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Area of Studies


Economics

Language Studies

Philosophy

Politics

Psychoanalysis


ECON 122H- Economics of Social Studies
(ANTH 314H)

Government control of prices; economics of higher education; crime; regulation and deregulation; health.

SEMESTER 3

ECON 211H - Microeconomics II

Tools of microeconomic analysis; theory of the firm; factor markets; general equilibrium.

ECON 212H - Financial Economics

Contemporary financial systems; interest rates; rational expectations; capital markets; investment management; treasury risk management.

ECON 213H - Statistics
(PSYC 213H/ BSPY 213)

Distributions; probability, hypothesis testing, location of scores
and standardised distributions; parametric tests of significance;
estimation; analysis of variance; non-parametric statistical tests.

SEMESTER 4

ECON 221H- Macroeconomics 11

The theory of income determination; fiscal policy, interest rates and money in a closed economy, unemployment and inflation; open economy macroeconomics.

ECON 222H - Developmental Economics

Principle and concepts; common characteristics of developing nations; theories of development; problems in developmental economics.

ECON 223H-National Economics
(BSNS 221)


Theory of income determination; fiscal policy, money and banking in Ireland; inflation and unemployment; the foreign market; macroeconomic policy in an open economy, Irish industrial policy, Ireland and the single market.

SEMESTER 5

ECON 311H - Econometrics

Elementary statistical review, nature of regression analysis: a single variable analysis; two variable analysis; problem of estimation; multiple regression analysis; simple linear regression model problems.

312H-Economics of European Integration

The theory of economic integration; microeconomic policies; European monetary union; the budget of the European Union; development of Union.

ECON 313H-Environmental Economics
The economy and the environment; environmental analysis; criteria for evaluating environmental policies; environmental policies.

SEMESTER 6

ECON 321H - Labour Economics

Labour market; investments in human capital; worker mobility, unions and collective bargaining in the private and public sector, policies to tackle unemployment.

ECON 322H - International Economics
(BSNS 321)

International trade theory, international trade policy; exchange rates and the open economy, international macroeconomic policy, global capital markets and debt.

ECON 323H - Research Seminar
Students will be guided in wilting an extended paper on a specific topic of their choice. They will present their plans and research work in process to the supervisor in an atmosphere of academic discourse and interaction conducive to positive learning.

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LANGUAGE STUDIES

FRENCH

SEMESTER 1

LANG 111H - Introduction to Linguistics I

The nature of language; development of linguistics as a discipline; specificity of language; semantics.

LAFR 112H - Language Practice

Revision and consolidation of second-language skills acquired at secondary school; development of written accuracy, reading and discussion of selected texts.

SEMESTER 2

LAFR 121H - Introduction to Linguistics II

Grammar; stylistics and theory of translation; psycholinguistics; language and society.

LAFR 122H - Language Practice

Practice of advanced grammatical structures; translation; reading and discussion of selected texts; business correspondence; telephone skills; role-plays of business-related situations.

SEMESTER 3

LAFR 211H - France and European Integration

The intervention of the State in the French Economy; state Sector and semi-state bodies; the French industry and its markets; the farming community, the social partners; the welfare state, unemployment, marginalisation and exclusion.

LAFR 212H - La Francophonie

The French-speaking countries; the ideology of Francophonie
French-Canadian identity; Magbreb and Francophonie;
Francophonie literature in Africa and the Carribean.

LAFR 21311- Language Practice

How to research a topic; how to write a summary; how to approach translation; how to comment on charts, graphs, trends; how to present a report in the foreign language; business correspondence.

SEMESTER 4

LAFR 221H - Les Annees Mitterrand: Politics and Society

"L'alternance du pouvoir"; the President and his image; decentralisation and devolution of power; women in politics; power, corruption and disillusion; disintegration of the traditional French political system; the anti-foreigner vote.

LAFR 222H- Utopia and French literature

Study of selected texts from the following writers: Francois Rabelais, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Charles Fourier, Julien Gracq.

LAFR 223H- Language Practice

Development of vocabulary, extension of reading skills; differentiation between text types and discourses; planning essays and dissertations; translations; examinations of mass media materials; debating skills.

SEMESTER 5

LAFR 311H - French literature and its Critics

Thematic criticism Sociocriticism; textual criticism;
structuralism; semiology; psychocriticism.

LAFR 312H - Psychoanalytic reading of Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Presentation of the novel; presentation of the literary and psychoanalytic criticisms of the novel; the different psychoanalytic studies of Madame Bovary and the other characters of the novel.

LAFR 313H - Language Practice

Development of vocabulary; extensive reading; revision of complex grammar points; translation; essay writing; creative writing skills; describing feelings and emotions; discussing ideas; interviewing skills.

SEMESTER

LAFR 311H - Cartesianism and the Foundation of Modern French Philosophy

Modern French philosophy; principles of Cartesianism; implications of Cartesianism on the French way of thinking.

LAFR 322H- Existentialism in France

French existentialism; extracts from L'Etre et le Neant and Les Mouches; existentialism today.

LAFR 323H- Research Seminar

Students will be guided in writing an extended paper on a specific topic of their choice. They will present their plans and research work in process to the supervisor in an atmosphere of academic discourses and interaction conducive to positive learning.

GERMAN

SEMESTER 1

LANG 111H- Introduction to Linguistics I

The nature of language; development of linguistics as a discipline; specificity of language; semantics.

LAGR 112H - Language Practice

Revision and consolidation of second-language skills acquired at secondary school; development of written accuracy, reading and discussion of selected texts.

SEMESTER 2

LANG 12111 - Introduction to Linguistics II

Grammar, stylistics and theory of translation; psycholinguistics; language and society.

LAGR 122H- Language Practice

Practice of advanced grammatical structures; translation; reading and discussion of selected texts; business correspondence; telephone skills; role plays of business-related situations.

SEMESTER 3

LAGR 211H - Germany and its European Partners

Economic aspects of contemporary France/Germany/Switzerland/Austria; import/export/trade partners; main branches of industry, tourism; infrastructure.

LAGR 212H- Germany: The Power House of Europe

Energy sources and raw materials; labour relations, standing within the EU, contemporary issues, monetary union; economic indicators.

LAGR 213H - Language Practice

How to research a topic; how to write a summary how to approach translation; how to comment on charts, graphs, trends, how to present a report in the foreign language; business correspondence.

SEMESTER 4

LAGR 221H-Formation of a Nation

A brief history of Germany from 1871 onwards political in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; political parties in Germany; citizenship and participation; the case for a standing army; the role of the constitution in the German context; involvement in Third World countries.

LAGR 222H - German Literature and Democracy

Writers in exile; literature in an oppressive political system; acceptance of foreigners and foreign authors; German political culture; rewriting history; "Aussiedler" - as an issue.

LAGR 223H - Language Practice

Development of vocabulary, extension of reading skills; differentiation between text types and discourses; planning essays and dissertations; translations; examinations of mass media materials; debating skills.

SEMESTER 5

LAGR 311H - Psychological Concerns in Modern German Society

Gender role in German politics, media, the workplace; motivation to succeed; sexual abuse; the role of the family, urbanisation; use of modem technology in therapy; problems of adjustment into German society, social aspects of ageing; psychology or psychotherapy.

LAGR 312H - Psychoanalysis and Contemporary German Literature

Development of German psychoanalytic literature; an introduction to Freud; compliance and obedience; personal and collective guilt; acceptance of homosexuality, transference; defence mechanisms.

LAGR 313H- Language Practice

Development of vocabulary, extensive reading; revision of complex grammar points; translation; essay writing; creative writing skills; describing feelings and emotions; discussing ideas; interviewing skills.

SEMESTER 6

LAGR 321H - Ethical Problems in the German Context

The search for knowledge (Kant, Goethe); the notions of good and evil (Nietzsche, Goethe, Brecht); contemporary moral problems (von Horvath, Brecht, Jonas); science and morality (Durrenmatt, Jonas); philosophy of the human person (Kafka, Musil, Goethe)

LAGR 322H- Ideology and the German Language

The German language as an expression of thought, evolution of the German language in connection with political and philosophical thought, Marxism; stages in philosophical development in Germany; German literature before and after WWII.

LAGR 323H- Research Seminar

Students will be guided in writing an extended paper on a specific topic of their choice. They will present their plans and research work in process to the supervisor in an atmosphere of academic discourse and interaction conducive to positive learning.

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PHILOSOPHY

SEMESTER 1

PHIL 111H - Introduction to Philosophy
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Myth and tragedy as a preparation for philosophy, philosophy as search for wisdom and a way of life; divisions of philosophy; socio-historical phenomenon; common concerns of philosophers; philosophy today.

PHIL 112H - Critical Thinking

The nature of an argument; induction; deduction; paradox; fallacies; symbolic logic; natural language argumentation.

SEMESTER 2

PHIL 121H - Philosophy of Religion

Religious belief and contemporary challenges; reason and faith; God-talk; concepts of God; arguments for and against the existence of God; the problem of evil and immortality.

PHIL 122H - Theories of Knowledge

Correspondence theory of truth, coherence theory of truth; appearance and reality, perception; representation; realism; Berkeley's idealism; phenomenalism; direct realism; sense data and certainty, causal theory of knowledge.

SEMESTER 3

PHIL 211H - Ancient Philosophy

The art of philosophy, the search for wisdom in ancient China; the formation of the classical tradition of Indian thought; the philosophical revolution of the Greeks.

PHIL 212H- Philosophy of the Human Person
(ANTH 215)


The Greek classical view of the human person; Boethius' definition of the person; religious and philosophical concepts of the person in Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Eastern traditions; Cartesian philosophy, the materialist view, the person as Other, the scientific view.

PHIL 213H - Ethical Theories
(PSAN 314)

The challenge of morality, the Confucian ethical tradition; the Aristotelian-Thomistic ethical theory; Kantian ethical theory and utilitarianism; developing a moral standpoint

SEMESTER 4

PHIL 221H - Medieval Philosophy

The influence of Plato; Aristotelian thought; Neoplatonism; relationship between philosophy and theology, Augustine; St. Anselm; St. Thomas Aquinas; Christian, Jewish, Islamic, thinkers; Medieval controversies.

PHIL 222H- Philosophy of the Human Sciences
(ANTH 225)


Philosophical ideas that are reflected in the social sciences; examination of philosophical definitions of science; the philosophical implications of scientific disciplines that study human life and society.
PHIL 223H - Metaphysics
Metaphysics as first philosophy, the question of Being; metaphysics and science; Aristotelian metaphysics; Aquinas' theory of essence and existence; time and space; critiques of metaphysics; Heidegger and the question of Being; contemporary developments in metaphysics.

SEMESTER 5

PHIL 311H- Modern Philosophy

Descartes' methodical doubt; Locke's empiricism; Hume's skeptical naturalism; George Berkeley's idealism; Kanto's rationalism; Hegel's idealism.

PHIL 312H - Hermeneutics
(ANTH 315)


Hermeneutics as the philosophical art of interpretation; interpretation of texts by deciphering the hidden meaning; detailed and systematic discussion of diverse hermeneutical theories extending from the nineteenth century to the present day.

PHIL 313H - Contemporary Moral Problems

Topics will be selected from the following list: sanctity of life; suicide; abortion; euthanasia; medical experimentation; drugs; capital punishment; war, arms production and control; nuclear power, international relations and national identity, business ethics; feminist issues; animal rights; positive discrimination; artificial intelligence; the internet; advertising and responsibility; pornography, freedom of the press and trial by television.

SEMESTER 6

PHIL 321H- Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Husserl's formulation of phenomenology, Ortega y Gasset's philosophy of history; Sartre's phenomenological existentialism, ontological dualism and phenomenology of imagination; Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception and his interpretations of language, art and culture; Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology; Lacan's structural reading of Freud; Foucault's structural investigations of psychopathology, criminology, sexuality and law; Barthes's semiological readings of art, politics, literature and the media.

PHIL 322H- Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Previous conceptions of the unconscious, especially those of Leibniz and Schopenhauer; philosophical influences on Freud; outline of Freudian psychoanalysis; the relation between psychoanalysis, existentialism, phenomenology and hermeneutics; philosophical influences on Jung; outline of analytical psychology; philosophical influences on Jacques Lacan; outline of Lacanian psychoanalysis; the work of Julia Kristeva.

PHIL 323H- Research Seminar

Students will be guided in writing an extended paper on a specific topic of their choice. They will present their plans and research work in process to their supervisor in an atmosphere of academic discourse and interaction conducive to positive learning.

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POLITICS

SEMESTER I

POLS 111H- Irish Government and Politics

Pre-independence political system; the foundation of the state; modern Irish constitutions; the party system; the Dial and Seined; cabinet government and the role of the Taoiseach; the Northern Ireland problem; the state and the economy; cultural politics.

POLS 112H - Comparative Political Systems: A European Dimension

Patterns of government; liberalism, fascism, democracy and state socialism; party systems; party competition; executives, legislature, judiciaries and bureaucracies; constitution and judicial review, elections and electoral change.

SEMESTER 2

POLS 121H - Models of Democracy

Athenian democracy; classical views; Aristotle's political theory, human nature, citizenship
and conditions of democracy and polity; Mill's political thought; freedom of thought.

POLS 122H- Northern Ireland

The historical context; the social and economic context; interpretations of the nature of the conflict; the views of the actors; solutions.

SEMESTER 3

POLS 211H-Research Methodology

Questionnaires and interviews; surveys and observation studies; historical sources of
information; graphic representation; basic statistics, ethics in research introduction to SPSS for Windows.

POLS 212H- The United States and the New World Order

The United States Constitution; federalism and the separation of powers; presidential power; congress, judicial process; party system; electoral system; interest groups, foreign relations; the United States as the global police of the New World Order.

POLS 213H-The Politics of Unemployment

Dynamics of contemporary industrial society; the Long Waves theory of unemployment; repercussions of new forms of work on family life and the social system; impact of new forms of work on the political system; policy solutions.

SEMESTER 4
POLS 221H - Civic, Republican and Contractarian Thought

Contrasting strands of political thinking; civic republicanism: the ancient legacy, the "social contract" tradition: themes and antecedents; Rousseau's critique; contemporary viewpoints.

POLS 222H - Gender Politics

Introduction to gender and politics; the gender gap and voting behaviour, women's demands for political entry; women and politics; political thought; mobilisation and participation; feminist politics and policy-making.
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POLS 223H Nationalism in Modern Politics

Emergence of nationalism in modem politics; theories of nationalism; nationalism as a cultural, psychological, political or class phenomenon; effects in Britain and Ireland; post-colonial Africa and Asia.

SEMESTER 5

POLS 311H - Rights in Political Theory

Theories of rights that prevail in politics; origin of the theory of natural rights; influences; contemporary liberal ideas of basic rights; review of the present day judicial and political interpretation of individual rights

POLS 312H- Political Conflict and its Resolution

Political conflict and its resolution in modem states; the principal sources of political conflict; the process of conflict; factors contributing to its resolution; forms of political conflict; process of conflict; case studies of political conflict; theories of conflict and resolution.

POLS 313H - European Integration
(GDEBC 112)


Historical background; European institutions and economic integration; customs union, common market and the internal market; competition policy, implementation and effectiveness; agricultural policy; economic rational and political jurisdiction; regional problems and union action.

SEMESTER 6

POLS 321H- Third World Politics

Political development; modernity. dependency and clientelism; the challenge of democracy, single party states; theories of underdevelopment; aid and development; the role of the military; the North versus the South; tyranny, famine and politics; the UN and the Third World.
POLS 322H- Irish Political Culture

Different definitions of Irish political culture; recent Irish studies on values and attitudes; definitions of culture; narrative analysis; the symbolic structure of action; structuralism.

POLS 323H - Research Seminar

Students will be guided in writing an extended paper on a specific topic of their choice. They will present their plans and research work in process to their supervisor in an atmosphere of academic discourse and interaction conducive to positive learning.

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PSYCHOANALYSIS

SEMESTER 1

PSAN 111H - Discovery of the Unconscious
(ANTH 114 / PSAN 111)


Historical overview, mental illness in ancient and medieval world; hypnotism; neurology and psychiatry, origins of psychoanalysis; Freud and followers; Freud and dissenters; Melanie Klein and the British School; psychoanalysis in the USA; Lacan; contemporary issues.

PSAN 112H - Dream Analysis
(PSAN 112)


Interpretation of dreams; ancient and contemporary dream interpretation; dreams and psychoanalysis; scientific approach to dreams; applications of dreams; wish-fulfillment, censorship and the mechanisms of dreamwork; somatic sources of dreams; memory and dreams; typical dreams and symbolism; psychology of dream processes; dreams and neurosis.

SEMESTER 2

PSAN 121H - Introduction to the Work of Sigmund Freud
(ANTH 124 / PSAN 121)


Biographical information; development of his work; Fliess, Jung and others; hypnosis; "talking-cure"; transference; resistance; repression; hysteria; the unconscious; the Oedipus complex; dreams; castration; topographies of the mind; theory and practice.

PSAN 122H - The Family and the Formation of the Individual
(PSAN 122)


Historical content of the family, family in society, the changing family, structure of the family, child, family and social environment; birth, weaning, minor stage and Oedipus complex; castration; sexuality; social problems and the family; family pathology; neurosis and psychosis; contrasting approaches of theories on family.

SEMESTER 3

PSAN 211H - Theories of Human Sexuality
(PSAN 211)


Sexuality and the unconscious; evolution of sexuality, historical and contemporary discourses on sexuality; perversion; the imaginary body; forms of fantasy; the erogenous zones; oral and aural eroticism; the Oedipus complex; patriarchy and matriarchy; sexual therapy and different approaches.