YEAR 2 Communication and E-Learning • Learning and Collaboration Autumn Semester Spring Semester Spring Semester Technologies • TW5221 Theory of Technical • EL6052 E-Learning • EL6013 Communication Theories and Practices Dissertation/ • RM6031 Research Methods • EL6082 Learning and Project in Technical Communication Collaboration Technologies and E-Learning Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 CONTACT Course Director CONTACT Dr Ann Marcus Quinn Tel: +353 (0) 61 202292 Email: Ann.Marcus.Quinn@ul.ie 30 31
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Journalism, MA Kathryn Hayes I am a lecturer in Journalism including Morning Ireland, the in UL responsible for a number News at One and Drive Time. of modules in the Masters in I believe one of the constants in Journalism programmes. These journalism’s future is the ability modules focus on developing to tell a story, regardless of the professional news reporting and platform; this is at the core of my writing skills for print journalism teaching philosophy. I believe and multimedia platforms. I am in equipping our students with also responsible for the delivery the knowledge and the tools to of the Journalism team project find and tell stories; developing where fourth year and post critical minds alongside the graduate students produce the practical skill sets. Truth, trust and Limerick Voice, a website and verification are also at the centre local newspaper. of my teaching approach, which is I have 18 years industry practice based and research led. experience as a working I believe that learning is not journalist. I started work in confined to the classroom so local newspapers such as the I bring journalism students to Limerick Leader and the Limerick report on court sittings, press edition of the Evening Echo. conferences, and national and In 2003 I established a news local government meetings. I I believe in equipping our students with agency providing Limerick based news to national and really enjoy applying the theory to the practice and to see students the knowledge and the tools to find and international news organisations. respond and react to that. By Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 I worked primarily as a Limerick encouraging students to develop tell stories; developing critical minds correspondent for the Irish Times, their portfolio while at college Irish Independent and the Irish they are demonstrating exactly alongside the practical skill sets. Examiner. During the same period the kind of graduate attributes I worked as a Limerick stringer for employers seek when recruiting. RTÉ working with Cathy Halloran, the mid-west correspondent for RTÉ. I have appeared as a panellist on TV3’s Tonight with Vincent Browne and have Kathryn Hayes Journalism, MA contributed to radio programmes 32 33
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — English, Irish & Communication — History Technical Writing (Distance Learning), Public History & Cultural Heritage, MA (Online) Graduate Certificate 1 Year, Full Time or 2 Years, Part Time 2 Years, Part Time The aim of this distance learning emphasises that the job of a The Public History and Cultural Heritage MA industry/academia partnerships. The programme is to offer flexible technical writer entails more than programme provides a structured academic online delivery of the programme enables access to certification through writing - graphics, cultural issues, approach to the practice of history in a public prospective students whether already distance learning for people who layout and design all play a part setting through modern models of online working in public cultural institutions, or lack qualifications in Technical and students receive tuition on all learning. This programme has been developed employed in other sectors of the economy, Communication. This programme of these areas. to include a combination of conceptual, the opportunity to acquire a globally methodological and practice-based modules, recognised postgraduate qualification. It thus broadening the student’s intellectual and will appeal to new graduates and history Programme Content scholarly experience. The programme offers a teachers seeking continuing professional globally recognised postgraduate qualification development (CPD) opportunities. As an Year 1 in a cutting-edge area of historical practice online programme it provides prospective Autumn Semester Spring Semester and provides opportunities to expand students complete flexibility. • Content • Workplace Issues in Technical • Principles of Professional & & Professional Communication Programme Content Technical Communication & Information Design Autumn Semester Summer Semester 4 modules: All Compulsory Spring Semester 1 Compulsory Module • Introduction to Public • MA History Dissertation Writing • Dissertation Year 2 programme content: History: Theory & Practice • Public History Internship (this (15,000-20,000 words) • Instructional Design. • Interactive Courseware • MA History Research module may be taken by current Workshop Methodology Public History practitioners • Digital Humanities as a ‘reflective practice’) • Graduate Seminar in • MA History Research Seminar Irish Cultural History Elective Options: • The Country House in Ireland: Class, Gender Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 & Culture", "Writing Skills Methodology OR People on the Move Studying Migration CONTACT Course Director CONTACT Course Director Elaine Walsh Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam Tel: +353 (0) 61 213021 Tel: 353 (0)61 202199 Email: elaine.walsh@ul.ie Email: karol.mullaney-dignam@ul.ie 34 35
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — History History, MA History of Family, MA 1 Year, Full Time 1 Year, Full Time or 2 Years, Part Time This is a one year, full-time course at MA level. present the results of substantial The central purpose of the MA in the History the art of academic writing and develop On completion of the programme the student independent research in a selected topic. In of the Family is to combine the strengths advanced research skills through in-class will have acquired the ability to identify and addition, an elective Public History of two traditions: that of the independent training and via field trips to libraries and evaluate significant issues in contemporary Internship affords students an opportunity researcher into family history and that of archives conducted in both semesters. By historiographical discourse, a specialist to gain experience in partner museums and established disciplines in history particularly the end of the course successful students knowledge of a select number of substantive archives. The aim of the programme is to the well- developed sub discipline of the will have acquired the necessary skills to historical themes studied through three enhance the historical understanding and history of the family. The objective is a present historical research to a publication elective modules, the ability to identify, locate skills of graduates in history, to extend their history that is fully contextualised, culturally standard, and to conduct historical and evaluate a range of primary and secondary capacity for historical research and thereby significant and academically grounded. Over research at a doctoral level. sources relevant to the understanding of a provide an appropriate basis for advanced the course of the year students will master selected research topic and a capacity to research up to, and including, doctoral level. Programme Content Programme Content Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester • Research Methodology • Historical Research Seminar • Dissertation 2 Core Modules: Core Modules: Core Modules: • Concepts and Methods • Dissertation 1 • Introduction to the • History research seminar • Dissertation 2 • MA History Dissertation Writing History of Family • Dissertation 1 Choose two of the following • MA research methodology • Dissertation writing in history elective modules: Choose one of the following of family elective modules: Choose two of the following elective modules: Choose one of the following • Linking families to communities • People on the Move: elective modules: • Graduate seminar in Irish cultural history studying migration • Linking families to • Sex, family and gender • The ‘Long War’ in communities • People on the move: in eighteenth-century Ireland, 1968 - 98 • Graduate seminar in Irish studying migration Ireland and Britain • Public history internship cultural history (online) • Public history internship • Art and Power in the Age of • Sex, family and gender • The ‘Long War’ in the Tudors and Stuarts in wighteenth-century Ireland, 1968-98 • Optional module: Ireland and Britain’ Beginners’ Ecclesiastical • Art and Power in the Age Latin” for Autumn Semester of the Tudors and Stuarts Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 • University & Society, 1500-1789 CONTACT Course Director CONTACT Course Director Dr Richard Kirwan Dr Ciara Breathnach Tel : +353 (0) 61 202928 Tel: +353 (0) 61 233166 Email: richard.kirwan@ul.ie Email: ciara.breathnach@ul.ie 36 37
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — History — History History of Family (Online), MA Local History 1 Year, Full Time 2 Years, Part Time The central purpose of this programme is the art of academic writing and develop Reconstructing the life and scholarship and there is to combine the strengths of two traditions: advanced research skills through in-class and dinnseanchas of local a growing awareness that its that of the independent researcher into training and via field trips to libraries and communities in the past fulfils a practice can benefit from the family history and that of established archives conducted in both semesters. By real need in people who identify broader paradigms and the disciplines in history particularly the well the end of the course successful students with or belong to that locality. research methods used in history developed sub discipline of the history of will have acquired the necessary skills to Though long regarded primarily and the human sciences. the family. The objective is a history that is present historical research to a publication as the territory of the antiquarian fully contextualised, culturally significant standard, and to conduct historical research and the leisured scholar, local and academically grounded. Over the at a doctoral level. history is moving in from the course of the year students will master margins of university teaching Programme Content Programme Content Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester Year 1 Year 1 Summer Semester Year 2 • Introduction to the • History Research Seminar • Dissertation II • Foundation course: scope, • Dissertation • Dissertation History of Family • Dissertation I sources and methods • Linking Families to Communities • People on the move: in local history • MA research methodology studying migration • Reading the landscape: • Graduate seminar in • Dissertation writing in sources and methods in Irish cultural history history of family historical geography • Sources and cases in modern Irish society • Local studies, archaeology and material culture • The excluded voice • Methods and cases in oral history and bealoideas • Computing, databases Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 and quantitative research in local history CONTACT Course Director CONTACT Course Director Dr Ciara Breathnach Dr David Fleming Tel: +353 (0) 61 233166 Tel: +353 (0) 61 233795 Email: ciara.breathnach@ul.ie Email: david.fleming@ul.ie 38 39
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Law Law, Human Rights in Criminal Justice LLM/MA Law, Human Rights in Criminal Justice LLM/MA 1 Year, Full Time or 2 Years, Part Time Part Time programme structure The LLM/MA in Human Rights in Criminal rights law in the field of criminal justice. In YEAR 1 Justice is designed to give graduates an addition to an understanding of the human understanding of the interaction between rights protection mechanisms in this context, Autumn Semester Spring Semester human rights and criminal justice in the students will address the question of how 21st century and knowledge of the legal human rights law can be enforced. Students • LA6001 Advanced Legal • LA6132 International actors, supervisory bodies and institutions will also develop important transferable skills Research Skills (Core) Criminal Law central to the field. Students will be given including analytical, research, communication • LA6142 Policing and an in-depth understanding of the legal and report writing skills. One elective from: Human Rights regimes operating at national, regional • LA5153 Comparative • LA4052 Criminology and global levels and sources of human International Protection • LA6062 Comparative and of Human Rights Law European Criminal Justice • LA6111 Criminal Justice • LA6161 Regulatory Crime Programme Content Processes and Sentencing • LA6182 Using Evidence to • LA6121 Law of the European Improve Societal Outcomes Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester Convention of Human Rights in the Real World • LA6052 Penology • LA6192 Hate Crime • Advanced Legal Research Skills • Dissertation Methodology • Dissertation and Victimology • LA6202 Youth Crime Three electives from: Three electives from: • Comparative International • International Criminal Law YEAR 2 Protection of Human Rights Law • Policing and Human Rights • Criminal Justice Processes • Criminology Autumn Semester Spring Semester Spring Semester and Sentencing • Comparative and European Two electives (not previously • LA6002 Dissertation • Dissertation • Law of the European Criminal Justice taken) from: Methodology (Core) Convention of Human Rights • Regulatory Crime • One elective (not • Penology and Victimology • Using evidence to improve • LA5153 Comparative previously taken) from: societal outcomes in International Protection • LA6132 International the real world of Human Rights Law Criminal Law • Hate crime • LA6111 Criminal Justice • LA6142 Policing and • Youth crime Processes and Sentencing Human Rights • LA6121 Law of the European • LA4052 Criminology Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 CONTACT Course Director CONTACT Dr Ger Coffey Tel: +353 (0) 61 202682 Email: ger.coffey@ul.ie 40 41
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Law — Law Law, International Commercial Law, LLM Master of Laws (General) LLM 1 Year, Full Time or 2 Years, Part Time 1 Year, Full Time or 2 Years, Part Time The programme will be enhance the career prospects of The LLM General is designed to education but who do not wish to particularly attractive to law graduates, those starting careers enhance students’ legal skills focus on a single branch of law. graduates who wish to develop in the legal professions, legal and enrich their knowledge The programme is designed to a specialisation in commercial advisers to commercial entities of a variety of legal subjects facilitate students in developing law, and especially an ability to and any lawyers whose work will across a broad spectrum from their own unique profile, allowing understand and apply commercial involve cross border commercial Criminology to Family law, from students to combine diverse law in multi-jurisdictional relations. Global Competition Law to Human branches of the law for their scenarios. The programme will Rights Law. It is suited to those postgraduate study. looking for an advanced legal Programme Content Programme Content Autumn Semester Spring Semester Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester • Advanced Legal Research Skills • Dissertation Methodology • Advanced Legal Research Skills • Dissertation Methodology • Dissertation • Law of International Three electives from: Three electives from: Trade Organisations Three electives from: • Law of International • Counter Terrorism law & • International Business • Global Competition Law Trade Organisations International Business Associations • Counter Terrorism Law & • Law of International • Global Competition Law • International Business International Business Business Associations • International Labour Law Transactions • International Protection of • Comparative International • Comparative & European Intellectual Property Rights Protection of Human Rights Law Criminal Justice • International Labour Law • International Business • Law of Credit and Security • Law of Credit and Security Transactions • International Protection of • International Tort Law • Criminal Justice Processes Intellectual Property Rights and Business and Sentencing • International Criminal Law • Law of the European • Policing and Human Rights Convention of Human Rights • Criminology • Penology and Victimology • International Perspectives Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 • Regulatory Crime on Property Law • Contemporary Challenges • International Tort Law and Business in Medical Law and Ethics • Advanced Family Law: Standpoint and Rights-Based Perspectives CONTACT Course Director CONTACT Course Director Sinead Eaton Dr Eddie Keane Tel: +353 (0) 62 233231 Tel: +353 (0) 61 204895 Email: sinead.eaton@ul.ie Email: Eddie.Keane@ul.ie 42 43
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Law — Law Law, LLB (Graduate Entry) 2 Years, Full Time The two-year LLB programme is a a law degree. The core of the programme postgraduate programme that is designed consists of law modules taken in common YEAR 2 to provide a legal education to graduates in with the other specialist law programmes Semester 1 Semester 2 disciplines other than law. It is increasingly offered by the School of Law. Choose five modules from: Choose five modules from: the case that graduates in disciplines such (not to include electives taken in (not to include electives taken in as Business Studies, Public Administration, An applicant who has studied a substantial Semester 2 of Year 1) Semester 2 of Year 1) Arts and Engineering wish to supplement number of law modules in their primary • Law of the European Union 1* • Law of the European Union 2* their studies with a legal education. Entrants degree may be eligible for exemptions • Company Law 1* • Company Law 2* are drawn from two sources: graduates and may complete the degree in one year. • Equity and Trusts 1* • Equity and Trusts 2* who seek admission immediately on the Exemptions are subject to the approval of • Land Law 1* • Land Law 2* completion of their primary degrees and the Course Director and are decided on a • Final Year Project • Administrative Law* mid-career professionals whose career case-by-case basis. • Commercial Law • Sport and the Law prospects would be enhanced by having • Child Law • Comparative Legal Systems • Media Law • Law of Torts 2* • Law of Evidence • Commercial Law • Labour Law • Project 2 • Project 1 Programme Content YEAR 1 Semester 1 Semester 2 • Contract Law 1 • Contract Law 2 • Criminal Law 1 • Criminal Law 2 • Constitutional Law 1 • Constitutional Law 2 All electives are subject to resourcing and scheduling requirements that alter from year • Law of Torts 1 • Elective 1* to year. No commitment is given to offering any specific elective in any year. Students will • Legal System and Method • Elective 2* be advised that their choice of electives may impact upon professional body exemption, where relevant. Elective modules to be taken from the following: Law of Torts 2,* Commercial Law, Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Administrative Law,* Jurisprudence,* Sport and the Law, Comparative Legal Systems and Commercial Law. *Elective subjects required for entry to Kings Inns if interested in a career in at the Bar. CONTACT Course Director Laura Donnellan Tel: +353 (0) 61 213247 * Elective subjects required for entry to the Kings Inns if interested in a career at the Bar. Email: laura.donnellan@ul.ie 44 45
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Law — Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics Serious Crime Investigation, MA Applied Linguistics (International), 1 Year, Full Time Graduate Diploma/MA 1 Year, Full Time The Graduate Diploma/Master of Arts in The MA has a strong international focus Applied Linguistics (International) is a both in practical terms with the possibility The Master of Arts in Serious The degree is ideally suited to one-year taught programme and is offered of an overseas semester, as well as advanced Crime Investigation is a one-year, members of an Garda Síochána on a full-time basis using a combination language options in English as a Foreign full-time programme designed who are looking to capitalize on of faculty-student contact hours and self- Language, French, German, Spanish (all for graduates of the level 9 their existing expertise in the field directed learning and research. The MA is languages may not run each year), and in Postgraduate Diploma in Serious of modern policing and develop about exploring language in use in a wide theoretical terms reflecting faculty research Crime Investigation, accredited an advanced and integrated variety of real-world situations and contexts interest in language and globalisation. by the University of Limerick understanding of the legal issues (education, politics and wider society). or an equivalent programme. which surround serious crime Programme Content investigation. Autumn Spring Summer • Career Development 1 • External Academic Placement • Research Programme Content • Applied Linguistics • and External Academic dissertation in the • Research Methodologies Placement Project area of Applied Two electives from: Three electives from: Linguistics The MA in Serious Crime will take the form of distance • Language Systems 1 • Language Systems 2 (15,000-20,000 learning whereby students will complete a dissertation • Materials Development for • ICT and Language Studies words) for of approximately 15,000 words on an aspect of serious Language Teaching • Sociolinguistics of Irish media students taking crime investigation under the supervision of a faculty • English Language Proficiency 1 & • Language Pedagogy for the MA member with expertise in the area of criminal justice • Academic Literacies English Language Teaching or Applied for International • Culture and the Market Linguistics Postgraduate Studies • English Language Proficiency 2 International • Second Language Acquisition • Academic Literacies Praxis • The French Language Today for International • German-Irish Cultural Postgraduate Students Constructions • French Translation • Spanish in the • German Translation Contemporary World • Spanish Translation • Sociolinguistics of Spanish • Corpus Linguistics and • Classroom and Learner Discourse Language Teaching Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 • Introduction to Irish English • Professional Language Use for English Language Teachers • SLA Theories and Classroom Applications CONTACT Course Director CONTACT Course Director Dr. Alan Cusack Dr. Maria Rieder Tel: +353 (0) 62 233659 Tel: +353 (0) 61 234858 Email: alan.cusack@ul.ie Email: Maria.Rieder@ul.ie 46 47
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, MA 1 Year, Full Time This MA in Teaching English to as a Foreign Language, EFL, and Speakers of Other Languages English as a Second Language, (TESOL) has been designed ESL). The programme is designed specifically with the aim to accommodate participants in of providing initial teacher search of an initial English language education for those wishing to teaching qualification, as well as become teachers of English to experienced English language Speakers of Other Languages teachers who wish to upskill and/ (ESOL; this takes in English or gain an MA level qualification. Programme Content Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester • Language Systems 1 • Language Systems 2 • Dissertation 1 • SLA Theories and • Language Pedagogy for ELT • Dissertation 2 Classroom Applications • Linguistics for • Research Methodology in Language Teaching • Applied Language Studies Electives: Electives: • Teaching Practice 2 • Teaching Practice 1 • ICT and Language Studies • Materials Development • Academic Literacies • Academic Literacies for for International International Postgraduate Postgraduate Students 2 Students 1 • Professional Language • Professional Language Use for Teachers 2 Use for Teachers 1 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 CONTACT Course Director Dr Angela Farrell Tel: +353 (0) 61 202432 Email: angela.farrell@ul.ie 49
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Politics & Public Administration — Politics & Public Administration International Studies, MA Politics, MA 1 Year, Full Time 1 Year, Full Time This one calendar year full- ambitious candidates who wish The MA in Politics is a one-year, modules that the MA in Politics time programme of study is to obtain a comprehensive full-time programme that enables students will be required to intended for recent graduates knowledge and understanding students to choose the areas complete will be the two research and graduates with professional of contemporary problems in the they wish to specialise in within methods modules that are experience. The course is international environment. the field of politics. This is a truly common to all our postgraduate designed to attract able and flexible programme that enables taught degrees. In addition, they students to tailor the degree to can choose any two electives in their own interests, skills and the first semester and any three in future career plans. The only core the third. Programme Content Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester Programme Content • Graduate Seminar in • Graduate Seminar in • Dissertation Autumn Semester Spring Semester Summer Semester International Relations International Co-operation and • Graduate Research Methods • Research Methods • Dissertation • Graduate Research Methods Conflict; Research Methods • Two elective modules (progressing dissertation) • One elective module (progressing dissertation) • Three elective modules from the list below • Two elective modules Electives: from the list below • Graduate Seminar in Electives: Institutions and Policies • Graduate Seminar in Electives of the European Union European Governance • Graduate Seminar in • Graduate Seminar in Graduate Seminar in Development; Graduate Seminar in Institutions and Policies of International Relations Comparative Politics the European Union; Graduate Seminar in Contemporary Political Theory; Multilevel • Graduate Seminar in • Graduate Seminar in Governance: Concepts and Practice; Conflict Analysis; Graduate Seminar in Comparative Development Peacebuilding Politics; Graduate Seminar in Peacebuilding; Graduate Seminar in European Governance; • Graduate Seminar in • Graduate Seminar Global Transformation and Exclusion; External Relations of the European Union; Contemporary Political in International Co- Russian and Post Soviet Politics; Foreign Aid and Development; Development Practice Theory operation and Conflict and Programme Management; Global Justice; Representative Democracy in Europe; • Conflict Analysis • Global Justice International Political Economy. • Representative Democracy Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2020-2021 in Europe: Parties, Field Trip: Optional multi-day study trip to Brussels during the spring semester, including seminar Governments, and Policy discussions with practitioners and trip to Brussels or Geneva during the spring semester. CONTACT Course Director CONTACT Course Director Dr Owen Worth Dr Scott Fitzsimmons Tel: +353 (0) 61 202635 Tel: +353 (0) 61 233603 Email: Owen.Worth@ul.ie Email: scott.fitzsimmons@ul.ie 50 51
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