AC4001 - PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING Syllabus: The module will consider the theory and statement of comprehensive income, statement of ECTS Credits: 6 practice of selected international accounting standards financial position and statement of cash flow. and issues. Focus will be on the preparation and -> The preparation of partnership accounts (including Accounting & Finance reporting of information to external users of financial partners' capital accounts, changes in profit sharing information, especially, but not exclusively, equity ratios and the distribution of profits and losses). Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is investors. The international accounting standards and -> Introduction to company accounts. designed to introduce the student to the fundamental issues are examined in light of their historical concepts and practices of financial accounting. It treats development and discussions will not be solely around ------accounting as the manifestation of various social and the actual content but what the regulations ought to be political pressures and thus considers it in its social or might be. The module will cover the International AC4305 - FINANCIAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS context. By learning how to measure financial Financial Reporting Standards. ECTS Credits: 6 performance and financial position, the student will appreciate accounting as forming the basis for financial ------Accounting & Finance decision-making. AC4213 - FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of Syllabus: This module introduces the student to the ECTS Credits: 6 the module is to increase students' awareness of the fundamental concepts and practices of financial information content of financial data and financial accounting. Accounting is presented as a manifestation Accounting & Finance reports. The module considers the role and impact of of various social and political pressures, which required accounting information in modern society within a variety that techniques be developed to account for trading and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of of contexts. The module will enable students to critically wealth. The topics covered include accounting in its the module is to equip students with an understanding of analyse and interpret financial information in order to political, regulatory, historical, social, economic, the context of financial accounting in the business improve their decision-making capabilities. corporate governance and international contexts; environment, and to provide fundamental accounting introduction to the theoretical, conceptual and regulatory capabilities. Syllabus: The nature of accounting information and its frameworks of accounting; traditional accounting model; role in financial and other markets capital, income and profit and measurement; principles This module will be offered on the programme Higher The regulatory framework of accounting information and of double entry bookkeeping; books of prime entry, Diploma in Accounting (title to be changed to the needs of users ledgers, trial balance, internal controls, use of computers Professional Diploma in Accounting) The conceptual framework of accounting information: in recording and control of data, construction of final recognition and measurement issues, fair value accounts for sole traders, partnerships and limited Syllabus: The purpose of the module is to equip Theories of financial analysis including efficient market companies; accruals, prepayments and adjustments; students with a high knowledge of financial accounting in hypothesis depreciation and stocks; distribution of profits; profit and the business environment. Students will obtain an Corporate governance: shareholder value and loss accounts and balance sheets, cash flow statements; understanding of fundamental accounting capabilities stakeholder theory perspectives including the nature, purpose, scope and framework of auditing. The through teamwork, group discussions and assignments. Anglo-American and European models ability of accounting to provide public accountability The syllabus covers the following areas: Preparation of financial statements: income statement forms the basis for integrating ethics into the subject -> Basic accounting principles/definitions, fundamental and balance sheet matter. concepts and valuation bases. Analysis of financial statements: ratio analysis, uses and -> The regulatory framework of accounting including the limitations, accounting information as an aid to Prerequisites: none role and objectives of the International Accounting decision-making Standards Board; the purpose of accounting standards Creative accounting: off-balance sheet financing, ------and the standard-setting process. revenue recognition, fraud, the role of ethics and -> The accountant's role in the preparation and reporting whistleblowing AC4007 - ADVANCED FINANCIAL REPORTING process (including possible ethical issues that may arise Corporate social responsibility: environmental ECTS Credits: 6 and the need for a professional and responsible approach accounting, sustainability, narrative reporting and the to their actions and decisions at work). green agenda Accounting & Finance -> Books of prime entry and the nominal ledger International accounting issues and developments: (including the principles of double-entry accounting and harmonisation and convergence, global reporting needs Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this the recording of transactions resulting in income, module is to develop a student's understanding of the expenses, assets, liabilities and equity). Prerequisites: AC4001 theory and practice of selected international accounting -> Control accounts and the trial balance (including standards. It encourages the student to critically identifying and correcting errors in accounting records ------evaluate selected accounting standards in light of their and financial statements; preparing Cash book and bank historical development and regulatory context. reconciliations). -> The preparation of sole trader accounts including a AC4417 - MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 1 an open and supportive learning environment. ECTS Credits: 6 Each project also introduces a new programmatic theme The module supports the work of students in translating so that students understand and become conversant with Accounting & Finance their study of their own practice into a portfolio of work the many fields of operation of an architect. Themes reflecting their development and achievements in the include space and light explorations through model Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This modules programme making, understanding the process of abstraction and provides students with an in-depth understanding of the transformation through model making/two dimensional role and purposes of management accounting in the Syllabus: Personal Portfolio Development, Constructing work, building full scale structures in timber to explore management process. It deals with the applications and a portfolio of experiences in projects using a combination architectural concepts such as scale, framing, section systems of management accounting that serve the of different digital fabrication technologies. and thresholds, developing observational skills through information needs of contemporary organisations. It aims sketching on site, learning how to make a site plan by to give students an appreciation of the frontiers of Use a combination of general and specialist knowledge developing a pattern of occupation on an open site, management accounting and the associated theoretical and understanding the use of existing and emerging learning how to develop a building design grounded in and empirical research activity. digital fabrication technologies. this context.

Syllabus: Objectives, scope and framework of Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to Studio work is organised so that close contact is management accounting; role and purpose of the analysis, design and fabrication of solutions based on maintained with the student. Work is analysed and management accounting; management accounting and digital fabrication technologies. discussed with the student on an individual basis and the business environment; ethical guidelines and within the group. The student is taught to recognise the challenges; cost terminology, concepts and classification; Use effective communication and interpersonal skills. design process and to value and catalogue their own cost accumulation for inventory valuation and profit work. As the year progresses the student is encouraged measurement; cost behaviour and analysis; ------to become increasingly responsible for organising and cost-volume-profit relationships; cost-estimation developing their own work process. methods; learning curve and non-linear cost functions; AR4001 - DESIGN STUDIO 1A cost systems and design choices; job costing; ECTS Credits: 15 The studio is co-ordinated with the content of parallel activity-based costing and management; inventory course modules and integration between studio work and costing and capacity analysis; variable versus absorption School of Design course module work is a vital and innovative component costing debate; information for planning and control; of the studio structure. management control systems; organisational and social Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of aspects of management accounting; responsibility First year Design Studio is to enable the student to ------accounting and the master budget; kaizen budgeting; become an active participant in the architectural design activity-based budgeting; flexible budgets; standard process. The field of architecture is broad and the AR4005 - DESIGN STUDIO 3A costing and variance analysis. methodologies used to work within it varied. In addition, ECTS Credits: 15 architecture interacts closely with a number of related ------disciplines. School of Design

AR2001 - FAB LEARNING PORTFOLIO First year Design Studio exposes the student to the types Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The principal ECTS Credits: 12 of thinking and acting inherent in this process with the aim of Third-Year Design Studio is to enable the student objective of helping the student become conversant with to demonstrate a first synthesis of the disparate School of Design the process and capable of developing initial architectural influences that go to make up an architectural project projects. using the range of skills and tools an architect is required Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The central to use. The emphasis in the first term is on developing a objective of this module is to promote both the thoroughly researched design proposal and to produce a understanding and development of a range of skills on set of competent design documents. digital fabrication in different design areas, adding value Syllabus: Design Studio is the backbone of study in to the corporate environment and to their careers. Architecture. Study is organised around design problems Syllabus: An agenda will be set in Design Studio. The or projects, a number of which are given each term. basis for all propositions will have stated intent relative The module aims to inform and facilitate the to societal ideas of place, collectivity and socio economic development of specific skills, which will be utilised in the By working through the project, the student will become (or political) meaning. The architectural project brief will workplace, through the application of theory encountered exposed to the architectural design process, a new and have inherent complexity, embodying personal space throughout the programme. complex process for most first year students. Each together with public space. project introduces a different aspect of the architectural Through the detailed study of architectural references, a This module also aims to provide an opportunity for design process in order to help the student develop a concept of `now relative to the past history of societal students to reflect on the development these key skills in range of methods of working. and architectural ideas will inform each students proposition since both will be researched and presented the understanding of a number of useful structural (b)* Materials used in structural design and their in parallel. The material realisation of these social and concepts using experiment, intuition and formal learning. relevant components cultural concepts is capable of conveying meaning in a Give students a strong conceptual and formal grasp of (c) Failure modes in slab, trusses, beams, shells and contribution that the strictly functional provision of these concepts, that are applicable to actual conditions. membranes. buildings does not make. The architectural proposition will move through a series Syllabus: Lectures, Experiments in the following Prerequisites: AR4012 of studies where the student is taught to use different concepts: scales, modes of operation and reference points. The ------emphasis will be on the mastery of investigative skills One Equation: Gravity + Reaction = Equilibrium (stable, through a range of media on an ongoing basis. unstable, neutral). AR4015 - GRAVITY AND REACTION 5 Co-Ordinate Systems ECTS Credits: 3 Prerequisites: AR4004 What does 3D space mean? What is gravity? Einsteins view: Newtons view: School of Design ------Effects of gravity have been described yet what is it? How does it act over distance? Gravity waves never Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In depth AR4007 - DESIGN STUDIO 4A detected. study of Load Path, in depth study of structural form, ECTS Credits: 18 Friction particularly as it relates to specific material properties. If force causes a change in velocity why is it so hard to Learning through the analysis of structural models using School of Design push start a heavy timber crate? Why cannot a small experiment, project work and formal learning. Give child push start the crate? students a strong conceptual and formal grasp of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In order to Components of a Vector materials used in structural design, which are applicable facilitate more extensive and, at the same time, more A force can act on a body without changing its speed of to actual conditions. focused design projects and adequately comprehensive motion; only its direction of motion; planetary motion. thesis projects, credits awarded to Design Studio 4a and Tension & Compression , Buckling of Compression Syllabus: Continued Introduction to structural concepts. 4b increase to 18 credits while the number of parallel Members, Moments Topics covered will be portal frames, crane structure; RC modules is reduced Equilibrium: How does an even see-saw balance? beam design; timber truss design in qualitative process; Neutral / unstable equilibrium. How does an uneven shells, membranes. Introduction to materials used in Syllabus: In Y4 students start a personal pursuit; they see-saw balance. The gravity forces are different. structural design; concrete, reinforced concrete; timber; must - through their design projects and their research Components of a force, Internal Forces, Beams: laminated timber; glulaminated timber; steel; models to work - relate to the world of architecture in their own Members that Bend, Stiffness, Materials, Connections describe failure modes in structures. personal way. Students are expected and asked to voice Students will research: their position in architecture, to find their direction ------(a) Materials in the studio and in a site context. through architectural design. Students develop a method (b) Materials used in structural design and their relevant of research and allocate significant time to the research AR4013 - GRAVITY AND REACTION 3 components part of the curriculum. The architectural project is tightly ECTS Credits: 3 (c) Design and build in model form a simple bridge with allied to construction and the physicality of building; calculated design loads and span. construction technology is an important part of the years School of Design work. Prerequisites: AR4014 A research led project in the autumn semester opens the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Give students expanse of architectural intelligence into circumscribed an understanding of structural models using experiment, ------cultural and environmental fields. Students develop a project work and formal learning. Give students a fluency in the means of making of and thinking through strong conceptual and formal grasp of materials used in AR4021 - REPRESENTATION / DRAWING 1 things in terms of structure, technology, and structural design, which are applicable to actual ECTS Credits: 3 environment to the point where they can rise above the conditions. practicalities and conceptualise as well. School of Design Syllabus: Continued Introduction to structural concepts. ------Topics covered will be portal frames, crane structure; RC To establish drawing as a tool of observation, a tool of beam design; timber truss design in qualitative process; thinking and a tool of representation, this course is AR4011 - GRAVITY AND REACTION 1 shells, membranes. Introduction to materials used in composed of two different types of drawing exercises: ECTS Credits: 3 structural design; concrete, reinforced concrete; timber; laminated timber; glulam; steel; models to describe Studio based exercises with weekly changing subjects School of Design failure modes in structures. introducing key aspects of architectural vocabulary (light Students will research: and space, site, human scale, skin and comfort, flows Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Give students (a)* Materials in the studio and in a site context. and organisation, vision and architecture). Short introducing lectures are followed by a drawing or AR4025 - REPRESENTATION / DRAWING 5 Objectifying and describing a site is typically difficult for sketching exercise, and, in the next step by a model ECTS Credits: 3 beginning, or even advanced students, and yet is a skill making exercise, where the drawings from the exercise all architects must master. Site is the precondition for have to be interpreted and transformed into the 3rd School of Design construction and the link between architecture and the dimension. Contents of both exercises as well as the world. With forms of human habitation rapidly changing chosen format, materials and techniques are directly Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In this module due to urbanization, site becomes a more important related to the particular subject. As subject matter, students are introduced to the computer and related consideration every day. each session will be organized around a specific theme modes of representation, in conjunction with continuing Seminars will address Fields, Territories, Surveys, Flows, from art, photography, film, dance, architecture studies in hand drawing. Switching between virtual and and Contexts, surveying both historical and analogue modes of representation, e.g. models, contemporary material to challenge students. As an Exercises in architectural drawing in a conventional drawings, digital photography, photoshop, illustrator, introduction to architecture as an expanded field, sense, line drawings of floor plans, sections and details in and other graphics programmes will be explored as tools students will encounter disciplines such as politics, pencil, are introduced within an extensive lecture, then of transformation and spatial, logical, and structural geology, philosophy, infrastructural engineering, land elaborated by the students as far as possible exploration. art, archaeology, and landscape architecture. Buildings self-dependently and later on reviewed. will illustrate responses to the topics and students will Syllabus: Widening the pallet of modes of encounter a selection of the most significant works in In both parts of the course curriculum hand drawing with representation that the student must master, drawing is modern and contemporary architecture. Projects pencil is emphasized in order to develop within the taught as a tool of observation, a tool of thinking and a discussed include Haussmanns Boulevards, the Paris students a sensitivity to the medium. Exercises are on tool of representation, this course consists of three Opera, Miess Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, the Villa opaque white paper so as to prevent tracing and use of different types of drawing exercises: Savoye, the Barcelona Pavilion, the Bauhaus, Archigrams construction aids. Moving actively between analogue and digital modes of Instant City , Superstudios Continuous Monument, representation, students will develop their ideas between Herzog and de Meurons Signal Box Auf dem Wolf, and ------media, exploiting the most powerful aspects of each in the Sendai Mediatheque. Readings by authors such as terms of their design. Students will develop in parallel Rem Koolhaas, Colin Rowe, Michel Foucault, St. Brendan, AR4023 - REPRESENTATION / DRAWING 3 their hand drawings skills. Guy Debord, John McPhee, John Stilgoe, Robert ECTS Credits: 3 Smithson, and Georg Simmel will challenge students with the diverse ways by which we can describe sites. School of Design We will visit three nearby sites first-hand in order to Prerequisites: AR4024 learn how to discuss them. Afternoon writing workshops Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In this module will focus on describing these sites. students hone skills in drawing through practising, and ------form an understanding through application. AR4031 - HISTORY AND THEORY OF Syllabus: To establish drawing as a tool of observation, ARCHITECTURE 1 ------a tool of thinking and a tool of representation, this ECTS Credits: 3 course consists of three different types of drawing AR4033 - HISTORY AND THEORY OF exercises: School of Design ARCHITECTURE 3 Surveying using the sketchbook, pencil and the body to ECTS Credits: 3 observe and record buildings, proportions, scale, and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The first year distances of objects. program in History-Theory aims to expand students School of Design Surveying using careful notation of dimensions through horizons of knowledge about architecture while teaching careful observation, and detailed measuring using a tape foundational skills in reading and writing in the discipline. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The second measure and triangulation. Even though students at the School of Architecture are year program in Architectural Research provides students Drawing, with pencil, the results of the survey carefully expected to be highly literate and articulate, entering with a comprehensive survey of the history of bringing all information to the same level of detail and into a new fieldùsuch as architectureùis a difficult architecture and urbanism. Students will continue to consistency on a well organised composed drawn intellectual transition to make. Students will need to hone the specific cognitive skills required to address the document. develop specific cognitive skills to address the new field, deepening their knowledge of the local and global territories they will have to map. The first year program built domain while reading, writing, and researching sets out to help students attain a basic literacy in the architecture. The goal is to provide students with a discipline while introducing a selection of the monuments basic knowledge and understanding of architecture and Prerequisites: AR4022 of modern architecture together with contemporary ways urban design in the period between circa 1851 and 1980. of thinking about the field. In addition, the course is designed to teach students how ------to critically analyze and evaluate built projects from a Syllabus: The theme for the fall workshop is Site. variety of perspectives, and how to communicate these ideas in spoken and written form. day while introducing them to the role that materials and technologly have in architecture. ------Syllabus: The first part of the course deals with ways of looking at the history of land and society; people, time, AR4043 - ASSEMBLY AND TECHNIQUES 3 place (methodological with material from the ECTS Credits: 3 Mediterranean, Ireland and Limerick). It will include Syllabus: Through lectures, discussion seminars, and several Case Studies: Irish building land 1600-2000 writing the course will survey the relationship between School of Design (ownership, tenure, land reform, rural and urban architecture, materials, and technology from prehistory populations), building the city; Limerick 1200-2000 to the present day. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aims of (racial, social and religious segregation over time), and this class are: deal with the shape of the city: (Medieval, Renaissance, Starting with the classical Greek and Roman periods, into 1. to explain clearly and simply the basic principles of Baroque and Industrial ideals of the city, with emphasis the present day ôSilicon Age,ö both society and construction. on land use in relation to buildings and spaces between architecture have been profoundly influenced by 2. to show how much architectural expression depends buildings, building land in Ireland today; not about the materials and technology. This course will be composed on its constructional composition. Special attention will law but about trends, patterns, densities. of a research and readings on the period by experts in be will be paid to constructional aspects which imbue the history of science and technology, Irish history, meaning and in this aspect it differs from the albeit The second part of the course is a contemporary structural engineering, materials science, structures, and relevant but exclusively technology-focused literature. theoretical survey of key theoretical aspects of modern the history of architecture. Students will complete their 3. to introduce students to the importance of architecture that exposes students to the monuments of own directed research projects on a particular work of representing clear, legible and organised ideas to others the modern movement. The course focuses on the body architcture, and encounter the work directly, making in the construction industry. in modernism, e. g. the body in an emergent consumer observations from experience with the physical object. environment and visual culture (Joseph Paxtons Crystal Syllabus: Principles of assembly of buildings will be Palace, the department stores, the arcades), as an agent studied beginning through a raw material and a of production and instrument of sensation (William particular building typology. The focus will be on Morris, Art Nouveau, the Secessionstil), in motion (Frank Prerequisites: AR4034 concrete, timber and steel construction. Practical Lloyd Wright, the Werkbund, Futurism, de Stijl), in a reflections will be presented next to theoretical ones. culture of hygiene (Tony Garnier, Le Corbusiers ------Sober detail drawings will be introduced alongside urbanism, the Suburb), at home and in exhibition (the thoughtful reflections. Basic construction concepts will be International Style, the Schindler House, the Eames AR4041 - ASSEMBLY AND TECHNIQUES 1 presented next to specific descriptions of construction House, the Farnsworth House, Johnsons Glass House), ECTS Credits: 3 processes. and nomadic (Team X, Kurokawa, the Smithsons House DRAWING EXERCISE: Each exercise will involve of the Future, Archigram). School of Design disseminating the required information the previous week. A short introduction will precede each exercise. Prerequisites: AR4032 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Introduction to LECTURE COURSE: A weekly lecture as well as visiting Principles of Construction. guest tutors will introduce students to properties of ------Introduction to Construction Industry materials, covering descriptions of manufacturing methods, assembly and product ranges of the most AR4035 - HISTORY AND THEORY OF Syllabus: This course will introduce basic constructional important modern building materials. ARCHITECTURE 5 principals through the detailed study of elements of DIARY OF A BUILDING: Students will be asked to keep a ECTS Credits: 3 simpler constructional technology. This technology is diary of progress on each site that will involve sketches, considered from the point of view of design intent, logic notes and photographs. Each group will be asked to School of Design of assembly and the quality of the resulting present their findings to the class at the end of the year. climate/environment. CASE STUDY: A building precedent will be presented to Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The third year The course will further challenge the students to analyse each student under the headings of concept, process and program in Architectural Research continues the the built environment they are familiar with under these system. comprehensive survey of the history of architecture and themes. The suitability of various forms of construction urbanism in the programme curriculum. This module to different design ambitions will be considered with exposes students to the relationship of architecture to particular emphasis put on developing an understanding Prerequisites: AR4042 technology and materials, both naturally occurring and of the size and dimensions of various constructional those produced by man both in Ireland and globally. systems. The course is intended as a foundation course ------in itself as well as anticipating the information required in The goal for the course is to give students a broad the design studio. The course is seminar based with an introduction to architecture throughout the ages, from individual student research component. the classical Greek and Roman periods to the present AR4045 - ASSEMBLY AND TECHNIQUES 4 future of human society on our planet. Architects as the - waste sorting system ECTS Credits: 3 designer for the built environment have a key position in this approach. Therefore a basic understanding of the School of Design physical backgrounds and interconnections is necessary. Prerequisites: AR4052 This lecture content spans from global to local and micro Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aims of climate, to energy and its different forms and sources ------this class are: towards materials and their properties. Parallel and a. to introduce students to the initial studies required to interconnected to the teaching of design basics like AR4056 - ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND FORCES later generate a comprehensive set of working drawings space, light, boundaries students will learn the physical 5 of a third year design studio project. backgrounds and properties by handling and personal ECTS Credits: 3 b. to develop further the students own intuitive skills in experiences. ôBurning your finger at a hot stainless steel technique alongside knowledge of available construction surface while missing the heat radiation û and School of Design technology today. understand why this happened - is a much deeper c. to develop the students capacity to interrogate and experience, than just calculating heat conductivity on a Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Sustainable develop design decisions through construction principles piece of paper.ö development is a base for the future of human society on our planet. Therefore a basic understanding of the Syllabus: Developed principles of assembly and ------physical backgrounds and interconnections is necessary. techniques will be further studied concurrently with the This modules content spans from global to local and production of a full set of working drawings. AR4053 - ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND FORCES micro-climate, to energy and its different forms and 3 sources towards materials and their properties. DRAWING EXERCISE: Each weekly exercise will ECTS Credits: 3 concentrate on developing one technical aspect of a Syllabus: Understanding precisely how the performance building. The culmination of the term will be that each School of Design of an integrated and unrelated set of elements will student would have completed a comprehensive set of perform in a specific environment comes through working drawings. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Advanced simulation, modelling and analysis. Both analogue and understanding of physical backgrounds and digital means of simulation will be taught. Daylight LECTURE COURSE: A weekly lecture will introduce interconnections for sustainable development, and the modelling, building fabric U-value calculations, students to developed construction principles, systems integration of environmental principles into architectural air-tightness, and CFD modelling of buildings are some and methods. Students will be asked to choose a works. Emphasis will be placed on the study of material examples of the types of essential simulation during the construction system/method at the start of the year. properties. Particular attention will be paid to integration design process. The emphasis of the course is on the Each student will complete a short dissertation on the of environmental principles into design studio work. acquiring analytical techniques and skills required to chosen topic for the end of the module. Specific material properties will be studied, and evaluate the environmental performance of a set of modelled. elements under a specific condition. DIARY OF A BUILDING: Students will be assigned a building of appropriate complexity at the start of the Syllabus: Sustainable development is a base for the Building on observation, analysis and design, students year. Fortnightly supervised visits will be made to the future of human society on our planet. Architects as the will develop skills for critical inquiry into the nature of building site. designer for the built environment have a key position in architectural design and how it engages with the this approach. Lectures on details of Environmental concepts of site, place and comfort. The idea of system and forces such as `boundary conditions will be developed in the context of Prerequisites: AR4043 - integrated design of case studies an integrated understanding of structure + environment - process integration + materials. ------acoustical, visual and thermal comfort - building physical basics The following subjects will be covered: AR4051 - ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND FORCES - heat losses and energy balance Day-lighting and artificial lighting design in relation to a 1 large-scale physical model ECTS Credits: 3 Research project on the modern building in respect of Thermal energy losses and gains through envelope environmental systems Performance of a building in relation to air movement School of Design inside and outside (applied CFD modelling tools) Realisation of group project of Autumn Semester, Yr 2 as Material selection and embodied energy considerations Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Basic physical manifestations Energy/Water/Waste systems integration/design understanding of physical backgrounds and - daylight model of studio space interconnections for a sustainable development - solar simulator Prerequisites: AR4054 - weather station Syllabus: Sustainable development is a base for the - indoor comfort station ------and clearly structured curriculum in construction design Construction expands the scope of students AR4073 - DESIGN STUDIO 2A to induce a more innovative and imaginary approach to competencies in building technologies and construction ECTS Credits: 15 materials and details. In order to ensure the expected beyond traditional methods and their related familiar high level of competency in advanced building scale. In the final year, students engage in a tested School of Design construction (at an industrial scale and with respect to dialogue with concerns of design, structure, contemporary and innovative technologies) SAUL environment, history and theory, representation, digital Phase I Using mapping as a vehicle for speculative introduces a set of Advanced Construction modules media, and other related areas and interests. architectural analysis, students will map one defined throughout Y4 and Y5 in close relation to and in support Staff and student undertake in-depth research into aspect of a particular place as ground, infrastructure, of the Design Studio projects specialist areas of technology. Case studies focus is on climate and occupation of space. Through mapping, an integration of structural and environmental systems in students will confront their first analysis with more Syllabus: Architecture students learn best by imagining, response to specific conditions that require complex skills specific information: climate, ground, geology, built developing and realising (fullscale) prototype structures in analysis and/or design. The students are expected to structures, growing structures, water treatment and through which ideas can be tested, documented and apply findings from directed and independent research flows, infrastructural networks, historic traces, land use communicated. Through actual engagement in all the on advanced construction technologies to develop each and occupation of space. It is about identification of stages of making and building, students have a unique students thesis proposal individually. specifics through drawing, registering, measuring, opportunity to develop a rich phenomenal understanding timing, investigating; observe on site at several of architecture. Closely related to Design Studio, ------occasions and document, explain conditions, situations, Advanced Construction informs and supports the make drawings, diagrams and sketches to explain students individual design studio projects; directed and AR4367 - Digital Technology conditions independent research on advanced construction is ECTS Credits: 6 applied to these projects. Phase II Explore settings for physical activity and for the School of Design interconnection that happens between spectator and After revisiting traditional and conventional (vernacular) sport and between land and the body. Cultural and forms of building taxonomy and production techniques in Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Students are technical characteristics of sport must be integrated into a range of materials (stone, concrete, metal, timber, offered the opportunity to tailor their education to a the land in a way, which will change it consciously. fabric and polymers) staff and students engage more larger degree in fourth and fifth year, with the invitation Students first make a first landscape urban proposition advanced means of fabrication (including milling, folding, to make choices of modules beside the core Design (MODEL) plus make a set of drawings showing laminating, sewing, stacking, interlocking, hanging, Studio and adjacent modules. The introduction of dimensional sizes for activities include heights PLANS, injection moulding, compositing, extrusion, weaving and architecture electives is intended to provide a flexible SECTIONS, bundling). Spatially and programmatically this will entail framework to accommodate the diverse field of interests Make a set of investigations of three different structures various degrees of articulation from the standardised, and (shortterm) research projects within architecture, and how they work with the land. lowtech component to the highly articulated formal and to allow students to pursue their own personal Development Synthesis Two: Choreography, colour, element, avoiding selfsimilar repetition in favour of the interests within architecture. Smaller classes allow for light, material, crowd versus the individual delineation, diversity of the composite. in-depth interrogation of the subject at an advanced studies level. Development Draw Up and review MODEL ------The elective modules have been conceived and created The design studio is co-ordinated with the content of AR4319 - Advanced Construction 3 to give venue to research, to permit the students parallel course modules and integration between studio ECTS Credits: 3 particular (and varying) interests to diversify and work and course module work is a vital and innovative develop - apart from the Design Studio. This is markedly component of the studio structure. School of Design different from the lower three years of the course, where integration is the focus of the course, coordination Rationale and Purpose of the Module: An extended between modules and Design Studio is essential, and and clearly structured curriculum in construction design particular student interests are less relevant than Prerequisites: AR4002 to induce a more innovative and imaginary approach to developing competence as an architect. Therefore the materials and details. In order to ensure the expected content of the elective modules cannot be specifically ------high level of competency in advanced building related to the Design Studio this is to allow the student construction (at an industrial scale and with respect to the space to start making their own decisions and setting AR4317 - Advanced Construction 1 contemporary and innovative technologies) SAUL their own direction. ECTS Credits: 3 introduces a set of Advanced Construction modules throughout Y4 and Y5 in close relation to and in support Syllabus: Architecture electives provide a flexible School of Design of the Design Studio projects. framework to accommodate (short-term) research projects on a wide spectrum of issues, and to allow Rationale and Purpose of the Module: An extended Syllabus: The series of modules in Advanced students to pursue their own personal interests within architecture. Focusing on case studies, the elective with the aim of enabling students to adapt better to their 1 x 12 hour Training (Weeks 3-8) module will be delivered through a programme of new learning environment. The University's strategic - Weeks 3&4: Academic Reading Skills lectures, workshops and applied technology laboratories. goal is to increase the number of International students - Weeks 5&6: Presenting Skills The subject matter can change depending on the interest coming to UL and the number of UL students who have - Weeks 7&8: Introduction to the Research Project and availability of academic staff. an overseas experience as part of their degree. With an increase in international students comes a new set of ------This elective provides the theoretical framework, tool challenges such as different educational structures, expertise and technical skills required to analyse, teaching and learning styles, as well as social and BC4803 - MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY 1A understand and represent three-dimensional complex cultural differences. ECTS Credits: 6 forms (curves, surfaces and volumes) using digital tools. This module is intended to assist international students NURBS-based modelling tools and physically correct undertaking PG Programmes with the aim of enabling Chemical Sciences rendering tools are taught and applied in the process, students to adapt better to their new learning specifically Rhino and Maxwell Render. The course will environment. In order to ensure that the transition Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce also present a number of techniques for sketching from their home system to UL is as smooth as possible students to the fundamentals of microbiology. To complex surfaces using pencil. The course also analyses and the student's maximum academic and social develop skills in handling and manipulating prototyping and fabrication processes related to these potential is met, this module aims to: micro-organisms. To illustrate the role of microbiology complex forms, and students will study outstanding • Equip International students with the practical in the environment. references of their application in contemporary design. skills necessary to succeed in UL • Enable International students to become critical Syllabus: The scope of microbiology The prokaryotic and ------thinkers and researchers eukaryotic micro-organisms. Composition of the • Equip International students with the written and prokaryotic cell components. Taxonomy in Microbiology: AS2391 - MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AND CAD oral communication skills necessary to participate naming, classifying and identification of ECTS Credits: 6 effectively in the academic community micro-organisms. Microbial Nutrition: growth, habitats, • Encourage students to become microbial activity, enumeration, enrichment selection and School of Engineering autonomous/independent learners isolation. Control of microorganisms: physical and • Enhance the learning experience of students chemical control agents. Microbial ecology: Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Introduce bioremediation and biogeochemical cycling. Microbial students to engineering principles and techniques prior Syllabus: There are many challenges facing interactions. to them starting an undergraduate engineering International students (culture shock, language shock programme. and academic shock), and this module offers strategies Prerequisites: BY4001 for managing this experience and for providing a rich and Syllabus: * Understanding the role of a measurement engaging learning environment for such students. This ------and calibration system in engineering. module will raise students' awareness of the academic * Understand the basic techniques used in joining support systems, cultures, and protocols within UL; BC4825 - MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY 2 components/materials. provide students with information sourcing and ECTS Credits: 6

* Understand the principles of machining. management skills; and provide students with strategies Chemical Sciences * Acquire a basic understanding of a CAD package and for successful integration and learning in UL. This module principles of engineering drawing. will also offer practice in skills such as academic reading Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To build on the (reading methods; reading abstracts; fact versus fundamental concepts of microbiology. To develop skills ------opinion; critical thinking; assessing internet sources in manipulating and identification of micro-organisms. critically), writing (the planning process; analysing titles; To develop an understanding of metabolic pathways. AW6001 - ACADEMIC LITERACIES FOR brainstorming; outlining) and presenting (learning and Understanding basic concepts in microbiology for the INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS 1 practising how to write an outline of a project development of diagnostic kits. To illustrate the role of ECTS Credits: 3 presentation; learning how to give an oral presentation microbiology in the clinical and food environment. of a research paper by using PowerPoint (or other Understand viruses and their life cycles. School of Modern Languages and Applied software).

Linguistics Proposed Content: Syllabus: Principles of metabolism: the major pathways, 1 x 12 hour Pre-Sessional Block Glycolysis, Embden Mayerhoff and Pentose Phosphate Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is - Session 1: Academic Support Systems and Cultures Pathways, Electron transport and Chemosmosis. intended to replace EF6001, which provides language - Session 2: Information Sourcing Traditional and novel fermentation processes. Systematic support at Proficiency Level for students on the MA - Session 3: Information Management (taxonomy) microbiology. Clinical microbiology: use of TESOL programme whose L1 is not English. This - Session 4: Academic Protocols (Plagiarism) chemotherapeutic agents and susceptibility testing. modification requires broadening EF6001 to offer support - Session 5: How to Become a Successful Learner to all international students undertaking PG programmes Developments in microbial diagnostic kits for clinical and industrial/food applications. Viruses: general To prepare the students for careers in the Prerequisites: BC4904, BC4905 characteristics. biotechnological/biopharmaceutical/etc industries ------Prerequisites: BC4803, BY4001 Syllabus: DNA structure, transcription, translation; BR4103 - AUTUMN PRACTICUM (AHSS - 6 ------Gene structure function and control. Molecular CREDITS) techniques to manipulate DNA, restriction enzymes and ECTS Credits: 6 BC4903 - BIOMOLECULES other DNA modifying enzymes; DNA transfer methods; ECTS Credits: 6 polymerase chain reaction; cDNA and genomic cloning; Politics and Public Admin cloning and expression vectors; selection and screening Chemical Sciences methods; phenotypic Vs genotypic screening; Northern, ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY Southern and Western blotting; heterologous protein Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To impart an expression; cloning in plants and animals; introduction to AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN understanding of the structure, properties and bioinformatics - databases and genome analysis; gene PROGRESS biochemical function of the major groups of biological therapy; transgenic animals; ethics of genetic molecules found in living organisms, along with selected engineering. Nucleic acid diagnostics: DNA profiling and ------biotechnological applications of such biological molecules. DNA fingerprinting. To impart some basic biochemical laboratory skills, BR4901 - BROADENING: BEGINNERS JAPANESE principally how to detect & quantify selected biomolecule Prerequisites: BC4903, BC4904 ECTS Credits: 6 types. ------School of Modern Languages and Applied Syllabus: The range of biomolecules. Evolution of Linguistics biomolecules. Structure, properties & functions of: BC4957 - BIOINFORMATICS IN GENETIC AND amino acids, peptides & proteins; carbohydrates PROTEIN ANALYSIS Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In line with the including monosaccharides, diasaccharides and ECTS Credits: 6 UL strategy to broaden the curriculum, this module will polysaccharides; fatty acids, energy storage lipids, offer students in a range of different disciplines an structural lipids and ecosanoids; nucleic acids including Chemical Sciences opportunity to engage in learning Japanese. In our DNA, RNA and their building blocks; vitamins. Selected increasingly multicultural and multilingual society, it is biotechnological applications; enzymes, antibodies, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce crucial that students have opportunities to learn about hormones and gene therapy. The production of high students to the uses and applications of modern and appreciate other languages and cultures. To this fructose corn syrup. Bioethanol production. The bioinformatics in elucidation of protein and genetic end, the module aims at developing students' dynamics of life. Overview of metabolism; anabolism information using both theoretical and practical competence in Japanese and is targeted at those who and catabolism. Glycolysis. approaches have not studied Japanese previously. The emphasis is on achieving a basic level of communication in all four ------Syllabus: Overview of bioinformatics. The generation of skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) while DNA sequence data, using sequence analysis, manual developing confidence and a degree of accuracy when BC4905 - GENETIC ENGINEERING and automated DNA sequencing. Gene structure in using the language in a limited range of situations. The ECTS Credits: 6 eukaryotes, archaebacteria and prokaryote. The genome module also aims to stimulate students' interest in Japan projects. Using the web for DNA and Protein analysis. and deepen their knowledge and understanding of Chemical Sciences Accessing bioinformatics databases, EMBL. GENBank and Japanese society and culture. DDJ and the PDB. Searching databases using SRS or Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Query. Searching with a sequence û the Blast tools for Syllabus: This module aims to introduce students to the techniques involved in genetic engineering and to homology searching. Predicting and confirming an ORF, Japanese and gradually develop their ability to function familiarise the students with their theoretical basis and control region identification, intron identification. at beginners' level. Students should develop a basic practical uses Analysis of protein sequences derived from genetic understanding of everyday vocabulary, understand the information. InterProscan, patterns, sites and structure rules of pronunciation and have a basic grasp of the To demonstrate the diverse applications of the within proteins. The concept of motifs and domains. relevant grammar for that level. The module will allow techniques of molecular biology in research and Alignment of sequences using CLUSTAL. Phylogenetic students gain sufficient proficiency in Japanese to: development and quality control in a wide variety of analysis for comparative sequence analysis. Functional • recognize numbers, times, days, dates, where industries prediction. Protein secondary and tertiary structure . things are, greetings and questions; Protein modelling. Swiss PDB viewer as a tools for • speak using greetings, expressions of time, price, To impart core laboratory skills relevant to molecular molecular modelling. Genomics and proteomics tools. number, place, talk about themselves, their likes, biology Microarrays and proteomics databases. dislikes, pastimes and schedules, and ask basic questions; • read words written in the hiragana, katakana and • use a limited range of vocabulary to talk about leave-taking, apologies); kanji writing systems, grasp information from signs, particular concrete situations; • write simple isolated phrases and sentences on posters, notices, self-introductions, and descriptions; • use a small range of ready-made expressions and everyday topics. • write, using the writing systems studied, short phrases related to everyday topics (introductions, passages about themselves, their lives and their leave-taking, apologies); ------pastimes; in particular, passages introducing themselves • write simple isolated phrases and sentences on and their schedules; everyday topics. BR4931 - BROADENING: BEGINNERS SPANISH • be able to read and write using hiragana, ECTS Credits: 6 katakana and about 50 kanji; ------• discuss and analyse aspects of Japanese history, School of Modern Languages and Applied culture and society in English. BR4921 - BROADENING: BEGINNERS GERMAN Linguistics ECTS Credits: 6 ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In line with the School of Modern Languages and Applied UL strategy to broaden the curriculum, this module will BR4911 - BROADENING: BEGINNERS FRENCH Linguistics offer students in a range of different disciplines an ECTS Credits: 6 opportunity to engage in learning Spanish. In our Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In line with the increasingly multicultural and multilingual society, it is School of Modern Languages and Applied UL strategy to broaden the curriculum, this module will crucial that students have opportunities to learn about Linguistics offer students in a range of different disciplines an and appreciate other languages and cultures. To this opportunity to engage in learning German. In our end, the module aims at developing students' Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In line with the increasingly multicultural and multilingual society, it is competence in Spanish and is targeted at those who UL strategy to broaden the curriculum, this module will crucial that students have opportunities to learn about have not studied Spanish previously. The module is offer students in a range of different disciplines an and appreciate other languages and cultures. To this mapped on to the A1 level of the Common European opportunity to engage in learning French. In our end, the module aims at developing students' Framework for Languages where the emphasis is on increasingly multicultural and multilingual society, it is competence in German and is targeted at those who achieving a basic level of communication in all four skills crucial that students have opportunities to learn about have not studied German previously. The module is (listening, speaking, reading and writing). The module and appreciate other languages and cultures. To this mapped on to the A1 level of the Common European also aims to develop confidence and a degree of end, the module aims at developing students' Framework for Languages where the emphasis is on accuracy when using the language in a limited range of competence in French and is targeted at those who have achieving a basic level of communication in all four skills situations. The module will stimulate students' interest not studied French previously. The module is mapped on (listening, speaking, reading and writing), It will also aim in Spain and Latin America and deepen their knowledge to the A1 level of the Common European Framework for at developing confidence and a degree of accuracy when and understanding of Spanish and Latin American society Languages where the emphasis is on achieving a basic using the language in a limited range of situations. The and culture level of communication in all four skills (listening, module also aims to stimulate students' interest in the speaking, reading and writing). It will also aim at German-speaking world and deepen their knowledge and Syllabus: This module aims to introduce students to developing confidence and a degree of accuracy when understanding of German society and culture. Spanish and gradually develop their ability to the level of using the language in a limited range of situations. The A1 as outlined by the Common European Framework for module also aims to stimulate students' interest in the Syllabus: This module aims to introduce students to Languages. Students should develop a basic French-speaking world and deepen their knowledge and German and gradually develop their ability to the level of understanding of everyday vocabulary, understand the understanding of French society and culture. A1 as outlined by the Common European Framework for rules of pronunciation and have a basic grasp of the Languages. Students should develop a basic relevant grammar for that level. The module will allow Syllabus: This module aims to introduce students to understanding of everyday vocabulary, understand the students gain sufficient proficency in Spanish to: French and gradually develop their ability to the level of rules of pronunciation and have a basic grasp of the • manage to pronounce very short, isolated mainly A1 as outlined by the Common European Framework for relevant grammar for that level. The module will allow ready-made expressions; Languages. Students should develop a basic students gain sufficient proficiency in German to: • show a limited control of a few simple grammatical understanding of everyday vocabulary, understand the • manage to pronounce very short, isolated mainly structures; rules of pronunciation and have a basic grasp of the ready-made expressions; • use a very basic repertoire of words related to relevant grammar for that level. The module will allow • show a limited control of a few simple grammatical personal details; students gain sufficient proficiency in French to: structures; • use a limited range of vocabulary to talk about • manage to pronounce very short, isolated mainly • use a very basic repertoire of words related to particular concrete situations; ready-made expressions; personal details; • use a small range of ready-made expressions and • show a limited control of a few simple grammatical • use a limited range of vocabulary to talk about phrases related to everyday topics (introductions, structures; particular concrete situations; leave-taking, apologies); • use a very basic repertoire of words related to • use a small range of ready-made expressions and • write simple isolated phrases and sentences on personal details; phrases related to everyday topics (introductions, everyday topics. ------food chains: succession, environmental concerns. Chordata; Chordate characteristics; Protochordates; Vertebrate classification Agnathans, Gnathostomes, BS4001 - PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL ------Teleostomi, Tetrapods, Amniotes; Biological design size BUSINESS and shape, structural analysis, functional analysis, ECTS Credits: 6 BY4015 - PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ecological analysis; Introduction to animal behaviour and ECTS Credits: 6 the influences of environment on such behaviour; Management and Marketing Comparison of the processes of homeostasis and control Biological Sciences in vertebrate and invertebrate body systems; Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Assessment of the importance of animal diversity to aims to provide students with an understanding of the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce biological sciences and the environment. international dimensions of business. It provides the students to the principles and applications of plant students with a foundation in the theory and practice of physiology. ------businesses operating within a globalised context. The module introduces students to the extensive remit of Syllabus: Plant mineral nutrition, nutrient deficiencies BY4025 - CROP AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE international business activity and to key concepts and fertiliser use. Nitrogen and secondary plant ECTS Credits: 6 concerning companies operating internationally. metabolism. Types and structures of mycorrhizas and their roles in plant nutrition. Saprotrophy, parasitism and Biological Sciences Syllabus: The course will introduce topics concerning carnivory in plants. Water relations in plants. Plant international business while illustrating its scope and hormones, roles and their applications: plants responses, Climate in Ireland, climate and plant growth, agricultural importance. Topics will include the impact of geography, root and shoot growth, tissue differentiation, policy culture and politics on business dealings. Students will photoperiodic responses in plants, photomorphogenesis, Fruits crops, protected crops, horticultural pests, weeds study formal institutions (economic and political) and flowering. Seed dispersal, dormancy and germination. and diseases, integrated crop production. informal factors such as culture, religion, language and Tropisms and plant movement. Applications in Landscape management. ethics. Other topics may include: globalisation; horticulture and agriculture. Plant reproduction and Fertilisers and manures; tillage machinery; cultivation, international trade; corporate social responsibility; global pollination ecology; interactions with animals. management and harvesting of arable crops and root branding; international management strategy. Phytopathology; fungal pathogens of plants and plant crops; farm forestry; energy crops; grassland defence mechanisms, phytoalexins, allelopathy. establishment and management; agriculture and the ------Photosynthesis, C3, C4 and crassullacean. Acid environment. metabolism; photorespiration and plant metabolism. BY4001 - BIOLOGY 1 Plant growth measurement. Biological/ecological ------ECTS Credits: 6 relationships between plants and other organisms. Plants and medicines, ethnobotany. Pedagogical BY4035 - CELLULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY Biological Sciences approaches to teaching plant physiology at second-level ECTS Credits: 6

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Prerequisites: BY4002 Biological Sciences fundamental concepts of biological structure and function. ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a To provide an introductory course in cellular energetics solid understanding and knowledge of fundamental and respiration, photosynthesis, animal physiology, and BY4023 - ANIMAL DIVERSITY biochemical processes which will underpin the ability of microbiology. ECTS Credits: 6 secondary school educators to communicate effectively the central principles of biology. Biological Sciences Syllabus: Introduction to biology, characteristics of life, Syllabus: The course is delivered as a series of lectures scientific methodology, biomolecules, chemistry of the Evolution of animal diversity; Animal architecture; covering the following topics: cell and organism, cell structure and function, membrane Environmental considerations; Invertebrate classification Topic 1 : Carbohydrates structure and function. Cellular energy and metabolism, and relationships - the Protozoans, the Poriferans and Topic 2 : Lipids enzymes and enzyme reactions, cellular respiration; Placozoans, Introduction to the hydrostatic skeleton, the Topic 3 : Amino acids photosynthesis. Introduction to micro-organisms, Cnidarians, the Platyhelminthes, the Nemertines, the Topic 4 :Protein microbiology, prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. Molluscs, the Annelids and Sipunculans, the Arthropods, Topic 5 : Nucleic acids Plant structure and function; transport in plants, the Nematodes, the Echinoderms; An overview of Topic 6 : Enzymes reproduction, seed structure, germination, growth and invertebrate reproduction and development. Topic 7 : Membranes development, plant adaptations. Principles and scope of Topic 8 : Muscles ecology; ecosystems; cycles in nature; energy flows; Comparative vertebrate morphology; Historical Topic 9 : Nerves population and community dynamics; limiting factors; predecessors-evolution; Definition of the phylum Topic 10 : Hormones Topic 11 : Metabolism influence and relationship between various human taken by Equine Science, who transfer to crop and physiological conditions and metabolism of nutrients will grassland instead for grassland): This is supported by a series of laboratory based be considered. Factors in soil formation, soil formation in Ireland, soil practical investigations covering the following areas: profiles and horizons, classification and mapping of Irish Area 1: Analysis of carbohydrates soils, Great soil groups, series and types, Great soil Area 2: Exploring Lipids Syllabus: This module will examine the structure and groups found in Ireland, County soil maps, soils and land Area 3: Behaviour of Amino acids and Proteins function of the major human physiological systems. use. Area 4: Enzymes Physiology of the blood, circulation and lymphatic Functions of compost, compost materials and growth Area 5: Nutrition systems. The nervous system: central, peripheral and substrates, making an organic compost. autonomic. Physiology of skeletal, muscle and Nutrient requirements and deficiencies in horticultural The course is examined through a series of term tests, integumentary systems. The respiratory system: plants & use of artificial and organic fertilisers. practical laboratory write ups, and an end of term exam mechanical properties of breathing, pulmonary and Laboratory: based on multiple choice questions and essay style bronchial circulation, the transport of oxygen and carbon Preparing a compost for seeds and a blocking compost questions. dioxide. The digestive system: the gastro-intestinal tract, Preparing a compost for actively growing plants intake and absorption of nutrients. The renal system: Preparing cuttings composts ------kidney structure and function, osmoregulation and homeostasis, regulation of acid balance. The endocrine BY4045 - CELL BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY system: regulation of calcium and phosphate ------ECTS Credits: 6 metabolism. Reproductive system. Sensory system: perception of taste and aroma. The influence of CE4005 - STRUCTURAL THEORY Biological Sciences physiological conditions on nutrient absorption will be ECTS Credits: 6 considered e.g. inborn errors of metabolism on iron Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a metabolism. The impact of food constituents on School of Engineering solid understanding and knowledge of fundamental physiology will be examined e.g. ingestion of toxins. biochemical processes which will underpin an Plastic analysis, Elastic buckling theory for columns, understanding of nutrition, metabolism and exercise Prerequisites: BY4002, BY4001 effect of end conditions and imperfections. Beams on an physiology. elastic foundation. Static and kinematic indeterminacy, ------internal and external stability. Virtual work theorems, Syllabus: The course is delivered as a series of lectures moment area method, stiffness and flexibility methods, covering the following topics: Carbohydrates; Lipids; BY4215 - SOIL SCIENCE influence coefficients and reciprocal theorems. Amino acids; Protein; Nucleic acids; Enzymes; ECTS Credits: 6 Application of virtual work methods in structural analysis. Membranes; Muscles; Nerves; Hormones; Metabolism Approximate iterative solutions including moment This is supported by a series of laboratory based Biological Sciences distribution, Introduction to structural dynamics. practical investigations covering the following areas: Analysis of carbohydrates; Exploring Lipids; Behaviour of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of ------Amino acids and Proteins; Enzymes; Nutrition. The the module is to educate students about the nature, course is examined through a series of term tests, properties and functions of soils with particular reference CE4007 - WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS practical laboratory write ups, and an end of term exam to soils in Ireland. ECTS Credits: 6 based on multiple choice questions and essay style questions. Syllabus: 1. Introduction: School of Engineering 2. Physical properties of soil: ------Mineral matter, organic matter, water and air in soil, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is structure, structural stability and measurement of these, proposed to enhance the existing water and BY4204 - PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY soil water and water movement, soil air, soil environmental engineering content and to supplement ECTS Credits: 6 temperature. existing modules in the development of the B.E. in Civil 3. Soil chemistry: Engineering. The module seeks to train students in the Biological Sciences Soil colloids, cation exchange, soil pH design and modeling of water distribution and water 4. Soils and plant nutrition: collection systems including hydraulic design of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Nutrient elements, soil testing, availability of elements, treatment plants and will synthesise the principles students to the basic concepts and principles of human soil pH and liming, calcium, magnesium , sulphur and learned in the prerequisite modules. physiology trace elements On completion of the module students will be able to: 5. Soil biology: Syllabus: Context and principles of water management demonstrate a knowledge of the structure and function Soil organisms, soil organic matter, C:N ratio from catchment to consumer; structural and hydraulic of major human physiological systems. Additionally, the 6. Soil genesis and classification (these 5 lectures not components of water distribution systems (reservoirs, pump stations, surge tanks) and water / wastewater Prerequisites: CE4003 CE4025 - TRANSPORT PLANNING AND DESIGN collection systems (manholes, combined sewer ECTS Credits: 6 overflows, siphons, pumping stations, attenuation ------tanks); pipeline construction techniques and their School of Engineering application for specific site and ground conditions; CE4015 - SOIL MECHANICS development and use of simple numerical analysis tools ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module for the design and sensitivity analysis of hydraulic places transport in its wider historical and contemporary systems; analysis and design of water storage and School of Engineering context as a major determinant of sustainable human distribution systems, including flow demand, storage settlement. It addresses current thinking and trends and requirements, flow pressure and control; analysis and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module introduces the main methods of data collection and design of surface / wastewater collection systems, builds on the material covered in WT4014 by further analysis, transport system planning, appraisal, design including assessment of hydraulic loads, network exploring soil mechanics using critical state theory. The and management. capacity, flow velocity, sediment transport, design & course is designed to challenge the student to master the application of hydraulic structures; hydraulic design of key concepts in soil mechanics and apply these concepts Syllabus: History and Contemporary Picture and Trends: treatment plants; hydraulic profiles; long term economic in projects and self-directed learning to achieve the Physical, social, political and economic contexts, and sustainability design and operation of hydraulic following key objectives: sustainable transport and settlement, current policies systems. and trends. Key objectives Data Collection and Analysis: Use of demographic data, ------* To master the concepts of critical state theory. survey design and implementation. * Introduce a simple constitutive soil model û Cam clay. Appraisal and Forecasting: Demand drivers, mode choice CE4014 - HYDRAULICS AND WATER ENGINEERING * To generate enthusiasm for the subject through field and behaviour, an overview of multi-modal macro and ECTS Credits: 6 trips, practical experimentation and case histories. micro modelling, modelling uses and limitations, demand and capacity forecasting, impact assessment. School of Engineering Syllabus: * Basic mechanics Road Design: Road construction details and geometric Stresses, strains; plane, axial symmetry, 2-D and 3-D guidelines, road junction analysis. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module conditions; stress ratio and dilation; slip surfaces; introduces the theory and practice of modern water analysis of stress and strain û Mohrs circle; essentials of ------engineering looking at water in the natural Hydrological material behaviour; Stress-strain behaviour, stiffness cycle and the fundamental concepts in water treatment and strength; Choice of parameters for stress and strain; CE4027 - ADVANCED STRUCTURES technologies and water supply. Constitutive equations; Time & rate effects ECTS Credits: 6

Syllabus: Hydrology: The hydrological cycle; Water * Laboratory testing of soils School of Engineering balance equation; Hydrologic Budgets; Precipitation: Standard tests, purposes and specification; Shear box, intensity, duration & return periods; Surface run-off and triaxial and oedometer tests; Interpretation û OCR. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Module drainage systems; Sustainable urban drainage systems, modified to reflect movement of more advanced topics flow attenuation, * Consolidation from earlier structural engineering modules. This Aquifers; Groundwater flow; Measurement and Basic mechanisms of consolidation and 1-D consolidation facilitates the advanced topics to be explored in greater monitoring of stream flow and groundwater; Hydrograph theory; Solutions and applications for 1-D consolidation; depth in this module. generation run-off, unit, synthetic; Channel Storage; Determination of cv, cc and cs from oedometer tests; Mass diagrams; Routing flood, reservoir & channel. Calculation of foundation settlement Syllabus: Structural scheme design of specialist Water Treatment: Characteristics of water; Water * Critical state strength of soil structures - examples include grandstand, hospital, demand rates and peak flows; Distribution systems and Soil behaviour in shear; Peak, ultimate and residual high-rise, long-span, reservoir, etc. Overall stability of service reservoirs; Physical treatment - screening, strengths; Critical states; Undrained strength; Estimation structural schemes. Preliminary sizing of structural sedimentation; Clarification and settlement; Filtration of critical state strength parameters from classification components in a variety of materials. Builability of with granular media and mechanical; Biological tests different structure types / components. Communication oxidation; Aerobic oxidation plants; Chemical * Cam clay model of concepts using hand sketches and oral presentations. treatment - coagulation, flocculation; Disinfection Basic features of the cam clay model and its application Detailed design and detailing of structural components chlorine, ozone & other; Fluoridation; Sludge in computer predictions of soil behaviour; State for a specialist structure therefore typically two of the dewatering and disposal; Treatment plant design. boundary surface; Yielding and hardening following component types: pre-stressed and Applied Hydraulics: Design of water distribution pipe post-tensioned concrete; water retaining concrete; networks, pump types and characteristics, surface Prerequisites: WT4014 steel-concrete composite; steel plate- and box- girders; profiles and backwater curves, design of hydraulic Long span components with stiffness critical design structures. ------criteria.

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CE4035 - REINFORCED CONCRETE AND MASONRY CE4045 - PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 1 Syllabus: Wind Energy Onshore & Offshore: Market DESIGN ECTS Credits: 6 status and current trends; Site and Resource ECTS Credits: 6 Assessment; Supporting Structures; Aerodynamic and School of Engineering Power Conversion Principles; Power Predictions with School of Engineering Statistical Analysis; Economic Assessment with review of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The objective National and EU policy; Storage Mechanisms Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module of this module is to engage the student in professional introduces the design of structural elements in reinforced practice skills through the medium of problem-based Hydro-Energy: Market Status and Current Trends; concrete and masonry with the following key objectives: learning. The module involves an overview of Health and Catchment Areas; Dams; Weirs; Hydrodynamic and Safety in the construction industry and project work Power Conversion Principles; Environmental Impact; Key objectives integrates core skills in CAD and land surveying in Layout of Hydro Power Systems; Power Output; To master the concepts of design in steel reinforced advance of cooperative education in semester 6. Economic Assessment; Peak Load Management concrete. To develop the key concepts in pre-stressed concrete The module is 100% continually assessed and Ocean Energy: Potential Market and Case for Irish Ocean design. non-repeatable. Energy; Review of Emerging Technologies for Wave & To introduce the concepts in the design of un-reinforced Tidal Energy conversion; Power Conversion Principles and reinforced masonry. Syllabus: The Planning System: Making a simple planning application. ------Syllabus: Properties of reinforced concrete (RC); Principles of limit state design; Analysis of the RC Health & Safety: Overview of health & safety in the CE4055 - REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN 1 section; stress-strain characteristics of steel and ultimate construction industry. Statutory framework for the ECTS Credits: 6 strain of concrete, stress block and strain profile, construction industry. Roles and responsibilities of the balanced, over- or under-reinforced sections; Design of civil engineer. Processes and procedures, risk School of Engineering single span, flanged and continuous RC beams; flexure assessments. and shear resistance; Serviceability and durability of ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY reinforced concrete; Limiting span/effective depth ratios; Computer Aided Drafting: Overview of current industry Choice of appropriate RC slab type; Design of RC slabs, practice and trends in drawing and integration of CAD AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN one-way, two-way and flat slabs; Punching shear with the design process. Operate a proprietary 2-D CAD PROGRESS resistance; Design of RC Columns, design formulae and system to produce survey and planning drawings. design standard procedure for short/slender columns, Operate a proprietary 3-D CAD system to produce a ------principles of axial load-moment interaction diagram, rudimentary 3D model and associated plan and sections. balanced failure design, load and moment analysis; CE4607 - COMPUTER NETWORKS 1 Design of RC retaining walls and foundations; RC Land Surveying: Overview of land surveying methods ECTS Credits: 6 Detailing; bondage, anchorage and curtailment. and principles. Overview of GIS. Surveying and setting out using total station and levelling equipment operation, Electronic & Computer Engineering Design of unreinforced masonry subjected to vertical and data recording and production of a topographical survey lateral loading. drawing. Setting out of a simple building. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module provides a unified view of the field of computer Introduction to pre-stressed and post-tensioned concrete ------communications and networks. The module seeks to technology. integrate a number of topics introduced in earlier parts of CE4047 - WIND, OCEAN AND HYDRO ENERGY the course and addresses the analysis, design and ------ECTS Credits: 6 performance evaluation of data communication systems. The module covers communications within and between CE4043 - STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING DESIGN 2 School of Engineering computer systems, and communications protocols and ECTS Credits: 6 standards. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of School of Engineering this module is to introduce civil engineering and energy Syllabus: * [Introduction to Data and Computer students to national and EU policy, resource assessment, Communications] Communications tasks; Protocol ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY conversion principles and electricity generation potential elements, characteristics, and functions; Protocol associated with renewable energy generated from wind, architectures; Reference communications models AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN ocean & hydro resources. This will equip students with overview: OSI vs. TCP/IP (layers description and PROGRESS the knowledge and analytical skills necessary to advise functions, PDU encapsulation). * [Physical Transmission] Transmission modes configuration; TCP/IP protocols configuration and * Growth of functions (simplex, half duplex, full duplex) and transmission types operation. * Data structures - Linked lists, Stacks, Queues and (baseband, broadband); Analogue and digital signals; Red-Black Trees. Transmission impairments (attenuation, delay distortion, Prerequisites: EE4616 * Greedy Algorithms noise); Channel capacity; Data encoding and * Hash functions and search minimisation techniques modulation; Physical interfacing; Asynchronous & ------* Class/Object unit testing synchronous transmission; Transmission media; * Analysis of algorithms Multiplexing techniques (FDM, TDM, WDM). CE4701 - COMPUTER SOFTWARE 1 * Case study/Project * [Link-by-Link Communication] Line disciplines ECTS Credits: 6 (ENQ/ACK, poll/select); Framing; Frame Prerequisites: CE4702 synchronization & data transparency, Flow control; Error Electronic & Computer Engineering control; Addressing; Link management; Protocol ------examples (character-oriented, byte-count, bit-oriented). Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Introduce * [Network Services] Switching (circuit-, message-, students to a high level object-oriented programming CE4706 - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 1 packet switching); Addressing (classful vs. classless IP language and its software development environment ECTS Credits: 6 addressing); NAT operation (static and dynamic); IP subnetting and supernetting; Routing (concepts and Syllabus: The focus of this module is to introduce a Electronic & Computer Engineering principles; routing algorithms û flooding, static, dynamic; modern high level object-oriented programming central and distributed control; distance vector vs. link language to enable the student to develop the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: - To introduce state routing; hierarchical routing; routing protocols programming skills necessary to write simple but useful the domain of software engineering from a programmers examples: interior vs. exterior); Congestion control; QoS applications. The following topics will be covered: perspective focusing on object oriented analysis, design provision; IP protocol: main functions and operation and programming. (IPv4 vs. IPv6); Mobile IP; Address resolution with ARP Introduction to software development. - To revisit and develop existing computer software skills and RARP; Internet multicasting (MBone operation) and Short comparative study of different programming and competence. group management (IGMP protocol); Control and languages. - To emphasise good Software Engineering Practices assistance mechanisms (ICMP protocol: v4 vs. v6). Simple program design techniques e.g. flowcharts. - To enhance individual and team working skills Modular design of protocols. Basic data types, control statements, methods, scope. * [Transport Services] Overview (connection-oriented Relationship between the program, the run time Syllabus: Introduction to Software Engineering. vs. connectionless; segmentation and re-assembly; environment and the operating system. Software Development Paradigms.Software Evolution end-to-end delivery, flow control & buffering; crash Introduction to programming language documentation. and Reliability. Human Factors in Software recovery); Unreliable datagram transport with UDP; Introduction to Class Libraries. Engineering.Software Specification, System Modelling. Real-time transport with RTP and RTCP; Reliable Interactive Development Environments. Requirements Definition/Specification.Software Design: connection-oriented transport with TCP and SCTP; Introduction and demonstration of a low level graphics Modularity, Cohesion, Coupling.Function Oriented Design. Wireless TCP; Modular design of protocols. toolkit. Diagramming Techniques. Structured Design.Software * [End-to-End Communication] Session management Basic test practices and test case definition. Reviewing and Testing. Software Quality Assurance and (SIP and SDP protocols); Data presentation (ASN.1 and metrics.More ADTs and algorithms. Introduction to NVT); Client-server communication model; Domain ------Object Oriented Analysis/Design and Programming

Name System (DNS); TCP/IP configuration: static Programming Languages Programming Practice: Coding, CE4703 - COMPUTER SOFTWARE 3 (BOOTP protocol) vs. dynamic (DHCP protocol); Terminal Style, DocumentationThe C++ Programming Language ECTS Credits: 6 networking with Telnet; File transfer with FTP and TFTP; (continued):C++ versus C, Objects and Classes, Function

E-mail service (SMTP, POP, IMAP protocols); Browsing and Operator Overloading, Inheritance and Electronic & Computer Engineering with HTTP; Network management with SNMP. Polymorphism, Input and Output, Memory Management,

* [Practical Implementation] Building and testing Templates. Development Environments: Debuggers, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce different types of patch cables; Serial interface Profilers, Browsers.Individual and Team Project/Case the student to algorithms and dynamic data structures configuration; Device configuration: IOS software, Study. (e.g. queue, trees, and dynamic arrays). managing configuration files, updating software; Router Introduce software engineering practices, Flow diagrams configuration: initialisation, commands and modes of Prerequisites: CE4704 and class diagrams. operation; Routing protocols configuration, operation and Use good software practice to develop a significant ------evaluation: RIP, IGRP etc.; Network configuration: application testing established connectivity and routes. Analysing and interpreting IP addresses and subnets; Scaling the

IP address space: CIDR, private addressing, secondary Syllabus: The following will be covered: IP addressing, MTU and fragmentation; NAT * Algorithms CE4708 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE relationship to these transforms. CG4003 - BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING 1 ECTS Credits: 6 SYSTEMS: Difference equations and the z-transform. ECTS Credits: 6 Recursive and non-recursive systems and their z-plane Electronic & Computer Engineering descriptions. Examples: averaging filter, integrator, Chemical Sciences differentiator. Important properties; linear phase Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide the systems, all pass systems. Overview of biochemical processes currently used on an student with a solid grounding in the theoretical and SIGNAL WINDOWING: Choice of windows for reduced industrial scale. Introduction to biochemical process practical foundations of artificial intelligence and expert spectral leakage. The DFT as a signal analyser. design strategies for high value/low volume and low systems. Windowing in the DFT context. Padding with zeros to value/high volume products. reduce picket-fence effect. Material and energy balances for bioprocessing Syllabus: Section (i) - Introduction to Prolog and "Logic NON-RECURSIVE FILTERS: Design by windowing operations. Programming" methods. Sample design. Aspects of mass transfer of importance in aerobic Rule-based systems and logic programming. The RECURSIVE FILTERS: Design based on analogue fermentations. Biochemical reaction kinetics for cell free resolution principle, unification & backtracking. Recursion prototypes. Bi-linear mapping approach and enzyme, single cell, cellular agglomerate, and & iteration. Prolog representation of algorithms. Impulse-invariant approach, their areas of suitability. immobilised enzyme systems. Extra-logical features of Prolog. Case studies. Bioreactor design for ideal batch and ideal chemostat Section (ii) - State-Space Search FILTER TRANSFORMATION: Transformations for BP and operations. Practical aspects of bioreactor operation and Use of state-space search in A.I. programming. HP filters. Analogue and digital approaches. monitoring: sterilisation, asepsis, inoculation, rheology, Representation of problems in state-space form. Prolog NOISE: Overview of noise issues and the correlation aeration, agitation, instrumentation and sampling. representation of state-spaces. Heuristics. Search method. Introduction to commercial-scale bioproduct separation strategies: depth-first, breadth-first, hill-climbing, RATE CONVERSION: Introduction to up-sampling and and purification methods. best-first, branch & bound, Algorithm A, Algorithm A*. down-sampling.SIGMA-DELTA methods in A/D and D/A Industrial biosafety. Admissibility, Monotonicity, Informedness. conversion. Section (iii) - Expert Systems ------The structure of an expert system. Knowledge representation. The inference engine. Inference Prerequisites: EE4817 CG4005 - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING strategies. Reasoning under uncertainty. THERMODYNAMICS Section (iv) - Neural Networks ------ECTS Credits: 6 Neural models: McCulloch & Pitts, Rosenblatt. Hebbian learning. The Adaline. Multi-layer Perceptrons & CG4001 - PROCESS ENGINEERING COMPUTATION Chemical Sciences Backpropagation. Associative networks. Competitive METHODS networks. ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give students knowledge and understanding of (i) methods for Chemical Sciences estimation of pure component properties, (ii) methods for correlation and prediction of phase equilibria, and (iii) Prerequisites: CE4703 Demonstrate competence in using Excel workshop and the thermodynamics of energy conversion cycles. basic knowledge of MatLab. ------Module contains two introductions to two separate Syllabus: Application of the first and the second law of calculations tools (Excel and MatLab). Introduction to thermodynamics in chemical engineering: identify and CE4817 - DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING 1 Excel worksheet contain: Visual Basic Editor and describe open and closed systems; conditions and ECTS Credits: 6 fundamental of programming. Macros, arrays, matrices, limitations for conversion between different kinds of functions in Excel. Finding values of function. Roots of energy; describe the theoretical energy conversion Electronic & Computer Engineering equations. Goal Seek function. Interpolation, processes of Carnot-, Rankine- and Brayton, and differentiation, integration. Fitting data functions. Linear understand the differences with their corresponding Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module and non-linear regression. Error estimation. technical applications: steam turbines, gas turbines, provides practical coverage of the fundamentals of digital Introduction to MatLab contain: Fundamentals and cooling machines and heat pumps. signal processing, with emphasis on the following key programming. Graphics creation. Introduction to topics: the discrete Fourier transform, the z-transform numerical methods. Numerical integration of ordinary Fundamental thermodynamics of phase equilibria and and digital filter design. differential equations. Definitions of initial and boundary methods of correlation and prediction: understand conditions. Runge-Kutta methods. Monte Carlo standard states and the use of activity and fugacity Syllabus: TRANSFORMS: Review of the Fourier method. coefficients, understand the use and limitations of transform, its properties and the more general Laplace models for correlation and prediction of excess free transform. Sampling and Railings leading to the ------energy and activity coefficients z-transform for discrete signals. The DFT and its Application of chemical thermodynamics to reaction balance, stoichiometric analysis relevant to Instrumentation. Solid Materials Handling (size engineering: spontaneity of chemical reactions, chemical bioprocessing, downstream processing unit operations, reduction, settling, elutriation, filtration, etc.) reaction equilibrium, equilibrium conversion calculations and emerging technologies in bioprocessing. In addition, Among typical tutorial topics are the following: the students will complete practical experiments relevant Review of Introductory Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Methods of correlation and prediction of physical to course content, use Polymath to solve biological rate Review of Chemical or Engineering Thermodynamics properties for chemical engineering calculations. expressions and construct a process flow sheet for a Review of Chemical Kinetics Availability and application of electronic data bases for biological process using SuperPro software. physical properties, and software for prediction of ------physical properties Syllabus: Bulk mass transfer effects in fermentation systems. Factors affecting oxygen mass transfer in CG5031 - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN ------aerobic fermentations. Measurement of kLa using static METHODS 1 and dynamic methods. Control of kLa using correlations ECTS Credits: 6 CG4007 - SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PROCESSES with agitator power and other operational variables. ECTS Credits: 6 Heat transfer in biochemical systems. Heat exchanger Chemical Sciences design in bioprocessing units. Chemical Sciences Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Bioreactor sizing and design for the following reactor the student to quantitative design methods and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Provision of a types: fed batch, stirred fermenter, bubble column, procedures. process engineering module to give a deeper and wider airlift, packed bed, fluidised bed, trickle bed, and To develop skills in process flowsheeting and in the use knowledge in energy processes, with emphasis on perfusion. Bioreactor scale-up. Operation and feeding of an industry-standard computer package for sustainability and renewability. regimes: chemostat with recycle, fed batch operation, modeling/simulation of steady state and non-steady and multistage reactors. Control methods: feedback, state chemical processing operations Syllabus: Overview of energy conversion/generation indirect metabolite control, programmed control, and To learn methods for industrial energy management and process fundamentals starting with combustion, emerging AI-based methods. Modelling and simulation of become familiar with their application in industrial elements of energy balance including heats of bioreactors. operations. combustion, component balances, calorific values, excess To become familiar and apply concepts and principles of air, efficiency and Carnot efficiency, and engineering Bioreaction product separation processes including: cell health and safety. solutions to maximize efficiency. disruption, solvent extraction, adsorption, filtration, and To give the student a thorough grounding in the This will lead to existing ideas for efficient energy centrifugation. principles and application of HAZOP methods. generation (advanced generation) represented by To provide a working knowledge of environmental impact Combined heat and power and Combined gas generation Final product purification methods: gel filtration, process and sustainability assessment, as applied to chemical extended further to chemical energy generation chromatography, protein crystallisation, spray drying, processing operations. represented by Fuel cells, Hydrogen production and Fuel and lyophilisation. re-synthesis. The novel energy conversion/generation ideas will be extended further to advanced nuclear power Regulatory and licensing systems in the pharmaceutical, generation, represented by pebble-bed nuclear reactor. biopharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. Syllabus: Review of quantitative design methods. The knowledge of energy generation fundamentals will Thermodynamic options for process design and be enriched with the engineering principles of renewable ------simulation. Procedures for sustainability assessment of energy generation, based on Solar, Geothermal, Biogas, industrial processes including the sustainability metrix as Biomass, Wind and Ocean sources. CG5011 - PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING prescribed by the professional oprganisation IChemE. ECTS Credits: 6 Energy conservation and environment protection. Health, ------safety and security issues; preventive measures. Chemical Sciences Industrial process simulation and sensitivity analysis of CG4017 - BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING 2 chosen design process. Graphical presentation. ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To allow students with varying backgrounds to become familiar Flowsheet synthesis, analysis and evaluation: modular- Chemical Sciences with those core aspects of chemical engineering that and unit equation-based modes for flowsheet synthesis; might be lacking in their prior experiences. Tutorials are rigorous unit equation models for flash, distillation, and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of tailored to the previous academic background of the heat exchange operations. Recycle of process mass and this module is to introduce students to more advanced individual student. energy streams; partitioning, precedence ordering and aspects of bioprocess engineering, building directly on tearing; convergence criteria. Synthesis of separation the fundamentals covered in CG4003. The students will Syllabus: Fundamentals of material and energy systems: ideal distillation; azeotropic mixtures; be informed on mass transfer, advanced biochemical balances. Introduction to chemical process design and distillation sequences. kinetics, heat transfer specific to bioprocessing, mass analysis. Introduction to Process Control and Use of industry-standard computer package for CH4003 - PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 2 modeling/simulation of steady state and non-steady ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Mass Transport in Solution. Ficks Laws of state chemical processing operations. Diffusion. Chemical Sciences Electron transfer reactions.Overpotential/Polarization Main design project selection. Preparation of preliminary Effects. mass and energy balances for main design project. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: i. To facilitate Electrode reactions, oxidation/reduction. the student in understanding of the reaction Electrode kinetics, Butler-Volmer equation, limiting thermodynamics and the role of thermodynamics in forms. I/E curves, interplay of ------chemical reaction processes. mass transport and electron transport. ii. To familiarise the student with the various reaction Electrical double layer. CH4001 - CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERS kinetics, including some complex kinetic schemes, their Ideally polarizable electrode, capacitance, interfacial ECTS Credits: 3 interpretation and applications in the appraisal of effects, models of the double industrial problems. layer. Chemical Sciences iii. To develop the students ability to design basic kinetic Theoretical basis of electron transfer. experiments and to extract kinetic information from the Polarography, steady-state, sweep, convective/diffusion Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Many students measurements of concentration-time based data. iv. To techniques. that enter the University of Limerick to study engineering provide the student with the basic knowledge of Electroanalytical techniques, cyclic voltammetry, courses do not have chemistry as a leaving certificate commonly used spectroscopes chronoamperometry, chronocoulometry, potentiometric subject. The rational of this module is to introduce all stripping analysis, differential pulse techniques. students to some basic concepts in Chemistry. More Syllabus: - Reaction Process, role of thermodynamics Ion selective electrodes. Biosensors. specifically: - Ficks law, diffusion Electrodeposition: Electrocrystallisation, bath design, To give students an understanding of the fundamental - Rate laws, integrated and differential forms additives (brighteners, throwing concepts of modern chemistry. - Zero, first and second order rate laws and levelling power). To familiarise students wit the various applications of - Arrhenius equation, collision theory, activated complex Surface Treatment: Anodizing, electroforming, chemistry in everyday life. theory electrochemical (E.C.) machining, E.C. - Mechanism of reaction, steady state approximation etching, electropolishing. Syllabus: Simple characterisation of atoms and - Lindemann hypothesis, role of equilibria Electrocatalysis, electrosynthesis. molecules: basic atomic structure, ions and isotopes, - Photochemistry, fast reactions, polymerisation Fuel cells, solar cells. atomic and molecular weights, the mole concept. reactions Surface analysis techniques, atomic force microscopy, Early chemical concepts and their present day uses: e.g. - Michaelis-Menten kinetics scanning tunneling microscopy, scanning electrochemical Dalton Atomic Theory, Avogadro's Law, Oxidation and - Catalysis microscopy. reduction. - Langmuir adsorption isotherm Chemical nomenclature. Modern theories of atomic and - Applications to selected examples of industrially ------molecular structure. Quantum mechanical description of important reactions the atom: Schroedinger Wave Equation, atomic orbitals CH4007 - ORGANIC PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY and quantum numbers. Prerequisites: CH4002 1 Introduction to chemical bonding. Bond representation ECTS Credits: 6 by Lewis dot, valence bond and molecular orbital ------structures. Hybridisation. Chemical Sciences Periodic classification of the elements. CH4005 - PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 4 The Gas Laws, Stoichiometry. ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To build on the Classification of chemical reactions. The Electrochemical functional group chemistry covered in CH4102, CH4103 Series. Chemical Sciences and CH4104. To impart to the student a detailed Chemical equilibrium. Liquid solution chemistry. Acids understanding and working knowledge of the applied use and bases. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To familarise of organic compounds as pesticides and as medicinal Selected applications of chemistry in domestic, medical the student with the concepts of electrochemical systems drugs with an emphasis on mode of action at the and industrial environments. under current flow situations. molecular level and on the synthesis of selected structures. ------To familiarise the student with electrochemical methods of chemical analysis. Syllabus: Insecticides: The role of acetylcholine and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in nerve impulse To introduce applications of electrochemical methods in transmission; organophosphates and carbamates: energy conversion and storage, sensors and production Malathion, parathion and carbaryl, synthesis, mode of of chemicals action as inhibitors of AchE. Herbicides: 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, synthesis, nucleophilic Substitution/Elimination Reaction Mechanisms- SN1, Polymer solutions and methods of characterisation. aromatic substitution reactions, dioxin formation; mode SN2; E1, E2. Biopolymers: properties, composition and function of of action as auxin analogs. proteins and nucleic acids. Antibiotics: sulfonamides, synthesis, mode of action; Alcohols/Ethers: Structural formulae; Nomenclature; penicillins: role of transpeptidase enzymes in bacterial Classification; Physical properties; Occurrence and Uses. ------cell wall synthesis, mode of action of penicillins as Alcohols only:- Acidity; Preparation; Reactions: inhibitors of transpeptidase enzymes, synthesis of Oxidation, Esterification. CH4021 - LABORATORY CALCULATIONS semi-synthetic penicillin stuctures. ECTS Credits: 3 Analgesic and antiarthritic compounds: aspirin, ibuprofen Aldehydes/ Ketones: Structure & Basicity of the Carbonyl and naproxen, synthesis of naproxen, resolution and Group; Nomenclature; Chemical Sciences racemisation aspects. Properties; Preparation; Typical Carbonyl Group Review of functional group chemistry. Reactions (Nucleophilic Addition Reactions); Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Many students Imine formation; Reaction with Grignard Reagents; entering the University of Limerick to study science Synthesis; Occurrence/Applications. courses do Prerequisites: CH4007 not have chemistry as a leaving certificate subject. Given that by its nature ------Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: - chemistry is a very conceptual subject, the rationale for Esters, Acyl Halides, Acid Anhydrides and Amides. this module is to CH4013 - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Functional Group; Nomenclature; Physical Properties; introduce all students to some of the more basic ECTS Credits: 6 Acidity of the Carboxyl group; Preparation; Nucleophilic concepts in fundamental Acyl Substitution Reactions (Simple Carboxylic Acids and chemistry and appropriate calculations associated with Chemical Sciences Esters only). common laboratory practice. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Amines: Classification; Aliphatic and Aromatic Amines; the student to fundamental aspects of organic chemistry Reactions; Occurrence. Syllabus: Valency- the periodic table, valency as applied eg the different families of compounds- their to the periodic table grouping, nomenclature, structure (2D and 3D) and isomerisation Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Benzene and Benzenoid combining atoms to form molecules. (if any). Compounds. Common Ions & Molecules- sulphates, chlorides, nitrates, To highlight the functional group of each family and Aromaticity- Huckel Rule; Structural Formulae; phosphates, relate structure to reactivity; to examine associated Nomenclature, Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Rxns hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric reactions/reaction mechanisms of the different functional Mechanism; Few examples. Occurrence/Uses. acid, acetic acid, groups; to introduce aromatic chemistry and study the sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, sodium chloride. chemical behaviour of aromatic compounds; to highlight ------Moles-The Moles triangle, grams, moles, gas volume, current trends and applications in the areas of organic molecules, chemistry. CH4015 - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 4 interchangeability of grams, volume and number of To carry out practical work to support and reinforce some ECTS Credits: 6 molecules through moles. of the theoretical aspects encountered; to encourage Concentrations- moles, molarity, percentage solutions, self-directed learning through the use of software and Chemical Sciences volume over volume, web sources. weight over volume, parts per million, parts per billion, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To describe conversion of the main methods of polymer production relating one form of unit to another. Syllabus: Aliphatic Hydrocarbons: synthesis detail to chain architecture. To explain the Serial Dilutions- moving between concentrations, Alkanes/Cycloalkanes/Alkyl molecular basis of structure-property relationships in dilutions. Groups/Alkenes/Cycloalkenes/Alkynes: polymers. To develop an understanding of the structure Acids/Bases- balancing equations-titrations and titration Nomenclature; Structural formulae (2D&3D); and function of proteinaceous biopolymers. calculations. Isomerisation; Reactions: Redox Reactions- balancing equations-titrations and Combustion and Free Radical Rxns Syllabus: Polymer chemistry, addition and titration calculations. (Alkane/Cycloalkanes); Electrophilic Addition Rxns., condensation, chain growth and step growth pH -strong acids, strong bases, weak acids and weak Carbocations; mechanisms, polymerisation kinetics. bases, Polymerisation;(Alkenes/Cycloalkenes/Alkynes). Branching, cross linking, and networks. dissociation of acids and bases, solution pH, pOH. Occurrence/Uses. Environmental factors/current trends. Copolymerisation, types of structure and synthetic methods. Polymerisation techniques. Prerequisites: CH4701, CH4711, CH4721 Chain structure and property relationships, thermal Haloalkanes: Structural formulae; Nomenclature; transitions. Crystallinity and morphology. ------CH4025 - PHOTOCHEMISTRY cancer. Oncogenes and cellular transformation. To establish a foundation in stereochemistry and to ECTS Credits: 6 Approaches to drug discovery and drug delivery. develop the students understanding of its relevance to Products of pharmaceutical biotechnology and their organic reactions. Chemical Sciences medical uses. The unique biology of extreme/hyperthermophiles. Hyperthermophiles as a Syllabus: Aldehydes and ketones (Part 2): ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY source in industrially relevant substances. Practical Carbon-based nucleophiles continued û Wittig reaction applications of industrial biochemistry. Review of and enolate anions; Aldol and Claisen condensation AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN biochemical processes currently used at an industrial reactions; alkylation at the a-position. PROGRESS scale. Some fundamental concepts in bioprocess Carboxylic acids: methods of preparation; using pKa as a engineering. The role of an industrial biochemist in a measure of acid strength; formation of derivatives such ------process work environment. Foundamentals of cellular as acid chlorides and esters. respiration. Carboxylic acid derivatives û acid halides, anhydrides, CH4051 - INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED CHEMISTRY The approach to research; case studies; identification of esters and amides; nucleophilic displacement reactions; AND BIOCHEMISTRY a problem, planning and pursuing a research strategy. Aromatic structure and reactivity (Part 1): defining ECTS Credits: 3 aromaticity and understanding aromatic stabilization; Huckels rule; electrophilic aromatic substitution Chemical Sciences ------reactions; Stereochemistry: defining and naming chiral centres, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce CH4055 - ENVIRONMENTAL CATALYSIS enantiomers, diastereomers and meso forms; Fisher the student to the disciplines of Applied Chemistry and ECTS Credits: 6 projections; understanding the stereochemical course of Industrial biochemistry. To provide the student with a SN1 and SN2 reactions; applying use of stereochemistry reference framework for future core course modules. To Chemical Sciences and kinetic measurements to deduce the nature of a generate student interest and enthusiasm for the subject chemical reaction pathway. areas by focusing upon relevant, topical issues of broad Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce public interest catalysts and catalytic processes to students, with particular emphasis on end-of-pipe technologies for the Prerequisites: CH4103 Syllabus: Importance of chemical and biopharmaceutical control of gaseous pollutant from flue gasses. industry globally and use of fundamentals relating to ------chemistry and biochemistry underpinning consumer To present on overview of procedures for the preparation chemicals (such as detergents, shampoos, cosmetics and characterisation of catalysts, in particular catalysts CH4153 - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2B etc), pharmaceuticals (eg aspirin, paracetamol, relevant for the conversion of polluting substances into ECTS Credits: 6 penicillin), oil industry (diesel, petrol, tars) and more environmentally acceptable components. semiconductor industry (materials and processes Chemical Sciences involved in silicon processing and etching for microchip devices) as well as biopharmaceuticals, such as Syllabus: Introduction to catalysis, Defining the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To build on antibodies, insulin and other proteins. environmental problem, Catalyst structure and and extend the functional group chemistry initiated in preparation, Study of various end-of-pipe technologies CH4152; develop the associated reactions/reaction Chemistry: Case studies where chemistry has solved including deNOx from stationary sources, deNOx from mechanisms of the various functional groups; to cover, major problems e.g developments in glass manufacture mobile sources (petrol and diesel), destruction of VOCs, in depth, aromatic chemistry and the chemical behaviour that makes iphones possible, the advances in synthetic SO2 control. Catalyst characterisation: Surface area of aromatic compounds; to introduce the field of chemistry that allowed antibiotics to be produced at a analysis, Elemental analysis, XRD and XPS. stereochemistry; to carry out practical work to support global scale; the fundamentals of chemistry in polymers and reinforce some of the theoretical aspects and polymeric processes; the chemistry of how ------encountered; to encourage self-directed learning through aluminium is produced from bauxite and chemistry that the use of software and web sources. makes lithium ion batteries possible. Analytical chemistry CH4103 - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2A(1) and its role in forensics; The role of an industrial chemist ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Syllabus: Functional Group Chemistry Ctd; in a work environment. Aromaticity; Stereochemistry; Kinetics: Chemical Sciences Industrial Biochemistry includes production of genetic Aldehydes and Ketones: Typical Carbonyl Group engineered protein; overview of approaches and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To build on the Reactions (Nucleophilic Addition Reactions); Imine applications. The human genome project and its impact functional group chemistry covered in CH4102. To formation; Reaction with Grignard Reagents; Reduction on society.The biochemistry of HIV, including viral extend the students comprehension and working Rxns; Wittig Rxn; Synthesis; Occurrence and structure and biology. Biotechnological approached to knowledge of functional group chemistry; to expand the Applications. developing a antibodies, vaccine. Molecular biology of range of reagents, reactions and associated mechanisms. Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: - - To introduce students to the chemistry of transition Esters, Acyl Halides, Acid Anhydrides and Amides. metal complexes ------Nomenclature; Physical Properties; Acidity of the Carboxyl group; Preparation; Nucleophilic Acyl Syllabus: The Periodic Table and important trends: CH4303 - ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 1A Substitution Reactions; Interconversion of Carboxylic s-block, p-block, d-block and f-block metallic elements. ECTS Credits: 6 Acid Derivatives; Reduction Rxns; Pharmaceutical Electrode potential diagrams. Comparison of main group Applications. and transition metals. Hard and soft acid and base Chemical Sciences Fats, Oils, Soaps, Detergents; Current Trends. theory. Complexes: structure, isomerism, magnetic and spectroscopic properties. Reaction mechanisms. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give the Amines: Classification; Aliphatic and Aromatic Amines; Properties of first row transition metals. Comparison of students an understanding of and an appreciation for the Heterocyclic Amines; Basicity; Reactions; Occurrence. first row and second and third row transition metals. qualitative and quantitive aspects of analytical Chemistry of the lanthanides. chemistry through a working knowledge of the theory Organic Polymers: Polyesters, polyamides, polyethylene, and applications of spectrophotometry and spectroscopy. biological polymers; Bonding in transition metal complexes, crystal field Applications. theory, Syllabus: The analytical process, measurements and experimetal error, fundamentals of spectrometry, Beer- Aromatic Chemistry: Aromaticity Reviewed; Electrophilic Organometallic compounds Lambert law, applications of spectrometry, Aromatic Substitution Rxns of Benzene; Functional Group spectrometers, atomic spectroscopy, calibration and Interconversion; Activating/Deactivating effects and Cluster compounds, multiple metal to metal bonds. analytical methods, infrared spectroscopy, modes of Orientation. Aromatic Heterocyclic Compounds; stretching and bending, fourier transform ir, correlation Retrosynthesis. Occurrence. Chemistry of metallic s and p block elements group by charts for ir, functional group survey, nmr basic group. concepts, chemical shift & shielding, Pulsed FT nmr, Compounds of Carbon Only:Diamond, Graphite, integration, spin-spin splitting in 1H spectracoupling Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes. Prerequisites: CH4122 constants, combined ir/1Hnmr spectra interpretation. Structure;Current trends;Uses. ------Prerequisites: CH4303

Stereochemistry: Chirality and Achirality; Optical Activity; R/S Configuration of one chiral centre CH4253 - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2B ------compounds (Cahn, Ingold & Prelog Rules); Perspective ECTS Credits: 6 CH4305 - ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 3 and Fischer Projections; Enantiomers, Diasteromers and ECTS Credits: 6 Racemates. Chemical Sciences

SN1/SN2 and E1/E2 Reactions of Haloalkanes- Kinetics Chemical Sciences and Stereochemistry. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: - To describe

and explain the main features of the chemistry of the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: TO DEVELOP main group elements (s and p block) in relation to ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR THE QUALITATIVE AND position in the Periodic Table and QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF SOLIDS AND SOLID Prerequisites: CH4152 -to understand the principles underlying the chemistry of metallic elements in the s-, p-, d- and f- block SURFACES. TO INTRODUCE THE CLASSIFICATION AND CHEMISTRY OF SOLIDS ------elements and to describe and explain the main features

of this chemistry in relation to position in the Periodic Syllabus: APPLICATION OF X-RAY METHODS CH4203 - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2 Table. INCLUDING DIFFRACTION, FLUORESCENCE AND ECTS Credits: 6 - To introduce students to the chemistry of transition metal complexes ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSIS. STRUCTURE Chemical Sciences DETERMINATION BY X-RAY METHODS. SOLID STATE Syllabus: The structure of the Periodic Table and REACTIONS INCLUDING CORROSION AND CEMENT Rationale and Purpose of the Module: - To describe important trends: s-block, p-block, d-block elements. CHEMISTRY; RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHEMICAL AND and explain the main features of the chemistry of the Polarising power. Chemistry of hydrogen and s and p MECHANICAL PROPERTIES. APPLICATION OF GROUP main group elements (s and p block) in relation to block elements group by group. Electrode potential THEORY, INCLUDING POINT AND SHAPE GROUPS. position in the Periodic Table diagrams. Comparison of main group and transition -to understand the principles underlying the chemistry metals. Properties of first row transition metals. REVIEW OF ALL MAJOR CLASSES OF SOLIDS of metallic elements in the s-, p-, d- and f- block Organometallic compounds. Survey of biological * CRYSTALLIZATION-NUCLEATION AND GROWTH OF elements and to describe and explain the main features importance of the elements. CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS of this chemistry in relation to position in the Periodic * POLYMORPHISM IN PHARMACEUTICAL SOLIDS Table. Prerequisites: CH4701, CH4252 * ELUCIDATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF DNA * LACTOSE CRYSTALLIZATION To give the student practical experience in the operation design * POLYMERS of separation processes. Particle science & powder technology * SOLID STATE TRANSFORMATIONS Biopharmaceutics * NON-STOICHIOMETRY AND SOLID SOLUTIONS Syllabus: Mass Transfer, diffusion in gases and liquids, Dosage form design & manufacture * IONIC CONDUCTIVITY IN SOLIDS-SOLID STATE laws of diffusive flux, mass transfer in solids, unsteady SENSORS state mass transfer. Mass transfer across phase Prerequisites: CH4003, CH4004, CH4005, CH4405, * TOPOTACTIC REACTIONS AND EPITAXY boundaries, mass transfer coefficients. CH4415

------Separation operations, vapour-liquid systems, plate and ------packed columns, McCabe - Thiele plots, equilibrium CH4405 - PROCESS TECHNOLOGY 2 stages, stage efficiencies, HETP and HTU.NTU CH4701 - GENERAL CHEMISTRY 1 ECTS Credits: 6 approaches to packed column design. Distillation ECTS Credits: 6 continuous and batch. Gas absorption and stripping. Chemical Sciences Use of triangular composition diagrams, leaching and Chemical Sciences liquid - liquid extraction, mixer-settlers. Evaporation, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The Process forward and back-feed operation, efficiency. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Many students Technology 2 semester course is a continuation of that enter the University of Limerick to study science and Process Technology engineering courses do not have chemistry as a leaving ------certificate subject. The rational of this module is to To provide the student with a broad understanding of the introduce all students to some basic concepts in principles of fluid flow and momentum transfer. CH4415 - PROCESS TECHNOLOGY 3 Chemistry. More specifically: To acquaint the student with the significance of ECTS Credits: 6 To give students an understanding of the fundamental particle-fluid interaction in processing operations. concepts of modern chemistry. To enable the student to develop expertise in the Chemical Sciences To familiarise students wit the various applications of analysis and design of heat transfer processes chemistry in everyday life. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide the To develop the basic laboratory skills associated with Syllabus: Fluid mechanics, revision of fluid statics, fluid student with a comprehensive knowledge of chemical practical chemistry. flow, laminar and turbulant. Momentum transfer, energy reaction engineering and reactor design. relationships and the Bernoilli Equation. Newtonian and Syllabus: Simple characterisation of atoms and non-Newtonian fluids. Flow in pipes and vessels, Syllabus: Chemical reaction thermodynamics; review of molecules: basic atomic structure, ions and isotopes, pressure drop and velocity distribution. Pumps and fans, chemical kinetics; ideal reactor types and design atomic and molecular weights, the mole concept. efficiencies. Flow measurement. Dimensional analysis as equations; Early chemical concepts and their present day uses: e.g. applied to fluid flow. Size reduction of solids, particle size design for single and multiple reactions; multiple reactor Dalton Atomic Theory, Avogadro's Law, Oxidation and distribution. Particle - fluid interaction, free and hindered systems; temperature effects in reactor design and reduction. settling, elutriation, centrifugation, fluidisation and operation; assessment of and models for non-ideal Chemical nomenclature. Modern theories of atomic and fluidised beds. Flow of fluids through packed beds. reactor behaviour; reactor design for heterogeneous molecular structure. Quantum mechanical description of Filtration. Heat transfer: conduction, convection and reactions. the atom: Schroedinger Wave Equation, atomic orbitals radiation. Heat transfer coefficients. Heat exchangers. and quantum numbers. Dimensionless numbers in solving heat transfer problems Introduction to chemical bonding. Bond representation ------by Lewis dot, valence bond and molecular orbital Prerequisites: CH4404 structures. Hybridisation. CH4417 - PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATION Periodic classification of the elements. ------ECTS Credits: 6 The Gas Laws, Stoichiometry. Classification of chemical reactions. The Electrochemical CH4407 - PROCESS TECHNOLOGY 4 Chemical Sciences Series. ECTS Credits: 6 Chemical equilibrium. Liquid solution chemistry. Acids Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To draw on a and bases. Chemical Sciences knowledge of basic physical chemistry and chemical unit Selected applications of chemistry in domestic, medical operations in order to understand the efficient design and industrial environments. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: - To provide and formulation of medicines as well as the manufacture the student with a broad understanding of the principles of these medicines on both a small (compounding) and a ------of mass transfer and its applications large (pharmaceutical technology) scale. - To enable the student to develop expertise in the analysis and design of separation processes. Syllabus: Physical Chemical principles of dosage from CM4203 - COMMUNICATIONS - Rudiments of spreadsheets: entering names, numbers testing; ECTS Credits: 6 and formulas into cells; calculations and simple - Requirements for white-box and black-box testing formulae; display of equations in the spreadsheet; tools; Management and Marketing editing, deleting, copying and pasting cell contents; formatting cells in a spreadsheet; relative and fixed Prerequisites: CS4013 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module (absolute) cell references; ordering data within facilitates students in thinking strategically about spreadsheets; creating and embedding charts and ------communication. It aids them in improving their written, graphs; saving and formatting for printing; presentation and interpersonal communication skills. The - Built-in functions for summarizing and evaluating data CS4006 - INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS module examines a set of 'best practices' or guidelines e.g. count, sum, minimum, maximum, average, mode, ECTS Credits: 6 that have been derived from both research and median, standard deviation, frequency, permutations and experience. It gives students the opportunity to put combinations, geometric mean, harmonic mean, Computer Science & Information Systems those guidelines into practice and encourages them to probability and distributions, regression analysis; reflect on the role of communication in personal, - Descriptive statistics: ranking by percentile, calculating Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of academic and business contexts. moving averages, exponential smoothing, generating this module is to familiarise students with a targeted random numbers, sampling data; subset of the principles and methods of Artificial Syllabus: This module introduces Communications in - Importing and Exporting Data: Import/export data Intelligence and Intelligent Systems. Given that students personal, academic and professional contexts. Students from/to another file, e.g. a text file, a web page. from a number of programmes will be taking this are introduced to communication theory and develop - Pivot tables and pivot charts; module, examples and projects work will be relevant to their practical communication skills. Topics covered - Creating Macros; each group of students in so far as possible include the following: the communication process; - Introduction to Visual Basic for spreadsheet culture and intercultural communication; interpersonal applications in chemistry, biochemistry, environmental Syllabus: To provide students with an understanding of communication including listening and feedback skills; science and health & safety. the basic principles, methods and application domains for understanding conflict and its impact on communication; Artificial Intelligence. To introduce students to the referencing and library skills; non-verbal communication; ------development of Intelligent Systems, Knowledge presentation skills; communication channels, contexts, Representation, and Machine Learning. strategies and audiences. CS4004 - SOFTWARE TESTING AND INSPECTION This module introduces the history and development of ECTS Credits: 6 Intelligent system concepts. It includes discussions on AI ------and Expert Systems, Heuristic Search, Evolutionary Computer Science & Information Systems Algorithms, Artificial Neural Networks, Cognitive Science, CS4001 - COMPUTER APPLICATIONS FOR and issues in representation, reasoning and machine SCIENTISTS 1 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce learning, together with a set of design principles for ECTS Credits: 6 students to software testing and inspection such that intelligent autonomous agents. when given a specification and an implementation of a Real world applications of the course topics are also Computer Science & Information Systems program, the student would be able to write the tests, presented in areas such as robotics and financial run them, and report on the errors found. prediction. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide the student with a practical and comprehensive set of skills Syllabus: - Key Terminology: testing, debugging, error, ------for the acquisition, management, manipulation, and bug, defect, quality, risk, mean-time between failures, presentation of scientific information. This module is regression testing, limitations of testing; CS4013 - OBJECT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT entirely practically based, with the emphasis on - Test types and their place in the software development ECTS Credits: 6 information technology applications in the areas of process; chemistry, biochemistry, environmental science and - Black-box and white-box testing; Computer Science & Information Systems health & safety. - Program reading and comprehension; - Refactoring code; Rationale and Purpose of the Module: On successful Syllabus: - Scientific literature retrieval - use of - Inspections, walkthroughs and desk-checking; completion of this module students will be able to Internet/Intranet databases e.g. Science Direct, ASTI, - Programming with assertions; identify, design, code and construct systems using Medline, Ullmanns and OHSIS. - Using a debugger for white-box testing; inheritance hierarchies, encapsulation and polymorphism - Presentational skills: (i) Scientific drawing - use of a - Reporting and analysing bugs: content of the problem to solve specified programming problems. chemical drawing package (e.g. ChemSketch) to produce report, analysis of a reproducible bug, making a bug 2- and 3-d representations of molecular structures; (ii) reproducible; Syllabus: Key terminology: objects, attributes, Scientific graphing - use of e.g. Advanced Grapher to - Test case design: characteristics of a good test, behaviours, states, classes, instances, associations; create professional quality graphs. Computer-aided equivalence classes and boundary values; abstraction, inheritance, generalisation/specialisation, audio-visual presentations using MS Powerpoint. - Expected outcomes, test case execution and regression parent (base/superclass/ancestor) and child/children (subclass/descendant) classes, encapsulation/information Syllabus: 1. Video Art CS4023 - OPERATING SYSTEMS hiding, polymorphism, message passing, dynamic 2. Film Theory ECTS Credits: 6 binding; 3. Installation and Interactive Art Problem solving using a procedural approach versus an 4. Electronic and Experimental Music Computer Science & Information Systems object oriented approach; 5. Digitally Enabled Sculpture Representing classes, objects, attributes: build 6. Sound Art Rationale and Purpose of the Module: On successful generalisation relationships; define is-a relationships; completion of this module a student should have a clear divide into superclasses/subclasses; build associations ------understanding of the between classes; draw an analysis-level diagram; (1) Logical structure of, and facilities provided by, a Methods: method definitions; static keyword; location of CS4020 - INFORMATION SOCIETY modern OS methods; arguments/parameters; method invocation; ECTS Credits: 6 (2) Concepts of processes, threads and multithreading return types; method modifiers; and how they are implemented in a modern OS Classes and objects: defining classes, member variables Computer Science & Information Systems (3) Problems that arise when processes collaborate and and member methods; access modifiers; creating and compete and well as being able to demonstrate practical destroying objects/instances; class and instance Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module experience of mechanisms for handling these situation variables, static variables; object values including offers a socio-economic, political and cultural exploration (4) Different ways of implementing virtual memory predefined object values (null, this, super); of the "internet society". The course will provide a series (5) Use of system calls Constructors: constructor method; overriding defaults; of perspectives on the network society, examining its sending arguments; overloading methods including conceptual foundations, critiquing its more polemical Syllabus: (1) Positioning the operating system (OS) constructor methods; overriding a method; blocks and exponents, and subjecting the claims of the electronic between the user and the hardware; the need for the scope; sublime to critical scrutiny. This module will help OS; different types of OSs; interfaces to an OS and the Exceptions: how to handle exceptions/errors; the throw students understand some of the current debates in the interface with the hardware; clause; try, catch and finally blocks; rethrowing an media about the effects of information and (2) The concept of a process and a thread; exception; communications technology on society. The module will representation of processes and threads; process and Extending classes: abstract classes; nested classes and help the student to develop critical thinking around key thread state; process creation and termination; thread interfaces; interfaces and polymorphism; constructors in issues of the Information Society. creation, scheduling and termination; multithreading; extended classes, constructor phases; single inheritance (3) Scheduling; context switching; concurrency, versus multiple inheritance; single inheritance of Syllabus: In this module, the students will cover a series including interaction between threads; implementation; accessing and initialising superclasses; of available approaches to the study and understanding (4) Inter process communication (IPC); synchronization named and anonymous inner classes; member and local of technological innovation and social change in the and mutual exclusion problems; software algorithms for inner classes; iteration, exception-safety and delegation Information Society. In particular, the module covers IPC; 2 processes, n processes; idioms based on inner classes; three main approaches to investigate issues related to (5) Low and high level mechanisms for IPC and the Information Society: technological determinism, synchronization: signals; spinlocks; semaphores, Prerequisites: CS4222 social constructivism, and alternative theoretical message passing and monitors; deadlock; use of approaches such as Actor Network Theory. The module semaphores for synchronization, mutual exclusion, ------will then cover a series of specific case studies regarding resource allocation; implementation of semaphores; use recent technological innovation and social change. Key of eventcounts and sequencers for classical IPC CS4019 - DIGITAL ARTS 1 issues of the Information Society (security vs. privacy; problems; conditional critical regions; monitors and ECTS Credits: 6 copy-right vs. copy-left) will be discussed through condition variables; practical examination of selected case studies in different (6) Physical and virtual memory; address translation; Computer Science & Information Systems areas (proprietary systems and IP, user generated base and length registers; segmentation and paging; content platform and online communities, open source cache memory; system services for memory Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is movements). management; an introduction to the wide range of art types and (7) I/O subsystem, directory name space; inodes; practices which make up the digital arts. It ------synchronous and asynchronous I/O; locking; buffering; contextualizes the aesthetics and modes of approach of (8) File systems and file management; file system types; the digital arts by presenting the historical development disk organization; mounting a file system; device of post 19th Century art practices and technologically drivers; file system based IPC; pipes; the socket mediated art forms. It evaluates these forms from a mechanism; IPC using sockets; range of theoretical and practical vantage points thereby (9) Fault tolerance and security; providing a perspective from which students can critically relate to the digital arts in general as well as to their own Prerequisites: CS4211 practice. ------CS4025 - DIGITAL AUDIO FUNDAMENTALS students to the principles and technologies applied to warehouse performance, performance and warehousing ECTS Credits: 6 digital video representation and recording. activities; data warehousing and OLAP, relationship between data warehousing and OLAP; Computer Science & Information Systems Syllabus: Introduction to principles of digital video representation and recording. Aspects of building data warehouses: physical design, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: An Principles of Digital Signal Processing for video including using functional independence, loading the warehouse, introduction to digital audio aimed toward preparation for sampling theory and hue, saturation and intensity metadata management, operation phase, coherent studio applications. representation. management of warehouses for security; Selection and use of digital video cameras. Syllabus: Nature of analog and digital sound; Digital video formats, compression techniques, Data mining task in discovering knowledge in data: Principles of digital signal processing for audio including connectivity and standards. statistical approaches to estimation and prediction, sampling theory and spectral representation, digital Principles of digital video colour representation. univariate methods: measures of centre and spread, sound synthesis techniques; Introduction to digital video display and projection. statistical inference, confidence interval estimation, Digital audio recording techniques including selection and Digital video image capture. bivariate methods: simple linear regression, confidence use of microphones; Introduction to digital video editing. interval for the mean value of y given x, prediction Multitrack recording; High-definition digital video. intervals for a randomly chosen value of y given x, Manipulation of digital audio files; Introduction to CGI. multiple regression, verifying model assumptions; Digital audio and compression; Digital video distribution. Digital audio distribution including storage, internet and Audio technology for video. Nearest neighbour algorithm, supervised versus digital audio broadcasting. unsupervised methods, classification task, k-nearest ------neighbour algorithm, distance function, combination ------function, quantifying attribute relevance, k-nearest CS4055 - DATA MINING AND DATA WAREHOUSING neighbour algorithm for estimation and prediction; CS4031 - INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MEDIA ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 Classification and regression trees, C4.5 algorithm, Computer Science & Information Systems decision rules, comparison of the C5.0 and CART Computer Science & Information Systems algorithms applied to real data;

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce students to the concepts and strategies for the design, Neural networks: neural networks for estimation and students to some of the seminal developments in development and implementation of data warehouses prediction, sigmoid activation function, technology and to provide them with a historical and repositories in order to enable their exploitation by back-propagation, gradient descent method, perspective on how these developments have impacted knowledge discovery and data mining technologies. back-propagation rules, termination criteria, momentum on human development. term, sensitivity analysis;

Syllabus: What is data mining; why data mining; Syllabus: The influence of technology on cognition and cross-industry standard process (CRISP-DM); CRISP-DM Clustering task: hierarchical clustering methods, activity; in action; data warehousing and enterprise intelligence; k-means clustering; An overview of conceptual development of computer basic elements of data warehousing; what tasks can data media. mining approach; Data pre-processing: data cleaning, Self-organising maps, Kohonen networks, cluster The relationship of Technology to Practice, Form, Content handling missing data, identifying misclassifications, validity, using cluster membership as input to and Remediation. graphical methods for identifying outliers, data downstream data mining models; Case studies will consider the influences, consequences transformation, numerical methods for identifying and interrelationship of media and thought, including outliers; ------examples from the world of work, education, video games, social media, ubiquitous computing, personal Hypothesis testing versus exploratory data analysis: CS4057 - MACHINE LEARNING AND AI FOR GAMES fabrication and so forth. dealing with correlated variables, categorical variables, ECTS Credits: 6 using exploratory to uncover anomalous fields, numerical ------variables, multivariate relationships, selecting Computer Science & Information Systems intersecting subsets of the data for further investigation; CS4053 - DIGITAL VIDEO FUNDAMENTALS Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of ECTS Credits: 6 Data warehousing with intelligent agents: integration of the module is to provide the students with an overview

database and knowledge-based systems, the role of of the applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Computer Science & Information Systems artificial intelligence in warehousing; Learning methods to Games and Game Development.

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Data warehouse performance: measuring data Syllabus: A series of case studies on the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods to ------2. Creation of synthesis techniques in industry-standard all aspects of Games and Games Development will be software presented. Example applications could include, Game CS4076 - EVENT DRIVEN PROGRAMMING 3. Examination of additive synthesis, modulation Playing Programs, Path Finding, Control and Goal ECTS Credits: 6 synthesis and contemporary techniques Oriented Action Planning, Multi-Agent Systems, 4. Basics of frequency-domain processing Semi-automated Animation, and Sound Generation. The Computer Science & Information Systems 5. Real-time computer methods for sound design and AI and Machine Learning methods discussed may include processing Symbolic AI, Expert Systems, Evolutionary Algorithms, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module 6. Aesthetics and development of sound design and Genetic Programming and Grammatical Evolution, will provide students with a comprehensive introduction processing Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, to event driven programming where a strong emphasis Swarm Intelligence, and Behaviour-Based Robotics and will be placed on practical application in at least two high ------Control. level development environments. In addition, students will be introduced to multiprocessor support for event CS4085 - COMPUTER GRAPHICS II - TOOLS AND Prerequisites: CS4006 driven programs and shown how to improve event TECHNIQUES processing performance through parallel event ECTS Credits: 6 ------transformation. Computer Science & Information Systems CS4067 - WRITING GAMES ANALYSIS Syllabus: Imperative versus event driven paradigms. ECTS Credits: 6 Introduction to GUI creation; graphical structures: Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Increase frames, boxes, layout managers, menus, windows. competence of student in the area of modern real-time Computer Science & Information Systems Event handling process, event handling mechanisms: computer graphics. This includes usage of Content event classes, event sources, event listeners. Creation Suites, 3D Engines and combining available Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The primary The Delegation Model of event handling. tools into a working tool chain. This is a follow on module objective of this module is to define the art and practice Avoiding deadlocks in GUI code. to CS4815 which introduces more advanced graphics of writing computer games. Students discover how to Limits of message passing libraries and thread libraries. techniques and special effects. analyse Games Discourse and are introduced to Event processing performance. Wittgensteinian definitions of language-games as a tool Introduction to multiprocessor support for event driven Syllabus: - Basic Modelling Techniques for understanding and critiquing formal descriptions of programs. - Basic Animation Techniques language, thought and the process of story creation and Techniques to improve event processing performance - Usage of Content Creation Suites revelation. Students are given a heuristic for through parallel event transformation. - Graphical File Formats (importing / exporting) investigation that results in their discovery of a - Introduction to Real-Time 3D Engines complicated network of similarities, overlapping and ------Scene Management Techniques criss-crossings within the structure of an essentially - Special FX hypertextualised story. The final objective is that CS4083 - SOUND SYNTHESIS - Particle Systems students learn how a game may resemble a simulation ECTS Credits: 6 - Pixel/Vertex Shaders that tries to model a phenomenon by isolating the essential features of that phenomenon and plays them Computer Science & Information Systems Prerequisites: CS4815 out in a way that does not affect the phenomenon and ultimately the students are required to produce their own Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop ------written phenomenon. knowledge and competence of digital media systems. (Existing module CS4063 "Digital Media Software & CS4107 - PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGY 2 Syllabus: - history and development of games' story Systems 2" is part of a suite of modules core to both ECTS Credits: 6 development; LM113 (Digital Media Design) and LM114 (Music, Media & - character development; Performance Technology). The course board has decided Computer Science & Information Systems - discourse analysis; that the titles of this suite of DMSS modules do not - hypertextual narratology; adequately describe the course content and therefore Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Students will - gaming as hermeneutical play; wish to change the titles to better communicate the develop their knowledge of performance technology in - game-states and rule definitions; content. The content itself of these modules remains the the context of interactive environments for digital media - iteration, repetition and rapture; same - only the title itself is changed.) through a combination of laboratory based small group - Derrida's "Structure, Sign and Play"; project work and lecture based learning. - game criticism, speculation and theory; Syllabus: To develop knowledge and competence of - rules and metarules; winning conditions; digital media systems: Syllabus: This module will focus on the use of electronic - interactive fiction. 1. A survey of sound synthesis techniques from early sensors and actuators in combination with software and electronic music to contemporary signal processing PC based approaches in the development of performance systems and interactive environments. the use of Object-oriented approaches to specification. Key topics will include: Syllabus: - Notion of Phrase Structure; The software and hardware development of a Syllabus: - Software lifecycles: review of the waterfall - Notion of Post's Production Systems; performance system. model, prototyping, spiral, and object-oriented (OO) - Chomsky's definition of Phrase structure Generative Implementing performance systems for multimedia development models. Grammars, and Hierarchy of Grammars. Sentential (movement triggering, dance, installation, virtual spaces, - Focus on the Unified Software Development Process Forms and Languages generated by Context Free enhanced environments). (USDP). Grammars; Implementing performance software for composition - Characteristics of good software design - modules, - Regular expressions, Regular sets, and Regular (composition with instruments and electronics, dynamic cohesion, coupling or dependency, encapsulation, Grammars; reactive audio and video playback). abstraction, etc. - Classification of Abstract State Machines, - Requirements investigation. Configurations, Transitions; ------Requirements classification: functional and - Construction of Recognising Finite State machines from non-functional requirements. Regular Grammars and Coversely Program Design based CS4115 - DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS - Requirements modelling: use case diagrams and use on Regular Expressions; ECTS Credits: 6 case descriptions. - Construction of Lexical Analysers including use of - Computer aided software engineering (CASE). Generators such as LEX/FLEX; Computer Science & Information Systems - Review of OO concepts: classes and objects, abstract - Leftmost and Rightmost derivation of sentences from classes, class interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, etc. Context Free Grammars, Parse trees, and ambiguity of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a - Analysis using OO method and UML: identification of Grammars; uniform theoretical treatment of the data structures and classes using key domain abstraction, CRC cards, - Top Down Parsing (Recursive Descent) Techniques; algorithms used in systems and applications collaboration and sequence diagrams, state transition - Bottom Up (LR) Parsing Techniques; programming. This module includes a practical diagrams, and activity diagrams. - Notion of an Item, Closure of a set of Items, Transitions component to reinforce learning and to encourage - Overview of object-oriented software architectures: between sets of items, and canonical collections of valid students in the practical use of theoretical material. layering and partitioning, open versus closed, MVC, items; broker, etc. - Parser Generators such as YACC/BISON and their use Syllabus: - Mathematics Review; - Design using OO method and UML: concurrency, object in syntax directed translation. - Review of the ADTs, internals and usage of simple data design, collection classes, GUI design, and data structures and associated algorithms, in particular management design. Prerequisites: CS4111, CS4112, CS4411, CS4512, recursive algorithms; - Additional diagramming notation: packages, CS4013 - Linked Lists and Networks; subsystems, and implementation. - Recursion, and the elimination of recursion from - Analysis and design patterns. ------algorithms; - Frameworks. - Study of sorting algorithms: quicksort, heapsort, - Other methodologies - DSDM, Agile approaches, CS4178 - SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS AND mergesort and bucket and radix sorting; Extreme Programming. MODELLING - Analysis of general divide-and-conquer algorithms; ECTS Credits: 6 - Searching: tree searching, AVL trees, splay trees; ------Graph algorithms: graph traversal and spanning Computer Science & Information Systems forests, depth and breadth first search of graphs; CS4158 - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY connectivity; minimal spanning trees for weighted ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Introduce graphs; shortest path algorithms; networks. students to the requirement and modelling phases of a Computer Science & Information Systems system's (and software) development cycle. ------Requirements and models as knowledge capture and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide materialization in analyzable IT artefacts. Requirments CS4125 - SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN students with an understanding of production systems, and models that support the needs to change and ECTS Credits: 6 phrase structure generative grammars, the languages evolution. Exposure to relevant methods, techniques and generated by these grammars, and the abstract state tools, exposure to case studies. Computer Science & Information Systems machines that elucidate the parsing process. To provide students with an understanding of how Syllabus: 1. Requirements in the traditional and in the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The recognition/parsing programs can be systematically agile/evolutive system and software development development of large-scale complex software-based derived from grammars, especially by means of parser process. systems proceeds from analysis through design and generators. To provide an understanding of the notion of 2. Techniques for elicitation and discovery of implementation to system verification and validation. syntax directed translation, and how it can be requirements. This module covers the analysis and design phases of the implemented in parser-based tools, especially applied to 3. Relation between requirements and knowledge software development cycle with particular emphasis on code-generation, and documentation of programs. capture: formal and informal materialisations. 4. Abstract models and constraints as co-design tools CS4416 - DATABASE SYSTEMS within a range of disciplinary formations such as cultural with diverse stakeholders. ECTS Credits: 6 studies, film studies, media studies, sociology and 5. Relation between requirements, models, and testing. technology. 6. Functional and non-functional requirements. Computer Science & Information Systems 7. Models for system behaviour: formal models, Syllabus: The course will survey the field of visual verifiable models, executable models. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Databases, cultural studies from the transition between the painting 8. Requirements and model validation particularly relational databases and database and the mechanical reproduction of images. It will deal 9. Requirement and model review, refinement and management systems (DBMSs) are central in the with the problem of photography as a reflection of evolution design and development of modern information systems. reality, as gaze and as surveillance The gendering of 10. Negotiation and agreement: organisational and social Understanding of their structure and skills in their the image in painting ,advertising and cinema will be issues; co-design. application are fundamental aspects of a proper covered The module will deal with the notion of virtuality foundation in any domain of software development. and the critiquing of the internet. Race and globalisation ------as they are theorised and represented will form the basis Syllabus: The concept of a DBMS and DB Architectures of the last part of the module. CS4227 - SOFTWARE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE are introduced. This module will build upon the notion of Readings will form the basis or lectures and tutorials as ECTS Credits: 6 a database as introduced in Information Modelling and well as the screening of films and television productions. Specification including revision of those concepts Analytic tools of image analysis will be presented and Computer Science & Information Systems previously introduced, i.e. the relational data model, applied and will form a significant part of student including issues, such as Integrity Constraints, SQL, and assessment. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The objectives Views. of this module are to equip students with the - Concepts of databases and DBMSs; ------fundamental knowledge and techniques necessary to - Database Architectures; CU4037 - EUROPEAN CINEMA FROM ITS design quality software at the object and component - Revision of the Relational Model; SQL Tables, Views BEGINNINGS TO THE 1950s level. The emphasis is on the support of architectural use and the DDL; Referential and Existential Integrity ECTS Credits: 6 cases through patterns at the architectural and design Constraints; level, refactoring and Component Based Development - Normalisation: Functional Dependencies; 1st, 2nd 3rd, School of Modern Languages and Applied (CBD) at both theoretical and applied level. 4th Boyce Codd and Fifth Normal Forms; Linguistics - Technologies: Transaction Management; ACID Syllabus: Topics presented include: properties; Security; Data Storage & Indexing; Triggers Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module Challenges facing the Object Oriented (OO) and & Active DBs; Query Optimisation; Distributed intends to give students an overview over the major Component Based Development (CBD) paradigms. Architectures; developments in the various European national cinema Characteristics of good software focusing on modular - Use of embedded SQL, cursors, triggers; traditions up to the end of the 1950s. It aims to decomposition, coupling, cohesion, interfaces, - Object DBs and Object Relational DBs; introduce students to basic concepts of film encapsulation and architecture centric component based - Data Warehousing, Decision Support & Data Mining; historiography as well as key issues of the periods development. - Emerging Technologies; studied such as the role of film within popular culture, Modelling of architectural use cases. aesthetical debates and theories before and after the Object Oriented Design (OOD) with a focus on Prerequisites: CS4513 introduction of sound films, the mutual influences of extensibility and performance using a generic OO method American and European cinema. The main focus of this in conjunction with the Unified Modelling Language ------module will be on the development of Soviet, French, (UML). German, Spanish, Italian and Scandinavian Cinema. Design of software architecture focusing on architectural CU4027 - VISUAL CULTURAL STUDIES patterns such as those presented in the volumes on ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Principles of film history; Europe vs. America; Pattern Oriented Software Architecture series. the concept of National Cinema; aesthetics of silent vs. Detailed design focusing on creational, structural and School of Modern Languages and Applied sound films; literature vs. moving images; visions of behavioural design patterns. Linguistics modernity; images of technology and science fiction. Introduction to refactoring, code smells and refactoring Aspects covered will include: Beginnings (LumiÞre to patterns. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this brothers, Georges MeliÞs); Nordisk Film Companie; Film Component Based Development in theory and practice. module is to provide students with a comprehensive and World War I; Soviet Cinema (Montage, Eisenstein, Overview of topics such as Service Oriented Architecture, overview of the transdisciplinary formations of visual Dziga Vertov); Weimar Cinema (Expressionism, Fritz Domain Specific Languages etc. culture and visual cultural studies. Students will develop Lang, Murnau, mountain films, proletarian cinema, Comparison of OO versus CBD. an understanding of; Marlene Dietrich); French cinema (Gance, Renoir); Nazi ------* the ways in which visual texts have emerged as a Cinema (cinema as propaganda; Riefenstahl); Italian dominant mode of cultural communication Neo-Realism (Rossellini, de Sica), Spanish Cinema * how visuality has emerged as a primary concern (Berlanga, Bunuel). ------to comparative literature and apply these to literary texts cultural and linguistic consequences of this; minority concerned with specific themes and genres in a variety of languages and New Media (the focus here will be on the CU4121 - INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA AND cultural contexts. In particular, the module will explore Irish language and New Media). CULTURAL STUDIES the ways in which such literary texts enable critical ECTS Credits: 6 inquiry into common experiences past and present ------across cultures. The module will also provide the setting School of Modern Languages and Applied for further developing the students critical and analytical DA5001 - ETHNOCHOREOLOGY: HISTORY AND Linguistics skills in the study of literature. THEORY ECTS Credits: 12 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: * To Syllabus: The course is structured as follows: introduce students to the fields of cultural studies and The students will be introduced to the concept of Humanities new media and to the basic concepts underlying their comparative literature, the development of specific study of these disciplines over the course of their genres and themes and, following on from this, to a Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The primary programme. range of examples from different cultural and language objective of this module is to inform students of historical * To give students the theoretical tools to analyse backgrounds. and theoretical perspectives of Ethnochoreology, an cultural processes and to investigate new media as The students will also focus on the analysis of the prime interdisciplinary subject which considers dance in its cultural institutions, particularly in comparative contexts. texts from a comparative approach, looking at various cultural context. This means examining the relevant * To raise students intercultural awareness as part of a textual strategies of representation. literature in Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, process of preparing for the Erasmus/study abroad Linguistics, Gender Studies and Education in addition to semester. other relevant areas of Dance Studies, to highlight the * To introduce students to the concept of career ------main theoretical developments in the discipline. planning, particularly with the objective of preparing them for cooperative education as an integral part of CU4128 - NEW MEDIA, LANGUAGE AND Syllabus: The history and development of their course. GLOBALISATION ethnochoreological and dance anthropological theory; ECTS Credits: 6 applications of anthropological perspectives in the Syllabus: * The notion of culture: defining and discipline including: functionalist, symbolic, structuralist, describing the notion of culture and cultures; comparing School of Modern Languages and Applied linguistic, cognitive, practice and interpretive. different definitions and traditions of culture in a range of Linguistics contexts; cultural anthropology; linguistic dimensions of ------culture; cultural policy and cultural imperialism; Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To deepen language and cultural awareness. students understanding of the interaction between DA5101 - REPERTOIRE AND STYLE IN IRISH TRAD * Media and culture: identifying and describing cultural language and technology, economics and politics in New DANCE PERFORMANCE 1 dimensions of media processes; the cultural specificity of Media; To explore the linguistic and sociolinguistic ECTS Credits: 12 media in different linguistic and cultural contexts; characteristics and consequences of New Media cultural dimensions of new media processes. practices, To analyse these practices and their Humanities * Analysing cultural processes: theories and consequences at both micro and macro levels; To methodologies of cultural analysis. develop students critical skills. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The objective * Career planning for students: skills awareness; career of this module is to introduce students to the repertoires awareness; preparation for the off-campus year. Syllabus: This module focuses on the interaction of diverse Irish traditional dance performance practices between language, technology, economics and politics in within a variety of theoretical, methodological and dance ------the New Media. New media are understood here as performance contexts. Students learn and enbody the media that are designed beyond the context of the repertoires and their respective aesthetics from master CU4127 - CULTURAL STUDIES 5: COMPARATIVE nation state. The focus will be on satellite and digital tutors. This develops the performance skills of students LITERATURE broadcasting as well as on the Internet, although and enhances their critical awareness and understanding ECTS Credits: 6 reference will be made to other media, both traditional of different performance practices and their respective and new. The module will cover the following areas using aesthetic systems within the Irish dance tradition. School of Modern Languages and Applied a number of case studies against a theoretical Students will also learn research methods which they will Linguistics background: The language and cultural politics of New apply to a dance ethnographic project of their choice. Media (in terms of power relationships, ownership, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this representation, cultural bias etc.); multilingualism and Syllabus: Students will develop their knowledge of interdisciplinary module is to examine literatures from New Media (how global media organizations respond to traditional dance repertories and styles through practical, different linguistic and cultural contexts comparatively, linguistic diversity; technical possibilities versus studio-based, dance workshops, performances and both from the point of view of theory, and in practice. political/economic realities;); the role of English as the lectures; the history and development of different dance The students will be introduced to theoretical approaches globalizing language of New Media and the social, performance practices; contexts for the performance of traditional dance practices; aesthetic systems and choreographies and improvisational scores. reference to historically key movements in contemporary related kinetic vocabularies; and research methods in and post-modern dance and choreography. dance including Labanotation, will inform their analytical Syllabus: The knowledge is structured according to the perspectives of dance. The combination of theory and principles and practices underpinning history and Syllabus: The knowledge is structured according to the practice within the syllabus is designed for deeper tradition of Western Contemporary and Post-Modern theoretical frameworks, principles and practices understanding. dance techniques and performance. Its transmission is underpinning the history of Western contemporary and through live, text, video, DVD and studio-based, post-modern dance, choreography and performance. Its ------methods and modes of inquiry based on aesthetic, transmission is primarily through live studio-based historical, cultural theories and concepts that have research into the aesthetic, historical, and ideological DA5111 - DANCE PRACTICUM 1 informed the development Western Contemporary and principles that have informed the development of the ECTS Credits: 12 Post-Modern choreography and performance to date field of contemporary and post-modern dance performance. The knowledge is also stored and Humanities ------transmitted through literature and text-based dance research, video, DVD documentation of the canon of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The objective DA6021 - DANCE ETHNOGRAPHY works which define the tradition. of this module is to provide students with appropriate ECTS Credits: 6 knowledge and skills to create new work from an Irish ------traditional dance perspective. The module includes both Humanities a theoretical and practical dimension. Literature related DA6041 - EMBODYING IRISH DANCE PRACTICES 1 to choreographic principles and dance are examined Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The rationale ECTS Credits: 6 along with practical explorations of both Irish dance for this module is to train students in appropriate practices and modern dance techniques and forms. methods and techniques in dance ethnography and to Humanities Students learn from, and collaborate with, critically engage them in ethnographic documentation, choreographers in the creation of new work. This representation and reflexive writing. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The objective theoretical and practical approach provides a foundation of this module is to introduce students to the repertoires from which students can extend their knowledge and Syllabus: The objective of this module is to critically of diverse Irish traditional dance performance practices abilities to choreograph new work. engage students in discourses surrounding ethnographic within a variety of theoretical, methodological and dance research methodologies in the field of ethnochoreology. perforomance contexts. Students will learn to embody Syllabus: The syllabus is structured to extend the These include issues relating to ethnography and repertoires and their respective aesthetics from master students' knowledge, skill and dance experience: ethnographic inquiry; cultural representation; tutors. This will hone the performance skills of students practical dance technique and body awareness classes; documentation skills; and reflexive writing. Using and will enhance their critical awareness of a range of theoretical and practical classes on the act of appropriate ethnographic tools, students will produce a diverse performance practices and their respective choreography and choreographic principles;analysis and context-rich portfolio based on a firsthand experience in aesthetic systems within the Irish dance tradition and critical evaluation of specific choreographed works (live the field and subsequent critical reflection on the related dance traditions. performances and audio-visual material). process. Syllabus: Students will develop their knowledge of and ------competence in traditional and contemporary Irish dance practice through practical studio-based dance workshops, DA5141 - PRACTICUM 1 - DANCE PERFORMANCE DA6031 - CONTEMPORARY DANCE TECHNIQUES performances and lectures; the history and development REPERTOIRE FOR PERFORMANCE 1 of different dance performance practices; aesthetic ECTS Credits: 12 ECTS Credits: 6 systems and related kinetic vocabularies; and dance notation skills, will inform their analytical perspectives of Humanities Humanities dance.Theory and practice are combined to deepen their engagement with Irish dance. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module module is to introduce conceptual frames and theoretical introduces theoretical practices and principles current ------perspectives that support the creation and performance with contemporary and post-modern dance performance of contemporary dance choreographies and to support research. It provides students with the opportunity to students to undertake research into experience and critically examine, through study and performance-making, with a focus on creating work practice, a range of contemporary/post-modern dance which is thought provoking and imaginative rather than techniques and theoretical principles towards their clear safe and conventional. Throughout the module each articulation through movement in choreography and student will investigate a range of approaches towards performance. Current techniques informing the study creating and performing original performing set and practice of dance will be contextualized with DM4003 - OPERATIONS MODELLING (ENG) Introduce basic queuing and inventory models. DM4027 - MEASUREMENT AND QUALITY SYSTEMS ECTS Credits: 6 (ENG) ------ECTS Credits: 6 School of Engineering DM4017 - SIMULATION MODELLING AND School of Engineering Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Understand ANALYSIS the role of operations in both production and service ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Appreciate the enterprises. importance of measurement standards and systems. Introduce Lean thinking and structured operations School of Engineering Apply sound principles to a variety of measurement improvement tools. requirements. Introduce a range of quantitative methods and highlight Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide Understand and apply scientific principles to the analysis their application in the decision making process for students with knowledge on discrete event simulation of manufacturing data. solving real world problems. modeling and its application to manufacturing, logistic Use the results of the analysis to identify areas that need Provide an understanding of optimal decisions under and services systems. improvement. constraints. To provide students with modelling and software Provide an understanding of design and analysis of capabilities to apply simulation to manufacturing, Syllabus: ISO9000 and its variants, requirements for a operations under uncertainty. logistic and services systems. quality system, calibration needs and systems. To provide students with modeling and software Basis of measurement and interchangeability, limits and capabilities that can be applied to operations design and Syllabus: Introduction to simulation fits, BS4500. analysis. Overview of simulation modelling, introduction to the Line and length standards, optical flats, interferometry, basic concepts of discrete event simulation. The errors in measurement. Syllabus: Lean Thinking and Operations simulation process steps involved in carrying out a Measuring instruments and techniques: Length, angle, Introduce students to lean thinking and operations simulation project. Comparison of discrete event flatness, straightness, displacement. improvement tools used within DMAIC simulation with continuous simulation and system Measurement of: straightness, machine tool alignment, (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) projects. dynamics. flatness, surface texture. Related lean thinking to operations modeling methods. Process Variability: capability tests, indices, R & R Computer simulation packages studies, Central Limit Theorem. Operations Modeling - Software: Charting techniques: X/R and X/S, average run length, Introduce and provide students with base skills to use verview of available computer packages, description of Cusum, np, c, p and u charts. software to solve operations optimization models. The representative packages, computer implementation Acceptance sampling: OC curves, design of single, focus is primary on introducing the student to spread issues. Development of programming skills to apply double and sequential sampling plans, variables sheet modeling, but brief introductions to other modeling simulation to manufacturing, logistic and services sampling, continuous sampling. and optimization software will be given. Students will systems using a generic simulation package. Provide an International standards e.g. MIL-STD 105D, apply software modeling skills obtained here to overview of available simulation software. MIL-STD-414. subsequent topics. Statistical Process Control, Statistical Process Control for Statistical aspects of simulation Variable Data, Statistical Process Control for Attribute Operations Modeling Under Constraints Data, Short Run SPC, Minor Project. Basic definition of Linear programming, demonstrate Input analysis, random number generation, output ------method via graphical method, model formulation analysis, experimental design. applications in operations. EC4004 - ECONOMICS FOR BUSINESS Simplex method, Artificial starting solution method, Queuing Models ECTS Credits: 6 interpretation of simplex tableau, sensitivity analysis. Provide comparison of simulation with stochastic Transport model, Assignment model, Shortest Route mathematical models through the introduction of basic Economics model, Network Minimisation model, Maximum Flow queuing models. Model, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of Transshipment model Systems Design this module is to provide the student with an Introduce binary and integer applications in operations Using simulation students will carry out systems understanding of intermediate level micro- and analysis, integer solution methods such as (manufacturing, logistic and services systems) design macro-economic theory and practice. The first half of the branch-and-bound and meta heuristics solution methods. assignments. module is concerned with issues affecting the macroeconomy and Irelands membership of European Decision Making Under Uncertainty ------Monetary Union. In the second six weeks of the module Introduce decision making under uncertainty students will be exposed to current thinking in economics Introduce basics of simulation using spreadsheets. for business from a micro-economic perspective. In this section of the module students will not only engage with theoretical ideas and constructs but they will also be of the world, its development up to today, and the • Optimum Currency Area Theory required to apply the material covered to concrete prospects for change most likely in the future. This • The European System of Central Banks real-life micro economic situations. The intention of module builds on introductory micro and macro economic • The Stability and Growth Pact the module is to develop the students understanding of principles and using economic theory as a lens we will • Euro and the Great Crisis the nature, scope and functioning of the economy so as use real world examples, data, and current topics to • Banking System and the Future of Euro Area to have an appreciation of the changing set of problems inform our discussions on the evolution of the European business decision-makers face and the economic context Union. ------in which firms operate. Syllabus: The module is divided into eight sections set EC4045 - ECONOMICS OF NATURAL RESOURCES Syllabus: Section one of the module is concerned with our below. Worksheets corresponding to each topic will ECTS Credits: 6 the macroeconomy. The topics covered include: the aid students revise the module content. Core texts will expectations-augmented Phillips curve, purchasing power support lecture material along with references and Economics parity, interest rate parity and the Fisher effect. These recommended readings for each topic, where relevant. theories are combined to obtain what is known as the Topic 1 Introduction to the Course Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The nature, "open economy monetary model". This model is then • History of European Integration since the scope and key concepts of natural resource economics is used to evaluate particular issues including the long-run beginning of the 20th century. followed by a discussion on the connection between performance of the Irish economy and the factors markets, efficiency and sustainability including the underlying the 'Celtic Tiger' period. The module Topic 2 Economic Growth in Europe concepts of willingness to pay and demand as well as continues by extending the analysis of production and • Growth in Europe: Facts and Figures cost and supply. The next topic examines the optimal cost theory developed in first year microeconomics. • Growth effects and factor market integration level of pollution which is then followed by an analysis of Imperfect market structures of the firm are explored • Solow's Medium Term Growth Model public policy instruments in the face of market failure. A including analysis of game theory. Labour market practical application here is that of EU carbon emissions decisions are analysed with respect to the supply and Topic 3 Trade Theory and the EU trading as well as carbon taxes levies by some countries. demand for labour and wage determination, the latter • Absolute Advantage This is followed by an investigation of the main forms the key link between the micro and macro sections • Comparative Advantage theoretical and practical issues relating to exhaustible of the module. An overview of the theoretical and • Production Possibility Frontier resources (e.g. energy). Issues relating to the extraction practical exposition of business objectives along with key • Standard Trade Model of coal, oil and gas are assessed. In addition, theories on issues facing the firm in the business environment in • EU Trade Policy the harvesting of renewable resources with specific addition to the role of government are then explored. • Trade Effects application to forestry and fisheries are developed. The • Tariffs latter part of the module focuses on regional and global ------• Quotas air pollutants. Finally, we discuss the connection between • Welfare analysis of trade natural resources and economic growth with specific EC4027 - THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY • Measuring consumers' and producers' surplus in reference to both developing and developed countries. ECTS Credits: 6 an open economy Syllabus: The module is divided into two broad sections. Economics Topic 4 History and Future of the Common Agricultural The first section of the module deals with the theoretical Policy underpinnings of environmental and natural resource Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The years economics. The second part of the module focuses on since 1945 have been the longest period since 113 B.C. Topic 5 History of the General Agreement on Trade and applying economic theory to the extraction of natural in which no army has crossed the Rhine with war-like Tariffs and World Trade Organisation resources while also considers the connection between intentions. The very idea of war between the European • EU and International Trade Agreements natural resources and economic growth in developed and Union's member States seems as remote as to be • EU Development Policy developing countries. nonsensical. The creation of the European Union (EU); a • EU Trade Disputes Section 1: Economic Theory and Public Policy legal, political, economic, cultural, and soon to be Instruments military entity, is one of the greatest economic Topic 6 Environmental Economics Topic 1 Environment Issues and Concepts experiments in the history of Mankind. The shape and • Environmental Policy in the EU Topic 2 Applying Techniques of Economics to scope of the EU has the capacity to affect the lives of • Energy Policy in the EU Environmental Issues hundreds of millions of people in different ways, some Topic 3 A General Model of Pollution Control positive, some negative. Thus a careful study of this Topic 7 EU Competition Policy Topic 4 Public Policy Instruments: Decentralised Policies experiment is in order. • Theory of Monopoly and Perfect Competition Topic 5 Public Policy Instruments: Command and Control strategies This module uses economics to understand the history of Topic 8 The History of Monetary Integration Topic 6 Public Policy Instruments: Emission Taxes the EU, its significance in terms of the post 1945 World • The Theory of Economic and Monetary Union Topic 7 Public policy Instrument: Transferable Discharge Economy, the EU's international interactions with the rest Permits priced vs price discrimination monopolists) are also other end of the competitive spectrum is the complete Section 2: Extraction of Natural Resources and studied. absence of market competition. This situation of Development monopoly (single priced vs price discrimination Topic 8 Depletable Resources: Peak Oil ------monopolists) is also studied in detail. Topic 9 Common Pool Resources: Fisheries Topic 10 Renewable Resources: Forestry EC4111 - MICROECONOMICS (NON BUSINESS) ------Topic 11 Global Air Pollutants: Climate Change ECTS Credits: 6 Topic 12 Natural Resources and Economic Development EC4213 - INTERMEDIATE ECONOMICS (FOR Economics NON-BUSINESS) Prerequisites: EC4111, EC4102, EC4101, EC4112 ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The primary ------aim of this module is to introduce students to the Economics fundamentals of modern market-oriented microeconomic EC4101 - MICROECONOMICS analysis. The economic way of thinking introduced in this Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The subject ECTS Credits: 6 module involves the use of key concepts and models to content of this module develops some of the analysis help students to begin to understand how a complex real presented in the introductory microeconomics and Economics world micro-economy operates. The module aims to train macroeconomics modules. The concept of market students to think in terms of alternatives, to understand structures and producer and cost theory analysis is Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The primary the cost of individual and firms choices and provide extended in the microeconomics section. Pricing of factor aim of this module is to introduce students to the general frameworks to understand key microeconomic inputs is introduced. In terms of the supply-side of the fundamentals of modern market-oriented microeconomic concepts and issues. firm, basic optimisation techniques are applied to analysis. The economic way of thinking introduced in this production theory in dealing with the issue of input mix module involves the use of key concepts and models to Syllabus: The question of what is economics is explored. while cost theory is applied to problems like determining help students to begin to understand how a complex real In answering this question emphasis is placed on the break-even output levels and ômake or breakö decisions. world micro-economy operates. The module should importance of key concepts such as scarcity, individual Other sections of the module provide the necessary educate students to think in terms of alternatives, help decision-making, trade-offs and opportunity cost. microeconomic foundation for the analysis of labour them to understand the cost of individual and firms Students are also introduced to the distinctions between markets, basic business problems and pricing of factor choices and provide them with general frameworks to microeconomics vs macroeconomics and normative vs inputs. understand key microeconomic concepts and issues. This positive economics. The macroeconomics section incorporates the labour module aspires to develop the critical thinking abilities of Markets as a means of organising economic activity are market material into the general Keynesian, Classical students, not merely through the mastery of examined. The model of supply and demand is used to model. As outlined below, a variety of topics and policy microeconomic concepts and techniques but also through understand how market equilibrium prices and quantities issues are then examined. The course also discusses a questioning approach to the body of knowledge which are determined. You not only learn how equilibrium is issues in international monetary economics including the is facilitated primarily in the interactive smaller group determined, but how relative prices are used by cost and weekly tutorial sessions and through the use of consumers and suppliers to make decisions about the e-learning platforms. use of societys scarce resources. Supply and demand Syllabus: The syllabus is divided into a micoreconomics curves are used to explain the movements of prices and and a macroeconomics element. The microeconomics Syllabus: What is economics is explored. Concepts the allocation of resources in a market economy such as section includes the following topics 1) The theory of such as scarcity, individual decision-making, trade-offs ours. Government intervention in the market via the production and costs including isoquant and isocost and opportunity cost along with distinctions between introduction of price ceilings (maximum price) and price analysis and traditional versus modern theories of costs microeconomics vs macroeconomics and normative vs floors (minimum price) are also examined. 2) Models of imperfect competitive market structures and positive economics are emphasised. Markets are The sensitivity of demand and supply to changes in key game theory and an analysis of Monopolistic examined. The model of supply and demand is used to variables such as price and income is analysed through Competition, Oligopoly and Duopolistic market understand how market equilibrium prices and quantities measures of elasticity. structures 3) Labour demand and supply and 4) Pricing are determined. Intervention in the market via price Individual decisions are looked at in detail to show how and allocating of the factors of production. The ceilings and price floors are also examined. The they come together to form the demand curve. macroeconomics section includes the following topics 5) sensitivity of demand and supply to changes in key Consumer choice using indifference curve analysis is Irish economics performance before and after 1987 variables such as price and income is analysed through introduced. including the reasons for the improvement in economic elasticity. Consumer choice using indifference curve Shifting the focus back to the market process the latter performance. 6) The labour market including a discussion analysis is presented. The latter part of the module part of the module focuses its attention on supply and on how price expectations are formulated and the impact focuses its attention on supply and costs of production. costs of production. Students examine the different on inflation and unemployment 7) The Keynesian, The different types of costs and how costs affect revenue types of costs and how costs affect revenue and profits. Classical and Monetarist model. This includes a and profits are examined. A perfectly competitive firms Cost concepts and how they relate to a perfectly discussion on the Keynesian model, adaptive supply decision along with that of Monopoly (single competitive firms supply decision are examined. At the expectations and the concept of money illusion. Monetarism. The neo-classical model and rational •Quotas expectations. The effectiveness of macroeconomic ------Welfare analysis of trade policy under each of he models is addressed here 8)The •Measuring consumers' and producers' surplus in an inflation-unemployment trade-off. Includes an analysis of EC4333 - ECONOMICS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION open economy the Phillips curve and the adjusted Phillips curve as well ECTS Credits: 6 Topic 4 as deflation, expectations and credibility. 9) EMU and History and Future of the Common Agricultural Policy the European Central Bank including a discussion on the Economics Topic 5 costs and benefits of EMU to Ireland. The design of the History of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs European Central Bank (ECB). Accountability and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The years and World Trade Organisation transparency .The ECBs monetary policy in EMU. since 1945 have been the longest period since 113 B.C. EU and International Trade Agreements in which no army has crossed the Rhine with war-like EU Development Policy intentions. The very idea of war between the European EU Trade Disputes Union's member States seems as remote as to be Topic 6 Prerequisites: EC4112, EC4111 nonsensical. The creation of the European Union (EU); a Environmental Economics legal, political, economic, cultural, and soon to be Environmental Policy in the EU ------military entity, is one of the greatest economic Energy Policy in the EU experiments in the history of Mankind. The shape and Topic 7 EC4307 - ECONOMETRICS scope of the EU has the capacity to affect the lives of EU Competition Policy ECTS Credits: 6 hundreds of millions of people in different ways, some Theory of Monopoly and Perfect Competition positive, some negative. Thus a careful study of this Topic 8 Economics experiment is in order. The History of Monetary Integration The Theory of Economic and Monetary Union Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course This module uses economics to understand the history of Optimum Currency Area Theory provides an introduction to the theory and practice of the EU, its significance in terms of the post 1945 World The European System of Central Banks econometrics, and presents a treatment of econometric Economy, the EU's international interactions with the rest The Stability and Growth Pact principles for cross-sectional and time series data sets. of the world, its development up to today, and the Euro and the Great Crisis The course concentrates on linear models and focuses on prospects for change most likely in the future. Using Banking System and the Future of Euro Area how the techniques can be applied in practice rather than economic theory as a lens we will use real world on how their statistical properties can be rigorously examples, data, and current topics to inform our Prerequisites: EC4101, EC4102 derived. The essential purpose of the module is to meet discussions on the evolution of the European Union. the main empirical research needs of students who ------typically do not intend to specialise in econometric Syllabus: The module is divided into eight sections set theory. However, the module also serves as a our below. Worksheets corresponding to each topic will EC4407 - IRELAND IN THE WORLD ECONOMY preparation for students who do wish to proceed to more aid students revise the module content. Core texts will ECTS Credits: 6 advanced econometrics courses. Students are expected support lecture material along with references and to have gained experience and show competence in the recommended readings for each topic, where relevant. Economics following transferable skills: data generation, IT (using Topic 1 statistical and econometric software), results Introduction to the Course Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course interpretation and technical write-up, team-working, History of European Integration since the beginning of deals with important macro and micro economic issues directed Web based searches, and use of library the 20th century. and problems facing the Irish economy in the context of resources. Topic 2 its status as one of the most globally ingegrated Economic Growth in Europe economies. The course covers characteristics of the Syllabus: Introduction; regression analysis; method of •Growth in Europe: Facts and Figures economy such as demographic and labour market Ordinary Least Squares (OLS); the Classical Linear Growth effects and factor market integration characteristics and distributional aspects. It also Regression Model; properties of OLS estimators - •Solow's Medium Term Growth Model examines the principal sectors of the economy including Gauss-Markov theorem; interval estimation and Topic 3 agriculture, services and manufacturing. It emphasises hypothesis testing; multiple regression analysis; Trade Theory and the EU the challenges posed by increased intregration in the heteroscedasticity; autocorrelation; multicollinearity; •Absolute Advantage international economy including questions of immigration dynamic econometric models - autoregressive and •Comparative Advantage and environmental sustainability. distributed-lag models; time series econometrics •Production Possibility Frontier (including stationarity, unit roots and cointegration). •Standard Trade Model Syllabus: The course begins with a review of the history EU Trade Tolicy and characteristics of the Irish economy in terms of its The course makes use of Excel, Microfit 4.1 and Stata Trade Effects transition to relatively small closed economy to a data analysis and statistical software. •Tariffs regional economy with high levels of integration with the global economy. It covers recent demographic and EC4427 - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS economic issues significantly influence political decisions labour market trends as well as distributional issues ECTS Credits: 6 and vice versa; it is no longer possible to separate including poverty and income distribution. It proceeds arbitrarily one area of study from the other. The focus to cover the policy and performance of the agriculture, Economics of the course falls upon the growth processes in world services and manufacturing sectors. This is followed by markets; patterns of global production, international the conduct of supply side policies such as competition Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module money flows, global and financial investment practices and regulation policy. The course also covers the issues aims to provide students with insights into how and intensifying regionalism (as evident in the European arising from the increased integration of emerging economics can aid managerial decision making within Union, the North America Free Trade Association and the economies such as China as well as developing firms that operate in an increasingly global environment. Asia Pacific Economic Community).This module seeks to economies and the challenges posed by their Reflecting the highly globalized nature of tastes, provide the student with a balanced and objective development in terms of different aspects of production, labor markets, and financial markets in analysis of the main issues confronting the world sustainability including environment, trade and labour today's world it provides tools for understanding economy and through the use of economic theory, market issues. managerial decision making under conditions of certainty empirical evidence and objective analysis seeks to and uncertainty (including risk analysis). It examines distinguish between fact and fiction. Prerequisites: EC4101, EC4102, EC4004 the nature of the firm in the global economy and different models of corporate governance. It covers Syllabus: The module will have as its main objective an ------economic approaches to decsion making on production exploration of the main issues that confront the world and cost. It also explores decision making on the economy. EC4417 - INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS demand side of the firm by covering demand estimation ECTS Credits: 6 and differnet models of pricing. Topic 1: Forces Shaping the World Economy Topic 2: North South Issues: Trade Policy and Economic Economics Syllabus: The module begins with economic Development perspectives on the firm including neo-classical, Topic 3: International Monetary System 1948- present: Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To study the managerial discretion and behavioural models. It also International Currency Flows and the Role of organisation of markets, firms and industries from both a covers property rights and transaction cost perspectives International Institutions theoretical and applied perspective. Pricing strategies, of the firm. It explores how economic theory Topic 4: International Trade and Growth concentration, market performance, strategies of firms contirbutes a perspective on corporate governance and Topic 5: Globalisation and Foreign Direct Investment and of multinational enterprises (MNEs), and Public examines international models of corporate governance. Topic 6: Multinational Corporations and the Changing Policies will all be appraised at the level of the European It examines decision making in relation to production Nature of International Production Union evolving in a globalised context. using cost and production theory. It proceeds to cover Topic 7: Environment, Sustainability and the Global demand side issues such as demand estimation, demand Economy: Climate Change and effectiveness of global Syllabus: 1.Introduction (Scope and Method of analysis and pricing. It extends pricing analysis by policy responses Industrial Economics, S-C-P paradigm...). covering prices under different market structures such as Topic 8: Economic Development, Poverty and the 2.Theories of the firm: Neoclassical and others different models of oligopoly. It examines the make or Environment 3.Market Structure buy decision in the context of the boundaries of the firm Topic 9: The Global Financial and fiscal crises in the 4.Structure and Strategy (Oligopoly Theory - Cournot and the growing prevalence of outsouring in a global world economy and in Ireland. and Bertrand duopoly models) context. It also examines decision making under Topic 10: Current and Future Economic Challenges for 5.Non price strategies conditions of risk and uncertainty. the World Economy 6.Technological Innovation 7.Barriers to entry in the case of the EU Prerequisites: EC4101, EC4102, EC4004 Prerequisites: EC4101, EC4111, EC4102, EC4112 8.Performance of firms (performance indicators and performance of EU firms) ------9.A Case Study: the EU Banking Industry 10.Multinational enterprises, globalisation and EC4437 - INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY ED5021 - C++ PROGRAMMING regionalism ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 11. The emerging global 'Asian' firm (keiretsu, Chaebol and Chinese SOE) Economics Electronic & Computer Engineering 12.EU Policy with regard to industry Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This is an Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Prerequisites: EC4102, EC4101, EC4004 exploration of the relationships between politics and the C++ language and develop C++ programming skills. economics in the global political economy (GPE). An ------understanding of the main issues confronting the global Syllabus: Basic C++; syntax and semantics of the C++ political economy is a pre-requisite to finding solutions to procedural subset. global problems A fundamental assumption is that Objects and Classes; what a C++ object is and how it is de?ned by the use of a C++ Class. The use of C++ ED5041 - COMPUTER NETWORKS 1 loop. The moving coil meter. Amperes law. Magnetic classes to represent abstract data types. ECTS Credits: 6 materials, B, H, and hysteresis. The magnetic circuit. Function and Operator Overloading: function ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION: Induced emf, Faradays polymorphism. Electronic & Computer Engineering Law of Induction: Lenzs Law. EMF induced in a moving Inheritance and Polymorphism: software re-use via conductor. Electric Generators. Counter EMF, Inductance, composition, inheritance and object polymorphism. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide v = Ldi/dt. Energy stored in an magnetic field. The LR Input and Output: introduction to the iostream library. students with a uni?ed view of the ?eld of multimedia circuit. Memory Management: the new and delete operators: communications and networking infras- AC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS : How the ESB charges for the memory leaks and the use of programs such as ôpurifyö tructures and an understanding of how data is Energy that it supplies. Efficiency, Simple AC circuit to detect them. represented and reliably transmitted over different analysis, Basic Filtering, Power Factor, Safety Issues. Templates: class and function templates as a way of media. To writing reusable software. The Standard Template provide students with an understanding of the structure ------Library: introduction to the components and their use. of the Internet and world-wide web. To outline the Exception handling: throw, try and catch. major topics associated with multimedia communications EE4003 - THE ENGINEER AS A PROFESSIONAL The ANSI/ISO Standard. Development Environments; (inter alia/ applications, networks, protocols ECTS Credits: 6 Debuggers, Prolers, Browsers. and standards). To equip students to quantify the communications requirements of various multimedia Electronic & Computer Engineering ------applications, and the computational overhead of their underlying network protocols. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The ED5031 - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING engineering profession demands more than just technical ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Introduction to data communications and know-how and an engineering education must reflect multimedia. Information representation. Standards for this. To have a successful and rewarding career to and to Electronic & Computer Engineering multi-media communications. Digital communication properly reflect the importance of the engineering basics: data transmission, media, encoding, multiplexing, professional in society it is necessary to have technical Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To understand interfacing, and data-link controls. Local and wide-area knowledge aswell as the ability to express ideas, to and apply the object-oriented approach to software networks. Routing and Internetworking. Internet assume leadership, to operate within teams (sometimes development. To emphasise Good Software Engineering and Internetworking protocols. Transport-level protocols. interdisciplinary) and organisations and to make ethically Practices. To enhance individual and team working skills Client-server model. Application layer. ISDN and B-ISDN. considered decisions. via individual investigative project and presentation, The world-wide web. individual exercises and a team project. Syllabus: 1. Communication. Presenting, Writing. ------2. Adapting to the Workplace. Effective Meetings, Time EE4001 - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 1 Management, Creativity, Stress & Fun, Feedback, Syllabus: Object Oriented Analysis/Design: Object ECTS Credits: 6 Planning, Teamwork, Leadership. Oriented Paradigms (one in detail e.g. OMT/UML) focusing on architecture and behavioural design and Electronic & Computer Engineering 3. The Engineer as a Professional. Professions & The representation. Engineering Profession, Professional Bodies, Life Long Use Cases. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give Learning & Continuous Professional Development Design Patterns. students an understanding of the fundamental concepts Software Reuse. of electricity and magnetism. 4. Engineering Ethics, Engineers in Society, Overview of Object Oriented Programming Languages Responsibility in Engineering, Common Morality & Codes (e.g. Java/Smalltalk). Syllabus: CONDUCTION: Electric charge and flow. of Ethics, Analysing the Problem, Utilitarian & Respect for Individual Project/Case Study. Resistivity, resistance, Ohms Law. Resistors in series and Persons Philosophies, Creative Middle Ways Team Project in the area of Software Design for in parallel. Power dissipated in a resistor. Thevenins and Advanced Communication Systems (e.g. Call Handling Nortons theorem, superposition principle, simple DC ------and Mobility Management Systems for the 3rd generation circuits. Star-delta transformation. mobile system, UMTS). ELECTROSTATICS: Concepts of electrical charge, electrical fields. Field strength, flux and flux density, ------Coulombs and Gauss laws. Potential difference, voltage. Capacitance, dielectrics, permittivity. I = Cdv/dt. Parallel plate and coaxial capacitors. Energy stored. Capacitors in series and in parallel. MAGNETICS: Concept of magnetic field. Magnetic effect of a current, force on a conductor, torque on a current EE4005 - ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS operation, transient conditions, unbalanced loading or the programmes of study and the career paths open to ECTS Credits: 6 faults, operation connected to infinite/non-infinite then upon graduation. Guest professional engineers will busbars, stability margin, operational limits, operation at describe their experiences in their field of engineering. Electronic & Computer Engineering leading power factor, governors and frequency control. The students will therefore be empowered to make an Power Factor Correction: Single-phase and three-phase informed choice as to their programme of study. ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY power factor correction. Utility and consumer power factor correction. Active power factor correction and Syllabus: The students will learn about the fundamental AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN filters. principles of Biomedical engineering, Mechanical PROGRESS Voltage Regulation: Voltage control standards: methods engineering, Computer Aided Engineering and Design, of voltage control, generator, reactive injection, series Aeronautical engineering, Civil engineering, Chemical ------compensation, tap-changing, coordination of voltage and Biochemical engineering, Electronic and Computer regulation, voltage control and reactive power. engineering, and Design and Manufacturing engineering. EE4011 - ENGINEERING COMPUTING Three-phase Transformers: Review of power Engineers need to be familiar with general engineering ECTS Credits: 6 transformers, construction, equivalent circuit, practice and with the particular practices of their autotransformers, use of tap-changers, three-phase discipline. Principal amongst these will be the Electronic & Computer Engineering connections and transformer banks, transformer methodology of design and operational practice within harmonics, parallel operation of three-phase their discipline. Engineering is directed to developing, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Engineering transformers, harmonics, inrush current, unbalanced providing and maintaining infrastructure, goods, systems computing is the use of computers, software and loading, delta/star transformers. and services for industry and the community in a numerical methods to solve scientific and engineering Transmission and distribution: Transmission line sustainable manner. It is important that graduate problems. The module has two distinct aspects. Firstly, inductance, capacitance. Overhear lines, underground engineers are thoroughly versed in the engineering the module aims to introduce students to a number of cables. technologies relevant to their chosen discipline. basic numerical methods commonly used in solving Fault analysis: Power systems faults: earth faults, Examples would include; telecommunications, power engineering problems and the concepts necessary to line-line, line-line-earth; fault calculations, symmetrical systems, control systems, algorithms, data structures, implement them in a relevant engineering software faults, unbalenced faults. manufacturing processes, highway construction, package. The second aim is to introduce students to a Switching and ProtectionL Switches, breakers, aeronautical engineering etc. Students will also have the high level object-oriented programming language and a contactors, purpose of protection, plant protection, opportunity to become involved in multi-disciplinary software development environment. personnel, security of supply, stability, protection system projects which require them to draw upon technologies compenents, zones of protection, current transformers, outside their immediate area of interest. Syllabus: Brief introduction to computers. Overview of fuses, relays, breakers, inverse time, generator and scalars, vectors & arrays. Overview of logic operands for transformers protection schemes, auto-reclosing circuit ------algorithm development. Introduction to basic numerical breakers. Relay types, over current, differential, methods for solving engineering problems, e.g. search impedance and pilot relaying, transformer protection, EE4023 - DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS based techniques for finding roots, determining the generator and motor protection, circuit interruption and ECTS Credits: 6 maxima/minima of mathematical functions and methods switching over voltages. for solving sets of simultaneous equations. Algorithm Rectification, Inversion and High Voltage DC Systems Electronic & Computer Engineering development and implementation of numerical methods Advanced Topics: Grid design, transmission and in math based software package. distribtion systems, integrating renewable generation Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is Comparative study of different programming languages onto a grid, grid design for the future, smart grds. designed to provide students with a framework for and software development methods. comparing emerging distributed systems, as well as an Introduction to object oriented development. Basic data ------understanding of the algorithms necessary to support a types, control statements, methods, scope. Introduction distributed system. Computing models and data to programming language documentation. Introduction EE4021 - GENERAL ENGINEERING communications will be studied, as well as software to libraries. Interactive Development Environments. ECTS Credits: 3 development issues relating to the development of Basic test practices and test case definition. distributed applications. Potential security threats in Electronic & Computer Engineering distributed systems will also be discussed. ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Syllabus: [Distributed System Fundamentals] Types of EE4015 - ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS the students of the Engineering Choice programme to Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems Architectures, ECTS Credits: 6 various disciplines of engineering, specifically related to Location of Services, Data conversion and Marshalling of the engineering programmes on offer in UL across five data. Replication, Clock synchronisation, Mutual Electronic & Computer Engineering departments. This will broaden their curricula by learning Exclusion & Deadlock Detection, Distributed File System about many areas of engineering. The students will be Case study. [Component based Software Architectures] Generators/Alternators in power systems: steady state exposed to the fundamental principles of each discipline, Elements of Component based Software Architectures, Case Study: e.g. CORBA, Java Remote Method common emitter amplifier for finite amplitude input EE4407 - ASICS 1 Invocation (RMI). Portability and conversion utilities. sinusoidal signals. ECTS Credits: 6 [Web Services] Simple Object Request Protocol (SOAP), Representational State Transfer (REST). Fault Tolerance. FILTERS: Filter classification - low, high, bandpass and Electronic & Computer Engineering [Service Portability] Performance, Scalability, Security, band stop. Filter specification. Distinction between group Availability, Compliance to standards, Flexibility, Platform and phase delay, minimum phase concept. Low pass Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module requirements, Manageability. Consistency and filter types; Butterworth, Bessel and Chebyshev. concentrates on the design of digital ASIC (application Replication. [Cookies] Uses and Abuses [Application Derivation of Butterworth response to exemplify design specific integrated circuits). Servers] Comparative study. [Distributed System methodology. Meaning of term "maximally flat". Use of Security] Identification of attacks. Mechanisms to avoid tables to design passive low pass filters. Low pass to Syllabus: Introduction to Design Methodologies. Custom attacks & to minimise impact of attacks. high and bandpass transformation. IC designs. Standard cells. HDL based Digital Design flow. EDA Tools. ------DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CIRCUITS: Lossless transmission lines, derivation of wave velocity and Description of combinational and sequential digital EE4115 - SYSTEMS ANALYSIS characteristic impedance. Step propagation, reflection systems in the Verilog or VHDL Hardware description ECTS Credits: 6 coefficient, multiple reflections, matched termination. language (HDL): Properties of selected lines, e.g., coaxial cable, PCB Electronic & Computer Engineering tracks, ribbon cable. (Sinusoidal response and SWR are Test benches and verification using HDLs. Synthesizeable covered elsewhere). HDL constructs and inference of common digital Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To revise and structures. develop student skills in the mathematical analysis of ------electronic problems. CMOS digital circuit design. EE4313 - ACTIVE CIRCUIT DESIGN 1 ECTS Credits: 6 The MOS transistor and long channel model. Parasitic Syllabus: BODE PLOTS: Use of logarithmic plots for capacitances. Introduction to the short channel frequency response. Poles and zeros in the frequency Electronic & Computer Engineering model.The static CMOS inverter and its static and domain. Bode approximations for amplitude and phase dynamic performance. responses. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Introduction to Active Circuit Design and Analysis. Static CMOS logic gates, composite CMOS gates and LAPLACE TRANSFORM: Application of Laplace transform switch based logic. to circuit analysis, initial conditions, partial fraction Syllabus: REVIEW OF BASIC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS- Basic decomposition, use of tables for inverse transformation, Circuit Elements, Phasors and Complex Impedance, CMOS latches and flip-flops for ASIC design. s and t shifting. Impulse and step response related to Circuit Analysis TheoremsAC location of poles in s-plane, stability concept illustrated CIRCUIT ANALYSIS û Combining impedances, frequency Example common ASIC blocks: adders and multipliers. via feedback systems. Barkhausen criteria for oscillation. response, source conversions, Thevenin and Norton Geometric derivation of frequency domain response from Equivalent Circuits, Mesh and Nodal Analysis, Bridge Design for test. Fault models. The stuck-at fault model pole-zero locations in s-plane. Networks, D-Y and Y-D conversions. and test. Vector generation. Testing sequential circuits. RESONANCE û Series and Parallel Resonance COMPUTER SIMULATION: Use of appropriate package to CircuitsAMPLIFIERS: Properties of an ``ideal'' amplifier. ------model responses. Input and Output impedance. Introduce the Operational Amplifier as an approximation of an ideal amplifier. EE6011 - CRYPTOGRAPHY AND SECURITY SECOND ORDER SYSTEMS: Standard form of second Simple inverting and non-inverting amplifier circuits. FUNDAMENTALS order low pass response. Frequency and step response, SMALL-SIGNAL MODELS: Modelling of simple MOS and ECTS Credits: 6 damping factor, natural frequency, under, critical and BJT amplifiers. overdamped responses. Overshoot and settling time. AMPLIFIER TYPES: Characteristics of common-emitter Electronic & Computer Engineering Risetime estimation for cascaded systems. (common source), common-base (common gate) and common-collector (common-drain) topologies. Gain Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Intorduce FOURIER SERIES: Development of Fourier series as a characteristics, input, output impedances and key cryptography & security fundamentals, including security means for decomposing non-sinusoidal signals into sums application strengths of each type. threats and vulnerabilities as well as security services for of sinusoidal signals. Trigonometric and complex forms of modern e-commerce and mobile applications. series. Amplitude and phase spectra. Application to Prerequisites: EE4102 circuit responses. Spectrum of amplitude modulated Syllabus: [Introduction to information and network signal. Distortion due to non-linear circuits exemplified ------security] Why security is an important issue. by numerical calculation of distortion generated by [Threats and vulnerabilities] Threats from passive and active attackers, such as: identity interception, ISDN and B-ISDN Reuse. masquerade, replay, data interception, manipulation, The world-wide web. Overview of Object Oriented Programming Languages repudiation, denial-of-service, traffic-analysis, Multimedia applications (e.g. Java/Smalltalk). Individual Project/Case mis-routing and digital pests such as: trojan horse, virus, Study. Team Project in the area of Software Design for worms. ------Advanced Communication Systems (e.g. Call [Security services, components and policies]. Security Handling and Mobility Management Systems for the 3rd services such as: data confidentiality, data integrity and EE6411 - C++ PROGRAMMING generation mobile system, UMTS). Email security. Security policies. Access control ECTS Credits: 6 mechanisms. ------[Cryptography] Introduction of classical and modern Electronic & Computer Engineering cryptographic techniques and demonstration of the EE6451 - DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING application of cryptography in the provision of security Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce ECTS Credits: 6 services. the C++ language and develop C++ programming skills. [Symmetric-key cryptography] Stream ciphers and Electronic & Computer Engineering classical Feistel-block ciphers. Examples such as: DES, Syllabus: Basic C++; syntax and semantics of the C++ IDEA, RC-5 and AES. procedural subset. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce [Introduction to Cryptanalysis] Cryptanalysis of classical Objects and Classes; what a C++ object is and how it is the theory of digital signal processing, including the ciphers and determination of cipher strength. de?ned by the use of a C++ Class. The use of C++ following very important topics: the discrete Fourier [Public-key cryptography] The requirements of classes to represent abstract data types. Transform, the Z-transform and digital ?lter design. public-key cryptography. The intractability of factoring Function and Operator Overloading: function and calculating discrete logarithms. The RSA and El polymorphism. Syllabus: Discrete signals and systems. The DFT, its Gamal schemes and implementation issues. Elliptic curve Inheritance and Polymorphism: software re-use via properties and applications; relationship to other cryptography. Identification and digital signature composition, inheritance and object polymorphism. transforms; Fourier, Laplace, Z-transform etc. Railings as schemes. Zero-knowledge schemes. The DSA digital Input and Output: introduction to the iostream library. theoretical samplers. Spectral descriptions of sequences. signature standard. Public key infrastructure. Memory Management: the new and delete operators: Analogue and digital convolution, the z-transform in the [Key management] Key distribution, key-sharing. Use of memory leaks and the use of programs such as ôpurifyö design of FIR digital ?lters. Linear-phase, all-pass ?lters, key distribution centres, authentication servers and to detect them. minimum-phase ?lters. Differentiators and Integrators. certification authorities. Templates: class and function templates as a way of Windowing techniques in ?lter design. writing reusable software. The Standard Template Filter design and fast convolution by FFT. ------Library: introduction to the components and their use. Frequency-sampling ?lters. IIR ?lters: mapping from Exception handling: throw, try and catch. analogue ?lters, bi-linear mapping, review of other EE6031 - MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS The ANSI/ISO Standard. Development Environments; mappings, their application in digital and sampled-data ECTS Credits: 6 Debuggers, Prolers, Browsers. (e.g. switched-capacitor) ?lters. Up-sampling and down-sampling. Band-pass signals and modulation. Finite Electronic & Computer Engineering ------word-length effects; impact on architectures. Noise topics. Sigma-delta noise shaping, applications in A/D Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Provides EE6421 - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING and D/A conversion. Correlation principles. Fast students with an understanding of applications and ECTS Credits: 6 correlation by DFT. Introduction to adaptive ?ltering. networking infrastructures used in communications for Wiener ?lter. LMS algorithm. Selected applications. data in form of text, images, audio and video. Electronic & Computer Engineering Power spectra and spectral estimation.

Syllabus: Introduction to data communications and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To understand ------multimedia. and apply the object-oriented approach to software Information representation. Standards for multi-media development. To emphasise Good Software Engineering EE6461 - INFORMATION THEORY AND CODING communication. Practices. To enhance individual and team working skills ECTS Credits: 6 Digital communication basics: Data transmission, via individual investigative Transmission media, Data Encoding, Multiplexing. project and presentation, individual exercises and a team Electronic & Computer Engineering Interfacing and Data Link Controls. project. Local and wide area networks. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Routing and Internetworking operation. Syllabus: Object Oriented Analysis/Design: Object aims to guide the student through the implications and Internet and Internetwork protocols Oriented Paradigms (one in detail e.g. OMT/UML) consequences of fundamental theories and laws of Transport level protocols focusing information theory and to impart a comprehensive Client Server Model on architecture and behavioural design and grounding in source coding, random and burst error Application Layer representation. Use Cases. Design Patterns. Software protection coding theory with reference to their increasingly wide application in present day digital semiconductor devices from wafer to package. communications and computer systems. ------2. Test Engineering requirements. 3. Digital logic test concepts:- sequential and Syllabus: Information Theory. EE6621 - ASICS 1 (DIGITAL ASICS) combinational logic. Entropy. Information rate. Shannons Theorem, channel ECTS Credits: 6 4. Memory test:- RAM and ROM. capacity: Bandwidth - S/N trade-off. Fundamentals of 5. Fault modelling and fault simulation information theory: source encoding theory and Electronic & Computer Engineering 6. Design for Testability (DfT). techniques. Communication channels: 7. Built-In Self-Test (BIST). m-ary discrete memoryless, binary symmetric. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module 8. Problem with design complexity: System on a Chip Equivocation, mutual information, and channel capacity. introduces issues relating to the design and (SoC) test problem. Shannon-Hartley theorem. Channel coding: random and implementation of application-speci?c integrated circuits 9. ATE systems. burst error protection on communication (ASICS) for digital systems. 10. IEEE Standard 1149.1 (Boundary Scan). channels. Interleaving principles. Types and sources of error. Linear block coding. Standard Array and syndrome Syllabus: Introduction to Design Methodology. Custom ------decoding. Cyclic and Convolution codes. Soft and hard IC design. Standard cells. Programmable logic. Gate decision detection. Viterbi decoding. arrays. FPGAs. ASICs. VLSI Structures. CMOS, advanced EH4001 - CRITICAL PRACTICE 1: ACADEMIC CMOS, ROMs and RAMs. Introduction to UNIX. READING AND WRITING ------Manipulating ?les and directroies. Information ECTS Credits: 6 processing. Printing. Using remote systems. Tailoring the EE6471 - ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN envioromnent. Job control. Editors. Design entry and School of Culture and Communication ECTS Credits: 6 simulation. Schematic capture. Simulation. Verilog HDL. Module form general syntax. Data types. Constant Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Electronic & Computer Engineering assignment. Parameters. Arrays. aims to develop the skills of analysis and critical writing Operators. Procedural statements. Using built-in with a focus on literature(s) in English. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module functions in Verilog. Additional Verilog constructs. Two aims to equip the student with a range of techniques behavioural examples: gate level simulation, tri-state Syllabus: Intended as a foundational course for students applicable to the design and test of very high speed and gates. Device layout and fabrication. The CMOS IC moving from second to third level models of studying fault-tolerant digital circuits. fabrication process. The CMOS inverter. Other CMOS literature(s) in English, students will be introduced to the Structures (in an n-well process). basic skills necessary to develop critical readings of Syllabus: Review: High-speed design in the time and literary texts. Literary genres will be addressed within frequency domains; re?ection, ringing and crosstalk, ------the module with primary texts drawn from British and transmission lines. Transmission lines and termination American prose fiction. Basic elements of literary theory strategies: Series, Thevenin, diode and AC terminations; EE6631 - TEST ENGINEERING 1 (PRODUCTION will also be introduced. Crosstalk, re?ections, ground bounce. Properties and TEST SYSTEMS) behaviour of stripline and microstrip traces. Technology ECTS Credits: 6 ------review: LVDS, ECL/PECL, GTL, SSTL, HSTL, and high-speed CMOS drivers and Electronic & Computer Engineering EH4003 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORY receivers; mixed voltage systems; bus-hold and ECTS Credits: 6 bus-loading considerations; hot insertion. Synchronous Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The increasing Design: Clock oscillators and buffering, Clock complexities and speed of operation of modern digital School of Culture and Communication Distribution, Metastability. System Design and circuits and systems is increasing the demand on product Manufacture: PCB materials; Layer build and testing. The purpose of the module is to introduce the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this speci?cation; Power supply considerations; Decoupling students to modern semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) module is unsettle common sense approaches to techniques. test methods, including automatic test equipment (ATE), literature in English and to theorise the ways in which EMC/ESD: Radiated vs conducted; Filtering; Effects of design for testability (DfT) and built-in self-test (BIST) literature is produced, received and interpreted. apertures, gasketing; Conducted emissions, coaxial for digital ICs. cables, twisted pair; Shielding. Thermal Aspects: Sources Syllabus: The module provides an introduction to of heat; Thermal resistance; Basic air?ow models; Syllabus: The increasing complexities and speed of literary theory, incorporating modes of analysis which Impact on reliability; Altitude Effects. Reliability: Bathtub operation of modern digital circuits and systems is emphasise the relationships of literature to issues of curves; Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT). Models increasing the demand on product testing. The module race, class, and gender. Though theory will be introduced and Simulation: Spice and IBIS-based simulations. will concentrate on IC designs, with the following key historically, twentieth century literary theory will make Fault-tolerance and areas covered:- up the core of the module. Students are encouraged to redundancy: Fault-tolerant digital circuits. Architecture of compare and contrast the various models of literary fault-tolerant computers. 1. Semiconductor test overview:- test points for discussion presented during the course, and to think about how the following models might be applied to 1750-1820 (for example, Paine, Jefferson, The texts: Contemporary literature from across the African Federalist, Murray); 19th century American literature (for Russian Formalism; 'new' criticism; reader-response continent example, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, criticism; psychoanalytic criticism; Marxist criticism; Multiple socio-political and cultural contexts associated Melville, Dickinson); incipient American modernism. structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, with Anglophone African literatures deconstruction, cultural materialism, new historicism, A sample of key theoretical debates in the field of African ------queer theory and post-colonialism. studies at large (connected to additional theoretical fields such as postcolonialism, human rights, feminism, EH4026 - COLONIAL/POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE ------ecocriticism, postmodernism, and so on) IN ENGLISH A sample of key genres in African literature, include the ECTS Credits: 6 EH4007 - LITERARY MODERNISM memoir and autobiography, the novel, and drama ECTS Credits: 6 Ways to compare, contrast and combine different School of Culture and Communication theoretical and methodological positions in the field of School of Culture and Communication African Studies Rationale and Purpose of the Module: On successful completion of this module, students will be able to apply Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Syllabus: This module will examine the literary a critical and cogent awareness of studies British literature from the turn of the twentieth representation of violence by authors writing across the Colonial and postcolonial histories of the 19th and 20th century to the end of the Second World War. Students African continent today. Specifically, our analyses of centuries. will explore the turn to interiority and experimental selected works and writers will explore the following Multiple socio-political and cultural contexts associated modes of writing and will become familiar with major themes: 1. how attempts toward the national catharsis with Anglophone world literature. historical, political and social factors involved in this turn. of post-genocide Rwanda and post-apartheid South Key literary texts in the field of postcolonial studies from Topics will include the impact of the two world wars; the Africa have been unsuccessful in ridding the two around the world. influence of major theorists of the mind such as Freud, countries of cruelty and bloodshed; 2. how child soldiers A sample of key theoretical debates in the field of Jung, William James and Melanie Klein; the come to terms with their violent and violated childhood postcolonial studies at large (connected to additional cross-fertilisation of the arts, including painting, film and while struggling to reinvent themselves in the midst of theoretical fields such as feminism, ecocriticism, photography; the role of the Cambridge Ritualists and ruined societies; 3. how anti-colonial liberation warfare is postmodernism, and so on). the archaeological discoveries; the battle for suffrage remembered and informs contemporary identity Ways to compare, contrast and combine different and the subsequent debate about the nature of gender struggles; and 4. how the memory of slavery informs the theoretical and methodological positions in the field of and the relation between and among the sexes. desire for rootedness and home. We will read novels, postcolonial studies. autobiographies, and hybrid texts, alongside watching Syllabus: This module covers British literature from films and reviewing key essays in the field of African Syllabus: This module will examine colonial discourse of 1900-1945. Writers will include major novelists of the literature. the British Empire, through a series of colonial and period such as E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia postcolonial literary and theoretical readings. More Woolf and James Joyce; and/or major poets such as T.S. ------specifically, we will review the fundamental dichotomies Eliot, William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden and the poets of of colonial discourse - master/ slave, center/margins, the First World War. In defining the themes and EH4023 - THE NEW WORLD: AMERICAN enlightenment/barbarism, authenticity/ hybridity, secular interpreting the literature of the period, attention is paid LITERATURE TO 1890 modernity/ religious conservatism, nation/nativism - and to political, social and cultural constructs (for example, ECTS Credits: 6 will proceed to read articles and novels from the end of the World Wars, the suffrage movement, the impact of the 19th century, as well as 20th century, from India, other art forms), to significant concepts and philosophies School of Culture and Communication Africa and the Caribbean, that both address and attempt (for example, Primitivism, psychoanalysis, physics) and to reconfigure the colonial experience from a variety of to literary movements (for example, Bloomsbury). Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module perspectives. offers students a survey of some of the primary literary ------themes and cultural concerns that have contributed to ------the formulation of a distinct tradition of American EH4017 - CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE literature from the initial colonisation of the continent to EH4027 - CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S WRITING IN ENGLISH 1890. ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: American literature pre-1620 (for examples, School of Culture and Communication School of Culture and Communication Columbus, de Vaca, Harriot, Smith): American literature from 1620 to the early 18th century (for example, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Rationale and Purpose of the Module: On successful Bradford, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Byrd); the Puritan students to key texts and themes in contemporary completion of this module, students will be able to apply influence (for example, Williams, Taylor, Mather, womens writing; to introduce students to critical a critical and cogent awareness of Edwards); the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution methodologies for the analysis of gender in literary texts. author in different theoretical and methodological EH4043 - IRISH LITERARY REVOLUTIONS 1880 - Syllabus: This course will introduce students to a frameworks, students will have the opportunity to assess 1930 number of key fictions by British and North American and interpret a wide range of the authors work. ECTS Credits: 6 women authors, written between the 1970s and the present day. We will examine the ways in which these Example One - James Joyce School of Culture and Communication fictions respond to the changes in female experience in Addressing the production of Irish cultural and social the second half of the twentieth and beginning of the identities in these texts, students will construct readings Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module twenty-first century, as well as exploring how these of Joyces work using contemporary literary and cultural replaces and re-situates in second year an earlier first fictions reflect upon, and re-figure, conventional theory. Focusing on the major fictions of Joyce, the year module (EH4111-- The Irish Literary Revival). It is a understandings of gender identity. Key issues for module will also consider his prose and life-writing, and revised and updated module which covers the period of discussion will be the ways in which the texts respond to explore the interconnections between these various the Revival but also broadens the canon. It will introduce their social and cultural contexts, and how gender writings. Joyces literary experimentation provides an students to a range of Irish literary work and cultural identity is shaped by location and place in these fictions. opportunity to explore narrative form and technique and movements in the period 1880-1930. It aims to We will also explore the significant motifs that emerge so the module will consider the ways in which literary introduce students to selected literature from this across texts, such as women and madness; conventions and cultural discourses are challenged in his revolutionary period in Irish culture, attending to mother-daughter relationships; femininity and desire; work. Given the range of new media available in this field innovations in style, structure, and genre in the period, fantasy and romance; the body; and the writing of race as well as Joyces own commitment to film, we will and concentrating on formal as well as cultural and gender. explore a number of methods of reading Joyce from experimentation. photographs, to archive footage, to the contemporary ------documentaries about and film productions of his work, to Background: from the 1880s on, the 'Irish Question' was the Joyce hypertext and other online resources. a central site of struggle in British and Irish public EH4028 - STUDY OF A MAJOR IRISH AUTHOR discourse, and in this turbulent period a new generation ECTS Credits: 6 ------of writers began to interact with this and other questions in their literary work. Writers such as W. B. Yeats, J. M. School of Culture and Communication EH4037 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING Synge, Lady Gregory, George Moore, and Eva ECTS Credits: 6 Gore-Booth identified (temporarily, in some cases) with Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module cultural nationalism, and became associated with the offers students the opportunity to engage in intensive School of Culture and Communication Irish Literary Revival and cultural arenas including the study of an author whose work has significantly affected Abbey Theatre and the Gaelic League. Decadent and the traditions of Irish literature written in English. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: There is a 'New Woman' writers Oscar Wilde, George Egerton, and Students will read an extensive selection of the authors strong tradition in the Limerick area of creative writing Sarah Grand, resisted hegemonies of a different kind, works in order to understand fully his/her individual which includes the works of writers such as Kate O'Brien, subverting gender and sexual identities and challenging development and his/her important contributions to Frank McCourt, and Kevin Barry. With the creation of the prescribed roles in the family. Against the backdrop of an literary history. new McCourt Chair in Creative Writing, a general module emerging socialist movement, writers such as G. B. Shaw On successful completion of this module, students will is needed out of which the first steps towards the and Seán O'Casey, tackled class activism; while others, have gained creation of undergraduate and graduate creative writing including Anna Parnell, Roger Casement, Ernie O'Malley, An understanding of the author in his/her political, streams might be taken. and Maud Gonne began to write autobiographical historical, and cultural contexts; accounts of their involvement in Irish national struggles. Familiarity with a range of the authors works and with a Syllabus: Ireland has a long and well established Over the course of this period, the work of James Joyce range of his/her thematic, stylistic, aesthetic, and formal tradition of excellence in the genre of short story, began to draw on these radical discourses and other concerns; theatrical, creative non-fiction and poetry writing. This transnational literary movements in the production of his An understanding of the authors importance in the creative writing module draws on that tradition and important literary experiments. literary canon; offers students an opportunity to develop their skills in An understanding of different theoretical and creative writing in these four genres. Students will Syllabus: Exploring selected Irish writers and literary methodological ways of interpreting the major author. benefit from lectures and workshops in which they will movements 1880-1930, this module aims to introduce learn about the practices of other writers, and from learners to one of the most radical periods in Irish thence explore strategies for effective writing. Students culture. Attending to formal and cultural Syllabus: This module will function as a critical survey of will participate in regular writing activities, working experimentation, and drawing on a range of literary the work of a major Irish author. Students will study the collectively and individually to complete a piece of work genres, the module will explore the local and authors development from early efforts to mature output in their chosen genre. transnational dynamics of the Irish literary world. By and will analyse and discuss the authors overall impact developing a "thick description" of the period, the on literary history. The module will position the author ------module aims to enable students to become better critical historically and politically, considering the authors role as thinkers and literary researchers by focusing on close a contributor to intellectual history. By locating the reading, on comparative studies of different writers and EN4015 - CURRICULUM AND POLICY STUDIES its implications for their professional practice. Through (sometimes intersecting) literary movements, and on the ECTS Credits: 6 these lenses students will consider schools as social reception and critical analysis of this material at the time settings (social class, gender, ethnicity, diversity, and since. School of Education equality of treatment) and as sites of teaching, learning and assessment. ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In this module students will be invited to develop their thinking and Syllabus: Recognising and understanding the origins of EH4053 - AUGUSTAN AND ROMANTIC LITERATURE understanding on the contested nature of the curriculum diversity within self and others; cultural diversity and the ECTS Credits: 6 and policy-making processes in both the national and politics of difference; social inclusion and cultural international arenas. They will become more aware of diversity at local, national and international levels; policy School of Culture and Communication the influence and increasing significance of national and and legal dimensions of diversity and implications for international organisations on their practice as teachers. inclusive education from the perspective of race and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is ethnicity; implications for professional practice within the designed to draw together and combine the current first Syllabus: The definitions of curriculum as content and context of the classroom, school and wider community. year Restoration and Augustan Literature module and the experience as well as hidden curriculum; the Reflect critically on schools as institutions from a second year elective module Sensibility and Romanticism philosophical and ideological foundations of curriculum sociological perspective (gender, social class and equality to offer a broader and more inclusive survey of British are considered from the perspectives of knowledge, of treatment) and from the perspective of teaching, and Irish Literature between 1660 and 1830. This society and the individual; the dynamics of curriculum learning and assessment (e.g. dominant teaching innovation is intended to offer students a more development and policy reform in education ; the strategies and school structures; models of assessment; comprehensive 'long' eighteenth-century option in particularities of curriculum and policy-making homework; technologies for teaching, learning and second year in the proposed new BA. development in the Irish context; curriculum and policy assessment including school design). developments in education internationally; influence of Syllabus: The aim of this course is to provide students national and international bodies on education policy and ------with a survey of literature in English between the curriculum-making processes nationally; partnership Restoration of the British monarchy in 1660 through to approach; recent curriculum policy developments; core EN4041 - CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDINGS AND the democratic reforms of 1830. This course aims to curriculum; the work of the NCCA and their proposals for THINKING ON EDUCATION immerse students in the literary language of the time post-primary reform; curriculum change, reform, ECTS Credits: 6 across several genres. We will first look at contexts for innovation and development; curriculum design; key the emergence of modern genres such as the polemical factors associated with the adoption, implementation, School of Education pamphlet, the novel, and the journalistic essay. In this dissemination and evaluation of curriculum reform; first part of the course is studied the prose and poetic impact of school and teacher culture on curriculum Rationale and Purpose of the Module: During this writings of figures such as Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, reform efforts; case studies of recent curriculum module students will be exposed to some of the major Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu, and Oliver reforms; the pedagogy and assessment of the contemporary thinkers in education. They will be Goldsmith. curriculum; purposes, modes and techniques of encouraged to critically analyse these through the lens of assessment; assessment for learning; contemporary deconstruction of their own very recent experiences of In its second half this module provides students with a national and international curriculum issues; some schooling. It is intended that the module will foster survey of literature of the eighteenth and early radical alternatives. amongst students an appreciation of the interplay nineteenth centuries, a period in which literature was between educational theory and practice. Through involved with, and inspired by, revolutionary political ------induction into the scholarship of education, the module activity. The writers of this period grappled with issues of will aim to foster an understanding of teacher identity race, slavery, gender, democracy, and republicanism. We EN4025 - INCLUSIVE EDUCATION 1: through critical engagement with the nature and purpose will trace a shift from a negative and trivialising concept CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES of education. of 'the romantic' towards the more complex Romantic ECTS Credits: 6 cults of Nature and Imagination, thought through in the Syllabus: A brief overview of development of early context of intense friendships and collaboration between School of Education influential thinkers in education exploring the core clusters of poets and critics. We will survey the writings question what is education: Plato/Socrates (dialogic Robert Burns, Williams Blake, William Wordsworth and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Irish society perspective); Descartes (enlightenment thinking and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe and has experienced unprecedented demographic change in logical rationalism); Rousseau (Emile) exploration of Mary Shelley, among others. recent times resulting in educators responding quickly to modern thinkers that have influenced education Dewey the changing nature of cultural diversity in the classroom (experience and democracy in education) Buber (on ------and other learning communities. This module seeks to relationship); Frankyl (meaning making). An overview of explore, recognise and appreciate new expressions of schooling exploring the core question what is schooling; race and culture with the aim of developing students' Illich (de-schooling society) Bourdieu & Lortie (cultural awareness and understanding of diversity in society and reproduction & deconstruction of the apprenticeship of observation) Freire & McLaren (critical pedagogy); concepts of communication and reflection as significant Eisner (the art and appreciation of education) Greene processes in professional identity formation ------(imagination and education); Sugrue (deconstructing lay theories of teaching); Lessing and Robinson Syllabus: This module will explore students' EP4005 - NEW ENTERPRISE CREATION (indoctrination and changing educational paradigms); preconceived and lay theories of teaching and learning ECTS Credits: 6 Palmer (courage in teaching). and will focus on how these theories are formed. Students will also explore the values which underpin Management and Marketing ------their decisions to become a professional teacher. The module will introduce students to the concept of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Small firms EN4043 - UNDERSTANDING CLASSROOM developing a professional identity and how they can be are a critical component of the Irish economy and play PRACTICES agents of their own learning. This identity and agency key roles in the stimulation and development of all ECTS Credits: 6 will be fostered through theoretical and practical work on economies. In recent years high-profile success of both communication and reflection. As part of the Irish and international entrepreneurs in building School of Education communication process, students will be encouraged to profitable business has been inspiring. Creating a new value the empowerment that literacy and numeracy enterprise is a challenging task, one that requires specific Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module bring to living and there will be a particular focus on knowledge as well as general business and focuses on the development of knowledge, skills, and school literacy and numeracy. They will also be entrepreneurial skills. Successful entrepreneurship and attitudes which will support student teachers in preparing supported to consider their role as agents of change in the transformation of creative ideas into commercially for School Placement (SP) in the spring semester by school and society, particularly in relation to issues of viable businesses requires more than merely luck and developing their capacity to engage in and reflect upon social and global justice. The concept and practice of money. It is a cohesive process of creativity, risk taking effective planning, preparation and management of reflection will be addressed in developing a professional and business planning. This module will expose students learning environments. identity to the process of entrepreneurship and more specifically to the process of opportunity recognition, the elements Syllabus: Students are provided with an introduction to ------of business planning and provides hands-on experience the complexities of teaching to help students fulfil their in the creation and development of a new business role as facilitators of learning drawing upon Evidence EN6161 - UNDERSTANDING LEARNING enterprise. Students will apply the knowledge they Based Practice; Teacher as Researcher; Pedagogical ECTS Credits: 6 learn in the classroom to real-world business Strategies; Classroom Management; Assessment for/of opportunities and subsequently will develop a more learning; benefits and limitations of using statistical School of Education entrepreneurial mindset. analysis strategies to determine the effectiveness of pedagogical approaches. This module will help students Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of Syllabus: The aim of this module is to provide students to understand schools and the dominant teaching this module is to introduce students to different with an understanding of the stages involved in creating approaches that are used within them by looking at the theoretical views of how people learn and the factors a new venture, including the development of skills in history of Irish post-primary schools - educational influencing this learning. Employing an evidence-based evaluating, preparing and presenting a business plan. It provision in modern Ireland (school type; perspective, it aims to challenge the lay theories often will provide an entrepreneurial mindset and a sense of patronage/governance). The concept of the reflective associated with learning as a result of formal educational entrepreneurial behaviour, which can be effectively used practitioner will be central to this module where students practices. in a number of different work environments. The will be given an introduction to the knowledge, skills and module will facilitate students in the development and practices of reflection. The module examines the Syllabus: The purpose of this module is to provide application of the analytical and decision-making skills requirements of the Teaching Council and other bodies in students with a critical understanding of key topics in necessary in formulating, implementing and controlling a relation to professional conduct, and child welfare issues. learning theory, examining behavioural, cognitive and business plan. The module will also establish project constructivist theory. The role of motivation is also credibility and improve students' presentation and ------discussed and an introduction to learner differences is communication skills. The module will therefore address included. Several concepts, such as intelligence and the following: EN6151 - BECOMING A TEACHER: IDENTITY AND learning style will be critically examined as part of this • the importance of SMEs and business planning AGENCY module. An introduction is given to the personal, social • developing and screening business ideas ECTS Credits: 6 and emotional • feasibility analysis development of young people, including ways in which • components of the business plan School of Education this impacts on the second level school. Students will • financing options for the business reflect on their own learning and show an awareness of • presenting the business plan with confidence Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module how their approach differs from that of others. Students aims to help student teachers to identify and critically will be introduced to key educational thinkers and will be ------analyse influences which shape the individual in expected to develop an initial outline of their own becoming a teacher and to also focus on the key educational philosophy EP4007 - ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT AND in economic development. Students will also benefit ------GROWTH from identifying the external and internal factors that ECTS Credits: 6 impact on business start-up. Students are expected to EQ4013 - FOUNDATIONS OF EQUINE LOCOMOTION prepare a feasibility analysis on a business idea to ECTS Credits: 6 Management and Marketing examine the viability of starting this business in a real-life situation. Biological Sciences Rationale and Purpose of the Module: How best to scale up and expand the small enterprise into Syllabus: Mode of Instruction is lecture and tutorials Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module international markets are key managerial challenges workshops. Knowledge is structured in two main provides students with the knowledge on the principles of facing the owner-manager and if not accomplished sections, theory and application of theory to real life athletic movement in the horse, which includes simple effectively can lead to the demise of a potentially economic conditions. Initially the concepts and factors gait evaluation and consideration of various factors that successful business. When managed successfully, it affecting the entrepreneurial process are imparted to impinge on efficient movement / locomotion. The module provides interesting, creative, and rewarding experiences students, following which students work together in also develops a greater understanding of the physical for the owner-manager. In the small enterprise context teams engaging in experiential learning in assessing the preparations necessary for performance and the use of there is a constant pressure to create and sustain a feasibility and viability of their business idea. effective practices pre and post exercise. These are key competitive advantage and to achieve this, the skills in industry to prevent and recognise injury and owner-manager needs to become sophisticated in their ------maximise performance in race and sport horses. management practices and strategic thinking. This requires the owner-manager to move from the EP4407 - ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT Syllabus: Locomotion; the role of nervous, skeletal and "entrepreneurial" to "professional" manager and ECTS Credits: 6 muscular systems in locomotion, use of body segments - leadership roles. This module will provide students with a head and neck, back and ribs, hindquarters, ring of strong theoretical knowledge of the challenges of Management and Marketing locomotion, limiting factors - joint range of movement, managing a new and growing enterprise with an injury, willingness, opposing muscle groups, stance and international perspective and will develop their skills and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Creating a new flight phases of movement, simple gaits - walk, trot, competencies to apply and integrate this knowledge to venture is a challenging task, one that requires specific canter, gallop. Common misconceptions in equine the realities of small enterprises. technical and business knowledge as well as general movement. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of business and entrepreneurial skills and competencies. equine movement, comparison with competition Syllabus: The aim of the module is to provide students The aim of this module is to introduce students to the requirements, locomotion and soundness. Common with an understanding of components of management stages involved in the establishment and management of simple gait abnormalities; lateral and medial deviation, and the process of strategy development to achieve firm a new business. This includes opportunity recognition, skeletal foundations of gait abnormality, farriery and gait growth and the creation of a competitive advantage in analysis of market potential, the analysis and acquisition abnormality. Video analysis of simple gait abnormality. international markets. The module will develop a critical of resources required to capture market opportunities Developing equine movement; use of simple techniques awareness and a detailed understanding of the and the launch of a new business. In addition the on the flat over ground poles and jumping to promote challenges facing the entrepreneur/owner manager as module content explores the backgrounds, motivations, efficiency, co-ordination and power in equine movement. they manage and grow their enterprise. The content will characteristics and skills of enterprising individuals. On Factors affecting equine locomotion; tack and equipment, explore a range of classical and contemporary theories completion of the module the student will have a better the rider, ground surfaces. Lungeing methods and around enterprise management and the challenges and understanding of the issues involved in forming a equipment, loose schooling methods and safe practice in difficulties in implementing these in the growing business enterprise. The module will serve as a strong accordance to established guidelines. enterprise. It will provide students with an understanding foundation for those aspiring to own and operate their of the components of and the process of strategy own business. ------development, implementation and evaluation by reviewing the various growth strategies available to the Syllabus: The module will address the following topics- EQ4025 - THE YOUNG HORSE owner-manager to achieve international growth. Understanding the role and importance of the small firm ECTS Credits: 6 sector to the Irish economy. The ------entrepreneur/owner/manager characteristics and Biological Sciences classifications; identification and evaluation of business EP4315 - ENTERPRISE FORMATION opportunities; product/service development; market Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module ECTS Credits: 6 research; industry analysis; market/sales strategies; provides the students with the skill to examine the management structure; manufacturing/operations; physical and mental pre-requisites for training the young Management and Marketing sources of start-up finance; financial projections horse, which includes the evaluation of young horse (projected cashflow, profit and loss and balance sheet); conformation, maturity and developmental stage of the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of the managing the new business (people and process horse ready to begin training. Additionally, it aims to module is to provide participants with an understanding management) and exit strategies for a new business develop the students ability to critically evaluate different of the entrepreneurial process and the role of small firms training approaches and techniques commonly used in industry in the context of horse behaviour, welfare and training, relationships with coach and supporters, ER4001 - ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT learning ability, which are critical skills necessary to technical, tactical, physical, mental and lifestyle ECTS Credits: 6 evaluate the effectiveness and ethics of standard capacities. industry practices currently in use. Analysis of rider motor and proprioceptive capacity; Chemical Sciences video analysis, appropriateness and efficiency of sport Syllabus: Conformation and suitability; indicators of movement, common difficulties in movement patterns, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To draw upon maturity, estimation of maturity, suitability for purpose, developmental plans for riders in various disciplines. core scientific module of the program e.g, muscular development. Training the young horse; Developing the rider; use of technology and equipment thermodynamics while exposing students to the local, behavioural bases, alternative approaches, developing to provide feedback and support practise, use of novel regional & global environmental effects that arise from understanding of and obedience to simple cues, timing of development tools, athlete diaries, athlete driven the generation and use of energy. initial training by discipline and maturity, commonly used reflection and goal setting, maintaining technique and approaches for sport horses and racehorses, establishing focus in stress environments - race finishes, jump offs. Syllabus: Energy Resources & Supply trust and confidence, improving balance and strength, Models of motor skill development and use of appropriate Thermodynamics of energy conversion developing athletic technique on the flat and jumping technology and equipment to support motor skill Electricity generation & storage both loose and on the lunge, accustoming the horse to development. Fossil fueled power generation the rider early riding of the young horse. Equipment; Transportation lungeing and longreining equipment, side reins, De ------Clean Technology for energy generation and Gouge, Chambon, training aid systems, mouth transmission examination and bitting for the young horse, use of a EQ4051 - INTRODUCTION TO HORSEMANSHIP Nuclear power generation mounted dummy for rider introduction. ECTS Credits: 6 ------Biological Sciences ER4011 - INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL & BIOSCIENCES EQ4027 - EQUESTRIAN FACILITIES Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of ECTS Credits: 3 ECTS Credits: 6 this module is provide the students with the basic understanding of horsemanship, a foundation level of Chemical Sciences Biological Sciences knowledge and practical skill in working with the horse in a safe manner, to highest industry standards. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Environmental Analysis of requirements for equine facilities with regard and Biosciences are broad interdisciplinary subject areas. to; racing, sports horses, breeding, competition, exercise Syllabus: Safety around the horse in all working It is important that first year students, entering through and training, client facilities, horse welfare and environments; health and safety legislation, best safety the common soundness, disease control, isolation and quarantine practice, individual responsibility for recognising and science intake programme, gain a useful understanding facilities. Ancillary facilities; feed stores, gallops, arenas, minimising risk, equine behavioural bases of established and knowledge fixed and portable fences, dry and water treadmills, safety practice. Gaits and movement; analysis of basic of the scope of these subject areas to effectively ensure solaria, wash boxes, weighing facilities, loading bays, gaits, effect of equipment and the rider on the qualitative that they can equipment storage, farriery and breeding areas, road and quantitative aspects of movement. Horse make appropriate choices at the end of their first year in and air transport environments. Planning and building management; basic methods of management for horses UL. This module requirements; materials, environmental impact, waste stabled, at grass and at competition, simple health provides an overview of the broad areas and current disposal, aesthetics. Use of ICT in equestrian indicators. Tack and equipment; recognition and topics within both establishments; staff training, monitoring horses, entries application of simple commonly used items, principles of the bioscience and environmental science areas. and administration, horse and client records, veterinary design and function, physiological and psychological applications. effect on the horse. Rider/trainer capacities; Syllabus: Sustainable development; environmental proprioception, communication, simple work from the impact assessment; ------ground and ridden, simple methodologies of horse ecosystems and functioning: fossil fuels and the training. environment; EQ4037 - PERFORMANCE RIDER DEVELOPMENT water and air pollution; waste management. Topics in ECTS Credits: 6 ------Biosciences include: development in cancer therapies; new Biological Sciences immunotherapies; understanding cell communications; the human condition Analysis of performance demands on the rider; sports - us and disciplines, racing (flat and National Hunt), endurance, our microbes mental and physical capacities. Characteristics of performance riders; body morphology, attitudes to Prerequisites: CH4701, CH4711, CH4721, BY4001 and the role of EIA in planning; cases in EIA, strategic ER4507 - EFFLUENT CONTROL - WASTE ------environmental assessment (SEA) Directive, purpose and MANAGEMENT 1 stages. ECTS Credits: 6 ER4407 - ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 1 ECTS Credits: 6 ------Chemical Sciences

Chemical Sciences ER4438 - ENVIRONMENTAL FATE MODELING Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide an ECTS Credits: 6 understanding of the principles underlying waster water Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To understand treatment. the relationship between economic development and the Chemical Sciences environment: The evolution and contemporary Syllabus: Principles of wasterwater management, application of the concept of environmental Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide the composition of waste; domestic, indsutrial. Effects of management. The interaction between nature, society student with a scientific understanding of the important waste on receiving water sites and groundwater, and enterprise. principles in relation to pollutant transport and eutrophication: water borne standards disease. Pollutant degradation in the environment. tests: BOD, S.S., coliforms. Legislation. Technology of Syllabus: An understanding of the nature and wastewater treatment and disposal. Screening; grit significance of local, national and global environmental To facilitate the student in using both computational and removal; maceration; nutrients and flow balancing; issues and challenges, and their historical background. computerised approaches to environmental fate flotation. Sedimentation. Biological treatment of modelling. wastewater - Biological kinetics: Activated sludge, A grounding in the main elements of recognised trickling filters, biomass; high rate treatment environmental management systems (ISO 14001) and To facilitate the students' understanding of the role and contractors. Sludge disposal: dumping; thickening; the issues involved. relevance of environmental fate modelling in the nitrification; denitrification; drying bed; centrifuges; prediction of environmental impacts and vacuum filtration; bulk press. Anaerobic digestion. An understanding of the concept of sustainable human/ecological risk. Tertiary/Advanced process; phosphorus, nitrogen development and its importance. renewal; stabilisation pounds, activated carbon; reverse Syllabus: [Introduction to transport and degradation of osmosis; ion exchange; microstrainers. Waste water chemicals in the environment] reclamation. Ultrafiltration. ------[Mechanisms of Pollutant Transport] Air - Surface Water - Groundwater - Soil Prerequisites: ER4507 ER4417 - ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT [Air] Sources - Source Parameters - Meteorology - ECTS Credits: 6 Buoyancy - Topography - Gaussian Mathematics ------Deposition Chemical Sciences [Surface Water] Source - Source Parameters - River ER4627 - Safety and Industry Hydrogeometry -Dispersion -Mixing - Flow Depth & ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Environmental Velocity -Diffusion impact assessment (EIA)is a key skill for environmental [Groundwater] Hydraulic conductivity - Gradient - Chemical Sciences scientists, and forms the bulk of work undertaken by advection - diffusion consultancy companies which employ many of our [Pollutant Degradation Pathways] Bioaccumulation - Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide an environmental science graduates. The module also Biodegradation - Analysis of Rate Data - 0, 1st, 2nd understanding of the principles of accident causation and provides a synthesis for environmental science students, Order - Integral method prevention in the workplace. in which it is made clear how their various modules in [Environmental Fate Scenarios] - Screen3 model chemistry and biology are each relevant to the work of application - computer laboratory To familiarise the student with hazard and process safety the environmental science practitioner. As EIA is linked analysis techniques as practised in industry. to spatial planning, it is also of relevance to geography ------students. EIA is a process undertaken by many Syllabus: Principles of accident prevention; accident companies when they wish to establish to establish or causation modes, risk identification, evaluation and expand, and is therefore of relevance to Business control, hazard reduction techniques, design out, safety students with an interest in environment. devices, warning devices. Hazard analysis, HAZAN, frequency, consequence, ALARA, Fatal Accident Rate, Syllabus: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Hazard rate. Process Safety Analysis, HAZOP, guide definition and purpose, genesis and development both words, what if reports, Fault tree analysis, primary and present and likely future; relevant EU Directives and intermediate events, gate symbols, transfer symbols, national legislation; stages in the implementation of EIA; Fire & explosion Indices. Fire safety management, monitoring and auditing; Impact Statement (EIS) review current legal requirements, fire hazard identification, and risk assessment, active and passive fire protection, safe ER4708 - BIOMETRICS autonomous research, and intensive, teacher-facilitated operating procedures, fire training, information and ECTS Credits: 6 discussion. The central focus of the module will be on communication. Selected industrial case studies. fostering in new entrants the skills necessary for full Biological Sciences engagement with the European Studies degree. Topics for study may include the following: Geographical and ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a territorial definitions of Europe. Linguistic issues in practical course in analysis of the type of data Europe. Unity and diversity of European culture. The ER4707 - MONITORING AND RESEARCH METHODS encountered in environmental science and health and `cultural industry in Europe. `European values, ECTS Credits: 6 safety. democracy and diversity as case studies. The question of a `European economic model. Citizenship in European Chemical Sciences Syllabus: Practicals for this module consist of a weekly and global contexts. The role(s) of Europe within two hour session on computers where the students use globalisation and a wider `world system. Colonialism, its Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To familiarise the following packages: Microsoft Excel, SPSS for practices and its legacies. Ireland in a European and a the student with the chemical and physical nature of a Windows and MVSP (Multivariate Statistical Package, W. global context. broad range of pollutant types which are currently of Kovach). The students learn to input ecological data and environmental concern. transfer it between the various packages; carry out ------preliminary data analysis and descriptive statistics; move To facilitate the student in understanding the nature of on to more advanced analyses. Finally, using MVSP, the ET4003 - ELECTRO TECHNOLOGY (ED) environmental sampling and the industrial origin of students undertake simple multivariate procedures ECTS Credits: 6 specific pollutants and associated environmental impacts. including dendrograms and correspondence analysis. Electronic & Computer Engineering Assessment of sampling technologies covering a range of ------environmental samples from a variety of media including Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module air, soil, surface water and groundwater. ES4001 - EUROPEAN STUDIES: A GLOBAL provides an introduction to electrotechnology for PERSPECTIVE students studying in the area of enterprise engineering, Development of the students' working knowledge of ECTS Credits: 6 materials and construction. industrial and ambient monitoring techniques on a practical and quantitative basis. School of Modern Languages and Applied The electronics content of the LM095/LM094 Linguistics programmes is being expanded to meet the Syllabus: [Emissions & Impacts] industrial plant requirements of the impending revised leaving cert. emissions û sources û emissions impact assessment Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module syllabi in Technology and Engineering Technology. methods û primary/secondary/tertiary/quaternary aims to provide an induction into third-level study for Replaces ET4111 Electrotech.. ID systems. European Studies students and to mediate to new [Groundwater Pollution] subsurface environment, third-level learners the nature of European Studies as a Syllabus: Electrical concepts: electric current, voltage, groundwater movement, sources of pollution, point combination of different academic disciplines and resistance, power. The relationship between them, units sources û diffuse sources û microbial activity. interdisciplinary possibilities. The module seeks to of current, voltage, resistance, power and frequency. The [Pollutant transport in groundwater], non-aqueous phase develop critical analytical skills, oral and written resistor colour code. Measurement of current, voltage, liquid pollution (NAPL) / (DNAPL). presentational skills and to provide new students with a resistance, capacitance, frequency (V, A, W, F, Hz). [Groundwater Monitoring Wells] construction û design. critical overview of the contemporary state of their field Indirect measurement of power. The difference between [Sampling Groundwater] well depth measuring û well of study. It will also have the goal of enhancing group AC and DC. Interpretation of circuit diagrams. Assembly evacuation û sampling. experience and dynamic within the course with a view to of simple circuits using strip and breadboard. Passive [Analysis of Groundwater] techniques. maximising the educational benefit students derive from components, resistors, capacitors, inductors, magnetic [Surface Water Pollution] emissions to water, water their disciplinary and linguistic studies. It will foster an and electric field effects of charge and current. Diodes. quality monitoring, water quality assessment. awareness of the importance of autonomous learning The transistor switch. Voltage regulators, photoresistors, [Atmospheric Pollution] odour, SOx, NOx & Acids, and participatory research in the undergraduate photodiodes, LEDs, phototransistors, variable resistors, organics, temperature pressure, humidity, molar educational experience. Finally, it will promote potential dividers, potentiometers and relays. Sensors for volumes, converting ppmv to mg/m3, STP/NTP - time awareness among students of the fact that they will be sound, heat, light (photoresistive and photovoltaic), weighted averages, dust, USEPA methods, isokinetic working in an intercultural field and of the consequent movement. Electric motors, The mode of operation of the sampling methods importance of developing intercultural competences. DC motor; back EMF; the variation of current requirement with the load, Reversing a DC motor. Syllabus: This introductory module is organised around Strategies for teaching this subject area at second ------selected set of themes in the interdisciplinary field of level. Designing, planning and managing appropriate European Studies. Each theme set is formulated as a teaching and learning activities for this subject area. question put to participants, for unpacking, development, ------Syllabus: Introduction to telecommunications: ET4017 - COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING Definitions and concepts, standards bodies, STANDARDS ET4008 - TEST ENGINEERING 2: DIGITAL CIRCUIT communications tasks, protocol elements, characteristics ECTS Credits: 6 AND SYSTEM TEST and functions; reference communications models (OSI ECTS Credits: 6 vs. TCP/IP). History/evolution of telecommunications Electronic & Computer Engineering networks. Physical Layer: Transmission modes and Electronic & Computer Engineering types; analog vs. digital signals; baseband vs. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this broadband; modulation/demodulation; transmission module is to provide further education in Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The increasing impairments (attenuation, delay distortion, noise); communications networks and provides detailed complexities and speed of operation of modern digital channel capacity; data encoding and compression; overview of the main international networking standards. circuits and systems is increasing the demand on product physical interfacing; asynchronous vs. synchronous The module also introduces students to modern testing. The purpose of the module is to introduce the transmission; transmission media (guided, unguided); communications standardised infrastructures and students to modern semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) structured cabling standards; multiplexing techniques associated business models and paradigms. test methods, including automatic test equipment (ATE), (FDM, TDM, WDM). Network topologies (star, ring, bus, design for testability (DfT) and built-in self-test (BIST) tree, mesh). Data link layer: Line disciplines (ENQ/ACK, Syllabus: Personal Area Networks (PANs): Bluetooth, for digital ICs. poll/select); framing; frame synchronisation and data IEEE 802.15 standard. transparency, flow control; addressing; link Local Area Networks (LANs): Medium Access Control Syllabus: The increasing complexities and speed of management; protocol examples (HDLC, LAPB, LAPD, (CSMA/CD vs. CSMA/CA); logical link control (LLC), IEEE operation of modern digital circuits and systems is LAPM, PPP). Introduction to higher communications standards: 802.3/u/z/ae (ethernet), 802.5 (token ring), increasing the demand on product testing. The module layers: Switching (circuit-, message-, packet-); routing 802.11 (WiFi), 802.1Q (VLAN). will concentrate on IC designs, with the following key (main types, concepts and principles), congestion Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs): IEEE 802.16 areas covered:- control, QoS management, connection-oriented vs. (WiMax) standard. connectionless transport services; segmentation and Wide Area Networks (WANs): Frame relay: Asynchronous 1. Semiconductor test overview:- test points for re-assembly; session management; data presentation; Transfer Mode (ATM),; Multi-Protocol Label Switching semiconductor devices from wafer to package. client-server model; internetworking principles and (MPLS); Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN). 2. Test Engineering requirements. concepts (repeating, hubs, bridges, routers, gateways). Broadcast audio/video carrier technologies: Terrestrial 3. Digital logic test concepts:- sequential and (DAM, DRM, DVB-T/DVB-H, MBMS), satellite (DVB, combinational logic. ------S-DMB, Digital Audio Radio Satellite). 4. Memory test:- RAM and ROM. Modern communications business models and 5. Fault modelling and fault simulation ET4015 - TEST ENGINEERING 1: PRODUCT paradigms: Subscriber-centric model; consumer-centric 6. Design for Testability (DfT). DEVELOPMENT AND ATE SYSTEMS model; integrated heterogeneous networking, 7. Built-In Self-Test (BIST). ECTS Credits: 6 infrastructural elements. 8. Problem with design complexity: System on a Chip (SoC) test problem. Electronic & Computer Engineering ------9. ATE systems. 10. IEEE Standard 1149.1 (Boundary Scan). Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide an ET4023 - INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY AND insight into how commercial electronic systems are CRYPTOGRAPHY Prerequisites: ET4015 designed, manufactured and tested ECTS Credits: 6

------Syllabus: Troubleshooting: How circuits, systems and Electronic & Computer Engineering components fail. How are they diagnosed and repaired ET4013 - COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING Reliability : Arhennius and Eyring Models of failure. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce FUNDAMENTALS Accelerated Life Testing. Impact on the Design and test fundamental concepts of information and network ECTS Credits: 6 processes security. Electronic Production : PCB Design. Through hole and To introduce the ideas of threats and vulnerabilities such Electronic & Computer Engineering Surface Mount Technology. How can production as viruses, worms, malware etc. processes be made more reliable To introduce fundamental ideas in cryptography. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Lean Manufacturing To place them in their historical perspective. module is to provide an introduction to data Advanced Interconnection Systems for modern Electronic To provide an appreciation of approaches to preventing communications and networking. The module includes an Production such attacks. overview of essential foundation topics and also introduce students to the internetworking principles and ------Syllabus: [Introduction to information and network concepts. security:] Why security is an important issue. [Threats and vulerabilities:] Threats from passive and active attackers and from digital pests such as virus, debugging tips; capture and reassemble PDUs, extract application programs. Introduce simulation tools and worms and malware. data. debugging techniques Introduce the monitor program [Historical development of codes and ciphers:] Classical Client/server software used by TCP/IP protocols; design and how to use it to test applications using target ciphers (Caesar, Vigenere, one-time-pad etc.) Machine and implementation for client programs. hardware. based codes: Enigma, Purple. Classical cryptanalysis Network management: SNMP case study. Describe how to control/communicate with I/O devices (Beltchley Park, the Bombes etc.) Network security: Using routers as firewalls, PGP case through polling and interrupts. Interrupt service routines, [Introduction to cryptography:] Basic approaches of study. interrupt priority, multiple interrupts, nesting. symmetric key encryption. Block ciphers and stream Use practical programming examples to illustrate ciphers. Basic approach of public key encryption. ------concepts. Introduction to key management. Application of ciphers. [Protection against attacks:] Introduction to security ET4035 - COMPUTER LAW, INVESTIGATION AND ------components such as firewalls and IDS, virus scanner, file ETHICS integrity checker, OS update management. Role of ECTS Credits: 6 ET4077 - CLOUD COMPUTING passwords. Password cracking techniques. ECTS Credits: 6 Electronic & Computer Engineering ------Electronic & Computer Engineering Overview of computer forensics technology. ET4025 - NETWORK PROTOCOLS LABORATORY Compute forensics evidence - capture and analysis. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce ECTS Credits: 6 Legal permissions and restrictions on investigations of the student to Secure Cloud Computing. This is to enable incidents. them to fully understand the Cloud, its vulnerabilities and Electronic & Computer Engineering Collecting evidence for trial: evidence integrity, chain of how to offset them. custody and admissibility. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this RFC 1087 - Ethics and the internet including the 10 Syllabus: Cloud Computing Fundamentals: module is to offer the students a learn-by-doing commandments of computer ethics. Characteristics, Technology and Operational issues. approach in communications and computer networks, for ISC2 Code of ethics. Cloud Computing Architecture: Delivery and Deployment a better understanding of how networking technologies, Irish Information Society Commission Ethics and Values Models. mainly network protocols, operate in practice. Using in a Digital Age. Cloud Computing Security Fundamentals: Requirements appropriate laboratory facilities (real network equipment, and Services, protocol analysis software), the students will be allowed ------Cloud Computing Risk Issues and Security Challenges: to observe, measure and experiment various Threats and Vulnerabilities. communications protocols. It provides the student with a ET4047 - EMBEDDED SOFTWARE Cloud Computing Security Architecture: Security comprehensive coverage of computer networking and ECTS Credits: 6 management and Access control issues. their protection, with a strong practical emphasis. At the completion of the module, students should have Electronic & Computer Engineering ------an understanding of the important issues in providing communications software for various types of computer Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of the ET4087 - ELECTRICAL AUTOMATION networks. This includes LAN medium access protocols, module is to provide an introduction to embedded ECTS Credits: 6 WAN data link protocols and the TCP/IP protocol stack, processor systems and applications. The main objectives mainly focusing on application protocols for file transfer, are to provide the student with an overview of the Electronic & Computer Engineering network management network security. architecture of a simple microprocessor, to explain the operating principles and provide a functional Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Syllabus: Introduction to layered architectures, basic understanding of assembly language. provides the necessary understanding, knowledge and concepts: open systems, layering, peer protocols, skills for students to design automated systems for primitives and services. Syllabus: Introduce a simple microprocessor industrial, built environment and other domains. Reference models: telecommunications vs. computing architecture - Registers, buses and memory organisation approaches, OSI vs. TCP/IP, layers functions. and how it is used in embedded applications. Describe This module replaces modules EE4207 - Industrial Layer 2 LAN protocols: Ethernet, token ring and FDDI: memory and I/O devices. Explain memory and I/O Automation, ET4315 Robotics 1: Industrial Automation basic characteristics, frame types, fields and accesses. and EE4057/EE4067 Electronics Systems for the Built troubleshooting tips, capture and decode frames. Introduce instruction sets, addressing modes, data move Environment 1 on the BSc Electronics, and BSc Energy WAN protocols: HDLC, frame relay, PPP; ATM: basic instructions, arithmetic instruction, stack operation and degrees. The modules have significant overlap and the characteristics, frame types, fields and troubleshooting usage, program flow control instructions, sub routines change is to rationalise and update the modules. The tips, capture and decode frames. and loops. purpose of this module is to equip students with the TCP/IP protocol stack: IPv4 and IPv6, TCP and UDP: Detail assembler directives and the program translation necessary skills to design, build and install automated functions and PDU structure, protocol analysis, process. Review the build and load process for embedded systems in the built environment, in industry and elsewhere. electronics, semi-conductor theory, diodes - rectification, databases and data models and manipulation. transistors - switches/digital, amplifiers/analogue, IC's. Syllabus: [Motion Control] Open Loop and servos/closed Syllabus: Overview of the Internet and World Wide loop electric motors, drives and controllers. steppers, DC ------Web; standards and specifications servos, brushless motors. motion sensors / transducers Web browsers, Web servers and protocols for servo operation, tachometers, optical encoders, ET4121 - LABORATORY SKILLS 1 Designing & creating Web Pages with HTML resolvers,. [Pneumatics] Electro pneumatics, valves, ECTS Credits: 6 Web programming: overview of XHTML, XML, CSS and pneumatic devices, pneumatic control systems. ActiveX controls [Programmable Logic Controllers PLCs], PLC Electronic & Computer Engineering Multimedia on the WWW including Audio, Video and programming and installation. [Mechanical System graphics Components] and considerations friction, low friction Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Data & information: characteristics, differences and designs, inertia matching, gear boxes, screws, worms, module is to provide the students with the necessary structures toothed belts, harmonic drives. Choice of motor system basic laboratory skills in which to effectively undertake Data management: simple file storage & retrieval; to match speed, accuracy, stiffness, efficiency the necessary laboratory work within the course. Introduction to data modelling requirements etc. [Industrial Robots] Classification; The module will be based an introduction to the Introduction to the concept of Database Management robot programming. electronic engineering laboratory and the development of System (DBMS) [Building Automation] Use of programmable logic devices laboratory skills required within the course. This will be Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL) for home/building automation and security applications introduced within the laboratory environment and the in modern buildings. [Laboratory Work] Problem based emphasis is on building practical electronic hardware ------laboratories will use a combination of Automation Rigs skills. Labview and PLC exercises. ET4203 - ANALOGUE ELECTRONICS 3 Syllabus: The module will consist of three main ECTS Credits: 6 Prerequisites: ET4224 sections:- Electronic & Computer Engineering ------1. Introduction to the electronic engineering laboratory:- codes of conduct, operation of test and laboratory test Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Introduction to ET4111 - ELECTROTECHNOLOGY ID and measurement equipment:- power supply, signal structures of semiconductor devices and their use in ECTS Credits: 6 generator, oscilloscope, circuit prototyping boards. basic amplifier circuits and systems. Taking measurements (voltage, current, resistance, Electronic & Computer Engineering inductance, capacitance, frequency) and measurement Syllabus: Semiconductor materials: p-n junctions. equipment limitations. Basic semiconductor diode: structure and operation Rationale and Purpose of the Module: An Other forms of semiconductor diodes: zener diode, Light introduction to the overall basics of electrotechnology 2. Electronic circuit prototyping, build and test:- Emitting Diode, photodiode. and electrical machines. soldering, wire-wrapping, board design and layout, Use of the diode: voltage rectifiers in power supplies, component choice and correct handling. Determining LED displays. Syllabus: Electric charge, movement of charge as a component values from the package coding. Transistors: transistor operation. current, conductors and insulators, what makes electrical Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT): structure and operation current flow 3. Printed Circuit Board (PCB) build and test, working of npn and pnp transistor. in a project group environment. Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor potential difference, voltage, resistance to electric (MOSFET): Structure and operation of nMOS and pMOS current, simple dc circuit analysis, series and parallel transistor. connection of components, capacitors and charge ------Use of transistors in amplifiers: voltage amplifiers, storage, charging capacitors amplifier class, analysis of amplifier operation. ET4132 - INTRODUCTION TO WEB AND DATABASE Power semiconductor devices: thyristor and triac. magnetic fields generated by electric current, TECHNOLOGY Data converters: ADC and DAC converters: architectures electromagnetics. ECTS Credits: 6 and operation. alternating current (ac), simple ac circuits. Electronic & Computer Engineering Prerequisites: ET4141, ET4122 magnetism , magnetic flux, electro-magnetic induction. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module ------will introduce you to the concepts and techniques electrical generators, transformers, rectification, direct underlying the World Wide Web, such that you will gain a current (dc) generators, dc motors, induction motors. working knowledge of how to design and build web sites. The module will also present an introduction to relational ET4244 - OUTCOME BASED LEARNING instrumentation and the use of a computer to instrument handling, disk drive example. LABORATORY 2 and control systems and processes. ECTS Credits: 6 Laboratory: A set of laboratory exercises based on Syllabus: System dynamics: measurement of behaviour skeleton example programs will guide the student Electronic & Computer Engineering of system in the time domain. Benifits and costs of through the internals of the UNIX operating system. The feedback. Intro to instrumentation and data aquisition example programs will be developed in shell scripts and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In this module software. C/C++ programming environments. students will further develop skills to study, experiment Stability and performance: time analysis of open and and report on representative electronics based real world closed loop systems, Bode plots. systems through interfacing via a PC or over Controller design: PID control. communications networks. The students will apply Sampled data processes, digital PID. Prerequisites: ET4725 programming skills, data management skills and Instrumentation buses and standards. theoretical and practical knowledge developed in ------preceding and concurrent modules in programming, databases and computer systems. Prerequisites: ET4224, ET4204 ET4407 - ELECTRONICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT ECTS Credits: 6 Study will be through a problem-based approach that will ------integrate material from elsewhere in the programme of Electronic & Computer Engineering study and look forward to future modules. ET4345 - OPERATING SYSTEMS 2 ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The protection of the environment in conjunction with economic growth Syllabus: The module is a follow-on from the Electronic & Computer Engineering will become one of the great challenges of the 21st Outcome-based Learning Laboratory 1. It will further century for a multitude of reasons. If the electronics develop the concepts from the 1st year laboratory Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The industry is to sustain its growth levels of the last number modules and will target user-oriented web based design prerequisite module, Operating Systems 1, introduces of decades going forward this challenge will become and interactive on-line data acquisition and control, for operating system concepts for foremost in the job function of its employees. This example, write programs to use the external system to uniprocessor systems. This module builds on the module will introduce the concepts which underpin this carry out specified task, e.g. temperature control, previous module by introducing a specific operating challenge. It seeks to inform students of the necessity of weather observation, lift control. system, UNIX, and covering the underlying design and environmental awareness in the electronics industry and implementation features of the UNIX operating system. A to introduce the means by which these environmental * Design of dynamic web based user oriented systems, set of laboratory exercises exposes the student to the issues can be addressed. top down, bottom up design. internals of the UNIX operating system. * Extraction and display of real world data, data Syllabus: 1. Environmental Forces in the Electronics transmission point to point and through networks. Industry: Market Driven, Sustainability Driven, * Data exchange in multipoint systems Syllabus: UNIX Overview: History, standards, shells, Legislation Driven. * Data manipulation and storage on a PC interfaces. 2. Design for Environment (ECO Design): Life cycle chain * Interfacing PC to external system directly/over a UNIX architecture: Features, partition of functions and analysis, design for recycling, reverse manufacturing, network. position in the layered structure reverse logistics, end of life solutions. * Control of simple devices via active web pages 3. Green materials: lead free interconnects, halogen free * Data display in user-friendly format, graphic displays, Kernel organisation: Control flow, execution, daemons, materials, all other materials outlined in WEEE and data on demand. timers, interrupts, clocks, modules. ROHS, packaging. 4. Sustainability, energy efficiency, alternative power Prerequisites: ET4112 Process Management: Process manager, system calls, supply. task creation, blocking, wait queues, scheduling, IPC, 5. Case studies discussing such issues as environmental ------booting. challenges in the semiconductor industry, producer responsibility in the electronics industry and sustainable ET4305 - INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL 1 Memory management: Virtual address space, secondary trade in the electronics sector of emerging economies ECTS Credits: 6 memory, shared memory, among other topics. addressing, performance issues, system calls. 6. Invited talks: Seminars by the local electronics Electronic & Computer Engineering industry on environmental challenges in their company. File management: File I/O, file access, different file Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module systems, performance issues, system calls. ------introduces students to the fundamental principles of: practical control engineering, the use and specification of Device management: Device drivers, streams, interrupt ET4437 - DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND JAVA operating systems. other undesirable behaviours; Behaviour as an indicator ECTS Credits: 6 of welfare. Processes: Concurrency, states, queues, scheduling, Electronic & Computer Engineering threads. ------

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Interprocess communication and synchronisation: Mutual the student to Java and Distributed Computing exclusion, race conditions, busy-waiting solutions, TSLs, including Remote Method Invocation and JavaBeans. To semaphores, monitors, simple message passing, classical examine the role of Java in Distributed Systems and Web problems. based Services including Security issues. In addition XML EV4005 - GRASSLAND AND GRAZING MANAGEMENT and advanced GUI features will be investigated. Deadlock: Conditions for deadlock and solutions. ECTS Credits: 6

On completion of this module the student should have an Memory Management: Swapping, virtual memory, Biological Sciences appreciation of the issues pertaining to the use of Java in paging and segmentation. a large Distributed Enterprise Environment. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To educate File systems to support multi-tasking: Disk organisation, students in the principles of grazing and grassland space management, file sharing, file protection, management with particular reference to the equine Syllabus: JavaBeans Component Model, Creating a performance issues. industry in Ireland JavaBean. Security - Digital Signatures, Java Keystores, Java Input/Output: I/O devices in multi-tasking environments. Syllabus: 1. Introduction Authentication and Authorization Service. 2. Soil formation Java-based Wireless Applications and J2ME. Laboratory: The students will become familiar with one 3. Physical and chemical properties of soil Remote Method Invocation. operating system: UNIX or Microsoft Windows. Exercises 4. Soil fertility Enterprise JavaBeans and Distributed Transactions. will involve: shell scripting, system calls using C/C++, 5. Lime and pH Messaging with the Java Messaging Service (JMS). solving synchronisation problems in a concurrent 6. Major and minor elements in soil Jini - plug and play interfaces, discovery services. programming environment.. 7. Fertilisation in horse pastures JavaSpaces - Communicating and sharing information in 8. Grass growth asynchronous environments Prerequisites: ET4253, ET4263 9. Reseeding of pastures Peer-to-Peer Applications. 10. See mixtures Case Study. ------11. Grazing management Extenible Mark-up Language (XML) and Simple Object 12. Hay production Access Protocol (SOAP). EV4003 - EQUINE FEEDING AND BEHAVIOUR 13. Silage production Major programming project. ECTS Credits: 6 14. Poisonous plants 15. Racing track management Biological Sciences Prerequisites: ET4355 ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To understand ------the basic principles of nutrition and the practical aspects EV4012 - EQUINE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY of feeding. ECTS Credits: 6 ET4725 - OPERATING SYSTEMS 1 To understand normal patterns of equine behaviour and ECTS Credits: 6 the identification of behavioural problems. Biological Sciences

Electronic & Computer Engineering Syllabus: Digestive anatomy of the horse; Feedstuffs Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce and forages in the horse's diet; Diet formulation and students to fundamental concepts of Equine Anatomy Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module nutrient requirements for horses; Feed composition; and Physiology. provides an introduction to multi-tasking operating Feeding management; Bodyweight and Condition system concepts. Topics include: processes, threads, Scoring; Ethology and ethograms; Effects of Syllabus: The anatomy of the horse] to be discussed memory management and file systems. Focus is on a domestication on behaviour; Learning Theory, Normal with reference to musculoskeletal structure and organs. single processor machine. The module will include a and abnormal equine behaviour; Environmental effects [The main systems of the horse; digestive, respiratory, laboratory project. on behaviour; Causation, function, ontogeny of equine circulatory (including lymphatics); reproductive behaviours; Horses as herd animals; Behaviour in the (including embryology and physiology of reproduction); wild; Normal and abnormal equine behaviour; urinary; nervous and immune]. Environmental effects on behaviour; how the horse [Consideration of the theoretical background to the use Syllabus: Operating System: Definitions, types of learns; stereotypic behaviours; causes of abnormal and and operation of modern diagnostic/treatment equipment] such as X-ray, ECG, ultrasound, laser and mendelian and non mendelian aspects of equine coat FI4007 - INVESTMENTS: ANALYSIS AND fibre optic based devices. colour; Biological basis of sex; X chromosome MANAGEMENT inactivation; Pedigree analysis and inheritance, ECTS Credits: 6 determination of inheritance patterns; the normal ------karyotype; parentage testing of horses, including blood Accounting & Finance group testing, biochemical polymorphisms, DNA testing; EV4023 - EQUINE HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL Abnormal chromosome number and structure; including Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module is MANAGEMENT sex chromosome abnormalities and autosomal trisomies; designed to provide students with a thorough ECTS Credits: 6 population genetics, The Hardy-Weinberg law, extensions understanding of international financial investments. In to the Hardy-Weinberg law including multiple alleles and particular the module will provide students with an Biological Sciences X linked genes; genotype frequencies; heritability; appreciation of the investment environment and the narrow and broad sense heritability; quantitative trait skills and critical awareness necessary to make good Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of loci; genotype-environment interaction; estimated investment decisions. More specifically, key material this module is to give students an understanding of the breeding values and selection; BLUP; Relationship; includes portfolio and capital market theory, asset concept of 'dis-ease' as a departure from health and the Inbreeding and linebreeding. valuation, investment management and behavioural multifactorial nature of disease pathogenesis. The aspects of investment decisions. module provides basic information on the individual ------components (host, disease agent and environment) and Syllabus: The topics covered include an introduction to a perspective on the interactions of these components FI4003 - FINANCE the investment environment: equity securities, fixed (the disease triad) in determining the outcome for the ECTS Credits: 6 income securities; the efficient market hypothesis and host. behavioural finance; risk and return: measures of risk Accounting & Finance and returns; Portfolio and capital market theory: dealing Syllabus: The causes and effects of infectious and with uncertainty, portfolio risk and return, analysing non-infectious agents on the health of the horse; the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The course portfolio risk, the role of diversification, modern portfolio Disease Triad and the multifactorial nature of disease; provides an introduction to corporate finance and finance theory; Portfolio selection: efficient portfolios and overview of bacterial and viral diseases affecting the theory. The aim of the course is to develop students diversification; Asset Pricing Models: risk-return horse; environmental requirements of the stabled horse understanding of fundamental topics in corporate finance trade-off, capital market line, security market line, and the role of the environment as a pre-disposing factor and financial theory. The course provides students with Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Arbitrage Pricing to disease in the horse, vis a vis ventilation, the skills needed to engage in basic analysis of projects Theory (APT); Equity valuation: dividend discount temperature, dust and waste; Heat and moisture and financial assets. models, technical analysis, the role of sentiment; balance; Dust Control in Animal Production Buildings; Evaluation of investment performance. Ventilation Systems; Temperature Regulation; Effects of Syllabus: The primary focus of this introductory course Environment on Various Body Systems; Management of is on discounted cash flow techniques, and their Prerequisites: FI4407 the Environment to optimise animal health. application to corporate finance. This course introduces the concept of the time value of money, and the key ------methods of project appraisal including the net present value method, the payback period, the book rate of FI4015 - CORPORATE FINANCE EV4025 - EQUINE BREEDING AND GENETICS return, internal rate of return, profitability indices etc. ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 the merits and demerits of each are explained. Qualitative aspects of capital budgeting and investments Accounting & Finance Biological Sciences are also covered. The concept of market efficiency and of the link between risk and return are illustrated by Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Basic genetics including, cells, chromosomes, genes, reference to historical returns. Basic issues around share provide students with a solid grounding in corporate alleles, gametes, genotype, phenotype; mitosis; meiosis valuation are also discussed, and the students are finance, its application in share valuation within and its role in genetics, genetic recombination; distances introduced to derivative instruments, and how they may international capital markets and focuses on the between genes; linked genes, Gene mapping; be used both defensively and aggressively. decisions faced by corporate financial managers. chromosome structure; DNA; replication, transcription, translation and the genetic code; Inborn errors of ------Syllabus: The course builds on students existing metabolism; Sex limited inheritance; PCR; Mendelian knowledge of discounted cash flow technique and covers genetics including recessive, dominant, X linked and more advanced capital budgeting, taking into account polygenic inheritance. Gene interaction, codominance inflation, uncertainty and tax. Simulation and scenario and incomplete dominance; epistasis; Equine coat colour analysis are covered and concept of a real option is loci including extension, agouti, colour diluting loci, introduced. The students are introduced to the epistatic modifiers, tobiano, overo and spotting loci, international capital markets, and the main approaches to share valuation are discussed and contrasted. The FR4141 - FRENCH LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY 1: (i) the world of work and business in France; importance of the assessment of risk and its impact on INTRO FRENCH STUDIES1 (ii) representations of French modernity in film and returns from financial assets are introduced, leading to ECTS Credits: 6 literature; an assessment of the cost of capital for a firm. The (iii) French discourse genres. Tutorials explore these theory of the firm is explored in more detail, under the School of Modern Languages and Applied subjects and students reading and writing skills are framework of agency theory. Dividend policy is studied, Linguistics improved through regular exercises. Oral and aural skills by reference to theory, taxation, the value of the firm in French are stressed and they are developed through and the wealth of shareholders. Capital structure is Rationale and Purpose of the Module: (i) To present the discussion of a broad selection of contemporary oral covered from a similar perspective. Mergers and key issues in contemporary French society; and written texts from diverse media. A review of French acquisitions are evaluated. Ideas around the impact of (ii) to enable students to develop receptive and active grammar is carried out at a more advanced level. corporate financial decisions on wider stakeholder groups language skills; and society more generally are discussed. (iii) to review French grammar; Prerequisites: FR4142 (iv) to examine developments in the French language; Prerequisites: FI4003 (v) to introduce students to the study of French ------literature. ------FR4147 - FRENCH LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY 5 Syllabus: Lectures introduce students to the study of FRANCE, EUROPE AND B FI4407 - FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS social, historical, linguistic and literary aspects of French ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 culture and society. Themes presented this semester are: School of Modern Languages and Applied Accounting & Finance (i) the Republican heritage Linguistics (ii) the modern short story and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this (iii) the history of the French language. Tutorials explore Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is module is to give students an awareness and these subjects and students reading and writing skills are an introduction to contemporary social, economic and understanding of the current issues in, and key features improved through regular exercises. Oral and aural skills political life in France in a European and global of, the financial markets; Money Markets, Bond Markets, in French are stressed and they are developed through perspective. This is achieved: Foreign Exchange Markets and Derivative markets. It the discussion of a broad selection of contemporary oral by developing students knowledge of French culture and builds on the basic knowledge of finance obtained from and written texts from diverse media. A review of French society the second year core module in Finance. It introduces grammar is carried out. by focusing on the country's cultural, social and political the students to the various types of financial institutions aspects and explores the function, typical activity and risk profile ------by encouraging team-work and intercultural of each. understanding. FR4143 - FRENCH LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY 3 by focussing on key moments in the history of France in Syllabus: The determinants of interest rates and how EDUCATION AND WORK E European affairs and that of France with the francophone interest rates affect bond valuations; primary and ECTS Credits: 6 communities, language varieties in France and the secondary markets; money markets; bond markets; francophone countries. equity/stock markets; foreign exchange markets, School of Modern Languages and Applied derivative markets; the differences between investment Linguistics Syllabus: The module provides students with a platform banks and commercial banks; how companies and to broaden and advance their experience of language issuers interact with financial institutions; insurance Rationale and Purpose of the Module: (i) To increase learning. Language and culture are interwoven through companies; hedge funds; venture capital companies; risk students awareness of key issues in French business; the four distinct parts of the module. In the lectures, exposures of financial institutions; regulation; (ii) to develop students linguistic knowledge of business students are introduced to analytic tools to study contributors to the financial crisis. communication in French; particular social political and cultures aspects. In the (iii) to build on students practical language skills tutorials, analysis work of newspaper articles is Prerequisites: FI4003 acquired in first year; undertaken making students aware of the vital link (iv) to further students understanding of advanced between culture and language learning. ------French syntax; In short, The module is centred on a series of lectures (v) to extend students reading and analytical skills in the analysing the major issues with repect to France and study of French literature and film. wider world. Language tutorials review some of the points raised in the lectures through close reading and Syllabus: Lectures introduce students to the study of discussion of authentic texts related to the lectures. social, historical, linguistic and literary aspects of Language tutorials also endeavour to develop written contemporary France. skills in the French language through translation and/ or Themes presented this semester are: essay writing. Tutorial are also devoted to the study of a literary text closely related to the subject matter. to communicate and work in a French business context; (iii) to extend students reading and analytical skills in the ------study of French literature; Prerequisites: FR4146 (iv) to further students understanding of advanced FR4621 - FRENCH LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1: French syntax; 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE ------(iv) to build on students practical language skills ECTS Credits: 6 acquired in first year. FR4241 - FRENCH LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND School of Modern Languages and Applied SOCIETY 1 Syllabus: Students are introduced in lectures to the Linguistics ECTS Credits: 6 study of social, historical, linguistic and literary aspects of French society and culture. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce School of Modern Languages and Applied Themes explored this semester are students to the study of twentieth-century literature in Linguistics (i) the contemporary French world of work and business French from a variety of critical perspectives. (ii) representations of French modernity in film and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: (i) To provide literature To give students the opportunity to examine particular students with an introduction to major aspects of (iii) French discourse genres. These topics are discussed authors in greater detail. contemporary French society and culture; in depth in the more active setting of weekly tutorials. (ii) to familiarise students to issues related to the Oral and aural skills in French are a particular focus, and To develop students' skills in communicating ideas in oral evolution of the French language; they are developed through the discussion of a broad and written French. (iii) to introduce students to the study of French selection of oral and written material from diverse media. literature; French grammar is studied at a more advanced level. Syllabus: A number of literary texts of an appropriate (iv) to give a solid grounding to a number of points of linguistic level and representativity in terms of period French Grammar. Prerequisites: FR4242 and genre will be studied in this module. (v) to enable students to develop practical language skills (oral and written). ------

Syllabus: Students are introduced in lectures to the FR4247 - FRENCH LANGUAGE CULTURE AND FR4623 - FRENCH LITERATURE AND CULTURE 3 study of social, historical, linguistic and literary aspects SOCIETY 5 THE ENLIGHTENMENT of French society and culture. ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 Themes explored this semester are (i) the Republican heritage School of Modern Languages and Applied School of Modern Languages and Applied (ii) the modern short story Linguistics Linguistics (iii) the history of the French language. These topics are discussed in depth in the more active setting of weekly Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine tutorials. Oral and aural skills in French are a particular aims: the development of Enlightenment ideas in France in focus, and they are developed through the discussion of (i) to enable students to develop their written and oral relation to the social, cultural and political climate of a broad selection of oral and written material from language skills; (ii) to provide a detailed study of aspects eighteenth-century Europe diverse media. An overall review of French grammar is of France in a European and global perspective; (iii) to To enable students to apply critical skills to the study of carried out with special emphasis on French grammatical provide an understanding of the postcolonial cultural eighteenth-century French texts. metalanguage. context through a study of selected literary texts; (iv) To develop students' skills in communicating ideas in oral to provide practice in translation in the context of and written French ------theoretical issues in Translation Studies. Syllabus: Students are introduced to the Enlightenment FR4243 - FRENCH LANGUAGE CULTURE AND Syllabus: The module is centred on a series of lectures in France through the study of a selection of cultural and SOCIETY 3 analysing the major issues with repect to France and literary texts. Texts are selected with a view to their ECTS Credits: 6 wider world. Tutorials explore some of the issues raised linguistic accessibility and to their appropriateness on in the lectures through close reading and discussion of aesthetic, philosophical and historical levels. School of Modern Languages and Applied relevant authentic texts. Language tutorials focus on the Linguistics theory and practice of translation in two specific contexts ------(literature and computer science). Literary tutorials are Rationale and Purpose of the Module: (i) To deepen devoted to the study of a selection of poems from the students awareness of major developments and issues in 1930s to the 1960s and of a francophone African novel. business in contemporary France; (ii) to provide students with the language skills needed Prerequisites: FR4246 FR4627 - FRENCH LITERATURE AND CULTURE 5: situations; the areas of focus include: applying for a job, FR4925 - FRENCH FOR BUSINESS 5A INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS job interview, working in a company. Students are also ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 asked to do oral presentations on contemporary French society and culture. Students grammatical competence School of Modern Languages and Applied School of Modern Languages and Applied acquired in secondary school is further developed. Linguistics Linguistics ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To prepare Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To study students for study or work placement abroad taking modern intellectual movements in France in the context FR4923 - FRENCH FOR BUSINESS 3A place in semester 6. This is achieved: of crisis and change in French society and culture in the ECTS Credits: 6 by developing students knowledge of French for Specific twentieth century. To enable students engage critically Purposes with cultural theories, and to apply such theory to their School of Modern Languages and Applied by focusing on cultural aspects which will be encountered understanding and analysis of modern French texts. To Linguistics in and outside the workplace while residing in the target develop students' skills in communicating ideas in oral country and written French. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: (i) To deepen by encouraging team-work and intercultural students awareness of key aspects of the contemporary understanding via tandem learning with French speaking Syllabus: Two/ three topics will be chosen each year, French world of business; students. and a variety of theoretical and literary texts will be (ii) to provide students with an understanding of key addressed in relation to each topic, for example aspects of contemporary French and Francophone existentialism; societies; structuralism/semiology; post-modernism; feminist (iii) to further develop practical language skills (receptive Syllabus: The French for Business 5 module provides theory. and active); students with a platform to broaden and advance their (iv) to promote students critical reading of French experience of language learning. Language and culture ------literature; are interwoven through the four distinct parts of the (v) to build on the grammatical skills acquired in year 1. module. In the lecture on stereotypes, students are FR4921 - FRENCH FOR BUSINESS 1A introduced to analytic tools (semiotic analysis, ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Students are introduced in lectures to the stereotypes and advertising strategies, film analysis, study of social, historical, linguistic and literary aspects etc.) to study particular cultures and identities. In the School of Modern Languages and Applied of contemporary France. tutorials, translation work on Newspaper articles is Linguistics Themes presented this semester are undertaken together with French students making them (i) the French world of work and business, aware of the vital link between culture and language Rationale and Purpose of the Module: (i) To (ii) representations of French modernity in film and learning. In addition, students conduct research on a introduce students to Business French relevant to their literature, and French company via the Internet (company website and future professional needs, (iii) French discourse genres. Oral and aural skills in other Internet sources) and complete a task based (ii) to provide students with an understanding of key French are a particular focus, and they are developed Internet project. Finally, students also work on case aspects of contemporary French society, through the discussion of a broad selection of studies related to Business issues. This last component (iii) to enable students to develop practical skills contemporary oral and written texts from diverse media. includes writing business correspondence with a (receptive and active), With the use of authentic material (both written and oral) contextualised grammar revision. (iv) to consolidate students knowledge of French and with a variety of linguistic activities simulating a vocabulary and grammar. business environment students are asked to deal competently with tasks encountered in specific Syllabus: Students are introduced to the study of social, situations. The areas of focus include: insurance, Prerequisites: FR4924 historical, linguistic and literary aspects of French culture advertising and export. Students also study a literary and society. text related to one of the lecture themes. The study of ------Themes studied in this semester are French grammar -in year 1- is continued. (i) the Republican heritage (ii) the modern short story and Prerequisites: FR4922 (iii) the history of the French language. Oral and aural skills in French are improved through the discussion of a ------broad selection of contemporary oral and written texts, from diverse media. With the use of authentic material and with a variety of linguistic activities simulating a business environment students are asked to deal competently with tasks encountered in specific FR4927 - FRENCH FOR BUSINESS 7A radiation. Convection: natural and forced. Heat transfer review on a relevant research area will be conducted. ECTS Credits: 6 in parallel and in series. Heat transfer co-efficients. Students will be expected to prepare a detailed report on Operation of Heat transfer systems. Solving Heat their research work and to make a presentation on their School of Modern Languages and Applied transfer problems. Saturated and Supersaturated Steam findings to enhance communication skills. Linguistics tables. Mass transfer: Unit operations, Steady and non steady state operations. Overall and Component Mass Syllabus: 1.Overview of energy metabolism for the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: While building Balances. Fluid Transport: Fluid statics and dynamics. whole body including carbohydrate, protein and lipid on previously acquired reading, speaking, writing and Momentum and energy conservation in fluid systems. metabolism. listening skills, the course aims to enhance students Flow behaviour: Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. 2.Interplay between various metabolic regulatory abillity to engage with and express effectively ideas and Flow in pipes, pressure drop, friction factor. Pumps; systems (metabolic and hormonal) and adaption to concepts through the means of the target language Centrifugal and positive pumps. Flowmeters, Venturi various metabolic demands (starvation, overfeeding etc.) -by analysing primary sources relating to institutions and meter, Rotameter. Units of measurement. Solving fluid 3.The importance of physical activity in energy policies of the EU and the place and role of France within flow problems. Humidity/Psychrometrics: Air moisture expenditure and the thermic effects of food. Europe content. Dry and wet bulb temperatures. Psychrometric 4.Metabolism of selected nutrients and dietary bioactive -by giving students opportunities to practice their oral charts. States of water, triple point. Drying curves. components in relation to health (including fat- and and written skills (e.g. video-viewing tasks) water-soluble vitamins, essential fatty acids, -by encouraging team-work and intercultural Prerequisites: PH4022 phytochemicals, prebiotics). understanding via collaborative learning with Erasmus 5.Overview of nutritional strategies to manage disease students. ------conditions.

Syllabus: The French for Business 7 module provides FT4355 - ADVANCED NUTRIENT METABOLISM AND students with a language rich environment to further HEALTH Prerequisites: BY4214 their knowledge and increase their confidence. ECTS Credits: 6 In the lecture, students are introduced to the main ------policies and institutions governing the European Union Biological Sciences and issues regarding its unity and diversity. In the tutorials, students are taught the techniques necessary Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of FT4375 - FOOD PROCESSING OPERATIONS to make a detailed presentation on social or economic this module is to give students a comprehensive ECTS Credits: 6 issues through the use of statistics, graphs and key understanding of energy metabolism and the metabolic phrases. In addition, through the study of TV processes involved in nutrient catabolism at a whole Biological Sciences documentaries and news bulletins students explore body level. This module will critically evaluate selected French and European society and culture from a nutrients and bioactives with a focus on their potential Rationale and Purpose of the Module: to provide linguistic and socio-economic point of view. Finally, health benefits. It will provide a comprehensive students with a direct link between the theoretical students study a literary text related to the module title, understanding of the aetiology and management of aspects of different food processing operations with the currently, Voltaires Candide. nutrition-related disorders in the clinical setting. practical aspects of processing of specific consumer foods

The purpose of this module is to: Syllabus: A detailed overview of the major unit Prerequisites: FR4925 operations used to convert raw materials into foods Provide advanced concepts in nutrient metabolism merged with specific practical sessions on dairy ------including an overview of the metabolic pathways processing, such as in the manufacture of cheese and involved in energy metabolism, catabolism and yoghurt. Basic principles of evaporation, spray drying, FT4305 - FOOD ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES anabolism. The control of metabolic reactions. refrigeration, freeze drying, membrane separation ECTS Credits: 6 technologies (ultrafiltration, microfiltration, reverse Outline the metabolism of selected nutrients. Critical osmosis, electrodialysis), canning, freezing and Biological Sciences evaluation of the evidence on selected nutrients and irradiation. Basic principles of mechanical and phase bioactives and their potential health benefits. separations. Microbiological, chemical and physical Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide effects of processing on foods. Practical examples of the students with an understanding of the basic engineering Explore the use of nutrition for health in the clinical application of different unit operations in the principles underpinning the processing of foods. setting. Practical case studies will give students a manufacture of safe and nutritious consumer foods such To provide students with a understanding of the basic practical understanding of the importance of nutritional as cheese, yoghurt and emulsified food products. principles of heat and mass transfer as applied to food management in a range of clinical conditions. engineering. Prerequisites: FT4204 As part of the overall assessment, and to further student Syllabus: Heat transfer; Conduction, convection and ability to critique scientific research, a detailed literature ------immune system, cancer, dieting and health) FT4421 - INTRODUCTORY FOOD SCIENCE AND Food toxicology and allergenicity (novel food HEALTH FT4447 - FOOD QUALITY ingredients, food protein allergenicity) ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 3 Neutraceuticals (Hypotensive peptides, peptides and cognitive function) Biological Sciences Biological Sciences Neutrigenomics (Diet and gene interactions)

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide an Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a Prerequisites: FT4335 introductory course in food science and technology, comprehensive course on food quality and safety. highlighting the linkages between food and health. To develop an understanding of the physical, molecular, ------To highlight factors affecting food quality, safety and and microbiological basis of food quality. nutrition FT6001 - FOOD SCIENCE AND FOOD SKILLS ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Physical properties of foods. Instrumental Syllabus: General overview of Food Science and its methods for measurement of colour, texture, viscosity. Biological Sciences relationship to human health. Organoleptic procedures. Relationship between Brief introduction to basic food components. instrumental and sensory methods of analysis. ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY Introduction to the scientific principles underpinning food Chemical aspects of flavour. Microbiological quality production, preservation and packaging. Control systems standards. ISO 9002, quality systems. Effects of food AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN to ensure food safety and quality e.g. Hazard Analysis packaging technology on food quality during distribution PROGRESS Critical Control Point (HACCP). Impact of food processing and storage. Human nutrition issues in food quality. technologies on health and nutrition, safety and quality. ------Introduction to the chemistry of nutritional and Prerequisites: FT4204, FT4325 anti-nutritional components relevant to human health GA4011 - CELTIC CIVILISATION: CULTURE, e.g. Malliard-browning reactions, protein degradation, ------LANGUAGE AND REPRESENTATIONS lipid oxidation. Food and health issues of consumer ECTS Credits: 6 concern including bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE), FT4457 - RESEARCH TRENDS IN HEALTH AND FOOD genetically modified foods, E. coli 0157:H7. ECTS Credits: 3 School of Culture and Communication

------Biological Sciences Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To offer an introductory module in Celtic Civilisation for the Autumn FT4437 - MILK PROTEINS AS FOOD INGREDIENTS Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop a Semester encompassing heroic Celtic literature, the ECTS Credits: 6 high standard of competence in the acquisition and history of the Celts and of the Celtic languages, as well evaluation of scientific research information. as interpretation of the earliest accounts of the Celtic Biological Sciences To enable students develop a critical awareness of peoples and their customs and beliefs. emerging research in the field of food science and health. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide Syllabus: This module will give an overview of the students with an advanced understanding of the role of Syllabus: Using specific examples, students will be history of Celtic languages, culture and literature, milk proteins as food ingredients. trained how to critically evaluate research information. focusing on the following: Students will be made aware of the requirements in •an introduction to theoretical and scholarly debates Syllabus: Milk protein chemistry: caseins, whey technical writing and presentation skills. Demonstration on the origin of the Celtic speaking peoples proteins, minor constituents. Functional properties of of advanced information retrieval using the web of •Celtic prehistory and archaeology; customs and milk proteins: emulsification, foaming, gelation. science and other abstracting services. Individual way of life Significance of milk protein variants to the processing students will be assigned topics on emerging issues in •critical interpretation of the earliest accounts of properties of milk, rennet coagulation, cheesemaking, food science and health research. Students will be Celtic people heat stability. Enzymatic hydrolysis of milk proteins: required to write scientific reports and give presentations •the history and current position of the Celtic commercial proteinases, hydrolysate characterisation. on their findings. languages Milk protein allergenicity: immunoreactive peptide Representative areas and specific topics •introduction to Early Irish Heroic Tales and sequences, reduced/hypoallergenic milk protein include: representations of the heroic in Early Welsh Literature hydrolysates. Nutraceutical/ bioactive peptides: Food quality and safety (acrylamide, dioxins, genetically caseinophosphopeptides, angiotensin converting enzyme modified foods, organic foods) ------inhibitors. Special assignments will involve review and Novel food processing (ultrasonic and high pressure discussion of relevant research papers. processing) Diet and health (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, the GA4103 - INTRODUCTION TO IRISH FOLKLORE Syllabus: This module will give an overview of the ECTS Credits: 6 history of Celtic languages, culture and literature, Lectures / Léachtaí: focusing on the following: Lectures will cover the history of the Irish language and School of Culture and Communication an introduction to theoretical and scholarly debates on early Irish literature. Topics include the genetic the origin of the Celtic speaking peoples; relationship between Irish and other European Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Celtic prehistory and archaeology; customs and way of languages, particularly other Celtic ones, and trace the students from various disciplines (e.g. anthropology, life; development of the language from its primitive ancestor comparative religion, ethnology, history, literature, critical interpretation of the earliest accounts of Celtic through to Old, Middle, and Early Modern Irish. A sociology, etc.) to the area of folkloristics and to the people survey of early Irish literature will include selected study of Irish folklore the history and current position of the Celtic languages; stories from the Mythological, Ulster, and Fenian Cycles introduction to Early Irish Heroic Tales and with analysis of predominant themes and symbolism. Syllabus: An introduction to Irish folklore with special representations of the heroic in Early Welsh Literature. reference to the following areas: definitions of folklore, ------folklore collection and classification; verbal arts and ------minor genres; story-telling and narrative genres; GA4133 - LITRíOCHT AGUS SAíOCHT 1: 1890-1940 indigenous and international tale-types in Ireland; and GA4115 - IRISH LANGUAGE 1 ECTS Credits: 6 traditional custom and belief, including calendar customs ECTS Credits: 6 School of Culture and Communication ------School of Culture and Communication Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Go gcothófaí GA4105 - IRISH FOLKLORE 1 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The course teagmháil an mhic léinn leis an nualitríocht ó thús ré na ECTS Credits: 6 aims to provide the student with a strong basic hAthbheochana go c.1940 (gearrscéalta, úrscéalta, knowledge of Irish. It introduces students to the history filíocht agus drámaí); go gcothófaí scileanna anailíse School of Culture and Communication of the Irish language and to early Irish literature. The agus bunchumas léirmheastóireachta. course is designed to: Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Enable the student to understand and use basic Syllabus: Mionscagadh ar phrós agus ar fhilíocht thús ré students from various disciplines (e.g. anthropology, structures of Irish grammar. na hathbheochana liteartha; litríocht an phobail agus comparative religion, ethnology, history, literature, Expose the student to a range of vocabulary and staidéar speisialta ar phríomhúdair na linne. Léirítear sociology, etc.) to the area of folkloristics and to the expressions which will allow her/him to present agus déantar anailís ar mheáin scríofa na linne study of Irish folklore her/himself to, and communicate with Irish speakers. (nuachtáin, irisí na hAthbheochana) agus ar na To foster autonomous language learning skills. díospóireachtaí ar chothú na nualitríochta i gcomhthéacs Syllabus: An introduction to Irish folklore with special To develop listening and speaking skills in Irish. ghluaiseacht na hAthbheochana. Dírítear ar shaothar na reference to the following areas: definitions of folklore, To equip the student with basic writing skills. n-údar seo: Pádraig Mac Piarais; Liam S. Gogan; Pádraic folklore collection and classification; verbal arts and Ó Conaire minor genres; story-telling and narrative genres; Syllabus: Language element: This is an introductory indigenous and international tale-types in Ireland; and course. Topics covered include: Meeting people, ------traditional custom and belief, including calendar customs background and place of residence, the family, the house and accommodation, pastimes, daily life and talents and GA4138 - LITRÍOCHT AGUS SAÍOCHT 4: Prerequisites: GA4105 skills. Gaeltacht regions and certain dialect features will SCRÍBHNEOIRÍ NA GAELTACHTA be discussed and some of the many Irish-language ECTS Credits: 6 ------materials and resources available online will be explored. School of Culture and Communication GA4113 - CELTIC CIVILISATION 1 Note: The language syllabus of this course has been ECTS Credits: 6 developed by NUI-Maynooth and follows the guidelines Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Go bhforbrófaí established by the Council of Europes Common European teagmháil an mhic léinn le litríocht na Gaeilge dúchais; School of Culture and Communication Framework of Reference for Languages. Those who go léifeadh an mac léinn na mórshaothair litríochta a

continue with module GA4116 in the spring semester will scríobh údair de chuid na Gaeltachta, agus go gcuirfeadh Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To offer an gain enough practice with the language to sit the A1 sé aithne ar litríocht chomhaimseartha na gceantar introductory module in Celtic Civilisation for the Autumn level European Certificate in Irish, known as Teastas éagsúil seo idir phrós, dhírbheathaisnéisí, fhilíocht, Semester encompassing heroic Celtic literature, the Eorpach na Gaeilge. The certificate examination is amhránaíocht agus ábhar ilghnéitheach eile. history of the Celts and of the Celtic languages, as well completely voluntary and is not administered by the as interpretation of the earliest accounts of the Celtic University of Limerick, but does give the student an Syllabus: Saothair roghnaithe de chuid na litríochta peoples and their customs and beliefs. internationally recognized qualification in Irish. Please comhaimseartha a scríobhadh sa Ghaeltacht, nó a

see course tutor if you would like more details. scríobh údair na Gaeltachta; prós, filíocht, aistí ar chúrsaí reatha, spóirt agus araile; dúchas litríochta na Gaeilge sa Syllabus: Ranganna teagaisc: Feabhas a chur ar an Syllabus: Lorg na luath-Ghaeilge ar an teanga lá atá inniu ann. Leabhair agus ailt roghnaithe de chuid gcumas bainte amach faoi GA4142; gramadach agus chomhaimseartha; comhthéacs stairiúil agus sóisialta na mórscríbhneoirí na Gaeltachta; Máirtín Ó Cadhain, comhréir na Gaeilge; grinnléitheoreacht ghramadaí ar litríochta Gaeilge a scríobhadh idir 1250 agus 1700. An Seosamh Mac Grianna, Donncha Ó Ceilleachair san théacsanna roghnaithe. amour courtois i litríocht na Gaeilge; na dánta agus na áireamh; iniúchadh ar théamaí agus ar stíl a gcuid Léachtaí: Na Gaeil i gcéin; saothrú na Gaeilge agus saol hamhráin ghrá; Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire; litríocht na saothar; buanna, laincaisí agus oidhreacht na n-údar na nGael ar an Mór-Roinn, go háirithe ón 17ú go dtí an mban agus íomhá na mná sa litríocht. Gaeltachta. 19ú hAois, i Meiriceá Thuaidh agus sa Bhreatain. Litríocht na Gaeilge sa 17ú agus san 18ú hAois, idir ------phrós agus fhilíocht, chomh maith le hábhair eile ilghnéitheacha; an t-amhrán sa Ghaeilge. GA4141 - TEANGA, SOCHAÍ AGUS SAÍOCHT 1 GE4141 - GERMAN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY 1: ECTS Credits: 6 INTRO GERMAN STUD 1 ------ECTS Credits: 6 School of Culture and Communication GA4147 - TEANGA, SOCHAÍ AGUS SAÍOCHT 5 School of Modern Languages and Applied Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Go dtiocfadh ECTS Credits: 6 Linguistics na mic léinn ar thuiscint ar ghnéithe de shaol comhaimseartha agus doidhreacht na Gaeilge, agus go School of Culture and Communication Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce mbeadh ar a gcumas an Ghaeilge a labhairt agus a students to the academic study of the German language, scríobh go cruinn agus go nádúrtha ar ábhair a Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Go mbeadh ar its historical, social and structural dimensions as well as bhaineann lena gcúlra féin, lena n-ábhair suime agus le chumas an mhic léinn an Ghaeilge a ionramháil go cruinn into language learning strategies and resources. To saol na hOllscoile; go bhforbrófaí scileanna nádúrtha i réimse leathan ábhar, agus go háirithe go provide students with an introduction to the léamhthuisceana an mhic léinn aonair ar chorpas mbeadh máistreacht aige ar na téamaí Gaeilge a German-speaking countries as physical, cultural and léitheoireachta sa nua-theanga. bhaineann le hábhair eile a chéime; go mbeadh an mac political entities with a focus on the first half of the léinn in ann an Caighdeán oifigiúil a úsáid agus a mhíniú; twentieth century. To introduce students to the analysis Syllabus: Ranganna teagaisc: Dianchúrsa feabhais i go mbeadh tuiscint ag an mac léinn ar an malartú teanga of literary texts in German. To consolidate linguistic léamh, i scríobh agus i labhairt na Gaeilge le cleachtaí dhán comhaimseartha na Gaeilge in Éirinn idir knowledge (written and oral) gained at school. éisteachta, foghraíochta agus léitheoireachta san shocheolaíocht agus pholaitíocht teanga; go mbeadh áireamh; gramadach fhoirmiúil agus fheidhmiúil; an máistreacht ag an mac léinn aonair ar scileanna an Syllabus: Lecture: The German language, its history and teanga chumarsáideach; plé agus díospóireachtaí; aistriúcháin. relationship with other languages; political geography of leathnú foclóra agus nathanna cainte; cuntais agus the German-speaking countries; sociocultural and gearraistí. Syllabus: Ranganna teagaisc: Feabhas a chur ar an historical background to the German-speaking countries Léachtaí: Grinnléitheoireacht ar dhírbheathaisnéisí gcumas bainte amach sa tríú bliain; grinnstaidéar ar an of Europe in the 19th and early 20th century. roghnaithe; téacsanna de chuid na seanlitríochta faoi gCaighdeán Oifigiúil; gramadach. Tutorials: a) reading of literary texts to provide further dhreach na Nua-Ghaeilge; stair na Gaeilge. Léachtaí: Aistriúcháin agus ceird an aistritheora; An access to the period while at the same time introducing dátheangachas, an débhéascna agus an malartú teanga. reading techniques, principles of textual analysis and ------text discussion in oral and written form; b) contrastive ------grammar work: grammatical categories and terminology, GA4143 - TEANGA, SOCHAÍ AGUS SAÍOCHT 3 English/German translation exercises, grammar in ECTS Credits: 6 GA4153 - LITRÍOCHT AGUS SAÍOCHT 1250-1690 use/communicative grammar. ECTS Credits: 6 Language laboratory: exercises in pronunciation, School of Culture and Communication listening comprehension and grammar utilizing CALL School of Culture and Communication facilities. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Go dtuigfeadh an mac léinn an teagmháil daingean idir na Gaeil agus an Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Go gothófaí ------Mhór-Roinn agus Meiriceá Thuaidh agus Theas; teagmháil bhreise le réimse níos sine de litríocht agus de oidhreacht Ghaelach na hEorpa agus Mheiriceá; go shaíocht na Gaeilge; go gcuirfear an mac léinn ar an mbeadh cur amach leathan ag an mac léinn ar shaíocht eolas faoi oidhreacht na luath-Ghaeilge; go ndéanfadh an na Gaeilge agus ar shaol na nGael ón 16ú go dtí an 18ú mac léinn staidéar ar litríocht na mban, agus iniúchadh hAois, agus ar shaibhreas thraidisiún na n-amhrán; ar iomhá agus ar ionad na mban sa litríocht; go mbeadh forbairt, leathnú, saibhriú ar ábhar teanga na modúl i eolas ag an mac léinn ar na dánta agus ar na hamhráin mBliain 1; forbairt na téarmaíochta do théamaí sóisialta, ghrá agus faoi thionchar an amour courtois ar an polaitíochta agus stair na hÉireann agus na hEorpa. nGaeilge.

GE4143 - GERMAN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY 3: texts in German. learning, including developments of autonomous learning LIVING AND WORKING GER To develop translation skills and enhance students' skills, exploitation of reference material and dictionaries, ECTS Credits: 6 presentation skills in the foreign language. etc. Language Laboratory: Consolidation is provided through ICT and language laboratory work, and students School of Modern Languages and Applied are expected to make full use of all laboratory facilities in Linguistics Syllabus: Lecture: Germany and its neighbours; their private language study. Germany and the Third World; German economic and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Linguistic and cultural activities abroad; national images and their ------cultural preparation for Co-op or SOCRATES placements origins; the image of Germany abroad and the German in a German-speaking environment. self-image; German/Irish relations. GE4213 - GERMAN FOR BEGINNERS 3 (APPLIED To explain the German educational system, structures in Tutorials: a) discussion of texts connected with the LANGUAGES) a German company and in the world of trade and lecture; contrastive cultural studies including students' ECTS Credits: 6 business in general patterns of everyday life presentations in the foreign language; b. grammatical To develop students' skills in the analysis of more exercises c) graded translation exercises focussing on School of Modern Languages and Applied complex literary texts in German. German/English translations. Linguistics To provide students with the skills to do a presentation in the foreign language Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module To further consolidate grammatical structures, extend Prerequisites: GE4146 completes students' basic language study. It aims to vocabulary and increase accuracy in oral and written increase students confidence in writing and speaking German. ------German and to both promote intercultural awareness and provide linguistic and cultural preparation for study/work GE4211 - GERMAN FOR BEGINNERS 1 in a German-speaking environment. Syllabus: Lecture: education environment: the ECTS Credits: 6 educational system, universities and university life, work Syllabus: Lecture: education environment: the environment: vocational education, industrial relations, School of Modern Languages and Applied educational system, universities and university life, work company structures, trade unions; Germany as a Linguistics environment: vocational education, industrial relations, multicultural country; intercultural communication company structures, trade unions; Germany as a theory; the media landscape in Germany. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide multicultural country; intercultural communication Tutorials: a) discussion of authentic text material and a students with an introduction to the German-speaking theory; the media landscape in Germany. literary text to support the lecture; focus on the countries as physical, cultural and political entities. development of writing skills and cultural awareness; b) To give an overview of the major social and cultural Tutorials: Students complete their grounding in the basic grammar in context. developments in the German-speaking countries of structures and vocabulary of the German language, Language laboratory: CALL exercises; language-related Europe in the 19th and early 20th century. focusing particularly on grammar and lexis in context. exercises based on German TV programmes dealing with To introduce students to the academic study of the Students are encouraged to consolidate the skills they the issues covered in the lecture. German language, its historical, social and structural have acquired in earlier modules, focusing particularly on dimensions. the development of speaking and writing skills and To provide communicative skills (listening, speaking, cultural awareness. Prerequisites: GE4142 reading, writing) at a basic level in German through the Work is supplemented by short authentic texts on introduction and practice of simple grammatical contemporary issues in German-speaking countries. One ------structures, functions and vocabulary. hour a week is devoted to studying short literary texts, To introduce students to autonomous language-learning one to prepare students for living and working/studying GE4147 - GERMAN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY methods. in a German-speaking environment (application letters, 5:GERMANY EUROPE AND BEYON cvs, practice of short interview situations, using the ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Lecture: The German language, its history and telephone, etc.) relationship with other languages; political geography of School of Modern Languages and Applied the German speaking countries; sociocultural and Language Laboratory: CALL exercises; language related Linguistics historical background to the German-speaking countries exercises based on German TV programmes dealing with of Europe in the 19th and early 20th century the issues covered in the lecture Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine Germany's role in present day Europe and explore the Tutorials: Working with the set textbook, back-up interrelatedness of German social and cultural audio-visual and online materials, students are Prerequisites: GE4212 developments with those of its neighbours. introduced to the concepts of gender, number and case To develop inter-cultural awareness and communication and to the basic structures of the German language. ------skills. To continue the study of more complex literary Students are also made aware of approaches to language GE4241 - GERMAN LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND GE4621 - GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1: SOCIETY 1 Syllabus: Lecture: education environment: the INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN LITERATURE ECTS Credits: 6 educational system, universities and university life, work ECTS Credits: 6 environment: vocational education, industrial relations, School of Modern Languages and Applied company structures, trade unions; Germany as a School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics multicultural country; intercultural communication Linguistics theory; the media landscape in Germany. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide Tutorial work: one hour textwork consolidates skills Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give an students with an introduction to German-speaking relating to textual analysis/production, grammar in use overview over the different ways of approaching a countries as physical, cultural and political entities; to and German-English translation; one hour oral literary text, the different genres and text types, defining develop communicative skills by revising and discussion/presentation will also focus on authentic text their characteristics. consolidating basic structures and vocabulary; to material (written, video, etc) relating to the lecture To introduce students to the major periods and introduce autonomous language learning methods. series. Literary texts relating to lectures will also be movements in the history of German literature focusing Emphasis in modules GE4241 and GE4242 is placed on discussed and examined in the oral and written exams; on its interrelatedness with other European literatures in establishing a solid foundation in the language; by the one hour German linguistics continues with past and conjunction with the general lecture (to be continued in end of Year 1, students are expected to use all basic current developments in the German language. the Spring Semester). To develop students' analytic and grammatical structures with a high degree of fluency and interpretative skills. correctness. ------Syllabus: Lecture: What is literature? How do we Syllabus: Lecture: The German language, its history and interpret a literary text? A brief history of German relationship with other languages; political geography of GE4247 - GERMAN LANGUAGE CULTURE AND literature. the German-speaking countries; sociocultural and SOCIETY 5 Tutorials: a) analysing literary examples from different historical background to the German-speaking countries ECTS Credits: 6 periods; b) detailed analysis of a longer text in the of Europe in the 19th and early 20th century. German language; introduction to the interpretation of Tutorial work: Grammar/translation: introduction to School of Modern Languages and Applied literary texts in a foreign language. basic grammatical categories and terminology; Linguistics consolidation of existing grammatical knowledge and ------expansion into more complex structures; contrastive Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine work by means of English/German translation exercises; Germany's role within Europe and beyond and explore GE4623 - GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE 3: Text analysis & production: principles of textual points of contact between Ireland and Germany; to ROMANTICISM analysis and text discussion (literary and non-literary); continue improvement of text analysis and oral, reading ECTS Credits: 6 grammar in use/communicative grammar. and writing skills, to revise further problem areas in Laboratory: 1 hour per week in the CALL/language German grammar and increase students' confidence in School of Modern Languages and Applied laboratory will support grammar and oral work. using more complex grammatical and syntactic Linguistics structures. To continue the systematic study of ------translation theory and practice, introducing students to a Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give range of text-types and registers. students an insight into German Romanticism as a GE4243 - GERMAN LANGUAGE CULTURE AND literary and artistic movement, placing it in a European SOCIETY 3 Syllabus: Lecture: Germany and its neighbours; framework and focusing in particular on its ECTS Credits: 6 Germany and the Third World; German economic and socio-historical background. To examine the legacy of cultural activities abroad; national images and their Romanticism in the 19th and 20th centuries. School of Modern Languages and Applied origins; the image of Germany abroad and the German To further improve students linguistic skills, in particular Linguistics self-image; German/Irish relations. those needed for dealing with literary texts. Tutorial work: Oral presentation & discussion class: Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To promote drawing on text and audio-visual materials to develop Syllabus: Lecture: critique of the enlightenment; the intercultural awareness and provide linguistic and formal oral skills (analysing tone & register; reporting preromantics (Sturm und Drang); romanticism in cultural preparation for study/work in a and commentary); Text analysis & production; Europe; romanticism in art and literature; political German-speaking environment. To enable students to contemporary literature; Translation theory and practice: romanticism, particularism and nationalism; Young acquire the necessary linguistic and cultural skills so that scientific, economic and journalistic texts. Germany, Vormõrz, 1848; the legacy of romanticism in they may communicate effectively in a German-speaking the 20th century. work environment. To continue to provide an insight into ------Tutorials: discussion and analysis of selected writers of socio-economic, cultural and political structures in the romantic era including Novalis, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Germany with a special emphasis on the educational Eichendorff, de la Motte-FouquÚ, Heine and women system and employment sector. writers like Bettina von Arnim, Rahel Varnhagen and Dorothea Schlegel. Study of romantic paintings (C. D. facilities. Tutorial: a) consolidation of topics discussed in lecture; Friedrich, P. O. Runge), also of German fairy tales as b) discussion of authentic text material to support the products of Romanticism. lecture c) strengthening of complex grammatical ------structures ------GE4923 - GERMAN FOR BUSINESS 3A Prerequisites: GE4924 GE4627 - GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE 5: ECTS Credits: 6 ASPECTS OF 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE ------ECTS Credits: 6 School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics GE4927 - GERMAN FOR BUSINESS 7A School of Modern Languages and Applied ECTS Credits: 6 Linguistics Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To enable students to acquire the necessary linguistic and cultural School of Modern Languages and Applied Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine skills so that they may communicate effectively in a Linguistics aspects of 20th century writing in German through close German-speaking work environment. To continue to study of individual texts. provide an insight into socio-economic, cultural and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine political structures in Germany with a special emphasis Germany's role in present day Europe and explore the Syllabus: The works covered in this module may be on the educational system and employment sector. To interrelatedness of German social and cultural drawn from the Expressionist Movement, Weimar and develop awareness of German companies in Ireland / developments with those of its neighbours. exile literature, and post-war writing. Aspects which Irish companies in Germany. To introduce issues in To develop inter-cultural awareness and communication may be considered include literature and cultural intercultural communication (German/Irish). skills, especially in a business cocontext. To develop identity, the role of literature in political change, the translation skills and enhance students' presentation writer as social critic and women's writing. Syllabus: Lecture: education environment: the skills in the foreign language. To expand on knowledge educational system, universities and university life, work and skills acquired during Cooperative Education. ------environment: vocational education, industrial relations, company structures, trade unions; Germany as a GE4921 - GERMAN FOR BUSINESS 1A multicultural country; intercultural communication Syllabus: Lecture: Germany and its neighbours; ECTS Credits: 6 theory; the media landscape in Germany. Germany and the Third World; German economic and Tutorial: a) discussion of authentic text material and a cultural activities abroad; national images and their School of Modern Languages and Applied literary text to support the lecture; focus on the origins; the image of Germany abroad and the German Linguistics development of writing skills and cultural awareness; b) self-image; German/Irish relations. Tutorials: a) discussion of texts connected with the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To consolidate Prerequisites: GE4922 lecture; contrastive cultural studies including students' existing language skills and to improve general presentations in the foreign language; b. business text competency in German. To provide an insight into ------analysis and production, consolidation of language skills socio-economic and political structures in Germany, in a range of registers c) translation theory and practice, Austria and Switzerland and to familiarise students with GE4925 - GERMAN FOR BUSINESS 5A focussing on German/English scientific, economic and culture and history of the German-speaking countries. To ECTS Credits: 6 journalistic texts. introduce students to learning strategies and multimedia facilities in language learning. School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics Prerequisites: GE4925 Syllabus: Lecture: The German language, its history and relationship with other languages; political geography of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a ------the German-speaking countries; sociocultural and general introduction to researching business subject historical background to the German-speaking countries matters in German. To consolidate existing language HI4007 - HISTORIOGRAPHY of Europe in the 19th and early 20th century. skills and familiarisation with the language of marketing, ECTS Credits: 6 Tutorials: a) reading of literary texts to provide further economics, human resources, insurance and accounting. access to the period while at the same time introducing To prepare students for Cooperative Education. History reading techniques, principles of textual analysis and text discussion in oral and written form; b) introduction Syllabus: Lecture: Focus on the different specialisations Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module to business in German and project work in Business within business studies chosen by the students; will aim to provoke students into thinking about history German introduction to key principles of marketing, economics, in analytically new and creative ways, through Language laboratory: exercises in pronunciation, human resources, insurance and accounting in German introducing them to alternative historiographical listening comprehension and grammar utilizing CALL with presentions approaches for understanding the past. Issues of objectivity sources and the archive will be scrutinised War and the military revolution; congress diplomacy at that may help them to better understand current from a variety of perspectives, including postmodern and Westphalia, the Pyrenees, Nijmegen and Utrecht-Rastatt; socio-political events in the region that impact the wider postcolonial interdisciplinarities. By the end of the the witch craze and its critique; the scientific revolution; world. module students should have built on their use of a Dutch economic primacy; gender and women; court broad range of historical source materials and enhanced society and the world of the minister-favourite; France Syllabus: Course Content: the necessary skills to make critical use of them. They and Spain in the age of Louis XIV and Carlos II; Austrian This module provides a foundational overview of the will be able to demonstrate detailed knowledge of the expansion into the Hungarian plain; the partition of the history of the Middle East and its relationship with most significant historiographical debates and Spanish Monarchy in 1713-14. Europe from the emergence of Islam in the 7th century comprehend the reasons why historical interpretations to the contemporary era including the recent struggle change and are revised. Furthermore, they will have ------against ISIS and the self-proclaimed Caliphate.During been introduced to the work of important past and the twelve weeks we will explore the emergence of Islam contemporary thinkers and philosophers of history such HI4071 - DOING HISTORY: PAST, PRESENT AND as a religion and the political institutions that were as Leopold Von Ranke, Karl Marx, Herbert Butterfield, PRACTICE created with its expansion throughout the region and Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault and Hayden White. ECTS Credits: 6 beyond. We will focus on chronology but also on themes, such as the development of science, technology, social Syllabus: The syllabus will be principally designed History life, religion and politics. Moving forward in time, we will around discussions on questions of historiography and discuss the transitional period towards modernity and its how past and recent controversies provide insights into Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of meaning, the increasing foreign presence and what this interpretative differences for understanding both history this module is to introduce history students, at the start meant for the region and the creation of the modern and myth; enlightenment and romanticism; thinkers, of their primary degree programme, to the central Middle East following the end of the First World War. The philosophers and philosophies of history/historicism; significance of sources - whether primary or secondary - last few classes will explore some of the contemporary empiricism and scientific history; the influence of to gaining an understanding of history as a discipline and events with the purpose to use previous history in order propaganda and secrecy; Marxism; the Annales school; especially how an appreciation of the nature of sources to shed light on current matters. revisionism; postcolonialism; gender and ethnicity; the enriches the work of the history student as well as that The topics discussed will include: definition of the Middle peripheries of historical knowledge; the archive; of the professional historian. East; Muhammad and the Rise of Islam; Institutions of subaltern studies; memory (remembering to forget); Government and Religion; Culture and Society; public history and commemoration; the end of history? Syllabus: Historians and their sources; primary and Regionalisation vs. Centralisation of political authority; secondary sources; identification, location, accession, Islam in Europe; The rise of the Gunpowder Empires ------critical evaluation and use of sources; public and private 1500-2000; The age of Reforms; The First World War in archives; origins, ideologies and holdings; using the Middle East and Colonialism; Nationalism and its HI4063 - NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT? EARLY archives: access, availability, procedure and professional 'Others'; Independence and Revolution; The Middle East MODERN EUROPE, C. 1450-1700 practice; the range and scope of electronically available and Europe in the contemporary World. ECTS Credits: 6 source materials; audio and visual sources; old histories and new histories; forgery, fabrication and the historian; ------History the withdrawal, suppression and destruction of sources; professional practice and political necessity; appropriate HI4083 - MAKING IRELAND BRITISH?: EARLY Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module citations of primary and secondary sources; presenting a MODERN IRELAND, 1536-1750 aims to give students a thematic and chronological small research project ECTS Credits: 6 overview of the history of continental Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is intended as an ------History introduction into the early modern period, combining various aspects of the discipline expected to appeal to HI4073 - FROM THE PROPHET TO ISIS: THE Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a second-year students. MIDDLE EAST AND EUROPE, ANCIENT TO MODERN survey of sixteenth, seventeenth, and early ECTS Credits: 6 eighteenth-century Irish history. Syllabus: The waning of the middle ages and the culture of the renaissance; the political geography of early History Syllabus: The Anglo-Irish and Gaelic lordships; Tudor modern Europe - republics, new monarchies and Reform and Reformation;, the Tudor conquest composite polities; Europe in the broader context of the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The rationale (1579-1603); British settlement in Ireland; The crisis in discovery of America and the rise of the Ottoman for introducing a new module is to offer students the the three kingdoms and the 1641 rising; the Catholic empire; society: orders, minorities and outsiders; family possibility to choose a new subject not previously taught Confederates; Cromwellian reconquest and settlement; life - birth, marriage and death; humanism and at UL. The purpose of the module is to provide students demographic and social trends in Restoration Ireland; education; confessionalization in the Holy Roman with a general overview of the History of the Middle East The War of the Three Kings 1685-91; patriotism and the Empire; Wars of Religion in France and the Netherlands; from the age of the Prophet in the 7th century to the Irish parliament. Philip II and Spanish world hegemony; the Thirty Years' 21st century highlighting historical events and trends ------HI4117 - THE IRISH CONFLICT, 1948 - 98 that have defined that period. ECTS Credits: 6 HI4103 - IMAGINING IRELAND: FROM EARLY Syllabus: Introduction to the course: war, revolution, MODERN TO MODERN History restoration 1848-1924; European societies at war; ECTS Credits: 6 revolutionary situations/regime change; restoration of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide order; democracy/dictatorship and war 1924-44; History students with a comprehensive grasp of the origins and American money and reconstruction; decadent decade? nature of the 'Irish Troubles' from the birth of the Irish jazz, cocaine and sex; depression and sobriety; political Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Republic to the 'Good Friday Agreement'. The course mobilisation and violence; authority restored; centres on how Ireland and Irishness was imagined by traces the evolution of the political crisis in both Irish conservatism/fascism/Stalinism; the twenty-year crisis: people from the early modern to modern periods. The jurisdictions, with reference to the British perspective. international relations; the Nazi new order and total war; imagining of history is a key trend in popular culture and Themes will include the Anti-Partition League, Clann Na Holocaust; reconstruction/Cold War 1944-74; 1945: therefore, students need to be provided with the skills to Poblachta and the United Nations; Saor Uladh, Sinn Fein Europe's 'zero hour' re-establishing order: Europe's deconstruct representations of the past and to and the IRA during the 'Border Campaign'; Unionism and political divisions; recovery, growth, and limits: the interrogate their own working assumptions about history. Loyalism, Cathal Goulding and the move to the Left; European economy; seducing Europeans: mobility, Using a chronological approach examining key events, special powers and civil rights; Official and Provisional consumerism, and culture; the 'second sex'; feminism themes and milestones from the Battle of Kinsale in IRA; 'Bloody Sunday' at home and abroad; and post-feminism; turning tides: youth, political protest 1601, to the collapse of the Irish economy in the early counter-insurgency in the two jurisdictions; Long Kesh, and cultural revolt; the post-post war society and state twenty-first century, it covers political, social, economic Portlaoise and Wakefield; Ulster Defence Association, (1970s-90); rebuilding the European house: Thatcher and cultural dimensions of Irish history during Ulster Volunteer Force, Red Hand Commando and Ulster and Gorbachev; Which Europe? race, ethnicity, and tumultuous times. However, three large themes will be Resistance; Saor Eire, Irish National Liberation Army, memory; after the Wall: the return of 'Europe' and examined throughout the module - nation and state Irish Republican Socialist Party and Irish People's Union. building; identity formation and the experience of life. Liberation Organization; The Hunger Strikes, Issues to be addressed will include Ireland's transition 'Ulsterization' and the 'Long War'; Section 31, ------from a traditional to a modern society, economy and propaganda and 'D notices'; Foreign Affairs, the White polity, language, gender, religion and how the broader House and United Nations; Abstentionism, rise of Sinn HI4152 - FROM KINGDOM TO REPUBLIC: IRISH European, Atlantic and global framework influenced the Féin and the origins of the Peace Process HISTORY, 1660-1960 imagined 'nation'. The modules enables students to ECTS Credits: 6 examine the ways in which the past has been presented, Syllabus: The course is divided into seminars which interpreted and re-interpreted in various genres; to address key concepts, events and dynamics of the History uncover the assumptions or agendas behind period. The student will learn to assess the role of such representations and to reflect critically upon how Ireland organizations as the Anti-Partition League, Saor Uladh Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This general has been and is imagined using the critical methods of and Sinn Fein in relation to the partition issue. Other history module will provide those with little or no prior historical enquiry. themes of the module include Unionism and Loyalism, experience of history with an overview of Irish society special powers and civil rights, Official and Provisional and politics from c.1660 to 1960. It is ideal for the Syllabus: land of saints and scholars?: origins of IRA, 'Bloody Sunday', counterinsurgency, Long Kesh and general arts student, the international student and those Ireland's various identities; imagining ascendancy paramilitary imprisonment, Hunger Strikes, 'Ulsterization' who wish to have a general introduction to Irish history. Ireland; Irish culture, religion, and language; the nation and 'The Long War', Section 31, and the origins of the This is to be offered to students of the new BA Arts. depicted by competing interests: political factions, Peace Process. religious groups and commercial organisations; Syllabus: Defining Ireland; economy, society and class; nationalisms and unionism; Images and Irish identity; ------women and politics; the Three Kingdoms; the Boyne and symbolism and ritual; myths and realities; the state and the emergence of a protestant ascendancy; agrarian its motives; religion, gender and identity creation in HI4127 - UNDERSTANDING THE HOLOCAUST IN society in pre famine Ireland; the Famine: dealing with modern Ireland 20TH CENTURY EUROPE the catastrophe; patriots, nationalists, republicans, ECTS Credits: 6 unionists, and others: politics and its followers; origins of ------independence; constitutional developments and the two History states of Ireland; economic development; population and social change; education and language; the evolution of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this popular culture; the Irish diaspora. module is to examine significant political, social and cultural aspects of modern life in Europe. This module ------will, therefore, probe some of the key social and cultural transformations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and discuss the key political issues and events HI4187 - HEALTH, STATE AND IRISH MEDICAL Salamanca; the Habsburg-Valois wars in Italy; the HS4003 - OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE 1 CARE, 1837 - 1948 establishment of professional conciliar government; the ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 emergence of Madrid as a capital city from 1561; El Greco and the urban decline of Toledo; the conflict Chemical Sciences History against the Ottomans in the Mediterranean; development of an Atlantic economy based on Seville; Church, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To familiarise Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Inquisition and popular spirituality; construction of the the student with a broad range of occupational hygiene course is to provide students with an introduction to Escorial; faction, court ceremony and the politics of issues currently pertinent to the workplace environment. major issues, approaches and sources in the history of access to the ruler; the religious wars of the later medicine from the Poor Law 1837 to the 'Mother and sixteenth century; Alonso Sánchez Coello and Spanish To further develop the students' awareness of the Child scheme' debacle in 1948 court portraiture; Philip II as Prudent King and secular occupational hygiene approach to hazard recognition, right arm of the Counter-Reformation, 1559-98. evaluation, monitoring and control in respect of selected Syllabus: This module traces the evolution of Irish chemical and physical hazards. healthcare provision from the Poor Law in 1837 to the ------introduction of the Mother and Child Scheme in 1948, it To enhance the students skills in the use of appropriate will highlight the complexity of nineteenth-century Irish HI4237 - THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND THE measuring equipment and evaluation of findings in the administration and will focus on how the dual system of ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT context of occupational exposures. public and private healthcare and its services emerged; ECTS Credits: 6 major health concerns which dictated the shape the system such as outbreaks of cholera, typhus and History Syllabus: [Hazards]: recognition, measurement & pulmonary tuberculosis; lunacy acts; sanitation law; evaluation control; housing acts; the contagious diseases acts and their Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The Arab [Survey design]: personal monitoring, area monitoring, implementation and implications for health; the Israeli Conflict is likely one of the most relevant in the surface monitoring foundation of the Irish Free State and its relationship contemporary world. This conflict has fascinated and [Chemical hazards]: Atmospheric Dust & fumes, with the Catholic hierarchy invoked more change in the puzzled scholars, politicians and the broader public active/inert, total/respirable fraction, occupational healthcare sector; issues of social class and healthcare; creating the impression that everyone has an opinion exposure levels, time-weighted average of exposure, British policy and technological advances will be about it. There is not only interest but it also seems that analytical techniques. Gases/Vapours, active versus highlighted from a comparative perspective. everyone has a recipe to find a lasting solution to this passive sampling, sampling techniques, direct reading conflict: interestingly most of these solutions are instruments, units of concentration, control of airborne ------conflicting if not diametrically opposed. This course will contaminants, ventilation, dilution ventilation, number of study the history of the conflict in the larger context of air changes, local exhaust ventilation, collection devices, HI4207 - THE FIRST GLOBAL EMPIRE: THE the modern history of the Middle East following a ducting, fans, capture velocity, transport velocity. Safety SPANISH MONARCH, EUROPE AND AMERICA 1479 - chronological approach though several themes will be technologies and personal protective equipment. 1598 developed throughout the course itself. [Physical hazards]: Noise, sound, sound frequency, ECTS Credits: 6 We will explore and discuss the causes and wavelength, sound power, sound pressure, intensity, consequences of the major wars and we will place them sound levels in practice, sound weighting, statistical History in their local and international context. noise levels, LAeq, LAepd, sound measurement techniques, sound radiation, Noise control, absorption, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is Syllabus: Palestine under the Ottomans; World War reduction, enclosures, noise barriers, hearing protection, intended as a research-based elective module for One, the Balfour Declaration and the Peace Settlements; audiometry. Safety technologies and personal protective final-year undergraduate students. It will build on the 3 The British Mandate; Competing Nationalism: Zionism equipment. success of previously offered elective modules on early and Arab Nationalism; 1948 The War for Palestine; [Relevant Legislation and Codes of Practice] modern history by giving students a thematic and Palestinian Refugees and the Status of Jerusalem; Suez chronological overview of the history of Spain and Canal Crisis: the Cold War, Nasser and the Conflict; Road America that is specific to the late medieval period and to 1967: war of attrition; The paradox of Peace: the ------the sixteenth century. As such, it responds to the very October War 1973; Camp David: Cold War and Oil positive student feedback that was received for the old concerns; Lebanon Civil War and the wider region; HI4062 module on Court Politics and Culture in Early Israeli policies and the First Intifada; Creating a 'Peace Modern Spain, 1561-1665. Process': from Madrid to Oslo; Camp David II and the Second Intifada; Simulation: Hope for Peace? Syllabus: The dynastic union of Castile and Aragon; the inheritance of Charles V; strengths and weaknesses of a ------composite monarchy; conquest and colonisation of an empire in America; Francisco de Vitoria and the School of IN4003 - PRINCIPLES OF RISK MANAGEMENT - prior probabilities Insurance is one of the main mechanisms used to control ECTS Credits: 6 - insurance applications risk, through the transfer of that risk to a third party, 7. Design of retention programmes usually an insurance company. The insurance company Accounting & Finance - types of retention/accounting treatment in turn is exposed to a variety of risks and can transfer - overview of process some of these through reinsurance whilst other risks can Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce - determination of ruin probabilities be controlled using alternative markets. This module will the students to concepts and principles relating to the 8. Portfolio management introduce students to the role of insurance within the management of risk in both the public and private sector. - portfolio co-variance factors solvency health market. Furthermore, this module seeks to raise The student will be expected to understand basic strategies awareness of global issues such as public health, natural mathematical and financial models in dealing with risk 9. Alternative risk transfer disasters, terrorism etc. and the mitigating role of risk theory as well as understanding the basics of the central 10. Risk control management and insurance. theories on risk. - use of NPV as decision tool - stochastic interest rate theory Syllabus: The module details the historical development Syllabus: Concepts of risk, pure and speculative risk; 11. Risk analysis of insurance industry and more generally the discipline of actuarial mathematics and elementary risk theory; - Intellectual Capital risk management. The theoretical framework used by perceptions of risk; risk in the economic and legal - types of intellectual capital insurance companies to internalise risk and attribute a environment; models of risk management; risk - risk management options price to that risk are discussed in detail. The module management as a decision making process, 12. Analysis of the occupational noise risk details the development and implementation of a risk identification, analysis, evaluation, control, financing of 13. Analysis of the ionising radiation risk management strategy by both private corporations as risk; risk management in an organisation and in the 14. Analysis of the pandemic well as public sector bodies. public sector; formulation and implementation of risk management strategies; quality and risk management. ------IN4007 - GOVERNANCE AND RISK ------ECTS Credits: 6 IN4427 - INSURANCE ORGANISATIONS AND IN4005 - RISK ANALYSIS MARKETS ECTS Credits: 6 Accounting & Finance ECTS Credits: 6

Accounting & Finance Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop in Accounting & Finance the student an understanding of and insight into the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: 1. To develop concepts of goverance and risk 2. To examine the nature Rationale and Purpose of the Module: 1. To develop in the student an understanding of and insight into risk of the interface between governance structures and risk in the student an understanding of and insight into the analysis. management practices. management of an insurance organisation in the current 2. To examine the nature of the interface between the economic and legal environment. corporate risk management function and the insurance Syllabus: The students will gain a general understanding 2. To examine the nature of the interface between sectors servicing response. of risk and governance and produce an some in-depth insurance organisations and regulators. 3. To introduce students to the theory and practice of analysis of specific examples. The content will address 3. To introduce students to the theory and practice of risk analysis and to acquaint students with the complex risk and governance from a number of disciplinary insurance institutions and to acquaint students with the and rapidly changing environment within which risk perspectives including accounting, regulation and legal. complex and rapidly changing environment within which managers operate. insurers operate. Stress will be given to the achievement of appreciation of recent developments in the field. Syllabus: 1. Analysis of overall corporate risk IN4015 - RISK AND INSURANCE - concept of enterprise risk management ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Develop in the student an understanding of - categories of risk and control strategies and insight into the management of insurance 2. Statistical concepts and probability Accounting & Finance organisations in the current, social, economic and legal 3. Types and costs of risk environment. Examine the nature of the interface 4. Managing risk Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To meet the between insurance organisations and regulators. 5. Decision making under conditions of total needs of the risk management and insurance industry by Introduce students to the theory and practice of uncertainty providing students with a strong understanding of how insurance institutions and to acquaint students with the - minimax ; maximax criteria the insurance industry operates. Students will also learn complex and rapidly changing environment within which - minimal regret criterion the important principles underlying risk management. insurers operate. Stress will be given to the achievement Using measures of probability The interest in, and study of, risk has grown significantly of appreciation of recent developments in the field. - determining threshold probability factors due to improvements in the technology used to assess - economic value of information. and measure risk and the development of innovations in Prerequisites: IN4003 6. Bayesian decision analysis the insurance and capital markets that control risk. ------achievement of appreciation of recent developments in Syllabus: Listening practice leading to the recognition of the field. numbers, times, days, dates, locations, greetings and IN4725 - RISK AND INSURANCE questions. Conversation practice based on grammar ECTS Credits: 6 structures and vocabulary necessary to use greetings, Syllabus: The students will gain a general understanding introduce oneself politely, ask basic questions, explain Accounting & Finance of insurance organisations and markets and produce schedules, and talk about pastimes. Reading practice some in-depth analysis progressing from the understanding of notices and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To meet the posters to descriptions of peoples everyday lives. needs of the risk management and insurance industry by ------Writing practice introducing the hiragana and katakana providing students with a strong understanding of how writing systems and 80 kanji progressing to being able to the insurance industry operates. Students will also learn JA4111 - JAPANESE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND write passages involving self-introduction, daily routines, the important principles underlying risk management. SOCIETY 1 (ADVANCED) hobbies, and shopping. Reading and discussion in English The interest in, and study of, risk has grown significantly ECTS Credits: 6 about Japanese customs, culture and society. due to improvements in the technology used to assess and measure risk and the development of innovations in School of Modern Languages and Applied ------the insurance and capital markets that control risk. Linguistics Insurance is one of the main mechanisms used to control JA4213 - JAPANESE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND risk, through the transfer of that risk to a third party, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop SOCIETY 3 usually an insurance company. The insurance company communicative skills by revising and consolidating basic ECTS Credits: 6 in turn is exposed to a variety of risks and can transfer structures and vocabulary; to introduce autonomous some of these through reinsurance whilst other risks can language learning methods. Emphasis is placed on School of Modern Languages and Applied be controlled using alternative markets. With the establishing a solid foundation in the language; by the Linguistics spiralling cost of health care and the changing end of Year 1, students are expected to use all basic demographic in Ireland and Europe there is significant grammatical structures with a high degree of fluency and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To consolidate focus on the health care market by the state and the correctness. further students' abilty to understand, speak, read and insurance industry. This module will introduce students write Japanese and to further their understanding of to t Syllabus: Lecture: Japanese culture and society in the Japanese culture and society, particularly relating to the early 21st century. This lecture will be shared with the ab world of work. Syllabus: The module details the historical development initio stream. of insurance industry and more generally the discipline of Tutorial work: Grammar: introduction to basic Syllabus: Understanding of instructions, needs and risk management. The theoretical framework used by grammatical categories and terminology; consolidation of wants, descriptions of events in order. Speaking insurance companies to internalise risk and attribute a existing grammatical knowledge and expansion into exercises explaining actions in sequence, telling stories, price to that risk are discussed in detail. The module more complex structures; Text analysis & production: making requests and asking permission. Reading more details the development and implementation of a risk principles of textual analysis and text discussion (literary demanding and authentic passages about Japanese life management strategy by both private corporations as and non-literary); grammar in use/communicative and society. Written exercises concentrating on well as public sector bodies. grammar. descriptions and narratives; also memos, letters and Autonomous project work on aspects of Japanese culture notes. Study of a further 170 kanji to bring the total up ------and society using authentic materials. to 250 characters. Discussion of modern Japanese culture, literature and films. IN4735 - INSURANCE ORGANISATIONS ------ECTS Credits: 6 JA4211 - JAPANESE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND Accounting & Finance SOCIETY 1 Prerequisites: JA4212 ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: 1. To develop ------in the student an understanding of and insight into the School of Modern Languages and Applied management of an insurance organisation in the current Linguistics JA4247 - JAPANESE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND economic and legal environment. SOCIETY 5 2. To examine the nature of the interface between Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a ECTS Credits: 6 insurance organisations and regulators. firm grounding in understanding, speaking, reading and 3. To introduce students to the theory and practice of writing basic Japanese, and aspects of Japanese culture School of Modern Languages and Applied insurance institutions and to acquaint students with the and society, as well as to begin to develop life-long Linguistics complex and rapidly changing environment within which language learning strategies with learners. insurers operate. Stress will be given to the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module consolidates and extends students' abilities in listening JA4913 - JAPANESE FOR BUSINESS 3 JA4917 - JAPANESE FOR BUSINESS 7 and reading comprehension, spoken and written ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 intermediate level Japanese. It also introduces translation from Japanese to English of a variety of School of Modern Languages and Applied School of Modern Languages and Applied literary and other contemporary texts. Linguistics Linguistics

Syllabus: Listening practice consolidating functions and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To consolidate Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module vocabulary studied up to now; authentic listening from a further students' abilty to understand, speak, read and consolidates and extends students' abilities in listening variety of sources. Speaking practice involving further write Japanese and to further their understanding of and reading comprehension, spoken and written use of polite language; presentations about work Japanese culture and society, particularly relating to the intermediate level Japanese. It also introduces experience and current affairs; spoken summaries of world of work. translation from Japanese to English of a variety of broadcast and reading material at various levels. literary and other contemporary texts. Reading of authentic or near-authentic passages at Syllabus: Understanding of instructions, needs and intermediate level. Translation of a variety passages wants, descriptions of events in order. Speaking Syllabus: Listening practice consolidating functions and into English. Writing practice involving summaries, exercises explaining actions in sequence, telling stories, vocabulary studied up to now; authentic listening from a descriptions, and letters of various levels of formality. making requests and asking permission. Reading more variety of sources. Speaking practice involving further Study of a further 170 kanji, to bring the total to 550 demanding and authentic passages about Japanese life use of polite language; presentations about work characters. Introduction of authentic material by modern and society. Written exercises concentrating on experience and current affairs; spoken summaries of Japanese authors. descriptions and narratives; also memos, letters and broadcast and reading material at various levels. notes. Study of a further 170 kanji to bring the total up Reading of authentic or near-authentic passages at Prerequisites: JA4246 to 250 characters. Discussion of modern Japanese intermediate level. Translation of a variety passages culture, literature and films. into English. Writing practice involving summaries, ------descriptions, and letters of various levels of formality. Study of a further 170 kanji, to bring the total to 550 JA4911 - JAPANESE FOR BUSINESS 1 characters. Introduction of authentic material by modern ECTS Credits: 6 Prerequisites: JA4912 Japanese authors.

School of Modern Languages and Applied ------Prerequisites: JA4915 Linguistics JA4915 - JAPANESE FOR BUSINESS 5 ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a ECTS Credits: 6 firm grounding in understanding, speaking, reading and JM4003 - INTERVIEWING AND REPORTING writing basic Japanese, and aspects of Japanese culture School of Modern Languages and Applied ECTS Credits: 6 and society, as well as to begin to develop life-long Linguistics language learning strategies with learners. School of Culture and Communication Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To consolidate Syllabus: Listening practice leading to the recognition of students' abilities to comprehend, read, speak and write Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Interviewing numbers, times, days, dates, locations, greetings and Japanese developed up to now and to develop further and reporting aims to develop students skills at questions. Conversation practice based on grammar their ability to deal with material relating to Japanese researching and carrying out interviewing face to face structures and vocabulary necessary to use greetings, culture and business particularly in the world of work. and by telephone, and covering a patch as for a local introduce oneself politely, ask basic questions, explain newspaper. schedules, and talk about pastimes. Reading practice Syllabus: Listening comprehension, particularly progressing from the understanding of notices and authentic news broadcasts about business topics; Syllabus: Students will study interviewing in depth, posters to descriptions of peoples everyday lives. readings about contemporary Japanese life and business; learning how to select interview subjects, research topics Writing practice introducing the hiragana and katakana spoken exercises, particularly short presentations and and prepare for the interview. They will carry out a writing systems and 80 kanji progressing to being able to workplace-related conversations; writing of short reports face-to-face interview with a newsmaker in class, reflect write passages involving self-introduction, daily routines, and summaries as well as students' own opinions on on that interview and the ones by fellow classmates, and hobbies, and shopping. Reading and discussion in English everyday topics. write up both their own and classmates interviews as about Japanese customs, culture and society. news stories. They will research and carry out a Prerequisites: JA4914 telephone interview. During the second half of the ------semester students will be assigned to a local patch, from ------which they will, with the guidance of the tutor, produce a portfolio including a report on the area, off diary and on diary stories and short features, with suitable pictures. This material must be designed into pages for a dummy Syllabus: Students will learn the core theories of local paper. Classes throughout the semester will include journalism structures and practice, this will inform JM4047 - JOURNALISM TEAM PROJECT 1 revision on news writing as the students develop and students both of existing and changes in structures and ECTS Credits: 6 polish their stories. Assessment will be by coursework: practice in the ever changing field. This will include an production of a portfolio of interviews and a folder of introduction to journalistic ethics. School of Culture and Communication work from the students patch, and a timed exam on news writing and editing. In the practical labs students will learn the principles of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The Team news reporting, including grammar and working to a Project aims to polish students reporting, writing and ------style book. They will learn by comparing reports in designing skills to a professional level. It will enhance national and local newspapers and magazines. They will their ability to work in a team and to meet deadlines. It JM4008 - INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM have extensive practice in creating news stories. They will allow students to develop problem solving skills. This ECTS Credits: 6 will learn to report from speakers, radio and TV module will prepare students for Journalism Team Project programmes and documents and will practise writing 2 where students will produce a one off newspaper or School of Culture and Communication intros and structuring a news story both for print and the magazine. internet. They will learn about newsroom practices and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The journalistic routines. They will consider the work of Syllabus: Students will establish a news room structure Investigative Journalism module aims to give students an leading news and feature writers and their distinct styles. with students assigned various roles such as editors, insight into how to conceive, research and write a piece They will write short profiles of people in the news. layout designers and beat reporters. Students will of investigative journalism to professional standards. Assessment will be by the production of a portfolio of develop and practice the structures by producing a work completed during the course, and a final timed rolling news web site. Syllabus: Students will originate an idea, and under the examination. They will develop the concept to ôpublicationö producing guidance of the tutor will develop it, research it using a reader profile and a business case. Students will write printed sources and the internet, compile a list of ------news and original features and other material, source interview subjects and carry out at least two face to face pictures, design pages and edit accurately. The final interviews. The research will end in a 2,000 word JM4037 - INDIVIDUAL JOURNALISM PROJECT AND submission will include a statement from each student investigative news feature, with background fact boxes PORTFOLIO 1 about what s/he wrote, details of his or her role in the and other material if relevant. The feature must be ECTS Credits: 6 production, and contacts for the sources for the written aimed at a specific newspaper or magazine, and pieces. designed into a spread or spreads appropriate to the School of Culture and Communication Assessment will be by the individual students style of that publication. A research journal of at contributions to the final project. minimum of 1,500 words will set out the way the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The individual research was carried out, what difficulties were project aims to help students in-depth reporting, comma ------encountered, and will include contacts of the writing and design skills through work on a subject of interviewees for checking. Assessment will be by the their own choice. It aims to help them project an JM5011 - JOURNALISTIC WRITING FOR NEWS individual students contributions to the final project. extended piece of journalism with appropriate research. ECTS Credits: 9

------Syllabus: Students will choose and research a subject of School of Culture and Communication their choice using all available resources and personal JM4011 - Introduction to Journalism interviewing. They will be guided by a supervisor to Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Journalistic ECTS Credits: 6 ensure their research will be adequate to produce a Writing News aims to equip students to tackle a broad 4,500 word extended journalistic product, either as one range of news stories, including stories from interviews, School of Culture and Communication piece, or a group of related pieces. Students will also be documents, radio and television and lectures and required to produce a 30-minute radio documentary OR speeches. It will introduce students to different styles of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Introduction to a 10-minute television documentary OR a multimedia writing for different media. Journalism has aims to introduce students to the broad project on this or a related topic, or a series of shorter range of writing in journalism alongside a grounding on packages. A target publication and broadcast outlet must Syllabus: Students will learn the principles of news core issues of Journalism theory and practice be identified. The final work will be designed for print / reporting, including grammar and working to a style web / edited for broadcast as appropriate and presented book. They will learn by comparing reports in national The module will introduce a broad range of writing skills as part of a portfolio of publications produced while a BA and local newspapers and magazines. They will have from newspapers to magazines of all types, both print student. Students should conduct a series of interviews extensive practice in creating news stories. They will and online. It aims to teach students to write short as appropriate and follow ethical guidelines and use learn to report from different sources and will practise news stories for a variety of publications, including local on-the-record sources. writing intros and structuring a news story both for print and national newspapers and websites. and the internet. They will learn about interviewing, and ------will practice interviewing both in class and on their own. They will learn about newsroom practices, journalistic the module is to give students an historical perspective administration of justice in Ireland, courts and routines writing to deadlines. on radio and to develop their professional practice skills quasi-judicial tribunals; legal and equitable remedies. Assessment will be by the production of a portfolio of in broadcasting The role of law in the business environment, its function work completed during the course, and a final timed and methods, legal philosophy in business law. Core examination. Syllabus: The module examines the current elements of private law. Contractual transactions: organisational structures of radio in Ireland and it formation; formalities; capacity; contractual terms and ------analyses the changes that have come about in broadcast obligations; standard form contracts; statutory journalism. The impact of broadcast journalism on regulation; discharge. Civil liability: negligence; statutory JM5051 - PROFESSIONAL SKILLS FOR JOURNALISM democracy is also examined. duties and remedies; economic torts: inducement to AND TEAM PROJECT The module examines radio research techniques, breach of contract; conspiracy; passing off; deceit and ECTS Credits: 9 interviewing for audio and scriptwriting. Practical classes injurious falsehood. focus on the development of professional journalism School of Culture and Communication practice skills for audio-based outputs and web casting. ------These classes are held in the radio studio and in a Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Professional dedicated newsroom. Writing and presentation skills for LA4013 - MEDIA LAW Skills for Journalism aims to introduce students to the radio, telephone recording procedures and editing of ECTS Credits: 6 range of skills needed for editing and headline writing for audio and visual reportage are examined print and internet and designing and creating for print Law and internet. ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course The Team Project aims to polish students reporting, LA4001 - LEGAL SYSTEM AND METHOD aims to make students fully aware of the legal writing and designing skills to a professional level. It will ECTS Credits: 6 framework and constraints within which the media enhance their ability to work in a team and to meet operates, and to enable then to cover courts and other deadlines. Law stories with legal implications effectively and with confidence. It also aims to make students fully aware of Syllabus: Students will learn the principles of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce the major ethical issues that concern journalists. professional editing, headline and standfirst writing and the discipline of law through an examination of the Students will be able to form judgments about ethical cutting to length. They will be introduced to the basic functioning of the legal system, sources of law and legal dilemmas and articulate a response to them. principles of illustrating news including taking methodology. photographs and generating graphics. They will learn Syllabus: The structure of the legal system, with specific print and website design and will create their own Syllabus: The concept of law, common law, civil law in relevance to the law as it affects journalists, including websites. Europe. Classification of law: municipal, international, defamation, malicious falsehood, criminal libel, Students will produce a local newspaper or magazine substantive, procedural, public, and private. The blasphemy, contempt of court, reporting restrictions, (print or internet-based) for the Team Project. They will administration of justice in Ireland. Sources of law: breach of confidence and copyright. The course will write news, features, analysis and editorials; source common law, legislation, the Constitution, European law. introduce students to major sources (individuals, pictures, design pages and edit accurately. Elements of the Constitution of Ireland. Legal reasoning institutions, campaigning bodies, government bodies, Assessment will be on work produced during the course, and methodology. journalists, journals) on media law issues. Students will a final timed examination (6 credits) and on each analyze complex legal issues and be able to apply them individual students contribution to the team project. ------to specific legal dilemmas. The course will cover recent developments in the laws on privacy and in particular ------LA4005 - LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS European human rights legislation. Students will be ECTS Credits: 6 introduced to the ethical framework surrounding JM5061 - INTRODUCTION TO BROADCAST journalism, including the various codes of conduct, and JOURNALISM Law touching on laws such as those of privacy. They will ECTS Credits: 3 discuss issues of public interest and its bearing on Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide private lives, and the importance of truth, fairness and School of Culture and Communication students with a knowledge of the legal environment in objectivity. There will be discussions on reporting suicide, which business operates and of the legal principles mental health issues, questions of taste and decency, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is central to commercial life. and the use of subterfuge to obtain stories, and the being created to introduce broadcast journalism to the questions of sleaze and sensationalism. Representation Graduate Diploma/MA in Journalism programme in Syllabus: The concept of law. Legal systems: common of women and minorities in the press will be covered, as Semester 1 in light of feedback from media law systems; the civil law systems; the European Union will the impact of competition, ownership and advertising professionals, and to improve the current and future legal system. Sources of Law; precedent; legislation; the on journalism. Assessment will be by examination and employment prospects of the students. The purpose of 1937 Constitution, the European Treaties. The coursework essay. ------law-Supremacy and Direct Effect; Development of Strategic Goals as identified in Broadening Horizons, Human rights and the effect of EC/EU membership on particularly those in Theme 1.2 "Support our local and LA4022 - COMMERCIAL LAW Ireland. regional communities". ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: The module covers, in the first instance, the The module will be offered on both the daytime and Law history of the European Communities and the various evening scheduled periods. However, the application Treaty amendments up to the Treaty of Lisbon. The form will not allow for both. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To familiarise module proceeds to consider the role, function and the student with the legal background of commercial legislation powers of the Commission, Parliament and Syllabus: This module covers: an introduction to the transactions. Council. The module will also examine the European historical, cultural and legal foundations of Irish housing Council, the Court of Auditors and the European Central law; the right to housing under Irish and international Syllabus: Contracts for the sale of goods, consumer Bank. The Court system and the types of actions heard human rights law; social housing and the Housing Acts; protection, reservation of title clauses, hire purchase and by the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil property law including mortgage law; landlord and leasing. Commercial contracts of agency, bailment, Service Tribunal will also be covered. The new legislative tenant law; Residential Tenancies Acts; housing liability; carriage of goods by land, sea and air. Financial procedures, the ordinary legislative procedure and the social policy considerations of housing law; services law, negotiable instruments, cheques, electronic special legislative procedure as introduced by Lisbon will homelessness. transfer of funds, free movement of capital within be examined. The development of human rights and the Europe, European banking regulation. Intellectual principles of direct effect and supremacy will be ------property rights, trademarks, copyright and patents, considered. Finally, the evolution and impact of LA4063 - LGBT RIGHTS, RESISTANCE AND creation, protection, endurance and profit. Regulation of membership of the EC and EU on Ireland will be REDRESS: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE LAW IN competition policy, national and European, comparative examined. IRELAND view of US anti trust legislation, enforcement ECTS Credits: 6 mechanisms, the relationship between intellectual ------property rights and competition abuses. Remedies at Law Law and Equity, alternative mechanisms for dispute LA4056 - HOUSING LAW AND POLICY resolution, arbitration, private courts, negotiation. ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course is Bankruptcy, personal versus corporate, historical designed to help students acquire the conceptual tools evolution, philosophical basis, Bankruptcy Act 1988, Law and affective dispositions required to engage in comparative views from the U.S. LGBT-inclusive analyses of Irish legislation and policy. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this The module first seeks to help students adopt a critical ------module is to provide students with an understanding of approach to traditional binary conceptions of gender and the legal and policy issues surrounding housing law - an sex, as well as to heteronormativity, providing a LA4033 - LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 1 area of law that is attracting increasing attention and foundation for informed analysis of historical and ECTS Credits: 6 controversy at both a national and international level. In contemporary Irish legislation. In particular, students will addition to affording students a broad understanding of be encouraged to consider the impact on LGBT inclusion Law the various sources of housing law in Ireland, the module of anti-discrimination and criminal legislation. Students will consider the policy implications of housing and will engage with key moments in the evolution of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of the homelessness. The module seeks to introduce students LGBT-rights in Ireland, up to and including the passing of module is to equip the student with an understanding to key areas of legal study including social housing and the Marriage Act 2015 and the Gender Recognition Act and knowledge of the basic principles and rules of the the Housing Acts, landlord and tenant law and the 2015. European Union, including: the origins and character of Residential Tenancies Acts. European Union law, beginning with the three original Syllabus: Traditional gender and sex roles; the social Community Treaties, developments from the 1960s up to As well as meeting the needs of our undergraduate construction of gender and biological sex; Gender variant the Lisbon Treaty. Each of the Institutions will be students, the introduction of a module focused on and intersex communities in Ireland; sexual minorities in examined: Parliament, Commission, Council, European Housing Law and Policy responds to a clear educational Ireland; the LGBT rights movement in Ireland; the Council, Court of Auditors, European Central Bank and need as identified by those in the Community Education Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform; Employment the Court system. Sources of law-Primary (Treaties), & Volunteer sector (initially the Community Law and Equality Legislation; The Civil Partnership Act 2010; the Secondary (Regulations, Directives etc), Case law of the Mediation Group, see Marriage Act 2015; the politics of blood donations; the Court of Justice of the European Union. Enforcement of http://www.communitylawandmediation.ie/). Gender Recognition Act 2015; The Prohibition of EU law-Infringement proceedings (Article 258), Collaborating with partners such as CLM and meeting Incitement to Hatred Act 1989; Trans children and the proceedings for failure to act (Article 265), proceedings their educational needs (by also delivering the module right to self-identification; Inter-sex persons and the for failure to fulfil an obligation (Article 259); Preliminary online, see below), enables UL to support its local and right to bodily integrity; Affirmative healthcare including references-Article 267; Legislative process-role of the regional communities. Such engagement moreover the availability of PrEP; future challenges for the LBGT institutions, Relationship between EU Law and national supports the University of Limerick in achieving its rights movements in Ireland; Hate crime in Ireland. ------system responds to the incidence of crime. It is a study LA4211 - CRIMINAL LAW 1 of major components of criminal justice in Ireland, which ECTS Credits: 6 LA4068 - CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE include concepts of law and crime, the criminal justice ECTS Credits: 6 process, and overview of criminal justice agencies, Law current criminal justice issues, interactions and conflicts Law between criminal justice agencies. The module also Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine examines the influence of the media influence on public the general principles of criminal law through Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The Crime and attitudes towards crime, criminal justice processes and consideration of their ethical, social and legal Criminal Justice module aims to critically evaluate the sentencing, criminal justice policy making, reform and dimensions. institutions and operation of the criminal Irish justice anti-crime initiatives. system in comparative perspective. The module aims to Syllabus: Historical and ethical consideration of criminal introduce students to the main approaches and theories Syllabus: Historical development of the criminal justice law, characteristics of a crime. Parties to a crime: in the field of crime and criminal justice studies, and the system. Models of criminal justice: due process versus principals and accessories, vicarious liability. The mechanisms by which the criminal justice system crime control. Criminal justice values and policies. elements of a crime. Actus reus, conduct, omissions, responds to the incidence of crime. The module also Human rights and the criminal justice system. Making of status. Mens rea, intention, recklessness, criminal examines the influence of the media influence on public criminal justice policy. Influence of the media on the negligence. Mens rea in penal statutes. Offences of attitudes towards crime, criminal justice processes and criminal justice process and policy implementation. strict liability. General defences: insanity, infancy, sentencing, criminal justice policy making, reform and Diversion from the criminal justice system including automatism, intoxication, mistake, necessity, duress, self anti-crime initiatives. Garda cautions and prosecutorial discretion. Alternative defence. Inchoate offences: attempt, incitement, processes in the criminal justice system: restorative conspiracy. Syllabus: Historical development of the criminal justice justice. The juvenile justice system. Penal policy and system. Models of criminal justice: due process versus rationales for sentencing. Sentence management and the ------crime control. Criminal justice values and policies. treatment of offenders; conditions of imprisonment; Human rights and the criminal justice system. The scrutiny of the prison system including judicial review LA4310 - LAW OF TORTS 1 making of criminal justice policy: the Department of and visiting committees; the Inspector of Prisons and ECTS Credits: 6 Justice, Equality and Law Reform; the National Crime Place of Detention. The adoption of civil mechanisms in Council; the Law Reform Commission; the role of the criminal justice system: seizure of criminal assets Law Non-governmental Bodies. The influence of European and other proceeds of crime; anti-social behaviour institutions on the Irish criminal justice process. orders. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To evaluate Influence of the media on the criminal justice process critically the role of the law of torts in society, to and policy implementation. Diversion from the criminal ------examine the basic elements of a tort with particular justice system including Garda cautions and prosecutorial emphasis on negligence and the defences thereto. discretion. Alternative processes in the criminal justice LA4111 - CONTRACT LAW 1 system: restorative justice; the Drugs Court. The ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Nature and function of torts: origin and juvenile justice system. Penal policy and rationales for development; alternative compensation systems; sentencing. Sentence management and the treatment of Law relationship of torts with constitutional law & EC law. offenders; conditions of imprisonment; scrutiny of the General torts: negligence, breach of statutory duty - prison system including judicial review and visiting Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide the elements of a tort (breach of duty, damage, causation, committees; the Inspector of Prisons and Place of legal basis for the creation and enforcement of contracts remoteness). Particular areas of liability: nervous Detention. The adoption of civil mechanisms in the and to examine what restrictions exist regarding freedom shock, negligent misstatement, economic loss, product criminal justice system: seizure of criminal assets and to contract. liability, employers' liability, occupiers' liability, liability other proceeds of crime; anti-social behaviour orders. for defective premises, liability of administrative Syllabus: Formation of contracts: offer and acceptance, agencies. General defences in tort. Parties: minors, ------intention, doctrine of consideration. Formal and the State, diplomats, corporate and unincorporated evidentiary requirements: void, voidable and bodies, concurrent liability, vicarious liability. LA4073 - INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE unenforceable contracts. Construction/interpretation of ECTS Credits: 6 contracts: intention, parol evidence, express and implied ------terms. Public interest restrictions on contractual Law freedom: capacity, illegality, privity, competition policy, doctrine of restraint of trade, consumer protection. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module aims to introduce students to the main approaches and ------theories in the field of crime and criminal justice studies, and the mechanisms by which the criminal justice LA4330 - LAW OF TORTS 1 (B) obligations, including our obligations due to our possession, merger. Disabilities. ECTS Credits: 6 membership of the European Union will be considered. Issues such as constitutional litigation and constitutional ------Law interpretation will also be considered. LA4810 - EQUITY AND TRUSTS 1 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To evaluate ------ECTS Credits: 6 critically the role of the law of torts in society, to examine the basic elements of a tort with particular LA4530 - COMPANY LAW 1 Law emphasis on negligence and the defences thereto. ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine Syllabus: Nature and function of torts: origin and Law the growth and development of equity, particularly development; alternative compensation systems; equitable doctrines and equitable remedies available in relationship of torts with constitutional law & EC law. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Currently, the the modern Court. General torts: negligence, breach of statutory duty - School of Law delivers two modules called Law of elements of a tort (breach of duty, damage, causation, Business Associations 1 and 2. The name Law of Syllabus: The nature of equity and historical remoteness). Particular areas of liability: nervous Business Associations is outdated and cumbersome. The development, maxims, equitable remedies - the shock, negligent misstatement, economic loss, product two new modules being created will keep the content of injunction, specific performance, rescission, rectification, liability, employers' liability, occupiers' liability, liability the Law of Business Associations modules but will use specific performance, estoppel. Equitable doctrines - for defective premises, liability of administrative the more commonly used name of Company Law. It will conversion, election, satisfaction and ademption, agencies. General defences in tort. Parties: minors, be to the advantage of students, and professional bodies the State, diplomats, corporate and unincorporated and employers with which they deal, as the term ------bodies, concurrent liability, vicarious liability. Company Law bears the more commonly used term for the study of this area of law. LA4901 - PRINCIPLES OF LAW ------ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: The aim of the module is to equip the student LA4430 - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 1 with an understanding and knowledge of the basic Law ECTS Credits: 6 principles and rules of Irish company law, including ; the concept of separate legal personality and exceptions Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Principles of Law thereto, corporate contracts, the nature of shares in Law is an introduction to law for non-law students private companies limited by share, the rights of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Currently, the shareholders, the remedies available to shareholders, the Syllabus: The module provides the student with a basic School of Law delivers lectures on the Irish Constitution role of share capital and issues surrounding corporate knowledge of the Irish legal system, the Irish to all our LLB degrees and to a number of FAHSS borrowing and security. The policy reasons for individual Constitution, the legal profession in Ireland, sources of courses. These modules are entitled Public Law 1 and rules are explained and the aim is to assist the students Irish law, European Union law, Criminal law and Tort law. Public Law 2. The term Public Law is outdated and understanding of company law, as well as to facilitate cumbersome. The two new modules being created will knowledge of those technical rules. ------keep the content of the Public Law modules but will use the more commonly used name of Constitutional Law. It ------LA5021 - MEDIA LAW will be to the advantage of students, and professional ECTS Credits: 9 bodies and employers with which they deal, as the term LA4610 - LAND LAW 1 Constitutional Law bears the more commonly used term ECTS Credits: 6 Law for the study of this area of law. Law Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course Syllabus: Constitutional Law I will examine the Irish aims to make students fully aware of the legal Constitution from an institutional perspective. The Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine framework and constraints within which the media course will examine how the Constitution regulates the the fundamental aspects of legal control over real operates, and to enable then to cover courts and other legal framework of the Irish state and its institutions, property, including the legal evolution of title. stories with legal implications effectively and with including the interaction between these various confidence. It also aims to make students fully aware of institutions. Thus, during the course, fundamental Syllabus: The nature of land law and its historical the major ethical issues that concern journalists. issues such as sovereignty and the separation of powers evolution, the concept of estates and tenure. Freehold Students will be able to form judgments about ethical will be examined. The historical development of the estates, fee farm grants, fee simples, fee tails, life dilemmas and articulate a response to them. Constitution will be initially addressed, and then the estates, pyramid titles, future interests, incorporeal powers and competencies of the various organs of hereditaments. Co-ownership. registration of interests Syllabus: The structure of the legal system, with specific government. The related issue of international in real property. Extinction of interests, adverse relevance to the law as it affects journalists, including defamation, malicious falsehood, criminal libel, structures in different jurisdictions. The concept of blasphemy, contempt of court, reporting restrictions, Import regulation: WTO regime; US Trade authorities; residency, centre of management, and the determination breach of confidence and copyright. The course will US import controls; free trade agreements; tariffs; of corporate citizenship. The historical development of introduce students to major sources (individuals, classification, valuation and origin principles; non-tarriff corporate formation in the USA, the role of the Delaware institutions, campaigning bodies, government bodies, barriers corporation in US interstate commerce, modern journalists, journals) on media law issues. Students will Export regulation: Export controls from the US; export formation processes in US corporate law. analyze complex legal issues and be able to apply them licenses; national security issues; exports to NAFTA Corporate frameworks in the European Union in to specific legal dilemmas. The course will cover recent jurisdictions; exports to EU jurisdictions particular the European Company (SE), The evolution of developments in the laws on privacy and in particular corporate governance structures in the European Union European human rights legislation. Students will be Contextualising international trade: Anti-dumping and at both State and European level, including aspects of introduced to the ethical framework surrounding antitrust issues; Subsidies and countervailing subsidies; the "Smart Regulation in the European Union" agenda journalism, including the various codes of conduct, and state trading entities; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Corporate formation in China as totally foreign owned touching on laws such as those of privacy. They will and illegal payments abroad, US s.301 proceedings, and entities and the role of joint ventures in corporate discuss issues of public interest and its bearing on the US Boycott and Anti-Boycott rules. formation. private lives, and the importance of truth, fairness and International Finance, including letters of credit and ETF Governance issues in Europe, the USA and China, the objectivity. There will be discussions on reporting suicide, Transactions; off-shore banking and tax efficiencies role of shareholders and investors, restrictions on mental health issues, questions of taste and decency, management, the integration of Labour into corporate and the use of subterfuge to obtain stories, and the International Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution, oversight and development. and the different institutions questions of sleaze and sensationalism. Representation arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards; involved in enforcing corporate governance provisions of women and minorities in the press will be covered, as recognition and enforcement of foreign awards, including including the effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the will the impact of competition, ownership and advertising a documentary analysis. USA on journalism. Assessment will be by examination and Cross border mergers and acquisitions, including national coursework essay on ethics. Overseas investment, including investment in the EU, control over corporate ownership in protected sectors, developing countries and investments in NAFTA such as the press, transportation, etc. ------members. Expropriation of overseas investments. Ethical investment policy. ------LA6011 - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS ------LA6031 - LAW OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE ECTS Credits: 6 ORGANISATIONS LA6021 - LAW OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ECTS Credits: 9 Law ASSOCIATIONS ECTS Credits: 9 Law Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To build on the students' knowledge and understanding of commercial Law Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this transactions in a cross-border environment. The aim of module is to expose students to a comprehensive this module is to expose students to a comprehensive Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this understanding of the global trading environment and the understanding of the laws which govern international module is to familiarise students with modern legal institutions, laws, rules and regulations that apply business transactions both at the micro and macro level. international business structures. The module will also to cross border transactions. Students will gain a deeper knowledge of the legal issues examine the importance of corporate governance and the arising in international contracts for the sale of goods appropriate governance structures in different Syllabus: This course will introduce students to the and the international financial instruments which support jurisdictions. historical evolution of the legal provisions, relating to such commerce. international trade, ranging from the Hanseatic League The Grading type for this module is Normal. The level of Syllabus: An overview of the historical development of up to the period after World War II which establishes the Award is Level 9 and the module is to be centrally the corporate structure in western commercial law from modern global trading environment. It will briefly discuss scheduled in the same manner as other taught the early state based trading corporations to the rise of the differing theories of international trade. postgraduate modules. private enterprise units. This will be coupled with an The course will then examine the following institutions, introduction to theoretical frameworks of business their legal basis and operation and their legal control Syllabus: The module will examine the following legal structures and their legal regulation over international trade. issues that arise in international transactions: An introduction to modern business structures that operate on an international level, including sole trader, 1. The WTO, its precursor (GATT) the establishing Treaty International contracts for the sale of goods, problems of registered companies, real estate investment trusts, and the rules on accession and secession, the formation, construction and enforcement, including special purpose entities, joint ventures, franchise governance structure of the organisation, the interaction e-commerce transactions, choice of law and jurisdiction arrangements and distribution networks. of its decisions and rules with national laws and the role issues. The legal process of creating different business it plays in dispute resolution between signatory states. prison and the disciplinary society, issues such as LA6101 - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 2. Regional trading organisations such as NAFTA (North exclusion, governance, and expressive punishments, the TRANSACTIONS American Free Trade Association) and the EU (European politicisation of law and order, the return of the victim, ECTS Credits: 9 Union), in particular the legal basis of establishment, the Norbert Elias and the civilising society; Emile Durkheim interaction between national laws and the role of the and social solidarity; Cohen's dispersal of discipline Law regional trading organisation as arbiter, the process of thesis, and crime and punishment in Ireland. dispute resolution between members of the regional Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To build on the organisation and the hierarchy of laws and issues of ------students' knowledge and understanding of commercial primacy between competing regulations. transactions in a cross-border environment. The aim of LA6071 - ADVANCED CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: this module is to expose students to a comprehensive 3. UN bodies engaged in assisting the development of JUDICIAL POWER AND CONSTITUTIONAL understanding of the laws which govern international international trade, including UNCITRAL (United Nations INTERPRETATION business transactions both at the micro and macro level. Commission on International Trade Law) its role in ECTS Credits: 9 Students will gain a deeper knowledge of the legal issues providing a uniform legal environment within which arising in international contracts for the sale of goods international trade occurs and UNCTAD (the United Law and the international financial instruments which support Nations Conference on Trade and Development). such commerce. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module The Normal grading type is to apply to this module. 4. National enforcement agencies, such as CBP (Customs will investigate constitutional theory and the role of and Border Protection (USA)) and the EU approach, their judges in interpreting the Irish Constitution. The aim is Syllabus: The module will examine the following legal role and function and the extra-territoriality of their legal to engage students in a critical analysis of contemporary issues that arise in international transactions: powers. issues in Irish constitutional law by examining issues Finally the course will look at ethical and sustainable such as the role of judges under the Constitution as well International contracts for the sale of goods, problems of movements in international trade and their incorporation as the intersection between law and politics in this formation, construction and enforcement, including into national and regional legal systems. context. The module is designed to encourage critical e-commerce transactions, choice of law and jurisdiction thinking in relation to questions on the Constitution and issues. ------vindication of rights and students will engage with both legal and political literature on these topics. Import regulation: WTO regime; US Trade authorities; LA6051 - PENOLOGY AND VICTIMOLOGY Overall, students will advance their analytical skills and US import controls; free trade agreements; tariffs; ECTS Credits: 9 develop their capacity to reflect critically and engage in classification, valuation and origin principles; non-tarriff in-depth discussion on competing theories of barriers Law constitutional interpretation, the role of the courts in our Export regulation: Export controls from the US; export political system and analysis of judicial power and licenses; national security issues; exports to NAFTA Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of activism. In doing so, they will gain a deeper jurisdictions; exports to EU jurisdictions this course is to provide students with an understanding appreciation of constitutional theory. of punishment, criminal justice and social regulation. In Contextualising international trade: Anti-dumping and particular the aims of the module are as follows: to Syllabus: The role of the judge under the Constitution, antitrust issues; Subsidies and countervailing subsidies; provide analyses of the primary penal disposals (both Judicial activism and Constitutional review, state trading entities; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act contemporary and historical) utilised in society; to (Constitutional) Judicial review as a means of protecting and illegal payments abroad, US s.301 proceedings, and highlight the various political, social, cultural and rights, (Constitutional) Judicial review and political the US Boycott and Anti-Boycott rules. economic determinants that underpin the provision of questions, Socio-economic rights, Constitutional International Finance, including letters of credit and ETF penal dispositions; to encourage theorisation about interpretation, Constitution as a living document, Judicial Transactions; off-shore banking and tax efficiencies punishment and penal responses; to highlight the needs power and democracy, Protecting judicial Independence, and concerns of victims of crime; to determine how The need for diversity in the judiciary, Feminist International Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution, change is possible in the penal complex - in particular, judgments. arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards; how sanctions are modified or supplanted and how recognition and enforcement of foreign awards, including stakeholders, such as victims, emerge; to examine new ------a documentary analysis. 'logics' and 'discourses' on punishment and justice as they emerge; and, to provide a framework of Overseas investment, including investment in the EU, understanding modern penal systems and the forms of developing countries and investments in NAFTA social organisation in which they operate. members. Expropriation of overseas investments. Ethical investment policy Syllabus: This module covers the emergence of penal welfarism and individualisation of treatment, the culture ------of control in late modern society, the emergence of LA6111 - Criminal Justice Processes and articles and case law of the European Convention on ------Sentencing Human Rights, and the additional Protocols and will have ECTS Credits: 9 gained a comprehensive understanding of the practice LI4016 - DISCOURSE ANALYSIS FOR ARTS, and procedure of the European Court on Human Rights. HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES Law ECTS Credits: 6 ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this School of Modern Languages and Applied module is to provide a detailed understanding of criminal LI4013 - LINGUISTICS 3: RESEARCHING Linguistics justice processes and sentencing procedures and to LANGUAGE 1 encourage students to question the place of human ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module rights within that system. By the end of the course will be offered to all studnets on the new BA Arts students should be familiar with the various stages in the School of Modern Languages and Applied programme; the module is also intended to be offered on processes in Ireland, be aware of the strengths and Linguistics an online basis to students in UL outside FAHSS and to weaknesses, see how human rights should fit into that external participants in an online format. Discourse system and have knowledge of comparative systems. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module analysis is a key methodological tool across all of the will be offered on the new BA Arts programmes. As part disciplines in AHSS and this module is designed to Syllabus: This course will consider the various stages of of the new BA, a pathway in Linguistics is being provide an interdisciplinary introduction for the criminal justice process û from arrest, to trial, to introduced. Linguistics modules are very popular non-linguistics/language students from across the sentence and the various disposal mechanisms. These electives and attract large numbers of registrations. A subject range on the new BA. The introduction of the will be analysed through a framework of human rights to high number of students opt for a linguistics focussed module is designed to meet the strategic objectives of identify the strengths and weakness of the different final year project. As the modules are taught in English broadening the curriculum and increasing student choice. stages, and assess the compatibility of the Irish system they are very popular choices also with Erasmus and with human rights obligations. What human rights are study abroad students. These modules will all be made Syllabus: The syllabus will be organised around the involved in the criminal justice system? How are the available as options on the current BA in Applied following components:Introduction to the moudle (Why rights of the accused and of the victim balanced within Languages, thus increasing student choice. The study discourse? Discourse as data). Method 1: Corpus the system? What challenges does the system face in an introduction of these new LI modules is therefore analysis; increasingly diverse Ireland? How can deficits in human designed to meet the institutional strategic objectives of Method 2: Critical Discourse Analysis. Students will rights standards be addressed? Other jurisdictions will be increased student choice and increased opportunities for design and carry out a project in their own discipline to looked to as comparators in efforts to answer these internationalisation.This is the first of two modules apply each of these research methods, one quantiative questions. designed to provide students with skills in the full range (corpus analysis) and one qualitative (cricial discourse of approaches to studying language in society. analysis). ------These skills are needed for three interrelated purposes: ------LA6121 - Law of the European Convention of to complement the theories and principles that that they Human Rights are learning about in their other modules and go provide LI4023 - LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN IRELAND ECTS Credits: 9 them with the necessary skills to apply these to practical ECTS Credits: 6 contexts; to equip students with the skills required to Law design and complete a language-focussed final year School of Modern Languages and Applied project; to facilitate the student's development as a Linguistics Rationale and Purpose of the Module: life-long reflective researcher of language This module aims to provide students with an Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module understanding of the role and functioning of the principal Syllabus: The module is practical in nature and will will be offered on the new BA Arts programmes. As part element in the Council of Europes framework for human focus on two interrelated aspects: formulating research of the new BA , a pathway in Linguistics is being rights protection, through critically engaging with the questions and on types and methods of data collection. introduced. Linguistics modules are very popular underpinnings of the Convention and the vast body of The syllabus will be organised as follows:Selecting and electives and attract large numbers of registrations. A Strasbourg case law. formulating research questions in linguistics and high number of students opt for a linguistics focussed sociolinguistics; types of data and methods of data final year project. As the modules are taught in English Syllabus: The module will explore the influence and collection - overview; 1. sociolinguisitic interviews; 2. they are very popular choices also with Erasmus and progress of the most developed regional mechanism for written surveys and questionnaires; 3. experimental study abroad students. These modules will all be made human rights protection. Convention rights will be methods; 4. linguistic landscapes; 5. computer-mediated available as options on the current BA in Applied examined on an article by article basis providing for a data and methods. Languages, thus increasing student choice. The critical assessment of the development of each right and introduction of these new LI modules is therefore its treatment by the European Court of Human Rights. At Prerequisites: LI4212 designed to meet the institutional strategic objectives of the end of the course, students will be familiar with the increased student choice and increased opportunities for internationalisation. Linguistic variation is one of the key Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module assist in the study of the effects of illness and disease on components of studying language in society; this module examines the historical context, development and the individual. To acquaint students without a biological will offer students an introduction to this topic by position of language teaching and learning in Ireland, background with the basic concepts of general Anatomy focussing on the Irish sociolinguistic context in introduces students to key areas of current language and Physiology while providing a detailed introduction contemporary and historical perspective. pedagogy, and supports them in adapting generic into cellular and tissue biology. educational principles to the post-primary language Syllabus: Following a general introduction to studying classroom. It aims to develop a research-based, critical Syllabus: Introduction to the body as a whole, tissues, language and variation, the module will focus on four approach to the study of theoretical perspectives organs, system, and cavities of the body, filtration, and main themes: underpinning the teaching of languages and the simple diffusion. Cells: Cellular structure, the cell language-learning process and to engage students in surface, cytoplasm, Eukaryotic cell structure and Irish-English reflective discussion on the application of pedagogical function: Principal components, organelle structure and The Irish language theory to classroom practice in the Irish post-primary function, genome organization, cytoskeleton and Irish traveller language context. membrane systems. Cellular differentiation and The new languages of Ireland development: Syllabus: Language teaching and learning in Ireland: Cell cycle & cell division, specialised cell types, stem ------historical developments; national and EU language cells, morphogenesis and multicellularity. policy; the position of languages in Irish society; Tissues: epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous. The LI4211 - LINGUISTICS 1 engendering openness to other cultures and languages; Integumentary System: Histological structure and ECTS Credits: 6 crosscurricular aspects of teaching languages. function of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. The Theoretical perspectives: theories of language, theories Skeletal System: Structure and function of the skeleton, School of Modern Languages and Applied of language teaching and learning and resulting the healing of fractures. Joints: Classification, structure, Linguistics methodologies. function. Planning: critical evaluation of language syllabi within the Muscles: Structure and function. The Central Nervous Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module is broader curriculum; syllabus implementation in the System: Meninges, ventricles and cerebrospinal fluid, designed to serve as an introduction to basic concepts language classroom; alternative post-primary blood supply and the brain barrier system, structure and and theories in linguistics. The various subfields and programmes (JCSP, LCE, LCA, LCVP, TYP). function of the spinal cord, the midbrain, the pons varolii branches of linguistics will be introduced and discussed in The practice of language teaching: teaching vocabulary, and cerebellum, the cerebrum, medulla oblongata, the class lectures. pronunciation and grammar; balancing productive and limbic system. The Peripheral Nervous System and receptive skills; culture and language; literature and Reflexes: Classification and anatomy of nerves and nerve Syllabus: The module comprises four distinct but also film; developing cultural awareness; communicating fibres, the cranial nerves, the spinal nerves, nerve interrelated themes, each of which will be dealt with in perspectives on development issues; the multi-cultural plexuses, the nature of reflexes, components of a reflex sequential blocks over the twelve week module: classroom; sourcing, selecting, evaluating and managing arc. The Autonomic Nervous System: Anatomy of the 1. Nature of language and linguistics: In this first part, teaching resources; traditional and new technologies in sympathetic and parasympathetic division, functions of students will be introduced to basic concepts in language teaching/learning; levels and differentiation; the autonomic nervous system, the adrenal glands, linguistics, including: language, duality, arbitrariness. standard and alternative assessment models; marking, neurotransmitters and receptors. 2. Phonetics & Phonology. In this second part, students recording will learn how to recognise and categorise the sounds of and reporting; task and project work; developing ------English and other languages. strategies for autonomous and collaborative language 3. Morpho-Syntax. In the third section, students will learning. MA2121 - FOUNDATION MATHEMATICS 1 focus on how words are formed and how they combine to Classroom management: teaching through the target ECTS Credits: 6 make sentences. language; interaction patterns; elicitation; error 4. Semantics and Pragmatics: The final section of the correction, mixed ability classes Mathematics & Statistics module will focus on meaning and its relevance to the study of language. ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a core of mathematics which is a significant mathematical ------LS4003 - INTRODUCTORY ANATOMY AND experience for students. PHYSIOLOGY To provide students with an appropriate and sufficient LP6011 - LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY 1: THE LANGUAGE ECTS Credits: 6 mathematical foundation for further study of TEACHER AS PROFESSIONAL PRACTITIONER mathematics at higher education. ECTS Credits: 6 Biological Sciences Syllabus: Modelling using mathematics: simple School of Modern Languages and Applied Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide the models; the modelling process; solving simple Linguistics foundation for understanding the anatomy and mathematical models. physiological functioning of the human system so as to Numbers and number sense 1: common number systems in use; basic arithmetic facts and operations; product and cross product. MA4005 - ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS T1 using a calculator. [Complex numbers]: Cartesian, polar and exponential ECTS Credits: 6 Numbers and number sense 2: fractions; percentages; forms. The algebra of complex numbers. The nth roots ratio and proportion; more on calculators; of unity. Mathematics & Statistics approximation and estimation. [Differential Calculus: properties] of derivatives, Algebra 1: algebra as generalized arithmetic; terms product, quotient and chain rules. Derivatives of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To review and and expressions; simplifying algebraic expressions; transcendental functions. reinforce the student's understanding of and problem simple equations and their solution; using formulae. Applications of Differential Calculus to finding [maxima solving skills in the areas of Measurement: standard units; unit conversions; and minima, curve sketching, roots of equations] * Multivariate and Integral Calculus and Differential accuracy and precision; everyday use. (Newton's method), [undetermined forms] (L'Hopital's Equations. Geometry: basic properties of angles, triangles, circle, Rule) and [Power Series] (Taylor and Maclaurin Series) * The Laplace Transform and Fourier Series polygons, 3-D figures; right angle triangles; of a univariate function. and their use in solving Ordinary Differential equations. symmetry. * Matrix Algebra and its application to solving Functions and graphs 1: concept of function; tables systems of linear equations. Basic Linear Algebra. and ordered pairs; coordinated plane and graphs; the ------The numerical processes used in solving Linear Algebra straight line; gradient, chord, average rate of change. problems, and their extension to some nonlinear MA4003 - ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 3 problems. ------ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Functions of several variables and partial MA2131 - FOUNDATION ENGINEERING Mathematics & Statistics differentiation . MATHEMATICS 1 The Indefinite Integral : Integration techniques ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce including the student to the Laplace Transform, Fourier Series, and integration of standard functions, substitution, by their use in solving Ordinary Differential Equations. parts and To introduce the student to the theory and methods of using partial fractions. The Definite Integral. Mathematics & Statistics Linear Algebra. Application of integration to finding areas, lengths, To give the student a broad understanding of the surface areas, ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY numerical processes used in solving Linear Algebra volumes and moments of inertia. problems, and their extension to some nonlinear Numerical Integration : Trapezoidal rule, Simpson's AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN problems Rule. PROGRESS Ordinary Differential Equations : first order including variables Syllabus: Laplace Transforms, Transform Theorems, separable and linear types. Linear second order Convolution, the Inverse Transform. Fourier Series ------equations with constant functions of arbitrary period, even and odd functions, coefficients. Numerical solution by Runge-Kutta. half-range expansions. Application of Laplace MA4001 - ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 1 The Laplace Transform : Tables, theorems. transforms and Fourier series to finding solutions of ECTS Credits: 6 Application of the method ordinary differential equations. Vector Spaces, linear to the solution of linear ordinary differential equations. Mathematics & Statistics independence, spanning, bases, row and column spaces, Fourier Series functions of arbitrary period, even and rank. Inner Products, norms, orthogonality. Projection odd functions, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop the theorems and applications, e.g. least squares, and fitting half-range expansions. Application of Laplace student's understanding of and problem solving skills in data with orthogonal polynomials. Eigenvalues and transforms and Fourier series the areas of Pre-Calculus and Differential Calculus. eigenvectors. Diagonalisability. Symmetric matrices, to finding solutions of ordinary differential equations. including numerical methods to diagonalise same. Matrix representation of and solution of systems of Numerical solution of systems of linear equations : Gauss linear equations. Syllabus: [Series] and tests for convergence. Real elimination, LU-decomposition, Cholesky decomposition, Matrix algebra, invertibility, determinants. valued [functions] of a real variable, [limits, pivoting, iterative improvement, condition number; Vector Spaces linear independence, spanning, bases, continuity and differentiation from first principles]. iterative methods including Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and row Physical and graphical interpretation of derivatives. S.O.R. and column spaces, rank. Inner Products, norms, [Transcendental functions]: properties of trignometric, orthogonality. exponential, logarithmic and hyperbolic functions and Prerequisites: MA4002 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. their inverses. Numerical solution of systems of linear equations : [Vector Algebra]: coordinates, resolution of vectors, dot ------Gauss elimination,

LU-decomposition. Cholesky decomposition; iterative backgrounds. MA4601 - SCIENCE MATHEMATICS 1 methods ECTS Credits: 6 Extension to nonlinear systems using Newton's Syllabus: Review of algebra: fractions and rational method expressions, linear equations and inequalities. Economic Mathematics & Statistics models: cost and revenue, supply and demand curves. ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: * To introduce Simultaneous linear and quadratic equations (solved students to the fundamental concepts of calculus and MA4007 - EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN algebraically and graphically); applications to market linear algebra. ECTS Credits: 6 equilibrium and break-even analysis. * To develop and integrate the basic mathematical skills relevant to science. Mathematics & Statistics Linear programming: plotting linear inequalities in two variables, feasible region, constrained optimisation; Syllabus: [Vectors:] definition; addition; components, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To familiarise solving linear optimisation problems using the graphical resultant, position vector; scalar product; dot product students with the theory and applications of method; applications to maximising profit/revenue, and angle between vectors; cross product; simple experimental design. minimising cost etc. applications in mechanics. Introduce the concepts of orthogonal functions and orthogonal arrays within experimental design. Mathematics of finance: geometric sequences and series; [Trigonometry:] basic definitions and relation to unit To analyse the Japanese method of experimental design applications to compound interest, present value, circle; basic formulae and and to compare it with traditional (linear models) design. valuation of annuities and mortgages. identities; frequency, amplitude and phase.

Syllabus: Multiple Regression, Residual analysis Matrices: definitions, matrix algebra: addition, [Linear equations:] solution of systems of linear leverage and influence points. subtraction, scalar multiplication, equations by Gaussian elimination; matrix product; determinants (2X2); matrix inversion; examples with a unique solution, an infinite number or Analysis of variance: Expanding one, two factors in representing and solving linear systems using matrices. no solutions. orthogonal polynomials. Estimation of factorial effect, resolution of variation. robust techniques. Functions and their graphs: definition of a function [Matrices:] Addition and multiplication; matrix inversion; (including function of several variables), combining simple determinants. Statistical Experimental Design: Screening, factors, level, functions, inverse functions; graphs of linear, quadratic, responses, full and fractional factorials, composite cubic polynomials; roots and factors; negative powers [Functions:] graphs and functions; polynomial and design, orthogonal arrays, signal to noise ratio, blocking and rational powers. algebraic functions; curve-fitting; confounding and D-optimal design. Product Design, least-squares approximation (formula only); exponential parameter design, tolerance design. Exponents and logarithmic functions: laws of exponents and logarithm; inverse (indices) and logarithms; the number e; the exponential function. Evolutionary Operations, response surface methodology, function and natural log function; graphs of exponential steepest ascent, canonical forms and the use of graphical and natural log; applications to population growth and [Derivative and applications:] basic concepts: slope as techniques to classify surfaces. depreciation of capital. rate of change; differentiation of sum, product, quotient; chain rule; Prerequisites: MA4004 Differential calculus: concept of continuity; small change, derivative of standard functions; secant line, slope, tangent line, definition of derivative; tangent and normal; higher derivatives; maxima and ------differentiation from first principles (quadratics only); minima; applications to

derivative as instantaneous rate of change: application to optimisation in science. MA4113 - APPLIED BUSINESS MATHEMATICS marginal cost and marginal revenue; power rule, ECTS Credits: 6 derivative of negative powers, fractional powers, ------

exponentials and logs; higher derivatives; the Product, Mathematics & Statistics Quotient and Chain Rules. MA4603 - SCIENCE MATHEMATICS 3

ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Curve sketching using calculus and business contains the first half of MA4102 and of MA4103. applications: increasing and decreasing functions, turning Mathematics & Statistics

points: local maxima and minima, the Second Derivative Purpose: Test, concavity, points of inflection. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce To introduce mathematical concepts and techniques, with students to the fundamental ideas of uncertainty through applications in economics, finance and in business in ------probability. general. To develop an appropriate foundation in To introduce students to the most widely used statistical mathematics for students from diverse mathematical distributions and applications thereof. To lay a good foundation for the stream of statistically Design of experiments and analysis of variance - one and Laws:curve-fitting, graphical techniques, expressions oriented modules in the fourth year. two way ANOVA, interaction, factorial designs, responses reducible to linear form, least-square approximation To introduce statistical inference through the concepts of and factors, Plackett-Burman design, response surface (formula only); Linear equations:solution of systems of estimation and hypothesis testing. methodology. linear equations by Gaussian elimination, examples with To introduce students to a modern statistical software a unique solution, an infinite number or no package (e.g. MINITAB), and motivate the practice of solutions;Vectors:definition, addition, components, statistics through the analysis of real data and case Prerequisites: MA4603 resultant, position vector, scalar product, dot product studies. and angle between vectors. Complex Numbers:necessity, ------examples, definition, properties, equality, conjugate, modulus, geometric representations, Argand diagram, Syllabus: Variables:continuous and discrete; MA4617 - INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS polar form: argument, exponential form, de Moivres Representation of variables: frequency tables, ECTS Credits: 6 theorem, powers and roots. histograms, bar charts, etc; Reduction of variables: measures of location and dispersion, mean, variance, Mathematics & Statistics ------range, median, quartiles, etc; Introduction to the fundamentals of probability; Experiments, sample Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Change of title MA6011 - CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATHEMATICS spaces, events; Laws of probability: addition and for existing module MA4607 INTRODUCTION TO ECTS Credits: 6 multiplication, conditional probability (sensitivity and APPLIED MATHEMATICAL MODELLING IN CONTINUUM specificity); Introduction to random variables; probability MECHANICS. Content remains the same. Update of Mathematics & Statistics density functions; Special distributions:binomial, normal; prerequisite module and lab hour added. Statistical inference: point and interval estimates, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce standard error of an estimator, hypothesis testing, one To provide an introduction to the basic concepts of the the concepts of Number Theory that underpin and two-tailed tests; One and two sample problems for mathematical modelling of fluid mechanics. cryptographic algorithm techniques and cryptanalysis the mean, variance and proportion; Relationships and to develop skill in deductive reasoning. At the between quantitative variables:Pearsons correlation Syllabus: Continuum theory, balance of momenta, conclusion of the module a student should have the coefficient; Regression analysis. constitutive laws, elementary viscous flow, aerofoil knowledge to handle the mathematics involved in public theory, vortex motion, Navier-Stokes equations, very key cryptography and in the analysis of conventional key ------viscous flow, thin film flow, boundary layer theory. ciphers.

MA4605 - CHEMOMETRICS Prerequisites: MS4404 Syllabus: Divisibility and Primes. Euclidean algorithm. ECTS Credits: 6 Modular arithmetic: linear and polynomial congruences, ------Chinese remainder theorem. Mathematics & Statistics Euler phi function and Fermat's little theorem. MA4701 - TECHNOLOGICAL MATHEMATICS 1 Primality tests. Pseudoprimes, Carmichael numbers, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give ECTS Credits: 6 strong pseudoprimes. Miller-Rabin test. Probabilistic students a clear understanding of the importance of primality testing. statistical methods in their work. Mathematics & Statistics Primitive roots. Discrete logarithm. Quadratic reciprocity:Legendre symbol, Jacobi symbol. To introduce students to the most widely used statistical Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Square and cube roots mod p. techniques in the chemical process industries. students to the fundamental concepts of calculus and Elliptic curves modulo p. Group law. Discrete logarithm linear algebra. revisited. To develop skills in the use of these techniques through To develop and integrate the basic mathematical skills actual case studies using statistical software packages relevant to technology. ------

Syllabus: Hypothesis testing - type I and type II error, Syllabus: Functions: graphs and functions, linear, one and two-tailed tests, oc curves. quadratic and polynomial functions, exponential and Statistical process control - various charts, mean/range, logarithm, inverse function, limits and continuity; individuals/moving range, cusum charts. Trigonometry:basic ideas, definitions, formulae and Capability studies - capability indices. identities, sine and cosine rules, applications, circular Correlation and Regression - method of least squares, functions; the Derivative and its applications: basic multiple regression, linear and non-linear models, concept, rate of change, differentiation of sum product, regression analysis, analysis of residuals. quotient, chain rule, derivative of standard functions, Importance of plotting data. simple applications, tangent and normal; Experimental MB4001 - ALGEBRA 1 ------ECTS Credits: 6 MB4017 - GEOMETRY Prerequisites: MS4131 School of Education ECTS Credits: 6 ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To promote School of Education understanding of the number systems and their MD2001 - REFLECTIVE PRACTICE PORTFOLIO properties. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Recent ECTS Credits: 6 To develop an understanding of the fundamental changes to the Teaching Council requirements means concepts of Linear Algebra. that every teacher on entry to the profession of teaching To promote proficiency in selected techniques and must study at least 5 credits of Geometry, either applications. Euclidean or non-Euclidean. At present, no such module Humanities is available in the University of Limerick and so it is critical that we provide this option for students so that ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY Syllabus: Number: basic number concepts, laws, they can complete their entire undergraduate, pre - AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN equations;Number systems: extensions from N to Z, Z to service mathematics programme in - house. Q and Q to R, complex numbers C;Elementary number Geometry is a core part of mathematics education and PROGRESS theory: Peano's axioms, mathematical induction, provides the basis for an introduction to rigorous binomial coefficients, fundamental theorem of arithmetic; mathematical reasoning. The study of geometry allows ------Equations: linear, quadratic, polynomial equations, for student improvement in the area of logic, deductive solution by graphical and numerical methods; Matrices: reasoning and problem solving - all of which are skills MD4001 - PRACTICUM 1A matrix algebra, applications. that will benefit students in a range of other ECTS Credits: 6 mathematical strands. Geometry is unlike pure ------mathematics modules in the sense that it has a wide Humanities range of practical applications. It is used, for example, in MB4005 - ANALYSIS art, engineering, sport, construction, architecture, to Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Development ECTS Credits: 6 name but a few. The literal translation of the word of students primary performance interest, whether Geometry ("Earth Measure") serves to further highlight instrumental, vocal or dance. Also the development of Mathematics & Statistics its applicability and this module will seek to highlight the musicianship and body awareness skills. relevance of the subject to all students undertaking it. As Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop an such, this module will share with students key Syllabus: This module is divided into two parts. The understanding of formal methods of mathematical mathematical concepts that underpin a lot of objects first is the development of the students performance analysis, as applied to sets, real numbers, and general they see and use on a daily basis. practice will occur in the stylistic context most common topology. Finally, Geometry and Trigonometry now makes up one - to the performance practice of the student. However fifth of the junior and senior cycle mathematics curricula tutors will begin to encourage students to look to other Syllabus: • Set theory: equivalence classes of sets, which the majority of students who study this module styles and repertoires current within a primarily Irish cardinal numbers, countability and uncountability, will end up teaching. As such, it is critical that they are context. This will take place in the context of including the uncountability of R. equipped with the skills needed to teach this topic for one-on-one classes and develops from the progress in • Functions of a real variable: limits, continuity and understanding. IN order to do this they themselves need Practicum 1a and 2a. differentiability from first principles. a solid grounding in the subject and need to understand • Multivariate functions: inverse function theorem, the rationale behind the theorems and constructions that The second part of these modules will be related to implicit function theorem. they will encounter in the mathematics classroom. This performance skills and again this element will be divided • Complex functions: differentiability and module seeks to provide them with this knowledge. into two separate streams for musicians and dancers. Cauchy-Riemann equations. Musicians will take Keyboard Skills and Aural Training • The completeness property: Bolzano-Weierstrass Syllabus: The syllabus will be broke up into 8 which will include keyboard harmony (vamping, chordal theorem, Cauchy sequences and completeness. sections/chapter. These 8 sections are: analysis and application, both aural and written), aural • Sequences and series of functions: pointwise and Pythagoras skills (transcribing tunes and songs, awareness of uniform convergence, term-by-term differentiation and Congruences and Similarity traditional forms and styles, sight reading and sight integration. Circles and Angles singing). It is important to emphasise that the • General topology: Euclidean n-space, metric Trigonometry orientation of this stream of multi-skill development will spaces, connectedness, compactness, fixed point Co-ordinates be towards the needs and realities of traditional Irish theorem, Hilbert spaces. Vectors and Symmetry music and musicians but with a wider context in mind. Spherical Trigonometry Dancers will take Movement Awareness. This will Prerequisites: MS4021, MS4022 Non Euclidean Geometry include practical dance workshops to introduce some of the movement principles that inform other dance common to the performance practice of the student. performance stream û those not central to their practices today. It will also include an introduction to However, tutors will begin to encourage students to look performance practice. This performance will be at the techniques and practices designed to promote the to other styles and repertoires current within a primarily end of the linked module in the next semester. release of tension in the body in order to facilitate Irish context. This will take place in the context of greater ease of movement. It will also include an one-on-one classes and develops from the progress in Assessment will be on that final performance and introduction to the use of visual imagery as a way to Practicum 1a. continuous assessment. develop an understanding of the correct alignment in movement. Finally an introduction to supplementary The second part of these modules will be related to practices used by dancers as part of their training eg. performance skills and again this element will be divided ------Yoga, Feldankrais, Alexander technique and Pilates. into two separate streams for musicians and dancers. Improvisation will be undertaken in practical workshops Musicians will take Keyboard Skills and Aural Training MD4027 - IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE to introduce the concept of improvisation as a means of which will include keyboard harmony (vamping, chordal STUDIES 4 exploring movement possibilities and also expanding analysis and application, both aural and written), aural ECTS Credits: 6 movement vocabulary. Improvisations will include skills (transcribing tunes and songs, awareness of working with movement themes, dramatic themes, traditional forms and styles, sight reading and sight Humanities props, text and visual stimuli. singing). It is important to emphasise that the orientation of this stream of multi-skill development will Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The ------be towards the needs and realities of traditional Irish development of a research project in the field of music and musicians but with a wider context in mind. traditional music and /or dance studies. MD4007 - PRACTICUM 6A - MAIN PERFORMANCE Dancers will take Movement Awareness. This will INTEREST include practical dance workshops to introduce some of Syllabus: In this module students will engage in a ECTS Credits: 6 the movement principles that inform other dance self-directed research project concerning an aspect of the practices today. It will also include an introduction to music or dance tradition under the supervision of course Humanities techniques and practices designed to promote the directors. This will be assessed through two seminar release of tension in the body in order to facilitate presentations and an extensive written submission. This Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The greater ease of movement. It will also include an research project could have a performance orientation. development of a final extensive performance. introduction to the use of visual imagery as a way to develop an understanding of the correct alignment in ------Syllabus: In this module students, with relevant tutors movement. Finally an introduction to supplementary and under the direction of course director, will design practices used by dancers as part of their training eg. MD4047 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES 5: and undertake an extensive, hour long recital which will Yoga, Feldankrais, Alexander technique and Pilates. INTERCULTURALISM AND PERFORMANCE / FYP be representative of both their own stylistic interest but Improvisation will be undertaken in practical workshops ECTS Credits: 6 also a range of diverse music and / or dance styles (in to introduce the concept of improvisation as a means of Humanities the case of dance, two to three smaller performances exploring movement possibilities and also expanding over a similar number of days will be considered). movement vocabulary. Improvisations will include Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce working with movement themes, dramatic themes, students to the discourse of global and intercultural ------props, text and visual stimuli. performance including current research perspectives, ethical issues and performance practice as political MD4011 - PRACTICUM 1B ------ECTS Credits: 6 engagement.

MD4017 - PRACTICUM 6B Syllabus: An introduction to theory and practice in Humanities ECTS Credits: 6 global and intercultural performance including Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Development Humanities performance and globalisation, cultural appropriations of the students primary performance interest, whether and impositions, colonial mimicry, tourist performances, instrumental, vocal or dance. Students will be Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The leisure globalisation, vertical transculturalism, horizontal encouraged to engage in a dynamic self-critical process development of final extensive performance interculturalism, terrorism and performance, integrative conducive to development and related to the principle of representative of perfomance fields studied but not intercultural performance. reflective practice. Also the development of central to the students performance practice. musicianship and body-awareness skills. ------Syllabus: In this module students, with relevant tutors Syllabus: This module is divided into two parts. The and under the direction of course directors, will prepare first is the development of the students performance and undertake a performance representative of the three practice and will occur in the stylistic context most areas of performance skills represented in the second MD4051 - SOMATICS AND RITUAL PERFORMANCE 1 ------student will be required to design a technique-training ECTS Credits: 6 programme to reflect their own specific technical needs MD4061 - VOICE AND DANCE SKILLS FOR and interests. Humanities PERFORMANCE 1 ECTS Credits: 6 ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module will provide each student with the opportunity to develop Humanities MD4071 - REPERTOIRE, IMPROVISATION AND skills to research and develop an informed and intelligent COMPOSITION 1 approach to own specific technical needs so they can Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide the ECTS Credits: 6 develop healthy and sustainable practices in preparation opportunity for students to study a broad range of for performance. It will also encourage them to develop movement and voice techniques in order to develop good Humanities skills to explore new models for ritualising performance, understanding and foundation for their practice. The which will increase their options for engagement in a development of a broad base of performance skills will Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop the range of professional practices. empower the students in professional performance based understanding in both practice and theory of the works contexts. from the canon of western contemporary and world Syllabus: An introduction to the history of contemporary dance and song traditions in order to fully understand somatic practices and their various application in arts Syllabus: Students will be required to specialise in voice their relevance in current performance contexts. To practice with particular reference to performance, or dance, and will study and practice a range of different develop skills necessary to prepare to perform these educational, and therapeutic contexts, with particular techniques and methods designed to provide them with a dances and songs in range of performance contexts. reference to the somatic practice of Body Mind strong foundation on which to develop their technical Centering, in addition students will study historical, ability in both dance and voice focussing on Syllabus: Students will be required to specialise in cultural and social aspects of ritual practice with specific contemporary dance and voice technique training and voice or dance, and will study and practice dances and reference to performance rituals. including dance techniques and practices from Irish, songs from the repertoire of western contemporary and Asian and African traditions, as well as ear training, sight Asian, African and Irish dance; and Gregorian chant, ------reading/singing and oral transmission learning to Irish traditional song, western solo and choral, and jazz complement the technique of voice production. and pop music traditions; in addition they will study the MD4057 - SOMATICS AND RITUAL PERFORMANCE 5 historical and cultural contexts within which these ECTS Credits: 6 ------repertoires developed, and study and practice skills necessary to develop in both solo work and as a member Humanities MD4067 - VOICE AND DANCE SKILLS FOR of an ensemble. PERFORMANCE 5 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module ECTS Credits: 6 ------will provide each student with the opportunity to continue to develop skills to research and develop an Humanities MD4077 - REPERTOIRE, IMPROVISATION AND informed and intelligent approach to own specific COMPOSITION 5 technical needs so they can develop healthy and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The ability to ECTS Credits: 6 sustainable practices in preparation for performance; it select and design a programme which shows an will also provide the opportunity to develop skills and understanding of technique principles and practices and Humanities confidence to create innovative new models for their application to a specific context will prepare student ritualising performance; students will specialise in to develop an informed and intelligent method to sustain Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To support creating a project within a specific context and begin to their on-going and evolving practice. This will support students to develop the understanding of the artistic and focus on their preferred options for professional practice. students to develop a sustainable practice in professional technical requirements necessary to develop and produce performance based contexts. performances in a range of contexts and broaden their Syllabus: This module will provide each student with the understanding of how to produce work as creative artists opportunity to continue the study and practice of Syllabus: Students will be required to specialise in voice and performers in professional performances projects. Authentic Movement, Feldenkrais and Alexander or dance, and through regular technique classes and techniques to develop skills to research and develop an workshops they will continue to study and practice the Syllabus: Students will be required to specialise in voice informed and intelligent approach to own specific basic technical principles of both western and world or dance, and will work under the direction of guest technical needs and also so they can develop healthy and dance and voice traditions and to further study methods tutors and the course directors to design and produce a sustainable practices in preparation for professional of analysing movement and sound and methods of number of performance projects to be presented in a practice; students will specialise in creating a project reflective practice in order to develop critical awareness range of performance contexts, featuring the students within a specific context and begin to focus on their of technique training; they will also complement the own work in addition to the works from the repertories preferred options for professional practice. reading/singing skills through the learning of musical they have studied; the performances will include solo analytical and early notational systems; also, each and ensemble works. ------MD4091 - Irish World Academy Practicum C1 embodiment. Students will have the option to build on ECTS Credits: 6 cross-genre skills acquired in Practicum C1 in certain MD4081 - Irish Music and Dance Studies contexts. The title of the module reflects the Irish World ECTS Credits: 6 Humanities Academy tradition of presenting modules with an wide performance skills focus as 'practicum'. Such an Humanities Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module approach is enabled by an embodied methodology that is focuses on students developing their artistic practice in critically engaged. The 'C' of the title is a reflection of the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of an collaborative context while gaining embodied cross-genre content of the module. this module is to more deeply engage issues in Irish experience of other arts practices outside of their own traditional music and dance studies and, in this context, genre and disciplinary specialties. The rationale for Syllabus: This module is split into two parts. In the to apply cultural theory to Irish music and dance Studies including a defined space for the engagement with first the student will engage other students in a in a deeper and more creative way. These issues will be performance practices unfamiliar to the student is to laboratory space within their own discipline, mentored by in the interactive contexts of Irish traditional music, song show the student different creativities structured by faculty and tutors, to develop creative, collaborative and dance, interrogating themes of difference and unfamiliar aesthetics, cultural context and modes of work within and extending from their own disciplines and identity as relevant to traditional musicians in the past embodiment. The title of the module reflects the Irish genre practices. The second half of this module is and present. World Academy tradition of presenting modules with an designed to facilitate 'cross-arts' exploration of creative wide performance skills focus as 'practicum'. Such an practice as a core dimension of every Academy Syllabus: Specific issues will be focused on in the areas approach is enabled by an embodied methodology that is undergraduate's educational experience. Each student of Irish and English Language Song; the multitude of critically engaged. The 'C' of the title is a reflection of will chose a performance course, from a genre or Irish dance styles as well as instrumental practice. These the cross-genre content of the module. approach outside of their disciplinary and genre focused are to be addressed using a thematic approach which will stream, selecting from a pool of courses covering engage theoretical areas such as identity, Syllabus: This module is split into two parts. In the instrumental / dance tuition, music/dance ensemble, ethnicity,globalisation and the meaning of tradition. As first the student will engage other students in a dance/music ensemble, dance/music composition and such this is a research led module and themes and laboratory pace within their own discipline, mentored by other available performing arts practices. Students will approaches will be developed by the course leader in faculty and tutors, to develop creative, collaborative have the option to build on cross-genre skills acquired in association with fellow faculty. work within and extending from their own disciplines and Practicum C1 and/or C2 in certain contexts. genre practices. The second half of this module is ------designed to facilitate 'cross-arts' exploration of creative ------practice as a core dimension of every Academy MD4087 - ADVANCED ENSEMBLE undergraduate's educational experience at the Irish MD4097 - COMPOSITION AND ARRANGEMENT IN ECTS Credits: 6 Academy. Each student will chose a performance course, IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC 1 from a genre or approach outside of their disciplinary ECTS Credits: 6 Humanities and genre focused stream, selecting from a pool of courses covering instrumental / dance tuition, Humanities Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This is a music/dance ensemble, dance/music ensemble, module for fourth year BA Irish Music and Dance dance/music composition and other available performing Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop the Students who wish to develop their ensemble skills arts practices. students skills and knowledge of composition and further and who show a propensity to do so in their arrangement in the idiom of Irish traditional music as it assessment for module MD4016. ------is performed contemporarily.

Syllabus: Students in this module will concentrate on MD4092 - Irish World Academy Practicum C3 Syllabus: Students will examine the various ensemble developing their knowledge of ensemble skills taken from ECTS Credits: 6 practices in Irish traditional music in currency today. a number of musical contexts. These skills will be These practices will include`traditional as well as more developed in the context of their own performance Humanities contemporary and fusion based styles of composition and practices. arrangement. This examination will engage Students will attend a number of lectures that engage a Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module ethnomusicological issues of origin and creation as well systematic examination of the musical processes will continue to focus on students developing their as practices of record, transcription and reproduction. involved in the creation of ensemble. Such processes will artistic practice in an collaborative context while gaining Students will also develop and synthesize their own then be utilised in performance laboratory classes, which embodied experience of other arts practices outside of arrangement and composition practices from those will result in a public performance, developed in the their own genre and disciplinary specialties. The rationale studied. context of a reflective journal. for including a defined space for the engagement with Students will be provided with written feedback performance practices unfamiliar to the student is to according to BA Irish Music and Dance policy. ------show the student different creativities structured by unfamiliar aesthetics, cultural context and modes of ------MD4104 - MUSIC THEORY AND PRACTICE SKILLS 1 ------MD4101 - PERFORMANCE 1A ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 MD4117 - PROFESSIONAL SKILLS / FINAL YEAR Humanities VOCATIONAL PROJECT Humanities ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This is an Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Development elective module intended for undergraduate students of the student's primary performance interest, whether with dance as a first area who wish to have more instrumental, vocal or dance. Students will be instruction in music theory, ear and notation practice and Humanities encouraged to engage in a dynamic self-critical process keyboard skills in order to further develop skills conducive to development and related to the principle of introduced to the student from first semester of first ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY 'reflective practice'. Also the development of year, increasing his/her employability as a music musicianship and body-awareness skills. teacher. AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN PROGRESS Syllabus: This module is divided into two parts. The first Syllabus: Piano skills including sight-reading, is the development of the students' performance practice accompaniment technique, basic arrangements, right ------and will occur in the stylistic context most common to hand ornamentation; music theory and practice, the performance practice of the student. The second part including dictation (melodic, rhythmic and harmonic) MD4121 - INTRODUCTION TO VERTICAL DANCE of this module will be related to performance skills understanding modes and scales and their operations in AND WALL RUNNING pertinent to the specific music, song or dance practices Western harmony and in Irish contexts; tune ECTS Credits: 6 of the student. composition; basic modulation and chordal accompaniment; music analysis. Humanities ------Prerequisites: MD4001, MD4002, MD4003 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this MD4103 - PERFORMANCE 3A module is to introduce students to this core aspect of ECTS Credits: 6 ------aerial dance. This module forms part of a suite of aerial modules designed to create an aerial dance strand within Humanities MD4113 - PERFORMING ARTS TECHNOLOGY the MA Festive Arts programme. This responds to the ECTS Credits: 6 demand for third level training in the field, combined Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Further with the management and research elements of the MA development of the student's primary performance Humanities Festive Arts programme. The class combines the use of interest, whether instrumental, vocal or dance. sit-harness and abseil equipment both against a wall and Students will be encouraged to engage in a dynamic Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module free-flying. The class begins with basic kit familiarisation self-critical process conducive to development and will introduce students to professional audio and visual and core stability, strengthening and preparation. It then related to the principle of 'reflective practice'. Also the technologies relevant to performers in their field. The progresses to basic orientation on different planes, development of musicianship and body-awareness skills. professional world around performance practice, building towards a more dynamic vocabulary. Students performance education, media and other career paths will also be taught repertoire from established company Syllabus: This module is a development of the semester open to students on this programme will be explored. performances, as well as allowing student time for first year Performance 1A and 2A modules and as such Students will use such technologies in professional creative input. divided into two parts. The first is the development of contexts generating project work out of the day-to-day the student's performance practice and will occur in the life of the Academy, recording concerts, providing Syllabus: The class combines the use of sit-harness and stylistic context most common to the performance technical support to a wide range of performances and abseil equipment both against a wall and free-flying. The practice of the student. The second part of this module generating media appropriate to the world of performing class begins with basic kit familiarisation and core will be related to performance skills pertinent to the arts. stability, strengthening and preparation. It then specific music, song or dance practices of the student. progresses to basic orientation on different planes, Syllabus: Students in this module will learn practical building towards a more dynamic vocabulary. Students ------technological applications relevant to their performance will also be taught repertoire from established company practice. Students will learn to use and manipulate PAs performances, as well as allowing student time for and lighting rigs, led by professionals in the field and creative input. applied in real-world situations. Students will also be introduced to media generating software such as ------Final-Cut Pro and Logic to produce high level audio and video outputs.

MD4123 - DANCE STUDIES 1 MD4141 - IRISH DANCE PERFORMANCE SKILLS the kinds of musical/historical/political/cultural pathways ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 it has and continues to follows (spiritual dimension, ethnic profile, national characteristics, gender roles, song Humanities Humanities construction). Ultimately, students will concern themselves with the questions of how identity is Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This elective imagined, constructed, maintained, and negotiated will introduce students to the history of modern dance, will be offered to musicians and dancers whose though sound, sentiment, and narrative song from its roots in the classical forms of the eighteenth and performance practice is outside of the Irish dance performance and its subsequent reception in historical nineteenth centuries as well as popular forms of the tradition. It will add to their performance skill set and and current contexts. twentieth. Students will be encouraged to see such increase their versatility and dance competence. It also development in a wider aesthetic, social and cultural reflects the strengths of Academy faculty. ------context. Embracing the principles of arts practice, students will be given the opportunity to engage Syllabus: Development of good basics in Irish dance MD5501 - IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND contemporary approaches to modern dance. technique. Students will continue to develop basic Irish DANCE AUTUMN ELECTIVE dance steps and movement patterns. Music /dance ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: This module aims to develop knowledge of connection will also be explored. The following tune social and historical influences in the development of types will be among those used to teach Irish dance Humanities modern dance over the past 300 years and to develop rhythm: Reel, jig, hornpipe, waltz and polka. Posture, understanding of anatomy in relation to the dancing turnout and footwork will be emphasised to give students Rationale and Purpose of the Module: - To initiate body. The module also aims to raise awareness of the a basic dance vocabulary which they can draw on. They self-directed study as a means of social construction of dance knowledge, dance practices will learn motifs suitable for soft shoe and more rhythmic (1) deepening ones knowledge / expertise within a and their historical contexts and a critical approach to hard shoe dancing. primary specialisation source material. The main focus of the course will be on (2) developing skills and knowledge in a secondary area Romanticism, Classicism, Neo-Classicism, Modernism, ------of specialisation Post-Modernism and the twentieth century history of (3) engaging in creative, cross-platform study / Irish theatre dance. The module will develop students' MD4207 - HIGH LONESOME: SOUNDS AND performance through a combination of a variety of areas. independent research, library research/source location NARRATIVES OF COUNTRY MUSIC - To allow a variety of project presentation and skills and critical thinking. ECTS Credits: 6 negotiable assessment weighting, encouraging the student to propose a form of presentation most suitable ------Humanities to the project and the educational journey, as well as a form of assessment capable of accurately evaluating the MD4131 - HIP-HOP-DANCE ELECTIVE 1 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This is an outcomes. ECTS Credits: 6 elective module for second, third or fourth year BA Irish Music and Dance Students interested in issues of Syllabus: This module offers students the opportunity to Humanities ethnicity and identity as imagined, expressed, and pursue self-directed learning of an academic or performed through the genre of Country music in Ireland performance-based project, under the guidance of the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide and in the US. Understanding this genre as a vernacular course director and an elective supervisor. The student students with the opportunity to become competent in tradition in its particular regional/national contexts will may wish to use the elective to pursue more specialised hip hop dance so that they can develop the skills and shed light on what is at stake for those who perform and study in his / her area of study, or to access the other confidence to work towards the creation of Hip-Hop consume country music. areas of expertise available at the centre. These compositions in a range of performance contexts, which currently include Ethnomusicology, Ethnochoreology, will broaden their career options in Dance. Syllabus: Students will look at the phenomenon of Music Education, Community Music, Music Therapy, Irish country music, placing particular emphasis on Traditional Music and Dance Performance, Contemporary Syllabus: Over this elective, students will learn, in connections between Ireland and America as manifest in Dance Performance and other specialist research studio, the roots of Hip-Hop and its evolution from the the sounds and narratives of this genre. The course will interests of faculty and doctoral researchers at the streets of New York city in the 1970s. Emphasis will be involve gaining a greater understanding of the vernacular Academy. placed on learning about roots of Hip-Hop through class tradition(s) of country music (i.e. country music in participation and learning the choreography of these Ireland), as well as more generally concerned with ------dances and origins. By utilizing contemporary definitions of the genre and how and where these chorographic techniques, dancers will create new works definitions hold up or break down under scrutiny. for performance. Focusing on `narratives of country music will involve looking at song themes and topics (such as loss and ------desire, myth of the West, the open road, etc), as well as inviting a greater understanding of the genre itself and MD6031 - MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES FOR introduced. Syllabus: Students will attend workshops during which PERFORMING ARTS & ARTS RESEARCH they will study how somatic practices can support them ECTS Credits: 3 ------in developing an enhanced awareness of embodied movement. These workshops will be based on principles Humanities MD6051 - INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 drawn from: Pilates, Yoga, Feldenkrais, Body-Mind ECTS Credits: 3 Centering and T'ai Chi Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide an introduction into current media technologies as they are Humanities ------used in the fields of performing arts, creative arts therapies, and arts research; to develop essential skills Rationale and Purpose of the Module: - To initiate MD6071 - WRITING AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF and fluency in these technologies in order to use them self-directed study as a means of ARTS PRACTICE 1 competently, creatively, and effectively in one's own (1) deepening knowledge / expertise within a primary ECTS Credits: 3 specific discipline. specialisation (2) developing skills and knowledge in a secondary area Humanities Syllabus: Students will be introduced to the current of specialisation media technologies in audio, video and (3) engaging in creative, cross-platform study / Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of stagecraft/soundcraft/lightcraft as pertinent to the performance through a combination of a variety of areas. this module is to explore a variety of approaches to the programmes offering the course. Students will study and - To allow a variety of project presentation and documentation of artistic practices, with a focus on practise essential skills required to employ technology to negotiable assessment weighting, encouraging the documentation through writing. create an audio/video project related to their field of student to propose a form of presentation most suitable study, using stagecraft/soundcraft/lightcraft where to the project and the educational journey, as well as a Syllabus: Students will explore a variety of approaches applicable. form of assessment capable of accurately evaluating the to the documentation of artistic practices, with a focus on outcomes. documentation through writing. These include forms of ------documentation emerging from personal memory data, Syllabus: This module offers students the opportunity to self observation and reflection, as well as the collection MD6041 - INTRODUCTION TO RITUAL STUDIES pursue self-directed learning of an academic or of data from external sources including mentors and ECTS Credits: 3 performance-based project, under the guidance of the artistic colleagues. Registers of writing including the course director and supervisor. The student may wish to poetic, narrative, chronological and critical will be Humanities use the module to pursue more specialised study in his / investigated. The role and function of writing in the her area of study, or to access the other areas of creative process will be interrogated through creative Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of expertise available at the centre. These currently include and critical engagement. Methodological frameworks for this module is to equip students with a knowledge of the Ethnomusicology, Ethnochoreology, Music Education, the documentation of practice including autoethnography emergence and development of ritual studies as an Community Music, Music Therapy, Irish Traditional Music and narrative inquiry will be introduced. interdisciplinary discourse drawing on anthropology, and Dance Performance, Classical String Performance, sociology, religious studies, ethnomusicology Contemporary Dance Performance, Ritual Chant and ------/ethnochoreology and performance studies. It also Song, Festive Arts, and other specialist research familiarises students with a variety of theoretical interests of faculty and doctoral researchers at the Irish MD6081 - CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH IRISH approaches to ritual including evolutionary, World Academy. TRADITIONAL MUSIC structural-functionalist, cultural-symbolist and ECTS Credits: 3 performative understandings. This is grounded with ------reference to several case studies of ritual practice drawn Humanities from historical and cross-cultural practices. MD6061 - INTRODUCTION TO SOMATICS ECTS Credits: 3 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine Syllabus: This module provides an introduction to the manuscript, printed, audio and visual sources of Irish emergence and development of ritual studies as an Humanities traditional music. Students will engage trends in current interdisciplinary discourse drawing on anthropology, research in the field of traditional music studies. sociology, religious studies, ethnomusicology Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module /ethnochoreology and performance studies. It introduces will ensure that students are educated in somatics Syllabus: In this module students will examine writings studies to evolutionary, structural-functionalist, practices that promote a healthy and mindful approach on and sources of Irish traditional music to enhance their cultural-symbolist and performative theories of ritual. It to movement. The continued development of an understanding of this tradition. They will critically engage also discusses a number of ritual case studies including integrated mind/body approach will enable students to with texts relevant to Irish traditional music studies and historical and cross-cultural examples of ritual practice. perform with greater efficiency and will minimize their related fields. The documentation of live rituals through ethnographic risk of injury. approaches including participant-observation will also be ------MD6091 - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE perspectives, in a formal, large-scale and medium-scale Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide PERFORMING ARTS colloquium/seminar context, drawing from in-house students with a contextual, cross-cultural understanding ECTS Credits: 3 seminars including the Tower Seminar Series, Logos, and of festival, based on case studies of specific local, other seminars. Students will expand their knowledge national and international festivals. Humanities from within and outside of their own specialisations, and will tacitly learn about presenting their own work in such Syllabus: The aim of this module is to introduce Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is a format. students to key perspectives in the study of festivity and designed to provide an awareness of professional its dynamics in society, through an exploration of festival development skills and contexts central to developing a Syllabus: This module will expose students to and festivity in different historical and geographical career in the arts. It introduces students to several key scholarship and performance practices from a wide contexts. Through the exploration of case studies and facets of planning, arts project management, and career variety of music and dance and related disciplines, key contextual readings, students develop conceptual, development as part of their professional development. enabling students to broaden their perspectives on their theoretical and methodological frameworks for the study own specialisation as well as experience presentations and understanding of festivity in society. Syllabus: This module provides students with an from scholars and performers in cognate disciplines. introduction to core skills and concepts relevant to the Students will be expected to attend five seminars from Prerequisites: MU5091 development of performing arts careers in the the various series offered in the Academy (Tower contemporary world. Key issues covered include project Seminar series and/or comparable events, as approved ------development, planning, communications and pitching, as by participating programme coordinators). As a well as collaborative work, legal structures for working consequence, engage in self directed inquiry and MD6141 - RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY FOR individually or in groups, and fundraising. independent study where they have come across a topic FESTIVAL STUDIES or research/performance approach that stimulates their ECTS Credits: 6 ------own research practice. Humanities MD6101 - INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPROVISATION ------ECTS Credits: 3 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce MD6121 - FESTIVAL DEVELOPMENT AND students to methods for studying public, religious, Humanities PRODUCTION domestic and civic festivites, with a particular emphasis ECTS Credits: 3 on the social roles of festival and the performative Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide an dimension of festivity. overview of improvisational processes within the context Humanities of current dance and music practices. To introduce the Syllabus: This module introduces students to students to a range of aesthetic and technical Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide appropriate methods for studying public, religious, approaches to improvisation. To provide for students to students with a foundation in the issues surrounding domestic and civic festivity with a particular emphasis on research improvisational processes and to integrate and festival production and sustainable development. the social role of festival and on performative aspects of apply this knowledge in their own practice. festive activities. It critically engages with different Syllabus: This module provides students with a methods of gathering data and narratives on festival, as Syllabus: Students will attend a number of workshops in foundation in the issues surrounding festival well as with core ideas such as the definition of value, of which music and dance faculty will demonstrate and development and sustainability, covering a range of identity and of public space. explore improvisational processes and practices. topics including events production, audience Students will develop improvisational scores based on development, feasibility, public relations, media Prerequisites: MU5081 the materials presented. relations, fundraising, stakeholder and partnership development, security, local authorities, and health and ------safety. MD6151 - MATERIALS, METHODS & CONTEXT FOR MD6111 - COLLOQUIUM 1 Prerequisites: MU5081 WESTERN CHANT 1 ECTS Credits: 3 ECTS Credits: 6 ------Humanities Humanities MD6131 - INTRODUCTION TO LOCAL AND GLOBAL Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of FESTIVITY Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To facilitate an this module is to encourage and facilitate postgraduate ECTS Credits: 6 understanding of methodologies and theoretical students to engage with a community of scholars and paradigms relevant to the study and performance of practitioners presenting their respective work, from a Humanities Western plainchant, drawing on both historical variety of disciplinary and performance practice musicological and ethnomusicological approaches. To introduce Western plainchant from its beginnings until Humanities the later Middle Ages, exploring it in its historical, social, MD6191 - SONGWRITING PROCESS 1 religious, liturgical, intellectual and aesthetic contexts. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of ECTS Credits: 12 This will include an investigation of its origins and this module is to explore the printed, manuscript, and evolution; nature, materials, forms and styles in relation audio-visual sources of Irish Music, and to examine the Humanities to function, date and place; written sources and their main discourses around this music over the past three palaeography; notation (general concepts and features; centuries. This module is one of six offered by the Irish Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In this module notations of particular regions and periods; principles World Academy as part of a joint PhD in The students explore the creative process of songwriting and and techniques of transcription and editing). Anthropology of Irish Music coordinated with the Keough develop the skills to produce a body of work for Naughton Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre performance and / or recording in a supportive, reflective Syllabus: This module lays the basis for important Dame. environment. With the guidance of the course director research and methodologies that relate to the and songwriting faculty, students hone skills and performance practice of Western plainchant. It will Syllabus: By means of a systematic examination and strategies in writing song lyrics, composing song introduce students to fundamental research tools in analysis of printed, manuscript, and audio-visual sources melodies and creating song arrangements. Students also primary and secondary sources, bibliographic and of Irish Music (including Dance), as well as an develop skills in reflective practice/critique. On referencing techniques, historical contextual knowledge, investigation of the central discourses surrounding the completion of this module, students have developed a musical palaeography and semiotics. The methodological music, this module opens up the origins of the music heightened awareness of their own creative voice, a approach is presented as an interdisciplinary pursuit alongside its conceptual articulation both by the music demonstrable body of work to add to their songwriting combining historical musicology, ethnomusicology, performers themselves as well as by the rapidly portfolio and a wider repertoire of songwriting skills and semiotics and relevant critical theory. increasing integration of this music within an academic creative strategies to draw from. context. ------Syllabus: This module provides students with ------opportunities to engage with a variety of approaches to MD6161 - IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC songwriting, helping them to better understand and PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR MD6181 - SONGWRITING STYLE AND CONTEXT 1 locate their own artistic practice. Students develop their ECTS Credits: 3 ECTS Credits: 3 skills in lyric writing and in music arrangement and composition. Students develop a body of work for Humanities Humanities recording and/or performance through a combination of one-on-one mentoring with their creative mentor, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In this module performance-based seminars with visiting artists and will introduce students to current research in the area of students explore songwriting, songwriters and collaborative workshops with their peers. traditional music studies. This research will be engaged repertoires and the creation of meaning and the through the critical assessment of current publications in construction of identity through songwriting and ------the field, examining developments in the epistemology performance. Students consider various cultural, and phenomenology of current critical academic economic, social, political and historical contexts, MD6201 - INSTRUMENTAL SKILLS FOR engagement with this historical artistic practice. The focusing particularly on issues of genre. SONGWRITERS module will particularly examine the impact, real and ECTS Credits: 3 potential, of these developments on the performance Syllabus: The many processes involved in songwriting practice. are examined across a range of genres, cultures and Humanities epochs, engaging with exemplary songwriters, Syllabus: In this module students will study the history, repertoires and practices, within their cultural, economic, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module theory and practice of Irish traditional music. They will social, political and historical contexts. develops the instrumental skills of the songwriter be encouraged to use theoretical tools from a number of appropriate to their songwriting and performance disciplines to enhance their understanding of this Students engage with the multiple ways in which song practices. practice. They will examine publications and resources style and performance practice develop in response to that examine Irish traditional music in an exemplary and shifting social, economic, political and artistic conditions. Syllabus: Songwriters develop instrumental skills that innovative fashion. enhance the creative process of songwriting, improve The module examines how these act as important their ability to accompany themselves or other ------identity markers for communities of practice, and how performers in the performance of their songs, and songwriters negotiate the representation and develop their ability to demonstrate their creative ideas MD6171 - FRAMING IRISH MUSIC: SOURCES AND dissemination of image and songs as commercially with a musical instrument. DISCOURSES 1 mediated products or commodities. ECTS Credits: 9 ------MD6211 - IRISH WORLD ACADEMY ENSEMBLES theoretical aspects of music and learn to apply this ECTS Credits: 3 knowledge in their own song composition and Humanities performance practices. Students analyse important Humanities stylistic aspects of musical language and grammar, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this including form, melody, rhythm, harmony, chords, module is to explore the creative process in artistic and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module part-writing and ensemble textures. Students improve academic work with a view towards investigating provides students with the opportunity to rehearse and their music literacy by developing listening skills and resonance, dissonance and synchronicity between perform with one of the Irish World Academy's existing their ability to sight-sing and sight-read at the keyboard method in ones performance practice and in the performing ensembles. Through participation in and on their own instrument. investigation ones specialist research project. collaborative music making with members of the wider community of musicians at the Irish World Academy, ------Syllabus: This module addresses basic questions songwriting students broaden their own practice as concerning the design and framing of a research project, musicians and their perspectives as writers and MD8001 - ARTS PRACTICE RESEARCH 1 including ways of framing research questions, the performers. Students develop cross-cultural ECTS Credits: 6 relationships among theory and practice in research, understanding of diverse music repertoires, greater research ethics and issues of representation in confidence as performers, and build musical relationships Humanities ethnographic writing. It also addresses hands on through their membership of their chosen ensemble. questions concerning the practice of qualitative research, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this ethnographic fieldwork and field based research Resources for each individual ensemble are provided in module is to introduce students to a variety of theoretical methods, the interview process, bibliographical and other class by the relevant ensemble leader. perspectives on arts practice research, towards the resources, documentation and writing strategies. It development of a framework suited to the specialist purposely crosses boundaries between creative process Syllabus: Students choose to participate in one needs of individual research questions. in the arts and sciences in ways appropriate to our ensemble from the Academy's diverse range of music population of scholar/artists and research/practitioners. ensembles. Ensemble options include (but are not Syllabus: This module is geared primarily towards the Its subject, then, is research methodology as limited to): theorising of research problems in an area of study in reconceived for this practice-research programme. Work • Vocal Ensemble which practice cannot be easily distinguished from in this module is explicitly multi-modal in character, • Gospel Choir theory. The course is designed as an active meditation of Teaching faculty will address, among other topics, • Chant Ensemble the paradoxes inherent in theorising performance in challenges facing students doing arts practice research, • Irish World Academy Choir which students draw on their lived-experience as artists ethnographic methods in dance, music and performance • Gamelan Orchestra to make the texts meaningful. Through historical research, analytical tools for dance, music and Students learn ensemble-specific repertoire and readings students will become familiar with the traces performance artists; examination of the role and function performance practices through attendance at weekly left by scholar-performers in the past who have written of writing and its further integration as a generative rehearsals and participation in ensemble performances. on this relation. Keywords and concepts will be strand of the process of invention; what research addressed such as aesthetics, agency, embodiment, structure (apparatus) can provide for the crossing of ------everyday life, festival, gender, heritage, identity, thresholds between the studio-based and text-based liveness, narrative, performance art, performativity, strands of arts-practice research. MD6221 - APPLIED MUSIC THEORY FOR play, poetics, race, representation/mimesis, ritual, SONGWRITERS spectatorship. Topics proposed for this seminar by ------ECTS Credits: 3 current faculty include: the broad spectrum approach to performance, music and dance as social life, the MD8013 - IWA SPECIALIST ELECTIVE 3 Humanities intersection between performance and ritual, concepts ECTS Credits: 12 and issues in music/dance practice from Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In this module ethnochoreological and ethnomusicological perspectives, Humanities students develop applied music theory skills appropriate the artist in a globalised world i.e. the relationships to the practice of songwriting. Students build among local arts/global lives and global arts/local lives, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this competencies and vocabulary in music literacy, harmony what are the implications, for arts practice research, of module is to facilitate the development of specialist and other relevant aspects of music theory. Students the privileged status of writing in theory production in skills, relevant to the research project, through the also develop skills in sight-singing, keyboard practice and the academy, examining the concept of design of a self-direction programme of study which may other instrument-specific practices. This module is disciplinary-mastery in arts practice. integrate performance, composition, choreography, elective for students of MA Songwriting and open to academic writing and collaborative work. other IWAMD MA students with a particular interest in ------songwriting. Syllabus: This module comprises a programme of MD8011 - CREATIVE PROCESS 1 self-directed learning which is created to facilitate the Syllabus: Students develop their knowledge of ECTS Credits: 6 development of the research programme. It is design by the student in consultation with his/her supervisor and Ethics in engineering; report writing including Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The overall supervisory panel and may include performance, information sources, plagiarism; units and error analysis; objective of the course is to enable students to apply composition, choreography, academic writing and problem solving techniques; time management; Newtons Laws of Motion (in particular the second law) to collaborative work. sustainability; intellectual property rights and the patent objects in motion with non-zero acceleration. The course process. thus goes beyond the topic of statics, which was ------examined in Engineering Mechanics 1 (ME4111), and ------analyses the kinematics of bodies in motion, the rules used to describe the motion of bodies in space, and the kinetics, which relates the motion of bodies to the forces which give rise to the motion. The study of accelerating bodies is often referred to as Dynamics, as opposed to the study of bodies in equilibrium, which is referred to as MD8021 - IWA SPECIALIST ELECTIVE 1 ME4037 - ADVANCED MECHANICS OF SOLIDS Statics. ECTS Credits: 12 ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Application of Newtons Laws to particles and Humanities School of Engineering rigid bodies not in equilibrium (Dynamics) Kinematics of particles, rectilinear and curvilinear Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To analyse motion, Cartesian, polar, normal and tangential module is to facilitate the development of specialist stresses and strains in 2D and 3D in an elastic body co-ordinates; relative motion. skills, relevant to the research project, through the subjected to various loading conditions. To analyse Kinetics of particles, work, kinetic energy and potential design of a self-direction programme of study which may stresses and strains in uniaxial, biaxial and axisymmetric energy, impulse and momentum. integrate performance, composition, choreography, stress fields for elastomers. To understand how to apply Collections of particles, moment of inertia. academic writing and collaborative work. stress functions to problems in bending, contact stress Kinematics of rigid bodies in plane motion, rolling and pure shear. To use numerical techniques combined wheels, mechanisms. Syllabus: This module comprises a programme of with experimental analysis for the solution of complex Kinetics of rigid bodies in plane motion, translation of self-directed learning which is created to facilitate the problems. rigid bodies, rotation about a fixed point and general development of the research programme. It is design by plane motion the student in consultation with his/her supervisor and Syllabus: Stress at a point in 3D. Strain at a point in 3D supervisory panel and may include performance, (including finite strain). Theory of 3D strain rosettes and Prerequisites: ME4111 composition, choreography, academic writing and Morie grids. Constitutive relations for finite strain collaborative work. analysis of elastomers. Theory of elasticity: Equilibrium ------and compatibility, stress functions (various applications). ------Hertzian contact theory. Photoelasticity. Holography. ME4121 - ENGINEERING SCIENCE 1 Curved bars and struts. ECTS Credits: 6 ME4001 - INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING 1 ECTS Credits: 3 ------School of Engineering

School of Engineering ME4057 - AEROSPACE METALLIC MATERIALS Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide ECTS Credits: 6 students with a basic knowledge of the fundamental Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce principles underlying engineering mechanics. the profession of engineering, develop non-technical School of Engineering skills such as report writing, encourage a spirit of Syllabus: Units, Newton's Laws, Statics - condition for research and self-study, develop students knowledge of ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY equilibrium, resolution of forces (polygon and the use of engineering units components of forces), free body diagrams, friction on AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN an inclined plane, Varignon's Theorem, Moments, Syllabus: Overview of the engineering disciplines PROGRESS Bending Moment Diagrams, Introductory stress (direct, currently being offered by the Mechanical and shear, strain, Young's Modulus, principle of Aeronautical Engineering department: The profession ------superposition, torque), Frameworks. Dynamics - linear (Mechanical, Aeronautical, Biomedical, Design), real-life motion angular motion, relative motion, Work, Energy, engineering examples, skills required, career ME4112 - ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2 Newton's law of impact. opportunities and career progression. Materials used in ECTS Credits: 6 engineering products, alloys of iron, steel and ------aluminium, ceramics, polymers, composites; materials School of Engineering specific to biomedical and aeronautical applications. ME4128 - AIRCRAFT FLIGHT DYNAMICS AND SIMULATION Syllabus: Uniaxial stress and biaxial strain fields. vascular grafts, stents and heart valves, artificial skin, ECTS Credits: 6 Constitutive relations. Shear force and bending tendon ligament. Materials for cosmetic implants. moment diagrams, Bending of beams, Transverse shear Opthalmic materials. Active implanatable devices, School of Engineering stress in beams, Composite beams, Thermal stress, extracorporeal artificial organs. Dressings, sutures, drug Torsion of cylindrical sections, Analysis of stress at a delivery materials/systems. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: * To provide point in 2D, Principal stress and Mohr's stress circle, Thin the theoretical knowledge required to predict an aircraft's cylinders and thin spherical vessels. ------flight dynamical behaviour, given the vehicle geometry, configuration, and flight conditions. ------* To develop the students' ability to implement such theoretical prediction methods via computer programming of numerical analysis methods. * To develop an understanding of the link between ME4227 - AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES ME4417 - BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY aircraft design and flight dynamics response. ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 * To give a brief introduction to the theoretical foundations behind aircraft flight simulation software School of Engineering School of Engineering

Syllabus: * Equations of motion for a rigid body aircraft Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Module builds Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To advance * Physical effects behind longitudinal and lateral stability on the Mechanics of Solids 2 module by providing further the knowledge of the students of fluid flow, derivatives skills in the analysis of stress, strain and deformation of aerodynamics and convective heat transfer * DATCOM methodology for stability derivative aircraft structures. calculation Syllabus: The Derivation of the Three-Dimensional * Use/development of customised MATLAB scripts for Syllabus: Theory of elasticity; Airy stress function. Viscous, Steady, Compressible Equations of the analysing flight dynamics and plotting results Energy methods for structural analysis. Shear and Conservation of Mass, Momentum and Energy. * Solution of the equations for controls-fixed longitudinal torsion of open and closed thin walled sections, single The Distinction between Differential and Integral motions, phugoid and short period modes and multicell sections. Bending and twisting of thin Solutions. * Solution of the equations for controls-fixed lateral plates. Structural instability; inelastic buckling, Differential Solutions for Simple Pipe Flow with Heat motions, rolling convergence, spiral and Dutch roll buckling of thin plates. Laminated composite Transfer and Couette Flow. modes structures; stress analysis, failure criteria. Stress The Von-Karmen Integral Solution of Flat Plate Flow with * Variation of flight dynamics with vehicle design, analysis of aircraft components; fuselages, wings. Heat Transfer. configuration and flight condition Application of proprietary structural analysis software Dimensional Analysis for Free and Forced Convection: * Flying and handling qualities packages and the application of Finite Element Analysis the Non-dimensionalised Differential Equations. * Introduction to flight simulation to aircraft structures. Experiments on tapered wing Shear Stress Drag and the Reynolds Colburn Analogy. spars, c-and z-section beams. Theories of Turbulence: The Prandtl - Mixing Layer ------Theory, the K-E Model. Prerequisites: ME4616, ME4226 The Effect of Turbulence on Drag and Heat Transfer: The ME4213 - MECHANICS OF SOLID 1 Elements of a Turbulent Boundary Layer ECTS Credits: 6 ------

School of Engineering ME4307 - BIOMATERIALS 1 Prerequisites: ME4412 ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To analyse ------stresses and strains in a uniaxial stress field and stresses School of Engineering in a bi-axial stress field. ME4424 - AERODYNAMICS 1 To understand how to evaluate stresses in a cylindrical Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Review ECTS Credits: 6 beam subjected to point loads, uniformly distributed understanding of biological systems; loads, couples and torques. To gain appreciation for soft tissue replacement materials School of Engineering As (2) for beams of symmetrical section without torsion. in current use; To understand the significance of the connection between To enable the student to understand materials selection Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give the the elastic constants. and design requirements for soft tissue replacement student a comprehensive understanding of To understand the approach to the analysis of statically applications. incompressible flow together with an introduction to indeterminate problems. compressible flow with application to aircraft. Syllabus: Materials for soft tissue replacement. Survey of applications, haemocompatible materials, materials for Syllabus: Review of governing equations, application of equations to fluid flow processes Systems. Combined Heat and Power. Renewable essential boundary conditions. Solution. Checks on Thin aerofoil theory, aerodynamic coefficients Energy Sources. Modelling thermal equipment. Heat accuracy. Improving the accuracy of the approximation. Finite span wings, lifting line theory, vortex flow, induced exchanger effectiveness and number of transfer units. The h-version method. The p-version method. drag, downwash, lift distribution Advanced steam and gas turbine cycles Implementation of the finite element method. Mesh Boundary layer separation and control design. Pre-solution checks. Solution methods. Compressible flow, normal and oblique shock waves, Prerequisites: ME4526, ME4516 Ill-conditioning. Post-processing software and results aerofoils in compressible flow presentation. Post-solution checks. Validation of the Introduction to experimental techniques ------finite element software and the role of NAFEMS. ABAQUS Finite Element Code.

Prerequisites: ME4412 ------

------ME4523 - THERMODYMANICS 1 ME4714 - INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 ME4438 - COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ECTS Credits: 6 School of Engineering School of Engineering

School of Engineering Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and to students a practical overview of industrial control Rationale and Purpose of the Module: 1. To provide apply these laws in the analysis of basic engine cycles systems, and their application to discrete part the students with a fundamental understanding of the manufacturing, batch and continuous processes, and to theory and application of computational fluid dynamics Syllabus: First law of Thermodynamics with applications provide specific exposure to the application of (CFD) as implemented by the finite volume technique. to non-flow and to steady flow processes. Programmable Logic Controllers in manufacturing and 2. To provide the students with a working knowledge of a General Thermodynamic relationships and properties. process environments commercial CFD code via practical computer laboratory Statements of the Second Law of Thermodynamics sessions. including Carnot efficiency. Syllabus: * Introduction to control systems and Corollaries of the Second Law of Thermodynamics automation including the Clausius inequality and concepts of * Programmable Controller's hardware and software. Syllabus: The philosophy of CFD; fundamentals of irreversibility. * Control program development. vector fluid dynamics; fundamentals of viscous fluid Otto, Diesel and Dual reciprocating engine cycles. * Sequential control. deformations; the governing equations of fluid dynamics; Joule cycle with applications to simple gas turbine * Interfacing external devices. basic discretisation and grid generation techniques; the engines. * PLC Communications. finite volume method; application to convection-diffusion * PLC Applications. problems; pressure-velocity coupling; implementation of * Selection, installation and commissioning of PLC boundary conditions; fundamentals of turbulence ------systems. modelling. * Supervisory computer control. ME4616 - FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS * Sampling and filtering of continuous measurements. ------ECTS Credits: 6 ------ME4517 - ENERGY MANAGEMENT School of Engineering ECTS Credits: 6 ME4818 - MECHANICAL DESIGN Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop an ECTS Credits: 6 School of Engineering understanding of the underlying concepts of FEA. To be able to apply the method to problems in solid School of Engineering Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide an mechanics and heat transfer. understanding of; the requirements for, and the methods Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To expose the of, energy management as applied to a variety of student to the practical application of design, materials, engineering systems. Syllabus: Introduction to FEM. General concepts. Basic mechanics and strength of materials theory. The work Elaticity Theory, 1D, 2D and 3D constitutive will focus on the appropriate use of Standards, Charts Syllabus: Fossil fuel reserves and rates of consumption. relationships. Element shape functions. Liner truss and Design Guides illustrating the oft times empirical Energy situation in Ireland , trends and issues, present elements, Constant Strain Triangular Elements, Linear nature of applied engineering tasks. Underpinning each and future. Energy and the environment. Energy tariffs Rectangular Elements, Quadrilateral Elements, Gauss topic will be constant reference to the evolution of the and their significance in industry. Energy conservation Integration, The Galerkin method of weighted residuals. practices and their relationship to current theory. In technologies for industry. Energy Management The variational method. Assembly. Application of particular, there will be constant reference to the life and reliability to be expected from solutions. [Structured Design Methodology.] Problem / Market Research and Problem Definition; School of Engineering Syllabus: [Integration of machine elements into design.] Specification Development; Concept Origination / Overview of common engineering materials and their Development; Concept Evaluation and Rationalisation; Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce functional properties. Review of steels and heat Decision Making Techniques; Design Tightening; Detail the student to the science and art of New Product treatment processes relevant to transmission design. Design Considerations and Practice. Development. It links the manufacturing and Practical aspects of stress analysis as used in industrial [Design Recording and Presentation Techniques.] construction skills learnt in earlier modules with the applications. Stability of design elements. Aspects of Data Recording using Freehand and Orthographic design process and these are brought together by means component life, cost and reliability. Sketching; Concept Development and Presentation; of a project. The project is intended to take the student Introduction to bearings, types and selection criteria. Rendering Techniques; Modelling Technology and through the basic design process into requirements Rolling Contact Bearing selection using catalogue data. Practice. engineering, market analysis, materials, manufacturing Shaft Design Layout / Workout Drawings. ; [Engineering processes and the production of an initial business plan. design as an example of a simple component. Shaft Communications] couplings and keys. Flat, V, Wedge and Polyvee belts and Assembly Drawings and Structured Parts Lists / Materials Syllabus: Problem definition and clarification - design chain Schedules; Manufacturing Considerations and briefs; New Product Development (NPD) Concurrent drives. Review of the history of gear design showing the Production Planning Constraints Engineering NPD vs Traditional NPD; The deliverables of relationship to fatigue theory. Advantages of helical and processes of design; NPD Failure Reasons, Rationale for spiral bevel gears in relation to noise, wear and strength. Concurrent Engineering. Clutches and brakes - selection considerations. Electric Prerequisites: ME4611, PE4112 NPD Project Planning- Minimising NPD Lead Time, NPD motors - types Resources, Teams. and control options. Starters and protection devices. ------NPD Requirements Definition - Specifications, QFD, Focus [Design for Fatigue Life] Use of fatigue data, load and Groups, Functional Analysis. Defining Customer environment ME6001 - FUNDAMENTALS OF CONTINUUM Requirements, House of Quality (HOQ), Voice of the factors in design and selection. MECHANICS Customer (VOC), Product, Process Planning -Parts [Pressure vessel design.] Use of standards. Materials and ECTS Credits: 6 Deployment & Production Planning. life considerations. Corrosion Product Concept Evolution- Idea & Concept Generation, protection. Safety and the work environment. Testing School of Engineering Creativity, Brainstorming - Morphological Analysis, and certification. Synectics, Analogy. [Hydrostatic Transmission Systems.] Design of circuits Basic concepts and definitions: Concept of a continuum, Concept Evaluation - Ranking Methods, Concept for simple tasks. Linear and rotary actuation devices. continuity, homogeneity and isotropy; Elements of vector Assessment Techniques, AHP. -Pughs Concept Selector, Pump and motor types and selection, Circuit safety and and tensor algebra. Convergence and Divergence. calculation considerations. Control and speed circuits and Deformation and flow: Length and angle changes: Strain Standardisation & Modularity- Features of Good Design, devices. tensor; Material and Eulerian description; Deformation Parts & Processes Commonality.The cost of complexity rate tensor and variation. Variety Reduction. ------Stresses: Body and surface forces; Stress tensor; Design for Assembly (DFA). Principal stresses, Stress invariants, Hydrostatic and Legal Aspects of NPD - Laws on Product Liability and EU ME5031 - DESIGN METHODOLOGY deviatoric stresses. PL Directive, CE Mark.- Safety Evaluation, Prevention of ECTS Credits: 6 Fundamental laws of continuum mechanics: Mass Defective Products. conservation, Newtons laws, Conservation of energy. Intellectual Property - Patents, Application Process and School of Engineering Constitutive relations: Ideal materials; Constitutive requirements. relations and equations of state; Elastic solids; -Copyright, trademarks and design registration. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Newtonian fluids the student to the concept and practice of a structured Mathematical models: Linear elastic solids; Newtonian ------approach to engineering design. The student will be fluids; Initial and boundary conditions. exposed to design philosophy, methodology and Introduction to the Finite Element method: Principle of MG4031 - MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES management bringing him through from problem virtual work; Finite element discretisation; Linear elastic ECTS Credits: 6 definition and specification to finished engineering finite-element model; Shape functions; Numerical drawings. Engineering drawing forms a backbone to the quadrature; Mapping of elements; Solution of the Management and Marketing Module through use of freehand orthographic drawing, finite-element equations. isometric and realistic sketching, rendering and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is structured manual drawing techniques. ------designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the area of management. It introduces students to key Syllabus: [Responsibilities of the Designer. (Social, MF5051 - DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE managerial issues and wider environmental factors Legal, Environmental and Technical)] ECTS Credits: 6 affecting organisations. ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Management concepts and evolution, the Syllabus: This course will introduce the student to development of Irish business, the global business Management and Marketing information as a corporate resource; to the firm as an environment, functions of management, planning, information processing entity; to the types of business decision making, organising, staffing, leading, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: 1. To enable systems platforms in support of- managerial and motivating, controlling. students to gain a deeper understanding of executive-level decision making and the coordination of organisational reality through the different levels and business processes. It will show information ------perspectives of change inside and outside the management in the functional areas of business: organisation. accounting, marketing, human resources, operation. 2. To develop a deep appreciation of the It will provide an economic and social framework for inter-relationship between routines and change in terms understanding the nature and interaction of of structure, culture management intervention and information, technology, people, and organizational MG4035 - INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT modes of reinforcement. components; the role of the Internet and networking ECTS Credits: 6 3. To actively engage students to develop skills in proven technology in modern organization; the evolution of approaches to managing change and crises in both e-business and the transformation of organizations and Management and Marketing for-profit and not-for-profit organisations. markets; business systems as both constraining and 4. To enable students to gain a deeper understanding of enabling organizations; the relationship between Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The rationale the challenges and complexity of international change business systems and an organizations social structure; for this module is to provide students with a thorough management. information and knowledge as a strategic resource in appreciation of managing organisations internationally, 5. To give students a deep appreciation of the organizations. along with an understanding of the different trajectories organisational and environmental roadmap of change. of current International Management thinking. The ------module is dedicated to answering four core questions Syllabus: Nature of organisational change, resistance to which focus on developing skills for operating in an change, understanding attitudes and behaviours towards MK4005 - MARKETING INTELLIGENCE international environment; change, managerial skills of change agents, problems ECTS Credits: 6 facing change agents, levels of organisational change, 1). What is international management and what formation of implementation paths, mobilising for Management and Marketing complexities arise when operating at the international change, change levers and interventions, strategic level? change frameworks, monitoring, control and resourcing Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course is 2.) How do we understand differences between countries change, evaluating change, crisis management, about gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data about when managing internationally, and what are the management of stakeholders in change and crisis markets and customers, so as to make informed implications of these differences for international management. marketing decisions. Students will learn how to managers? determine what information is required to make the 3.) What is the most appropriate way for firms to ------decision, how to acquire trustworthy and relevant data, internationalise, and to manage and structure their how to assess its appropriateness, and how to analyze activities? MI4007 - BUSINESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT the data to make key types of marketing decisions. The 4.) How can we develop the managerial talents and ECTS Credits: 6 module is focused on utilising marketing data, and capabilities to ensure that managers can be a success transforming them into actionable marketing insights, internationally Management and Marketing that aids in the development of effective strategy. Syllabus: Introduction to International Management- definitions and key concepts; Country Competitiveness, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To illustrate Syllabus: Sources and Use of Marketing Intelligence, Globalisation & the MNC; Political and Legal the implications of viewing the organization as an The Role of Research and Intelligence in the Marketing Determinants of International Management; Cultural information processing entity Organisation, Typologies of Marketing Data (Interaction, Determinants of International Management and cross Attitudinal, Descriptive, & Behavioural Data), Research cultural perspectives of management practice, To enable students to create and manipulate data and for Marketing Decision Making, Marketing Databases, convergence, divergence and cross vergence; Firm information for managerial reporting. Marketing Segmentation & Targeting, Loyalty Cards, New Internationslisation - Entry Strategies, Structures and Product Development &Test Marketing, International the role of alliances and joint ventures; Global To highlight the social and economic theories underlying Market Analysis, Advertising Research, Media Research, Leadershio competences; International Assignment Cycle the development and use of information and knowledge Sales Forecasting, Salesforce Automation, Marketing and repatriation. in modern business. Automation, CRM Systems, Category Management, Store Location Techniques, Pricing Research, Customer ------To make students aware of the challenges of the Feedback, Key Performance Indicators Used in opportunities and challenges of information in a global Marketing, Marketing Metrics, Appropriateness of MG4045 - CHANGE MANAGEMENT context. Research Methods - (Survey, Questionnaire, Interviews & Observation), Social Media Intelligence, Social CRM, Data * To encourage and support effective team work and Content Marketing Platforms (Social Networks, Mining & Big Data, Customer Privacy & Ethics. project management. Discussion Boards, Blogging, Micro-Blogging, Widgets, ------The module is thus designed to enhance students' Crowd Sourced Content, Social Curation, Social applied skills (and integration of theory and practice) Marketplaces, Wikis, Social Bookmarking); Search Engine MK4027 - STRATEGIC BRAND MANAGEMENT before they embark on their coop placement. Marketing; PPC Advertising; Search Engine Optimisation; ECTS Credits: 6 * To promote critical reflection on the nature of Email Marketing Campaigns; Website Analytics; Building information, the integrity of it and the application of a a Digital Brand; Typologies of Online Brands; Digital Management and Marketing systematic and disciplined approach to information Products & Freemium Business Model; Online gathering. Communities Creation and Curation; User Generated Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of Content & Co-Creation; Mobile and Location-based this module is to equip students with the fundamental Syllabus: The marketing research skills will be fostered Marketing; Content Marketing Development, Online PR & concepts and theories of strategic brand management through management of an extensive student project: Reputation Management; Planning a Social Media and enable them to critically engage with and apply key Developing research objectives (e.g. problem definition); Campaign; Impact of Gamification; Word of Mouth and brand management theories and strategies to a range of Research design and creation of a research proposal; Viral Marketing; Social Media Metrics; Monitoring, relevant sectors and contexts. This level 8 marketing Consideration of the ethical implications of the research; Measuring and Management of Social Media Campaigns; module provides students with specialised strategic Collection, analysis and interpretation of secondary data; Omni-channel - Integration of Digital Marketing with brand management knowledge and skills, while engaging Collection, analysis and interpretation of primary data; Traditional Marketing Activities; Digital Privacy and students in a range of current branding issues including Research presentation. Protection; Ethical Digital Marketing Practice, Trends in the role of ethics and CSR and global branding. Digital Marketing. Prerequisites: MK4002 Syllabus: The module firstly presents the history and ------origin of branding before focusing on brand building ------theories and models. It then explores the nature and role MK4603 - MARKETING of brand image and corporate identity and corporate MK4045 - DIGITAL MARKETING ECTS Credits: 6 brand management. Brand equity from a consumer and ECTS Credits: 6 financial perspective is introduced and compared. Brand Management and Marketing building strategies are explored in a range of contexts Management and Marketing including services, retailing, B2B and online. Strategic Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of brand building is explored with strong emphasis on Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Digital this module is to introduce students to marketing as a developing valuable, sustainable and ethical brands and marketing platforms have changed how businesses business philosophy and as a management function and managing successful brands in an increasingly globalised connect and communicate with customers. The to examine the role of marketing in contemporary and digitalised context. technology now available to consumers has radically organisations. This focuses on the need to understand altered their consumption patterns. These new and connect with customers and to develop and deliver Prerequisites: MK4002 behaviour patterns have created significant challenges products and services that customers value. ------and opportunities for marketers. This module gives a background of the rapidly changing marketing practice Syllabus: Marketing scope; marketing concept; MK4035 - MARKETING RESEARCH within the context of digital marketing and online social marketing internal and external environment; ECTS Credits: 6 networks. Students will understand the magnitude of understanding customer behaviour; segmentation, digital and social media and how to apply it to within targeting and positioning; product and brand Management and Marketing Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business management; marketing communications; pricing; (B2B) markets. Students will learn about cutting-edge distribution; marketing of services; marketing and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module digital marketing concepts, techniques and strategies corporate social responsibility. specifically focuses upon the development of applied used within industry. Furthermore students will research skills which are fundamental to understanding understand how to leverage mobile and location-based ------and undertaking marketing activities. The purpose of the technology for marketing purposes. After this module, module is: from a practical perspective the student will be capable MN4007 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT THEORY AND * To expose students to different methodologies used by of developing and managing digital marketing PRACTICE marketers. campaigns. ECTS Credits: 6 * To develop marketing research skills that can be applied to a range of marketing contexts (e.g. sales, Syllabus: Introduction to Digital Marketing Theory; Management and Marketing advertising, NPD, customer satisfaction). Consumer Behaviour and Digital Media; Online Identities; * To equip students with the skills necessary to; develop Evolution of Digital Marketing Landscape; Understanding Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The primary research instruments, conduct fieldwork and data Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business objective of this module is to provide students with the analysis/interpretation and present research findings. (B2B) marketing in this new landscape; Social Media & knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to apply Project Management principles, tools and techniques to Derivative Test. help initiate changes to achieve specific pre-determined Finite element method: Introduction to FEM for elliptic • Curve sketching: Domain and range, roots of project objectives in line with organisational goals and problems: analysis of Galerkin FEM for a model equations, increasing and decreasing, maxima and strategies. The module will prepare students for the self-adjoin two point boundary value problem, weak minima, concavity, points of inflection, symmetry, workplace by developing their understanding of Project solutions, linear basis functions, matrix assembly; asymptotes. Management knowledge areas and Project Management extension of method to two dimensions, triangular and processes. The student will benefit from understanding quadrilateral elements. ------how projects are initiated, implemented, monitored and controlled and closed within a change environment. Prerequisites: MS4404 Syllabus: Project management organisational strategy and change, project portfolio management, programme ------management, project lifecycles, project processes, MS4021 - CALCULUS 1 MS4025 - APPLIED ANALYSIS project management strategies and approaches, ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 projects, operations and change, project human resource management, role of the project manager-change agent, Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics project leadership, role of the project team, projects and organisational structures, implementing change though Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce project initiation, project selection, project integration introduces differential calculus and analysis. It develops the student to standard techniques of complex analysis, management and project implementation. Developing problem solving skills and introduces concepts such as integral equations and Green's functions - and to the project charter, developing the project plan, project definition, lemma, theorem, proof and different methods demonstrate applications of these techniques. communications management, project risk management, of proof, including direct, contrapositive and induction. project scope management, project estimates, top down Syllabus: [Functions of a complex variable] including estimating, bottom up estimating, project budgets and Syllabus: • Basic properties of the real numbers: the Cauchy-Riemann equations, Cauchys theorem, project baselines, project time management, activity Important subsets (natural, integers, rationals), open singular points, complex integration, residue theorem. scheduling, resource allocation, project monitoring and and closed intervals, neighbourhoods, supremum, Application of residue theorem to the inversion of control, earned value - monitoring change, cost and infinimum, Laplace transforms. [Conformal mapping] and its schedule variance, cost and schedule performance boundedness, compactness. application to solving Laplaces equation in two indices, project change management, project quality • Algebra of Complex numbers: modulus, phase, dimensions. management, project computer applications, project Argand diagrams, de Moivre's closure. theorem and roots of complex numbers. [Integral equations] including Volterra equations, • Real valued functions: Definition of function, Fredholm alternative, Fredholm equations with separable ------properties of functions: one-to-one, onto, inverse kernels, symmetric kernels, numerical solutions. function, composition of functions, parametric functions. • Limits and continuity: Definition of limit, limit [Greens functions] including inverses of differential MS4008 - MATHEMATICAL METHODS 2: Numerical theorems, limit points, operators, physical interpretation, Greens function via Methods for Partial Differential Equations definition and meaning of continuity, examples of eigenfunctions, distributions, distribution solutions to ECTS Credits: 6 discontinuous functions differential equations, partial differential equations, (e.g. Heaviside step function), Squeezing Theorem, fundamental solutions. Mathematics & Statistics Intermediate Value Theorem, Bisection Method. • The derivative and differentiation techniques: Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Having Differentiation from first Prerequisites: MS4013 completed this module, the students should understand principles, derivative of sums, products, quotients, and be able to apply the standard finite difference inverse of a ------methods for the numerical solution of two-dimensional function, chain rule, smoothness of a function, Rolle's linear partial differential equations; they should also theorem, MS4027 - FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL understand how the finite element method is used to Mean Value Theorem. MATHEMATICS solve similar problems. • Properties of transcendental functions: Including ECTS Credits: 6 trigonometric, exponential logarithmic and hyperbolic Syllabus: Finite difference methods: Elliptic problems: functions; derivatives and inverse functions. Mathematics & Statistics stability, consistency and convergence; parabolic • Applications of differentiation: Finding roots of problems; explicit and implicit methods, Von Neumann equations (Newton's method), Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course is stability analysis; hyperbolic problems; method of Indeterminate forms (L'Hopital's rule); implicit an introduction to financial mathematics. characteristics. differentiation; optimisation applications, the Second Using discrete-time stochastic models, the pricing and hedging points and branch cuts; analytic functions, the of financial derivatives in arbitrage-free markets is Jointly Distributed Random Variables: joint distribution Cauchy-Riemann equations; Laurent series, poles and studied. functions, sums of essential singularities; Cauchy's Integral Theorem, independent random variables, conditional densities, Cauchy's Integral Formula; the Residue Theorem, the Syllabus: Introduction to Derivative Securities: Futures, functions of jointly distributed Estimation Lemma, Jordan's Lemma, integration of Forwards, European, random variables, (sum, difference, product, and functions with branch points; conformal mappings; path-dependent, and American stock options. quotient of two random variables). analytic continuation. Introduction to Interest Rate Derivatives, with a focus on bonds and Forward Rate Agreements. Properties of Expectation: computing probabilities and Prerequisites: MS4022 expectations by conditioning, Using arbitrage arguments to prove properties of conditional variance, conditional expectation and ------options, inequalities, as well as the put-call parity. prediction. Introduction to binomial trees and risk-neutral MS4101 - MATHEMATICAL LABORATORY valuation of options via replication arguments Sampling Distributions: the central limit theorem, the t-, ECTS Credits: 6 (delta-hedging). chi-squared and F distributions and their use as sampling Mathematics & Statistics Probability theory on finite sample spaces: conditional distributions; joint distribution of order statistics, expectations, martingales, distribution of sample range. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce risk-neutral pricing. Use the concept of conditional students to a symbolic algebra package (Maple) as a expectation Estimation: method-of-moments, fitting standard mathematical problem-solving tool. to formulate and prove the Fundamental Theorems of distributions to discrete Asset Pricing I and II. and continuous data, pivotal quantities, confidence Syllabus: [Using a symbolic algebra package (MAPLE) intervals. for the analysis and solution of simple Value and super-replication of American put options. mathematical models.] Systematic approach to Simulation: Monte Carlo methods, variance reduction scientific problem-solving. Simple time-series models (ARMA(p,q)) for modelling techniques, Extensive use will be made of case studies and and trading trends applications of simulation. assessment will be largely project and mean-reversion. based. Prerequisites: MS4222 Prerequisites: MS4035 ------MS4043 - METHODS OF LINEAR ANALYSIS MS4105 - LINEAR ALGEBRA 2 MS4035 - PROBABILITY MODELS ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module module is to introduce some more advanced concepts in replaces module MS4213 Probability Theory. AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN Linear Algebra and Numerical Linear Algebra It is being created as part of major changes to PROGRESS Syllabus: Complex vector Spaces: Review of real vector LM058/LM060, brought about in part by Project Maths. and innner product spaces. Complex inner product The new first year module MS4222 now contains some ------probability and this module builds on and extends that spaces. Gram-Schmidt process. Unitary, normal and knowledge. MS4045 - COMPLEX ANALYSIS Hermitian matrices. Eigenvectors and eigenvalues. The intention in this module is to firmly establish the ECTS Credits: 6 Diagonalisability. Schur's Lemma. Jordan Canonical form. connections between probability theory and its role in Singular value decomposition. statistical applications. Mathematics & Statistics Introduction to Function spaces. Normed spaces and Banach spaces. Standard examples such as C([a,b]) and Syllabus: Continuous Random Variables: expectation Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce sequence spaces. Bounded linear operators and and variance; the concept of an analytic function of a complex variable continuous linear functionals. Operator norms. Hilbert uniform, normal, exponential, gamma, beta, Cauchy, and integration on the complex plane. space and Riesz representation theorem. Weibull, Numerical Linear algebra. Krylov subspace methods. distribution of a function of a random variable. Syllabus: Single- and multi-valued functions, branch Foundations of Conjugate Gradient method. Other iterative methods for solutions of systems of equations. ------distance between a point and a line, point-normal form Application of Krylov subspace methods to finding and general form eigenvalues. Lanczos algorithm. MS4117 - DISCRETE MATHEMATICS 2 of the equation of a plane, distance between a point and QR factorization. ECTS Credits: 6 a plane.

Prerequisites: MS4102 Mathematics & Statistics Extension to vectors in n dimensions;

------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give the Systems of linear equations and their solution: Gaussian student an understanding of the mathematics and elimination methods apllications of Graph Theory. The applications to (Gauss, Gauss-Jordan) and inverse matrix method; networks and to algorithms in Computer Science will be emphasised. Matrices acting on vectors: eigenvalues and eigenvectors MS4111 - DISCRETE MATHEMATICS 1 particularly ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Graphs, directed graphs and their computer in 2 and 3 dimensions. representation. Mathematics & Statistics Planar, Hamiltonian and Eulerian graphs. Applications: least squares fit, rotation matrices. Graph algorithms (Kruskal, Dijkstra, DFS, BFS etc) Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Graph coluring with applications to scheduling. module is to introduce students to some of the language Network flows and matchings. ------of Discrete Mathematics, and to show its relevance, Other topics will be covered from time to time: Ramsey particularly in the context of Computer Science. It is Theory, random graphs, Huffman codes, graph drawing, MS4214 - STATISTICAL INFERENCE taught at a level that is appropriate to first year Petri nets. ECTS Credits: 6 students, i.e. without an excess of formality. The module should re-inforce the development of the students Prerequisites: MS4111 Mathematics & Statistics "thinking" skills, and should enable them to undertake further study in the various applied areas of Discrete ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course Mathematics (coding, graphs, logic and formal systems introduces students to the formalities of statistical etc) MS4131 - LINEAR ALGEBRA 1 inference with special emphasis on problems of ECTS Credits: 6 estimation, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. Syllabus: Review of sets and operations on sets, power sets. Mathematics & Statistics Syllabus: The notion of a probability model : examples, the need for estimation, confidence intervals and Propositional logic, truth tables, propositional calculus, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this hypothesis tests. equivalence. module is to introduce students to the main ideas of Linear Algebra Inference for normal data : chi-squared, t, F, confidence Predicate logic, quantifiers, equivalence, application to and its many applications. The emphasis is on developing intervals, hypothesis tests, two means, two variances. (mathematical) proof. the student's ability to perform calculations on and with matrices, particularly Central Limit Theorem : normal approximation to the Cartesian product of sets, relations, equivalence 2x2 and 3x3 matrices, binomial, application to inference for a single proportion relations, matrix representation of and on and with vectors in 2 and 3 dimensions. and the difference between two proportions, the relations, composition of relations, functions, types of These ideas are then extended to higher dimensions. chi-squared test for independence. functions. Syllabus: Matrices: introduction to matrices, matrix The likelihood function : the maximum likelihood Number systems, natural numbers, integers, rationals, algebra, transpose of a matrix, symmetric matrices, estimate (MLE), iterative methods for calculating MLE. reals, axioms for N, proof by invertible matrices and their inverses, determinants. induction, recursive definitions and algorithms, Repeated sampling properties : bias, variance, mean recurrence relations. Vectors in 2 and 3 dimensions: geometric interpretation squared error, Cramer-Rao theorem, efficiency, the large of vectors, vector arithmetic, Euclidean norm, Euclidean sample behaviour of maximum likelihood estimates. Representations of N (binary, octal, etc), other number scalar product, angle, orthogonality, projections, "fields". cross product and its uses in the study of lines and Interval estimation : pivotal quantities, confidence planes in 3 dimensions. intervals, approximate confidence intervals based on the Introductory combinatorics, permutations, combinations. MLE. Lines and planes in 3-dimensional space: parametric equation of a line, Hypothesis testing : test statistic, Type 1 and Type 2 errors, power function, the likelihood ratio test. 4. Markov Processes (discrete state space, continuous time) Syllabus: Classification, initial and boundary value Prerequisites: MS4213 5. Queues (multi-sever queues, steady state solutions) problems. 6. Survival Analysis ( basic objects, covariates, MLE) ------Review of first order equations: separable equations, Prerequisites: MS4213 linear and nonlinear equations, integrating factors, exact equations, homogeneous equations; existence and ------uniqueness; applications e.g., in mechanics, population dynamics.

Second order linear equations, homogeneous with constant coefficients, linear independence and MS4215 - ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS MS4315 - OPERATIONS RESEARCH 2 Wronskian, inhomogeneous equations, variation of ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 parameters, applications in oscillators, higher order linear equations, systems of equations. Mathematics & Statistics Mathematics & Statistics Series solution of second order linear equations, regular Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Applies the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module and singular points, Bessels equation. theory developed in MS4213 and MS4214 to the introduces further OR techniques for decision-making. development of advanced data analytic methods with The student will be able to apply these techniques to real Sturm-Liouville theory particular emphasis on linear models. Students are life problems. introduced to a range of statistical packages. Nonlinear ODEs: ad-hoc solution techniques, introduction Syllabus: Integer programming - pure integer to the concepts of stability and phase plane techniques. Syllabus: Simple Linear Regression : calibration, reverse programming algorithms, branch & bound solutions to prediction, regression through the origin, analysis of mixed integer programming. residuals, regression diagnostics, leverage and influence. Prerequisites: MS4022 Matrix formulation of the linear model : Multiple Deterministic dynamic programming - forward and regression, partial correlation, polynomial regression. backward recurrence formulations. ------Analysis of Variance : One-way ANOVA, multiple comparisons, Two-way ANOVA, interactions, Analysis of Probabalistic dynamic programming - finite and infinite MS4407 - PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES AND covariance. stage problems. ASYMPTOTICS Introduction to Generalized Linear Models including ECTS Credits: 6 nonlinear regression, logistic regression and log-linear Game Theory - Concepts of equilibrium, matrix games, models. extensive form games and repeated games. Mathematics & Statistics

Prerequisites: MS4213, MS4214 Applications of game theory - models of economic Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To learn the competition (Cornot, Bertrand), evolutionary game basic concepts and techniques of asymptotic and ------theory. perturbation methods.

MS4217 - STOCHASTIC PROCESSES Prerequisites: MS4303 Syllabus: Non-dimensionalisation, scaling, ordering, ECTS Credits: 6 definition of asymptotic series, algebraic equations, ------integrals, Laplaces method, method of steepest descent, Mathematics & Statistics regular and singular perturbations, multiple scales, MS4403 - ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS strained coordinates, boundary layer techniques. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of ECTS Credits: 6 this module is introduce the students to the Prerequisites: MS4403, MS4404 mathematical statistical analysis of probabilistic Mathematics & Statistics processes which develop over time. ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Syllabus: 1. Recap on probability ( copies, expectation, and consolidate the concepts and techniques necessary MS4613 - VECTOR ANALYSIS MGF, PGF) for solving ordinary differential equations(including ECTS Credits: 6 2. Random Walks (differences equations & their non-linear ordinary differential equations and phase solutions) plane techniques). Mathematics & Statistics 3.Markov Chains (discrete state space, discrete time) Rationale and Purpose of the Module: * To review Effects of temperature on polymers and metals. the basic tools of linear algebra. Waves: frequency, wave vector, phase velocity, group Mechanical and thermal treatments and properties of * To introduce the student to the laws of physics in velocity alloys. vector form. * To give the student a solid grounding in vector Stability: steady solution of PDEs and small analysis. perturbations, harmonic disturbances, normal modes ------

Boundary layer theory: flow near a plate, the Blasius problem Syllabus: [Vectorial Mechanics:] rotation of axes, index notation, review of vector and scalar algebra (scalar Prerequisites: MA4607, MS4404 vector and triple scalar products); vector functions of a real variable, functions of time; differentiation of vectors, ------MT4105 - QUALITY SYSTEMS derivative of dot and cross products, tangent to a curve, ECTS Credits: 6 arclength, smoothness, curvature, applications in MT4101 - INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS mechanics. ECTS Credits: 6 School of Engineering [Fields:] scalar and vector fields; functions of several variables, maxima/minima,contour maps, directional School of Engineering Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course derivative and gradient vector of scalar fields; divergence provides a concise introduction to quality management and curl of vector field; applications in electromagnetism Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To put the systems such as ISO 9001 and shows how these are and fluid mechanics; vector identities; cylindrical and subject of Materials Science into historical and modern integral to the success of Irish industry. Other spherical coordinates. perspective management system including environment and health [Line, surface and volume integrals] line integrals and To acquaint students with the range of materials and safety are also introduced. work; conservation of energy and potential function; available and their classification applications to planetary dynamics, area, surface and To explain the origins of materials, their processing, Syllabus: Introduction volume integrals; Gauss's Greens and Stoke's theorems. properties and applications What is quality Multiple integrals in radial, cylindrical and spherical Quality Assurance Vs Quality Control. coordinates, scalar and vector potentials, Helmholtzs Interface between quality and other business functions theorem. Syllabus: [Historical background to development of Inter-relationships between quality, reliability, price and [Tensor Algebra and Calculus:] Review of matrix algebra materials and] of the subject of [Materials Science]. delivery. introducing suffix notation; definition of determinant; [Classes of modern materials]: Quality Management Systems (QMS) evaluation of determinants by row and column - [metals] and alloys Historical development of ISO 9000 expansions; eigenvalues and eigenvectors, introduction - [polymers] and rubbers. Introduction to ISO 19011 to Cartesian tensors. - [ceramics and glasses An outline of the elements of ISO 9001 - [composites] including concrete, wood, Quality documentation - the purpose of the quality Prerequisites: MS4602, MS4022 fibre-reinforced plastics and metal matrix manual, procedures and work instructions. composites. Organising for quality -the importance of management ------[Origin of these materials]: commitment and leadership and the role of the quality - brief outline of extraction of metals from ores and of function within the company. MS4627 - MATHEMATICS OF NATURAL PHENOMENA processing by casting and Control of vendors - purchasing criteria and the control ECTS Credits: 6 mechanical treatment. of raw materials and service suppliers; vendor - introduction to polymerisation reactions and assessment. Mathematics & Statistics processing techniques of `plastics' Auditing and registration - how to conduct audits, auditor - overview of manufacture of ceramics, refractories and criteria, how to apply for registration and what are the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce glasses. requirements. the concepts of modelling natural phenomena (biological Product testing and ISO 9001 and geophysical systems) [Properties] of the different classes [and standard testing Introduction to ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 techniques] Syllabus: Evolutionary game theory: populations, - mechanical properties strategies, evolutionary success - physical properties ------chemical properties. Dimensional analysis: scaling, similarity. [Applications] of different materials [related to] their Fractals [properties] MU4001 - CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH IRISH Syllabus: Issues addressed in this module will be taken creating new work in a collaborative environment, MUSIC AND DANCE from current research engagements with the concept of students will develop as reflective artists and composers, ECTS Credits: 6 world music and dance and will examine a selection of engaging in meaningful self and peer-to-peer critique. diverse practices that are seen to constitute and Humanities sometimes challenge this category. These will critically Syllabus: Through weekly workshops, students will engage historical narratives, conceptual structuring and experiment with different methods of developing original Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is evolving identities of the concepts and traditions in songs, considering simple elements of melody, lyrics and an introduction to the growing field of traditional music question. A particular Arts practice lens will be engaged structure of song.Through weekly lectures and and dance studies and will give the student an overview so students can experience the aesthetic and structure of engagement with post-graduate students of MA of some of the important features of these traditions as the tradition per formatively. Students will be develop Songwriting, students will be exposed to a range of well as current areas and modes of research in this writing and presentation skills associated with such different songwriters of varying genres and styles. They context. The investigations presented in these modules academic engagement and be introduced to concepts of will be encouraged to locate their own creative practice will be particularly informed by the international research as a creative, scholarly practice. within the wider experience of songwriting, engaging in disciplines of Arts practice research, ethnomusicology reflective practice through group discussion, and and ethnochoreology. Students here will also be ------individual journaling and self-evaluation. introduced to responsible and accountable academic and research practices. MU4017 - SECOND INSTRUMENT STUDIES ONE ------ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Issues addressed in this module will be taken MU4023 - VOICE STUDIES: HISTORICAL AND from current research engagements with the native Irish Humanities CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES music and dance traditions. These will critically engage ECTS Credits: 6 historical naratives, conceptual structuring and evolving Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module identities of the traditions in question. A particular Arts allows students on the BA Performing Arts to develop Humanities practice lens will be engaged so students can experience performance skills in a second instrument. Students will the aesthetic and structure of the tradition per have the opportunity to critically engage embodied Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is formatively. Students will be develop writing and expressions of performance practice on an instrument an introduction to the field of voice studies and will presentation skills associated with such academic and or practice other than that in their core Practicum A provide the student with historical and cross-cultural engagement and be introduced to concepts of research module. Students will engage these studies in a perspectives on singing and voice training. Informed by a as a creative, scholarly practice. environment informed by recent principles in arts transdisciplinary understanding of singing across music practice research. This module will give students cultures, the student will engage with important sources ------invaluable new perspectives on their creative and artistic and current research in areas of vocal pedagogy, potential. This is an elective module to be offered ethnomusicology and arts practice research. MU4011 - CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH WORLD throughout the BA in Performing Arts programme and is MUSIC AND DANCE subject to the Irish World Academy being able to source Syllabus: This module will offer a critical engagement ECTS Credits: 6 appropriate expertise and resources. with historical, contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives on singing and voice training, introducing Humanities Syllabus: Students in this module will develop a second the student to contextual theories and ideologies related instrumental performance area in small group and to their primary field of practical study. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is one-on-one contexts. No previous experience of the an introduction to the growing field of world music and adopted instrumental practice is necessary. Students will ------dance studies and will introduce the student to a critical develop and document an appropriate practice regime as engagement with the category and how it is imagined in well as use reflective tools such as auto-ethnographic MU4033 - WORLD MUSIC AND DANCE SURVEY 1 a number of cultural contexts as well as current areas journals. ECTS Credits: 6 and modes of research. Students will be exposed to a selection of world music practices in an academic and ------Humanities peformative context, providing them with an insight into some of the diversity of music and dance practices on MU4021 - INTRODUCTION TO SONGWRITING Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module this planet. The investigations presented in this module ECTS Credits: 6 will introduce students to aspects of sound and will be particularly informed by the international movement from around the world, questioning the disciplines of Arts practice research, ethnomusicology Humanities nature of what is 'World Music and Dance' in the 21st and ethnochoreology. Students here will also be century digital age. introduced to responsible and accountable academic and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of research practices. this module is to introduce students to the relevant skills Syllabus: This module will examine a selection of music and basic creative processes entailed in songwriting. By and dance expressions from diverse places round the globe. Students will study the music and dance in the 1. Instrumental skills aiming towards technical fluency focussed on psychodynamic and psychosocial approaches context of 'world music' with a specific focus on India, and mastery within music therapy practice including the following England, Scandinavia , West Africa, Scotland, 2. Repertoire knowledge relevant to the instrument areas: adults in mental health contexts, medical contexts Brittany, Galicia, North America and Indonesia .This 3. Stylistic knowledge working towards informed choices and community work, music therapy in addressing the module will be assessed through course-work and exam. of interpretation needs of medical patients.

------The foundations of repertoire and style formed in Syllabus: Through a series of expert lectures and self Technique, Repertoire & Style 3 will be built upon the study, students will develop an understanding of MU4135 - IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC 1 consolidation of skills learned in Technique, Repertoire psychodynamic and psychosocial approaches within ECTS Credits: 6 and Style 1 & 2, as well as development of more music therapy practice. Core theoretical frames to inform advanced skills and technique. family work, and work with adults in mental health Humanities contexts, medical contexts and community work will be The materials and pedagogical direction of this module, presented. Adult mental disorders û major diagnostic Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is because of its one-to-one tuition and highly categories eg Schizophrenia, Depression and Bi-Polar an introduction to the growing field of traditional music individualistic approach is open to the teachers disorder û will be covered. The role of music therapy in and dance studies and will give the student an overview interpretation and revision in actual practice. addressing the needs of medical patients will be of some of the important features of these traditions. presented. Students will attend a weekly experiential ------group. Clinical improvisation skills will be extended.

Syllabus: MU5023 - MUSIC THERAPY FIELDWORK PRACTICE Prerequisites: MU5211 Issues addressed in this module will be dance tune 2 types and structure, English language song tradition, ECTS Credits: 12 ------instrumentation, traditional music and dance in America in the first half of the twentieth century, the harp Humanities MU5043 - MUSIC THERAPY PROJECT 1 tradition to 1800, modern step dancing, ceili dancing. ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide ------students with the opportunity to develop skills in Humanities 1. Providing weekly regular clinical work to clients in a MU5003 - TECHNIQUE, REPERTOIRE AND STYLE - 3 health, welfare, community or education setting Rationale and Purpose of the Module: For students to ECTS Credits: 12 2. Learning in context to apply the framework of develop a music therapy research from idea to ethical assessment, programme planning, implementation, clearance stage. Humanities evaluation and reporting Syllabus: Development of research from idea through to Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module ethical clearance. Students will examine issues in focuses on the individual instrument. The purpose of the Syllabus: Students will continue a fieldwork placement research design including choice of data collection module is the facilitation of performance tuition to the alongside a qualified music therapist in a health, welfare, methods and methods to analyse data. Students will highest standard. community or educational setting in Ireland up to two consider issues around ethics in research, including days per week. In this supervised fieldwork placement informed consent, management of sensitive materials, The module provides progressive tuition, within the students will develop competencies in planning and and the role of the researcher in managing participation. framework outlined in Technique, Repertoire & Style 1 leading sessions with music therapy clients. Students will and Technique, Repertoire & Style 2. gain information about the role of the facility in Prerequisites: MU5071 addressing needs of clients and the role of music therapy The ultimate goal of the module is to improve the quality within the broader operational remit of the facility. ------of the music making and artistry demonstrated by the student and to prepare for public performances aiming Prerequisites: MU5062 MU5053 - ENSEMBLE 3 towards professional level. ECTS Credits: 12 ------Syllabus: The module comprises of intensive study Humanities within the framework of studio teaching and master MU5033 - MUSIC THERAPY PRACTICE 2 classes. The module is based on skill and competency of ECTS Credits: 12 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module execution. Contact time with individual teachers involves progressive training in String Chamber concentrates on increased repertoire and more advanced Humanities Ensemble and String Chamber Orchestra according to skills and technique. the framework outlined in Ensemble 1 & 2. The knowledge is structured within three key areas: Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is Goals of the module include public performances and MU5101 - HISTORY OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY - the development of skills pertinent to vocal periodic interaction with professional members of the ECTS Credits: 12 accompaniment, as appropriate to specialist repertoires. Irish Chamber Orchestra. - the provision of training in sight-singing, aural training Humanities and transcription from oral dictation The ultimate goal of the module is to improve the quality - the development of a contextual approach to ritual of the music making and artistry demonstrated by the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this vocal performance student within ensemble playing and to prepare for module is to provide an overview of the history and the public performances aiming towards professional level theory of ethnomusicology since the 19th century and to Syllabus: This module will provide specialist vocal and quality. understand its close connections to social and cultural training, appropriate to the idiomatic performance of a anthropology in order to equip the students with range of vocal repertoires including Western plainchant, Syllabus: Contact time in the form of coaching with knowledge of the principle theories that have been Irish traditional religious song, aspects of the Western individual teachers and group projects will focus on an propounded by ethnomusicologists and with issues choral tradition and selected world ritual vocal increased development of the repertoire and ensemble currently under debate. repertoires; tuition will include solo vocal technique and skills learned in Ensemble 1 & 2, as well as new and repertoire classes; instruction in schola and ensemble more advanced repertoire. Ensemble 3 will be built upon Syllabus: Readings include both exemplary original texts singing; conducting and facilitating ensemble the consolidation of skills learned in Ensemble 1 & 2, as drawn from the history of the field and more recent performance; vocal accompaniment as appropriate to well as the development of more advanced skills and historical and theoretical overviews. Students are also specialist repertoires; sight-signing and aural training performance projects. asked to read and review two book-length musical within a contextual approach to vocal repertoires and ethnographies selected from a recommended list of performance techniques. The materials and repertoire of this module and the recent works. A 5000 word essay will address a balance of the two key segments within each semester particular topic of the student's choice, designed in will be at the discretion of the programme director and consultation with the course director. studio teachers based on the distribution of ------instrumentalists within the student body and the ------available periods within the work schedules of the Irish MU5401 - TECHNIQUE, REPERTOIRE AND STYLE - 1 Chamber Orchestra. MU5211 - CLINICAL ORIENTATION ECTS Credits: 12 ECTS Credits: 12 ------Humanities Humanities MU5061 - ARTS IN HEALTH Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Introduction to focuses on the individual instrument. The purpose of the Music Therapy concepts and methods as they relate to module is the facilitation of performance tuition to the Humanities clinical practice. highest standard.

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Syllabus: The module is focused on the development of The ultimate goal of the module is to improve the quality module is for students to discover and learn about the practical music making skills related to music therapy of the music making and artistry demonstrated by the history and contemporary practices of Arts in Health practice, observational skills and assessment and student and to prepare for public performances aiming As objectives, students will have the opportunity to treatment planning skills. towards professional level. develop knowledge of the contemporary application of creative arts therapies in healthcare including drama ------therapy, art therapy, music therapy, and dance therapy, and arts applications in healing through history and the MU5361 - RITUAL CHANT AND SONG PRACTICUM 1 Syllabus: This module takes the student from his/her use of arts in healthcare contexts. ECTS Credits: 12 point of entry and expands on technical mastery and repertoire knowledge with the view of gaining insight into Syllabus: Students will develop their knowledge of a Humanities performance styles relevant to musical history and range of arts practices in health care so as to be able to tradition in the classical genre. discuss, describe and critically reflect on the ways Rationale and Purpose of the Module: - the provision theorists and researchers have considered social, of specialist training towards the development of The module is based on skill and competency of behavioural and therapeutic aspects of these art forms in idiomatic performance across a range of vocal repertoires execution. The student may have to begin the module relation to individual experience and the context of use including Western plainchant, Irish traditional religious with extensive revisions in technique and a somewhat of the arts in a range of healthcare settings. song, the Western choral tradition and world ritual vocal different approach to the instrument owing to the repertoires. pedagogy of the professor involved. ------the development of skills pertinent to choral / schola singing and conducting / facilitation The knowledge is structured within three key areas: Syllabus: Teaching and communication skills including 1. Instrumental skills aiming towards technical fluency The String Chamber Orchestra segment involves periodic role play, modelling, lecture, interactive workshop skills, and mastery interaction with members of the Irish Chamber generative brainstorming; Observation and evaluation 2. Repertoire knowledge relevant to the instrument Orchestra. The presence of the Irish Chamber Orchestra techniques including structuring questionnaires, 3. Stylistic knowledge working towards informed choices on the university campus gives young string players an analysing interaction on video, models for documenting of interpretation insight into the professional world and working and reflecting musical skills including song teaching, experience of an internationally acclaimed chamber basic conducting, ensemble percussion work, harmony, The materials and pedagogical direction of this module, ensemble. composition, arranging, improvisation and songwriting. because of its one-to-one tuition and highly individualistic approach is open to the teachers The materials and repertoire of this module and the ------interpretation and revision in actual practice. balance of the two key segments within each semester will be at the discretion of the programme director and MU5611 - TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC PRACTICUM ------studio teachers based on the distribution of 1 instrumentalists within the student body and the ECTS Credits: 12 MU5411 - ENSEMBLE I available periods within the work schedules of the Irish ECTS Credits: 12 Chamber Orchestra. Humanities

Humanities ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To encourage creativity and individuality in performance practice; to Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module MU5501 - COMMUNITY MUSIC IN CONTEXT develop performing skills in the context of individual and features training the genre of string chamber ensemble ECTS Credits: 12 group classes; to allow the student under supervision to and string chamber orchestra. design and follow a specially prepared music Humanities performance programme tailored to his/her musical An inherent part of any string players milieu is the art of ambitions and educational needs; to develop ensemble ensemble playing. It must be constantly explored and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide skills. used to be value as an artistic form and musical instruction in foundations, history and principles of expression. community, to offer students a brief and broad Syllabus: In this module the student will create and experience of the field; to combine practical and design their own performance programme under the Solo playing brings to bear the focus of individual academic perspectives on Community Music; to offer this supervision of the course director. Also, students will decisions on the music itself. Ensemble playing requires programme within an environment sensitive to an take tutorials with or tutors on the programme to a specialised skill and a particularly developed musical ethnomusicological and performance perspective and facilitate their work-in-progress and to provide support intelligence based on the ability to weigh musical options which encourages cross-platform performance and for the successful realisation of individual performance in the light of other individuals playing in the same learning. projects. This module is in preparation for a public continuum. performance Syllabus: History, culture and political developments Goals of the module include public performances and and issues in Community Music: gender considerations, ------periodic interaction with professional members of the shifting demographics, models and functions of Irish Chamber Orchestra. community music and community arts, diverse learners MU6003 - PRACTICAL SKILLS OF MUSIC 3 and community contexts, case studies. ECTS Credits: 3

Syllabus: The module is structured around two key ------Humanities elements / segments: 1. String Chamber Ensemble MU5511 - COMMUNITY MUSIC SKILLS I Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide 2. String Chamber Orchestra ECTS Credits: 12 further practical guidance in the area of school and classroom music. To develop extra skills specifically The String Chamber Ensemble segment aims to develop Humanities related to the facilitation of music learning, teaching, and hone skills relative to the genre of string quartets, direction and performance. trios, quintets or larger ensemble pieces. Students are Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In this module, To further develop an awareness in the student of expected to work constructively in groups and take students will begin to develop the observation, his/her position as a music educator and as a community responsibility for their individual preparation and the evaluation, communication and teaching techniques and musician within the entire school community. To further organisation of group rehearsal times. The chamber skills necessary for work in community music. While the facilitate competency in essential aural, compositional groups are taught and coached in the context of student's musical competencies are assumed, this course and performance skills. laboratory work in forms of studio master classes with provides further musical work in ensemble skills. their respective teachers. Syllabus: Students will acquire further skills related to the facilitation and production of music technology in an MU6041 - MUSIC PEDAGOGY Syllabus: The study of research methods pertains to an educational context including sequencing, the use of ECTS Credits: 6 investigation of music therapy as an arts-dependent notational software, and recording, editing and sound practice and covers contexts for arts-based research, the production. Students will develop skills in advanced Humanities research process, skill-development in critical analysis, conducting in a variety of contexts. and research scholarship including writing and/or Students will increase their competence specifically in Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To consider discussing research outcomes and current issues in vocal skills, vocal health and in keyboard skills. Students topics of pedagogy from the perspectives of specific research. This course is a prerequisite for MU5043 and will further develop their skills in relation to musical teaching of music so as to enhance the quality of introduces the beginner researcher to the tools, accompaniment with specific reference to accompanying teaching practice experience. To enable students to knowledge and critical thinking required to conduct in a classroom context, in an examination context and in undertake structured observation in the classroom. To research in their preferred clinical area of interest. relation to extracurricular contexts in the school. develop the ability to reflect critically on one's own Students will further their skills in relation to musical teaching and one's role within the school. To examine ------composition and arranging in a variety of contexts and aspects of curriculum, methodology and assessment as musical genres. Students will further their competence in they relate to music education. To apply current research MU6061 - MUSIC ETHNOGRAPHY their performance of one or more musical instruments to practice. ECTS Credits: 6 appropriate to post-primary education. Syllabus: This module facilitates the student teacher's Humanities ------initial experiences in the school and in the school music department. Junior and Leaving Certificate cycle music Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module MU6031 - PRACTICAL SKILLS OF MUSIC 1 syllabi are reviewed, critiqued and addressed in relation trains students in the epistemology, methodology, ECTS Credits: 6 to issues of implementation. Transition year music methods and techniques for sustained ethnographic programmes are explored and designed through research inquiry. Humanities and reflection. Structures of subject knowledge, innovation in the classroom, practice room and concert ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide hall/performing platform are addressed. Curriculum practical guidance in the area of classroom music. To development, mixed ability teaching, alternative NM4011 - PRINCIPLES FOR CONTEMPORARY develop skills specifically related to the facilitation of approaches to assessment and reflective evaluation, and NURSING STUDIES music learning, teaching and performance. To develop an current research are discussed and presented in a variety ECTS Credits: 6 awareness in the student of his/her position as a music of national and international contexts. Varieties of facilitator in the school at large. To facilitate competency teaching and learning styles, classroom, laboratory, Nursing & Midwifery in essential aural, compositional and performance skills. concert hall organisation, the use of ICT and of music technology in the classroom, international perspectives, ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY Syllabus: This module explores and utilises students' cultural issues and cross-curriculum aspects are explored AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN own performing skills and creative music making abilities in lecture and lab sessions. in order to address the facilitation and production in the PROGRESS school setting of a variety of music making possibilities. ------Students will research and explore ensemble music, ------choral singing, school bands, orchestras, percussion and MU6051 - ARTS INFORMED RESEARCH 1 recorder groups, singing including vocal health, ECTS Credits: 6 NM4077 - LEADING AND MANAGING IN QUALITY traditional Irish, popular and world musics. Dance, PRACTICE theatre, improvisation, accompaniment, conducting, Humanities ECTS Credits: 6 harmony, counterpoint, composition, melodic and rhythmic writing and recognition will be central in the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course is Nursing & Midwifery music lesson. The use of music technology as a teaching an introduction to research in the context of music and learning tool, and the concept of literacy and therapy as an arts-dependent practice and covers Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of the numeracy will also provide a focus in practicum. Varieties arts-based research methodology, the research process, module is to explore the principles underpinning of teaching and learning styles, classroom, laboratory, skill-development in critical thinking, and research leadership, management, quality and safety in performing platforms, the use of ICT and of music scholarship including writing, presenting and/or healthcare delivery. technology in the classroom, international perspectives, discussing research outcomes and current issues in cultural issues and cross-curriculum aspects are explored research. As a prerequisite for MU5043, it introduces the Syllabus: Roles and responsibilities of health and social in ab sessions. beginner researcher to the tools, knowledge and critical care professionals, delegating and supervising care in the thinking required to conduct research in their clinical healthcare teams, leadership strategies/styles and ------area of interest. analysis for effective management, teambuilding, team working, collaboration, advocacy and conflict management, managing change in the health service; of substances into and out of the cell. Tissue structure Manage organisations and systems; Principles of and function including; epithelial, connective, muscle and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this governance, audit, quality improvement processes and nervous tissue. module is to provide the student with a knowledge and measurement of standards; Concepts underpinning a The integumentary system, skeletal system, and joints. understanding of microbiology with application to health supportive clinical work environment;, supporting Muscles: structure and function. Structure and function care settings nursing and midwifery practice quality, assessing and managing clinical risk and of the circulatory system, respiratory system, promoting safety: Time management, effective and lymphatic system. Anatomy, physiology and Syllabus: Micro-organisms Nature of microorganisms efficient use of resources, health service reform: biochemistry of the innate and adaptive immune system. and their growth, basic understanding of bacteria, fungi Contemporary issues in nursing, midwifery and health Contribution of each system to the maintenance of and viruses, general pathogenesis, portals of entry; cycle care management. homeostasis. of infection, basic epidemiology and how an infectious agent is transferred through a population; control of ------spread of infection, cultivation and identification of pathogens. Pathogenesis in key infections. Infection NM4091 - PHILOSOPHIES UNDERPINNING PERSON NM4161 - COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL control in the hospital and community setting, guidelines CENTRED NURSING RELATIONSHIPS IN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY in isolation precautions. Carrier status amongst health ECTS Credits: 3 ECTS Credits: 6 care professionals: practice and developments. Disinfection and sterilisation of equipment. Antibiotics: Nursing & Midwifery Nursing & Midwifery mode of action in relation to specific diseases; antibiotic resistance; public health measures to ensure antibiotic ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module efficacy: Directly Observed Therapy; reserved drugs; will introduce skills and knowledge necessary for the public and professional awareness. Microbiology in AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN development of respectful, equitable and effective relation to nursing and midwifery care and public health PROGRESS communication in nursing and midwifery practice. The awareness: such as HIV, CJD, Cl. diff., TB, and MRSA. development of students' communication and Immunology: the immune response reviewed; antibody ------interpersonal skills will be facilitated so as to enhance diversity; allergy and anaphylactic shock; the professional and therapeutic relationships. immuno-suppressed patient; immunisation in current NM4121 - FOUNDATIONS FOR ENGAGED LEARNING public health programmes. ECTS Credits: 3 Syllabus: Communication theories, models. Person-centred communication principles. Therapeutic Clinical Skills: Nursing & Midwifery and professional relationships. Self-awareness and Standard precautions therapeutic use of self. Bridges and barriers in the Introduction to aseptic technique ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY development and maintenance of therapeutic Specimen observation /collection/testing, labelling, relationships. Assertive communication. Communicating transport (sputum, urine, and blood) AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN in challenging and difficult circumstances. Wound care and wound management PROGRESS Communicating information: recording clinical practice; Removal of sutures and clips communicating with colleagues; social media, email. ------Group communication. Interprofessional communication. ------Intercultural communication. Introduction to NM4151 - BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES APPLIED TO communicating with persons with NS4013 - HEALTH STUDIES NURSING AND MIDWIFERY 1 impairments/disabilities including physical, sensory, ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 cognitive, affective and intellectual. Self -care strategies including relaxation skills. Nursing & Midwifery Nursing & Midwifery Communication skills: verbal and non-verbal: listening; interviewing; breaking bad news; conflict situations; Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide the group communication and group dynamics; nurses and midwives with the necessary foundation to foundation for understanding cell biology and tissues documentation; relaxation skills. develop competence in health education and health leading to anatomy and physiological functioning of the promotion. human system to assist in the study of the effects of ------illness and disease on the individual. Syllabus: Concepts of health and ill-health; Measuring NS3201 - MICROBIOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY AND health and health science; Determinants of and Syllabus: Introduction to the body as a whole, tissues, INFECTION CONTROL influences upon health. The social construction of Life organs and systems. Biochemistry of the cell including: ECTS Credits: 3 styles; The history of health education and health cell structure, the cell surface, the cell cytoplasm, and promotion; Models and approaches to improving health; the biochemical mechanisms controlling the movement Nursing & Midwifery Assessing needs and programme planning; Ethical issues; inequalities, disadvantage and empowerment; that support breastfeeding and artificial feeding; e.g. teenagers, travellers. Teaching relaxation in parent Settings for programmes; health policy and politics. Counselling skills to support breastfeeding,; Anatomy education classes,. Curriculum development for and physiology of lactation, Biochemistry of human milk, parenthood education Clinical . Tutorials: micro teaching, ------Impact of birthing practices on breastfeeding; presentation strategies and skills Micro teaching Breastfeeding facilitation for healthy mothers and Presentation skills Giving feedback, class planning, newborns,; Breastfeeding management under difficult evaluation of teaching, giving feedback, relaxation circumstances,; breastfeeding management when the techniques mother is ill; Infants with special needs; Alternative NS4024 - INTRO. TO THE PRINCIPLES AND NATURE methods of infant feeding when breastfeeding is not ------OF TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR NURSES AND possible; infant nutrition and weaning practices; Hospital MIDWIVES and community support; Drug therapy and NS4063 - CARE OF THE NEONATE ECTS Credits: 9 breastfeeding, maternal nutrition during lactation, ECTS Credits: 3 maternal employment and breastfeeding. Nursing & Midwifery Clinical skills Facilitating an antenatal workshop on Nursing & Midwifery positioning and attachment for breastfeeding babies. Use Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this of support mechanisms for successful breastfeeding. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine module is to provide the students with the teaching skills Breastfeeding under special circumstances provide the midwife's role and responsibility in necessary to facilitate teaching and learning within the (breastfeeding the preterm baby, twins, baby with cleft assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nurse practice/learning environment. lip and palate). Facilitating a postnatal breastfeeding student with the care knowledge and skills to assess, clinic. Lactation Consultants role and challenges in plan, implement and evaluate care of the neonate Syllabus: Group facilitating, microteaching. The nature protecting breastfeeding. Promoting, supporting and of teaching and learning with particular reference to the protecting breastfeeding in the community setting Syllabus: Adaptations to extrauterine nursing environment. Approaches to adult learning. life,thermoregulation, initial steps of neonatal Planning and preparation. Presentation skills. Using Clinical skills resuscitation. Role of the midwife in assessing, planning, questions. Group work. Independent studies. Lesson implementing and evaluating care for healthy newborn management. Concept of andragogy and pedagogy. Communication skills babies from birth to discharge. Thermoregulation.. Techniques of assessment, reflection, self-evaluation. Positioning and attachment workshop Prevention of infection in. Meeting the safety needs of Breastfeeding under special circumstances the neonate. Nutritional requirements of the term Clinical Skills (breastfeeding the preterm baby, multiple births, baby neonate, physiology of lactation,; promoting, supporting Microteaching in a clinical setting with cleft lip and palate) and protecting breastfeeding; formula feeding, parent Microteaching in a classroom setting Facilitating a postnatal breastfeeding clinic infant attachment and psychology and perception of Clinical competencies: Hand expression, pump expression, cup feeding, breast neonate. Principles of drug administration for the assessment/documentation/feedback milk storage; safe formula feeding neonate. Discharge advice. Newborn bloodspot screening technique. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Role of the ------public health nurse. Vaccinations and immunisations. Transition to parenthood; parent infant attachment; NS4037 - PROMOTING SUPPORTING AND NS4047 - PREPARATION FOR PARENTHOOD infant cues and responses. Meeting diverse parenting PROTECTING BREASTFEEDING ECTS Credits: 6 needs, neonatal record keeping. Communicating and ECTS Credits: 6 documentation, screening of the newborn, sudden Infant Nursing & Midwifery Death Syndrome, public health and the Nursing & Midwifery neonate,vaccinations and immunisations Assess, plan, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To enable implement and evaluate care for healthy newborn babies Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To enable the provide students with the student to design knowledge from birth to discharge recording clinical practice. student to critically consider the promotion, support and and implement a programme ofskills to work in protection of breastfeeding. Fulfil the requirements of the partnership with parents to support them in their Clinical skills: Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative including the provision of adaptation to parenthood education for childbirth Examination of the neonate at birth including initial steps safe artificial feeding of resuscitation Ongoing Syllabus: Philosophy and historical development of Checking and use of the resuscitaire Syllabus: Theoretical content: Social, cultural, childbirth education, Principles of adult education, On-going assessment and monitoring of the neonate psychological and political influences on aspects of teaching and learning strategies for pregnancy childbirth including neonatal vital signs breastfeeding, infant feeding; National and International and transition to parenthood, health promotion Care of the neonate, administration of Vitamin K Breastfeeding policies and their management, health strategies, sexuality and cultural perspectives on Breastfeeding practices Formula benefits including BFHI; The importance of childbearing and using, culturally connected teaching Expressing and storing of breast milk breast-feeding to mother and baby, Health care practices strategies, childbirth education for specific social groups Infant feeding practices Metabolic skills Newborn bloodspot screening technique protection. Dignity, advocacy and protection of the older pharmacology. adult; introduction to the principles of nursing the older ------person and family/carer across the care continuum. Clinical Skills Syllabus: Attitudes towards ageing, and the normal process of Nutritional assessment and management aging, age related disorders, e.g. confusion, Assisting with oral intake of food and drink polypharmacy, falls, dignity, advocacy and restraint. Weight management Applied pharmacology. Oral assessment and hygiene Enteral and parenteral, naso gastric and PEG NS4203 - BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 3 ANATOMY, Clinical Skills PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Abdominal palpation ------ECTS Credits: 6 Fetal heart monitoring Mechanisms of labour NS4215 - SPECIALISED NURSING CARE Nursing & Midwifery Examination of the baby and child ECTS Credits: 6 Bathing a baby Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Bottle and breastfeeding Nursing & Midwifery module is to provide students with a foundation for Assessment of the older person - and use of assessment understanding normal human anatomy and physiological tools Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim is to function, considered essential for the later study of Communication and therapeutic strategies to support the facilitate the student understanding of oncology, illness and disease in the individual. older person with cognitive impairment palliative care, mental health, and intellectual disability End of life care so that they may provide appropriate care to these Syllabus: Structure and function of the Urinary System, Last offices groups of individuals. In order to prepare general nurses Digestive System, Reproductive System, Endocrine to support patients/clients with specific and complex System. Hormones and their actions. Stress and ------needs the process of identifying needs, planning, adaptations. prioritising, implementing and evaluating nursing care Pregnancy, childbirth, lactation. Special Senses: NS4213 - PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITION NURSING will be considered. Structure and function e.g. eye, ear, nose, tongue, and ECTS Credits: 3 equilibrium. Syllabus: Cancer cell biology, nursing care and Pathology: Inflammation, granulomas, Nursing & Midwifery management in oncology. Treatment modalities, repair/regeneration of tissues, tumours, degenerative Palliative care. Introduction to intellectual disability and changes in cells/tissues, carcinogenesis, classification of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this nursing care and management Institutionalisation, tumours, biology of tumours, breast cancer, lung cancer, module is to introduce students to the role of nutrition in normalisation, individualisation and philosophy of an genetic disorders. health care and disease prevention so that the specialist 'ordinary life'. Introduction to the concept of mental needs of a person experiencing dietary difficulties can be health. Nursing care of individuals with mental health addressed illness in a range of settings. Applied pharmacology. ------Syllabus: Nutrients, their functions, metabolism, food ------NS4205 - MATERNITY, PEADIATRIC AND OLDER sources and optimal nutrition for the promotion and PERSON NURSING maintenance of health and prevention of disease. NS4218 - COGNITIVE - BEHAVIOUR THERAPY ECTS Credits: 6 Absorption, digestion, and vital functions of the ECTS Credits: 6 macronutrients (protein, carbohydrate and fat) and the Nursing & Midwifery micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). Changes in Nursing & Midwifery nutritional needs throughout the life cycle including Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this special considerations during pregnancy, lactation, and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This purpose module is to facilitate students understanding of aging. Nutritional standards, the role of nutrition in of this module is to provide students with a knowledge maternity, paediatric, and older person nursing so that disease prevention and clinical nutrition topics including and understanding of the principles of cognitive they may provide appropriate care to individuals and PKU, malnutrition, and dietary recommendations for behavioural therapy and its application within nursing families. diabetes. Interventions to maintain nutritional status in practice. illness. Nutrition as an interdisciplinary approach to Syllabus: Introduction to the principles of peri-natal health care and disease prevention and its application to Syllabus: Key concepts of cognitive behavioural therapy. care; effects of pregnancy upon maternal health. Nursing the individual, in community health and education. Classical and Operant conditioning. Definition of care and management of mother and baby introduction Introduction to the use of computer-based diet analysis behaviour; objective/subjective interpretation of to the nursing principles to the care and management of to evaluate personal dietary intakes. The role of the behaviour, increasing behaviour, positive and negative children experiencing acute and chronic illness their nurse in meeting the specialist nutritional needs of a reinforcement. Response cost. Extinction. Role of experiences of hospitalisation; family centred care; child person experiencing dietary difficulties. Applied Cognition. Cognitive distortions. Characteristics of cognitive behavioural therapy. Contingency contracting. challenges of pain management in order to provide Relaxation techniques and arts in the management of Cognitive behavioural assessment: observation, additional theoretical support to underpin their practice. anxiety, anger management. interviewing, measurement and problem definition. The module also aims to build upon the knowledge De-escalation techniques Functional behavioural analysis. Treatment strategy gained in years one, two and three of the programme Cognitive behavioural therapy groups. Relaxation techniques. Cognitive restructuring: enabling the student to address complex care e.g. monitoring thoughts and feelings, questioning management issues. ------evidence, examining alternatives, thought stopping. Learning new behaviour: e.g. modelling, shaping, token Syllabus: The multidimensional nature of pain; The economy, role-playing, and social skills training. physiology of nociceptive and neuropathic pain. The NS4315 - NURSING AND ALLIED THERAPIES Cognitive behavioural therapy in nursing. effects of pain physical, psychological social and spiritual ECTS Credits: 6 aspects individual reactions and manifestations; Pain ------tolerance and pain responses; Barriers to effective pain Nursing & Midwifery management.; Interventions to alter sensory input and NS4223 - RENAL AND GASTROENTEROLOGY reduce pain perception. The role of the nurse as a Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of NURSING member of the healthcare team e.g. Assessment and this module is to apply and analyse creative mediums ECTS Credits: 6 measurement of pain planning and implementing pain which support the development of life skills for persons management interventions and evaluating outcomes. with an intellectual disability. Nursing & Midwifery Pain management of groups with specials needs, e.g. child, older person. Applied pharmacology. Syllabus: The role of the nurse in facilitating and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of processing diversional and recreational activities for this module is to facilitate students understanding of ------persons with an intellectual physical/sensory disability. gastro-enterological and renal disorders and the The role of creative mediums in health promotion, application of appropriate nursing care to an individual NS4305 - NURSING THE CHILD AND ADULT WITH inclusion, choice and empowerment and reflection for with such condition(s). BEHAVIOURAL DISORDE people with intellectual disabilities. The use of drama to ECTS Credits: 6 promote education, skill development and advocacy in Syllabus: Gastro-enterological disorders: e.g. cirrhosis, the lives of people with an intellectual disability. oesophageal varices, peptic ulceration, appendicitis, Nursing & Midwifery Occupational and recreational social and self-help skills, colitis, pancreatitis, gastroenteritis; intestinal for example swimming. Introduction to movement as an obstruction; nursing care and management. Renal Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of the educational medium; expressive and creative movement disorders: infection and obstruction, acute and chronic module is to critically evaluate current attitudes policies skills for example drama, dance and mime, Creative renal failure; nursing care and management. Dialysis, and practices that support persons with an intellectual games in group work. Strategies and techniques for organ transplants. Applied pharmacology. Nurses' role disability and associated behavioural or mental health implementing creative sessions for persons with an and responsibilities in investigative and diagnostic difficulties intellectual disability for example arts and crafts, procedures puppetry. Syllabus: Human behaviour, adaptive and maladaptive responses Role of the RNID in supporting and assisting Clinical Skills Clinical Skills Syllabus: the individual with an intellectual disability and Arts and crafts Catheterisation, catheter care, catheter removal, associated behaviour problems for e.g. self-injurious Drama Bladder care behaviour, aggressive and violent behaviours. Dance Continence care Behavioural and cognitive therapies and the nursing Mime Enema/suppository administration, process. Mental health difficulties across the life span. Puppetry skills Stoma care Concept of dual diagnosis in intellectual disability. Naso-gastric aspiration Nursing care and management of the child and adult with ------an intellectual disability experiencing mental health ------difficulties, e.g. phobias, eating disorders, stereotypical, NS4323 - NURSING ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS aggressive and violent behaviours; anxiety disorders; WITH INTELLECTUAL DIS NS4228 - PAIN MANAGEMENT psychosexual disorders; perceptual and mood disorders, ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 schizophrenia, depression. Habit and conduct disorders, attention deficit disorders with or without hyperactivity. Nursing & Midwifery Nursing & Midwifery Applied pharmacology Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Clinical skills module is for each student to develop knowledge and offers the student an opportunity to further develop Risk assessment skills of observation and monitoring skills required to support the person with an intellectual knowledge and understanding of the complexities and behavioural management strategies disability through adolescence and adulthood with their family. Enemas, suppositories Blood glucose monitoring and techniques in insulin Syllabus: Theories of adolescent and adult development. administration Cognitive, social and personality development. Assessment and Maintenance of skin integrity Implications of intellectual disability upon the adolescent Oxygen therapy, nebulisers, peak flow measurement and and adult. use of inhalers Rights of the person with an intellectual Breast awarenes disabilty:Education and training opportunities: occupational, vocational and work skills training. ------PA4003 - ISSUES AND CONCEPTS IN Therapeutic and creative activities including leisure and DEVELOPMENT recreational provision for adolescents and adults. Life PA4001 - INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ECTS Credits: 6 skills development. Interpersonal relationships and ADMINISTRATION 1 sexuality; sex education. Moral development: values and ECTS Credits: 6 ACADEMIC CONTENT IS NOT CURRENTLY spirituality. Relationship between spiritual well-being and physiological/ psychological health. Politics and Public Admin AVAILABLE FOR THIS MODULE - UPDATES ARE IN PROGRESS Clinical Skills Syllabus: Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Catheterisation, enema/suppository administration and will introduce students to the study of Public ------stoma care Administration. It will identify the characteristics of Public Assess living skills Administration as an academic study and a practitioner PA4012 - PARA-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS Life skills development focus. It will present the main ideas and concepts in the ECTS Credits: 6 Interpersonal relationships and sexuality: sex education traditional model of public administration - bureaucracy, politics-administration dichotomy, scientific management Politics and Public Admin ------and their application. The module will then explore the rationale for contemporary ideas about public Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To analyse and NS4423 - ALTERED HOMEOSTASIS AND MENTAL management and governance, reforming public sector explore the role and functions of Paragovernmental HEALTH organisations and attempts to deliver public services Organisations (PGO) as instruments of 'indirect' public ECTS Credits: 6 efficiently and effectively. administration generally and within the context of the politico-administrative system in Ireland. Nursing & Midwifery This module will be offered on the new BA Arts programme Syllabus: Part A:Paragovernmental Organisations as Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of instruments of indirect administration; State-sponsored this module is to develop Mental Health students Syllabus: Part 1 Introduction: Bodies (SSBs) as manifestation of the PGO type in appreciation of the importance of a holistic approach to What is Public Administration? Ireland;commercial (public enterprise) and patient care and to develop knowledge and Differences between 'public' and 'private' non-commercial (administrative agency) understanding of physical illnesses which are common in Characteristics of public goods SSBs;legal,structural and financial characteristics of mental health care. The role and functions of government SSBs; roles of minister,board ,management and Houses of the Oireachtas in the structure of accountability of Syllabus: The inter-relationship between mental and Part 2 - Traditional Model of Public Administration SSBs. The evolving regulatory environment of SSBs. physical health. Patronage and spoils to the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms Part B:Economic rationale for government intervention in The physical health status of persons with mental illness. Max Weber and bureaucracy the economy and the role of public enterprise;review and The role of the nurse in promoting the health of this Woodrow Wilson and the politics-administration performance evaluation of public enterprise in Ireland service user group.The aetiology, signs symptoms, dichotomy since the foundation of the state; major concepts and treatment and nursing care of physical illnesses which Public choice critique trends in the regulation of public enterprise,privatisation commonly present in mental health care e.g. diabetes, and public private partnerships generally and in Ireland thyroid disorders, respiratory and circulatory disorders, Part 3 - Reforming Public Administration urinary tract infections, incontinence and constipation. Managerialism ------Somatoform disorders: presenting features and nursing New Public Management care of persons with somatoform disorders. Applied E-government PA4017 - SUB NATIONAL GOV. IN pharmacology. Accountability: theory and practice EUROPE:CHALLENGE AND CHANGE Street level bureaucracy ECTS Credits: 6 Clinical Skills New Public Governance Catheterisation, catheter care, catheter removal. Politics and Public Admin Stoma care ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Using a endurance models, modelling fatigue. Psychophysical to usability, generations of user interfaces, human comparative and thematic approach (within a Joint studies of user physical interaction, theories of comfort factors methods to study user interaction, models of European Module subscribed to by 11 European and discomfort, repetitive strain injuries, conducting usability, usability engineering lifecycles, principles of universities) this course aims to explore various systems studies, Ethics and user studies. usable design, designing for usability, methods for of subnational government, the changing relationships usability evaluation, planning and conducting usability between the different levels of government and to ------evaluations, analysing usability data, reporting on user examine the origin, nature and implications of the studies, usability informing design, heuristics, standards challenges facing sub-national governments in Europe. and usability, systems analysis of user products, product PD4005 - ADVANCED MODELLING OF FORM experience, product attachment, designing for comfort, Syllabus: The salience of sub-national government; ECTS Credits: 6 affective meaning, Kansei methods, observing the user evolution of different forms of subnational government; experience, measuring user experience. differences between supra-national, national and School of Design subnational government and relationships between the ------different levels of government; theoretical perspectives Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module on the study of sub-national government; state, region aims to develop students skills in expression of organic PD4024 - DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL and locality in the Anglo, French, Germanic and form in a 3 dimensional digital environment. Enhancing SUSTAINABILITY Scandinavian traditions; recent developments in Central these skills will further augment the learners appreciation ECTS Credits: 6 and Eastern Europe; the European dimension of of complex 3D form and downstream uses of Computer sub-national government; comparative trends in reform; Aided Design in manufacturing, rapid prototyping & School of Design the current challenges and future prospects confronting digital representation & visualisation. sub-national governments Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To familiarise Syllabus: Organic complex form: appreciation & students with issues relating to energy consumption, and ------expression. the realisation of current exhaustible engineering Advanced CAD tools in various CAD packages. activities which is essential for a change towards PD4003 - ERGONOMICS FOUNDATION Preparation of digital models for manufacture and rapid sustainable production. ECTS Credits: 6 prototyping. To present environmental impact assessment and Design Visualisation and graphic presentation of digital ecological foot-printing of products and processes used in School of Design models. the critical realisation of current unsustainable engineering trends. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Upon *PD4005 Must be taken with PD4105 and PD4115 To equip students with abilities to perform environmental completion of this module students will be able to; audits on products and processes. Explain the ergonomics approach. ------To outline all relevant legislative requirements relating to Compute basic statistical metrics to describe inter environmental aspects of products and processes, which individual differences in physical and cognitive abilities. PD4015 - USABILITY ENGINEERING is a key component of an environmental audit. Apply statistical data describing populations abilities in ECTS Credits: 6 To provide an understanding and realisation of how the design of products or work systems. sustainable design begins with the concept stages of a Explain the physiological basis of energy liberation in the School of Design product. cardiovascular system. Understand the basis for human motor control and be Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Upon able to explain and apply Fitts equation. completion of this module students will be able to; Syllabus: Fossil fuels and global warming. Ecological Derive an expression to explain information processing Plan and conduct usability evaluations of products impact of materials and processes. Land use and rates in humans and apply the theory in the design of Critically evaluate the quality of their ergonomics environmental impact. Optimisation of the lifetime of displays and controls. research skills products û shifting towards a cradle-to-cradle concept, Determine and apply relevant ISO standards for usability combined with a Product Lifecycle Analysis (PLCA). Syllabus: History of Ergonomics evaluation Packaging design and analysis. Redesign and Domains of specialisation in ergonomics. Appreciate the principles of inclusively in design reengineering to minimise parts and fasteners. Human variability and user fit, anthropometry, Appreciate the implications of the psychology of Transport, distribution and reverse logistics. Renewable conducting anthropometric surveys, fitting trials, the individual differences on product design materials and energy, repair, reuse and recycling. normal distribution and statistical aspect of variability, Test and apply theories of user experience in product Materials selection for sustainability. standards in anthropometry. design Irish Legislation covering packaging, extended producer Minority groups, needs of older and younger people, user Use human factors methods to inform the design process responsibility, waste, and EU directives covering, centred design, inclusive design, design for all. to achieve high levels of user satisfaction. accumulators, waste electrical and electronic equipment Biomechanics of body forces, hand tool design, internal (WEEE), Energy using Products (EuP). Environmental and external forces of the upper limb, muscle fatigue, Syllabus: The user and product interaction, introduction Management Systems (EMS), product considerations in EMSs, and Environmental Auditing, all as outlined in the design processes. To allow students to integrate all stages of the design ISO 14000 family of environmental standards.Case Advanced Design skills: Sketching, Rendering, Ideation, process. studies of EMS and Environmental auditing Concept development, Design Detailing, Manufacturing To introduce students to the tools, concepts and and Materials, Technology, Design Visualisation, techniques underpinning Service Design, Universal/ ------Modelling, Rapid Manufacture, Marketing, Human Inclusive Design and Design for Social Innovation. Factors. To introduce students to responsible design practice Design Research Skills: Ethnography, User Experience, (ethics, social & cultural inclusion, diversity of practice). Real-world research, synthesis of information, Research To develop skills in systems thinking and critical analysis. PD4105 - DESIGN STUDIO 5 (INDUSTRY) synthesis and analysis. ECTS Credits: 6 Creativity, brainstorming, design thinking. Learning by doing is the predominant teaching model New Product Innovation, Project Planning. with a combination of projects, workshops, field trips and School of Design User centred Design, Interaction. lectures to introduce students to the complex topics Design for Sustainability. behind understanding and designing for user and societal Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this Aesthetics, Understanding of form, Design Acuity, needs. The practical approach encourages students to module is to build on the design skills developed through Emerging markets and trends. address problems from different and holistic perspectives the previous Design Studio modules through a series of Technological trends. as well as generating and realising the most appropriate industry focused projects. These projects, conducted Design for Manufacture. solutions to current contemporary problems. with Industry partners will bring the students through Product Marketing for design. the entire design process from early research and Communication, visual and verbal. Syllabus: Project based studio classes. conceptualisation to final design and design for Problem solving and Innovation. Advanced design skills. manufacture. The real-world problems will focus on Design for Professional Practice. Integration and practical application of various different professional practice, current industry requirements and design processes. emerging technological trends. *PD4105 Must be taken with PD4005 and PD4115 Design thinking: Tools and processes of design To equip students with the skills and capacities to Collaboration: Collaborative Work, Team work, Project creatively solve real world problems across a wide ------Planning and management skills. Interdisciplinary and variety of fields. Multi-disciplinary teams. Team Dynamics and Group To introduce tools, techniques and methods applicable to PD4115 - DESIGN STUDIO 6 (COMMUNITY) work. innovation and industrial demands. ECTS Credits: 6 Advanced aesthetics and form understanding. To practically apply the design process to develop and Emerging Design Trends: Service Design, Transformative realise design ideas to a professional standard. School of Design Design, Product Service Systems, Universal/ Inclusive To develop and advance design skills in emerging market Design. areas including medical devices, consumer products and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Design for Society: Social Design, Social Innovation. electronics. facilitates students to see the impact their work will have Research: User Understanding and User Experience, To expand student knowledge and practical application of on individual users and society as a whole. Focusing on Human Factors, Testing and Prototyping, Emotional mechanical reasoning, manufacturing and materials, and team projects and collaborative work, students will work Engagement, Behaviour Analysis, Empathy tools. design detailing. through design issues and complex problems to develop Information Gathering, synthesis and delivery To develop critical thinking skills and complex problem solutions that improve the lives of users and community Strategy: human centred approach, Systems Thinking. solving abilities. (both local and international). Integrative thinking, First Principles. To develop advanced design skills, including real-world Critical Thinking, Reflection. Decision-making. Dialogue, research, ethnography, sketching, model-making, design To introduce tools, techniques and methods applicable to Holistic perspectives. visualisation, professional practice, communication, innovation and effective problem Communication: Professional presentations skills. prototyping and user testing, advanced human factors. solving. Sketching, Idea Representation, Low fidelity modelling, The teaching model will predominantly be a `learning by To develop the skills and capacities for effective team Visual Communication, Verbal Presentations. doing process, where a mix of lectures, projects, working. workshops and design projects will blend to provide To demonstrate to students the link between design and *PD4115 Must be taken with PD4005 and PD4105 students with a mix of practical and applicable user behaviour. professional skills. This approach will teach students core To advance design skills, including research skills, ------skills needed to identify new opportunities, abstract sketching, model-making & prototyping, design problems, generate and develop a wide range of visualisation, presentation, communication and user PH4003 - MECHANICAL ENERGY solutions, as well as building and realising the most testing. ECTS Credits: 6 appropriate solutions. To explore and implement complex real-world research techniques to gather information, and then to apply tools Physics Syllabus: Project based studio classes. to synthesise, analyse and transform the information into Integration and practical application of various different usable design guides. Mechanical vibrations, simple harmonic and damped simple harmonic motion, quality factor, forced numbers and roundoff error; comparison of common fuel. Single-phase and two-phase coolant flow and heat oscillations, coupled oscillations. Waves, transverse and programming languages used in physics. transfer. Application of structural mechanics to nuclear longitudinal waves, phase and group velocity, energy [Introduction to Programming:] Basic syntax and systems. Engineering considerations in reactor design. transported by waves, reflection and transmission of structures in a programming language; functions; file Other issues around nuclear energy; comparison of waves. Review of the principles orf mechanics: inertial reading/writing; data visualisation. nuclear and other energy sources, life cycle of nuclear frames, Newtons laws of motion, kinetic and potential [Software for writing physics reports:] Mathematical fuel, waste reprocessing, waste storage, proliferation energy. Rigid bodies: rotation and moments of inertia, typesetting; Labels and references; citations; including concerns, economics of nuclear power plants, nuclear angular momentum and kinetic energy, torque. figures and captions. safety, nuclear accidents. Fluid dynamics: Bernoulli equation, equations of motion [Basic numerical techniques:] Root solving; matrix in integral form, equations of motion in differential form, manipulations; curve fitting and interpolation; numerical ------kinematics, vorticity, potential flow, dimensional integration and differentiation. analysis, viscous flows, exact solutions, pipe flow, [Advanced numerical techniques:] Solving ordinary PH4011 - PHYSICS FOR ENGINEERS 1 laminar boundary layers, boundary layer solution differential equations; solving for eigenvectors and ECTS Credits: 6 methods, turbulence. Fluid heat transfer and a thorough eigenvalues; the fast Fourier transform. understanding of how these disciplines apply to the Physics design and analysis of complex thermal fluid systems. ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module is Applications to Ocean, Hydro and Wind renewable energy PH4007 - SOLAR AND NUCLEAR ENERGY an introductory physics course covering Mechanics, Heat, systems ECTS Credits: 6 Electricity and Magnetism for engineering students.

------Physics Syllabus: Linear motion: vectors, projectiles, circular motion, relative velocity. Newtons laws: force, work, PH4005 - INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL Solar energy and conversion, solar radiation, net power, momentum, friction, gravitation. Conservation of PHYSICS radiation flux at the Earth, basic principles of energy energy. Linear and angular momentum: conservation of ECTS Credits: 6 conversion. Photovoltaic conversion, solar electricity momentum, collisions. Rotation of a rigid body: moments generation, photovoltaic electric principles, photovoltaic of inertia, kinetic energy, angular momentum. The laws Physics system wiring, batteries, photovoltaic controls. Energy of thermodynamics. Equilibrium and temperature, heat supply systems, similation of system performance, and internal energy, heat capacities and latent heat. The Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Physicists at photovoltaic power production, sizing photovoltaic ideal gas, isotherms and adiabats. The Carnot engine: undergraduate level regularly deal with systems that systems. efficiency. Classical and microscopic entropy. Electricity: have analytical solutions. However, in many instances charge, electric field, Coulomb's law, Gauss's law. analytical solutions are not possible and so these Basic nuclear concepts. Basic physical attributes of Electric potential, capacitance, Ohm's law, Kirchhoffs systems require numerical solution. In addition, nuclides; nuclear mass, size, charge, spin and magnetic Laws, dc circuit analysis, Joule heating. RC circuits. physicists frequently encounter large data-sets that moment. Nuclear binding, stability and decay. Magnetism: magnetic field, magnetic force and torque, require analysis that is unfeasible to analyse manually Interaction of radiation with matter. Radioactive-series the galvanometer. Ampere's law. Electromagnetic and is beyond the capabilities of a spreadsheet. A decay. Charged particle interactions: stopping power, Induction: inductance. Faraday's law,Lenz's law, the physicist should be able to identify these difficulties and collision and ionization. Radiation loss, range. Neutron generator and motor, back emf implement the appropriate computational methods as interactions: Q-equation and elastic scattering; energy, necessary. angular distributions, thermal motions. Gamma ------interactions: Compton scattering. Detection of nuclear This module allows students: radiation: pulse height spectra. Nuclear processes: PH4013 - EARTH SCIENCE - to develop programming skills appropriate to physics. nuclear decays; nuclear reactions: energetics and ECTS Credits: 6 - to recognise and solve problems from physics that compound nucleus. require numerical techniques rather than analytical Physics approaches. Principles of nuclear reactors, emphasizing power - to develop skills in the application of numerical reactors. Introduction to nuclear power systems. Power The origin of the universe, formation of hydrogen and techniques to physical problems and data analysis. plant thermodynamics, reactor heat generation and heavier atoms, formation of rocks and - to enhance competency in the creation of electronically removal. Thermal-hydraulics. Thermal parameters: minerals.Quantification of resources: minerals, oil, gas, prepared scientific reports and the associated definitions and uses. Sources and distribution of thermal coal, wind, biomass, marine energy. Theory of Peak Oil presentation of data. loads in nuclear power reactors. Conservation equations and the Hubbert Curve. The Solar System: the Earths and their applications to nuclear power systems: power relationship to the Sun, Moon and other bodies of the Syllabus: [Introduction to computation in physics:] The conversion cycles. Conservation equations and their solar system. Earth, air and water interactions: The necessity of numerical techniques in physics; How applications to nuclear power systems: power conversion structure and composition of the atmosphere. The effects computers store and manipulate data; storage of cycles, contaiment analysis. Thermal analysis of nuclear of atmospheric convection, atmospheric dust and cloud cover, rotation of the Earth on global climates and Contemporary optics: lasers, fibre optics, holography, season. The radiation, conduction and convection and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: An nonlinear optics. their effects on weather and climate. Transer of heat understanding of physics is essential in describing and energy to the patterns of wind belts. Moisture, clouds understanding many processes and phenomena Prerequisites: PH4102 and precipitation. Running water and groundwater. associated with chemical and life-science related Oceans past and present: Transfer of solar energy to disciplines. This one semester course is specifically ------ocean currents and waves. Climate modelling: Collection designed to provide such students with a firm grounding and use of data to predict the weather. Climate changes in basic physics illustrated and reinforced with chemical, PH4051 - MEASUREMENT AND PROPERTIES OF that have occurred over the millennia. life and sports science related examples and applications. MATTER ECTS Credits: 6 ------Syllabus: Mechanics: units; kinematics; dynamics; motion in a circle; statics; the standard human; energy; Physics PH4021 - PHYSICS OF SOLIDS momentum; simple harmonic motion; waves; sound and ECTS Credits: 6 hearing. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of Materials: elasticity; pressure; buoyancy; surface this module is to first introduce fundamental principles of Physics tension; fluid dynamics. physical measurement and data analysis which are Heat: temperature; gases; phases; heat transfer; important throughout the course and to introduce the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of thermodynamics and the body, thermal conductivity. mechanical and thermal properties of solids, liquids and the module is to introduce the student to the structure Electricity: static electricity; electric force and fields; gases. and properties of solid materials. The objectives are to electric potential and energy; dc circuits; radio frequency discuss the major classes of solids and their properties radiation; physiological effects of electricity. Syllabus: Physics and Measurement: standards of and applications, and to present the physical principles Magnetism: nmr, focus on medical imaging. Generator length, mass, and time. Matter and model building. needed for an understanding of the observations. and motor. Density and atomic mass. Quantities, variables and Optics: light; geometrical optics; physical optics; relationships, dimensions and dimensional analysis, Syllabus: Structure & bonding: atomic structure; electromagnetic spectrum; Lasers; the eye and vision. scientific notation, orders of magnitude and their primary & secondary bonds, bonding forces & energies. Radiation: atoms; nucleus; ionising radiation; biological estimation, problem solving. Experimental error: Structures of metals, ceramics & polymers: crystal effects. accuracy and precision, systematic and random errors, structures, Miller indices & reciprocal lattice, X-ray combination and propagation of error, significant figures. diffraction, non-crystalline solids, polymer molecules & ------Elementary statistical treatment of random errors: configurations, thermoplastic & thermosetting polymers. standard deviation and standard error, the standard and Imperfections: point defects, dislocations. PH4041 - OPTICS Gaussian distributions, the method of least squares. Diffusion: diffusion mechanisms, steady and non-steady ECTS Credits: 6 Static equilibrium and elasticity: the conditions for state diffusion. equilibrium. Elastic and thermal properties of solids: Mechanical properties: elastic deformation, mechanical Physics stress and strain, thermal expansion, Hookes law, behaviour of metals, ceramics & polymers. Youngs modulus, shear modulus, bulk modulus. Fluid Deformation & strengthening: dislocations in metals & Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this mechanics: pressure, variation of pressure with depth, ceramics, hardness twinning, Hall-Petch effect, course is to develop and extend the students knowledge pressure measurements. Buoyant forces and Archimedes' deformation & strengthening of polymers. of the principles of physical optics and introduce the principle. Fluid dynamics: Bernoulli's equation, other Failure: fracture & toughness, fatigue, creep, wear. students to contemporary optics. applications of fluid dynamics. The kinetic theory of Phase diagrams: Gibbs phase rule, binary & ternary gases: molecular model of an ideal gas, non-ideal gases, phase diagrams, interpretation of phase diagrams. Syllabus: Waves: wave description, wave equation, equipartition of energy. Heat transfer: conduction, Phase transformations: homogeneous & heterogeneous plane waves. Electromagnetic energy transport: EM convection and radiation. nucleation, growth, metastable & equilibrium states. waves, Poynting vector. Light in a dielectric: Applications of materials: ferrous & non-ferrous alloys, electron-oscillator model, refraction, absorption. Light at ------glasses & ceramics, plastics & elastomers. an interface: refraction, reflection, Fresnel equations. Polarization: polarisation states, Maluss law, Prerequisites: PH4171, PH4042 birefringence, wave plates and compensators, optical PH4061 - QUANTUM MECHANICS activity, photoelasticity. Interferometry: wavefront ECTS Credits: 6 ------splitting interferometers, amplitude splitting interferometers, multiple beam interference, Physics PH4031 - PHYSICS FOR GENERAL SCIENCE 1 applications. Diffraction: Frauhofer diffraction, Fresnel ECTS Credits: 6 diffraction, Kirchoffs scalar diffraction theory. Fourier Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The pupose of optics: Fourier transforms, optical applications. the module is to extend the students understanding of Physics Coherence: visibility and mutual coherence. quantum mechanics and to introduce students to applications of quantum mechanics in solid state physics. Lithography: lithography processes (light sources, Bulk nanostructured materials: Solid disordered exposure systems, photoresist), aerial image, latent nanostructures, Nanostructured Crystals. Nanostructured Syllabus: Review of Schrodinger picture: barriers, image, relief image, pattern definition, pattern transfer ferromagnetism: Basics of ferromagnetism, Effect of wavepackets, scattering. Formalism: linear operators, (etching, deposition, implantation etc.). Optical bulk nano-structuring of magnetic properties, Dynamics harmonic oscillator, Dirac notation, postulates, the lithography techniques: optical resists, key resist of nanomagnets, Ferrofluids, nanopores containment of uncertainty principle. Quantum mechanics in three parameters, positive and negative resist, DNQ system magnetic particles, Nanocarbon ferromagnets, Giant and dimensions: the hydrogen atom, angular momentum, and deep UV system. Colossal magnetoresistance. spin. Time independent perturbation theory: spin-orbit Resist processing: priming, spinning, baking, exposing, Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Preparation of quantum coupling, the Zeeman effect. The variational principle: developing, hard baking, stripping. Exposure: types of nanostructures, Size and dimensionality effect, Excitons, the ground state of helium. Bonding: the hydrogen exposure (UV light to deep UV, X-rays, electrons, ions), Single electron tunnelling. molecule, molecular orbitals. The WKB approximation: method of exposure, development (positive, negative). Applications: Nanomachines and Devices; tunnelling. Energy bands: Bloch theorem, Kronig-Penney Printing: Fresnel system, contact and proximity printing, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), model, nearly free electron model, the tight binding Fraunhofer system, projection printing, advantages and Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), Molecular and model. Time dependent perturbation theory: two level disadvantages. Advanced lithography]: focused ion Super molecular switches, systems, emission and absorption of radiation, beam, electron beam, etc. Magnetoelectronics. Applications: memory elements and spontaneous emission. Thermal oxidation of silicon: the oxidation process, type devices, Nano magnetic sensors and actuators. of furnaces, wet oxidation,dry oxidation, factors Prerequisites: PH4171, PH4042, PH4132 influencing oxidation rates, silica film thickness Prerequisites: PH4061, PH4021 measurements. Thin film deposition: evaporation, ------sputtering, chemical vapour deposition. Diffusion: ------diffusion processes, constant source diffusion, limited PH4071 - SEMICONDUCTORS 1 source diffusion, solid solubility limits. PH4091 - PHYSICS OF MODERN MEASUREMENT ECTS Credits: 6 Epitaxial silicon deposition: LPCVD amorphous silicon, ECTS Credits: 6 importance of epitaxy. Physics Ion implantation: implantation technology, channelling, Physics lattice damage and annealing. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of this module is introduce students to the fundamentals of Prerequisites: PH4042, PH4132 the module is to provide an introduction to the physical semiconductor process technology focusing on silicon principles and applications of advanced surface analytical technology and integrated circuit processes. ------techniques.

Syllabus: Semiconductor technology: overview of PH4081 - NANOTECHNOLOGY 1 Syllabus: Microscopy: image formation, resolution, light advances in integrated circuits, the road map, Moores ECTS Credits: 6 microscopy, near-field scanning optical microscopy law. General nature of semiconductor materials: (NSOM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), elemental materials and their uses in research and Physics transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning industry, compound materials and alloys and their transmission electron microscopy (STEM), scanning applications, influence of purity on electrical properties of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this tunnelling microscopy (STM), scanning force microscopy semiconductors. Structure of semiconductors: course is to combine basic science of size effect in (SFM). Diffraction and scattering: elastic and inelastic amorphous, crystalline and polycrystalline solids, unit materials in the micro to nanoscale dimension leading to scattering, Braggs law, the reciprocal lattice, Laue cells, lattice types, body centred cubic, face centred various cutting-edge applications. The main objective is equations, x-ray diffraction (XRD), neutron diffraction, cubic, the diamond lattice, Si and Ge, Miller indices. to introduce the students about the scientific importance selected area electron diffraction in the transmission Electrical properties: contribution of mobility and free and technological potential of developments in micro- electron microscope (SAD), electron probe x-ray carrier density to resistivity, electrical properties of and nano structuring of materials. microanalysis (EPMA), extended x-ray absorption fine conductors, semiconductors and insulators. structure (EXAFS), surface extended x-ray absorption Semiconductors: pure semiconductors, important Syllabus: Solid State Physics: Size dependence of fine structure and near edge x-ray absorption fine elements from group 3, group 4 and group 5 of the properties, Energy bands, Localized particles; Properties structure (SEXAFS/NEXAFS), low-energy electron periodic table, valence electrons, covalent bonding, of individual particles: Metal nanoclusters, diffraction (LEED), reflection high-energy electron p-type semiconductors and n-type semiconductors, Semiconducting nanoparticles, Rare gas and molecular diffraction (RHEED), particle-induced x-ray emission energy levels for p-type and n-type semiconductors, clusters and methods of synthesis. (PIXE), x-ray fluorescence (XRF). Spectroscopy]: intrinsic energy level, intrinsic carrier density, thermal Methods of measuring properties: Structure, Microscopy vibrations in molecules and solids, selection rules, equilibrium, carrier lifetime. Doping of silicon: donors and Spectroscopy. energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy in the scanning and acceptors, majority carriers and minority carriers, Carbon nanostructures: Carbon molecule, Carbon electron microscope (EDS), electron energy-loss hot point probe, 4-point probe sheet resistance, carrier clusters, Carbon nanotubes, applications of Carbon spectroscopy in the transmission electron microscope transport. nanotubes. (EELS), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), Auger PH4161 - ATOMIC / MOLECULAR / LASER PHYSICS of particles: centre of mass, linear momentum, rocket electron spectroscopy (AES), Fourier transform infrared ECTS Credits: 6 propulsion, kinetic energy. Rigid bodies: rotation and spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, nuclear moments of inertia, angular momentum and kinetic magnetic resonance (NMR), Rutherford backscattering Physics energy, torque, principal axes, Eulers equations, spectroscopy (RBS), secondary ion mass spectroscopy gyroscopic motion. Noninertial reference systems: (SIMS), inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module angular velocity vector, inertial forces, dynamics of a (ICPMS), positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS). develops the student's knowledge of atomic and particle in a rotating coordinate system. Lagrangian molecular physics, particulary where these are relevant mechanics: Hamiltons principle, generalised coordinates, Prerequisites: PH4132, PH4021 to spectra and laser physics. Based on this the module Lagranges equations for conservative systems, Hamiltons introduces the fundamentals of laser physics and laser equations. ------applications including holography. Prerequisites: PH4131 PH4131 - Syllabus: Atomic structure: the hydrogen atom, energy MECHANICS/HEAT/ELECTRICITY/MAGNETISM level diagram and the origin of spectra, many-electron ------ECTS Credits: 6 atoms, the influence of external fields, hyperfine structure, isotopic shifts, the shell model, X-ray spectra. PH4607 - SOLID STATE PHYSICS 1 Physics Molecules: diatomic molecules, vibrational and rotational ECTS Credits: 6 states, complex molecules, vibrational modes. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Molecular emission and absorption spectra in the visible Physics provides an understanding of the basic concepts of the and infrared. mechanical, thermal, electrical and magnetic properties Fundamentals of laser action: cavities, laser media, gain, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of of matter, knowledge of which is the foundation of the losses, cavity linewidths, broadening mechanisms. this module is to enhance the students' understanding of engineering and technology on which our present society Spatial and temporal properties: Gaussian beams, cavity key concepts in solid state physics and the quantum is dependent. The principles covered in this course find modes, mode locking and Q switching, solid state lasers. theory of solids. application throughout the students degree programme. Laser Applications: industrial, medical, data storage, The principles are a key foundation of the degree holography and holographic techniques, laser safety. Syllabus: Crystal dynamics: sound waves, the one programme and are extensively developed in theory and dimensional crystal, normal modes, lattice vibrations and practice in the subsequent years of the programme. Prerequisites: PH4132, PH4041 phonons, Bloch waves. Semiconductors: electrons and holes, intrinsic and extrinsic behaviour, Fermi energy, Syllabus: Linear motion: vectors, projectiles, circular ------band structure, effective mass, excitons and plasmonics. motion, relative velocity. Newtons laws: force, work, Transport properties and electrodynamics of metals: power, momentum, friction, gravitation. Conservation PH4171 - MECHANICS conductivity, Hall effect, cyclotron resonance, Debye of energy. Linear and angular momentum: conservation ECTS Credits: 6 model of specific heat. Dielectric properties: Drude of momentum, collisions. Rotation of a rigid body: model, polarons and hopping conduction. moments of inertia, kinetic energy, angular momentum. Physics Non-equilibrium carrier densities: continuity equations, neutrality. Photonic devices: photodiodes, LEDs, The laws of thermodynamics. Equilibrium and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of homojunction and heterojunction LASERs, photonic temperature, heat and internal energy, heat capacities this module is to enhance students understanding of key crystals. Optical Properties: Brillouin scattering, crystal and latent heat. The ideal gas, isotherms and adiabats. concepts and models associated with classical optics, infrared absorption, optical phonons, Raman The Carnot engine: efficiency. Classical and microscopic mechanics, vibrations and waves. The objectives are to scattering. entropy. develop the mechanics of single particles and of systems of particles including vibrations and waves and rigid Prerequisites: PH4061 Electricity: charge, electric field, Coulomb's law, Gauss's bodies, and to introduce Lagrangian and Hamiltonian law. Electric potential, capacitance, Ohm's law, Kirchhoffs methods which also provide background for quantum ------Laws, dc circuit analysis, Joule heating. RC circuits. mechanics. PH4613 - FORCES, POTENTIALS AND FIELDS Magnetism: magnetic field, magnetic force and torque, Syllabus: Mechanical vibrations: simple harmonic and ECTS Credits: 6 the galvanometer. Ampere's law. Electromagnetic damped simple harmonic motion, quality factor, forced Induction: inductance. Faraday's law,Lenz's law, the oscillations, coupled oscillations. Waves: transverse and Physics generator and motor, back emf. longitudinal waves, phase and group velocity, energy transported by waves, reflection and transmission of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of waves. Review of the principles of mechanics: inertial this module is to enhance students understanding of key ------frames, Newtons laws of motion. Central forces: concepts and models associated with forces, potentials gravitation and Keplers laws, orbits, scattering. Systems and fields. The objectives are to introduce and model kinematics, dynamics, planetary dynamics, fluid PH5091 - PHYSICS OF MATERIALS equations, x-ray diffraction (XRD), neutron diffraction, mechanics and electromagnetism using concepts such as ECTS Credits: 6 selected area electron diffraction in the transmission magnitude, direction, rate-of-change, gradient and fields. electron microscope (SAD), electron probe x-ray Physics microanalysis (EPMA), extended x-ray absorption fine Syllabus: Syllabus: structure (EXAFS), surface extended x-ray absorption Kinematics: review of vectors and scalars, displacement, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of fine structure and near edge x-ray absorption fine velocity, flux, acceleration, rotation, frequency, angular the module is to introduce the student to the structure structure (SEXAFS/NEXAFS), low-energy electron velocity, planes of reference, rotation of axes, cylindrical and properties of solid materials. The objectives are to diffraction (LEED), reflection high-energy electron and spherical coordinates. Forces: stress, strain, discuss the major classes of solids and their properties diffraction (RHEED), particle-induced x-ray emission pressure, tension, electricity, Gauss's Law, magnetism, and applications, and to present the physical principles (PIXE), x-ray fluorescence (XRF). Spectroscopy]: work, potential, conservation of energy. Dynamics: needed for an understanding of the observations vibrations in molecules and solids, selection rules, Newton's Laws, forces as a function of time and space; energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy in the scanning rate of change of forces and other vectors, tangential Syllabus: Structure & bonding: atomic structure; electron microscope (EDS), electron energy-loss forces, centripetal and centrifugal forces. and fields: primary & secondary bonds, bonding forces & energies. spectroscopy in the transmission electron microscope visualisation of scalar and vector fields, maxima/minima, Structures of metals, ceramics & polymers: crystal (EELS), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), contour maps, smoothness, gradient, curvature, gravity, structures, Miller indices & reciprocal lattice, X-ray ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), Auger relativity, electromagnetism, divergence and vortices and diffraction, non-crystalline solids, polymer molecules & electron spectroscopy (AES), Fourier transform infrared their significance for electromagnetism, and fluid configurations, thermoplastic & thermosetting polymers. spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, nuclear mechanics, Maxwell's Equations. Imperfections: point defects, dislocations. magnetic resonance (NMR), Rutherford backscattering Diffusion: diffusion mechanisms, steady and non-steady spectroscopy (RBS), secondary ion mass spectroscopy Prerequisites: MA4602, PH4131, PH4102 state diffusion. (SIMS), inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy Mechanical properties: elastic deformation, mechanical (ICPMS), positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS). ------behaviour of metals, ceramics & polymers. Deformation & strengthening: dislocations in metals & ------PH5041 - CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS 1 ceramics, hardness twinning, Hall-Petch effect, ECTS Credits: 6 deformation & strengthening of polymers. PH5094 - NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 1 Failure: fracture & toughness, fatigue, creep, wear. ECTS Credits: 6 Physics Phase diagrams: Gibbs phase rule, binary & ternary phase diagrams, interpretation of phase diagrams. Physics Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of Phase transformations: homogeneous & heterogeneous this module is to enhance the students' understanding of nucleation, growth, metastable & equilibrium states. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this key concepts in solid state physics and the quantum Applications of materials: ferrous & non-ferrous alloys, course is to apply the basic science of size effects in theory of solids. glasses & ceramics, plastics & elastomers. materials in the micro to nanoscale dimension to various cutting-edge applications. The main objective is to Syllabus: Crystal dynamics: sound waves, the one ------introduce the students to the scientific importance and dimensional crystal, normal modes, lattice vibrations and technological potential of developments in micro- and phonons, Bloch waves. Semiconductors: electrons and PH5093 - PHYSICS OF ADVANCED METROLOGY nano structuring of materials. holes, intrinsic and extrinsic behaviour, Fermi energy, ECTS Credits: 6 band structure, effective mass, excitons and plasmonics. Syllabus: Solid State Physics: Size dependence of Transport properties and electrodynamics of metals: Physics properties, Energy bands, Localized particles; Properties conductivity, Hall effect, cyclotron resonance, Debye of individual particles: Metal nanoclusters, model of specific heat. Dielectric properties: Drude Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of Semiconducting nanoparticles, Rare gas and molecular model, polarons and hopping conduction. the module is to provide an introduction to the physical clusters and methods of synthesis. Non-equilibrium carrier densities: continuity equations, principles and applications of advanced surface analytical Methods of measuring properties: Structure, Microscopy neutrality. Photonic devices: photodiodes, LEDs, techniques. and Spectroscopy; homojunction and heterojunction LASERs, photonic Carbon nanostructures: Carbon molecule, Carbon crystals. Optical Properties: Brillouin scattering, crystal Syllabus: Microscopy: image formation, resolution, light clusters, Carbon nanotubes, application of carbon optics, infrared absorption, optical phonons, Raman microscopy, near-field scanning optical microscopy nanotubes; scattering. (NSOM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Bulk nanostructured materials: Solid disordered transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning nanostructures; Nanostructured Crystals, Nanostructured transmission electron microscopy (STEM), scanning ferromagnetism: Basics of ferromagnetism, Effect of tunnelling microscopy (STM), scanning force microscopy bulk nano-structuring of magnetic properties, Dynamics ------(SFM). Diffraction and scattering: elastic and inelastic of nanomagnets, Ferrofluids, nanopores containment of scattering, Braggs law, the reciprocal lattice, Laue magnetic particles, Nanocarbon ferromagnets, Giant and Colossal magnetoresistance; developing, hard baking, stripping. Exposure: types of Ireland and how these affect the nature of HRM in Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Preparation of quantum exposure (UV light to deep UV, X-rays, electrons, ions), organisations. Arising from a labour market analysis, nanostructures, Size and dimensionality effect, Excitons, method of exposure, development (positive, negative). core HR activities are next explored including the Single electron tunnelling; Printing: Fresnel system, contact and proximity printing, processes of human resource planning, recruitment and Applications: Nanomachines and Devices: Fraunhofer system, projection printing, advantages and selection. The module next examines critical elements of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), disadvantages. Advanced lithography]: focused ion managing and rewarding performance, designing jobs Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), Molecular and beam, electron beam, etc. and developing people at work. The nature of work is set Super molecular switches, Thermal oxidation of silicon: the oxidation process, type down and finally, the regulatory environment for HRM in Magnetoelectronics Applications: memory elements and of furnaces, wet oxidation,dry oxidation, factors Ireland is indicated. devices, Nano magnetic sensors and actuators influencing oxidation rates, silica film thickness measurements. Thin film deposition: evaporation, ------sputtering, chemical vapour deposition. Diffusion: diffusion processes, constant source diffusion, limited PM4017 - HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICE PH5098 - SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING 1 source diffusion, solid solubility limits. ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 Epitaxial silicon deposition: LPCVD amorphous silicon, importance of epitaxy. Personnel & Employment Relations Physics Ion implantation: implantation technology, channelling, lattice damage and annealing. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This purpose Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of of this module is to develop practical skills/capabilities this module is to introduce students to the fundamentals ------considered essential for HR practitioners. These skills are of semiconductor process technology focusing on silicon primarily in the key areas of selection, appraisal, technology and integrated circuit processes. PM4013 - PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RESOURCE discipline and grievance and applying regulations MANAGEMENT governing HR to all processes and activities. Another Syllabus: Semiconductor technology: overview of ECTS Credits: 6 core purpose of the module is to increase the knowledge advances in integrated circuits, the road map, Moores and skill and overall capability of the participants in key law. General nature of semiconductor materials: Personnel & Employment Relations operational areas of HR such as performance elemental materials and their uses in research and management, health and safety, employment regulation, industry, compound materials and alloys and their Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module employee welfare issues. applications, influence of purity on electrical properties of examines both the role of the HR function in the semiconductors. Structure of semiconductors: management of people at work and the importance of Syllabus: Overview of key HR processes; key amorphous, crystalline and polycrystalline solids, unit managing people in contributing to organisational operational areas: selection, performance management cells, lattice types, body centred cubic, face centred effectiveness. This module is designed to provide conflict. key regulatory considerations; Key cubic, the diamond lattice, Si and Ge, Miller indices. students with an appreciation and understanding of communication skills revisited- active listening, Electrical properties: contribution of mobility and free Human Resource Management (HRM) in organisations. questioning styles, recording information; job analysis; carrier density to resistivity, electrical properties of There is a strong focus on contextualising HRM within the recruitment process- designing job descriptions, person conductors, semiconductors and insulators. prevailing macro environment, to demonstrate how this specifications, ; sourcing applicants, interacting with Semiconductors: pure semiconductors, important influences the range of HR policies and systems enacted recruitment agencies, application forms; evaluative elements from group 3, group 4 and group 5 of the by organisations. standards for selection methods: reliability, validity, periodic table, valence electrons, covalent bonding, practicality, integration, interpretability; selection p-type semiconductors and n-type semiconductors, The syllabus covers core issues surrounding managing methods: references; selection process- short listing, energy levels for p-type and n-type semiconductors, people at work. In so doing, the module starts with a designing matrices, designing interview assessments, intrinsic energy level, intrinsic carrier density, thermal consideration of key labour market issues in Ireland and interviewing techniques, applying appropriate equilibrium, carrier lifetime. Doping of silicon: donors how these affect the nature of HRM in organisations. communication skills to selection interview; individual and acceptors, majority carriers and minority carriers, Core HR activities are next explored including the characteristics and bias; preparing and setting up hot point probe, 4-point probe sheet resistance, carrier processes of human resource planning, recruitment and interview; regulatory considerations, documentation; transport. selection. The module then examines critical elements of performance review- preparation, documentation, Lithography: lithography processes (light sources, managing and rewarding performance, career conducting the performance review, follow up; workplace exposure systems, photoresist), aerial image, latent development, and developing people at work. The nature counselling; disciplinary interviewing. image, relief image, pattern definition, pattern transfer of work is set down and finally, the link between CSR and (etching, deposition, implantation etc.). Optical HRM is highlighted. Prerequisites: PM4013 lithography techniques: optical resists, key resist parameters, positive and negative resist, DNQ system Syllabus: The syllabus covers core issues surrounding ------and deep UV system. managing people at work. In so doing, the module starts Resist processing: priming, spinning, baking, exposing, with a consideration of key labour market issues in PM4027 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ORGANISATIONS concerning, work, the workplace, and working life. labour court. ECTS Credits: 6 Promote a clear understanding of the legal nature of the Syllabus: 1 Introduction to Work & Organizational contract of employment, and. Personnel & Employment Relations Psychology: Psychology as a Science: The art of thinking Provide an overview of the implications of employment critically in an applied field law for the management of the employment relationship. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This Module 2 Studying Individuals at Work Review the provisions of dismissals, equality, health & seeks to present a broad introduction to social Context & Behaviour safety and other employment legislation. psychology, the scientific study of human social influence Cognition Allow students to appreciate the role of national and and interaction. It provides basic exposure to social Motivation workplace level partnership. psychological issues using the organisation as an Emotion operational paradigm for generating understanding and 3.Taking an Active Approach to Work insight. Perspectives from social psychology are drawn Active Behaviour: Adaptive and proactive Syllabus: The employment relationship; perspectives on upon to examine aspects of contemporary social and behaviour the business enterprise; the individual and work groups; organisational life. This module aims to give a critical Proactive motivation the basics of recruitment and selection; motivation understanding of current social psychology research and Proactive cognition techniques; job design; worker participation; team work develop a reflective understanding of key organisational Actively managing emotions at work and its development; effective supervisory management; developments. 4.Staying Healthy at Work discipline and grievance administration; communication Health Cognitions: Thinking Healthy in employee relations; management trade unions shop At the end of the module students should have a sound Emotions: Coping with work stress stewards; pay bargaining and negotiation; conflict and knowledge of research in social psychology in the Behaviour: Fatigue & recovery its management; the labour court and the labour organisational context and will be expected to be able to Motivation: Work engagement relations commission; employment law û the contract of apply these ideas, and use them to understand and Environment: Job Demands & Job Control employment; unfair dismissal, equality, health and safety address relevant social issues. 5.Staying Positive at Work their implications for the conduct of employee relations. What is positive psychology? Syllabus: The Nature and History of Social Psychology; Behaviour: Flourishing ------Approaches to the Study of Social psychology; Personal Environments conducive to human flourishing and Social Identity in Workplaces; Self-awareness and Motivation: Psychological Capital PO4013 - GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN Self-regulation; Social influence, Conformity, Compliance Positive Emotions & the ability to savor IRELAND and Obedience; Helping Behaviours and Organisational Cognition: Positive Thinking (mindfulness) ECTS Credits: 6 Citizenship, Pro-social, Anti-social and Withdrawal 6.Creativity and Innovation at Work Behaviour; The Behaviour: Creative and innovative behaviour Politics and Public Admin Role of Attribution and Cognitive Dissonance in Organisational Decision-making; Stereotyping and Cognition: Creative problem solving Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Prejudice in Employment and Workplace Interactions. Motivating employees to be creative: Flow the principal institutions of Irish government and politics Creative emotions: Broaden & Build and to examine their relationship to Irish society. Prerequisites: PM4022 ------Syllabus: Historical introduction to the economic, ------cultural, and social background of Irish politics; economic, social and political change; Irish political PM4035 - THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WORK PM4603 - EMPLOYEE RELATIONS FOR culture; constitutional development; development of ECTS Credits: 6 ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE political parties and evolution of the party system; ECTS Credits: 6 electoral behaviour; social bases of party support; Personnel & Employment Relations overview of the principal political institutions, including Personnel & Employment Relations the presidency, the Oireachtas, the Government, the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module Taoiseach and the civil service. aims to enable students develop knowledge and skills in Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Enable psychology (both as a discipline and as a professional students to understand the nature of employees relations ------field) applied to work and organisations. at work. It aims to develop knowledge and skills of understanding Demonstrate familiarity with approaches to managing PO4018 - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS individuals in context, considering cognitive, emotional, and motivating employees. ECTS Credits: 6 motivational and behavioural responses to varying Identify the role and functions of trade unions and working environments and contexts. employer organizations. Politics and Public Admin It aims to develop theoretical and applied knowledge Identify the appreciation of the role of the state in about key psychological concepts and theories employee relations and in particular the role of the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Provides an overview of some of the theoretical debates and issues materials to existing academic literatures. They will also that have underpinned the study of International Prerequisites: PO4011 have to learn how to interpret academic literature in Relations (IR). Theoretical perspectives such as Realism, changing circumstances, to relate it to a developing Liberalism and Structuralism will be introduced and this ------polity and judge it against change. will allow students to apply these to the arena of world politics and to processes such as the interactions of Syllabus: This module is a reading course, students states, the workings of International Organisation and consult over and decide in consultation with the lecturer the global economy PO4027 - INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND over the topics in Soviet and Russian politics that they GLOBAL GOVERNANCE study and write on. These topics include may include, Syllabus: The module provides an introduction to the ECTS Credits: 6 but are not limited to: theoretical perspectives within International Relations Leninism and Bolshevism as political theory (IR) - Realism; Liberalism; Structuralism; Critical Politics and Public Admin The 1917 revolution Theory; Post-Modernism; Constructivism; Feminism. It The relationship of Leninism and Stalinism then introduces the major aspects of study within IR - Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To examine The development of the Stalinist system Power; Security; War and Peace; Foreign Policy and the range of international organisations that influence The great terror Diplomacy; International Political Economy; International global politics, and to assess their role in running the Khrushchev and destalinisation Organisations global political economy. The institutions of the USSR: the party-state system Theories of the development of the Soviet system ------Syllabus: The origins of international organisations, and The political economy of the USSR their place in liberal internationalist thought; the Soviet foreign policy PO4023 - COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN POLITICS successes and failures of the League of Nations system; The nature of the USSR (various approaches can be ECTS Credits: 6 the United Nations system and its internal processes; studied including totalitarianism, Marxist approaches etc) regional organisations; non-governmental organisations The Gorbachev reforms Politics and Public Admin and global governance; international organisations and Why did the USSR collapse? the search for political and military security; Soviet legacies and the post-Soviet policy agenda Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course functional-technical cooperation at the regional and The theory of economic reform and post-Soviet politics provides an introduction to the comparative study of global level; global governance and the post-Cold War The post-Soviet struggle for power, 1992-1993 European politics. It provides students with the global political economy. The presidency under Yeltsin opportunity to study political trends across Europe, to Yeltsin, oligarchy and the corruption of the state identify similarities and differences within different Prerequisites: PO4004 The Putin programme: reform or retrenchment? countries, systems and regions, and to develop their The political economy of the new Russia ability to conduct comparative political analysis. ------Russia and the resource curse

The new Russian political system: Elections PO4032 - RUSSIAN POLITICS NB This course will mainly draw on Western and Central The new Russian political system: political parties ECTS Credits: 6 European political systems The new Russian political system: parliament

The new Russian political system: the development and Politics and Public Admin Syllabus: The basic themes of the course are, first, the dysfunctions of federalism commonalties and, secondly, the particularities, of Russian foreign policy Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of politics and government among West European states û Russia in comparative perspective this module is to help students explore issues in Russian due largely to their similar yet different trajectories of State and democracy in the new Russia political development over the last century according to development, and to the way in which they influence ------their interests. Students have free choice of which topics each other. We explore, for example, why politics in they study so that the learning outcomes of the module some West European countries is very stable, even PO4033 - POLITICAL THEORY will be individualized. predictable, whereas in other countries politics is highly ECTS Credits: 6 fractious; why some countries have single-party In addition to the knowledge gained by students about governments whilst others are (almost always) governed Politics and Public Admin by complex coalitions; why some polities seem to be the USSR and Russia, this module will help students to well-governed whereas governance seems more develop their analytical and research skills. All students, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module haphazard in others. Note, too, that an understanding of however, will have to search out information on will cover the basic concepts in contemporary political politics and government in West European states tells us contemporary Russia in their own time and will learn how theory, building on the ideas introduced in PO4022 much about what is involved in building democracy in the to locate information in the library and on the WWW, will Modern European Political Thought. The goal is to new states of Eastern and Central Europe, and indicates learn how to judge the merits of different information develop a clear understanding and mastery of the main some of the difficulties entailed in European integration û sources, will learn how to construct arguments from concepts and ideas in political theory. both of which are areas of study in third-year courses. primary materials that they have and how to relate such Syllabus: PO4022 Modern European Political Thought nature of nationalist politics and ethnic conflicts. They policies, to what extent these actors and the structural introduced students to the basic concepts in political will explore the ways in which historians and political characteristics of the process influence the shape and theory via a historical narrative that stressed the scientists have sought to explain the capacity for national content of those policies, and why different actors and richness of political thinking. This module takes the key movements and ethnic identities to mobilise and unite structural characteristics vary in their influence on policy concepts in contemporary political theory, that were people who may among themselves have sharply outcomes. These are the types of questions discussed in introduced in PO4022, and presents a deeper contrasting objective interests. A key aim of this this module. understanding of their role and relevance in the module is to enable you to take general theories - in this contemporary world. Concepts covered in the module will case those that explain nationalism and ethnicities and Module outline: include: democratic theory; modern political ideologies; to use them critically, testing their validity, and if - Introduction and historical background tolerance and multiculturalism; national identity and necessary, introducing your own modifications and - The institutional framework citizenship and political mortality. Students will be qualifications to these theoretical generalizations. - Policies and policy-making introduced to the different approaches within political - Theories of European integration and policy-making theory, as well as how the concepts discussed in this Syllabus: Introductory: What is a nation? - Agenda-setting module relate to broader issues within political science. Nations, nationalism and modernity. - EP decision-making Pre-modern nations. - Council decision-making Prerequisites: PO4011, PO4022 Case study: Irish nationalism - Bicameral bargaining Case Study: South Africa: Afrikaner and African - Transposition and implementation ------nationalism - Enforcement and judicial review Case Study: Slovak Nationalism - Evaluation PO4067 - STUDIES IN POLITICAL THOUGHT Ethnicity and ethnic conflicts: An introduction ECTS Credits: 6 Ethno-nationalist movements and political violence ------Ethnic conflicts and peace processes Politics and Public Admin Gender, nationalism and ethnic conflicts PO4127 - REGIONALISM IN WORLD POLITICS Case studies: Sri Lanka, Kashmir ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To build on the Case Studies: Northern Ireland, Former Yugoslavia knowledge gained during earlier modules, especially Politics and Public Admin PO4022 Modern European Political Thought, by exploring ------the writings of a number of key political thinkers in more Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The proposed depth. This module will be an option in the fourth year, PO4117 - POLICY-MAKING IN THE EUROPEAN module better reflects the subject expertise of current and is intended for those interested in exploring political UNION teaching staff in this area and curriculum in the BA theory themes in more depth. The class will follow a ECTS Credits: 6 Politics and International Relations. seminar format. It will be scheduled in place of the existing module Politics and Public Admin PL4017 'Regional Development' as a core second year Syllabus: The relationship between political action and module for BA Politics and International Relations. political philosophy, with particular reference to Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The module is The module will be added to the elective choice for questions of freedom and virtue, explored through the being created as an addition to the elective choice for students in semesters 7 and 8 on AHSS programmes thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Foucault; the political students in semesters 7 and 8 on BA Politics and where Politics is offered as an option. thought of Plato as a foundation for Western philosophy; International Relations and on AHSS programmes where the politics of Machiavelli and his influence on the Politics is offered as an option. Syllabus: Week 1: What is Regionalism? How does it development of humanism and republicanism; Michel facilitate development? Foucault and the relationship between truth and power. It better reflects the subject expertise of current teaching Week 2: New and Old Regionalism: Regionalism and staff in this area than existing modules. Globalisation Prerequisites: PO4022 Week 3: Regionalism in Action: Types, Comparisons and Syllabus: This module takes a detailed look at the Functions ------policy-making process of the EU. Few EU policies directly Week 4: The European Union redistribute money, yet even if they sometimes seem to Week 5: American Regionalism PO4107 - NATIONALISM, ETHNICITY AND focus on rather arcane technical issues, they often have Week 6: ASEAN and APEC CONFLICT profound consequences for the legal rights and the Week 7: South Asian Regionalism (SAARC) ECTS Credits: 6 welfare of individual citizens, the competitiveness of Week 8: Africa and the African Union particular companies or entire industries, and the social, Week 9: Regionalism and the UN Politics and Public Admin economic, and democratic development of Europe as a Week 10: Case Study I: European Regional Enlargement whole. If we want to evaluate the functioning of the EU Week 11: Case Study II: South Asian Security Rationale and Purpose of the Module: In this module as a democratic political system, we need to know who is Week 12: Gendered approaches to regionalism and students will address debates about the causes and involved in the formulation and implementation of those development models, key concepts and issues related to attitudes and ------behaviour, social influence, intra and inter group Prerequisites: PS4032, PS4031 processes, pro-social behaviour, and affiliation, attraction and love. ------

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PR4010 - ANATOMY 1 PS4021 - PSYCHOLOGY: THEORY AND METHOD 1 PS4027 - APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY ECTS Credits: 12 ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6

Clinical Therapies Psychology Psychology

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Rationale and Purpose of the Module: For students to designed to enable students to understand the structure provides students with a broad introduction to the develop an understanding of how psychology is applied and function of the musculoskeletal system of the lower historical evolution, issues, debates, themes and theories in practice extremity, pelvis and spine; abdomen; the in psychology. The course will provide a a good To introduce students to the range of areas in which cardiovascular system and the respsiratory system. This grounding in a range of theoretical perspectives in professional psychologists work module forms the basis for understanding the psychology including attention in particular to personality implications of pathophysiological changes within these and biological psychology. Syllabus: To examine how major theories and core structures that will be studied in modules during years areas of psychology can be applied in professional 2-4. Syllabus: This module is the first of two modules which practice provide a broad introduction to the discipline of The total hours scheduled will be 96 (based on 3 hours psychology. This module will begin with a brief historical Prerequisites: PS4042, PS4021 lectures, 3 hours labs and 2 hours tutorials over 12 and philosophical overview of the roots of psychology weeks) and then move on to cover the psychodynamic ------perspective, behaviourism and learning theory, the Syllabus: Introduction to nomenclature and general biological basis of behaviour, and cognitive psychology. concepts of anatomy, classification of bones, joints and Within the biological perspective the focus will be on PS4031 - PSYCHOLOGY AND EVERYDAY LIFE muscles; cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine and thorax motivation and emotion, and within cognitive psychology ECTS Credits: 6 (sternum, ribs and thoracic vertebrae). The the focus will be on memory. integumentary system (structure & function). Afferent Psychology and efferent control of muscle tone and posture; ------myotomes and dermatomes and reflexes LL; pelvic Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module bones and pelvic floor and perineum ; bony skeleton, PS4022 - PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PERSONALITY will introduce students to a range of fundamental muscle attachments, joints, nerve supply of the lower ECTS Credits: 6 theoretical perspectives and issues in general psychology limb, analysis of movements of the lower limb, muscle through examining their relevance in everyday life. participation and nature of contraction Psychology Through exploring everyday issues students will not only learn about theoretical perspectives but will also gain a ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: For students to basic knowledge of how psychology may be applied. understand how the field of psychology has approached PS4011 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 1 the topic of personality and for students to develop Syllabus: Through exploring some key studies in ECTS Credits: 6 knowledge of the ways personality and individual psychology, students will gain a basic understanding of difference, intelligence and aptitude are constructed and the main investigative techniques used by psychologists. Psychology tested in psychology. The range of topics will include; definitions of psychology; communication and body language; Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide a personality; sex and gender; social interaction; emotion; broad introduction to the field of social psychology which Syllabus: Personality is a collection of emotion, thought brain and behaviour; health and illness; human will be built on in future modules. The lectures will and behaviour patterns that are unique to an individual. development; psychological problems; perception and provide a framework around a range of topics in social Through a series of lectures and practical tutorial thinking; learning; humans and animals; applications of psychology. sessions, topics relevant to the psychology of personality psychology will be explored; including defining personality, Syllabus: Social psychology is a field of psychology that temperament, aptitude and difference; personality and ------considers the nature, causes, and consequences of intelligence testing; and models including factorial human social behavior. The module will cover theories, models, typologies and circumplexes. PS4035 - BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR the importance of the experimental paradigm to Syllabus: Health Psychology is a sub-discipline of ECTS Credits: 6 understanding behaviour and mental processes. This relatively recent origin in psychology, but is rapidly lab based module introduces students to the traditional developing a unique identity. Whilst having some Psychology experimental approach and familiarises them with concerns in common with clinical psychology- health concepts such as randomisation, experimenter bias, psychology is concerned with both mental and physical Structure and function of the mammalian nervous confounding variables via a series of practicals. Issues health and in particular their inter-relationship- it is quite system with reference to the biological bases of major such as correlation and causation are discussed and the distinct from that discipline. Its range of interest is wide classes of behaviour, including neuroanatomy and necessity of quasi experimental approaches highlighted. and continues to develop, but the discipline by its nature neurophysiology, role of neurotransmitters in brain Students learn to design, conduct, code and analyse is interdisciplinary, requiring the study of variables at the function, CNS and endocrine influences on behaviour, experimental data whilst paying due consideration to the biological, psychological and social levels. It is an area localisation of brain function, the importance and welfare of participants and attending to the appropriate that is often controversial, reflecting in part, the limitations the of case study approach and animal ethical guidelines. methodological and conceptual problems inherent in a research. subject straddling several disciplines. Topics covered include Models of health behaviour, stress, Prerequisites: PS4042, PS4021 psychoneuroimmunology

------Prerequisites: PS4042, PS4041 Prerequisites: PS4042, PS4021

PS4041 - PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY 1 ------ECTS Credits: 6 PS4045 - ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS PS4901 - EMPIRICAL PSYCHOLOGY Psychology ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Psychology Psychology To introduce students to the range of research methods employed in psychology and to develop students ability Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Extend Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of to work with quantitative data and SPSS in particular students knowledge of the academic discpline of this research methods module is to familiarise students psychology through extending range of design and with a range of laboratory-based activities and Syllabus: This practical class introduces the range of analysis skills and examining the fundamental psychometric testing in psychology and to develop methods employed in psychology to students. The value assumptions of psychological research and practice. students ability to design, collect, code and analyse of experiments, observational, survey and interviews and empirical data using experimental methodologies and case studies work are considered using illustrative Syllabus: Advanced statistical techniques for survey and psychometrics testing. This module is designed to give examples. Practical skills in these methods are developed experimental research such as regression, multivariate students and in-depth understanding of the rationale of though the use of selected examples. Students are also ANOVA and categorical data analysis. Qualitative the procedures, to develop students critical reflection on introduced to important IT skills such as library search methods and in particular key concepts from critical these procedures and to develop students independent skills and SPSS for coding of data via practical work. psychological perspective. research skills.

Prerequisites: PS4021 Prerequisites: PS4033, PS4042, PS4021 Syllabus: This module primarily covers experimental research methods and psychological testing ------methodologies to assess behaviour, mental processes and personality characteristics. The laboratory part of the PS4043 - EMPIRICAL PSYCHOLOGY 1 PS4138 - HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY module introduces students it basic experimental ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 procedures and their underlying concepts e.g. randomisation, experimenter bias, confounding variables, Psychology Psychology quasi-experiment. The module also covers the rationale

of scale constructions and test constructions to assess Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Rationale and Purpose of the Module: to introduce individual differences. Students learn to design, conduct, students to a range of laboratory based activities in students to the rapidly developing field of health code and analyse experimental psychometric test data psychology and to develop students ability to design, psychology, to highlight the importance of a whilst paying due consideration to the welfare of collect, code and analyse empirical data using biopsychosocial approach to understanding health and participants and attending to the appropriate ethical experimental methodologies. illness. guidelines. Students will demonstrate independent and to improve students understanding of the role that research skills in two research projects based on the

behaviour plays in determining health and illness. procedures that are taught. The tutorials are designed to Syllabus: Classical approaches to psychology emphasise critically reflect on the purpose and rationale of the research methods. independently use these data analytic techniques. strategies to specific social contexts (e.g., advertisement, work environment, interpersonal, and ------Syllabus: Researchers in psychology need to decide inter-group relationships). which statistical method is most appropriate to a given research question or a particular data set. In order to Syllabus: Social influence and attitude change are two make these decisions, researchers must understand the core issues in psychology. Human interactions involve basic principles that underlie statistical analyses and different forms of social influence and changes in PS6041 - ADVANCED RESEARCH DESIGNS IN have the skills to weigh the advantages and attitudes. In this module we will examine basic cognitive PSYCHOLOGY disadvantages of one technique over another. Two and affective levels as well as the more social levels ECTS Credits: 6 modules will examine the underlying principles, strengths (e.g., groups) which determine social influence and and limitations of a range of statistical methods. The attitude change. We will review important, representative Psychology modules provide intensive instruction in the use of contributions to social influence and attitude change. We statistical analyses commonly used in psychology. The will provide a historical perspective on the development Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of statistical techniques taught in this module, the first of a of theories and paradigms in these areas of research. In this module is to increase teach students how particular two-part module sequence, include multiple regression, addition, we will discuss with students whether and how research questions relate to particular research designs. canonical correlation, analysis of covariance, multivariate the prominent theories on social influence and attitude Students will get a good understanding of advanced analysis of variance and covariance, repeated measures change can be applied to everyday life situations. research designs and how they can be developed for analysis, profile analysis, and logistic regression. Besides experimental and non-experimental psychological understanding the principles, benefits and limitations of ------research, in both basic and applied research domains. these statistical methods, students will also learn how to Besides providing the necessary knowledge about use these methods with computer software. PS6081 - PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION advanced research designs, this model seeks to prepare MAKING students for their own research (i.e., their Major ------ECTS Credits: 6 Research Project). PS6061 - PROFESSIONAL SKILLS IN PSYCHOLOGY Psychology Syllabus: This module covers the rationale of methods 1 in both basic and applied research. Students will learn ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this how to investigate research questions by using the module is to provide in-depth knowledge on typical appropriate research designs. Pros and cons of several Psychology strategies that people use in problem solving and research designs will be discussed. Specifically, we will decision making and how solutions to problems and discuss the merits of experimental methods, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim for decision can be improved. This module will provide a non-experimental methods, qualitative methods, implicit this module is to improve students writing skills. deep understanding of problem solving and decision methods, explicit methods, computer simulations, and making and it will increase the students analytical skills. mixed-methods approaches. Besides teaching students Syllabus: This course is the second part of a two-course the rationale of advanced research designs, this module sequence on professional skills. In order to successfully Syllabus: People solve problems and make decision all seeks to teach students the tools that may need for their communicate research, students need to train their of the time, but only sometimes do people succeed. In own research. writing skills. In this module, students we want to this module, students will learn about the prominent improve students writing skills by means of giving good theories and applications in problem solving and decision ------examples for writing styles and by giving students making. We will touch on different kinds of problems and feedback on their writing skills. Consistent with the decisions (personal, inter-personal, group context) in PS6051 - ADVANCED ANALYSIS IN PSYCHOLOGY 1 purpose of the module, it is intensive in writing. different contexts (e.g., relationships, economics). We ECTS Credits: 6 will contrast typical strategies that people use to the ------strategies that would make problem solving and decision Psychology making more effective and efficient. PS6071 - SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND ATTITUDE Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Psychology CHANGE ------makes use of many different advanced statistical ECTS Credits: 6 methods. This module is the first of a two-part module PS6091 - CLINICAL MODELS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL sequence on advanced methods of analysis in Psychology DISORDERS psychology. The goals of this module are to teach ECTS Credits: 6 students the principles of advanced statistical techniques Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this and the proper uses of these techniques to test research module is to give an overview to social influence and Psychology hypotheses. This module will empower students by attitude change processes. An emphasis is given to the instilling them with confidence that they can applicability of social influence and attitude change Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Clinical psychology is the study of psychological disorders and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Students will distress. The aim of this module is to give an learn about the role of the brain and the central nervous The centrality of planning activity is established in the understanding of psychological disorders and distress, system in human behaviour. context of the Supply-Chain Operations Reference Model and how their occurrence and persistence can be (SCOR). explained with prominent clinical models of disorders. Syllabus: Structure and function of the mammalian nervous system with reference to the biological bases of Planning incorporates anticipation represented here by Syllabus: The module will provide a valuable major classes of behaviour, including neuroanatomy and Forecasting and making optimal decisions about introduction to key issues and concepts in clinical neurophysiology, role of neurotransmitters in brain capacity of supply, storage, production, delivery and psychology. Students will be introduced to prominent function, CNS and endocrine influences on behaviour, enabling processes, and about how to integrate and psychological disorders (e.g., anxieties, dissociative and localisation of brain function, the importance and deploy this capacity optimally in terms of performance somatoform disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, limitations the of case study approach and animal and cost trade-offs within the confines of limited personality disorders). research. resources. The module will also focus on historical and recent approaches that explain the development and the ------Syllabus: Demand and Order Management: Role of persistence of these disorders. These perspectives will demand management in supply chain planning, include, for example, psychodynamic, behavioural, PT4005 - SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN Forecasting, Fundamentals of sales and operational cognitive, and systemic approaches. The validity of these ECTS Credits: 6 planning. clinical models will be discussed by considering Capacity Planning and Utilization: Role of capacity up-to-date research in clinical psychology. The lecture School of Engineering planning, Capacity planning techniques, Scheduling series will provide overviews to the topics and the capacity and materials. tutorials will allow for in-depth discussions of clinical Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Position Production and Inventory Management: Master models of psychological disorders in class. supply-chain design in the context of its roots in Production Scheduling (MPS) techniques, Bill of material operations management, and its relationship with other structuring for MPS, Production Activity Control (PAC), ------functional management. Put forward the Supply-Chain Inventory management concepts, Inventory related Operations Reference model (SCOR) as a framework for costs, Multi-item management. PS6101 - PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL supply-chain architecture. Introduce foundational Distribution Requirements Planning: Distribution DIFFERENCES concepts for representing and thinking about how to Requirements Planning (DRP) in the supply chain, ECTS Credits: 6 optimise and continuously improves supply-chain Available to Promise, Allocated Available to Promise. operations. Planning in Source, Deliver and Product Returns: Source Psychology requirements, Deliver requirements, Product return Syllabus: CONTEXT: Operations and Supply Chain requirements, Reverse logistics. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: For students to Strategy, integration and the SCOR framework structure Planning Systems: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), understand how the field of psychology has approached and possible approach to implementation. Performance measures for system effectiveness, Material the topic of personality and for students to develop SOURCE: Forecasting, New Product Development, Project Requirements Planning (MRP) techniques, Advanced knowledge of the ways personality and individual Management, Planning and Optimisation tools and techniques, difference, intelligence and aptitude are constructed and MAKE: Capacity Planning, Process Design and Analysis, Solving planning problems with Linear Programming: tested in psychology. Quality Management Planning problems requiring LP, Example LP models, DELIVER/RETURN: Independent Demand Inventory, Modelling and solving LP models in a spreadsheet, The Syllabus: Personality is a collection of emotion, thought Dependent Demand Inventory, Optimization/ Simulation purpose of and approaches to sensitivity analysis of LP and behaviour patterns that are unique to an individual. Modelling and logistics. Models. Through a series of lectures and practical tutorial PLAN: Quality Improvement Methods and Lean sessions, topics relevant to the psychology of personality Enterprise, Technology and Integrated Supply ------will be explored; including defining personality, Management, Global Supply Chain and Service temperament, aptitude and difference; personality and Integration. PT4011 - INTRODUCTION TO TECHNOLOGY intelligence testing; and models including factorial MANAGEMENT models, typologies and circumplexes. ------ECTS Credits: 6

------PT4007 - PLAN WITH SUPPLY CHAINS School of Engineering ECTS Credits: 6 PS6111 - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of ECTS Credits: 6 School of Engineering this module is to introduce students to the concept of Technology Management and in doing so to provide them Psychology Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is with an understanding of what they will be studying part of a stream. during their 4-year degree and why it is relevant. This module will provide students with a framework for introducing the student to spread sheet modeling, but flow factor and variability effects. Push planning understanding technology management activities and brief introductions to other modeling and optimization (MRP/CRP/MRPII). tools. The module will examine how firms acquire, exploit software will be given. Students will apply software Setup time, setup time reduction programmes, SMED, and protect technology resources. Students will be modeling skills obtained here to subsequent topics. flow factor, flexibility and commercial significance. introduced to a set of tools that can be used in managing Operations Modeling Under Constraints Pull material flow systems eg kanban, drum-buffer-rope. technology. Many of the concepts introduced in this Basic definition of Linear programming, demonstrate Production line balancing and production flow smoothing, module will be explored in greater detail in future method via graphical method, model formulation goal-chasing methods, and significance. modules. applications in operations. Engagement of people, kaizen and process improvement Simplex method, Artificial starting solution method, teams, organisational conditions eg structure, culture Syllabus: Technology Strategy: Integrating technology interpretation of simplex tableau, sensitivity analysis. and reward systems. Lean thinking, policy deployment and strategy, design and evolution of technology Transport model, Assignment model, Shortest Route and organisational cohesion. strategy, acquiring and selecting new technologies, model, Network Minimisation model, Maximum Flow technological competencies and capabilities. Technology Model, Transshipment model. ------Forecasting and Road Mapping: Technology S-curves, Introduce binary and integer applications in operations patterns of innovation, Forecasting techniques: Scenario analysis, integer solution methods such as analysis, EMV, Decision Trees, Technology Trajectories branch-and-bound and meta heuristics solution methods. PT4025 - SIMULATION MODELLING AND ANALYSIS Technology Development: new product development, Decision Making Under Uncertainty. ECTS Credits: 6 stage gate processes, market research methods, Introduce decision making under uncertainty. prototyping Incremental vs. disruptive development, Introduce basics of simulation using spreadsheets. School of Engineering technology transfer, Technology Portfolio Planning: Value Introduce basic queuing and inventory models. Analysis/Value Innovation, Life-cycle models, Patent Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide Analysis, product selection. ------students with knowledge on discrete event simulation modeling and its application to manufacturing, logistic ------PT4015 - LEAN THINKING AND LEAN TOOLS and services systems. ECTS Credits: 6 To provide students with modelling and software PT4013 - OPERATIONS MODELLING capabilities to apply simulation to manufacturing, logistic ECTS Credits: 6 School of Engineering and services systems

School of Engineering Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Syllabus: Introduction to simulation Overview of the main elements of the Lean process improvement simulation modelling, introduction to the basic concepts Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Understand framework, focusing on quantity control and human of discrete event simulation. The simulation process the role of operations in both production and service engagement, through lectures, readings and laboratory steps involved in carrying out a simulation project. enterprises. experience. Comparison of discrete event simulation with continuous Introduce Lean thinking and structured operations To prepare students to engage in performance simulation and system dynamics. Computer simulation improvement tools. improvement projects during Coop. packages Overview of available computer packages, Introduce a range of quantitative methods and highlight description of representative packages, computer their application in the decision making process for Syllabus: Introduction to lean and continuous implementation issues. Development of programming solving real world problems. improvement philosophy in context of quantity control skills to apply simulation to manufacturing, logistic and Provide an understanding of optimal decisions under and its relationship with quality control and broad services systems using a generic simulation package. constraints. business processes such as new product development Provide an overview of available simulation software. Provide an understanding of design and analysis of and supply-chain. Forms of waste and PDSA. Statistical aspects of simulation Input analysis, random operations under uncertainty. Supply-chain context, supply chain reference model number generation, output analysis, experimental To provide students with modeling and software SCOR and performance criteria. design. Queuing Models Provide comparison of simulation capabilities that can be applied to operations design and Problem identification and 5S, as initiation for structured with stochastic mathematical models through the analysis. problem analysis and enquiry. introduction of basic queuing models. Systems Design Process mapping, focusing, critical questioning, and Using simulation students will carry out systems Syllabus: Lean Thinking and Operations Introduce process improvement. (manufacturing, logistic and services systems) design students to lean thinking and operations improvement Work standardisation, allowances, rating, and standard assignments.. tools used within DMAIC work. (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) projects. Work-flow, types of layout, consequences: material ------Related lean thinking to operations modeling methods. movement, Littles law, flow factor. Systematic Layout Operations Modeling - Software: Introduce and provide Planning, layout design and improvement. PT4037 - INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY students with base skills to use software to solve Inventory control, classical economic order quantity, MANAGEMENT operations optimization models. The focus is primary on safety stocks, batch size and consequences: Littles law, ECTS Credits: 6 straightness, machine tool alignment, flatness, surface technology. The essential conventions, principles and School of Engineering texture. Process Variability: capability tests, indices, R & concepts of the graphic language are explored through R studies, Central Limit Theorem. Charting techniques: visualising and solving problems using a combination of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide X/R and X/S, average run length, Cusum, np, c, p and u freehand sketching and manual drawing communication students with an understanding of the role of technology charts. Acceptance sampling: OC curves, design of techniques. The visualisation and graphic skills developed and innovation within industrial organisations and with single, double and sequential sampling plans, variables are essential prerequisites for 2D and 3D CAD. the ability to manage technology as a resource within sampling, continuous sampling. International standards To promote and nurture spatial-visualisation and products, services and processes. e.g. MIL-STD 105D, MIL-STD-414. Statistical Process spatial-reasoning abilities critical to the success of Control, Statistical Process Control for Variable Data, technology professionals. Syllabus: Business opportunities and strategies, product Statistical Process Control for Attribute Data, Short Run To present the standards and conventions of engineering and technology strategies, planning, support and finance SPC, Minor Project. drawing essential to the correct creation and for technology based businesses, product lifecycles costs, interpretation of graphical representation used in cost estimating. Innovation Management, types of ------engineering communication and documentation. innovation, the innovation process, successful innovation To foster manual drawing skills, especially sketching, and innovators, creating the innovative organisation, PT4111 - MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY 1 which are essential to design and communication new technology-based firms. Markets for new products ECTS Credits: 6 success. and technologies, identifying and interpreting customer needs, translating customer needs into product School of Engineering specifications. New product and service ideas, Syllabus: Fundamentals of technical drawings and forecasting techniques, technology trajectories, product Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide the graphic communication. Spatial visualisation for design concept generation, selection and testing, product student with a basic knowledge and experience the and engineering. Projection systems - multi-view planning, product platforms, product specifications. properties of engineering materials are how they are drawings, orthographic, isometric, oblique and Sources of technology, technology transfer, strategic processed and fabricated. perspective projection. Freehand Sketching of everyday alliances, the management of patents and intellectual To emphasise the importance of safety in the objects - translation of simple drawings. BS ISO 128 property, Research & Development management, engineering environment. and 129 conventions and general principles relating to Success Factors, Product Development Process, the use To provide the student with the knowledge to select an technical drawings. Sectional and Auxiliary views. of Prototypes, Product Development Organisation, appropriate material for the manufacture of an Dimensioning and Tolerancing. Detail and assembly product commercialisation and launch. Managing engineering component or structure. drawings of engineering components. Introduction to the technical projects, project definition, planning and ISO system of limits and fits. Data sheet BS4500A: hole execution. basis system. Engineering working drawings. Syllabus: Safety in the Laboratory. Intersection and Developments. ------Production of materials - metals and plastics. Properties of materials û yield and tensile strength. ------PT4047 - MEASUREMENT AND QUALITY SYSTEMS Fracture and toughness. ECTS Credits: 6 Factors influencing the selection and processing of PT4213 - DRAWING AND CAD materials. ECTS Credits: 6 School of Engineering Measuring instruments. Basic machining Cutting tool geometry and materials. School of Engineering Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Appreciate the Chip formation. Hand processing and surface treatment importance of measurement standards and systems. of materials. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Apply sound principles to a variety of measurement Metal Forming - Cold, warm and hot metal forming the students to the standards, conventions and requirements. techniques projection systems used to communicate design Understand and apply scientific principles to the analysis information. of manufacturing data. To develop the students technical communication Use the results of the analysis to identify areas that need ------abilities improvement. To introduce students to the principles and concepts of PT4121 - COMMUNICATION GRAPHICS parametric solid modelling using SolidWorks. Syllabus: ISO9000 and its variants, requirements for a ECTS Credits: 6 To introduce students to best practice sketching, quality system, calibration needs and systems. Basis of modelling and assembly strategies for design intent as measurement and interchangeability, limits and fits, School of Engineering part of the design process. BS4500. Line and length standards, optical flats, interferometry, errors in measurement. Measuring Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Syllabus: Engineering drawing communication. instruments and techniques: Length, angle, flatness, provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the Visualisation. Technical sketching. Conventional straightness, displacement. Measurement of: universal language of engineering, design and representation. ISO 128 and 129. Projection systems. Auxiliary and sectional views. Dimensioning. Detail and evaluation and the influence on maintenance strategies, assembly drawings. Using the SolidWorks user interface. PT4427 - DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE costs and replacement decisions. File management and document templates. Introduction ECTS Credits: 6 To equip students with abilities to perform environmental to robust sketching for design intent. Sketch relations. audits on products and processes. Basic part modelling using extruded and revolved School of Engineering To present environmental impact assessment and features. Open and closed profiles. Thin features. Feature ecological foot-printing of products and processes used in end conditions. Capturing design intent through Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce the critical realisation of current unsustainable dimensioning and relations. Applied features. Basics of the student to the science and art of New Product engineering trends. bottom-up assembly modelling. Basic mates. Creating Development. It links the manufacturing and basic Part and Assembly drawings. Edrawings for construction skills learnt in earlier modules with the Syllabus: Fundamentals: concepts and formulae, hazard visualisation and communication. Links from SolidWorks design process and these are brought together by means rate calculations, use of redundancy and considerations to Excel, 2D CAD, CAM and RP systems. Edrawings. of a project. The project is intended to take the student of implications on costs of purchase, operation and through the basic design process into requirements maintenance, system reliability using block diagram ------engineering, market analysis, materials, manufacturing reduction and state transition analysis techniques. processes and the production of an initial business plan. Reliability estimation: from observed failure PT4423 - 2D CAD characteristics, use of Weibull distribution, Weibull ECTS Credits: 6 Syllabus: Problem definition and clarification - design Hazard Plotting for censored data, Markov analysis briefs; New Product Development (NPD) Concurrent including systems subject to repair. System availability School of Engineering Engineering NPD vs Traditional NPD; The deliverables of and factors affecting this. Prediction of repair times. processes of design; NPD Failure Reasons, Rationale for Part failure rate analysis, data sources, failure modes, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: 2D CAD Concurrent Engineering. effects and criticality analysis, influence of environment drawings are vital to the communication of engineering NPD Project Planning- Minimising NPD Lead Time, NPD and operational modes, identification of areas for effort design information. 2D CAD generated drawings are use Resources, Teams. to improve reliability and techniques for doing so, in such diverse areas as architectural design, mechanical NPD Requirements Definition - Specifications, QFD, Focus load-strength relationships and [application of part design, facilities layout, service and circuit diagrams Groups, Functional Analysis. Defining Customer simulation] to this. Case study. Acceptance testing and technical publications. Requirements, House of Quality (HOQ), Voice of the for reliability, confidence levels. Environmental testing: This module introduces students to the concepts, Customer (VOC), Product, Process Planning -Parts methods and instrumentation, effects of heat, humidity, principles and techniques of 2D CAD drawing and design Deployment & Production Planning. corrosion, mechanical hazards eg shock loading and using AutoCAD. The adoption of best practice strategies Product Concept Evolution- Idea & Concept Generation, vibration, consideration of packaging and mounting, for the efficient and effective use of CAD for creating, Creativity, Brainstorming - Morphological Analysis, burn-in procedures. editing and viewing geometry as part of the design Synectics, Analogy. Fault-tree analysis and cost-benefit analysis. Safety. process are stressed throughout the module. Concept Evaluation - Ranking Methods, Concept Replacement decision-making examples of deterministic Assessment Techniques, AHP. -Pughs Concept Selector, and probabilistic analyses including [modelling and Convergence and Divergence. simulation], use of discounted cash-flow techniques, Syllabus: Contemporary CAD software with particular Standardisation & Modularity- Features of Good Design, MAPI analysis, influence of depreciation and tax. reference to AutoCAD; hardware, software and operating Parts & Processes Commonality.The cost of complexity Optimisation of the lifetime of products shifting towards systems; the AutoCAD drawing environment: absolute and variation. Variety Reduction. a cradle-to-cradle concept, combined with a Product and relative coordinates, units and limits; CAD tools and Design for Assembly (DFA). Lifecycle Analysis (PLCA). Packaging design and analysis. drawing setup; drawing templates; the UCS; basic and Legal Aspects of NPD - Laws on Product Liability and EU Redesign and reengineering to minimise parts and advanced drawing and editing commands; introduction PL Directive, CE Mark.- Safety Evaluation, Prevention of fasteners. Transport, distribution and reverse logistics. to layers; creating and using blocks Wblocks, attributes Defective Products. Renewable materials and energy, repair, reuse and and symbol libraries; communicating engineering and Intellectual Property - Patents, Application Process and recycling. Materials selection for sustainability. design details; dimensioning and dimensioning styles; requirements. text styles; toleranced dimensioning; sectional views and -Copyright, trademarks and design registration. ------hatching; tool palettes; Paper Space layouts; customisation techniques; customising toolbars and ------PY4071 - PEDAGOGY OF OUTDOOR AND toolbar macros; isometric drawing. CAD construction ADVENTURE EDUCATION techniques; plotting; sheet sets; raster images, PT4617 - RELIABILITY TECHNOLOGY ECTS Credits: 6 multilines; using DesignCenter; DWF drawings; ECTS Credits: 6 Introduction to 3D geometry. Physical Education & Sport Sciences School of Engineering Prerequisites: PT4121 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: National Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give documents (Teaching Council 2011) call for preservice ------students an understanding of the principles of reliability teachers to, among other things: • have knowledge of current national of the module is twofold: 1.) for students to be able to regulations of each game will also be developed through curricula/syllabi in the relevant sector and an awareness understand the tactical approaches, appropriate skills, the practical labs. Basic coaching skills will also be of curriculum requirements in preceding and subsequent and safety considerations necessary when engaging in introduced. stages of learning, invasion games and 2.) to provide students with the • understand the subject matter, pedagogical pedagogy skills needed to teach invasion games within a Syllabus: Foundations of the GAA; Development of the content and related methodology of the relevant post-primary setting. The module will be taught through GAA (1884-2016); Key strategies, programmes, policies curricula/syllabi and guidelines, and particular curriculum model, for example TGFU. The and initiatives (1884-2016) (e.g. Go-games Initiative, • be able to think critically, analyse and solve students will live the curriculum model in order to Grassroots to National Programme); Gaelic Games problems, as an individual and a member of a team. understand the structure of the model and how it can be Associations (e.g. Gaelic Players Association, Ladies taught within a post primary setting. Gaelic Football Association); Gaelic Games Worldwide. The concepts and skills associated with outdoor and Introduction to the core skills of Hurling, Camogie and adventure uniquely address each of these skill sets. As The module will focus on principles of play and tactics Gaelic Football; Common principles of play; Structures, such, this module is designed to prepare preservice within invasion games. Therefore links will be made rules and regulations; Skill development, including teachers to organise, teach, and facilitate outdoor and across all invasion games so students can see the fundamental movement and basic motor skills; Warm-up adventure education in Irish physical education. correlation and common tactics involved in each. and cool-down; Games vs drills; Basic tactics; Introducing activities and progressions including modified Specific purposes are to: Syllabus: The purpose of this module is for students to and full-sided games; Safety aspects (environmental, 1) enhance students' capabilities teaching outdoor and become familiar with simple invasion games and, in personal and player safety); Coaching styles and adventure to post primary students; particular, how these games are presented in the Junior methods; Planning practical sessions for different ability 2) draw links between the current national Cycle, junior cycle short course, Senior Cycle, and groups; Developing communication and organisations curricula/syllabi regarding outdoor education and Leaving Certificate physical education curricula. Students skills in practical environments; Player and selected curricular and instructional models; will experience and analyse many invasion games, for self-evaluation in a practical context. 3) recognize the potential of non-sport related activity example Gaelic Football, Hurling, Soccer, Hockey, Rugby in the lives of post primary students; and and Basketball, focusing on the following areas: common ------4) gain understanding of the conduct of off-site principles of play, tactical awareness, rules and skill teaching. acquisition; how to introduce activities and progressions; PY4123 - INSTRUCTIONAL ALIGNMENT IN and safety considerations specific to all the games. The PHYSICAL EDUCATION Syllabus: Through the acquisiton of adventure and module will be taught through a curriculum model, for ECTS Credits: 9 outdoor skills and knowledges, the pedagogy in teaching example: TGFU. TGFU will aid the principles of play and outdoor and adventure education and selected tactical focus of the module. Physical Education & Sport Sciences curricular models will be examined. Adventure principles include full value contract, experiential learning cycle, ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The rationale challenge by choice, briefing, processing and facilitating of this module is for students to be introduced to an experience, the determination of physical and PY4122 - GAELIC GAMES instructional alignment in physical education, i.e., when outcomes, activities, instruction and assessment of a emotional risk, and safety. Outdoor activities may ECTS Credits: 6 physical education programme are matched and include: orienteering, hill walking, camp craft, exploring compatible. Students will become familiar with and be nature, leave no trace, canoeing, rock climbing. Physical Education & Sport Sciences able to critically comment on the central topics of Pedagogical skills involve big picture goals and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is curriculum, assessment, and teaching and learning, assessment, aligned learning outcomes, content designed to give an introduction to Gaelic games from a within the (Irish) post-primary physical education progression, and assessment, focused reflection on practical and cultural perspective. It will offer an context; thus, informing what they believe is worth student learning linked to teacher action. introduction to the history of the Gaelic Athletic learning and assessing within physical education. Association (GAA) and the development of the ------Students will be directed to address these central topics association from its foundations in 1884 through to the in their preparation of schemes of work and lesson plans present day. The module will also introduce students to PY4081 - PEDAGOGY OF INVASION GAMES for year 2 school placement. Hurling, Camogie and Gaelic Football specifically through ECTS Credits: 6 participation in 'Gaelic Games related' learning activities The purpose is threefold: as well as practical labs. Emphasis will be placed on Physical Education & Sport Sciences 1) To allow students to become familiar with various developing knowledge and basic competency with ways of looking at curricula which encourage critical respect to the core skills of these games and principles of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The rationale monitoring and evaluation of the (Irish) post-primary play (e.g. defending and attacking). Students will of this module is to allow students to become familiar physical education curriculum. become aware of how to provide a safe environment and with a selection of invasion games, ones in which skills 2) To acquaint pre-service teachers with how learning by ensure personal safety as well as that of others in Gaelic and tactics can easily be identified and practiced, individual pupils can be facilitated through the provision and where minimal equipment is required. The purpose Games activities. Understanding the rules and of appropriate environmental factors (e.g., safety, learn about relevant bodily techniques, skill The purpose of this module is threefold: facilities, equipment, and teacher information) and the development, aesthetic appreciation, creative 1) To critically evaluate the attitudes and beliefs about setting of tasks (through instructional and teaching composition, using basic gymnastics equipment and the teaching and learning which inform and guide his/her strategies) suitable to individual learners. It will transferability of learning in Dance and Gymnastics professional practice. introduce pre-service teachers to ideas on how to design across the post primary curriculum. A range of strategies 2) To act as an advocate on behalf of learners, referring challenging learning experiences for students, select for teaching, learning and assessment in and through students for specialised educational support as required applicable teaching strategies to facilitate student Dance and Gymnastics will be introduced and practiced. and participating in the provision of that support, as learning, and modify / adapt these to accommodate The key instructional strategy will focus on but not be appropriate. student learning. limited to the Inquiry Model. To give focus to the module 3) To identify cross-curricular links and themes including 3) To introduce the concepts of assessment of learning learning outcomes and module content this module will citizenship; creativity; inclusion and diversity; initiative and assessment for learning and their potential to be framed around selected Curriculum Models for and entrepreneurship; personal, social and health document student learning in a physical education example Sport Education. This will help frame the education; and ICT, as appropriate to the sector and environment. content of the module and by focusing teaching and stage of education, and how these are related to life learning experiences on a more complete and authentic experiences. Syllabus: This module provides an opportunity to level in these two Physical Educatuion strands students understand instructional, curricular, and assessment will be provided with a map for decision making about Syllabus: This module is designed to provide students concepts related to effective teaching and learning in teaching and learning in Dance and Gymnastics. with an introduction to adapted physical activity with a physical education. Course content will examine various focus on physical and motor characteristics of persons teaching strategies and instructional formats, physical Syllabus: At the centre of this module syllabus will be with disabilities as they relate to programming in education curricular models, and formative and the introduction to the Junior and Senior Cycle physical education. The course will focus on past and summative assessment strategies. In addition, the Frameworks for Physical Education and JCPE short present research regarding motor/physical development, extent to which personal orientations and philosophies courses. Attention will be paid to Wellbeing as well as assessment, and programming for individuals with impact instruction, curriculum, and assessment will be aesthetic education through meaningful movement cognitive, sensory, physical and health impairments. investigated. Further topics include an understanding experiences along with the Junior Cycle Statements of Students will be able to identify and understand how the physical education curriculum within the (Irish) Learning and Key skills. There will be an introduction the Ireland views the placement of children with disabilities school system and what is worth learning. Students will Laban's Movement Analysis as a tool for developing and the efforts it takes to promote more inclusive be directed towards aligning their belief systems with the observation for physical literacy, Curriculum Models, physical education programmes. use of particular curriculum/instruction models. inclusive teaching and learning practices, resources for Understanding assessment and its relationship to teaching Dance and Gymnastics, assessment of and for ------learning goals and learning experiences will allow Dance and Gymnastics, lesson planning (warm ups, students to determine what is worth assessing and how tasked based activities, lesson development and closure) this can be done in a meaningful, relevant and effective and schemes of work design with specific reference to way. The preparation of schemes of work and lesson curriculum alignment. Students will be introduced to PY4145 - QUALITATIVE BIOMECHANICS FOR plans for year 2 school placement will be a consistent basic equipment and apparatus and as a consequence PHYSICAL EDUCATION focus of the module. also be introduced to safe practice in Gymnastics. ECTS Credits: 3

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PY4133 - PEDAGOGY OF DANCE AND GYMNASTICS PY4135 - ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND Rationale and Purpose of the Module: While a sound ECTS Credits: 6 PHYSICAL EDUCATION knowledge of anatomical structure is a prerequisite for ECTS Credits: 3 effective analysis of human movement activity, analysis Physical Education & Sport Sciences requires good understanding of how forces act on joints Physical Education & Sport Sciences and how joint structure affects movement. There is a Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of need for the physical education specialist to develop this module is to prepare students to teach the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Integration effective skills qualitatively analysing joint function fundamentals of Dance and Gymnastics in a post-primary and inclusion of all individuals into school structures and through a synthesis of knowledge of anatomy and of context; to provide safe, inclusive and educationally curricular provision is an essential feature of physical basic mechanics. There is also a need to encourage the meaningful experiences for post-primary students in the education teaching. Catering for individuals with varying student to focus on the applied nature of anatomy and Dance and Gymnastics. Students will be introduced to levels of ability from limited to a high level requires mechanics in sport and physical education. An emphasis Junior cycle requirements for both strands, develop their knowledge of appropriate pedagogical principles and an on applied nature of this knowledge to sports knowledge and understanding of the key pedagogical ability to situate the needs of the individual on a whole performance will be achieved through extensive practice principles of both through critically examining the school and classroom basis. Empowerment and in the application of deterministic models of Physical Education curriculum and the frameworks for entitlement are key concepts within this module. performance, and examination of overall performance the relevant Junior Cycle short course. Students will objectives, biomechanical factor and principles and critical features of performance in a wide range of sport Observing the differences in buoyancy between skills necessary to develop the above research skills. and exercise activities. It encourages students to individuals and various depths in the pool will also be examine qualitatively, the effects of forces on joint observed. Understanding and demonstrating the Syllabus: Intended as an introductory course for function. The module is also a preparation for the more importance of safe water entries will be emphasized. students undertaking research in languages, literature detailed quantitative approaches and presents a Performance and analysis of various and cultural studies, students will be introduced to the structured approach for analysing skills and identifying strokes/modifications of strokes, e.g. front crawl, back quantitative and qualitative methods employed in each of critical coaching and teaching points. crawl and breast stroke will be taught. Understanding the these disciplines. Incorporating a practice-based benefits of and participating in exercise in the water will element, students will be equipped with the necessary Syllabus: Forms of motion; translation rotation and be taught to the students. Demonstrating the ability to skills to select a research topic, develop a research general motion. Effects of forces. Momentum and perform various water safety skills and survival skills will question, identify the appropriate methods to carry out impulse. Qualitative analysis - deterministic models and be an important skill for the students to learn. A brief this research project, and write a research proposal. their applications in human movement: projectile based introduction to water polo will be introduced. Students will also be introduced to the skills needed to motions in sport: Jumping and thowing, striking activities Athletics: An overview of athletics from a variety of source and present language, literary and cultural data, etc. Cyclical movement patterns : Running, walking. perspectives (bio-mechanical, physiological, in particular the information technology skills necessary Centre of gravity, line of gravity. Mechanical educational)will be given to the students. Athletics within for analysing online data such as collections of literary determinants of balance equilibrium and stability. static post primary schools will be explored; limitations and texts and linguistic corpora. and dynamic posture. Analysis of balance related possibilities, athletics lessons, planning for mixed ability situations. Angular motion of body free of support - axis and the logistics of running a school athletics event. The ------of rotation, torque and angular impulse, moment of fundamentals of running, jumping and throwing will be inertia applications to sports situations Motor emphasized, progressing to basic, event specific SO4001 - INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY Development and qualitative kinematic analysis technique in traditional track & field athletics events (e.g. ECTS Credits: 6 sprints, hurdles, Long Jump, High Jump, Shot, Discus ------etc.). Students will be involved in 'athletics related Sociology activities' (indoors & out). There will be a focus on the PY4155 - PEDAGOGY OF AQUATICS / ATHLETICS teaching of athletics within a post primary school setting. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module ECTS Credits: 6 aims to introduce students to the subject matter of ------contemporary sociology. It will familiarise students with Physical Education & Sport Sciences the key concepts used within sociological analysis and RM4001 - RESEARCH METHODS IN LANGUAGES, demonstrate, using illustrative materials, the uses and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES 1 importance of sociological analysis in the modern and introduces students to two strands that are focused on ECTS Credits: 6 post-modern world. individual performance; Aquatics and Athletics. Students will learn how to plan both Aquatics and Athletics lessons School of Culture and Communication Syllabus: An introduction to the sociological perspective which are safe, enjoyable, inclusive and educationally What is sociology and what do sociologists do? meaningful. Furthermore, established links will be made Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module The development of sociology between the two respective activities and bio-mechanics introduces students to research methods in languages, The sociological imagination particularly in the context of contemporary Irish Physical literature and cultural studies, covering the main areas of An introduction to sociological theory Education. Both strands provides opportunities "for the these disciplines, their methods of inquiry, and their key Agency and Structure personal, physical, and social development of concepts and problems. The module provides training in Culture, Norms and Values each student in a safe, enjoyable environment" (JCPE, essential research skills, equipping participants to pursue An introduction to structural functionalist theories 2003; 19). It will be emphasized how important self-directed study, to individually select a research topic An introduction to conflict theories adaptions and modifications are with in a physical and develop appropriate research questions, to identify An introduction to interaction theories education class, whether it be "modified forms of the appropriate tools and methods of research to carry An introduction to feminist theory and post-modernism standard events" or "combinations/adaptations" or out this project, and write a research proposal. The aims An introduction to sociological research recognized strokes. The module will be taught through of the module are: The ethics of social research particular curriculum model, for example HRA. The To introduce students to research methods in languages, students will live the curriculum model in order to literature and cultural studies; understand the structure of the model and how it can be To equip students with the necessary skills to select a ------taught within a post primary setting. research topic, develop a research question(s) and write a research proposal; SO4033 - SOCIOLOGY OF MEDIA Syllabus: Aquatics: the focus will be on learning the To introduce students to the research skills required for ECTS Credits: 6 fundamentals of swimming; buoyancy, propulsion and sourcing, storing and presenting research data; streamlining. Being aware of the effects of being in water To develop an awareness of the information technology Sociology on balance, propulsion and resistance will be introduced. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This course cases, analysis aims to provide students with a critical understanding of and interpretation. Doing interviews and conducting Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The purpose of the mass media from a sociological viewpoint. It will observation studies. this module is to explore the phenomenon of hate crime introduce students to key aspects of the debate amongst through a sociological and legal lens. Specifically the social scientists about the workings and influence of the ------module aims to unpack hate crime as a social construct; media. The course is structured upon an examination of to examine is structural roots; to explore the social these key areas as well as presenting examples of the consequences of legal formulations and legislative various methodological approaches used by sociologists lacunae; to critically evaluate the potential for legal, in their analysis of the mass media. SO4047 - SOCIOLOGY OF THE WELFARE STATE civic, and educational solutions; to familiarise the ECTS Credits: 6 student with the field of hate studies as an Syllabus: * Sociology and the analysis of mass media. interdisciplinary project drawing on both sociology and * The production/content/reception model of media Sociology legal scholarship and to critically interrogate the hate analysis. crime paradigm. * Applying sociological theories and methods in critically Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The key focus This module is being created for the inclusion on the new understanding the mass media. and aim of the module is to provide students with an BA Arts programme. * Media globalization. understanding of the welfare state. Students will be * Globalization, G-localization and Media Audiences. familiarised with debates, definitions and theoretical Syllabus: Introducing hate crime as a socio-legal * Media Ownership, concentration and conglomeration. frameworks pertaining to the concept of the welfare problem and hate studies as an interdisciplinary project * The political economy perspective. The public sphere. state, the different models of welfare in existence, and drawing on both sociology and legal scholarship; * Media production and media professionals. the need for a rigorous analysis of the welfare state. In exploring relationships and conceptual distinctions * Structure and agency in a media setting. addition to enhancing students awareness and between hate crime, hate incidents and hate speech; * Halls encoding/decoding model. understanding of key sociological theories, concepts and critically interrogating the hate crime paradigm; * Ideology, dominant ideology and discourse. issues, this module is oriented to developing students prevalence and manifestations of hate crime; victim * Analysing media content: media re-presentations in a ability to use sociology as an analytical tool. It is hoped impact; the significance of interchangeable victimisation; divided world. that students will consider the issues covered in the the normalisation of hate crime; exploring the structural * Media representations of class, ethnicity, gender and module as case studies through which they can develop & individual roots of hate crime; interrogating the sexuality. their understanding of the techniques of sociological efficacy of legal, civic and educational responses to hate * Media audiences. Qualitative approaches towards analysis, which may then be applied to other contexts. crime; theorising the politics of legislative lacunae. understanding media audiences. * Audiences as fans. Syllabus: This module aims to provide students with an ------* Diasporic audiences. understanding of the welfare state. Students will be familiarised with debates, definitions and theoretical SO4057 - SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS ------frameworks pertaining to the concept of the welfare ECTS Credits: 6 state, the different models of welfare in existence, and SO4037 - QUALITATIVE METHODS FOR the need for a rigorous analysis of the welfare state. The Sociology SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH module examines the development of welfare provision ECTS Credits: 6 and the different models of welfare throughout Europe & Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this in the USA. Specifically the module will focus on the Irish course is to introduce students to the important Sociology context as it seeks to examine the structural, cultural sub-disciplinary field of the sociology of health and and ideological dynamics underpinning the Irish model of illness. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of the welfare provision. We will engage with current and module is to provide students with an understanding of established sociological theories and debates as a means The overall objective is to develop the students analytical the development of the field of qualitative research and of interpreting and understanding the implications these ability to examine the concepts of health and illness from to introduce students to the central methods and issues have for the distribution of power, the concept of a sociological perspective (perspectives), and critique the approaches that fall under the category of qualitative and the operation of citizenship, processes of social structures and processes involved in these within late research. Furthermore students will be provided with exclusion, the role of social policy, and public discourse. modern Western society. guidelines governing research that is grounded in the assumptions of qualitative methodology. ------Syllabus: THEME I: NEW SOCIO-CULTURAL DIMENSIONS Syllabus: What is qualitative research? What are the SO4056 - HATE CRIME: ROOTS, REALITIES AND The sociology of the body/embodiment different paradigms, which fall within the parameters of REDRESS The sociology of risk qualitative research? The ECTS Credits: 6 history of qualitative research. Approaching research THEME II: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE from a qualitative perspective, generating ideas, defining Sociology Theorising the relationship between science, technology and medicine Syllabus: This module enables students to gain an introduces students to classic social theory. Key work is Human Genetics and the redefinition of disease understanding of the principles of social research and reviewed, incorporating various perspectives from classic Reproductive genetics, predictive testing and the related philosophical debates from a generic social thinkers who continue to have an enduring influence on construction of risk science perspective. The module addresses the ethical the sociological imagination. The module will consider New reproductive technologies: assisted reproduction and legal dimensions of, and power relationships within, some of the major works of: Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and infertility the research process. Students learn to appreciate the Simmel, Schutz and Mead. variety of methodological techniques, how to judge which THEME III: SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES ON MENTAL HEALTH are appropriate to particular research problems and how Syllabus: The module begins by outlining the & ILLNESS to identify the merits and limitations of different types of socio-historical transformations (industrialisation, The social construction of mental illness research design, including issues of sampling, sampling urbanisation, expansion of capitalism) that gave rise to Social models of mental health & illness error, objectivity, values and validity. They are classic social theory. Key thinkers, who sought to make Therapeutic and social meanings of the recovery concept introduced to basic statistics, SPSS, and Qualitative sense of modernity and `the problem of social reality, Techniques in Context and thus provided with a are then discussed; such as: Mark, Durkheim, Weber, THEME IV: THE MEANINGS AND EXPERIENCES OF foundation for future advanced methods modules. This Simmel, Mead and Schutz. Discussion will focus on their HEALTH, ILLNESS & DEATH module covers: conceptualisation and operationalisation different analyses of, among other things: the The social construction of health, illness & disease in research design; an introduction to qualitative development of capitalism and the money economy; the The experience of chronic illness techniques; analysing qualitative data; surveys and division of labour; social solidarity; class conflict and Illness related stigma sampling; descriptive statistics and inferential statistics ideology; rationalisation; religious life; the structures of Death and dying (SPSS); political and ethical issues in social research; the life-world; the dynamics of symbolic interactions and presenting and dissemination research; experimental and the self. The module considers analyses of historically THEME V: SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND HEALTH documentary methods in social research. unfolding macro-social structures, meso-social Social Class and health formations (e.g. bureaucratic organisation) and the Gender and health ------vicissitudes of everyday life. The import of classic social Ethnicity and health theory to the discipline of sociology - including its aims, SO4067 - SOCIOLOGY OF WORK scope and analyses of modernity is a theme that runs THEME VI: MEDICINE, POWER AND AUTONOMY ECTS Credits: 6 through the module. The professional dominance of medicine in healthcare Inter-professional relationships: power, knowledge and Sociology ------jurisdiction. Alternative and complementary medicine The course will introduce theories of social change and perspectives on work as well as examining contemporary ------changes in work practice. The effects of class, gender SO4118 - SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER AND POPULAR and ethnicity on access to and experience of work will be CULTURE SO4063 - INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL RESEARCH examined. The changing organizational context of work ECTS Credits: 6 METHODS will be explored. Other themes include sectoral decline, ECTS Credits: 6 development and relocation as well as an examination of Sociology globalization and the rise of the transnational Sociology corporation. The continuance of hierarchical and vertical Rationale and Purpose of the Module: a. To provide segregation in the midst of organisational, societal and an opportunity for the student to examine of key Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this cultural change will be explored, as well as organisational theoretical perspectives relevant to the study of gender module is primarily to provide a general introduction to culture. A number of Irish case studies will be examined and popular culture the range of quantitative and qualitative research e.g those related to the semi-state and educational b. To offer ways of evaluating the work of major methods which are used in sociological research. sectors. The course concludes with a consideration of the sociological schools/theorists in the study of popular Secondly, the course introduces students to the future direction of socioeconomic change and its impact culture and gender studies. underlying epistemological, conceptual and ethical on the distribution, structuring and experience of work. c. To develop the ability to analyse and interpret popular dimensions of the research process. In addition, the cultural texts through the lens of gender analysis. course establishes the importance of understanding ------social research in the context of some key debates in Syllabus: This module explores the twin themes of contemporary sociology. The primary objective is to SO4073 - CLASSIC SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY bodies and sexualities in the spaces of contemporary provide students with basic skills in the use of both ECTS Credits: 6 Western culture. Utilising a range of popular cultural quantitative and qualitative techniques of research, and forms, sites and events which are most experience in collecting, handling, organising and Sociology accessibletelevision, cinema, magazines; households, analysing data of their choice. shops and workplaces; and popular understandings of Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module medicine, science and technologythe module involves students in a series of critical engagements. The module gender and sexuality theory What have feminist theorists to say about objectivity and addresses a number of issues; why the subjects of 3. To apply feminist and queer theoretical concepts and truth/ the distinction between knower and known/ self sexualities and the body become the focus of so much arguments to particular substantive topics such as family and other/ mind and body/ subject and object? How interest across a broad range of disciplines; How we an and work. might we understand culture and society differently if we de-naturalise and problematise normative gender 4. To examine how gender interacts with other identity incorporate reproduction, bodily work, and intimate categories by setting gendered identities in cultural markers like age, ethnicity, race, class, ability, sexuality. relations in our research? What might be the limits of contexts; What important contributions have been made 5. To identify how notions like identity, self, nation are feminist standpoint, the idea that women, as a to the field by recent work on masculinities; How the gendered and culturally constructed. subordinated group, are in a better position to arrive at practices of everyday life can be interrogated to yield 6. To examine changing cultural representations of an adequate representation of social reality than men? insights about the relationships between the body, feminism, gender and sexuality. What kinds of questions guide feminist research? How do gendered identities and prevailing cultural norms. feminist researchers approach the objects of their Syllabus: This course will review and critically examine research? What is the relationship between the object of ------the main theoretical approaches to gender, sexuality and research and the feminist researcher? the position of women and men in society, starting in the SO5051 - RESEARCHING SOCIAL EXCLUSION late eighteenth century, but concentrating on the period ------ECTS Credits: 9 from the 1970s onwards. The module will analyse theories about the social and cultural construction of SP4001 - WHO ARE THE SPANIARDS? Sociology gendered identities, their origin, maintenance and INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH CULTURE representation. It will pay attention to intersectionality, ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The concept of the connection between gender and other identity exclusion forms the central focus around which this markers like age, ethnicity, race, ability, sexuality, class School of Modern Languages and Applied module is organised, it offers the possibility of etc. Of central importance is the practical application of Linguistics considering how finely tuned are the mechanisms different theoretical positions to specific topics like whereby we are integrated or cut off from full gender and employment, gender and childhood, gender Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The involvement in the wider society. and the body, gender and nationalism, gender and the development of Spanish culture has been marked by media, gender and the family. different attempts at constructing a national identity in Syllabus: The course critically interrogates the concept different forms, from the attempts at uniformity of social exclusion examining its economic, social, ------promoted by the Spanish Empire ûthen re-appropriated cultural, political and ideological underpinnings. It by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco- to the focuses in particular on the process of othering as a SO6031 - FEMINIST APPROACHES TO RESEARCH re-construction of an identity directed towards the practice of domination and the subtle ways in which ECTS Credits: 3 integration of Spain in Europe and, more recently, the privilege is reproduced. Through the course students attempts to construct an identity which integrates both will be enabled to untangle the notion of exclusion, its Sociology past and present. dynamics, processes involved, the implications of Accordingly, the module will pay special attention to the exclusion and the structural, cultural and ideological Rationale and Purpose of the Module: 1. To examine cultural impact of the end of the Spanish Empire, the issues underlying this phenomenon and its reproduction. how knowledge is constructed and deployed and Spanish Civil War and the Transition to Democracy. Through Bourdieus conceptual arsenal students will be supplement core module on methodology After completion of this module, students will have facilitated to consider the hierarchial ordering of the 2. To identify how interdisciplinary feminist perspectives achieved a general but solid knowledge of the main process of exclusion and the multi-faceted and inform research methods. socio-political processes in Spanish history and their interlinked nature of domination, privilege and exclusion. 3. To examine how feminist analysis redefines traditional effects on and interaction with literary and film categories and disciplinary concepts through attention to production, as well as other forms of culture. ------gender and other social categories social as race, class, culture, sexual orientation, and age. Syllabus: This module offers an introduction to the most SO6021 - THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO GENDER, 4. To find, formulate, limit, and state a research question important events and movements in Spanish culture. It CULTURE AND SOCIETY 1 from a feminist perspective; select/combine appropriate focuses mainly on the cultural impact of the Spanish ECTS Credits: 9 feminist research methodologies informed by the course Empire, the Spanish Civil War, the dictatorship of readings and discussion. Francisco Franco, and the Transition to Democracy. Sociology Through the use of literature, music, film and other Syllabus: This 3 credit module on feminist research forms of culture, the module will serve as a platform for Rationale and Purpose of the Module: 1. To provide methodology will supplement the 9 credit disciplinary the exploration of up-to-date socio-political issues in an overview of feminist and queer theoretical debates, research module undertaken by students. It will enable Spain and their effect on cultural production. including feminist theory, masculinity studies, queer and students to bring feminist critiques of knowledge and transgender theory. methodology to their research and writing up the ------2. To assess critically different theoretical positions in dissertation. Students will address questions such as : SP4003 - SOCIO-POLITICAL ISSUES IN THE artistic forms were the beginning of a move towards Tutorials and lab: working with set text-book, back-up CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC WORLD: SOCIETY, modernity which culminated in Surrealism during the audio-visual an online materials, students are introduced CULTURE AND REPRESENTATION second decade of the 20th century. In Spain, after the to the concepts of gender, number, verb systems and to ECTS Credits: 6 civil war, artistic resistance to the dictatorship developed the basic structures of the Spanish language. in the context of severe censorship and in this respect School of Modern Languages and Applied the module will also deal with cultural forms of resistance ------Linguistics to the dictatorship of General Franco.

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Aims and Syllabus: This module will focus on five areas: SP4133 - SPANISH FOR BEGINNERS 3 Objectives: - The Spanish Romantic period in art and poetry (Goya ECTS Credits: 6 * To further develop students background knowledge of and BÚcquer) the Hispanic World. - Latin American 'Modernismo' and its legacy in Spain in School of Modern Languages and Applied * To explore contemporary socio-political issues and the form of the 'Generacin del 98' Linguistics their impact on cultural production in Spain and Latin - The Poetry of Pablo Neruda America. - The Spanish 'Generacin del 27' and the Spanish Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Consolidation * To develop students analytical skills in the study of avant-garde: Surrealism in art and literature. of the structures, functions and vocabulary taught in the contemporary Hispanic culture. - Cultural forms of resistance to the Franco regime: The first year and expands grammatical competence to * To prepare students to analyse contemporary theatre of Buero Vallejo and the 'New Song', a form include use of the subjunctive. socio-political issues in the Hispanic World in a critical which often pays tribute to the Spanish poetic tradition. Development of knowledge of contemporary Spain and manner. Latin American cultures and societies, with a particular ------focus on the most salient socio-cultural/political issues of Syllabus: This module builds on the foundation modules contemporary Spain and Latin America. taken in year one. Students will explore issues of SP4131 - SPANISH FOR BEGINNERS 1 (EUROPEAN relevance in contemporary society in Spain and Latin STUDIES) Syllabus: Lecture: further develop the knowledge-base America by means of the exploration of up-to-date ECTS Credits: 6 of Spain and Latin America developed in first year and cultural production about such issues. examines some of the salient socio-cultural/political Accordingly, the module will focus on the politics and School of Modern Languages and Applied issues of contemporary Spain and Latin America. representation of gender, cultural constructions of the Linguistics Tutorials and lab: Working with set textbook, past and contemporary developments in the construction complementary audio-visual and online material, as well of national identities. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The beginners as intermediate difficulty literary texts. After completion of this module, students will have course aims to provide the student with a strong basic achieved an in-depth knowledge of contemporary knowledge of Spanish and of contemporary Spain and Prerequisites: SP4132 socio-political issues in the Hispanic World and their Latin America. cultural representation, thus enhancing their The course is designed to: ------understanding of the cultures they will be encountering Enable the student to understand and use basic during their off-campus period. structures of Spanish grammar. SP4141 - SPANISH LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY 1 Expose the student to a range of vocabulary and ECTS Credits: 6 ------expressions which will allow her/him to present her/himself to, and communicate with native speakers of School of Modern Languages and Applied SP4007 - MODERN TRENDS IN HISPANIC CULTURE Spanish. Linguistics AND THE ARTS To foster autonomous language learning skills. ECTS Credits: 6 To introduce the student to Spanish and Latin American Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The course is cultures. designed to: School of Modern Languages and Applied To develop listening and speaking skills in Spanish. * Revise and broaden the students knowledge of the Linguistics To equip the student with basic writing skills. structures of Spanish grammar. * Expand the students range of Spanish vocabulary. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Syllabus: Lecture: introduction to Spanish and Latin * Improve pronunciation and patterns of intonation in offers an introduction to the main the artistic forms of American history, politics and cultures. These include: Spanish. expression in the Hispanic world which constituted a the Spanish language and the languages of Spain, * Further develop the students language skills by break with the traditional canons and therefore signalled socio-cultural and historical background to Spain and exposing them to different situation and registers, both the beginning of modernity both in Latin America with Latin America from the formation of the Spanish state formal and informal. the movement of 'Modernismo' and in Spain with the and the indigenous cultures of Latin America to the * Facilitate the students understanding of various work of the Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo BÚcquer who mid-20th century. cultural aspects within the Spanish-speaking world. can be considered a precursor of modern poetry. These * Foster autonomous language learning. focusing on oral, aural, reading and writing skills. American history, politics and cultures. These include: Syllabus: The course is designed to: the Spanish language and the languages of Spain, Revise and broaden the students knowledge of the 2. a greater analytical awareness of linguistic issues, socio-cultural and historical background to Spain and structures of Spanish grammar. developed in particular through translation and critical Latin America from the formation of the Spanish state Expand the students range of Spanish vocabulary. text analysis activities. and the indigenous cultures of Latin America to the Improve pronunciation and patterns of intonation in mid-20th century. Spanish. 3. a deeper critical understanding of contemporary Tutorials and lab: working with set text-book, back-up Further develop the students language skills by exposing society, in particular as a result of study of contemporary audio-visual an online materials, students are introduced them to different situation and registers, both formal and literature and other text types. to the concepts of gender, number, verb systems and to informal. the basic structures of the Spanish language. Facilitate the students understanding of various cultural 4. the ability to discuss critically a variety of issues aspects within the Spanish-speaking world. relating to Spain and Latin American societies and their ------Foster autonomous language learning. connections to both European and global parameters and contexts. SP4233 - SPANISH LANGUAGE CULTURE AND ------SOCIETY 3 (BEGINNERS) Syllabus: Central focuses of the syllabus, in addition to ECTS Credits: 6 SP4143 - SPANISH LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY 3 the development of overall language ECTS Credits: 6 competence, are cultural, linguistic and political aspects School of Modern Languages and Applied of Spain and Latin America; issues of relevance to both Linguistics School of Modern Languages and Applied Spain and Ireland and Hispanic perspectives on European Linguistics and global questions. The module places a particular Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Consolidation linguistic emphasis on questions of register and style in of the structures, functions and vocabulary taught in the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Second year Spanish. first year and expands grammatical competence to aims to build on and develop the skills introduced in the include use of the subjunctive. first year course: increase the oral and written ability of Development of knowledge of contemporary Spain and the students, enhance their linguistic competence, Prerequisites: SP4146 Latin American cultures and societies, with a particular present a wide range of Spanish and Latin-American focus on the most salient socio-cultural/political issues of literary and cultural contents and develop further ------contemporary Spain and Latin America. strategies for autonomous language learning. SP4231 - SPANISH LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND Syllabus: Lecture: further develop the knowledge-base Syllabus: The advanced course consists of four hours of SOCIETY 1 (BEGINNERS) of Spain and Latin America developed in first year and Spanish per week: ECTS Credits: 6 examines some of the salient socio-cultural/political -One grammar class (grammar review and issues of contemporary Spain and Latin America. consolidation). School of Modern Languages and Applied Tutorials and lab: Working with set textbook, -One literature class (a selection of Peninsular and Latin Linguistics complementary audio-visual and online material, as well American short stories and newspaper articles) as intermediate difficulty literary texts. -One laboratory/oral class (communication skills). Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The beginners -One General Lecture course aims to provide the student with a strong basic Prerequisites: SP4232 knowledge of Spanish and of contemporary Spain and Prerequisites: SP4142 Latin America. ------The course is designed to: ------Enable the student to understand and use basic SP4241 - SPANISH LANGUAGE, CULTURAL AND structures of Spanish grammar. SOCIETY 1 SP4147 - SPAIN EUROPE AND BEYOND Expose the student to a range of vocabulary and ECTS Credits: 6 ECTS Credits: 6 expressions which will allow her/him to present her/himself to, and communicate with native speakers of School of Modern Languages and Applied School of Modern Languages and Applied Spanish. Linguistics Linguistics To foster autonomous language learning skills. To introduce the student to Spanish and Latin American Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The course is Rationale and Purpose of the Module: By the end of cultures. designed to: this module students should have: To develop listening and speaking skills in Spanish. * Revise and broaden the students knowledge of the To equip the student with basic writing skills. structures of Spanish grammar. * Expand the students range of Spanish vocabulary. 1. developed further their command of Spanish, by Syllabus: Lecture: introduction to Spanish and Latin * Improve pronunciation and patterns of intonation in Spanish. this module students should have: * To develop students critical skills when analysing * Further develop the students language skills by cultural production. exposing them to different situation and registers, both formal and informal. 1. developed further thheir command of Spanish, by Syllabus: One weekly lecture to examine the historical * Facilitate the students understanding of various focusing on oral, aural, reading and writing skills. context of the four major areas and two tutorials in cultural aspects within the Spanish-speaking world. which the literary texts will be studied in detail. The * Foster autonomous language learning. 2. a greater analytical awareness of linguistic issues, module is divided into four units: developed in particular through translation and critical 1. Modernismo: Syllabus: The advanced course consists of four hours of text analysis activities. Introduction to Modernismo: Europe and Latin America. Spanish per week: Latin American Modernismo: RubÚn DarÝo * Two language tutorials (grammar, vocabulary, 3. a deeper critical understanding of contemporary Spanish Modernismo: Antonio Machado and Juan Ramn communication skills, writing and reading skills). society, in particular as a result of study of contemporary JimÚnez. * One laboratory/oral class (oral communication skills). literature and other text types. 2. Surrealism: Rafael Alberti, Federico GarcÝa Lorca and * One General Lecture Salvador DalÝ. 4. the ability to discuss critically a variety of issues 3. Magical Realism: Alejo Carpentiers lo real maravilloso; ------relating to Spain and Latin American societies and their Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Gabriel GarcÝa Mßrquez, Isabel connections to both European and global parameters and Allende. contexts. 4. Womens writing in Spain and Latin America: Josefina SP4243 - SPANISH LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND Aldecoa, Dulce Chacn, LucÝa Etxebarria, and Isabel SOCIETY 3 Syllabus: Central focuses of the syllabus, in addition to Allende, Rosario Castellanos, ZoÚ ValdÚs and Alicia ECTS Credits: 6 the development of overall language Kozameh. competence, are cultural, linguistic and political aspects School of Modern Languages and Applied of Spain and Latin America; issues of relevance to both Linguistics Spain and Ireland and Hispanic perspectives on European Prerequisites: SP4625 and global questions. The module places a particular Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Second year linguistic emphasis on questions of register and style in ------aims to build on and develop the skills introduced in the Spanish. first year course: increase the oral and written ability of SS4128 - APPLIED SPORT PSYCHOLOGY the students, enhance their linguistic competence, ECTS Credits: 6 present a wide range of Spanish and Latin-American literary and cultural contents and develop further Prerequisites: SP4246 Physical Education & Sport Sciences strategies for autonomous language learning. ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The emphasis Syllabus: The advanced course consists of four hours of in this course is on the application of psychological Spanish per week: SP4627 - TWENTIETH CENTURY TRENDS IN concepts, skills and strategies to applied settings in sport -One grammar class (grammar review and HISPANIC LITERATURE for performance enhancement. Specifically, students consolidation). ECTS Credits: 6 will explore the social and psychological factors related to -One literature class (a selection of Peninsular and Latin sport participation and peak sport performance. American short stories and newspaper articles) School of Modern Languages and Applied -One laboratory/oral class (communication skills). Linguistics Syllabus: Content relating to performance enhancement -One General Lecture includes psychological characteristics of peak Rationale and Purpose of the Module: AIMS AND performance, characteristics of elite athletes and their Prerequisites: SP4242 OBJECTIVES: development, increasing of awareness; selected mental * To analyse the major cultural developments in skills and strategies (e.g. muscle relaxation, autogenic ------Hispanic literature of the twentieth century and to focus training, meditation, self talk, plans & routines, in particular on four major trends: simulation training); guidelines and procedures for SP4247 - SPANISH LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND Latin American modernismo and its legacy in Spain. implementing intervention strategies; conducting mental SOCIETY 5 Surrealism in art and literature. skills training programmes. Attention will also be given to ECTS Credits: 6 Magical realism. the environment in which sport occurs focusing on The 1980s boom in womens writing with particular aspects of group dynamics. School of Modern Languages and Applied regard to the relationship between feminism(s) and Linguistics popular culture. ------* To further develop students analytic and Rationale and Purpose of the Module: By the end of interpretative skills. SS4145 - PERCEPTION AND COGNITION IN ACTION ECTS Credits: 6 ('fuel') during exercise of varying intensity and duration. SS4203 - PHYSIOLOGY OF MUSCLE IN MOVEMENT Carbohydrate metabolism. Critical role of muscle and Physical Education & Sport Sciences ECTS Credits: 6 liver glycogen. Dietary manipulation and glycogen supercompensation. Carbohydrate feeding during the Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To advance Physical Education & Sport Sciences event and replacement after the event. the students knowledge and understanding of the Fat metabolism. Metabolic regulation of fat oxidation. scientific methods used to gain an understanding of how Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module Effect of endurance training on fuel selection, fat and motor skills are interpreted, controlled and learned aims to deliver a thorough knowledge and understanding carbohydrate oxidation. Caffeine feeding and endurance To provide students with frameworks for the analysis of of skeletal muscle function. It will allow students to performance. motor cognition and insights for the facilitation of understand how skeletal muscle adapts to exercise, Healthy exercise: exercise metabolism in relation to acquisition, retention and transfer of motor skills training and disease. By the end of the module students obesity and insulin resistance. should have a full understanding of the Physiology of Protein metabolism. Muscle metabolism of amino acids Syllabus: Review of the perceptual, cognitive and muscle applicable in sport and exercise sciences and in during endurance exercise. motor learning processes. Measuring motor skill physiotherapy. Muscle protein synthesis (MPS). Exercise and amino acid performance and learning; retention and transfer tests; regulation of MPS. novice and expert differences. Scientific evidence for Syllabus: Skeletal muscle structure at the tissue and cell Fluid balance during and in the recovery from prolonged changes due to learning. The scientific method; level. The process of muscle contraction at the exercise. observation, formulation & testing of laws & principles, ultrastructural and whole muscle level. The Physiology Metabolic limitations to high intensity exercise. Hick's Law, Fitts Law; theories to explain observations, and energetics of the muscle contraction process adn Phosophocreatine buffering of ATP turnover. Creatine principles & laws; Adams closed loop theory, Schmidts cross bridge cycle. Motor units and muscle fibre types. supplementation in sport. Glycolytic flux and lactic acid schema theory, motor cognition approaches. Roles of Functional properties of the different muscle fibre types. production. Critical role of pH and muscle buffering. vision and proprioception in the control of movement; Sources and consequences of skeletal muscle fatigue. Oxidative stress during exercise. The role of free visual search; open loop and closed loop systems of Muscle training; neural and physiological adaptations to radicals. Antioxidant defence and the effects of training. control; motor programmes. The structuring of practice strength and endurance training. Muscle damage and Nutritional antioxidant supplements. (e.g. frequency & spacing, variability, random & blocked) muscle repair. Muscle disease and injury. Treatments and its effects on learning. Implicit learning. for muscle injury and recovery. Prerequisites: BC4002 Demonstration and learning. Instruction and learning. Feedback for learning. Whole-part practice. Learning Prerequisites: SS4202 ------from a dynamical systems perspective. Application of principles and of research findings. Role of practice and ------SS4217 - EXERCISE AND HEALTH related factors in achieving excellence/expertise ECTS Credits: 6 SS4205 - NUTRITION, EXERCISE METABOLISM AND ------SPORTS PERFORMANCE Physical Education & Sport Sciences ECTS Credits: 6 SS4202 - INTRODUCTION TO MAJOR Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This is a PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Physical Education & Sport Sciences module which brings together the knowledge you gained ECTS Credits: 6 in the last three years to investigate aspects of exercise Rationale and Purpose of the Module: Probably and health. These include sport performance, lifestyle Physical Education & Sport Sciences greater than any other component of the physiology and general well being. Included in this module are syllabus, the application of good nutritional practice and examples of how exercise may be used prospectively to Rationale and Purpose of the Module: A thorough nutritional manipulation has made a significant impact improve the quality of life and also as an adjunct therapy understanding of how the body functions underpins all upon general health and sporting performance. This to clinical medicine in the treatment of life-threatening subject areas in the study of sport, exercise sciences and course is designed to provide a thorough understanding disease. Underpinning this content is the filed of physical physiotherapy. Physiology (from Greek Physio meaning of the nutritional needs of exercise, exercise metabolism activity science and exposure which explores physical nature and -logy meaning the study of) deals with the and the use and abuse of nutritional (ergogenic) aids to activity behaviour determinants, recommendations, coordinated activities of cells, tissues, organs and improve health, training and competitive performance. measurement, interventions, levels and policy and systems. In this module students are introduced to the promotion. basic structures and functions of human physiological Syllabus: Fundamentals of nutrition and energy balance. systems and the integration of these systems to maintain Nutrient and energy value of food. An examination of Syllabus: The module delivers core knowledge in lecture homeostasis. 'healthy' energy balance through body composition. format. Further understanding and breadth are gained by Critical review of BMI as a index of overweight, obesity self directed learning. Syllabus: NA and adiposity. Energy expenditure of sporting activities. Power and ------capacity of metabolic pathways. Metabolic substrate SS4231 - HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEM FOR analysis by more advanced biomechanical analysis skills impulse. Qualitative analysis - deterministic models and SPORT AND EXERCISE SCCIENCES in 2D and 3D analysis of motion their applications in human movement: ECTS Credits: 3 * Apply 3D analysis techniques to selected sporting and projectile based motions in sport: Jumping and throwing, exercise activities striking activities etc. Cyclical movement Physical Education & Sport Sciences patterns : Running, walking. Centre of gravity, line of Syllabus: SYLLABUS: gravity. Mechanical determinants of balance Rationale and Purpose of the Module: A thorough [ Kinematic Conventions - Absolute spatial reference equilibrium and stability. static and dynamic posture. understanding of how the human body functions system, Total description of segments in 3D space. Analysis of balance related situations. underpins all subject areas in the study of Sport, Advanced smoothing techniques: use of cubic and quintic Angular motion of body free of support - axis of rotation, Exercise Sciences. Physiology deals with the coordinated splines and FFT. Advanced use of link segment equations torque and angular impulse, moment of activities of cells, tissues, organs and systems. In this and free body diagrams. Calculation of joint forces and inertia applications to sports situations Motor module students are introduced to the basics of several moments of force. Interpretation of moment of force Development and qualitative kinematic analysis human physiological systems and the integration of curves. ] these systems to maintain homeostasis. Mechanical work, energy and power: Internal versus ------external work, Energy transfer between body segments, Syllabus: This module will cover material on the Energy exchanges within segments. Review of forward SS4403 - COACHING SCIENCE AND PERFORMANCE function of several human physiological systems solution models. Effects of orthotics on gait. Examination 2 including the nervous, urinary, endcrine, immune and of footwear and sports equipment design. ECTS Credits: 6 digestive systems. ------Physical Education & Sport Sciences ------SS4312 - QUALITATIVE BIOMECHANICAL Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To enable the SS4305 - QUANTITATIVE BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS student to extend their coaching knowledge and ability in ANALYSIS ECTS Credits: 6 a specific sport and in the related areas of pedagogy, ECTS Credits: 6 exercise prescription and physical conditioning / training. Physical Education & Sport Sciences Physical Education & Sport Sciences Syllabus: Sports: Students will be required to select one Rationale and Purpose of the Module: While a sound sport from three offered during the semester. In addition Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To further knowledge of anatomical structure is important for to the sports specific content, common elements of advance the students knowledge of biomechanics within effective analysis of human movement activity - Analysis pedagogy (reflective practice, ethics in coaching and the both sport and exercise and to further explore the requires in-depth understanding of how forces act on development of 'expert' coaches) and applied physical quantitative domain of biomechanics. joints and how joint structure affects movement. There is conditioning will be included. a need for the sport scientist and physical education Syllabus: Overview of measurement techniques in specialist to develop effective skills qualitatively Exercise Prescription: Classification of sports. Sports biomechanics. Data smoothing techniques and criteria analyzing human movement, it causes and effects, needs analysis in terms of physical, technical, tactical for their optimisation including residual analysis. Free through a synthesis of knowledge of anatomy and of and mental demands. Athlete assessment. Periodisation. body diagram analysis of human movement. Mechanical basic mechanics. There is also a need to encourage the Monitoring of training and athletic condition. Tapering for properties of biological materials. Introduction to student to focus on the applied nature of anatomy and peak performance. human simulation theory. biomechanics in sport and Physical education. An Practical Content emphasis on applied nature of this knowledge to sports Physical Conditioning 2: Sport-specific warm-ups and Force plate data capture and subsequent analysis. performance will be achieved through extensive practice cool down. Circuit training - different types, structure Advanced data analysis using spreadsheet solutions. in the application of deterministic models of and phases. Flexibility development - active and passive Butterworth filter design and optimisation. performance, and examination of overall performance techniques. Resistance training - selection, structure, Introuduction to simulation. objectives, biomechanical factor and principles and progressions, regressions. Plyometric training - slow critical features of performance in a wide range of sport and fast SSC exercises. Devising and implementing ------and exercise activities. The emphasis on this module will taining programmes. Aspects of organisation and safety be on developing the student's skill in analysing will be addressed throughout. Developing competence SS4308 - ADVANCED BIOMECHANICS ANALYSIS movement without direct measurement and developing in demonstrating specific exercise techniques, ECTS Credits: 6 the ability to recommend ways of improving performance competence in spotting and coaching, knowledge and or learning as an outcome of qualitative analysis. understanding of progressions and regressions are key Physical Education & Sport Sciences elements of this element. Syllabus: SYLLABUS Rationale and Purpose of the Module: AIMS: Forms of motion; translation rotation and general Prerequisites: SS4402 * To consolidate students' understanding of kinematics motion. Effects of forces. Momentum and ------format to make the students critically aware of involving motor skill performance and learning e.g. sport, appropriate testing for different populations and the On dance, rehabilitation, industry, ergonomics. an individual basis students will prepare a comprehensive piece of written work on effective evaluation processes Syllabus: Review of the motor skill performance and the pertaining to human performance and functioning in the motor learning processes. Measuring motor skill context of sport and health. In a team-based exercise, performance and learning; retention and transfer tests; students will make a seminar presentation on an novice intermediate and expert differences. Scientific effective evaluation process for a specific scenario in the evidence for changes due to practice and learning. SS4411 - COACHING SCIENCE AND PERFORMANCE sport and health domain. Theories to explain observations. Principles and laws. 1 Hicks Law and Fitts Law. Open loop and closed loop ECTS Credits: 3 ------systems of control. Adams closed loop theory, motor

programme theory, Schmidts schema theory, dynamical Physical Education & Sport Sciences SS6002 - APPLIED SPORT PSYCHOLOGY systems theory and ecological theory. Roles of vision and

ECTS Credits: 6 proprioception in the control of movement; visual search. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give Motor programme, dynamical systems and ecological students a basic proficiency, understanding and Physical Education & Sport Sciences theories of motor learning. The structuring of practice appreciation of rules, principles, tactics and demands of (e.g. frequency & spacing, variability, random & blocked) a selected sport. To introduce students to basic coaching Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The emphasis and its effects on learning. Roles of Demonstration, skills and current issues. in this course is on the application of psychological instruction and feedback. Implicit learning. Whole-part

concepts, skills and strategies to applied settings in sport practice. Application of principles and of research Syllabus: Sports: Students will learn about and through for performance enhancement. Specifically, students will findings to practical settings and problems. a selective individual/dual sport. In addition to sport explore the social and psychological factors related to ------specific content (skills and tactics), common elements of sport participation and peak sport performance. coaching and applied physical conditioning will be TE4011 - ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE 1 included. Syllabus: Content relating to performance enhancement (INTERMEDIATE)

includes psychological characteristics of peak ECTS Credits: 6 Pedagogy: Criteria for effective coaching, philosophy and performance, characteristics of elite athletes and their role of the coach, coaching styles, communication, group development, increasing of awareness; selected mental School of Modern Languages and Applied organisation and management, demonstrations, safety skills and strategies (e.g. muscle relaxation, autogenic Linguistics and ethics in sport. training, meditation, self talk, plans & routines, simulation training); guidelines and procedures for Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide ------implementing intervention strategies; conducting mental language support to students on the Erasmus exchange

skills training programmes. Attention will also be given to programmes to enable them to benefit more fully from SS4417 - HUMAN PERFORMANCE EVALUATION the environment in which sport occurs focusing on their Erasmus experience at a social, cultural and ECTS Credits: 6 aspects of group dynamics. academic level.

To provide integrated tuition and practice in the four Physical Education & Sport Sciences ------language skills of listening, speaking, reading and

writing. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To gain SS6011 - ANALYSIS OF MOTOR SKILL insights into how human performance objectives in sport PERFORMANCE AND LEARNING Syllabus: Students work from a set text book, back-up and health are achieved by integrating as appropriate ECTS Credits: 6 audio visual and on-line material. knowledge and techniques associated with the disciplines Practice is given in the four language skills, language of physiology, biomechanics, psychology and exercise Physical Education & Sport Sciences awareness-raising and with special emphasis on and health. Effective application of measurement, pronunciation at this level. testing, interpretation and evaluation techniques Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give The following grammatical areas are covered: verb associated with the named disciplines will be a key focus knowledge and understanding of how movement skills tenses e.g. present simple and continuous, past simple of the module. are controlled during performance and also how they are and continuous, future forms, present perfect simple and

best practised and learned. Course content will be based continuous; modality and conditionality; modal verbs Syllabus: This is a final year integrative module that on research findings and theories which will be critically expressing obligation, deduction, possibility and ability, aims to complement research skills gained in the sport reviewed. There will be a strong applied dimension with first conditional and exercise science final year project with practical the purpose of providing students with a theoretical basis lexis e.g. frequent collocations, common expressions, skills and experience in sport and exercise evaluation. for making informed decisions regarding the structuring conversational responses and idioms, qualifying using The course will consist of lectures on the theory and of practice for motor skills. The module would be of adverbs and adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, practice of performance evaluation in an integrative interest to those from a variety of disciplines and areas discourse markers (oral and written) e.g. connectives, sequencing, signposting. Integrated tuition and practice is given in the four students currently completing the TEFL suite of modules, language skills. and they will exit with a TEFL certificate. New entrants in ------The following areas are covered: grammar; modals and the academic year 2014/15 will start the new TESOL meaning, the perfect infinitive, mixed conditionals, suite of modules. tenses in accounts and narratives, all aspects of reported speech Syllabus: The module is structured into three Lexis: word-building, compound adjectives, synonyms, independent but related components: confusable words, metaphorical language, intensifying 1. A theoretical and practical introduction to ESOL TE4021 - ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE 1 adverbs, discourse markers, phrasal verbs, collocations, classroom teaching to include the teaching of the (UPPER INTERMEDIATE) British v American English receptive skills (reading and listening) and productive ECTS Credits: 6 Recognition and use of the IPA skills (writing and speaking), the teaching of vocabulary future forms, wishes and regrets, defining and and semantic concepts and the teaching of grammar and School of Modern Languages and Applied non-defining relative clauses, noun clauses, adverb pronunciation. Linguistics clauses, perfective v progressive aspect, gerunds, 2. The further development of knowledge in relation to

infinitives grammatical aspects of the English language to include Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide active and passive voice and direct and indirect speech language support to students on the Erasmus exchange ------and the development of a more advanced understanding programmes to enable them to benefit more fully from of the English sound system at both the micro- and the their Erasmus experience at a social, cultural and TE4107 - TEACHING ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF macro-level. academic level OTHER LANGUAGES (TESOL) 2 3. The practical application of the above knowledge To provide tuition and practice in the four language skills ECTS Credits: 6 through practice. of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

School of Modern Languages and Applied Prerequisites: TE4025 Syllabus: Students work from a set text book, back-up Linguistics audio visual and on-line material. ------Integrated tuition and practice is given in the four Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To give language skills. students a theoretical and practical understanding of TW4003 - INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL The following grammatical areas are covered: Phrasal classroom teaching in the ESOL context, including: an COMMUNICATION verb structure, position of adverbs, future time forms, introduction to lesson planning; teaching productive and ECTS Credits: 6 conditionals, narrative tenses, modal verbs of deduction receptive skills; teaching vocabulary, grammar and lexis e.g. frequent collocations, common expressions, pronunciation relevant to the ESOL context. School of Culture and Communication conversational responses and idioms, discourse To enable students to develop a more advanced markers (oral and written) e.g. connectives, sequencing, knowledge of the grammatical and phonological aspects Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is signposting. of the English language relevant to TESOL. designed to replace TW4115: Principles of Professional

To give students the opportunity to practically apply and Technical Communication and Information Design. ------aspects of the above knowledge through peer teaching or This module is being developed to fully de-couple

teaching practice. undergraduate and postgraduate modules which were TE4031 - ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE 1 To allow students to develop an understanding of the historically taught together, but are now fully separate. (ADVANCED) different levels of language competency in the ESOL The new title is also clearer. The module's purpose is to ECTS Credits: 6 classroom. introduce students to the disciplines of technical and

professional communication and information design; to School of Modern Languages and Applied This is the second of a three-module suite, preceded by establish a rigorous standard in the writing of clear, Linguistics TEXXXX (TESOL 1) and followed up by TEXXXX (TESOL concise, correct English appropriate for technical

3). This suite of modules is intended to give students a communication; to develop the students' ability to Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To provide foundation in Teaching English to Speakers of Other choose appropriate writing styles for a range of technical language support to students on the Erasmus exchange Languages which is validated by TESOL certification from communication genres and diverse audiences; to provide programmes to enable them to benefit more fully from the University of Limerick. TEXXXX (TESOL 1) and practice through a range of assignments designed to their Erasmus experience at a social, cultural and TEXXXX (TESOL 3) are offered in the Spring semester; improve the students' performance in creating different academic level TEXXXX (TESOL 2) is offered in the Autumn semester. types of documentation: summaries, brochures etc.; and To provide tuition and practice in the four language skills to develop the students' expertise in using the tools of of listening, speaking, reading and writing. the profession. This module introduces technical Note: This suite of modules replaces TE4025 (TEFL 1), communication for different genres. More advanced Syllabus: Students work from a set text book, back-up TE4026 (TEFL 2) and TE4028 (TEFL 3). The roll out of modules include content on referencing and academic audio visual and on-line material. this new stream of TESOL modules will not affect writing. Principle Private Residence Relief; CGT and Development * The principles of erecting large structures and the Syllabus: Introduction to technical communication; Land; Introduction to Capital Acquisitions Tax; Basic various forms they take. audience analysis; writing style for technical Concepts & Reliefs; Business Relief; Agricultural Relief; * Internal and external components of industrial and communication; information design; typography; colour; Taxation of Trusts; Foreign Aspects; Stamp Duty. high rise structures graphics and illustrations; technical communication genres; writing summaries; designing and writing ------Syllabus: Site works, site layout, electricity on building brochures. sites; Plant and equipment; Substructure construction, ground water control, deep trench excavations, ------cofferdam and caissons, tunnelling and culverts; TX4305 - TAXATION THEORY AND PRACTICE Underpinning, piled foundations; Demolition and TX4007 - TAXATION FOR CORPORATES ECTS Credits: 6 temporary works, Portal frames; Introduction to ECTS Credits: 6 highrise construction, Introduction to fire protection; Accounting & Finance Claddings to framed structures; Formwork systems; Accounting & Finance Pre-stressed concrete; Industrial buildings. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module designed to provide students with an understanding of Prerequisites: WT4502, WT4401 aims to provide an understanding of Irish Corporation the theoretical and legal framework of taxation. It aims Tax, the rationale for incorporation of a business, the to give students a thorough understanding of the manner ------taxation implications of close company status and the in which individuals and unincorporated businesses are effective use of losses and group reliefs. It also taxed in the State. The module reviews the taxation WT4117 - STRUCTURAL DESIGN introduces students to the principles of Value Added Tax implications of business decisions and introduces the ECTS Credits: 6 (VAT) and the application of VAT in a business context. basics of tax planning. School of Engineering Syllabus: General principles of Irish Corporation Tax. Syllabus: Introduction to the theory of taxation and The rationale for, and the tax implications of, basic tax policy; overview of Irish income tax system; Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this incorporation. Computation of the corporation tax the self-assessment system; personal tax computations; module is to provide a basic understanding of structures liability. Loss relief for companies, group relief for Schedule E employment income, benefits in kind and and the design of principal structural elements losses, charges and transfer of assets. Close termination payments; interest income, rental income, companies, definition and consequences. Tax planning foreign income, dividend income; the taxation treatment Syllabus: Basic structural concepts and material for companies including restructuring to maximise tax of married couples; the measurement of taxable properties, design loads, limit state design principles, reliefs. Current issues in Corporation Tax. Introduction business profits, allowable and disallowable beam design, axially loaded column design, column base to VAT, general principles, administration, registration expenditures, commencement and cessation of trading; & splice details, design of tension members and and deregistration, exemptions and zero rating, inter EU capital allowances, balancing allowances and charges; compression members, design of simple connections, sales and purchases. VAT on property transactions. the effects of residence and domicile of individuals on tax trusses and bracing, floor design, introduction to liability; basics of tax planning; the annual budget structural detailing; bearing pressures, design of ------shallow foundations, introduction to lateral stability. ------TX4204 - CAPITAL TAXATION Prerequisites: WT4503 ECTS Credits: 6 WT4003 - CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 2 ------Accounting & Finance ECTS Credits: 6 WT4401 - CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module is School of Engineering MANAGEMENT 1 designed to provide students with an understanding of ECTS Credits: 6 the theoretical and legal framework of capital taxation. Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this It aims to give students a thorough understanding of the module is to provide a comprehensive introduction to School of Engineering manner in which individuals taxed in the State on the industrial, high-rise and construction practice and disposal of assets. technology Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this module is to provide a comprehensive introduction to Syllabus: Introduction to Capital Gains Tax; Calculation Key objectives every aspect of the technology of domestic low-rise of Capital Gains Tax; CGT Exemptions & Reliefs; CGT construction, and to present this in a rational and logical Retirement Relief; Transfer of a Business to a Company; Provide knowledge of progression reflecting the construction process. CGT and Share Transactions CGT and Liquidation of * Organising and selecting resources needed to Companies; Company Purchasing its Own Shares; successfully complete the project Syllabus: Introduction to the Building Regulations and Technical Guidance Documents. * To produce good citizens. Site works, temporary works, subsoil drainage, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The overall * To emphasise the importance of effective excavations, scaffolding. aim of this module is to illustrate the application of communication. Radon problems and prevention. Radon membranes economic principles to the building and construction and sumps. process. Syllabus: Reasons for failures in engineering; Modes of Substructure construction techniques, foundations û failure; Risk; Failure case histories in concrete, steel, strip, raft and piled, concrete. Damp proof courses and Specific objectives include providing the student with; masonry, foundations and timber etc; Common pitfalls, membranes. Felds ten basic rules; Nonstructural failures; Learning Superstructure construction techniques, stonework, * An overview of the construction industry and its role from failures; Forensic engineering practice; Conducting brickwork, blockwork, cavity walls. in the economy a forensic engineering investigation; Writing a forensic Timber framed construction. Components. Site * An understanding of the construction firm and its engineering report; Ethics and Responsibilities, Standard control. Insulation and damproofing. management from an economic perspective of Care; Rules of evidence, Depositions, Arbitration. Floors - suspended timber, raised access, precast * The economic considerations in evaluating building concrete, hollow block, waffle slabs. projects and making decisions. These topics will be addressed through PBL exercises Roofs û timber, flat and pitched, tiling, asphalt flat roofs, involving individual and/or team challenges. The roof lights and ventilation. Syllabus: The construction industry, its economic module assessment is by 60% CA work and 40% end of Stairs û timber, reinforced concrete and precast development, structure and role in the economy. semester examination. Examples of CA work include concrete. construction as a production process. Management of class debates (e.g. cases involving ethical dilemmas Detailing of opes, eaves and other junctions. firms, costs, revenues and markets from the point of faced by engineers such as Citicorp building N.Y.), Sound insulation û airborne, impact & flanking. view of economists and managers. strategic decision individual online quizzes on ethics, individual online Soundproofing. making in property development and project appraisal quizzes on forensic engineering, team based forensic Thermal insulation, thermal bridging, condensation and and feasibility studies. Linking the economics of the engineering projects requiring presentations and report draughtproofing. Basic U-value calculation. production process of construction to the economics of writing. its output, buildings and structures of the built ------environment. Cost modelling techniques, cost and price Cross faculty collaboration on projects involving law and forecasting, cost product and process modelling, dealing architecture is also encouraged on this module. WT4503 - STRUCTURAL MECHANICS with uncertainty. Building design, its interaction with the ECTS Credits: 6 construction process in determining the cost and quality ------of buildings. The economics of buildings essential School of Engineering resources, energy efficiency and its cost. Cost limits and WT4605 - PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING values, determining value for money Commercial values ECTS Credits: 6 Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To develop the and the property market. student's understanding of: School of Engineering * force systems Prerequisites: WT4804 * criteria for structural design Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this * structural behaviour ------module is to provide an understanding of the different forms of contract and their commercial implications, and Syllabus: SI units and manipulation of formulae, WT4507 - FORENSIC ENGINEERING AND ETHICS provide project managers with an overview of the sources and types structural loading, reactions and ECTS Credits: 6 procurement and contracting processes as part of the supports, free body diagrams, shear force and bending overall project management process. moment calculations, static determinancy and School of Engineering indeterminancy, qualitative analysis of beams and The specific objectives are to provide learners with the frames, stability and analysis of pin jointed frames, Rationale and Purpose of the Module: This module knowledge of; section properties, engineers equation of bending. introduces the important subject of ethics through the study of engineering failures. Well-documented case * The different types and forms of contract used in These topics will be covered through lectures, tutorials, studies, project work and invited speakers form an procuring services for projects. experimentation and problem solving projects. intrinsic part of achieving the following key objectives: * The principle elements of a contract and contract law * Standard contract forms and how they are used in the ------* To promote ethical behaviour throughout the students various stages of the project lifecycle personal, university and professional lives. * The procurement process and the perspectives of WT4505 - BUILDING ECONOMICS * To demonstrate the value of learning from engineering different parties ECTS Credits: 6 failures. * Contract administration, issues underlying disputes * To emphasise the scientific method in engineering and claims. School of Engineering practice. Syllabus: Contract building blocks, forms and essential Parts & Processes Commonality.The cost of complexity elements of contracts, partnering and new and variation. Variety Reduction. developments forms, buyer-seller relationship. Design for Assembly (DFA). Invalidity factors and frustration, agreements, conditions Legal Aspects of NPD - Laws on Product Liability and EU and warranty, liquidated damages, performance bonds PL Directive, CE Mark.- Safety Evaluation, Prevention of and terms of payments. The procurement process, Defective Products. tendering and bidding, tender evaluation and awarding of Intellectual Property - Patents, Application Process and contracts, uncertainty and risks, negotiations legislative requirements. restrictions. eProcurement, centralised purchasing within -Copyright, trademarks and design registration. organisations. Contract administration, claims and disputes, legal procedures, conciliation & arbitration. ------Managing conflict and negotiating procedures. Contract closure, compliance, maintenance periods, WT4707 - CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND commissioning, payment structures and final accounts. MANAGEMENT 3 ECTS Credits: 6 Prerequisites: WT4804, WT4704 School of Engineering ------Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The aim of this WT4705 - BUILDING PRODUCTION module is to provide an understanding of overall project ECTS Credits: 6 management process and principles and how they apply to construction projects School of Engineering Syllabus: * Introduction to Construction Project Rationale and Purpose of the Module: To introduce Management and PM Software - purpose, concepts and the student to the sciene and art of New Product conventions. Development within the construction domain. It links * Construction Planning Tools and Techniques û the manufacturing and construction skills learnt in earlier Schedule Definition and Management; Construction modules with the design process and these are brought Project Network Analysis, Critical Path, PERT & Line of together by means of a project. The project is intended Balance. to take the student through the basic design process into * Resource Allocation & Levelling û labour, material requirements engineering, market analysis, materials, and equipment manufacturing processes and the production of an initial * Site Establishment and Management business plan. * Managing Resources and Costs * Communications & Change Control Management û Syllabus: Problem definition and clarification - design Site Meetings and Progress Reports briefs; New Product Development (NPD) Concurrent * Leadership and Negotiation Skills on Construction Engineering NPD vs Traditional NPD; The deliverables of Projects processes of design; NPD Failure Reasons, Rationale for * Construction Risk Management û Identification, Concurrent Engineering. Analysis, Response and Control NPD Project Planning- Minimising NPD Lead Time, NPD * Construction Productivity Improvement - Define, Resources, Teams. Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control NPD Requirements Definition - Specifications, QFD, Focus * Lean Construction methods û TQM, Value Groups, Functional Analysis. Defining Customer Engineering, Waste Elimination, Root Cause Analysis, Requirements, House of Quality (HOQ), Voice of the Supply Chain Management & Partnering. Customer (VOC), Product, Process Planning -Parts Deployment & Production Planning. Prerequisites: WT4401, WT4502, WT4003 Product Concept Evolution- Idea & Concept Generation, Creativity, Brainstorming - Morphological Analysis, ------Synectics, Analogy. Concept Evaluation - Ranking Methods, Concept Assessment Techniques, AHP. -Pughs Concept Selector, Convergence and Divergence. Standardisation & Modularity- Features of Good Design,