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Programme Academic Structure for 2023 - 2024, BA Social Sciences & Cultural Innovation

This information is provisional & subject to change.

Year 1 Core Modules:

CodeTitleCreditSemesterExam %CA %Resit Category
CM135Analysing Visual Media Texts10Semester 201001
CM151Introduction to Communication Studies10Semester 101001
CM157Cultural Studies5Semester 201001
LC107Interculturalism in Practice5Semester 101001
LC109Power, Self and Society5Semester 101001
LC113Contemporary Cultural Debates5Semester 201001
LG112Introduction To Modern Ireland5Semester 201001
LG116Introduction to Politics5Semester 101001
LG1170Intro to International Relations & Security10Semester 101001

Year 1 Optional Modules -

CodeTitleCreditSemesterExam %CA %Resit Category
FR3005French Language and Culture 5 (B1.1)5Semester 201002
FR3007French Language and Culture 7 (B1+)5Semester 201002
GE3007German Language and Culture 7 (B1+)5Semester 21002
LC3000MultilingualismYear long01002
SP3005Spanish Language and Culture 5 (B1.1)5Semester 201002

Year 2 Core Modules:

CodeTitleCreditSemesterExam %CA %Resit Category
CA179Data Literacy & Analytics for the 21st Centur5Semester 201001
CM2005The Music Industries5Semester 101001
EN207Ireland, Sex and Text5Semester 101001
LC2000Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship5Semester 201001
LC202Global Cultures5Semester 201001
LC208The Making of Contemporary Europe5Semester 101001
LG359Political Ideologies5Semester 201001
PSYC102Social Psychology5Semester 101001

Year 2 Optional Modules -

CodeTitleCreditSemesterExam %CA %Resit Category
CM2006Social Class and the Media5Semester 101001
CM2007Women, Feminism and the CCI's5Semester 201001
CM2008Perspectives on the Networked Society5Semester 201001
CM2008APerspectives on the Networked Society5Semester 201001
CM212Analysing Advertising5Semester 280201
CM261Crime, Policing and the Media5Semester 201001
CM293Theorising Social Media in Everyday Life5Semester 101001
LC219Changemakers: Service Learning5Semester 201001
LG2440Intelligence and National Security5Semester 101001
LG247Introduction to Gender Studies5Semester 201001

Year 3 Core Modules:

CodeTitleCreditSemesterExam %CA %Resit Category
CM3006Communication, Culture and the Environment5Semester 101001
LC311Creativity and the Emerging Future5Year long01001
LC4770Issues in Multiculturalism5Semester 101001
LG361The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa5Semester 101001

Year 3 Optional Modules -

CodeTitleCreditSemesterExam %CA %Resit Category
CM281Media Law5Semester 101001
CM3001Television Drama5Semester 201001
CM3011Climate Change and the Media5Semester 101001
CM3100Press and Public Relations5Semester 101001
CM391Race and the Media5Semester 201001
CM392Science, Technology & Society5Semester 201001
EN332Anglo-Irish Lit: The Novel and Short Story5Semester 201001
LC301Dissertation15Year long01001
LC336Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland5Semester 101001
LC342On being Human in an Uncertain World5Semester 101001
LC345English Skills for Professional Life5Semester 101001
LC421The Lang of Bus & the Media across Cultures5Semester 201001
LC4760Nationalism and Populism in the 21st Century5Semester 201001
LC478Sexualities, Languages and Societies5Semester 201001
LG232Post Soviet Politics5Semester 101001
LG320Contemp. Politics of the M. East & N. Africa5Semester 201001
LG331Issues in American Politics5Semester 201001
LG365The Politics of South Asia5Semester 101001
LG368Dissertation15Year long01001
LG394The Politics of Migration in Europe5Semester 201001
UM404Uaneen - Contributing Module5Year long01001
UM405Uaneen Non-Contributing Module5Year long01001

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