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HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Center for (CGE) GALWAY, IRELAND Global Education Galway, Ireland
About Galway Galway, a university town with a vibrant artistic and cultural atmosphere, is the administrative capital of County Galway and the largest city in the West of Ireland. This area of the country is noted for its geographic and cultural distinctiveness. With the largest concentration of Gaelic-speaking communities in Ireland, the West is widely recognized as the most typically "Irish" part of the country. The Gaelic heritage is perhaps most evident in the Aran Islands (Inishmore, Inishmaan, and Inisheer), located just off the coast at the entrance to Galway Bay. Galway city center The Program Hobart and William Smith Colleges maintain an affiliation with the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) to provide students with the opportunity to live and study among Irish students at an Irish university. Participants in the program are also encour- aged to join one of the many university clubs and organizations in order to directly experience Irish student life and culture. A service learning project, required of all students and linked to the Director’s Seminar, will provide a unique opportunity for students to gain access to the local community.
NUIG Quad Courses This program consists of a combination of special courses taught for the group and regular university courses. All students will take two required courses:
Contemporary Irish Culture and Society (1 credit) This course, an interdisciplinary survey designed to give students insight into important historical events and processes that have shaped Irish culture and society, is organized and taught by faculty from the Centre for Irish Studies at NUIG. A series of excursions are linked to this course and will serve to illustrate key themes and topics.
Fall 2015 Director’s Seminar: Writing Place and Displacement (1 credit) This course explores the twin concepts of “place” and “displacement” as sources of inspiration and creative produc- tion through a hybrid of creative writing, critical writing, literary study, and theory. Students will read theory of place and displacement; analyze Irish/Irish-American narratives of exile and return; build a portfolio of creative/ critical writing produced “on location” and about location; attend a range of live literary events in Galway and other sites we visit; and interact with local writers in a “literary crawl” drawn from Galway Stories, a contemporary collection of fiction focused on Galway itself. By writing both in and about this place—the “cultural heart of Ireland” as many call it—students will interrogate their own experiences of being dis-located from home, investigate Galway/Ireland as a new place, determine what these experiences mean for developing a sense of creativity, sense of self, and sense of locatedness in the world.
Elective Courses (2 courses/2 credits) In addition, students will select two electives from the regular NUIG catalogue. Following are examples of courses taken by students on previous programs. Consult the NUIG website for further details on course offerings: http://www.nuigalway.ie/arts/overseas_students.html
Introduction to Northern Irish Politics Feminist Thought Shakespearean Comedies Short Plays of Samuel Beckett Women in Irish Society Climatology Drama and Theatre Studies Gaelic Language Scottish Short Stories Church and State in Ireland Contemp. Irish Poetry The English Language in Ireland Anatomy and Physiology Irish Famine in a European Irish Art Medieval Ireland 5th-9th Centuries Perspective
Academic Focus The Galway program is accessible to students from virtually any academic discipline as participants will be able to select two courses from the NUIG catalogue. Note that access for international students to some NUIG courses is limited due to such factors as the duration of the course and the nature of course prerequisites. Science students with very specific courses needs are advised to consult with staff at the Center for Global Education before applying to this program.