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Students should note that all of the modules below may not be available to them. International visiting students should consult the International Education Office regarding selection of modules. Undergraduate students should refer to the relevant section of the UCC Undergraduate Calendar for their programme requirements. Postgraduate students should refer to the relevant section of the UCC Postgraduate Calendar for their programme requirements. |
Credit Weighting: 10
Teaching Period(s): Teaching Period 1.
No. of Students: Min 4, Max 12 (Max total for UCC, NUIG and TCD = 50).
Pre-requisite(s): -
Co-requisite(s): -
Teaching Methods: 10 x 2hr(s) Seminars (per week in Teaching Period 2 remotely be video); 3 x 1day(s) Workshops (and directed research.).
Module Co-ordinator: Dr Hiram Morgan, Department of History.
Lecturer(s): Staff, Department of History, Dr. Crawford Gribben, Trinity College, Dublin.
Module Objective: To examine the history of the book, particularly in the early modern period, as background to postgraduate work in the arts and humanities.
Module Content: The book as material object; the changing technologies of publication; the development of literacy and reading habits; the relationships between text, image and other forms of cultural production; and the networks of dissemination between authors, publishers, commentators, critics and other receivers of texts.
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
· Deploy knowledge acquired in relation to the Print Revolution and its cultural context.
· Deploy knowledge acquired on the changing technologies of publication.
· Deploy knowledge acquired about the relevant chronology, evidence and historiographical debates.
· Use information retrieval tools, such as bibliographical repertoires, archival inventories and e-references.
· Comment upon, annotate or edit texts and documents correctly according to the critical canons of the discipline.
· Give narrative form to research results according to the canons of the discipline.
· Judge critically the relationship between present and past.
· Integrate knowledge, handle complexity and formulate judgements.
Assessment: Continuous assessment (5000 word project, presentation and participation) which will be assessed on a Pass/Fail basis.
Compulsory Elements: Project; Presentation; Participation.
Penalties (for late submission of Course/Project Work etc.): None.
Pass Standard and any Special Requirements for Passing Module: A pass judgement.
End of Year Written Examination Profile: No End of Year Written Examination.
Requirements for Supplemental Examination: In the event of a student failing a module or not being able to complete it before the summer TCC board, the module co-ordinator with the approval of the TCC board may prescribe supplementary work in lieu.
AH7004 Research Skills Portfolio (Texts, Contexts and Cultures)
Credit Weighting: 10
Teaching Period(s): Teaching Periods 1 and 2. (taken over Years 2 & 3 of the programme).
No. of Students: Min 4, Max 12.
Pre-requisite(s): Completion of Year 1 of TCC
Co-requisite(s): -
Teaching Methods: Seminars; Workshops (and Conferences).
Module Co-ordinator: Dr Hiram Morgan, Department of History.
Lecturer(s): Dr Hiram Morgan, Department of History, and assigned PhD supervisors.
Module Objective: To provide an opportunity for students to develop their research skills, increase their knowledge horizons and to develop their networks.
Module Content: Students in years 2 and 3 of Texts, Contexts and Cultures will be required to attend workshops, seminars, master-classes and conferences. They will be required to participate, contribute and, in at least one case, present a paper to their peers, and finally submit a short reflective portfolio describing the acquisition of recognised key generic skills for PhD students.
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
· Deploy rhetorical and presentational skills
· Keep up to date with developments in the academic research environment beyond their own chosen field
· Initiate and sustain networks and relationships that may foster research opportunities
· Reflect critically on skills acquisition and act positively on it.
Assessment: Continuous assessment (presentation, participation and portfolio) which will be assessed on a Pass/Fail basis.
Compulsory Elements: Participation, presentation and submission of portfolio.
Penalties (for late submission of Course/Project Work etc.): None.
Pass Standard and any Special Requirements for Passing Module: A pass judgement.
End of Year Written Examination Profile: No End of Year Written Examination.
Requirements for Supplemental Examination: Research portfolio may be resubmitted. [Note: candidates may not submit their PhD thesis until this module has been passed].
AH7005 Work Placement (Texts, Contexts and Cultures)
Credit Weighting: 10
Teaching Period(s): Teaching Periods 1 and 2. (the module runs throughout the calendar year.).
No. of Students: Min 4, Max 12.
Pre-requisite(s): Completion of year 1 of TCC.
Co-requisite(s): -
Teaching Methods: 12weeks(s) Placements.
Module Co-ordinator: Dr Hiram Morgan, Department of History.
Lecturer(s): Dr Hiram Morgan, Department of History, relevant off-site supervisors.
Module Objective: To provide an opportunity for students to develop career-relevant transferable skills through work experience in a cultural or commercial environment.
Module Content: Students will be placed in a relevant work environment for 12 weeks to increase their employability and prepare their entry into the knowledge economy. They will be expected to develop their skill set and broaden their education under the supervision of work-place and UCC personnel. Students are obliged to actively participate in the Work Placement Programme. Students are required to prepare a final report on their placement.
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
· Work in a collaborative environment
· Deploy principles of project and time management
· Demonstrate an awareness of transferable skills and their applicability to non-academic settings
· Initiate and sustain networks and relationships that may foster employment opportunities
· Comprehend intellectual property and knowledge exchange issues
· Gain awareness of the role of entrepreneurship in the cultural field
· Reflect critically on work experience and act positively on it.
Assessment: Continuous assessment (5000 word report and participation) which will be assessed on a Pass/Fail basis.
Compulsory Elements: Participation and Report.
Penalties (for late submission of Course/Project Work etc.): None.
Pass Standard and any Special Requirements for Passing Module: A Pass Judgement.
End of Year Written Examination Profile: No End of Year Written Examination.
Requirements for Supplemental Examination: Work Placement Report may be resubmitted. [Note: candidates may not submit their PhD thesis until this module has been passed].
AH7006 Criticial Thinking 1500 - 1800 (Texts, Contexts and Cultures)
Credit Weighting: 10
Teaching Period(s): Teaching Period 2.
No. of Students: Min 6, Max 12 (Maximum total for UCC, NUIG and TCD = 50).
Pre-requisite(s): None
Co-requisite(s): None
Teaching Methods: 10 x 2hr(s) Seminars (per week in Teaching Period 1 in situ); 3 x 1day(s) Workshops (and directed research).
Module Co-ordinator: Professor Brendan Dooley, College of ACSSS (Prof. of Renaissance Studies, CACSSS Graduate School).
Lecturer(s): Professor Brendan Dooley, College of ACSSS, and Dr. Crawford Gribben (TCD).
Module Objective: To examine current approaches to culture in a given period as background to postgraduate research in the humanities.
Module Content: The module studies current scholarship in regard to Renaissance and Early Modern culture and society, as well as new transdisciplinary methodologies in humanities research. Topics include: the religious imagination, the apocalyptical imagination, the psychology of emotions, spatial consciousness, historical consciousness, the symbolics of power, the aesthetic. Readings include but are not limited to original texts by: F. Redi, J. Calvin, B. Cellini, G. Medici, and scholarship by B. Shapiro, P. Findlen, J. B. Harley. The module substitutes a current module entitled "Renaissance History", AH7001
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
· Read critically and thoroughly a variety of documents from the Renaissance and Early Modern period, ranging across several disciplines, modes of expression and cultures
· Understand cultural change, 1500-1800
· Read critically in the current scholarship (including texts written by their peers)
· Understand major approaches in current research on Renaissance and Early Modern history and culture.
· See how current theories and methods are used to gain a better understanding of specific problems.
· Apply particular theories and methods in creative ways to formulate questions and hypotheses on specific topics of their own devising.
· Utilize IT resources applied to their disciplines, for the issues analyzed in the course.
· Formulate analytical arguments and present them in a group, deploying resources from modern scholarship and historical documents
· Write up research results correctly and convincingly.
Assessment: 1 x 5000 word project.
Compulsory Elements: Project, Presentation, Participation.
Penalties (for late submission of Course/Project Work etc.): None.
Pass Standard and any Special Requirements for Passing Module: A Pass Judgement.
End of Year Written Examination Profile: No End of Year Written Examination.
Requirements for Supplemental Examination: In the event of a student failing a module or not being able to complete it before the summer TCC board, the module co-ordinator with the approval of the TCC board may prescribe supplementary work in lieu.
AH7007 Critical Thinking 1800 - 2000
Credit Weighting: 10
Teaching Period(s): Teaching Period 1.
No. of Students: Min 6, Max 12 (Max total for UCC, NUIG and TCD = 50).
Pre-requisite(s): None
Co-requisite(s): None
Teaching Methods: 10 x 2hr(s) Seminars (per week in Teaching Period 1 in situ); 3 x 1day(s) Workshops (and directed research).
Module Co-ordinator: Professor Brendan Dooley, College of ACSSS (Prof. of Renaissance Studies, CACSSS Graduate School).
Lecturer(s): Professor Brendan Dooley, College of ACSSS, Prof. Nicholas Allen (NUIG) and Dr. Crawford Gribben (TCD).
Module Objective: This element of research training in the Texts, Contexts, Cultures pathway grounds students in a range of theoretical and material approaches to humanities research.
Module Content: Located in the historical period from 1800 to the present, it builds on the related seminar, Texts, Contexts, Cultures: Critical Thinking (1500-1800). The seminar's interdisciplinary framework is designed from elements of literature, history, visual arts, philosophy, and critical theory.
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
· Engage in advanced critical thinking in cultural theory.
· Understand cultural change from 1800 - 2000.
· Write up their research results effectively.
Assessment: 1 x 5000 word projec.
Compulsory Elements: Project, Presentation, Participation.
Penalties (for late submission of Course/Project Work etc.): None.
Pass Standard and any Special Requirements for Passing Module: A Pass Judgement.
End of Year Written Examination Profile: No End of Year Written Examination.
Requirements for Supplemental Examination: In the event of a student failing a module or not being able to complete it before the summer TCC board, the module co-ordinator with the approval of the TCC board may prescribe supplementary work in lieu.