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GENERAL ENQUIRIES ADMISSION ENQUIRIES T: +353 61 204300 Mary Immaculate College W: www.mic.ie South Circular Road Limerick, Ireland.
T: +353 61 204929 / 204348 E: [email protected]
ACADEMIC INFORMATION MIC CAMPUS, LIMERICK The academic programme is Open Days semesterised and modularised. Thursday 18 and Friday 19 Each semester is comprised of October 2018, and Saturday 15 weeks: 12 weeks of lectures 12 January 2019. followed by one study week and Taster Sessions two weeks of examinations. Friday 26 April 2019 Each course module lasts one MIC, semester and usually involves MIC, ST PATRICK’S CAMPUS, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles three hours of lectures/tutorials THURLES per week. Each course module Open Days is equal to six ECTS credits. A Saturday 24 November 2018 (in MIC Campus, full year’s academic programme conjunction with LIT Tipperary) Limerick is assigned 60 academic ECTS Student Teacher Experience Day credits and one semester’s Saturday 6 April 2019 academic programme is assigned 30 ECTS credits in total. For further information see www.mic.ie
ACCREDITATION The University of Limerick CAREER FAIRS, SCHOOL VISITS accredits BA, B.Ed., Graduate & ACADEMIC ENQUIRIES Diploma and Postgraduate Our Student Recruitment Degree programmes. Officer is Patrick Cosgrove T: +353 61 774775 E: [email protected] Contents
About Mary Immaculate College — Page 05
Mission Statement — Page 08
Students’ Union — Page 10
An Ghaeilge Neamhfhoirmiúil sa Choláiste — Page 12
Arts and Culture — Page 13
Sport — Page 14
Wired FM — Page 18
Accommodation — Page 20
Programmes — Page 23
Student Support Services — Page 97 4 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 Mary Immaculate College, founded in 1898, is a university- level College of Education and the Liberal Arts, academically linked with the University of Limerick. The College is a multi-campus institution, with a student population of over 4,500, enrolled in undergraduate programmes in Primary and Post-Primary Education, Liberal Arts and Early Childhood Care and Education, as well as a range of postgraduate programmes at Diploma, MA and PhD levels.
MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 5 LIMERICK
MIC Campus, Limerick is situated in the southern Capital of Culture 2020. The city offers a variety suburbs of Limerick City, the third largest city of historical, artistic and theatrical activities. in the Republic of Ireland with a population of Indeed, the magnificent Lime Tree Theatre, in over 80,000. Our leafy campus with state-of- the College’s TARA building, hosts a range of the-art facilities is within 10 minutes walking performances from national and international distance of the city centre, providing easy theatre, dance, opera and ballet companies, access to all cultural and social amenities, to live musical and comedy performances. as well as the main rail and bus terminus. Limerick is also the sporting capital of the Munster With three institutions of higher education region and is unique in having a strong tradition and and a combined student population of almost success in both Gaelic games and rugby. Fans can 20,000, Limerick is a bustling, vibrant and tour the spectacular Thomond Park Stadium, which exciting city. There are cinemas, nightclubs includes an interactive museum that showcases and a range of bars and restaurants to enjoy the proud history and heritage of Munster rugby. with friends. Limerick will provide you with plenty of opportunities for a great social life. Limerick City will provide you with the complete student experience. In 2014 Limerick was designated Ireland’s first ‘National City of Culture’ and in 2016 was a www.limerick.ie short-listed Irish candidate city for European
6 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 THURLES
MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles is located Stadium is Ireland’s second largest sports arena in the heart of Thurles town – a vibrant and with a capacity for 60,000 people, second only prosperous town on the River Suir nestled in the to Croke Park Stadium, Dublin. Thurles boasts heart of the beautiful Suir Valley. Our Thurles many excellent cultural and recreational facilities Campus offers undergraduate post-primary teacher including The Source Arts Centre, Tipperary’s education programmes, great facilities with onsuite most exciting cultural & entertainment venue accommodation and sports grounds. presenting music, dance, comedy, film, children's events, visual art & more. Horse and greyhound With a population of over 8,000 people, Thurles racing, soccer, rugby, cycling, golf, angling, is a thriving hub of shops, businesses and hockey and swimming are all catered for. cultural attractions with great transport links. Live and learn in this great town in the Thurles town offers a wide variety of facilities, heart of Tipperary that offers students including two historic museums - the Thurles a unique college experience. Famine and War Museum and Lár na Páirce Museum of the GAA and Gaelic Games. Thurles is www.tipperary.com the birthplace of the Gaelic Athletic Association, founded in 1884 in Hayes Hotel. Local Semple
MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 7 Mission Statement
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, founded In particular, the College seeks to foster in its in 1898, is a third level Catholic College students a spirit of justice and compassion in the of Education and the Liberal Arts. service of others, together with an openness to the The College community promotes excellence in religious tradition and values of each individual. teaching, learning and research at undergraduate The College promotes a sense of identity enriched and postgraduate levels. It seeks to foster the by an awareness of its Catholic tradition, the intellectual, spiritual, personal and professional cultures, languages and traditions of Ireland, and development of students within a supportive its special commitment to the Irish language. and challenging environment that guarantees Mary Immaculate College respects cultural the intellectual freedom of staff and students. diversity. It strives to promote equity in society and to provide an environment where all have freedom and opportunity to achieve their full potential.
8 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 Ráiteas Misin
Is Coláiste Caitliceach tríú leibhéal Oideachais dhaoine eile, chomh maith le bheith oscailte agus Saorealaíon é Coláiste Mhuire Gan do na traidisiúin agus do na luachanna Smál, Luimneach, a bunaíodh in 1898. reiligiúnacha a bhíonn ag gach duine aonair. Cuireann pobal an Choláiste ardchaighdeán Cuireann an Coláiste féinaithne chun cinn feabhais chun cinn ó thaobh múinteoireachta, a bhfuil traidisiún Caitliceach an Choláiste foghlama agus taighde ag an leibhéal céime agus mar chuid shaibhir di, chomh maith le cultúr, iarchéime. Déantar iarracht forbairt intleachtúil, teangacha agus traidisiúin na hÉireann agus spioradálta, phearsanta agus ghairmiúil na mac tiomantas speisialta an Choláiste don Ghaeilge. léinn a chothú laistigh de thimpeallacht chabhrach Tá omós ag Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál d’éagsúlacht agus dúshlánach a chuireann saoirse intleachtúil cultúir. Oibríonn an Coláiste chun cothromaíocht a na foirne agus na mac léinn chun tosaigh. chur chun cinn sa tsochaí agus chun timpeallacht Tá sé mar aidhm ag an gColáiste, go háirithe, a chur ar fáil ina mbeidh an tsaoirse agus an deis cothrom na féinne agus ómós a chothú ag gach duine a gcumas iomlán a bhaint amach. ina chuid mac léinn, agus iad ag freastal ar
MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 9 Students’ Union Aontas na Mac Léinn
Mission Statement: MISU works to achieve these a great way of meeting new aims by: people in college, providing Giving you a voice, • Working together with all an opportunity to mix with helping you to use college departments to ensure like-minded individuals. New that key relationships are members are always welcome it, enriching your developed and maintained; and students are encouraged to college experience. • Providing assistance, information set up new clubs and societies, services, guidance, security ensuring there’s something and entertainments for the for everyone. There’s a place Mary Immaculate student population; for anyone who would like to • Providing the best possible get involved, whether you’re a College Students’ balance between academic beginner or an expert. Some of and social experiences; the clubs and societies on offer in Union (MISU) • Being an approachable and MIC are: provides support, welcoming point of contact for students, even if it’s just Clubs: Hurling, Camogie, Gaelic representation for a chat!; Football, Equestrian, Rugby, and services to • Encouraging increased Soccer, Badminton, Basketball. student participation in extra- its members, the curricular activities; and Societies: Cumann Gaelach, • Improving the College’s Dramatic Arts (MIDAS), Creative students of MIC. physical environment. Writing, Dance (MIDance), International Soc, LGBT, Trad Students are represented by Some of the events organised by Music, SVP, Positive Mental the elected MIC Students’ Union MISU include Orientation and Health Soc, Live Music, Executive Committee Officers. Fresher’s Week entertainments, Traditional Irish Dance. weekly club nights during the MISU aims to: semester, Rag Week , Clubs & For more information on Mary • Give students a say in their Societies days, Clubs & Society Immaculate College Students’ own student/college life; Awards as well as student gigs. Union log on to www.misu.ie • Protect and represent students in academic and CLUBS AND SOCIETIES non-academic matters; The running of clubs and societies • Create a positive college at MIC forms a significant part of experience for students; the work of the MISU. The Union • Help new students integrate promotes and coordinates the into college life; and activities of clubs and societies • Facilitate extra-curricular and stimulates the growth of new activities for students. societies. Clubs and societies are
10 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 11 An Ghaeilge Neamhfhoirmiúil sa Choláiste
Tá cáil na Gaeilge ar Choláiste Mhuire SEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE gan Smál agus is cuid de shaol – GACH MÁRTA laethúil an Choláiste í ar an taobh Cuireann Seachtain na Gaeilge acadúil agus ar an taobh sóisialta úsáid na Gaeilge agus an chultúir de. Tacaíonn polasaí dátheangach Ghaelaigh chun cinn mar chuid an Choláiste le deiseanna a chothú d’fhéile a reáchtáiltear i mí na Márta chun leas a bhaint as an nGaeilge gach bliain. Tagann Oifig each na mar ghnátth-theanga chumarsáide Gaeilge, An Séiplíneacht, An Oifig i measc phobal an Choláiste, idir um Chothú Sláinte, mar aon le bhaill foirne agus mhic léinn. hAontas na Mac Léinn agus Ranna Acadúla eile le chéile chun seachtain AN SEOMRA CAIDRIMH – lán le ceol, craic agus comhluadar FOIRGNEAMH NA LEABHARLAINNE a eagrú, leis an Seomra Caidrimh Ionad Cruinnithe, Ionad Ceoil mar cheannáras na n-imeachtaí. agus Rince, Ionad Seolta Leabhar, Seomra Ranga… CUMANN GAELACH GAN SMÁL Ní gá a bheith líofa chun a bheith Is spás é seo inar féidir le pobal linn - An Cumann aims to provide uile an Choláiste teacht le chéile an opportunity and a meeting place Chun an Ghaeilge a úsáid ar for those students who have an bhonn neamhfhoirmeáilte; is féidir interest in speaking, improving their teacht isteach agus cupán tae/ knowledge of, or learning Irish. caifé a dhéanamh, labhairt le do chairde, éisteacht le ceol, agus mar BORD NA GAEILGE sin de. Tá an Seomra Caidrimh i Tá Bord na Gaeilge sa Choláiste bhFoirgneamh na Leabharlainne freagrach as moltaí a dhéanamh ar champas an Choláiste. don Údarás Rialaithe maidir le forbairt a dhéanamh ar úsáid na Eagraítear clár cuimsitheach Gaeilge sa Choláiste i gcoitinne i d’imeachtaí do bhaill foirne agus do saol oifigiúil, acadúil agus i measc mhic léinn i rith an téarma agus le mic léinn an Choláiste, chomh linn Seachtain na Gaeilge freisin. maith le polasaí dhátheangach Chun tuilleadh eolais a fháil faoin an Choláiste a chomh-líonadh. Tá Seomra Caidrimh, déan teagmháil ballraíocht ag idir mhic léinn agus le hOifigeach Gaeilge an Choláiste: bhaill foirne ar Bhord na Gaeilge agus [email protected] reachtáiltear cruinnithe go rialta.
12 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 Arts & Culture Na hEalaíona agus Cultúr
The College has a vibrant tradition The Lime Tree Theatre is situated in the performance and visual arts. right here on the Limerick campus. There are numerous opportunities to This comfortable 510-seat participate in informal productions theatre plays host to the best in and public performances. The Mary local, national and international Immaculate College Choral Society performing arts. Every season has presents an annual concert and past a few surprises so make sure you highlights include performances drop into our box office for more of Haydn’s Heiligmesse, information. Don’t forget to ask Theresienmesse and Stabat Mater, about our 'Pay what you can' student Mozart’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria offer, exclusive to all MIC students! and Handel’s Acis and Galatea. The Choral Society has also joined forces with the Limerick Choral MIC, ST PATRICK'S Union to present Mendelssohn’s CAMPUS, THURLES Elijah, Puccini’s Gloria and There is a very active local drama Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia in the group and a Thurles Musical Society. University Concert Hall, Limerick. The Theatre and Arts Centre, The Source, is adjacent to the MIC, Tá an ceol traidisiúnta agus an rince St Patrick's Campus, Thurles. faoi bhláth sa Choláiste agus is iomaí duais atá buaite ag na mic léinn i Book your tickets online at bhFéile an Oireachtais, i Slógadh www.limetreetheatre.ie or call agus i gcomórtais idirollscoileanna. to the Box Office situated in the TARA building. The College has a particularly active drama society (MIDAS), which produces plays and musicals as well as organising workshops, cabarets and social events. Students also participate in the Irish Student Drama Awards (ISDA). Recent MIDAS productions include: Starlight Express, Les Miserables, Closer, Disco Pigs, Beauty and the Beast, Cats (which won Best Society Event at the National BICS Awards), The Wedding Singer, Our House and Disney’s Aladdin.
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Sport and FACILITIES INCLUDE: Camogie: Our camogie team is • Weights room coached by Eddie O’Sullivan who recreation play • 2 indoor soccer courts has coached hurling and camogie an important role • IBA approved basketball court teams at a variety of grades over • 3 volleyball courts the last number of years. The College in the lives of • 6 badminton courts has won the Purcell Cup six times students. Mary • Table tennis facilities since its inauguration in 1977 and • 2 teaching gyms/dance studios. played in the Ashbourne Cup in Immaculate 2016, reaching the semi-final. The OUTDOORS, MARY IMMACULATE College has an intermediate camogie College caters for COLLEGE PROVIDES: team and won the Intermediate a wide variety of • Full-size GAA pitch Championship in 2015. The Freshers • Floodlit Training pitch Camogie team won the 2015/2016 sports and has an • Astro turf tennis court/ All-Ireland blitz. award-winning, 5 aside soccer court • 460 metre astro turf running track. Coach Education: Mary Immaculate state-of-the-art, College is committed to giving multipurpose THE ABC OF OPPORTUNITIES access to GAA coach education TO GET ACTIVE courses to all students in the College. sports complex, Aerobics: Aerobics/Boxercise/ Courses are available at foundation Zumba classes take place every and advanced levels. Details of Tailteann. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Gaelic sports, teams, bursaries and in Tailteann. Check with Tailteann the coach education programme Reception for updated schedules. are available from the sports office in Tailteann Sports and Leisure Badminton Club: The thriving building at T: +353 61 204306. Badminton Club meet every Wednesday and are always on GAA Bursaries: GAA Bursaries the lookout for new members. are offered annually. Munster GAA provides bursaries to Mary Basketball: Basketball can be Immaculate College students and played at competitive or recreational the College provides five more. level. The College's ladies team Bursaries are also available from competes in the North Munster other Provincial Councils. The League and the Colleges’ All-Ireland bursaries are advertised in the League. In 2017 they won the College from the end of September. division 2 All-Ireland League final.
14 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 MIC Fitzgibbon Cup Winners 2016 & 2017
MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 15 Gaelic Football: Mary Immaculate on to successful careers on inter- Ladies Football: The College fields College football team usually county teams. Fitzgibbon Cup three Ladies Football teams. In competes in the Trench Cup and winners that are currently playing 2012, the first team won the Giles has won the Trench Cup on two inter-county hurling include: Cup and the Division 2 league, and occasions, in 2008 and again in 2018. • Ronan Maher, Niall O’Meara, we regained the Giles Cup in 2014. Our Freshers football team have won Seamus Kennedy (Tipperary) After competing in the O’Connor the Division 2 championship four • Richard English, Aaron Gillane, Cup in 2015 we reached the Giles times in the last five years and have Cian Lynch, Thomas Grimes, Cup final in 2016. Our second team also won the division 2 league twice Declan Hannon, Darragh competes in the Division 4 league in the same period. The College has O Donovan (Limerick) and Donaghy Cup each year, while a junior football team and last won • Luke Meade, Tim O’Mahony, Darren our third team has participated in the Munster Junior Championship Brown (Cork) the Lagan Cup. We also take part in in 2014. The junior team reached • Colm Galvin, Darragh Corry, Eoin the National Freshers Blitz each year. the Munster Final in 2016. The Quirke (Clare). Richard Bowles and Anne O’Dwyer football teams are coached by former are our Ladies Football Coaches Limerick dual star Brian Begley. MIC's Fresher Hurling team compete Players of all standards are very in Division 1. They reached the semi- welcome. We also encourage players Hurling: Mary Immaculate College finals in league and championship to develop their own coaching skills made history in 2016 when its Senior in 2014. The College also has an through the organisation of blitzes Hurling team beat UL in an epic intermediate hurling team. The GAA’s involving local primary schools. final to secure the Fitzgibbon Cup first Hall of Fame hurler, Éamonn for the first time ever. In 2017 MIC Cregan, coached the hurling teams Rugby: The Men's Rugby team were victorious for a second year for over two decades, retiring is a relatively new team in the in a row, defeating IT Carlow in the after the 2016 Fitzgibbon Cup win. College. They are coached by final - a remarkable achievement The current coach, Jamie Wall played Aidan O’Halloran (Young Munster for a college with a population in the 2013 Fitzgibbon Cup final RFC and Munster Rugby). of under 4,500. There are many with Mary Immaculate College. They competed for the first players who have played for Mary time in the Colleges league in Immaculate College and have gone 2016 and in 2017 they won the Tier Two All-Ireland final.
16 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 “Mary Immaculate College is committed to giving access to GAA coach education courses to all students on both our Limerick and Thurles campuses.
Soccer: The Senior Men’s Soccer Coaching is provided at introductory MIC, St Patrick's Campus, Thurles team compete in the Collingwood and advanced levels. You can Currently MIC, St Patrick's Campus, Cup. In 2012 they were compete in college and intervarsity Thurles participates in a range of Collingwood Cup finalists. They competitions or you can play at sporting activities, such as hurling, have won the Spillane Cup recreational level. The following football, camogie, rugby, ladies for the last three years. The sports are catered for at both football and soccer. Some of these Ladies Soccer Team compete levels: Hurling, Gaelic Football, activities operate across both the in their respective intervarsity Ladies Football, Camogie, Soccer, Limerick and Thurles campuses. leagues and championships. Tennis and Basketball. Badminton, This year our senior hurlers Volleyball, Exercise to Music classes competed in the Fergal Maher Cup Table Tennis: There are four and Table Tennis are catered for reaching the semi-final stage. tables available in Tailteann at a recreational level. Selected to play table tennis. students have the opportunity to represent the College at Tennis: The College has an international sporting events. Astroturf tennis court. You will find that being involved in Walking: One of the most utilised sport gives you the opportunity to sports facilities in the College is the develop friendships and to enjoy walking track around the GAA pitch. a social side of college life. We, at Do not hesitate to contact the Sports This is a 460m AstroTurf track and Mary Immaculate College, would Office onT: +353 61 204375 with any is used by students, staff, visitors encourage all students to take part queries. Tailteann Building opening and locals for jogging and walking. in sport and recreation at some point hours: Monday-Friday, 8.30am- throughout their time in the College. 10.00pm. Facebook: MIC Sports Weights Room: There is a fully- fitted weights room in Tailteann.
MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 17 Wired FM Stáisiún Raidió Wired FM
The campus radio Wired FM is a community station youth, members of the travelling that has been designed to cater community, immigrants and station, Wired for the third-level students of asylum seekers and many more. FM, is a non- Limerick. To this end, studios have been developed in Mary In recent years the station has profit partnership Immaculate College, Limerick developed into a learning centre, which broadcasts Institute of Technology and the running several QQI courses, Media Limerick School of Art & Design. Expression and Communication in Limerick City courses levels 3, 4 and 5. These The station provides a voice for the courses have allowed local Older and suburban students of Limerick and gives them People, members of the travelling areas for 56 hours a chance to offer a real alternative community, migrants, and former for fans of great music and talk- offenders develop communication during its weekday based radio in the city. Genres such skills and receive a qualification. schedule, Monday as heavy metal, indie, dance, rock, classical, traditional, folk, and so In 2017 the station signed a new to Thursday, on much more are all catered for on 10 year licence with the BAI, and 99.9 FM. Wired FM. The station is particularly has had studios updated to top proud of its support of independent of the line digital consoles. local music and national artists. Besides eclectic music choices, Wired FM is constantly striving to the station broadcasts weekly film, produce innovative programming. literature, sports, Irish language The station gives students on and arts programmes, combined campus a wide range of media with student current affairs output production opportunities and to let students know what’s going experience. But you don’t have to on and how it will affect them. study Media & Communications to join - ANY student on ANY During each academic year, over 150 course can become a radio station volunteers from MIC, LIT and the volunteer and student broadcaster. Limerick School of Art and Design If you don’t want to speak on have availed of a free comprehensive air, there are plenty of jobs for training course in all aspects of radio researchers and technicians. broadcasting. Wired FM is always looking for volunteers with good Past volunteers of the station are ideas and who want to try their hand now working with the likes of BBC, at student broadcasting. The station RTÉ (radio and television), local has also been involved in a number commercial stations and other media of outreach programmes with the outlets scattered around the globe. wider community, that has seen the station open up its airwaves to For more information go people with disabilities, secondary to www.wiredfm.ie school students, disadvantaged
18 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 19 For costs and booking details please Accommodation refer to our website, or contact the MIC Accommodation Office: Cóiríocht T: +353 61 302500 F: +353 61 302539, E: [email protected] W: www.mic.ul.ie/ adminservices/conference/ Pages/accommodation.aspx
Mary Immaculate College owns and Please note: this area is suitable for campus and is also within easy operates on-campus residential the preparation of light snacks only. walking distance of all city amenities. accommodation for 200 students. Choosing to live in college A coin operated self-service MIC, ST PATRICK’S accommodation offers students the launderette is located on each floor CAMPUS, THURLES convenience of living on-campus, or and there is a housekeeping service There are 36 en-suite bedrooms within a short walking distance of it. for communal areas. There is also a conveniently located onsite at It provides opportunities for making twenty-four hour security service. MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles. friends and for academic, social The College restaurant and cafeteria Spaced out over three floors, they and cultural enrichment in a secure offer breakfast, lunch, evening provide accommodation for 36 and comfortable environment. meals and a full deli-bar, as well male or female students on a single as a Starbucks Café. Services are room basis. Facilities and services ACCOMMODATION OFFICE provided in the College restaurant provided include the following: The College’s Accommodation from 8.15am to 6.45pm, Monday Bedrooms equipped with single Office provides assistance to to Thursday and from 8.15am to bed, study desk, chair and plenty students in finding accommodation 2pm on Fridays. 'Meal Deals' are of storage. All bedrooms have in dedicated student residences also available to students. The bathrooms with a sink, toilet and or in private houses. catering service is provided by shower. Wifi is available and there Aramark Campbell Catering. Soup, is a spacious, communal TV lounge HALLS OF RESIDENCE sandwiches and snacks are also and fully equipped, self catering Mary Immaculate College on- available in the MISU Siopa. kitchen area. The kitchen includes campus Halls of Residence are cooking facilities including stoves an extension of the main College COURTBRACK ACCOMMODATION and microwaves as well as sinks, building. Spaced out over three This purpose-built facility provides refrigerators, kettles and cupboards floors, they provide accommodation managed accommodation for 96 for storing food items. for 68 female students on a students on a self-catering basis. single room, bed and breakfast Accommodation is available to all Please Note: Students must provide basis. Facilities and services undergraduate and postgraduate their own bed linen and towels in all provided include the following: students, male and female. Single College accommodation outlets. Study bedrooms equipped with and twin study bedrooms are study desk, chair and overhead available. Residents of the complex METHOD OF BOOKING shelving, wardrobe, chest of also have use of a self-catering Bookings are taken all year drawers and vanity unit. kitchen and communal TV lounge. round. However, early booking is Bathrooms, shower rooms and Private parking is available and highly recommended. Students toilets are available on each floor. there is a housekeeping service may only provisionally book Lounge/Kitchenette area located for the upkeep of communal areas. one type of accommodation. on each floor and equipped with TV, Located on Courtbrack Avenue, refrigerator, kettle and microwave. this accommodation is less than a five-minute walk from the College
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MIC CAMPUS, MIC, ST PATRICK’S LIMERICK CAMPUS, THURLES OPEN DAYS OPEN DAYS
Thursday 18 and Friday 19 Saturday 24 October 2018 November 2018 (in conjunction with LIT Tipperary) Saturday 12 January 2019 Student Teacher Experience Day Taster Sessions Saturday 6 Friday 26 April 2019 April 2019
#MICOpenDay www.micopenday.ie Programmes Cláir
LIMERICK CAMPUS THURLES CAMPUS
BA in Contemporary and — Page 25 BA in Education, Business — Page 63 Applied Theatre Studies Studies and Accounting MI001 MI009
Bachelor of Arts — Page 31 BA in Education, Business — Page 69 MI002 Studies and Religious Studies MI010
Bachelor of Education — Page 39 BA in Education, Irish — Page 77 MI005/MI006 and Religious Studies MI011
BA Early Childhood Care — Page 47 BA in Education, Irish — Page 83 and Education and Business Studies MI007 MI012
B Ed in Education — Page 54 BA in Education, — Page 89 and Psychology Mathematics and Gaelige MI008 MI013
MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 23 24 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 CAO CODE LIMERICK CAMPUS MI001 CAO Points 2018: 301
BA in Contemporary and Applied Theatre Studies Léann na hAmharclannaíochta Feidhmeach agus Comhaimseartha
The BA in Contemporary and Applied Theatre Studies is an innovative four-year, full-time, honours degree (level 8) in drama and theatre studies. Launched in 2015, it is the first programme of its type in Ireland. The degree will give students a round and broadly-based education in drama and theatre, and a specific set of skills in the contemporary and applied aspects of the field.
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Why study the BA in Contemporary and Applied Theatre Studies at MIC?
The programme deals with all Distinctive features of the BA the general areas of drama, such CATS programme include: as ensemble performance, the study of plays, theatre visits and • A unique qualification in drama not studio practice. Applied theatre offered elsewhere on the island; is considered to be the study of • A strong balance of studio/ drama and theatre across a range workshop to classroom teaching; of practical applications and non- • Access to two professional traditional settings, not defined by theatres (Lime Tree Theatre & stage performance or the study Belltable), their staff and facilities; of literary texts. Contemporary • Participation, as part of coursework, theatre signals that the programme in three full-scale productions, will deal largely with current and staged to professional standards; emergent modes of theatrical • Up to 15 theatre visits per production and reception. year as part of the course; • The opportunity to engage The BA in Contemporary and with professional, touring and Applied Theatre Studies will give community-based theatre students a diverse, sophisticated practitioners and projects; and vocational experience of • The chance to develop a specialised contemporary and applied forms set of skills and knowledge in areas of drama and theatre practice. such as drama facilitation, drama Students will have the opportunity teaching, technical theatre, cultural to develop their own artistic skills policy and administration; and and specialise in particular areas • Professional placements, giving of interest to them, gain a broad students a unique range of academic knowledge in drama and contacts in an extensive range theatre studies, and will encounter of arts organisations in Limerick, an extensive range of the practices across the country and abroad. of the field. Upon graduation, students will be employable in general artistic or administrative positions within drama and theatre, will be well-equipped for further specialist vocational training or academic study, but may also work independently as drama practitioners.
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What you will study
The BA in Contemporary and Applied Theatre Studies is a four-year level 8 degree consisting of 240 credits. Three years of the programme are delivered on campus at Mary Immaculate College, and one year (year three) on a professional work placement and/or a study Martin Morrissey abroad programme. The BA CATS programme is a general programme BA in Contemporary and in drama and theatre studies, Applied Theatre Studies covering all the basics necessary to be a professional theatre practitioner The BA CATS programme – text, studio practice, performance, has everything for someone production and administration. interested in theatre. Throughout the programme The programme focuses on the participants will learn and contemporary role of theatre and obtain a strong understanding its practitioners in society. At its in all areas of theatre. There is heart is the concept of ensemble, a mix of practical and theory which values and emphasises the so you will find what really importance of the practice of the fits you. In this programme group and collective when working students get the opportunity in drama. The idea of a pro-social to work with professional theatre is also very important for theatre practitioners. Through our programme. This highlights how the programme’s association theatre can be used to engage with with the Belltable and Lime specific sites and audiences, and Tree Theatres, students will it exists not only as entertainment, also get to see many stage but also has a core societal function. productions that tour Ireland. This programme will be offered in close association with the Lime Tree Theatre (www.limetreetheatre. ie), which is located on the College Teaching on the programme is campus, and has hosted over research-led and informed by a 100,000 patrons since opening as practice-based approach. Students a professional venue in October will encounter a range of classroom- 2012. Through our relationship based, studio-based and virtual with the Lime Tree Theatre and learning contexts. Each module our other venue, the Belltable, will be assessed independently students on the programme will be of each other through continuous exposed to the best local, national assessment and a variety of and international practice through assessment methods each semester. visiting companies, festivals, etc., and from the input of a range of visiting lecturers and practitioners.
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Programme
YEAR 1
Semester 1 Semester 2 • Introduction to drama, theatre & performance • The history of theatre & performance • Movement, voice & body in theatre • Introduction to applied theatre • Introduction to technical theatre • Masks & puppetry in performance • Contemporary Irish theatre 1 • Ensemble performance 1 • Devising theatre
YEAR 2
Semester 3 Semester 4 • Theatre for young audiences • Contemporary European & world theatre • Critiquing theatre • Digital theatre • Contemporary Irish theatre 2 • Storytelling & poetry in performance • Ensemble performance 2 • Community theatre • Performance & music
YEAR 3
Semester 5 Semester 6 Placement 1 or Study-Abroad Semester Placement 2 or Study-Abroad Semester
YEAR 4
Semester 7 Semester 8 • Scenography, costume & lighting design • Drama education • Cultural policy & administration • Contemporary performance theory • Research skills/Practice as research • Ensemble performance 3 • Directing & Writing for theatre • Undergraduate research project 2 • Undergraduate research project 1
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Entry for admission if, having attended for interview and written test, they Requirements satisfy the College as to their ability to benefit from and sustain participation Applicants are required to hold the in the BA Programme(s) applied established Leaving Certificate for. Mature applicants who have (or an approved equivalent) with completed an interview and written a minimum of six subjects which test will be contacted by the College must include at least two H5 (Higher to indicate whether or not they are Level) and four O6 (Ordinary Level) being considered for a place and all or four H7 (Higher Level) grades. places will then be offered by the CAO. Subjects must include Mathematics, Annie Brown Gaeilge or another language, and English. Minimum Grade F6 in BA in Contemporary and Foundation Mathematics satisfies Career Applied Theatre Studies the minimum entry requirements. Opportunities Foundation Mathematics is not The BA CATS programme is reckonable for scoring purposes. perfect for someone who wants Possible post-graduation to pursue a career in theatre * Language Waivers. Please contact the destinations for graduates of this without being restricted to Access/Disability Officer onT: +353 programme include further academic any one particular specialism. 61 204927 or email Maura.moore@mic. study in the field of drama/theatre; The broad nature of the ul.ie for information on Language or further vocational training in a programme allows students to Exemptions granted on disability specific discipline of drama/theatre become well-rounded theatre grounds. Deadlines apply. such as acting, theatre design or practitioners with a wide skill stage management. Graduates set. The lecturers are friendly LEAVING CERTIFICATE VOCATIONAL may also enter employment with a and are truly concerned with PROGRAMME (LCVP) theatre company or venue, or may the welfare of each student, Link modules will be accepted work in a freelance capacity in some which creates such a warm for points purposes but they aspect of drama/theatre artistic and welcoming environment. will not qualify as a subject for practice. Graduates of the BA CATS Everyone is accommodated on matriculation purposes. programme may be particularly this programme, whether you suited to work in the following have prior theatre experience GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS specific disciplines of theatre: or not. I have enjoyed every For further information about minute of my time on the minimum grades and entry • Community theatre BA CATS programme! requirements please contact • Theatre for young audiences the MIC Admissions Office at • Youth theatre E: [email protected] • Theatre in education • Drama education/teaching MATURE STUDENTS • Street theatre Further If you are at least 23 years old on the 1 • Storytelling Information January of the year of entry to college, • Theatre for development you are considered as a mature • Museum theatre applicant. All mature applicants who • Reminiscence theatre Dr Michael Finneran make an application to the College • Theatre in health education Programme Director through the CAO for MI001 will be • Dramatherapy T: +353 61 204976 invited to attend for an interview and • Technical theatre E: [email protected] a short written test. Mature students • Documentary/Verbatim theatre W: www.mic.ie who do not meet the normal minimum • Site-specific theatre. entry requirements will be considered
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Bachelor of Arts Baitsiléir Sna Dána
The Bachelor of Arts is a four-year, full- time, honours degree (level 8). At MIC the programme is flexible and wide-ranging. Students study four different major subjects in First Year and focus on two of these in Second Year, which they will then continue to study to degree level as joint honours.
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Why study the Bachelor of Arts at MIC?
You can study a combination of FOUNDATION STUDIES subjects from familiar Arts subjects All First Year Liberal Arts students such as English, French, German take the Foundation Studies course. or History, to newer subjects such Its aim is to equip students with as Drama & Theatre Studies, Media basic literary and computing skills. & Communication Studies or These modules examine academic Psychology. In Year 3, you will have writing at university level where opportunities to work, to travel, and writing style, essay structure and to study abroad as part of the Off- referencing of sources are explored Campus Programme. in a task-based approach. Research skills include: formulating research You will study the Bachelor questions; sourcing material; of Arts at MIC because: searching databases; case studies; action research and questionnaires. • You want to choose from a wide The IT component of Foundation range of subjects at an institution Studies equips students with the with enthusiastic, dedicated and computer skills needed to achieve caring staff where you can benefit success in their college studies. from real world work experience and can live and study in another ELECTIVES country; In Year 2, you will take two • You want to engage with fresh ideas; elective modules (one module • You wish to communicate your own in each semester) from a range ideas effectively and persuasively; of areas which may include: • You want to engage critically and Entrepreneurship, Gender Studies, analytically with the world around Information Technology (IT), you; and Teaching English as a Foreign • You want to develop skills that will Language (TEFL), Léann Dúchais enhance your career and, in the (Irish Heritage Studies) and broadest sense, your contribution Education. The newly introduced to society. electives in education should be of particular interest to those who You can choose from a set of thirteen wish to pursue a career in teaching. subjects taught at Mary Immaculate College and if you wish, you can choose one of your subjects from a choice of six from the University of Limerick. These are: Economics, Politics & International Relations, Public Administration & Leadership, Sociology, Spanish or Linguistics with TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).
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What you will study
YEAR 1
In your first year, you choose four subjects from groups 1—11. You can Group 1 Psychology or German select any subject combinations, Group 2 English however, at least three of the subjects must be from Mary Group 3 Media and Communication Studies Immaculate College and no two Group 4 Gaeilge or Drama & Theatre Studies subjects can be from the same Group 5 French group. When choosing your subjects in Year 1, it is essential to have at Group 6 Theology & Religious Studies or Linguistics with TESOL†* least two subjects from different Group 7 Music or Sociology* Year 2 subject groups (see below) bearing in mind that Economics, Group 8 Mathematics or Politics & International Relations*‡ Politics & International Relations and Group 9 Geography or Spanish*^ Public Administration & Leadership are first year subjects only and Group 10 Philosophy or Public Administration and Leadership*‡ those who choose Psychology Group 11 History or Economics*‡ in Year 1 may not be offered a place in Psychology in Year 2.
YEARS 2-4
Towards the end of Year 1, you will Group 1 Psychology or German (beginners or advanced) receive advice and guidance before selecting the subjects you will Group 2 English or Mathematics continue with from years 2-4. At Group 3 Media & Communication Studies or Geography or Spanish* the beginning of Year 2 (Part II) you will choose two of the four subjects Group 4 Gaeilge or Philosophy or Drama & Theatre Studies taken in first year. You will continue Music or Theology & Religious Studies or Sociology* or with these two subjects to degree Group 5 Linguistics with TESOL†* level as joint honours. No more than one subject can be taken from Group 6 History or French any one of the following groups:
† Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages *Subject offered by University of Limerick. If you wish to take more than one subject offered by the University of Limerick to degree level then please see www.ul.ie/artsoc for information about the Bachelor of Arts (LM002). ‡ Subject offered in first year only ^ Spanish only available at Post Leaving Certificate level
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OFF-CAMPUS PROGRAMME UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION In Year 3, you will participate in In final year, you will complete an an off-campus programme. This Undergraduate Dissertation in one of typically consists of a study abroad your major subjects. This is a unique Patrick Kennedy placement in Europe, Australia or opportunity to complete an extended the USA and/or work placements piece of research and analysis in BA Gaeilge & History in a wide variety of settings, in your chosen topic, designed with Ireland or abroad. International guidance and direction from an The journey from secondary placements are highly valued and academic supervisor in your chosen school to third-level can be encouraged for the added cultural subject. The undergraduate research daunting for many, however, and linguistic benefits they confer. dissertation will develop your at MIC there is warm friendly The off-campus programme research and analytical skills with a welcome extended to all provides students with a unique view to employment or further study. students. Many of the wonderful opportunity to discover the world and lecturers at MIC know their experience working environments *Students of Psychology must students on a first name basis. which may also provide future undertake their undergraduate Their constant encouragement employment for graduates. dissertation in Psychology, is a real source of support to either singly or jointly with all students. I gained much While all BA students are encouraged their other major subject. experience during my third year to spend at least one semester in off campus placement and the another country, students of French, completion of my undergraduate German and Spanish are required dissertation. I have thoroughly to complete at least one semester enjoyed my time at MIC and in an environment where the have made many lifelong relevant language(s) is/are spoken. friends through the many clubs and societies at MIC. This provides an opportunity to experience and understand other cultures, and, in the case of placements in continental Europe, Year 1 Semester 1 Semester 2 to improve foreign language skills. Foundation Studies 1 Foundation Studies 2 Students are encouraged to make full Major Subject A Major Subject A use of the consequent opportunities Major Subject B Major Subject B for further travel, fostering Major Subject C Major Subject C adaptability and a global outlook to Major Subject D Major Subject D enable them to succeed in today’s rapidly changing world of work. Part II Year 2 Semester 3 Semester 4 *Students of Psychology undertake Major Subject 1 (2 modules) Major Subject 1 (2 modules) Major Subject 2 (2 modules) Major Subject 2 (2 modules) their off-campus placement in the Elective Elective autumn semester only and take modules in the spring semester. Year 3 Semester 5 Semester 6 Off Campus Programme 1 Off Campus Programme 2 Students of Psychology are on campus for Semester 6 and take three Psychology modules
Year 4 Semester 7 Semester 8 Major Subject 1 (2 modules) Major Subject 1 (2 modules) Major Subject 2 (2 modules) Major Subject 2 (2 modules) Undergraduate Dissertation 1 Undergraduate Dissertation 2
34 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 * * * * * Subject * Sociology Spanish and Drama Studies Theatre and Theology Studies Religious Economics English French Gaeilge Geography German History Music with Linguistics TESOL† Mathematics Media and Communication Studies Philosophy and Politics International Relations Psychology Public Administration & Leadership
Economics* n/a • • • • • n/a • n/a • • • n/a • n/a n/a n/a • • English n/a • • French • n/a • Gaeilge n/a • • n/a Geography n/a • n/a German n/a n/a History n/a • n/a Music n/a • n/a • Linguistics with TESOL†* n/a • n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Mathematics • n/a n/a Media and Communications Studies • n/a • Philosophy • n/a n/a •
MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — Politics and International Relations* n/a • • • • • • • n/a n/a • • n/a • n/a n/a n/a • • Psychology n/a n/a Public Administration and Leadership* n/a • • • • • • • n/a • • n/a n/a • n/a n/a n/a • • Sociology* n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a • Spanish* n/a n/a n/a • n/a n/a n/a n/a CAO CODE Drama and Theatre Studies n/a • • n/a
2019-2020 Theology and Religious Studies • n/a • n/a
MI002
†TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) | n/a = Not Available | • = Available in First Year only
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of Limerick to degree level then please see www.ul.ie/artsoc for information about the Bachelor of Arts (LM002). Bachelor of Arts
Entry * Language Waivers. Please contact the FOUNDATION CERTIFICATE Access/Disability Officer onT: +353 61 FOR MATURE LEARNERS Requirements 204927 or E: [email protected] for This programme is aimed at information on Language Exemptions mature learners who wish to Applicants are required to hold the granted on disability grounds. Deadlines continue their education. Students established Leaving Certificate apply. achieving a merit on the Foundation (or an approved equivalent) with Certificate will be offered a place a minimum of six subjects which LEAVING CERTIFICATE VOCATIONAL on the Bachelor of Arts (MI002) must include at least two H5 (Higher PROGRAMME (LCVP) in MIC, subsequent to completion Level) and four O6 (Ordinary Level) Link modules will be accepted of a CAO form and supplementary or four H7 (Higher Level) grades. for points purposes but they form before 1st February. Further Subjects must include Mathematics, will not qualify as a subject for information: T+353 61204348 Gaeilge or another language, and matriculation purposes. E: [email protected] English. Minimum Grade F6 in Foundation Mathematics satisfies GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS SPECIAL ENTRY ROUTE INTO the minimum entry requirements. For further information about THE FIRST YEAR OF Foundation Mathematics is not minimum grades and entry THE BACHELOR OF ARTS reckonable for scoring purposes. requirements please contact Up to five places will be available the MIC Admissions Office at to QQI (FETAC/NCVA) applicants Additional Course Requirements: E: [email protected] who have obtained any of the following QQI level 5 Certificates: • Students opting to study MATURE STUDENTS Radio Production ERPXX or Gaeilge are normally required If you are at least 23 years old on 5M4511, TV & Film Production to hold at least grade H5 in the 1 January of the year of entry ETFPX or 5M5158/5M18519, Print the Leaving Certificate or to College, you are considered as Journalism EPJXX or 5M2464, an approved equivalent. a mature applicant. All mature Media Production EMPXX. In order • For Music there is no formal applicants who make an application to gain entry students must possess entrance examination but to the College through the CAO for distinctions in four modules in prospective students must have MI002 will be invited to attend for the QQI level 5/6 qualification. a satisfactory standard of music an interview and a short written The four distinctions must be literacy and the ability to play test. Mature students who do not gained from the following list: an instrument and/or sing. meet the normal minimum entry • Students wishing to study requirements will be considered • E20008 or 5N1298 Spanish (advanced) must meet for admission if, having attended • E20137 or 5N1379 the University of Limerick’s for interview and written test, • E20123 or 5N1458 entrance requirements for this they satisfy the College as to their • E20149 or 5N0637 subject. For further information ability to benefit from and sustain • E20136 or 5N1900 or 5N1590 please refer to the UL website: participation in the BA Programme(s) • E20131 or 5N1292 or www.ul.ie/courses/Spanish.php applied for. Mature applicants who E20003 or 5N0785 • Students wishing to study have completed an interview and • E20151 or 5N0540 Economics must hold an O4 or written test will be contacted by • E20013 or 5N2152 or H7 grade in Mathematics. the College to indicate whether E20078 or 5N2435 or not they are being considered • B20132 or 5N1394 or Additional special qualifications for a place and all places will N32751 or 5N1837 specific to individual subjects or then be offered by the CAO. • E20077 or 5N2463 or disciplines may be determined E20076 or 5N2443 by the respective departments in accordance with Academic Council regulations.
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As the number of places available Career is limited, those places will be allocated on a competitive basis Opportunities based on the student’s score. Where more than one student With an MIC Bachelor of Arts has the same score, students will degree, you will be a sought- be ranked on a random basis. after graduate with a range of knowledge and transferable skills. Applicants who have obtained a The list below demonstrates just QQI Level 6 Advanced Certificate some of the sectors in which in Media Production EMPRO or our graduates find employment. 6M5130 / 6M18534 will also be Whether you want to pursue Tina O’Dwyer eligible to apply for a place on the further study or just be a highly BA programme, provided they have employable person, the Bachelor BA in Music and Mathematics gained three distinctions from of Arts is an excellent choice: the following list of modules: Choosing MIC for my • Academic Administration undergraduate degree was one • N32750 or 6N5505 • Psychology of the best decisions I have ever • N32751 or 6N5453 • Arts Bodies made. During the third year of • N32754 or 6N5455 or 6N18514 • Public Service the BA programme I got to go to • N32755 or 6N5454 or 6N18515 • Publishing Loyola University in Chicago and • N32863 or 6N4981 • Film Industry study for a full semester as part • N32949 or 6N5433 or • Social Services of the off-campus placement 6N18517 or 6N5427 • Financial Services programme. It is experiences • N32969 or 6N5425 or 6N18516 • Teaching like this that makes MIC such • N33014 • International and EU Organisations a diverse college as you are • Civil Service constantly given chances to QQI applicants must apply through • Television & Radio broaden your horizons and allow the CAO indicating on their • Linguistic & Translation Work yourself to grow as a person. application form that they have • Tourism taken or are taking QQI examinations. • Marketing & Public Relations Please refer to the QQI Website • Urban Planning for further details - www.qqi.ie. • Overseas Aid Work • Professional Administration/ Management • Banking and Commerce • Regional and Local Community Development
Further Information
Arts Faculty Office T: +353 61 204972 E: [email protected] W: www.mic.ie
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Bachelor of Education
Baitsiléir San Oideachas
The Bachelor of Education is a four-year, full-time, honours degree (level 8) designed to qualify students to teach in primary schools.
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Why study the Bachelor of Education at MIC?
Do you want to become a primary school teacher? If so, the four-year Bachelor of Education programme seeks to equip participants with the competence to teach at all levels of the primary school.
The programme enables students to examine their role as a learner, a teacher, a researcher and a leader. Blending subject-specific pedagogies with modules which interrogate contemporary issues in education, in a context of campus- based and school-based learning opportunities, students are enabled to achieve deep insights into teaching and learning from the initial year of the programme.
Over the course of the programme, students take 55 modules. 47 modules are pre-defined and are taken by all students. These 47 modules form the Core Programme. As the programme is designed to facilitate student choice in pursuing areas of personal interest, each student selects the remaining eight modules from a broad suite of modules, three of which must be Liberal Arts modules. The final five modules chosen by the student determine whether the student graduates with a Multidisciplinary Bachelor of Education or a Bachelor of Education with a Specialism. These two pathways are of equal merit and are described under specialisms.
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What you will study
Year 1 - Learner Year 4 - Leader During Year 1 of the programme This final year comprises on the student will undertake a core campus study and extended programme of study designed around school placement. The student will the theme of Learner. During the spend the first semester on school first semester the student will be placement engaged in a wide variety introduced to academic life and will of activities. These include being be enabled to fully engage in third responsible for teaching various Lauren-Kate level education through a specific class groupings for prolonged programme of study that complements periods of time, bringing a particular Browne the first suite of academic modules. curricular focus to host schools and Bachelor of Education This year comprises of on campus learning about aspects of school life study and professional placement. outside of the classroom. Students From a young age, I realised will engage with the infant classes that primary teaching would be Year 2 - Teacher and a class of his/her choice. During the career for me. Learning and During Year 2 of the programme this year, the student will compile helping others was always an the student will undertake a core a portfolio showcasing samples of ambition of mine. The Bachelor programme of study designed work completed over the course of Education programme around the theme of Teacher. During of the degree to date. The student involves practical lectures, this year a broad range of subject will complete a dissertation or all aiming towards our future areas and disciplines will be explored a final suite of elective modules experiences in the classroom. by the student including the study together with capstone modules They are practice based as of Inclusive Education for Children that include a focus on Leadership well as theory based, giving us with Special Educational Needs. and Policy in Education. the chance to re-enact being The student will also complete the a child, as well as learning to first of his/her Liberal Arts modules. be the teacher. Campus life in This year comprises on campus MIC is very enjoyable. There study and professional placement. is a very positive relationship between students and staff, Year 3 - Researcher which results in a comfortable, During Year 3 of the programme relaxed atmosphere. I am happy the student will become more to say that Mary Immaculate responsible for the direction of College is the right place for me, core elements of the degree. In and for anyone who dreams of this year the student will have the becoming a primary teacher. responsibility of choosing electives in both Education and Liberal Arts. In Year 3 a broad range of subject areas and disciplines will be explored by the student including the study of Early Childhood Education.
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Programme
YEAR 1
Semester 1: Student as Learner Semester 2: Student as Learner • Language and Literacy 1 • Language and Literacy 2 • An Ghaeilge agus Múineadh na Gaeilge 1 • An Ghaeilge agus Múineadh na Gaeilge 2 • STeM 1: Introduction to Mathematics and its Teaching • STeM 2 : Introduction to Mathematics and its Teaching 2 • Schools and Society 1: Developing criticality around • STeM 3: Introduction to Science recent and contemporary issues in education. • Supporting the Child as Learner 2 • Developmental Psychology • Introduction to the Creative Arts 1 • Introduction to Technology and Educational Methodology • Ethics, Religions and Beliefs • Becoming a Student Teacher • Professional Placement 2 • Professional Placement 1 • Tréimhse sa Ghaeltacht 1
YEAR 2*
Semester 3: Student as Teacher Semester 4: Student as Teacher • Language and Literacy 3 • Language and Literacy 4 • An Ghaeilge agus Múineadh na Gaeilge 3 • STeM 5 Pedagogy of Maths and • STeM 4: Introduction to Mathematics and its Teaching 3 teaching and Learning with ICT • Social Studies 1: The Global Teacher • Social Studies 2 Teaching History and • Christian Religious Education 1 or Religious Education in Geography in Primary Schools Multi-denominational Schools Module 1 • Christian Religious Education 2 or Religious Education • Social, Personal, Health, and Physical Education 1 in Multi-denominational Schools Module 2 • Inclusive Education for Children with • Social, Personal, Health, and Physical Education 2 Special Educational Needs (SEN 1) • Schools and Society 2 • Creating a Positive Classroom Climate • The Creative Arts 2 • Elective 1 (Liberal Arts) • Professional Placement 3
YEAR 3**
Semester 5: Student as Researcher Semester 6: Student as Researcher • Early Childhood Education: Curriculum, • Research Methods 2 Research and Pedagogy • Schools and Society 3 • STeM 6: Teaching Mathematics and Science • Language and Literacy 5 • Research Methods - ethical foundations • Early Primary Education and Advanced for teaching and research Educational Methodology • Creative Arts 3 • Christian Religious Education/Multi • Christian Religious Education/Multi Denominational Religious Education Denominational Religious Education • Inclusive Education for children with • Assessment For and Of Learning Special Educational Needs (SEN) 2 • Elective 2 (Liberal Arts) • Elective 4 (Liberal Arts) • Elective 3 (Liberal Arts) • Elective 5 (Liberal Arts)
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YEAR 4
Semester 7: Teacher as Leader Semester 8: Teacher as Leader • Professional Placement 4 • Policy and Leadership in Education • Professional Placement 5 • Schools and Society 4 • Professional Placement 6 • Elective 6 (Education) • Portfolio • Undergraduate Dissertation 1 or Taught Elective 7 • Undergraduate Dissertation 2 or Taught Elective 8
*At the end of Year 2 students will select whether to take **At the end of Year 3 students will select the Multidisciplinary Bachelor of Education programme or whether to take the Dissertation or Taught to pursue a specialism in Liberal Arts or Education. Elective option.
Students taking the Multidisciplinary and 2 dissertation modules. This • Gaeilge programme may select their allows students to develop their • Irish Heritage electives from a range of modules personal interests and talents and • German Studies offered by the Faculty of Arts and to customise their own individual • Mathematics the Faculty of Education. These lists degree paths. These students • History will include many of the modules gain expertise in a specific area of • Music being offered to students on selected relevance to primary education. • Theology/Religious Education streams depending on the pre- Examples of the Education Specialisms (Joint Specialism with requisites for each module and that are currently on offer include: Faculty of Education). whether the module can cater for • Special Education additional students. The provision of • Mathematics Education Students may select to follow electives and specialisms will depend • Technology Enhanced Learning a Multidisciplinary Bachelor of on the level of resources available. • SPHE Education which means that they The full range of specialisms • Language and Literacy select any eight modules from provided in any academic year • Primary Geography and across the range of modules on cannot be affirmed until the Global Education offer. Students may take modules resource allocation is confirmed. • Educational Disadvantage (DEIS) from either Education or Liberal • Early Childhood Studies Arts. These eight modules may BACHELOR OF EDUCATION • Physical Education comprise eight taught modules or a WITH A SPECIALISM • Teagasc i Suíomhanna Lán-Ghaeilge combination of six taught modules Students may pursue a Specialism • Theology/Religious Education (Joint and two dissertation modules. This in either Liberal Arts or Education. Specialism with Liberal Arts) allows students to develop their This means that students select 8 • Visual Arts Education. personal interests and talents and modules, of which 5 modules are in a to customise their own individual given subject/area. These 5 modules Alternatively, students may elect to degree paths. These students gain may comprise 5 taught modules or pursue a specialisation in one of the expertise across a range of areas a combination of 3 taught modules following Liberal Arts disciplines: of relevance to primary education.
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GAELTACHT COURSES - TRÉIMHSÍ STUDY ABROAD FOGHLAMA SA GHAELTACHT Semester 5 of the Bachelor of All Bachelor of Education students Education programme offers are required to attend two residential students the opportunity to study placements in the Gaeltacht as part of abroad. Students are encouraged the programme – Tréimhse Foghlama to spend this semester in sa Ghaeltacht 1 agus 2. Tréimhse another country so that they can Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 1 is taken in experience and understand the Year 1 of the programme and Tréimhse education systems and policies Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 2 in Year 3. of other countries and, in the Each placement lasts two weeks. case of placements in continental Students bear the cost of this Europe, improve their foreign Ryan Quirke compulsory course and the cost for language skills. Among the many Bachelor of Education 2017 - 2018 was €750 per placement. benefits of studying abroad are: Each of these modules is graded with • Enriching a primary degree My extremely positive an examination in oral Irish. Students with a global perspective; experiences as a student in will take an examination in oral Irish • Developing independent primary school, learning from after completing the first placement thinking and resilience; and compassionate, enthusiastic at the end of their first year of initial • A distinctive CV displaying and motivating teachers, acted teacher education. Students must pass adaptability, cultural awareness, as the initial prompt which this examination in order to continue and risk-taking, all essential supported my desire to become to the second year of the programme. attributes in today’s workplace. a primary school teacher. So A repeat of the examination in oral being offered and accepting Irish test is provided by the College. All Students can study abroad at one a place on the Bachelor of Bachelor of Education students must of Mary Immaculate College’s Education programme in Mary have completed the two Gaeltacht partner universities, which is a Immaculate College was like placements successfully before safe and well-supported means a dream come true. Incoming entering year four of the programme. of gaining valuable international students, make the most of all experience. Financial assistance and any opportunities presented PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT from the ERASMUS+ programme to you, because it is these The professional placement element is currently available to students opportunities that will build of the programme is designed who study in an EU State. friendships, and will help to to meet the Teaching Council’s European study destinations for form valuable memories of your requirements, and students will Bachelor of Education students initial teacher education training spend approximately 24 weeks in currently include universities in in Mary Immaculate College. schools during the programme. Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands This period will allow students and Spain. Study abroad to engage in observation, class- opportunities at North American based and whole-school teaching and Australian universities are and learning activities. Working also a very popular option. MIC in partnership with schools, the has exchange partnerships with placements are designed to universities across the USA. enable students to experience all class levels and a range of school types, and the student is guided and empowered along his/ her learning-to-teach journey.
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Entry data to the Department of Culture, TEACHER EDUCATION ACCESS Heritage and the Gaeltacht, who in turn PROGRAMME FOR MATURE LEARNERS Requirements verifies the status of the applicant. This programme is designed for mature Gaeltacht applicants may, if they wish, students, who do not hold the minimum Applicants must be at least 16 years apply under both MI005 and MI006. entry requirements, but who wish to old on 15 January of the year of entry gain entry to the Bachelor Education. and must have obtained the following LEAVING CERTIFICATE VOCATIONAL For further information please contact minimum grades at a single sitting of PROGRAMME (LCVP) the MIC Admissions Office on T: +353 the Leaving Certificate examination: Link modules will be accepte for points 61204348 E: [email protected] • Grade H5 on a Higher Level paper purposes but they will not qualify as a in not less than three subjects subject for matriculation purposes. STUDENT FITNESS TO TEACH FORM • Grade O6/H7 in three other In order to establish students’ fitness to subjects (Higher or Ordinary Level) GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS teach, all incoming teacher education For further information about minimum students are required to complete Applicants must have obtained grades and entry requirements a Student Fitness to Teach Form. the following grades, at minimum, please contact the MIC Admissions in subjects specified: Office atE: [email protected] GARDA VETTING/CRIMINAL RECORDS • Gaeilge - Grade H4 BUREAU CHECK (FOR UK STUDENTS) • Mathematics - O4 or H7 MATURE STUDENTS Registration will be conditional upon • English - O4 or H7 If you are at least 23 years old on successful completion of the Garda Foundation Level Mathematics the 1 January of the year of entry to Vetting/CRB checking process does not satisfy the entry College, you are considered as a mature requirement in Mathematics. applicant. All mature applicants who Career Opportunities make an application to the College *Minimum grades required in Gaeilge, English through the CAO for MI005/006 and The Bachelor of Education Honours and Mathematics can be obtained at different sittings of the Leaving Certificate are meeting the eligibility criteria, will Degree is designed to qualify students Examination(s). The requirement to achieve be invited to attend for an interview to teach in primary schools. This a minimum of Grade H5 in three Higher Level and an Oral Irish test. Candidates are University of Limerick accredited papers and Grade O6/H7 in three other subjects (Higher or Ordinary Level) must be obtained awarded a grade for their performance degree is an internationally in a single sitting of the Leaving Certificate at the interview and an additional grade recognised qualification and was Examination.**Language Waivers. Please for the Oral Irish test. The combined the first programme of its kind to be contact the Access/Disability Officer onT: +353 61 204927 or E: Maura.moore@mic. score determines the candidate’s accredited by the Teaching Council ul.ie for information on Language Exemptions place on the order of merit list. Where of Ireland. The course promotes the granted on disability grounds. Deadlines apply. places remain unfilled after the list of personal and intellectual development successful first preference applicants of students, while providing the GAELTACHT APPLICANTS (MI006) has been exhausted, offers may be professional and academic foundation Up to 10% of places on the Bachelor made to other applicants in order of for a career in teaching. of Education programme may be preference and in accordance with reserved for applicants from the the order of merit. Applicants who get Gaeltacht, i.e. applicants must reside in a ‘fail’ grade in either the Interview the officially designated Gaeltacht and or Oral Irish test will be eliminated must use Irish as the normal language from the competition. Applicants Further of the household. Eligibility for this who have failed the Interview on two Information category is determined by An Roinn previous occasions are not eligible to Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta. re-apply. Mature applicants who have Intending applicants are strongly completed an interview and Oral Irish Education Faculty Office advised to check their eligibility with test will be contacted by the College T: +353 61 204906 An Roinn Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus to indicate whether or not they are E: [email protected] Gaeltachta. In order to ensure that being offered a place and all places W: www.mic.ie an applicant is a bona fide Gaeltacht will then be offered by the CAO. applicant, the CAO transfers personal
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BA in Early Childhood Care and Education
BA i gCúram agus in Oideachas na Luath-Óige
The BA in Early Childhood Care and Education is a full-time, four-year, honours degree (level 8), designed to provide an exciting and challenging programme for those interested in working with young children in a range of educational settings.
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Why study the BA in Early Childhood Care and Education at MIC?
Mary Immaculate College offers Education, 2006). The benefits a four-year honours degree accruing from quality early programme in Early Childhood Care childhood care and education and Education for those interested apply to all children, but as in gaining excellent training and a research shows, the benefits Emily Guilfoyle highly-regarded qualification in this are particularly significant for most rewarding and challenging area. children with additional needs BA in Early Childhood The BA ECCE degree programme and children from areas of socio- Care & Education is a full-time programme designed economic disadvantage. This to provide exciting and challenging programme focuses on the holistic The BA in Early Childhood Care training for those interested in care and education of young and Education programme working with young children, from children in a variety of settings. has so much to offer potential birth to six years of age, in a range students. The programme of educational settings. Mary provides opportunities to gain Immaculate College, with its long and expand knowledge in a wide tradition of excellence in teaching variety of subject areas, from and learning in the early years, psychology to creative arts, as has designed this honours degree well as valuable work experience programme in Early Childhood in a range of early childcare Care and Education in response settings where students can to contemporary developments in put theory into practice. This the field of early years education programme is for anyone who both in Ireland and internationally. can see the value in children’s play and wants to ensure a The College recognises that quality quality early years’ experience provision in the early years is for every child. There is also crucial in facilitating each child’s an opportunity to experience development towards their full practical placement abroad for potential. According to Síolta, a semester with the Erasmus the National Quality Framework Programme, which I was for Early Years’ Education: “The fortunate enough to experience competencies, qualifications, in Trondheim, Norway. I found dispositions and experience of this programme to be a great adults, in addition to their capacity to experience and an opportunity reflect upon their role, are essential to grow and develop both in supporting and ensuring quality personally and professionally. experiences for each child. This demanding and central role in the life of the young child needs to be appropriately resourced, supported and valued.” (Centre for Early Childhood Development and
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What you will study
The programme is multi-disciplinary of the programme. Additionally in design and offers students the Off-Campus Placement takes opportunity to become specialists place in Semester 5, which enables in the care and education of young students to experience national children from birth to six years of and international early education age. Specialisation in the combined workplaces. These placements areas of care and education demands will allow students an opportunity a deep knowledge of both theory and to learn from experience through Matty Moran practice. Areas covered will include: supervised work practice. Allied to experiential learning, this provides BA in Early Childhood • Child Health and Well-being a valuable opportunity for students Care & Education • Language Development to engage in reflective practice. in Early Childhood I found the BA in Early • Child Development Childhood Care and Education • The Role of Play in Development to be engaging, challenging and • Educational Psychology thought-provoking. You will have • Child, Family and Community the opportunity to learn about • Creativity every aspect of early childhood, • Language Acquisition from child development to and Early Literacy sociology and from child health • Understanding and and well-being to the role of Accommodating Diversity play in early childhood. With • The Pedagogy of Early Childhood; small class sizes group work is Curriculum Guidelines encouraged and professional • Including Children with Additional development is always to the Needs in the Early Years fore. Mary Immaculate College • Legal Issues is a one of a kind campus • Professional Development. that will quickly become your home. If you are willing to A particular focus of the work hard and put yourself programme is providing students forward in this institution with the knowledge, skills and you will find yourself growing competencies to support the personally and professionally. inclusion of children with additional needs in the early years.
Placement opportunities are provided for students in a variety of settings such as playgroups, daycare settings, crèches, Early Start Units, preschools and primary schools throughout the duration
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Programme
YEAR 1
Semester 1 Semester 2 • Foundation Studies in Early Childhood • Effective Pedagogy for Early Learning Care and Education • Creative Music-Making in Early Years Curricula • Child, Family and Community 1 • Child Development • Language Development in the Early Years • Child Health and Well-being 1 • The Role of Play in Development • Professional Development 2 • Professional Development 1
YEAR 2
Semester 3 Semester 4 • Child, Family and Community 2 • Models of Curriculum • Child Health and Well-being 2 • Educational Psychology • Creativity • Language and Literacy in the Early Years • The Early Years: Historical and • Sociological and Global Perspectives in the Early Years Philosophical Perspectives and Analysis • Professional Development 4 • Professional Development 3
YEAR 3
Semester 5 Semester 6 • Professional Development 5 • STEM in the Early Years • Management 1: Policy for Early Childhood • Off campus semester Education and Care Management • Research Methods • Cultural and Linguistic Diversity: • Implications for Professional Practice • Including Children with Special Needs in the Early Years
YEAR 4
Semester 7 Semester 8 • Early Childhood Care and Educational Management • Curriculum and Pedagogy: Three to Six • Advanced Issues in Psychology • Dissertation • Curriculum and Pedagogy: Birth to Three • Professional Development 8 • Professional Development 7 • Elective
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STUDY ABROAD Semester 5 of the BA ECCE Programme offers students the opportunity to expand their knowledge and skills through extended work-based learning in an Irish or international context. Students are encouraged to spend this semester in another country so that they can experience and understand the Early Childhood Care and Education systems and policies of other countries and expand their knowledge and skills. Among the many benefits of studying abroad are:
• Enriching a primary degree with a global perspective • Developing independent thinking and resilience • A distinctive CV displaying adaptability, cultural awareness, and risk-taking, all essential attributes in today’s workplace.
Students may study abroad at one of Mary Immaculate College’s partner universities, which is a safe and well supported means of gaining valuable international experience. Through the Erasmus+ programme, BA ECCE students are provided with an opportunity to study in Denmark or Norway during their off-campus placement. Alternatively, BA ECCE students may opt to undertake an Erasmus+ work placement in Europe. Financial assistance from the Erasmus+ programme is currently available to such students. Study abroad opportunities at North American and Australian universities are also a very popular option. MIC has exchange partnerships with universities across the USA.
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Entry MATURE STUDENTS Career If you are at least 23 years old on Requirements the 1 January of the year of entry Opportunities to College, you are considered as Applicants are required to hold the a mature applicant. All mature There is a growing awareness in established Leaving Certificate applicants who make an application Ireland of the need for high calibre (or an approved equivalent) with a to the College through the CAO for professionals to provide young minimum of six subjects which must MI007 will be invited to attend for children with the best possible include at least two H5 (Higher Level) an interview and a short written care and education. Graduates may and four O6 (Ordinary Level) or four test. Mature students who do not pursue leadership roles in both the H7 (Higher Level) grades. Subjects meet the normal minimum entry private and public sector where must include Mathematics, Gaeilge requirements will be considered high quality childcare provision is or another language, and English. for admission if, having attended required. As specialists in Early Minimum Grade F6 in Foundation for interview and written test, Childhood Care and Education, Mathematics satisfies the minimum they satisfy the College as to their graduates of this programme may entry requirements. Foundation ability to benefit from and sustain find employment as managers, Mathematics is not reckonable for participation in the BA Programme(s) directors, coordinators or scoring purposes. applied for. Mature applicants who facilitators in a wide range of early have completed an interview and years settings. The first cohort * Language Waivers. Please contact the written test will be contacted by the of BA ECCE students graduated Access/Disability Officer onT: +353 61 College to indicate whether or not in October 2007 and they have 204927 or email [email protected] they are being considered for a place since taken up employment in for information on Language Exemptions and all places will then be offered by such areas as managerial roles granted on disability grounds. Deadlines the CAO. in playschools, daycare settings, apply. Early Start Units, family centres as GARDA VETTING /CRIMINAL well as policy development roles LEAVING CERTIFICATE VOCATIONAL RECORDS BUREAU CHECK and research roles within various PROGRAMME (LCVP) (FOR UK STUDENTS) Government bodies. Following the Link modules will be accepted for Registration will be conditional upon Irish Government’s introduction of points purposes but they will not successful completion of the Garda the provision of a free year of pre- qualify as a subject for matriculation Vetting/CRB checking process school education, job opportunities purposes. for graduates of this course are expected to continue to increase. GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS For further information about minimum grades and entry requirements please contact the MIC Admissions Office atE: admissions@ mic.ul.ie
QQI APPLICANTS Further Places are available for eligible QQI Information applicants who wish to apply for entry to Year I or Year 2 of the BA in Early Childhood Care and Education. MIC Admissions Office For further information about T: +353 61 204348 eligibility and entry requirements E: [email protected] please contact the MIC Admissions W: www.mic.ie Office at E: [email protected] T: +353 61 204348
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B Ed in Education and Psychology
B.Oid. san Oideachas agus sa tSíceolaíocht
The B Ed in Education and Psychology is a four- year, full-time, honours degree (level 8), which prepares primary level teachers and which also provides opportunities for graduates to pursue a career in psychology.
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Why study the B Ed in Education and Psychology at MIC?
MIC offers a four-year joint undergraduate honours degree in Primary Teaching and Psychology. This programme, which is awarded by the University of Limerick and accredited by the Teaching Council, is a unique venture in this country, which leads to both an academic and a professional qualification, allowing graduates to pursue careers either in Primary Teaching or in the field of Psychology. The programme would be particularly suitable for, though not confined to, students who might wish to undertake a postgraduate specialisation subsequently in the field of Educational Psychology. This programme continues to be accredited by the Psychology Society of Ireland.
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What you will study
EDUCATION The Education component of the programme seeks to equip participants with the competence to teach all levels of primary school (4-12 year olds). Given the structure of primary school provision, the Cathal Curran teacher is required to have a mastery and competence in all the curricular B Ed in Education areas of the primary school, inclusive and Psychology of Art, Drama, English, Gaeilge, Mathematics, Music, Physical Like many students here at Education, Religious Education and MIC, I have always seen myself Social and Environmental Studies pursuing a career in primary (which includes Geography, History school teaching. The B Ed in and Science). The foundation Education and Psychology studies, professional studies, the programme is unique in school placement and the subject that not only does it prepare disciplines are carefully planned in primary level teachers, but it light of changing understandings also provides opportunities of the nature of learning and the for graduates to pursue theory-practice relationship. further postgraduate study There is an appropriate balance in psychology. Psychology in the programme provision is an incredibly fascinating for these areas and their inter- and useful subject in its own relationship is made explicit. right, but it also complements the education aspect of the PSYCHOLOGY programme in many ways, Psychology is studied throughout providing a stimulating the four years. Modules will include academic experience. The Social Psychology, Cognitive prospects for both employment Psychology, Research Methodology, and further learning after Personality & Individual Differences, your degree are unlimited; Information Technology & this programme provides an Psychology, Biological Basis of excellent foundation and great Psychology, the Psychology of starting point no matter what Special Educational Needs and direction you choose to take. Abnormal Psychology. Students are also required to undertake an undergraduate dissertation in Psychology in their final year.
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Programme
YEAR 1
Semester 1: Student as Learner Semester 2: Student as Learner • Language and Literacy 1 • Language and Literacy 2 • An Ghaeilge agus Múineadh na Gaeilge 1 • An Ghaeilge agus Múineadh na Gaeilge 2 • STeM 1: Introduction to Mathematics and its Teaching • STeM 2: Introduction to Mathematics and its Teaching 2 • Schools and Society 1 • STeM 3: Introduction to Science • Psychology of Learning and Development • Ethics, Religions and Beliefs • Professional Placement 1 • Understanding the Child as Learner • Introduction to Psychology • Introduction to the Creative Arts 1 • Research Methodology 1 • Professional Placement 2 • Research Methodology 1 • Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 1 • Social Psychology 1
YEAR 2
Semester 3: Student as Teacher Semester 4: Student as Teacher • Language and Literacy 3 • Language and Literacy 4 • An Ghaeilge agus Múineadh na Gaeilge 3 • The Creative Arts 2 • STeM 4: Introduction to Mathematics and its Teaching 3 • Social, Personal, Health, and • Social Studies • Physical Education 2 • A Bio-Psychosocial Approach to Inclusive Education • STeM 5: Pedagogy of Maths and for Children with Special Education Needs Teaching and Learning with ICT • Social, Personal, Health, and Physical Education 1 • Professional Placement 3 • Cognitive Psychology 1 • Information Technology and Psychology • Personality and Individual differences Semester 4A*: Student as Learner • Psychological Perspectives on Behaviour
YEAR 3
Semester 5: Student as Researcher Semester 6: Student as Researcher • STeM 6: Teaching Mathematics and Science • Schools and Society 2 • Early Childhood Education: Curriculum, • Language and Literacy 5 Research and Pedagogy • Early Primary Education and Advanced Educational • Psychological and Educational Assessment Methodology • Creative Arts 3 • Christian Religious Education 2 or Religious Education in • Christian Religious Education 1 or Religious Education Multi-Denominational Schools Module 2 in Multi-Denominational Schools Module 1 • Research Methods 2 • Cognitive Psychology 2 • Biological Basis of Psychology • Social Psychology 2 • Design and ethical Evaluation of Psychological Research • Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 2 Semester 6A: Student as Researcher • Professional Placement 4: Applied Placement - Two weeks in an alternative education setting in a placement of the student’s choosing.
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YEAR 4
Semester 7: Student as Leader Semester 8: Student as Leader • Professional Placement 5 • Schools and Society 3 • Professional Placement 6 • Developmental Psychology 2 • Portfolio • Abnormal Psychology • Undergraduate Dissertation 1 • Advanced Issues in Educational Psychology • Undergraduate Dissertation 2
PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT GAELTACHT COURSES - TRÉIMHSÍ The professional placement element 4: APPLIED PLACEMENT FOGHLAMA SA GHAELTACHT of the programme is designed This placement provides students All Bachelor of Education students to meet the Teaching Council’s with an opportunity to apply their are required to attend two residential requirements, and students will spend knowledge of psychology to an placements in the Gaeltacht as approximately 24 weeks in primary educational environment other than part of the programme – Tréimhse schools during the programme. This a mainstream Irish national school, Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 1 agus 2. period will allow students to engage and to bring psychological insights Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 1 is in observation, class-based and to the professional experience. In taken in year 1 of the programme and whole-school teaching and learning addition, a small number of online Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 2 activities. Working in partnership modules will take place in out-of- in year 3. Each placement lasts two with schools, the placements are semester time during Years 1 and 2. weeks. Students bear the cost of this designed to enable students to compulsory course and the cost for experience all class levels and a range 2017 - 2018 was €750 per placement. of school types, and the student is Each of these modules is graded with guided and empowered along his/ an examination in oral Irish. Students her learning-to-teach journey. will take an examination in oral Irish after completing the first placement at the end of their first year of initial teacher education. Students must pass this examination in order to continue to the second year of the programme. A repeat of the examination in oral Irish test is provided by the College. All students must have completed the two Gaeltacht placements successfully before entering year four of the programme.
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Ciara Hegarty B Ed in Education and Psychology
As a young girl I always aspired to be a primary school teacher. However, in search for a challenge the prospect of studying psychology alongside a degree in education excited me. The B Ed in Education and Psychology is a diverse, challenging and rewarding degree. The diversity of the programme, offers you the unique opportunity to study fields like social psychology, research methodology alongside educational methodology and so much more. Education and Psychology are coordinated together impressively, and while demanding at times, the course offers you boundless possibilities in the workplace. Whether you decide to pursue Psychology further or a career in Education, the choice is yours.
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Entry GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS STUDENT FITNESS TO TEACH FORM For further information about In order to establish students’ Requirements minimum grades and entry fitness to teach, all incoming requirements please contact teacher education students are Applicants must be at least 16 years the MIC Admissions Office at required to complete a Student old on 15 January of the year of entry E: [email protected] Fitness to Teach Form. and must have obtained the following minimum grades at a single sitting of MATURE STUDENTS GARDA VETTING /CRIMINAL the Leaving Certificate examination: If you are at least 23 years old on RECORDS BUREAU CHECK • Grade H5 on a Higher Level paper the 1 January of the year of entry (FOR UK STUDENTS) in not less than three subjects to College, you are considered as Registration will be conditional upon • Grade O6/H7 in three other a mature applicant. All mature successful completion of the Garda subjects (Higher or Ordinary Level) applicants who make an application Vetting/CRB checking process to the College through the CAO for Applicants must have obtained MI008 and are meeting the eligibility the following grades, at minimum, criteria, will be invited to attend for in subjects specified: an interview and an Oral Irish test. Career • Gaeilge - Grade H4 Candidates are awarded a grade for Opportunities • Mathematics - O4 or H7 their performance at the interview • English - O4 or H7 and an additional grade for the Foundation Level Mathematics Oral Irish test. The combined score As the Education component of does not satisfy the entry determines the candidate’s place this programme retains all of the requirement in Mathematics. on the order of merit list. Where key elements of the main Bachelor places remain unfilled after the of Education, graduates of this *Minimum grades required in Gaeilge, list of successful first preference programme will be eligible to practise English and Mathematics can be applicants has been exhausted, as primary school teachers in obtained at different sittings of the offers may be made to other the normal way. Additionally, in Leaving Certificate Examination(s). The applicants in order of preference view of their joint specialisation, requirement to achieve a minimum of and in accordance with the order graduates of this programme Grade H5 in three Higher Level papers of merit. Applicants who get a ‘fail’ will have the option of pursuing and Grade O6/H7 in three other subjects grade in either the Interview or Oral postgraduate studies in Psychology. (Higher or Ordinary Level) must be Irish test will be eliminated from the obtained in a single sitting of the Leaving competition. Applicants who have Certificate Examination. failed the Interview on two previous **Language Waivers. Please contact the occasions are not eligible to re- Access/Disability Officer onT: +353 apply. Mature applicants who have 61 204927 or E: [email protected] completed an interview and Oral Irish for information on Language test will be contacted by the College Exemptions granted on disability grounds. to indicate whether or not they are Deadlines apply. being offered a place and all places will then be offered by the CAO. Further LEAVING CERTIFICATE VOCATIONAL Information PROGRAMME (LCVP) Link modules will be accepted for points purposes but they MIC Admissions Office will not qualify as a subject for T: +353 61 204929 matriculation purposes. E: [email protected] W: www.mic.ie
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BA in Education, Business Studies and Accounting
BA san Oideachas, Staidéar Gnó & Cuntasaíocht
The BA in Education, Business Studies and Accounting programme (post- primary) is a four-year, full-time, undergraduate concurrent teacher education degree (level 8), currently offered at MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles. Graduates are qualified to teach Business Studies and Accounting to honours Leaving Certificate level.
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Why study the What you will BA in Education, study Business Studies Students are educated in the and Accounting most current methodologies and at MIC? technologies available to enhance the teaching of their subject areas at post-primary level. The degree The BA in Education, Business programme includes four years Studies and Accounting programme of modules in Business Studies (post-primary) is a four-year, and Accounting. These are taken Rebecca Fisher full-time undergraduate concurrently with education concurrent teacher education modules which include theoretical, BA in Education, Business degree. Graduates are qualified pedagogical and professional Studies and Accounting to teach Business Studies and studies along with a number of Accounting to Leaving Certificate school placement experiences. MIC, St. Patrick’s Campus, honours level. Graduates Thurles, is a welcoming college of the programme will: with students who are friendly, approachable and willing to help. • Demonstrate subject knowledge, Due to the small numbers, each knowledge of curriculum student is known by not only content and process, and their fellow students but also by professional knowledge; their lecturers. The programme • Engage in critical and analytical is challenging at times, however, thinking, problem-solving, lecturers are extremely reflection and self-evaluation; accommodating and make the • Engage in planning, teaching, content interesting and easy to learning, assessment, classroom learn. Within the programme management and organisation students are lucky to have for the classroom and the school many opportunities for school as a learning organisation; placement, which gives a real • Articulate a commitment to insight into our future career. and vision for the development School placement in year 3 of the uniqueness of the pupil offers opportunities for learning in all his/her dimensions; specifically about how to be an • Integrate and apply knowledge inclusive teacher for all students. skills, attitudes and values in It also means that students are complex and unpredictable fully qualified as a post-primary educational settings; school teachers after graduation. • Exhibit strong interpersonal I would certainly recommend skills and a readiness to be this programme for anyone leaders and innovators of who is interested in a career curriculum change; and in post-primary teaching. • Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong personal and professional development and actively participate in professional learning communities.
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Programme
YEAR 1
Semester 1 Semester 2 • Becoming a Student Teacher • Teaching and Learning 1 - Planning To Teach • Fundamental Accounting • Understanding Contemporary Schools and Society • Regulatory Framework • Adolescent Development - Understanding Two of the following modules will be offered: young people and how they learn • Management Principles • Financial Accounting Principles • Business Mathematics One of the following modules will be offered • Marketing (excluding the modules already offered): • Management Principles • Business Mathematics • Marketing
YEAR 2
Semester 3 Semester 4 • Teaching and Learning 2 – Planning for Differentiation • Inclusive Education: Contemporary Perspectives • Teaching Business Studies and Accounting 1 • School Placement 1 • Management Accounting Principles • Management Accounting 1 • Financial Accounting 1 One of the following modules will be offered One of the following modules will be offered: (excluding the modules already offered): • Legal Environment of Business • Legal Environment of Business • Economics • Economics
YEAR 3
Semester 5 Semester 6 • Curriculum Studies; Assessment for and of Learning • Research Methods – Ethical Foundations for Teaching • Diversity in Education – Ethics Interculturalism and Research and Inclusive Classrooms • School Placement 2 • Financial Accounting 2 • Advanced Management Accounting Two of the following modules will be offered: • Financial Management • Organisational Behaviour Two of the following modules will be offered • Entrepreneurship & New Enterprise Creation (excluding the modules already offered): • Business Information Systems • Organisational Behaviour • Ireland and the Global Economy • Entrepreneurship & New Enterprise Creation • Business Information Systems • Ireland and the Global Economy
YEAR 4
Semester 7 Semester 8 • Policy and Leadership in Education • School Placement 3 • Dissertation 1 • School Placement 4 • Teaching Business Studies and Accounting 2 • E-Portfolio • Strategic Management • Dissertation 2 • Financial Reporting
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BA in Education, Business Studies and Accounting
SCHOOL PLACEMENT School Placement 1, UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION The School Placement element Year 1, Semester 4 This programme places great of the programme is designed The focus for this 6-week School emphasis on teaching and research. to meet the Teaching Council’s Placement is on lesson planning As part of their development as requirements, and students will and preparation, scheme planning research-active teachers, students spend approximately 21 weeks in and developing effective teaching undertake an Undergraduate schools during the programme. This strategies in their subject areas. Dissertation. The dissertation can period will allow students to engage There is also a strong emphasis be in either Education or a Subject in observation, class based and on the development of critical and discipline. Students begin the whole-school teaching and learning reflective practice, and on developing preparation for the dissertation activities. Working in partnership an understanding of schools as in Year 3 where they undertake with schools, the placements are organisations. Both observation and their Research Methods module. designed to enable students to teaching elements are integrated into experience class levels from junior this placement which is located at to senior cycle within a range of Junior Cycle level and /or Transition school types, where the student is Year level. This School Placement guided and empowered along his/her marks the beginning of their learning-to-teach journey. The level Professional Portfolio, to be completed and range of teaching and learning on an on-going basis throughout the activities increases from School remainder of the degree programme. Placement 1 to School Placement 4 and the student is assisted by the School Placement 2, placement tutors and cooperating Year 3, Semester 6 teachers to ensure that his/her In this two week placement, students practice is reflective of professional will work in special settings including knowledge and his/her own personal the possibility of an international Evan Gorrell commitment to the pupils’ wellbeing placement. The purpose of this BA in Education, Business and learning. There is an integrated placement is to support the student Studies and Accounting focus on subject knowledge and in becoming an inclusive teacher also inclusion and differentiation for and to develop their confidence Choosing MIC, St. Patrick’s each placement. Placements occur and competence in responding to Campus, Thurles, was the best at four points in the programme: diverse needs in the classroom. decision I have ever made. The staff and students on this campus Teaching and Learning 1, School Placement 3 and 4, are both approachable and Year 1, Semester 2 Year 4, Semester 8 friendly with a willingness to help Students are given the opportunity School Placement 3 and 4 will run you settle in as best as possible. to observe teaching in practice simultaneously over 12 weeks. School There is a huge emphasis on for one week in a senior primary Placement 3 addresses the whole continuous assessment which classroom. This observation school elements of the extended takes a lot of pressure off you placement provides an opportunity placement beyond the classroom and before you sit your semester for students to gain an insight into provides structure to the student’s exams. Throughout your time the interconnection between primary whole school learning throughout the here you are given the opportunity and post-primary education. placement including the continuation to go on School Placement which The placement inducts student of the Professional Portfolio. In School helps to put the theory you have teachers into the practice of Placement 4 the student teachers learned into practice. A major teaching and reflection. will plan, prepare and implement advantage of the programme is schemes of work and lesson plans that by the end of your degree in their subject areas at Junior and you are a fully qualified post- Senior Cycle level. There will be primary school teacher. a strong emphasis on reflective practice throughout these modules.
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Entry preference and in accordance with Career the order of merit. Applicants who Requirements get a ‘fail’ grade in the interview will Opportunities be eliminated from the competition. Applicants must obtain the Applicants who have failed the This programme is accredited following minimum grades in interview on two previous occasions by the Teaching Council and has the Leaving Certificate: are not eligible to re-apply. Mature been developed in response to Grade H5 on a Higher Level paper in applicants who have completed an the growing need for excellence in not less than two subjects and grade interview will be contacted by the teaching at post-primary level. The O6/H7 in four other subjects (Higher College to indicate whether or not programme prepares graduates or Ordinary Level), two of which they are suitable candidates for a for their roles in all areas of must be Mathematics and English. place on the programme. Places are professional life in education. offered by the CAO based on the LEAVING CERTIFICATE VOCATIONAL applicant’s order of preference. The following list demonstrates PROGRAMME (LCVP) just some of the careers our Link modules will be accepted STUDENT FITNESS TO TEACH FORM graduates have pursued: for points purposes but they In order to establish students’ will not qualify as a subject for fitness to teach, all incoming • Post-primary teacher matriculation purposes. teacher education students are • Accountant in industry or practice required to complete a Student • Accounting technician GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS Fitness to Teach Form. • Retail Management For further information about • Procurement Management minimum grades and entry GARDA VETTING • Inventory Management requirements please contact Registration will be conditional • Fund Accounting the MIC Admissions Office at upon successful completion of • Banking E: [email protected] the Garda vetting process. • Marketing and PR • Human Resource Management MATURE STUDENTS • Training and Development If you are at least 23 years old on • Educational Management the 1 January of the year of entry • Sales to College, you are considered as • Entrepreneurship a mature applicant. All mature applicants who make an application to the College through the CAO for MI009 and are meeting the eligibility criteria, will be invited to attend for an interview. Candidates are awarded a grade for their performance at the interview. Where places remain unfilled after the list of successful first preference applicants has Further been exhausted, offers may be Information made to other applicants in order of
MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles T: +353 504 20535 / 21201 E: [email protected] W: www.mic.ie
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BA in Education, Business Studies and Religious Studies
BA san Oideachas, Staidéar Gnó & Léann Reiligiúnach
The BA in Education, Business Studies and Religious Studies programme (post-primary) is a four-year, full-time, undergraduate concurrent teacher education degree (level 8), currently offered at MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles. Graduates are qualified to teach Business Studies and Religious Studies to honours Leaving Certificate level.
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Why study the BA in Education, Business Studies and Religious Studies at MIC?
The BA in Education, Business Studies and Religious Studies programme (post-primary) is a four-year, full-time undergraduate concurrent teacher education degree. Graduates are qualified to teach Business Studies and Religious Studies to Leaving Certificate honours level.
Graduates of the programme will: • Demonstrate subject knowledge, knowledge of curriculum content and process, and professional knowledge; • Engage in critical and analytical thinking, problem-solving, reflection and self-evaluation; • Engage in planning, teaching, learning, assessment, classroom management and organisation for the classroom and the school as a learning organisation; • Articulate a commitment to and vision for the development of the uniqueness of the pupil in all his/her dimensions; • Integrate and apply knowledge skills, attitudes and values in complex and unpredictable educational settings; • Exhibit strong interpersonal skill and a readiness to be leaders and innovators of curriculum change; and • Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong personal and professional development and actively participate in professional learning communities.
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What you will study
Students are educated in the most current methodologies and technologies available to enhance the teaching of their subject areas at post-primary level. The degree programme includes four years of modules in Business Studies and Religious Studies. These are Daniel Kelly taken concurrently with education modules which include theoretical, BA in Education, Business pedagogical and professional Studies and Religious Studies studies along with a number of School Placement experiences. Choosing to study a BA in Education, Business Studies and Religious Studies at MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles, has been the best decision I have ever made. The most noticeable thing about the campus is its size. Every lecturer is very approachable and they get to know you on a personal level. Each module is designed to help you in the classroom environment. MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles, has an excellent reputation for post- primary school teaching and when you attend a programme here it is very easy to understand why. I would highly recommend this programme and college to anybody who is thinking of pursuing their dream of becoming a post- primary teacher as well as making life-long friends.
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Programme
YEAR 1
Semester 1 Semester 2 • Becoming a Student Teacher • Teaching and learning 1 – Planning To Teach Two of the following modules will be offered: • Understanding Contemporary Schools and Society • Management Principles • Adolescent Development – Understanding • Business Mathematics young people and how they learn • Marketing One of the following modules will be offered Two of the following modules to be offered: (excluding the modules already offered): • Religion and World Religions • Management Principles • Introduction to Systematic Theology • Business Mathematics • Theology of the First Testament • Marketing One of the following modules to be offered (excluding the modules already offered): • Religion and World Religions • Introduction to Systematic Theology • Theology of the First Testament
YEAR 2
Semester 3 Semester 4 • Teaching and Learning 2 – Planning for Differentiation • Inclusive Education: Contemporary Perspectives • Teaching Business Studies and Religious Studies 1 • School Placement 1 • Business Studies Accounting One of the following modules will be offered One of the following modules will be offered: (excluding the modules already offered): • Legal Environment of Business • Legal Environment of Business • Economics • Economics Two of the following modules to be offered: One of the following modules to be offered • Theology of the Second Testament (excluding the modules already offered): • Christology • Theology of the Second Testament • Fundamental Moral Theology • Christology • Fundamental Moral Theology
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YEAR 3
Semester 5 Semester 6 • Curriculum Studies; Assessment for and of Learning • Research Methods – Ethical Foundations for Teaching • Diversity in Education – Ethics, Interculturalism and Research and Inclusive Classrooms • School Placement 2 Two of the following modules will be offered: Two of the following will be offered • Organisational Behaviour (excluding the modules already offered): • Entrepreneurship & New Enterprise Creation • Organisational Behaviour • Business Information Systems • Entrepreneurship & New Enterprise Creation • Ireland and Global Economy • Business Information Systems One of the following to be offered: • Ireland and Global Economy • Approaches to God Two of the following modules to be offered • Foundations and Approaches to Religious Education/ (excluding the modules already offered): The Christian Church Through the Ages • Approaches to God • Ritual and Sacrament • Foundations and Approaches to Religious Education/The Christian Church Through the Ages • Ritual and Sacrament
YEAR 4
Semester 7 Semester 8 • Policy and Leadership in Education • School Placement 3 • Dissertation 1 • School Placement 4 • Teaching Business Studies and Religious Studies 2 • E-Portfolio • Strategic Management • Dissertation 2 • Selected Topics in Applied Moral Theology
SCHOOL PLACEMENT guided and empowered along his/her Teaching and Learning 1, The School Placement element learning-to-teach journey. The level Year 1, Semester 2 of the programme is designed and range of teaching and learning Students are given the opportunity to meet the Teaching Council’s activities increases from School to observe teaching in practice requirements, and students will Placement 1 to School Placement 4 for one week in a senior primary spend approximately 21 weeks in and the student is assisted by the classroom. This observation schools during the programme. This placement tutors and cooperating placement provides an opportunity period will allow students to engage teachers to ensure that his/her for students to gain an insight into in observation, class-based and practice is reflective of professional the interconnection between primary whole-school teaching and learning knowledge and his/her own personal and post-primary education. activities. Working in partnership commitment to the pupils’ wellbeing The placement inducts student with schools, the placements and learning. There is an integrated teachers into the practice of are designed to enable students focus on subject knowledge and teaching and reflection. experience class levels from junior also inclusion and differentiation for to senior cycle within a range of each placement. Placements occur school types, and where student is at four points in the programme:
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School Placement 1, School Placement 3 and 4, Year 2, Semester 4 Year 4, Semester 8 The focus for this 6-week School School Placement 3 and 4 will run Placement is on lesson planning simultaneously over 12 weeks. and preparation, scheme planning School Placement 3 addresses and developing effective teaching the whole school elements of the strategies in their subject areas. extended placement beyond the There is also a strong emphasis classroom and provides structure on the development of critical to the student’s whole school and reflective practice, and on learning throughout the placement developing an understanding of including the continuation of the schools as organisations. Both Seán Buggy Professional Portfolio. In School observation and teaching elements Placement 4 the student teachers are integrated into this placement BA in Education, Business will plan, prepare and implement which is located at Junior Cycle Studies and Religious Studies schemes of work and lesson plans level and /or Transition Year level. in their subject areas at Junior and This School Placement marks the For me, coming to study at MIC, Senior Cycle level. There will be beginning of their Professional St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles, a strong emphasis on reflective Portfolio, to be completed on an was without a doubt one of the practice throughout these modules. on-going basis throughout the best decisions I have made. remainder of the degree programme. Students have the wonderful UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION advantage of becoming top This programme places great School Placement 2, quality post-primary teachers emphasis on teaching and research. Year 3, Semester 6 and are fully qualified after As part of their development as In this two week placement, students just four years. Throughout the research-active teachers, students will work in special settings including programme students get to undertake an Undergraduate the possibility of an international experience the role of teachers Dissertation. The Dissertation can placement. The purpose of this as we take part in teaching be in either Education or a Subject placement is to support the student practice in second and fourth discipline. Students begin the in becoming an inclusive teacher year. By taking part in school preparation for the Dissertation and to develop their confidence placement we get a very good in Year 3 where they undertake and competence in responding to insight into what it is like to their Research Methods module. diverse needs in the classroom. be a post-primary teacher. Another major advantage of studying at MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles, is that the staff and lecturers here are very approachable and helpful. There are times when the course material may be difficult, but we are always offered as much help and guidance as possible from our top-quality lecturers. I could not speak highly enough about this college and certainly feel that anybody interested in a post-primary teaching career should consider studying at MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles.
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Entry ‘fail’ grade in the interview will be Career eliminated from the competition. Requirements Applicants who have failed the Opportunities interview on two previous occasions Applicants must obtain the are not eligible to re-apply. Mature This programme is accredited following minimum grades in applicants who have completed an by the Teaching Council and has the Leaving Certificate: interview will be contacted by the been developed in response to Grade H5 on a Higher Level paper in College to indicate whether or not the growing need for excellence in not less than two subjects and grade they are suitable candidates for a teaching at post-primary level. The O6/H7 in four other subjects (Higher place on the programme. Places are programme prepares graduates or Ordinary Level), two of which offered by the CAO based on the for their roles in all areas of must be Mathematics and English. applicant’s order of preference. professional life in education.
LEAVING CERTIFICATE VOCATIONAL STUDENT FITNESS TO TEACH FORM The following list demonstrates PROGRAMME (LCVP) In order to establish students’ just some of the careers our Link modules will be accepted fitness to teach, all incoming graduates have pursued: for points purposes but they teacher education students are will not qualify as a subject for required to complete a Student • Post-primary teacher matriculation purposes. Fitness to Teach Form. • Retail Management • Banking GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS GARDA VETTING • Marketing and PR For further information about Registration will be conditional • Human Resource Management minimum grades and entry upon successful completion of • Training and Development requirements please contact the Garda vetting process. • Educational Management the MIC Admissions Office at • Sales E: [email protected] • Entrepreneurship • Administrative positions in MATURE STUDENTS faith-based organisations If you are at least 23 years old on • Parish and diocesan pastoral the 1 January of the year of entry assistants and administrators to College, you are considered as a mature applicant. All mature applicants who make an application to the College through the CAO for MI010 and are meeting the eligibility criteria, will be invited to attend for an interview. Candidates are awarded a grade for their performance at the interview. Where places remain unfilled after the list of successful first preference Further applicants has been exhausted, Information offers may be made to other applicants in order of preference and in accordance with the order MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, of merit. Applicants who get a Thurles T: +353 504 20535 / 21201 E: [email protected] W: www.mic.ie
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BA in Education, Irish and Religious Studies
BA san Oideachas, Gaeilge & Léann Reiligiúnach
The BA in Education, Irish and Religious Studies programme (post-primary) is a four-year, full-time, undergraduate concurrent teacher education degree (level 8), currently offered at MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles. Graduates are qualified to teach Irish and Religious Studies to Leaving Certificate level.
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Why study the What you will BA in Education, study Irish and Religious Students are educated in the Studies at MIC? most current methodologies and technologies available to enhance The BA in Education, Irish and the teaching of their subject Religious Studies programme areas at post-primary level. The (post-primary) is a four-year, degree programme includes full-time undergraduate concurrent four years of modules in Irish teacher education degree. and Religious Studies. These are Niamh Marks Graduates are qualified to teach taken concurrently with education Irish and Religious Studies to modules which include theoretical, BA in Education, Irish Leaving Certificate honours level. pedagogical and professional and Religious Studies studies along with a number of Graduates of the programme will: school placement experiences. Ba é an cinneadh a rinné mé chun • Demonstrate subject knowledge, Prior to registering with the Teaching dul chuig MIC, Campas Pádraig, knowledge of curriculum Council, Irish language teachers Durlas an cinneadh is fearr a content and process, and have to spend a minimum of two rinné mé riamh. Mar gheall ar an professional knowledge; months on residential placement t-atmaisféar cairdiúil agus croíúil, • Engage in critical and analytical in a designated Gaeltacht area. chomh maith le léachtóirí an- tacúil, thinking, problem-solving, Four weeks of this residential seasann an taithí sa choláiste seo reflection and self-evaluation; placement will be in the form of amach. De bharr go bhfuil ranganna • Engage in planning, teaching, two compulsory Cúrsaí Gaeltachta beaga againn tá caidreamh níos learning, assessment, classroom organised by the College. fearr idir mic léinn agus léachtóirí, management and organisation rud a bhfuil an-chabhrach dom. Tá for the classroom and the school clár an chúrsa dírithe ar oideachas as a learning organisation; agus tugann an socrúcháin scoile • Articulate a commitment to sa dara agus sa cheathrú bhliain and vision for the development deiseanna dúinn taithí a fháil ar of the uniqueness of the pupil gach gné den saol na scoile. Ar an in all his/her dimensions; iomlán, is aoibhinn liom mo chuid • Integrate and apply knowledge ama anseo i MIC Durlas. skills, attitudes and values in complex and unpredictable educational settings; • Exhibit strong interpersonal skill and a readiness to be leaders and innovators of curriculum change; and • Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong personal and professional development and actively participate in professional learning communities.
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Programme
YEAR 1
Semester 1 Semester 2 • Becoming a Student Teacher • Teaching and Learning 1 – Planning To Teach • Teanga agus Litríocht na Gaeilge 1 • Understanding Contemporary Schools and Society • An Fhiannaíocht agus Scéalaíocht Ár Sinsear • Adolescent Development – Understanding Two of the following modules to be offered: young people and how they learn • Religion and World Religions • Teanga agus Litríocht na Gaeilge 2 • Introduction to Systematic Theology One of the following modules to be offered • Theology of the First Testament (excluding the modules already offered): • Religion and World Religions • Introduction to Systematic Theology • Theology of the First Testament
YEAR 2
Semester 3 Semester 4 • Teaching and Learning 2 – Planning for Differentiation • Inclusive Education: Contemporary Perspectives • Teaching Irish and Religious Studies 1 • School Placement 1 • An Ghearrscéalaíocht agus an Béaloideas • Litríocht an 17ú agus an 18ú hAois • An Litríocht Chlasaiceach One of the following modules to be offered Two of the following modules to be offered: (excluding the modules already offered): • Theology of the Second Testament • Theology of the Second Testament • Christology • Christology • Fundamental Moral Theology • Fundamental Moral Theology
YEAR 3
Semester 5 Semester 6 • Curriculum Studies; Assessment for and of Learning • Research Methods – Ethical Foundations for Teaching • Diversity in Education: Ethics, Interculturalism and Research and Inclusive Classrooms • School Placement 2 • Logainmneacha agus Gnéithe den Teangeolaíocht • Filíocht na Nua-Ghaeilge One of the following modules to be offered: • Na Mná sa Litríocht • Approaches to God Two of the following to be offered • Foundations and Approaches to Religious Education (excluding the modules already offered): / The Christian Church Through the Ages • Approaches to God • Ritual and Sacrament • Foundations and Approaches to Religious Education / The Christian Church Through the Ages • Ritual and Sacrament
YEAR 4
Semester 7 Semester 8 • Policy and Leadership in Education • School Placement 3 • Dissertation 1 • School Placement 4 • Teaching Irish and Religious Studies 2 • E-Portfolio • Prós na Gaeilge • Dissertation 2 • Selected Topics in Applied Moral Theology
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SCHOOL PLACEMENT There is also a strong emphasis completion of each placement The School Placement element of on the development of critical and students will undertake a project the programme is designed to meet reflective practice, and on developing (Tionscnamh Gaeltachta), on the Teaching Council’s requirements, an understanding of schools as aspects of their learning in the and students will spend approximately organisations. Both observation and Gaeltacht and this assessment 21 weeks in schools during the teaching elements are integrated into will contribute to the students’ programme. This period will allow this placement which is located at grades in two designated Irish students to engage in observation, Junior Cycle level and /or Transition modules. Students will experience class-based and whole-school Year level. This School Placement two of the principal dialects of teaching and learning activities. marks the beginning of their Irish during the two placements. Working in partnership with schools, Professional Portfolio, to be completed the placements are designed to on an ongoing basis throughout the Through immersion in Irish enable students experience class remainder of the degree programme. the placement aims to: levels from junior to senior cycle • Enhance students’ communicative within a range of school types, School Placement 2, competence, in the context of their and where student is guided and Year 3, Semester 6 future role as teachers of Irish and of empowered along his/her learning- In this two week placement, students other subjects through the medium to-teach journey. The level and will work in special settings including of Irish, as well as users of Irish range of teaching and learning the possibility of an international as a living language in the school activities increases from School placement. The purpose of this community. Such competence Placement 1 to School Placement 4 placement is to support the student will be demonstrated by reference and the student is assisted by the in becoming an inclusive teacher to agreed learning outcomes; placement tutors and cooperating and to develop their confidence • Enhance their knowledge and teachers to ensure that his/her and competence in responding to understanding of the life and practice is reflective of professional diverse needs in the classroom. culture of the Gaeltacht; knowledge and his/her own personal • Be an enjoyable experience, which commitment to the pupils’ well-being School Placement 3 & 4, enhances student teachers’ love and learning. There is an integrated Year 4, Semester 8 of Irish as a language and their focus on subject knowledge and School Placement 3 and 4 will run confidence in speaking it. also inclusion and differentiation for simultaneously over 12 weeks. School During the placement each week each placement. Placements occur Placement 3 addresses the whole should encompass 35 hours learning at four points in the programme: school elements of the extended activities, of which at least 20 placement beyond the classroom and hours will be comprised of formal Teaching and Learning 1, provides structure to the student’s classes. Formal classes will take Year 1, Semester 2 whole school learning throughout the place in the morning. Afternoon Students are given the opportunity to placement including the continuation workshops will allow students observe teaching in practice for one of the Professional Portfolio. In School to enhance their knowledge and week in a senior primary classroom. Placement 4 the student teachers linguistic competence in post- This observation placement provides will plan, prepare and implement primary school curricular areas. an opportunity for students to gain schemes of work and lesson plans an insight into the interconnection in their subject areas at Junior and UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION between primary and post-primary Senior Cycle level. There will be This programme places great education. The placement inducts a strong emphasis on reflective emphasis on teaching and research. student teachers into the practice practice throughout these modules. As part of their development as of teaching and reflection. research-active teachers, students GAELTACHT PLACEMENT undertake an Undergraduate School Placement 1, Students will undertake two Gaeltacht Dissertation. The Dissertation can Year 2, Semester 4 placements (two separate blocks be in either Education or a Subject The focus for this 6-week school each of two weeks) throughout discipline. Students begin the placement is on lesson planning their programme, normally at the preparation for the Dissertation and preparation, scheme planning end of Year 1 and at the end of Year in Year 3 where they undertake and developing effective teaching 3. This is a compulsory component their Research Methods module. strategies in their subject areas. of the degree programme. On
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Entry been exhausted, offers may be Career made to other applicants in order of Requirements preference and in accordance with Opportunities the order of merit. Applicants who Applicants must obtain the get a ‘fail’ grade in the interview will This programme is accredited following minimum grades in be eliminated from the competition. by the Teaching Council and has the Leaving Certificate: Applicants who have failed the been developed in response to Grade H5 on a Higher Level paper interview on two previous occasions the growing need for excellence in in not less than two subjects, one of are not eligible to re-apply. Mature teaching at post-primary level. The which must be Irish, and grade O6/ applicants who have completed an programme prepares graduates H7 in four other subjects (Higher interview will be contacted by the for their roles in all areas of or Ordinary Level), two of which College to indicate whether or not professional life in education. must be Mathematics and English. they are suitable candidates for a place on the programme. Places are The following list demonstrates LEAVING CERTIFICATE offered by the CAO based on the just some of the careers our VOCATIONAL PROGRAMME applicant’s order of preference. graduates have pursued: (LCVP) Link modules will be accepted STUDENT FITNESS TO TEACH FORM • Post-primary teacher for points purposes but they In order to establish students’ • Researcher will not qualify as a subject for fitness to teach, all incoming • Irish Language Media matriculation purposes. teacher education students are • Irish Language Promotion required to complete a Student • Translation GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS Fitness to Teach Form. • Administrative positions in For further information about faith-based organisations minimum grades and entry GARDA VETTING • Parish and diocesan pastoral requirements please contact Registration will be conditional assistants and administrators the MIC Admissions Office at upon successful completion of E: [email protected] the Garda vetting process.
MATURE STUDENTS If you are at least 23 years old on the 1 January of the year of entry to College, you are considered as a mature applicant. All mature applicants who make an application to the College through the CAO for MI011 and are meeting the eligibility criteria, will be invited to attend for an interview. Candidates applying for MI011 will have part of their interview conducted through Irish. Candidates are awarded a grade Further for their performance at the Information interview. Where places remain unfilled after the list of successful first preference applicants has MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles T: +353 504 20535 / 21201 E: [email protected] W: www.mic.ie
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BA in Education, Irish and Business Studies
BA san Oideachas, Gaeilge & Staidéar Gnó
The BA in Education, Irish and Business Studies programme (post-primary) is a four-year, full-time, undergraduate concurrent teacher education degree (level 8), currently offered at MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles. Graduates are qualified to teach Irish and Business Studies to honours Leaving Certificate level.
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Why study the What you will BA in Education, study Irish and Business Students are educated in the Studies at MIC? most current methodologies and technologies available to The BA in Education, Irish and enhance the teaching of their Business Studies programme subject areas at post-primary (post-primary) is a four-year, level. The degree programme full-time undergraduate concurrent includes four years of modules teacher education degree. in Irish and Business Studies. Brion McCarthy Graduates are qualified to teach These are taken concurrently Irish and Business Studies to with education modules which BA in Education, Irish Leaving Certificate honours level. include theoretical, pedagogical and Business Studies and professional studies along with Graduates of the programme will: a number of School Placement There are many factors around • Demonstrate subject knowledge, experiences. Prior to registering MIC, St. Patrick’s Campus, knowledge of curriculum with the Teaching Council, Thurles, that create the content and process, and Irish language teachers have to incredibly friendly atmosphere. professional knowledge; spend a minimum of two months on Personally, I love the small • Engage in critical and analytical residential placement in a designated close-knit community around thinking, problem-solving, Gaeltacht area. Four weeks of this the college and Thurles in reflection and self-evaluation; residential placement will be in general. With small classes and • Engage in planning, teaching, the form of two compulsory Cúrsaí tutorial groups, the anonymity learning, assessment, classroom Gaeltachta organised by the College. of many universities is not an management and organisation issue. The extremely positive for the classroom and the school relationship between students as a learning organisation; and staff means that there are • Articulate a commitment to few people around campus that and vision for the development you don’t know by name! The of the uniqueness of the pupil balance between Irish, Business in all his/her dimensions; and Education modules is • Integrate and apply knowledge perfect and the inclusion of skills, attitudes and values in School Placement in each complex and unpredictable year of the programme is an educational settings; invaluable opportunity to put • Exhibit strong interpersonal theory into practice. The sense skill and a readiness to be of pride amongst all at MIC, leaders and innovators of St. Patrick’s Campus,Thurles curriculum change; and is overwhelming. I could not • Demonstrate a commitment to have chosen a better place to lifelong personal and professional start my journey as a teacher. development and actively participate in professional learning communities.
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Programme
YEAR 1
Semester 1 Semester 2 • Becoming a Student Teacher • Teaching and Learning 1 – Planning To Teach • Teanga agus Litríocht na Gaeilge 1 • Understanding Contemporary Schools and Society • An Fhiannaíocht agus Scéalaíocht Ár Sinsear • Adolescent Development – Understanding Two of the following modules will be offered: young people and how they learn. • Management Principles • Teanga agus Litríocht na Gaeilge 2 • Business Mathematics One of the following modules will be offered • Marketing (excluding the modules already offered): • Management Principles • Business Mathematics • Marketing
YEAR 2
Semester 3 Semester 4 • Teaching and Learning 2 – Planning for Differentiation • Inclusive Education: Contemporary Perspectives • Teaching Business Studies and Irish 1 • School Placement 1 • Business Studies Accounting • Litríocht an 17ú agus an 18ú hAois • An Ghearrscéalaíocht agus an Béaloideas One of the following modules will be offered • An Litríocht Chlasaiceach (excluding the modules already offered): One of the following modules will be offered: • Legal Environment of Business • Legal Environment of Business • Economics • Economics
YEAR 3
Semester 5 Semester 6 • Curriculum Studies; Assessment for and of Learning • Research Methods – Ethical Foundations for Teaching • Diversity in Education: Ethics, Interculturalism and Research and Inclusive Classrooms • School Placement 2 • Logainmneacha agus Gnéithe den Teangeolaíocht • Filíocht na Nua-Ghaeilge Two of the following modules will be offered: • Na Mná sa Litríocht • Organisational Behaviour Two of the following modules will be offered: • Entrepreneurship & New Enterprise Creation • Organisational Behaviour • Business Information Systems • Entrepreneurship & New Enterprise Creation • Ireland and the Global Economy • Business Information Systems • Ireland and the Global Economy
YEAR 4
Semester 7 Semester 8 • Policy and Leadership in Education • School Placement 3 • Dissertation 1 • School Placement 4 • Teaching Irish and Business Studies 2 • Dissertation 2 • Prós na Gaeilge • E-Portfolio • Strategic Management
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SCHOOL PLACEMENT There is also a strong emphasis of each placement students will The School Placement element of the on the development of critical and undertake a project (Tionscnamh programme is designed to meet the reflective practice, and on developing Gaeltachta), on aspects of their Teaching Council’s requirements, and an understanding of schools as learning in the Gaeltacht and this students will spend approximately organisations. Both observation and assessment will contribute to the 21 weeks in schools during the teaching elements are integrated into students’ grades in two designated programme. This period will allow this placement which is located at Irish modules. Students will students to engage in observation, Junior Cycle level and /or Transition experience two of the principal dialects class-based and whole-school Year level. This School Placement of Irish during the two placements. teaching and learning activities. marks the beginning of their Working in partnership with schools, Professional Portfolio, to be completed Through immersion in Irish the placements are designed to enable on an ongoing basis throughout the the placement aims to: students experience class levels from remainder of the degree programme. • Enhance students’ communicative junior to senior cycle within a range competence, in the context of their of school types, where the student is School Placement 2, future role as teachers of Irish guided and empowered along his/her Year 3, Semester 6 and of other subjects through the learning-to-teach journey. The level In this two week placement, students medium of Irish, as well as users and range of teaching and learning will work in special settings including of Irish as a living language in the activities increases from School the possibility of an international school community. Such competence Placement 1 to School Placement 4 placement. The purpose of this will be demonstrated by reference and the student is assisted by the placement is to support the student to agreed learning outcomes; placement tutors and cooperating in becoming an inclusive teacher • Enhance their knowledge and teachers to ensure that his/her and to develop their confidence understanding of the life and practice is reflective of professional and competence in responding to culture of the Gaeltacht; knowledge and his/her own personal diverse needs in the classroom. • Be an enjoyable experience, which commitment to the pupils’ well-being enhances student teachers’ love and learning. There is an integrated School Placement 3 & 4, of Irish as a language and their focus on subject knowledge and Year 4, Semester 8 confidence in speaking it. also inclusion and differentiation for School Placement 3 and 4 will run During the placement each week each placement. Placements occur simultaneously over 12 weeks. School should encompass 35 hours learning at four points in the programme: Placement 3 addresses the whole activities, of which at least 20 school elements of the extended hours will be comprised of formal Teaching and Learning 1, placement beyond the classroom and classes. Formal classes will take Year 1, Semester 2 provides structure to the student’s place in the morning. Afternoon Students are given the opportunity whole school learning throughout the workshops will allow students to observe teaching in practice placement including the continuation to enhance their knowledge and for one week in a senior primary of the Professional Portfolio. In School linguistic competence in post- classroom. This observation Placement 4 the student teachers primary school curricular areas. placement provides an opportunity will plan, prepare and implement for students to gain an insight into schemes of work and lesson plans the interconnection between primary in their subject areas at Junior and UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION and post-primary education. Senior Cycle level. There will be This programme places great The placement inducts student a strong emphasis on reflective emphasis on teaching and research. As teachers into the practice of practice throughout these modules. part of their development as research- teaching and reflection. active teachers, students undertake GAELTACHT PLACEMENT an Undergraduate Dissertation. The School Placement 1, Students will undertake two Gaeltacht Dissertation can be in either Education Year 2, Semester 4 placements (two separate blocks or a Subject discipline. Students begin The focus for this 6-week School each of two weeks) throughout their the preparation for the Dissertation Placement is on lesson planning programme, normally at the end of in Year 3 where they undertake and preparation, scheme planning Year 1 and at the end of Year 3. This their Research Methods module. and developing effective teaching is a compulsory component of the strategies in their subject areas. degree programme. On completion
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‘fail’ grade in the interview will be Entry eliminated from the competition. Career Requirements Applicants who have failed the Opportunities interview on two previous occasions are not eligible to re-apply. Mature Applicants must obtain the applicants who have completed an This programme is accredited following minimum grades in interview will be contacted by the by the Teaching Council and has the Leaving Certificate: College to indicate whether or not been developed in response to Grade H5 on a Higher Level paper they are suitable candidates for a the growing need for excellence in in not less than two subjects, one of place on the programme. Places are teaching at post-primary level. The which must be Irish, and grade O6/ offered by the CAO based on the programme prepares graduates H7 in four other subjects (Higher applicant’s order of preference. for their roles in all areas of or Ordinary Level), two of which professional life in education. must be Mathematics and English. STUDENT FITNESS TO TEACH FORM In order to establish students’ The following list demonstrates LEAVING CERTIFICATE fitness to teach, all incoming just some of the careers our VOCATIONAL PROGRAMME teacher education students are graduates have pursued. (LCVP) required to complete a Student • Post-primary teacher Link modules will be accepted Fitness to Teach Form. • Retail Management for points purposes but they • Banking will not qualify as a subject for GARDA VETTING • Marketing and PR matriculation purposes. Registration will be conditional • Human Resource Management upon successful completion of • Training and Development GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS the Garda vetting process. • Educational Management For further information about • Sales minimum grades and entry • Entrepreneurship requirements please contact • Researcher the MIC Admissions Office at • Irish Language Media E: [email protected] • Irish Language Promotion • Translation MATURE STUDENTS If you are at least 23 years old on the 1 January of the year of entry to College, you are considered as a mature applicant. All mature applicants who make an application to the College through the CAO for MI012 and are meeting the eligibility criteria, will be invited to attend for an interview. Candidates applying for MI012 will have part of their interview conducted through Irish. Further Candidates are awarded a grade for Information their performance at the interview. Where places remain unfilled after the list of successful first preference MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, applicants has been exhausted, Thurles offers may be made to other T: +353 504 20535 / 21201 applicants in order of preference E: [email protected] and in accordance with the order W: www.mic.ie of merit. Applicants who get a
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BA in Education, Mathematics and Gaeilge
BA san Oideachas, Matamaitic & Gaeilge
The BA in Education, Mathematics and Gaeilge programme (post-primary) is a four-year, full-time, undergraduate concurrent (post primary) programme. Graduates are qualified to teach Mathematics and Gaeilge to honours Leaving Certificate level.
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Why study the What you will BA in Education, study Mathematics and Students are educated in the Gaeilge at MIC? most current methodologies and technologies available to enhance The BA in Education, Mathematics the teaching of their subject areas and Gaeilge (post-primary) at post-primary level. The degree programme is a four-year, full- programme includes four years of time, undergraduate concurrent modules in Gaeilge and Mathematics. teacher education degree. These are taken concurrently Graduates are qualified to teach with education modules which Mathematics and Gaeilge to include theoretical, pedagogical Leaving Certificate honours level. and professional studies along with a number of school placement Graduates of the programme will: experiences. Prior to registering with • Demonstrate subject knowledge, the Teaching Council, Irish language knowledge of curriculum teachers have to spend a minimum content and process and of two months on residential professional knowledge; placement in a designated Gaeltacht • Engage in critical and analytical area. Four weeks of this residential thinking, problem-solving, placement will be in the form of reflection and self-evaluation; two compulsory Cúrsaí Gaeltachta • Engage in planning, teaching, organised by the College. learning, assessment, classroom management and organisation for the classroom and the school as a learning organisation; • Articulate a commitment to and vision for the development of the uniqueness of the pupil in all his/her dimensions; • Integrate and apply knowledge skills, attitudes and values in complex and unpredictable educational settings; • Exhibit strong interpersonal skill and a readiness to be leaders and innovators of curriculum change; • Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong personal and professional development and actively participate in professional learning communities.
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Programme
YEAR 1
Semester 1 Semester 2 • Becoming a Student Teacher • Teaching and Learning 1 - Planning to Teach • Teanga agus Litriocht Na Gaeilge 1 • Understanding Contemporary Schools and Society • Fhiannaíocht agus Scéalaíocht Ár Sinsear • Adolescent Development – Understanding • Elementary Number Theory young people and how they learn • Calculus 1: Differentiation • Teanga agus Litríocht Na Gaeilge 2 • Introduction to Geometry
YEAR 2
Semester 3 Semester 4 • Teaching and Learning 2: Planning for Differentiation • Inclusive Education: Contemporary Perspectives • Teaching Mathematics and Gaeilge 1 • School Placement 1 • Linear Algebra • Litríocht an 17ú Agus an 18ú hAois • An Ghéarrscéalaíocht agus Béaloideas • Calculus 2: Integration • An Litríocht Chlasaiceach
YEAR 3 Semester 5 Semester 6 • Curriculum Studies; Assessment for and of Learning • Research Methods-Ethical Foundations for Teaching • Diversity in Education: Ethics, Interculturalism and Research and Inclusive Classrooms • School Placement 2 • Logainmneacha agus Gnéithe Den Teangeolaíocht • Filíocht Na Nua-Ghaeilge • Introduction to Statistics • Na Mná Sa Litríocht • Multivariate Calculus • Computational Mathematics • Abstract Algebra
YEAR 4
Semester 7 Semester 8 • Policy and Leadership in Education • School Placement 3 • Dissertation 1 • School Placement 4 • Teaching Mathematics and Gaeilge 2 • E-Portfolio • Prós na Gaeilge • Dissertation 2 • Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry
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SCHOOL PLACEMENT Teaching and Learning 1, School Placement 2, The school placement element Year 1, Semester 2 Year 3, Semester 6 of the programme is designed Students are given the opportunity In this two week placement, students to meet the Teaching Council’s to observe for one week in a will work in special settings including requirements, and students will senior primary classroom. This the possibility of an international spend approximately 21 weeks in observation placement provides placement. The purpose of this schools during the programme. This an opportunity for students to gain placement is to support the student period will allow students to engage an insight into the interconnection in becoming an inclusive teacher in observation, class-based and between primary and post-primary and to develop their confidence whole-school teaching and learning education. The placement inducts and competence in responding to activities. Working in partnership student teachers into the practice diverse needs in the classroom. with schools, the placements of teaching and reflection. are designed to enable students School Placement 3 and 4, experience class levels from junior School Placement 1, Year 4, Semester 8 to senior cycle within a range of Year 2, Semester 4 School Placement 3 and 4 will run school types, and that the student is The focus for this 6-week School simultaneously over 12 weeks. guided and empowered along his/her Placement is on lesson planning School Placement 3 addresses learning-to-teach journey. The level and preparation, scheme planning the whole school elements of the and range of teaching and learning and developing effective teaching extended placement beyond the activities increases from School strategies in their subject areas. classroom and provides structure Placement 1 to School Placement There is also a strong emphasis to the student’s whole school 4 and the student is assisted on the development of critical learning throughout the placement by the tutors and co-operating and reflective practice, and on including the continuation of the teachers to ensure that her/his developing an understanding of Professional Portfolio. In School practice is reflective of professional schools as organisations. Both Placement 4 the student teachers knowledge and her/his own personal observation and teaching elements will plan, prepare and implement commitment to the pupils’ wellbeing are integrated into this placement schemes of work and lesson plans and learning. There is an integrated which is located at Junior Cycle in their subject areas at Junior and focus on subject knowledge and level and /or Transition Year level. Senior Cycle level. There will be also inclusion and differentiation for This School Placement marks the a strong emphasis on reflective each placement. Placements occur beginning of their Professional practice throughout these modules. at four points in the programme: Portfolio, to be completed on an ongoing basis throughout the remainder of the degree programme.
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GAELTACHT PLACEMENT • enhance their knowledge and - TRÉIMHSE FOGHLAMA understanding of the life and SA GHAELTACHT culture of the Gaeltacht Students will undertake two • be an enjoyable experience, which Gaeltacht placements (two enhances student teachers’ love separate blocks each of two weeks) of Irish as a language and their throughout their programme, confidence in speaking it. normally at the end of Year 1 and at During the placement each week the end of Year 3 of their programme. should encompass 35 hours learning This is a compulsory component activities, of which at least 20 of the degree programme. On hours will be comprised of formal completion of each placement classes. Formal classes will take students will undertake a project place in the morning. Afternoon (Tionscnamh Gaeltachta), on workshops will allow students aspects of their learning in the to enhance their knowledge and Gaeltacht and this assessment will linguistic competence in post- contribute to the students’ grades primary school curricular areas. in two designated Irish modules. Students will be experience two of the principal dialects of Irish UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION during the two placements. This programme places great emphasis on teaching and research. Through immersion in Irish, As part of their development as the placement aims to: research-active teachers, students • enhance students’ communicative undertake an Undergraduate competence, in the context of Dissertation. The Dissertation can their future role as teachers be in either Education or a Subject of Irish and of other subjects discipline. Students begin the through the medium of Irish, preparation for the Dissertation as well as users of Irish as a in Year 3 where they undertake living language in the school their Research Methods module. community. Such competence will be demonstrated by reference to agreed learning outcomes;
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Entry eliminated from the competition. Career Applicants who have failed the Requirements interview on two previous occasions Opportunities are not eligible to re-apply. Mature Applicants must obtain Grade H5 applicants who have completed an This programme is accredited on a Higher Level paper in not less interview will be contacted by the by the Teaching Council and has than two subjects and Grade O6/ College to indicate whether or not been developed in response to H7 in three other subjects, which they are suitable candidates for a the growing need for excellence in must include English (at Higher place on the programme. Places are teaching at post-primary level. The or Ordinary Level). The following offered by the CAO based on the programme prepares graduates minimum grades must be obtained: applicant’s order of preference. for their roles in all areas of • Gaeilge - Grade H5 professional life in education. • Mathematics - Grade O1/H5 STUDENT FITNESS TO TEACH FORM In order to establish students’ The following list demonstrates LEAVING CERTIFICATE fitness to teach, all incoming just some of the careers VOCATIONAL PROGRAMME teacher education students are opportunities for graduates: (LCVP) required to complete a Student Link modules will be accepted Fitness to Teach Form. • Post-primary teacher for points purposes but they • Irish Language Media will not qualify as a subject for GARDA VETTING • Irish Language Promotion matriculation purposes. Registration will be conditional • Translation upon successful completion of • Civil Service GCE/GCSE APPLICANTS the Garda vetting process. • Financial For further information about • Information Technology minimum grades and entry requirements please contact the MIC Admissions Office at E: [email protected]
MATURE STUDENTS If you are at least 23 years old on the 1 January of the year of entry to College, you are considered as a mature applicant. All mature applicants who make an application to the College through the CAO for MI013 and are meeting the eligibility criteria, will be invited to attend for an interview. Candidates applying for MI013 will have part of their interview conducted through Irish. Further Candidates are awarded a grade for Information their performance at the interview. Where places remain unfilled after the list of successful first preference MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, applicants has been exhausted, Thurles offers may be made to other T: +353 504 20535 / 21201 applicants in order of preference E: [email protected] and in accordance with the order W: www.mic.ie of merit. Applicants who get a ‘fail’ grade in the interview will be
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Academic Learning Centre (ALC) — Page 98
Access & Disability Service — Page 99
Scholarships — Page 100
Fees & Grants — Page 101
Curriculum Development Unit — Page 102
Library — Page 102
Health Promotion Service — Page 103
Medical Centre — Page 103
Chaplaincy Service — Page 104
Counselling Service — Page 105
Student Parent Support Service — Page 106
Maps — Page 108
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Academic Learning Centre (ALC)
The ALC was established in 1997 The centre offers subject specific MIC, ST PATRICK’S under the departmental title of support in areas of critical need, CAMPUS, THURLES the Learner Support Unit. Its aim namely Gaeilge, Information The ALC is located in Room P204. is to provide academic support Technology and Mathematics. Support is available on Mondays to all undergraduate students from 10-5pm. undertaking a degree course PRE-EXAM PLANNING E: [email protected] at MIC. Indeed, its focus is on The ALC offers help in planning helping undergraduate students individual study programmes, Gaeilge Support is also available in adapt to the academic demands especially in the lead up to exams. Room P203 on Mondays from of a third-level institution. This This helps students make the 10-4pm. is primarily achieved through most of their time and assists E: [email protected] the provision of one-to-one in future study planning. appointments with one of the There is also provision ALC staff, whereby any aspect FOUNDATION STUDIES for Maths Support. of learning can be addressed. The Academic Learning Centre, in conjunction with the mathematics The ALC is also concerned with and computer studies department, encouraging mature learners, is responsible for the provision whose educational experiences of the first year Liberal Arts and opportunities in their earlier module ‘Foundation Studies’. Its years may have been limited, to aim is to equip them with the consider returning to education academic literary, research and by (a) promoting the various computing competence required access routes available to them to successfully complete a degree. and (b) providing both the Pre- The ALC is also responsible for the University Programme (PUP) provision of both the Foundation and the Foundation Certificate Certificate and Pre-University to mature learners considering Programme. These programmes embarking on third level education. are aimed at mature learners and are delivered on a part- The ALC offers the time basis to facilitate those following services: who wish to sample university- level education but who are in ONE-TO-ONE ACADEMIC employment, and/or have families SUPPORT AND TUTORING and other care responsibilities. Students are welcome to call to the ALC located in C1-C4 for one-to- THE STUDY SKILLS HANDBOOK one advice on aspects of learning This comprehensive handbook at third level. The ALC team is is available from the ALC available to advise on essay writing department on the MIC website. (independent and confidential It includes chapters on study advice is given on how to improve skills, academic reading, time- the structure and writing style management, structuring essays, of essays and essay planning), referencing academic essays study skills, time management (Harvard and Footnoting systems) and exam techniques. and preparing for exams.
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Access & Disability Service
The Access & Disability Office physical and sensory disabilities, costs of attending college. coordinates the services available and students who are eligible for Please visit Access & Disability for access students and student both schemes. Further details www.mic.ul.ie for more with disabilities. Prospective available on our webpage. detailed information. students from under-represented Contact Details: Access Office. groups in third-level, including OVERVIEW OF THE ACCESS T: +353 61 204927/2024510, socio-economically disadvantaged & DISABILITY SERVICE: E: [email protected] students, students with a disability, and mature students are PRE-ENTRY Students at MIC, St Patrick’s encouraged to contact the Access/ Advice and information Campus, Thurles are encouraged Disability Officer to become for prospective students to contact Paula Hourigan familiar with the supports available. on Access issues. in the first instance: Room P124 (First Floor) We offer a wide range of supports DAILY DROP IN SUPPORT E: [email protected] to school leavers from socio- Personal support for students T: 0504 20535 economically disadvantage facilitated by an open door policy. backgrounds who enter College Information, advice and advocacy *Language Exemption – Student through HEAR (Higher Education assistance provided where granted a language exemption in Access Route) and DARE appropriate. Provision of college accordance with the DES rules for (Disability Access Route to related practical supports such as Secondary Schools should submit Education) admissions schemes. an Access Book Library Scheme. the certificate of exemption to the MIC Admissions Office. A Language MIC reserves a quota of reduced NEEDS ASSESSMENTS exemption is only applicable where a points places for eligible HEAR Evaluation of students’ needs specific language is not a requirement & DARE applicants who do not to determine the supports that for the programme that they wish to achieve the points in their Leaving may arise because of a disability pursue. Applicants who do not have a Certificate for their chosen or significant on-going illness. DES exemption, due to attendance at a programme. In order to compete All students with disabilities, non-State/Private Second Level School for one of these places, applicants regardless of their admission should contact the Access Office for must meet all the admissions route are encouraged to meet with further details. criteria*, achieve a minimum of the Access/Disability Officer. 300 CAO points and come within a differential of 40 points below FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE the CAO cut-off. Higher Institutes Information on the ESF Student of Education participating in Assistance Fund and other sources these schemes have agreed to of financial assistance available prioritise DARE students with to eligible students to help with
European Union
Investing in your future European Social Fund
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Scholarships
MIC UNDERGRADUATE level college shall not be eligible of ‘Awards for Excellence’ upon ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIPS for the award of an Undergraduate students who are registered Fifty Undergraduate Entrance Entrance Scholarship. in the College and who have Scholarships, valued at €2,000 achieved excellence in any field each, will be offered, for Scholarships shall be awarded of endeavour such as music, arts, competition on the basis of in order of merit in accordance sport (with the exception of GAA results obtained in the Irish with the standard scoring sports which already receive Leaving Certificate Examination system for Leaving Certificate College and Munster bursaries). and will be allocated to the results. Only performance in programmes below, as follows: the six best subjects taken at OTHER SCHOLARSHIPS • Bachelor of Education (MI005) the same sitting of the Leaving Easter Week Commemoration 19 scholarships Certificate will be counted. If Scholarships, Gaeltacht • Bachelor of Education (MI006 the holder of an Undergraduate University Scholarships and Gaeltacht applicants) Entrance Scholarship withdraws Irish Language Third-Level 1 scholarship from the programme for which Scholarships have been replaced • Bachelor of Arts (MI002) s(he) has registered, or fails to with a new single scheme of 15 scholarships continue throughout the year to bursaries based on merit. • BA in Early Childhood Care and meet the attendance and other Education (MI007) requirements for the programme, Details of the new scheme are 5 scholarships including examination entry, s(he) available from Higher Education - • MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles may be required to repay to the Equity of Access Unit, Department programmes (MI009/MI010/ College the whole or part of the of Education & Skills, Tullamore, MI011/MI012/MI013) scholarship. No special application Co. Offaly, T: +353 57 9325317 5 scholarships form is required for Undergraduate • B Ed in Education and Psychology Entrance Scholarships. Successful (MI008) students will be notified directly. 3 scholarships • BA in Contemporary and Applied GAA SCHOLARSHIPS Theatre Studies (MI001) The Munster Council of the GAA 2 scholarships also awards a limited number of bursaries to students who have The scholarships are tenable only achieved county-level standard in MIC, for the first year of a full- from minor grade upwards. time primary degree programme Bursaries are awarded when to be undertaken at MIC, in the students have registered in the academic year following the College. A limited number of GAA Leaving Certificate Examination Bursaries are also provided by on which the award is based. To be MIC to such students. For further eligible to receive a scholarship, a information contact Joe Redington, student must have met the normal E: [email protected] entry requirements for the degree T: +353 61 204375 programme in question and have been validly registered for same. AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE A student who has previously Mary Immaculate College registered for a programme Foundation confers a number leading to a degree in any third
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Fees & Grants
There are three elements to fees: HOW DO I CALCULATE SUSI offers support to all • Tuition fees WHAT FEES I OWE? types of students, from school • Student Contribution charge All new entrants and returning leavers to mature students • College levies. students must complete the returning to education. Online Financial Registration Before applying for your grant 1. TUITION FEES Task on the student portal at however, we would encourage you Tuition fees are paid by the Irish www.si.ul.ie, this will determine to review the eligibility criteria Government in respect of full- your fee liability for the year. A full by using the Eligibility Reckoner time undergraduate students listing of all programme fees can on the SUSI website www.susi.ie who are EU nationals ordinarily be found on: www.mic.ul.ie/fees where you can quickly and easily resident in an EU Member State, self-assess whether you may be subject to certain conditions. NON-PAYMENT OF STUDENT FEES entitled to a full or partial grant Tuition Fees may not be paid Students are advised to depending on your circumstances. for students who are pursuing familiarise themselves with a second undergraduate College Regulations regarding You must have an online account programme, repeating a year underpayment/non payment of with SUSI before you can make of study or hold a postgraduate Course Fees. These regulations are your grant application. qualification. Students are found on the Student Handbook. advised to read the Eligibility Please ensure that you provide for Free Tuition Fees which WHEN ARE FEES DUE? complete and accurate can be found on the following Final payment dates for Academic information (e.g. on dates of site: www.studentfinance.ie Year 2018/9 - First Instalment birth and PPS numbers) as of Course Fees due August failure to do this will delay 2. STUDENT CONTRIBUTION 2018. Second Instalment of Course processing of your application. CHARGE Fees due January 2019. Supply the documentation This is an annual fee (subject to requested of you, correctly first change) and must be paid by all Please note that all time and on time. Make your students. Students in receipt of a communications with regards fees application as early as possible grant will have this paid directly will be sent to the Students MIC after the April opening date. by Student Universal Support student email address or via SMS Ireland (SUSI). Please refer to to the mobile number provided www.susi.ie to determine by the Student on enrolment. your eligibility for a grant and instructions on how to GRANTS apply. In 2017/18 the Student SUSI (Student Universal Support Contribution Charge is €3,000. Ireland) www.susi.ie is Ireland’s single national awarding authority 3. COLLEGE LEVIES for all higher and further College Levies are payable by education grants. SUSI offers all students and are not covered funding to eligible students in by the SUSI grant. Levies vary approved full-time third-level per programme and per year of education in Ireland and in some programme registered for. For a full cases funding for students listing of Levies per programme studying outside the State. please see the MIC Fees Web Page: www.mic.ul.ie/fees
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Curriculum Library Development Unit
The Curriculum Development Unit MIC Library, Limerick is situated Library facilities and (CDU), which was established in centrally on campus in the Áras services include: 1986, is a nationally recognised an Phiarsaigh building and is the • Information queries centre of excellence in terms of focus of academic life on campus. • Bibliography and curricular design and innovation. MIC Library, Thurles is situated on reference support It promotes high standards the Thurles campus. Both libraries • Self-service returns in teaching and learning by provide a comprehensive range of and borrowing undertaking research into information services and resources • Information skills programmes curriculum and methodology in to support student learning and • Research skills programmes education. This research informs research. Library staff members • Interlibrary loans the development of resource are on hand to provide students • Photocopying. materials that are embedded with high quality on-demand help, in the latest thinking and ideas and training in finding and using The library website is www.mic. about education. There are a wide the information that they need ul.ie/library where you can access range of educational resources to succeed at college and into all our electronic resources, see for sale in the CDU. Many of these their future careers, in a friendly, our opening hours, check the books, DVDs, resource packs and student centred environment. catalogue for books, check your software packages are designed to account and renew loans. complement particular aspects of MIC library has a collection of over Connect with us on Facebook at the Bachelor of Education, 170,000 printed books, as well as a www.facebook.com/miclibrary B Ed in Education and Psychology growing eBook collection, covering and BA in Early Childhood Care a variety of subjects. It holds over and Education programmes. 250 current print journal titles All MIC students receive a 10% and provides access to more than discount when purchasing 50,000 full text journals online. The resources from the CDU. library on the Limerick campus also houses a primary school For further information textbook collection, an extensive please contact: children’s literature collection, Curriculum Development Unit, and a realia collection in the Audio Room JHN 122, First Floor, Visual Library, all of which are used John Henry Newman Building. by our student teachers while on T: +353 61 204366, school placement. We also hold www.curriculumdevelopmentunit. a microfilm collection and an com extensive collection of box sets and films on DVD. All our study spaces are powered, and Wi-Fi is available throughout the libraries.
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Health Promotion Medical Service Centre
MIC is the first third-level Examples of services include: The Medical Centre provides institution in Ireland to be • Meet & Train running group; an emergency triage service for designated a ‘Health Promoting • Cookery demonstration; MIC students on-campus. We College’ and has had this service • Yoga and Tai Chi classes; offer a private and confidential in place since 1996. The service • SafeTalk and ASIST training service weekdays during term aims to promote the health and (suicide awareness and time. It is a triage service for well-being of all members of the prevention workshops); acute illnesses only. Students are College community through policy • Physical massage therapy advised to register with a local development, the provision of and reflexology; GP for the duration of their stay programmes and activities and • Coping with exam in Limerick. A list of local GPs is the implementation of specific pressure activities; available from the Student Union. health promotion strategies. • Awareness days/weeks The team includes a Student on different health topics • Location: Room T.3.07 on the Health Promotion Officer and throughout the year; third floor of the TARA building we work together with many • Mindfulness Meditation • Opening hours: Monday to of the other services and classes; and Friday, 10am-12pm and 2-4pm departments to highlight health- • 10,000 steps and cycle • To make a doctor’s appointment: related issues and events. challenge events. student must meet with a nurse between 10am and 12pm Students are welcome to drop Services are provided free or • Doctors’ appointments are in the in to the office for advice and at a low cost to students. afternoon between 2pm and 4pm information on health-related • There is a charge of topics such as healthy eating, Contact Details: €10 for students physical activity, mental health, The Health Promotion Office • A doctor’s appointment cannot quitting smoking, sexual health is located in room G06 in be made over the telephone and alcohol and other drugs. We the Foundation Building. stock educational resources Opening Hours: If all the appointments are filled that may be useful for students 9.30am- 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. at the MIC Medical Centre, a planning for teaching practice T: +353 61 204922 doctor will see MIC students in the and work placement. The Health E: [email protected] Ashdown Medical Centre for a fee Promotion Office is also the of €30 with their MIC Student card. campus contact point for the MIC, ST PATRICK’S Call +353 61 301200 for Smarter Travel Campus national CAMPUS, THURLES an appointment. initiative. We send out a weekly The Health Promotion Service There is no charge for Medical newsletter and you can find works together with staff and the Card and European Health us on facebook (Hpo Mary I) Students Union to provide health Insurance Card holders. and Twitter (@MIC_HP). promotion programmes and events at MIC, St Patrick’s Campus. OUT OF HOURS SERVICE For more information, contact Weekend and afterhours Rob O’Halloran, Senior service is not provided by Campus Administrator MIC Medical Centre. E: [email protected] However, Dr. James Fehily, Ashdown Medical Centre, will see students out of hours in an emergency T: +353 61 301200.
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Chaplaincy Service
Students who need to see a The College has a full-time do fun things as well in cooperation doctor out of hours should Chaplaincy Service, which works with the Student’s Union and contact Shannon Doc in close cooperation with other various societies. Don’t miss our T: +353 1850 212999. student support services on the coffee mornings and evenings. This is a GP service which covers College campus. The Chaplaincy Opportunities for faith sharing exist Limerick , North Tipperary team is here to help any member of for those who wish to avail of them. and surrounding areas. the College community to survive, The Chaplaincy team will arrange develop their full potential and retreats and pilgrimages for students Students who need urgent medical enjoy their years in college. The wishing to partake in such spiritual attention should proceed to the Chaplaincy service is available to exercises. Mass is celebrated in the Accident & Emergency Department and welcomes students and staff College Chapel daily. The College at the University Hospital Limerick of all faiths and none. If you wish Chapel and the Meditation Room which provides 24 hour cover. for some help and you ask, the (behind the Chapel) are always T: +353 61 301111. team is willing to help you with the open to students who wish to pray, ups and downs of college life. reflect or just be in a quiet place. The MIC, ST PATRICK’S Chaplaincy service also provides CAMPUS, THURLES The role of the Chaplaincy service a symbol free meditation room in The following GP Service is is to provide a supportive and G33B. This is available for prayer available for students: challenging environment that fosters to those who desire such a space. Dr. Liam Collins, Fianna a spirit of inclusiveness on campus: You are welcome to drop into the Road, Thurles valuing spiritual and cultural diversity Chaplaincy Room (T.108) at any and offering a chance to live and time. It is a relaxed, comfortable, Opening Hours: think through one’s faith. The service friendly and social community Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and networks with other agencies, which space. You may come in to socialise, Friday 9am - 12pm & 3pm - 4.45pm promote holistic development and a to have a cup of tea or just to meet Wednesday 9am – 11.15am. sense of justice for all. other students. In each semester two third year Bachelor of Arts Another doctor is on call on The Chaplaincy team strives to students take up work placements Wednesday afternoons. promote the spiritual development with the Chaplaincy team. Being T: 0504 21155 of the entire College community, students themselves, they can easily staff and students. The team empathise with your needs and Students should contact Shannon facilitates the discussion of social, concerns. These students are based Doc for out of hours service or in an spiritual and theological issues. in the Chaplaincy Room T.1.08. emergency T:+353 1850 212999. It is possible to discuss issues of concern in confidence. The College Contact details: Chaplain, Fr Michael Wall, provides T: + 353 61 204339, religious services, according to the E: [email protected] Roman Catholic rite, in the College W: www.mic.ul.ie/adminservices/ Chapel. Arrangements are in place chaplaincy/Pages/default.aspx to provide services for non-Catholic F: www.facebook.com/chaplaincy. students. The Chaplaincy service maryimmaculate strives to support students during Chaplain: Fr. Michael Wall, times of bereavement, illness and Office G48, during occasions of personal or T: +353 61 204331 / family upheaval. We also honour +353 86 2550436 students’ joys and celebrations. We E: [email protected]
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Counselling Service
MIC, ST PATRICK’S MIC provides a professional, CAMPUS, THURLES on-campus Counselling Service MIC, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles available to all students, free of also has a vibrant Liturgy team charge. This service provides all that organises various Liturgical students with the opportunity to celebrations during the academic talk in a confidential setting about year including programmes for any issues which she or he may the preparation of Extraordinary not feel comfortable discussing Eucharistic Minister and Lector. with anyone else. A counselling relationship is one of warmth Chaplain: Fr Joe Walsh and safety, where a student feels T: +353 86 7714888 supported and listened to. E: [email protected] Support is provided for many issues, Fr Joe Walsh is available on such as: Stress, panic/anxiety campus on Monday, Tuesday, attacks, crisis pregnancy, eating Thursday and some Wednesdays disorders, bereavement, exam from approximately 11.00am stress, post-abortion, depression, to 2.30pm. He is also available relationships, sexual/emotional/ for emergency contact. physical abuse, gender issues, bullying, confidence / self-esteem issues, feeling suicidal, family issues, addictive behaviours, and others.
Students can make an appointment in the following ways:
BY CALLING TO ‘DROP-IN.’ Drop-In is an hour set aside daily where you can call to one of the counsellors, for an informal chat or to make an appointment. Drop-In is 11am-12pm daily
YOU CAN EMAIL OR PHONE THE COUNSELLORS T: +353 61 204948 E: [email protected] T: +353 61 204919 E: [email protected]
MIC, ST PATRICK’S CAMPUS, THURLES Fiona O’Dwyer is located in room P219 on the second floor. Fiona is available by appointment at E: [email protected] T: 0504 32033 or 087 9088710
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Student Parent Support Service
Funded by the HSE Sexual Health & Information Resources on Crisis Pregnancy Programme since external supports and agencies 2007, this is dedicated support • Dedicated Facebook page service for the following students: (Mary I Student Parents) • students experiencing an and Texting Service unplanned pregnancy • Family Friendly Events • students returning or (Annual Student Parent continuing College after Children’s Christmas Party) having a baby and adjusting to being a student parent • student parents experiencing Further information: unforeseen circumstances Student Parent Support or dealing with crisis Service Coordinator T: +353 61 204347 Confidential and non- E: [email protected] judgmental one-to-one support F: www.facebook.com/ is available by appointment: micstudentparents • Text ‘Appointment’ to 087- 9501160 or email Nicola. [email protected] directly • Telephone support is also available for students on placement • Location: Coordinator’s Office, T306a, within the Medical Centre
In addition, the service offers the following practical supports to Student Parents: • Weekly Student Parent Drop-In Hour Wednesdays, 11.15am -12.15pm Location: The Coordinator’s Office - T.3.07a (within the Medical Centre, 3rd Floor Tara Building) • Weekly Student Parent Group Drop In Space/Peer Support Wednesdays, 11.00am – 12.30pm Location: Chaplaincy Hospitality Room (1st Floor Tara Building) • Workshops and Information Sessions • Resources Information Guide and Information Leaflets created and researched by the service
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To Dooradoyle To Dooradoyle To Dublin and Cork. & University of Limerick Hospital Shannon Airport, Ennis and Galway can be assessed via Limerick Tunnel (Toll Road)
New Street Ashbourne Avenue
Main Entrance Chapel
South Circular Road Limerick Campus Taealtainn MAP Sports Field An Halla Dock Road
O’Connell Avenue Courtbrack The Quad P Accomodation P Library Gerrard House P Tara Building and Lime Tree Theatre
John Henry Newman Training Foundation P P P Campus Field Franco Building German Summerville House House
Summerville Avenue
To Limerick City Centre, To Limerick To Limerick Shannon Airport, City Centre City Centre Ennis and Galway
GERARD HOUSE JOHN HENRY NEWMAN CAMPUS Ground Floor Ground Floor M1, M2, M3 Lecture Rooms M4 - M15 Research & Graduate School N1, N5, N6, N7 Lecture Rooms Offices N2 - N4 and N8 Faculty Offices Exit to Gerard House N9 Microscope Lab 1st Floor N10 & N11 Offices M100 - M112 Early Childhood Care and N13 - N14 Offices Education Offices N15 - N16 Geography Laboratories N17 - N18 Offices LIBRARY BUILDING N20 - N26 Offices Ground Floor: N27 Office Reception/Foyer N29 - N39 Offices LG1 Library Reception Exit to Mount St. Vincent’s Building LG2 Main Library Ground Floor 1st Floor: LG3 Librarian’s Office N101 Research Office LG4 Philosophy/Psychology/Theology N102, N104 and N105 Offices Room
108 MIC Undergraduate Prospectus — 2019-2020 LG5 Oversize Books/Short-term Loan T1.13C Green Room Dressing Rooms 1-10 Section T1.13D Green Room Sports Gear LG6 - LG8 Sta Offices T1.15 Lecture Theatre Store Room Disabled Toilets T1.16 Lecture Theatre Cleaning Store LG9 Ceann Córa (Lecture Theatre) T1.17 Lecture Theatre Outdoor Equipment Store 1st Floor: T1.18 Lecture Theatre (access from outside the building) L102 - L111 Sta Offices Level 2: Facilities include: L112 Seomra Caidrimh (Irish Language T2.01 Lecture Room • Weights Room Room) T2.02 Lecture Room • 2 indoor Soccer courts L113 TV Studio T2.03 Lecture Room • IBA approved basketball court 2nd Floor: T2.04 Lecture Room • 3 volleyball courts L2a Storage and Office T2.05 Lecture Room • 6 badminton courts L203 Main Library 2nd Floor T2.06 Lecture Room • Table Tennis tables L203a & b Library Offices T2.07 Lecture Room • 2 teaching gyms/dance studios L203c & d Library Storage Microfilm T2.08 Lecture Room Storage T2.11 Lecture Room SUMMERVILLE HOUSE L204a: 2 Psychology Labs & Focus Room T2.12 Language Lecture Room Ground Floor: Disabled Toilet T2.13 Lecture Room SG1 - SG3 Lecture Rooms Edit Rooms 1 - 4 T2.14 Lecture Room SG4 Storage Viewing Rooms Level 3: SG6 - SG7 Computer Rooms Studio T3.01 Computer Laboratory SG8 Disabled Toilets Control Room T3.02 Computer Laboratory SG9 Kitchenette L205 Audio Visual Store T3.04 Computer Laboratory SG10 Lecture Room L206 Office T3.05 Computer Laboratory SG11 Computer Room L207 Technician’s Office T3.06 Lecture Room SG12 & SG13 Faculty Offices 3rd Floor: T3.13 Lecture Room 1st Floor: L301 Office T3.14 Lecture Room S101 - S102 Offices L302 Comms Room T3.15 Lecture Room S103 - S104 Lecture Rooms Library Office S105 Office 4th Floor: TAILTEANN S106 Postgrad Room L401 Library Acquisitions Office First Floor: S108 Lecture Room Reception S110 Disabled Toilet TARA BUILDING TN1 Teaching Gym S111 - S114 Lecture Rooms Level 0: Staff Changing Room (Female) T0.01 - Lounge Staff Changing Room (Male) LIME TREE THEATRE T0.02 - Meeting Room Toilets (Disabled) • A 510 seat purpose built theatre T0.03 - SU Kitchen Balcony T0.04 - T0.08 - SU Offices Kitchenette T0.11 - Bank AV Room T0.12 - An Siopa Cleaning Store Level 1: Weights Room Reception Sports Office T1.01 Simulated Classroom PE Office T1.04 Classroom Ground Floor: T1.05 Classroom TN2 Teaching Gym T1.06 Classroom Toilets (Disabled) T1.07 Classroom Store Room T1.08 Chaplaincy Hospitality Room Equipment Store T1.09 Classroom Toilets (Disabled) T1.11 Meeting Room TN3 Sports Hall T1.13B Lime Tree Theatre Green Room TN3 Store Room
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To Limerick Cathedral Street To Dublin
Main Entrance
P Thurles Campus MAP
River Suir River
MIC, St Patrick's Campus, Thurles Residential Entrance Tennis Court
Library Ball Entrance Alley
Sports Field
MIC, ST PATRICK’S P104 – P129 Offices CAMPUS, THURLES P130 Staff Room Ground Floor M102 Croke Library PG1 Chapel M101 Lecture Room PG2 Sacristy Residential Block PG3 Lecture Room Second Floor PG4 Conference Room P201, P202 Lecture Rooms PG5 Entrance Hall P203/P204 Tutorial Rooms PG6 Reception Office P205 Storage PG7, PG8 Lecture Room P206 Teanglann PG9 Canteen P207 SU RG4, RG5 Stage & Main Hall P208 - P209 MG1 Lecture Rooms P210 SU Office MG2 Kitchens P211 Students’ Union First Floor P226 Computer Room P101 Lecture Room P227 Print Room P102, P103 Micro-teaching M201 Library Residential Block
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