Development Studies Courses Available on the Island of
Ireland
Review undertaken by Jacinta Greene in 2011 in collaboration with Professor Mike Gibney, Director, UCD
Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin.
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Introduction
The following is a review of Development Studies available in Universities and Colleges on the Island of
Ireland. The review was undertaken in 2011 in collaboration with University College Dublin (UCD) to provide
a comprehensive database of Development Studies, as the only other known review available was that of
Development Education completed in 2008 by the Centre of Global Development. The list of courses in the
Republic of Ireland was obtained from the Central Applications Office (CAO) which is the body delegated by
higher education institutions the task of processing central applications for first year undergraduate courses.
Universities in Northern Ireland were searched via the internet/world wide web. Whilst the objective of this
review was to determine Development Studies available, Universities and Colleges involved in teacher
education were also included but making the distinction that they are generally involved in Development
Education.
The review involved a web search from the higher institutions official website of all their courses available and
the content was explored in some detail including courses that incorporated any aspect of global
development. The review highlights the vast range of development studies and sheds light on the increasing
integration of development studies into many mainstream courses underlying the importance of global
development issues. The review was confined a few key headings and placed in table format. The main
content included the overall aim of the course and the development component/module in the course. Key
individuals (secretary or course coordinator) associated with each course were emailed to ensure that the
detail taken from the web was accurate and a true reflection of their course. In addition they are asked to
highlight any additional courses that may have been missed in the review. However not all key individuals
responded and to highlight this in the summary table an asterisk was used (*) was used to indicate the detail
has not been confirmed as accurate by the key individual. All the remaining courses have been confirmed as
accurate.
This review provides the first data base of all development studies on the Island of Ireland but there will be
constant change and so it needs to be kept updated to reflect these changes and ensure it’s a working
document. It is hoped that the Development Studies Association Ireland (DSAI) will play a leading role in
taking this forward and the final document will be saved on their website.
Development studies in Universities and Colleges on the Island of Ireland
Content
1. Cork Institute of Technology
2. Dublin City University
3. Dundalk Institute of Technology
4. Griffith College
5. Independent Colleges Dublin
6. Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
7. Kimmage Development Studies Centre
8. Mary Immaculate College Limerick
9. National University of Ireland Galway
10. National University of Ireland Maynooth
11. Queens University
12. Royal College of Surgeons
13. Trinity College Dublin
14. University College Cork
15. University College Dublin
16. University of Limerick
17. University of Ulster Coleraine
18. University of Ulster Jordanstown
19. University of Ulster Magee
20. Development Education in Irish Teaching Colleges
1. Church of Ireland College of Education and Trinity College Dublin
2. Marino Institute of Education (an associated college of Trinity College Dublin)
3. Mary Immaculate College Limerick
4. St Mary’s University College Belfast
5. St Patricks Collage Drumcondra
6. University of Ulster Coleraine
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Cork Institute of Technology
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of Course
Certificate
Arts,
Participation
&
Development:
Creative
approaches
to
global education
& action
CIT Crawford
College
of
Art & Design
BA in Community
Development and
BA (Hons)
Community
Development
School of
Humanities
This course explores the use of
creativity in approaching issues of
participation in global educational
and action issues. The course
combines
presentations,
case
studies and group participation with a
focus on experiential learning.
(Certificate) Level 8 10-credit special
purpose award provided following
studies.
The broad aim of the programme is
to provide an opportunity for people
who are active in the community to
achieve formal qualifications in the
community work field. This course
has been developed in partnership
with community groups and consists
of lectures, workshops, seminars
combined with a substantial practical
element, based in the community.
Participants will remain within the
community
setting,
thereby
sustaining their contribution to the
community while developing the
capacity to add value to that
contribution through supervised and
supported learning in the workplace.
Students who successfully complete
Year 2 of this programme and do not
wish to progress to Year 3 will
receive the Higher Certificate in Arts
in Community Development.
Course length
Contact
The course is aimed at artists, youth workers,
community workers, teachers, educators and
volunteers who are interested in developing a
global perspective in their practice.
8
weekends,
including three
3-day weekends
(Fri - Sun)
Modules
 Creativity, Innovation & Teamwork
 Community Development
 Portfolio Methods for RPL
 Introduction to Community Studies
 Anthropological Perspectives: community
and society
 Principles of Human Rights
 ICT for research and reporting
 Community Workplace
 Sociology and Community
 Social Analysis
 Education
 Group Work and Community
 Community Practice
 Social Policy
 Adult Education
 Community Project Management
 Work placement 2
 Community Research
 Social Stratification
 Social Justice & Citizenship
 Management and Community
 Research Preparation
 The Professional Workplace
 Community Group work
 Community Health
 Community Workplace Supervision
 Business Management &Community work
 Research Project
3 year full time
(6 semesters)
Suitably
qualified
graduates may
be considered to
proceed to Year
4 of Bachelor of
Arts (Honours)
in Community
Development.
Enquiries
to:
www.artsparticipationa
nddevelopment.com
[email protected]
Cork
Institute
of
Technology
Bishopstown, Cork
Tel:021-432 6100 Fax:
021-454 5343
Email: [email protected]
Ms Patricia Anderson
Course director
Cork Institute of
Technology
Bishopstown, Cork
Email:
[email protected]
Telephone :021
4326703
Entry to this
programme will be
based on interview to
be held in the Cork
Institute of
Technology.
Application forms and
further information
from:
Anne Deasy,
Department of
Education
Development, - DEIS,
T: 021 – 4326700
E: [email protected]
Dublin City University
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of Course
B.A. (Bachelor
Honours Degree)
in International
Relations
Faculty of
Humanities
and Social
Sciences
The BA in International Relations (IR)
explores a variety of issues and
debates in global politics, and the
forces which shape contemporary
societies. The course explore issues
such as globalisation, international
law, third-world debt, American
foreign policy and provides an
understanding
of
institutions
including the European Union and
the United Nations
MA in
Development
Faculty of
Humanities
and Social
Sciences
This MA develops the understanding
of development issues, looking at
different approaches to the causes of
underdevelopment
and
policy
responses.
It
provides
an
introduction
to
the
different
perspectives on development from
governments of developing states,
from donor countries and agencies,
from development non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) and the major
international development institutions
(e.g. IMF, World Bank). Ensures a
detailed
understanding
of
contemporary
development
cooperation and the global structural
barriers to development, such as
trade and debt.
Core modules
 Introduction to International Relations
 International Organisations
 Public International Law
 Intro. to International Political Economy
 Introduction to Development
 International Security and Conflict
 International Human Rights Law
 Foreign Policy
 Key Issues in International Relations
 International Political Economy
Optional Modules
 Introduction
to
Intercultural
Studies
Intercultural Studies: Internationalism and
Global Culture
 Interculturalism in Practice Contemporary
Politics of the M. East & N. Africa
 The Politics of South Asia
 Contemporary India
 Contemporary Politics of Latin America
 Political Terrorism
 Global Civil Society
The graduate programme is highly regarded
in Ireland and internationally and provides a
challenging
and
innovative
learning
environment. The course will encourage your
interest in development issues, with a
specific focus on different approaches to the
causes of underdevelopment and the range
of policy responses. The focus is on building
capacity in developing states themselves and
dealing with the global structural barriers to
development such as trade and debt.
Course length
Contact
3 years fulltime
(optional 1 year
study abroad
component)
Dr. Ken McDonagh
Course Director
Faculty of Humanities
and Social Sciences
Phone 01 700 6476
Kenneth.mcdonagh@d
cu.ie
1 year full-time
or two years
part-time
(involves 4
weekends in the
year and week
of intensive
work in summer
with other
methods of
teaching)
Dr Noelle Higgins
Tel: 01 700 6471
[email protected]
Part-time studies
Dr David Doyle,
[email protected]
Tel: +353 1 700 5536
Room: C220
Dublin City University
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of Course
Course length
Contact
MA in
International
Security and
Conflict Studies
Faculty of
Humanities
and Social
Sciences
This course provides an in-depth
knowledge of the political, social,
economic, historical, and cultural
contexts of the international security
system and its institutions, including
international security organisations
and the law of armed conflict. It also
provides an understanding of the
manner in which states, civil society
actors and individuals interact with
such formal institutions/structures in
order to resolve and manage conflict
and respond to security threats. The
course includes the specific aspects
of international security in the
contemporary
world
(including
peace-keeping and peace-making
interventions, terrorism, failed states,
human security, etc.).
Most conflicts have an international
dimension and global insecurity has local as
well as international causes. This programme
explores the causes of conflict, the role of
powerful states and the broader international
community, the changing role of peacekeeping, European security, terrorism, and
conflict resolution processes.
1 year full-time
Dr Noelle Higgins
Phone 01 700 6471
MA in
International
Relations
School of
Law and
Government
Contemporary international relations
impact on our lives in realms such as
international politics, human rights,
the economy, communications and
trade. This degree offers a broad
interdisciplinary introduction to this
subject. It explores the concepts,
forces and processes underpinning
international relations, looking at the
role
of
powerful states
and
international organisations, legal
frameworks, foreign policy, and the
international political economy. The
course
provides
an
in-depth
understanding of the core theories
underpinning international relations,
including liberalism, realism, and
constructivism.
Students develop a clear and thorough
knowledge of the political, social, economic,
historical, and cultural contexts of the
international system and its institutions. They
will explore the specific aspects of
international relations in the contemporary
world (including security and conflict,
development, globalisation, international law,
area studies and foreign policy). There is the
opportunity to undertake interdisciplinary
options such as language studies and
communication studies. Students will review
both qualitative (e.g. comparative and case
study approaches) and quantitative (i.e.
statistical) research methods which will be
used in the completion of their dissertation.
1 year full time
or two years
part-time
[email protected]
Dr Noelle Higgins
Tel: 01 700 6471
[email protected]
Part-time studies
Dr David Doyle,
[email protected]
Tel: +353 1 700 5536
Room: C220
Dublin City University
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of Course
Structured PhD
programme in
Politics and
International
Relations*
School of
Law and
Government
The programme aims to raise to a
world class standard the training and
supervision available to PhD scholars
of politics and international relations
in Ireland, to support their access to
international networks and training
and thus make PhD graduates in
international relations from DCU
internationally competitive. This
programme provides a structured
PhD programme with a much higher
degree of training, supports and
funding that traditional ‘apprentice’
models which have relied largely on
one to one interactions with a
supervisor. Employers and funders
want universities to provide PhD
students with a wider range of
transferable skills and with better
professional development. This
programme combines the rigour and
professionalism of the American
approach top PhD programmes with
the independence and imagination of
the traditional British-Irish model.
The taught modules provided are set out
below. Modules cover research design, IR
Theory, quantitative and qualitative
approaches. Students will also have access
to postgraduate level modules in sub fields
within politics and IR., where they are
necessary for their PhD and where they have
not formally studied the topic before. In
second and subsequent years students will
take a second module on quantitative
methods, a module in professional
development and may take additional taught
courses.
 Research Design
 Political and International Relations Theory
 Quantitative Methods 1
 Qualitative Methods in IR. Research
Topic Specific Modules Available To PhD
Students (Spring 2008)
 Quantitative Methods 2
 Professional Development
 Summer Schools In Advanced Research
Techniques
Course length
Contact
Dr Eoin O'Malley,
Director of PhD
programme
Email
[email protected]
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Certificate in
Global
Development Issues and
Challenges*
Humanities,
Languages
and Sport
This course is developed for people
who have an interest and/or
involvement in the issues and
challenges that shape our world.
Exploring questions about politics,
international relations global affairs
and an introduction to the workings of
many NGOs.
Inputs to the course will be provided
by staff from Burma Action Ireland,
Voluntary Services International,
Trocaire and Glencree – the Centre
for Peace and Reconciliation.
This course will introduce a whole range of
development challenges that face our
species and our planet. Poverty, inequality,
conflict,
war,
food
security,
energy
consumption, sustainability, human rights
and many more issues will be tackled and
examined during this course. Some theory
will be provided, experiences will be shared
and opinions voiced. The course will be
interactive and engaging and will ensure
participants have a good grasp of some of
the key aspects of development.
Course length
Contact
Duration 10
weeks
Every February
and September
(Subject to
change).
Further Information
Bobby McCormack
Development
Perspectives
25 Trinity Street,
Drogheda
Phone 087 0536622
Email:|
bobby@developmentp
erspectives.ie
www.developmentpers
pectives.ie
Development Studies 1 is a module on offer
as part of the Level 7 programme in
Community Sports leadership. Development
Studies 2 is a module on offer as part of the
Level 8 programme in Community Sports
Leadership.
Development Studies is a module on the
level 7 programme in Community Youth
Work. Equality studies are a module on offer
as part of the level 7 programme in
Community Youth Work.
Title of Course
School
LLM in
International
Human Rights
Law*
School of
Law
Aim of course
Griffith College
Development component/module
Mandatory modules:
 Public International Law
 Introduction to International legal systems
 Research Methods
 International Human Rights Law
Electives:
 Comparative Freedom of Expression
 Social and Economic Rights
 International Asylum and Refugee Law
 International Criminal Law
 Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
Apply directly to the
Lifelong Learning
Centre, Dundalk I.T.
Or enrol online at
www.learn.ie.
Course length
One year full –
time evening
class
Contact
Faculty of Law
[email protected]
Phone 01, 415 0462
Griffith College Dublin
South Circular Road,
Dublin 8
Course Title
School
LLM in
International Law*
School of
Law
Post Graduate
Diploma in
International Law*
School of
Law
Aim of course
Griffith College
Development Component/Module
Mandatory modules:
 Public International Law
 Introduction to International legal systems
 Research methods
Electives
 International Commercial Arbitration
 International Tax Law
 International Financial Services Law
 EU competition and internal markets
International
 Intellectual Property Law
 Corporate Governance
 Comparative Freedom of Expression
 Social and Economic Rights
 International Asylum and Refugee Law
 International Criminal Law
 Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
Mandatory modules:
 Public International Law
 Introduction to International Legal Systems
 Research Methods
 International Human Rights Law
OR
 International Trade Law
Electives:
 International Commercial Arbitration
 International Tax Law
 International Financial Services Law
 EU Competition and Internal Markets
International
 Intellectual Property Law
 Corporate Governance
 Comparative Freedom of Expression
 Social and Economic Rights
 International Asylum and Refugee Law
 International Criminal Law
 Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
Course length
Full time one
year evening
classes
Contact
Faculty of Law
[email protected]
Phone 01, 415 0462
Griffith College Dublin
South Circular Road,
Dublin 8
One year full –
time evening
class
Faculty of Law
[email protected]
Phone 01, 415 0462
Griffith College Dublin
South Circular Road,
Dublin 8
Griffith College
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Post Graduate
Diploma in
International
Human Rights
Law*
School of
Law
The
Postgraduate
Diploma
in
International Human Rights Law is
obtained
by
completing
the
Postgraduate
Certificate
in
International
Law
(including
International Human Rights Law) and
three other modules on the LLM
programme. Possession of this
diploma indicates that a lawyer has
acquired advanced, specialized legal
training, and is qualified to work in a
multinational legal environment.
Mandatory modules:
 Public International Law
 Introduction to International Legal Systems
 Research Methods
 International Human Rights Law
School
Aim of course
Intercultural
Education*
Faculty of
Arts
Independent Colleges offer a range
of innovative online cpd courses for
Primary
School
teachers
and
Principals which includes Intercultural
Education The online course is
divided into five lessons or modules.
The sessions/sections of each
lesson/module will be equivalent to a
total of four hours online, combining
online discussion and exchange of
views
and
ideas
with
other
participants and the completion of
written assignments. The course
provides teachers with an innovative
perspective
on
Intercultural
Education
and
encourages
exploration of intercultural education
utilizing various technologies which
enhance learning through multiple
intelligences. In addition it equips
teachers in intercultural education
st
(SPHE)
with
21
century
technologies which will have a
positive and meaningful impact on
the lives of the students under their
care.
One year full
time evenings
Modules:
 Theory of globalization and its relationship
with
international
development
in
intercultural education.
 Intercultural education the worldwide
issues relating to forced migration and
refugees.
 The interaction, composition and content of
emergency responses and long-term
planning
required
for
international
development and its relevance to schools.
 Climate and environmental changes with
their impact globally and the development
of procedures being put in place to
decrease the negative effects in an
integrated manner.
 Provision of INTC literature on the World
Wide
Web
relevant
to international
development studies
Contact
Faculty of Law
[email protected]
Phone 01, 415 0462
Griffith College Dublin
South Circular Road,
Dublin 8
Electives:
 Comparative Freedom of Expression
 Social and Economic Rights
 International Asylum and Refugee Law
 International Criminal Law
 Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
Independent Colleges Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
Course length
Course length
Contact
8 weeks full time
Contact Us
Contact Details
Independent Colleges
60-63 Dawson Street
Dublin 2
T: 01 6725058
education@independe
ntcolleges.ie
Course Title
Bachelor of Arts
in Social and
Community
Development or
Honours course
School
Aim of course
Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
Development component/module
As an indicator in first year of the
course, students will take common
modules
such
as
sociology,
psychology, health and well-being,
cultural competence, communication,
community studies, addiction studies,
group dynamics, anthropology and
personal development and creative
practice. During the third and fourth
students
will
further
their
understanding
of
social
and
community development by choosing
between two strands of study …
sociology and culture or health and
psychology which allow students to
focus on specific aspects of social
and
community
development.
Students will also retain core
common
modules
relating
to
research
and
professional
development.
Modules
 Introduction to Cultural Competence
 Introduction to Community Studies
 Anthropological Perspectives: Community
and Society
 Principles of Human Rights
 Issues of Equality in Community Health
and Development
 Community
Development
and
participation:
Urban
and
Rural
perspectives
 Cultural Influence on Comparative Religion
 Language, Culture and Identify Formation
 Citizenship and Local Partnership in the
Community
 Diversity in the Workplace: Voluntary and
Community Sector
 Social and Cultural Mediation
 Media as a Social Institution
Course length
Contact
3 Years full time
(Level 7)
Institute of Technology
Blanchardstown,
Blanchardstown Road
North, Dublin 15
4 years full time
level (level 8)
Tel: +353 (1) 8851000
Fax: +353 (1) 8851001
Email: [email protected]
Kimmage Development Studies Centre
Development component/module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Kimmage Online
Development
Education
(KODE)
Kimmage
Development
Studies
Centre,
KODE offers a range of practical
courses to development workers –
particularly those working in the field
at community level projects in Africa.
These courses involve specialized
tutor support and advice, a dedicated
website to facilitate student
communication and, essentially, full
course material/content on CD. This
learning method facilitates
participants to work through the
concepts, principles and practice of
each course topic at their own pace,
in their own time to gain key skills in
each of the subject areas. This
innovative distance learning delivery
will help to further Kimmage DSC's
strategy to localize capacity building
and further develop our educational
partnerships in the South.
Provision of short professional development
courses for those working in NGOs and
CBOs thereby meeting the education and
training
This programme aims to promote an
understanding of the holistic
development of the person in the
community and to provide
specialised training for development
practitioners. It explores the
dimensions of the human, economic,
political and social aspects of
theories of change and aims to
increase participant’s awareness of
development, justice and poverty
issues at local and global levels. It
encourages dialogue on
development experiences in a variety
of contexts in Ireland and
internationally.
Mandatory modules:
 Economic Development
 Environment and Development
 Political Studies
 Sociology of Development
 Gender and Development
 Cultural Anthropology
 Project Planning and Management
 Financial Management
 Adult Education
 Human Development Theories
 Introduction to Research Methods
 Applied social research project in the
development field
BA Degree in
Development
Studies
Kimmage
Development
Studies
Centre,
Ireland, and
MS-TCDC,
Centre in
Arusha,
Tanzania.
Course length
Contact
5 to 10 week
courses
Deirdre Healy:
deirdre.healy@kimma
gesc.ie
Website: www.kodeonl
ine.com.
2 years full time
or also can be
undertaken parttime
Tom Campbell
tom.campbell@kimma
gedsc.ie
Secretary
Kimmage
Development Studies
Centre
Kimmage Manor
Whitehall Road
Dublin 12
Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 406
4386 / 4064380
Fax: +353 (0)1
4064388
Email:
[email protected]
needs of development workers.
Courses
 Understanding and addressing gender
based violence in development context
 Project planning and proposal writing
 Monitoring and evaluation
 Project management governance and
accountability.
 Sustainable livehoods and poverty
reduction
Elective modules
 Microfinance and Development
 Ethics of Development
 Participatory Planning Tools
 Conflict Management
Kimmage Development Studies Centre
Development component/module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Postgraduate
Diploma/ MA in
Development
Studies
Kimmage
Development
Studies
Centre
(KDSC)
To offer a high quality academic
training in development studies,
exploring contemporary theories in
the social sciences and development
policies and practices. Participants
develop a critical understanding of
contemporary debates relating to
development, including contrasting
arguments and understandings of
development processes, while
enhancing their abilities to apply such
knowledge to policy analysis and
practical problem solving. In addition
participants develop an
understanding of research processes
appropriate to different development
contexts and issues and they gain
skills to facilitate them to undertake
primary research in the development
field.
Additional
Specialist
Pathways from
2012 –
Faith and
Development
Development and
Management
Globalisation and
Change
Specialisation – an opportunity to
specialise in an area of your choice,
e.g., Development Management and
the Ethics of Development, Human
Rights and Conflict Management,
Human Development and Facilitation
Skills, or Rural Development and
Sustainable Livelihoods
General MA in Development Studies
- Any 5 of the Specialist Modules
above
Core modules:
 Political Economy of Development
 Sociology and anthropology of
development
 Gender and Development
 Sustainable Livelihoods
 Human Rights
 Project Planning and Financial
Management
 Leadership and Adult Education
 Human Development
 Conflict Management
 Primary social research in the development
field
 Managing Development Organizations
 Sociology of Development
 Adult learning
 Research Methods
 Dissertation
Specialist Modules - Faith and Development
 Leadership
 Development,
 Mission and Ministry;
 Human Development;
 Ethics and Principles of Development
Specialist Modules - Development and
Management
 Project and Financial Management;
 Health and Development;
 Livelihoods and climate change adaptation
Specialist Modules - Globalisation and
Change
 Human Rights Advocacy and Movements
for Change;
 Political Economy of Environment and
Development;
 Anthropology and Globalisation
Course length
Contact
One year full
time for the
postgraduate
diploma or 14
month full time
for the MA
Contact: Eilish Dillon,
MA Co-ordinator,
Email:
eilish.dillon@kimmage
dsc.ie
Can also be
undertaken parttime
Secretary
Kimmage
Development Studies
Centre
Kimmage Manor
Whitehall Road
Dublin 12
Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 406
4386 / 4064380
Fax: +353 (0)1
4064388
Email:
[email protected]
Mary Immaculate College Limerick
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Masters of
Arts/Graduate
Diploma in
International
Development
Practice
Faculty of
Arts, MIC,
University of
Limerick
This innovate blended learning
postgraduate programme in
international development practice
will create a cohort of international
practitioners with the capacity to
analyse and scrutinise some of the
most chronic developmental
problems of the twenty-first century.
The programme will also provide
participants with the practical skills to
provide resolution along a wide
spectrum of critical policy areas. In
addition to an international placement
programme with an international
NGO, the first year of the programme
provides a range of modules,
emphasising the practice and theory
of development. Students who
successfully complete this phase will
be awarded a Graduate Diploma.
The third semester of the programme
will consist primarily of research and
the completion of a dissertation, after
which successful candidates will be
awarded an MA in International
Development Practice.
Due to commence
in Jan 2013
Overall, the programme consists of:
Two Residential Schools (beginning
with a Winter School in January 2013
and a Summer School in July 2013)
of two weeks duration each, during
which participants will take part in a
series of face-to-face lectures,
problem-based learning tasks,
seminars and workshops;
A series of online lectures, discussion-fora
and tutorials to be delivered virtually (both
synchronously and asynchronously).
The following modules will be offered on this
programme:

Project Management for International
Development Practitioners

Theory and Practice of Development

Agriculture and Sustainable
Development

Development Education for
Development Practitioners

Research Field Methods & Logistics

Financial Management for
Development Practitioners

The Political Economy of
International Sustainable
Development

Economic Geography of Global
Development

A field-training placement
programme with an international
agency or NGO which will provide
course participants with the
opportunity to obtain real-life
experience of integrated approaches
to international development practice

20,000-word dissertation in Semester
3 of the programme
Course length
Contact
The Graduate
Diploma/Master
s in International
Development
Practice (MIDP)
programme will
be offered on a
full-time basis
over 18 months,
with part-time
options also
available for
participants over
an extended
period. The
Graduate
Diploma
component of
the programme
can be
completed on a
full-time basis
over two
semesters.
Course Director:
Dr Gerard Downes,
Room M1-07,
Mary Immaculate
College
South Circular Road
Limerick, Ireland
Tel + 353-61-204540
Email:gerard.downes
@mic.ul.ie
ADMISSION
ENQUIRIES
Mary Immaculate
College
South Circular Road
Limerick, Ireland
Tel + 353-61-204929 /
204348
Email
[email protected]
GENERAL
INFORMATION
Tel +353-61-204300
Fax +353-61-313632
College Web Site
www.mic.ul.ie
Mary Immaculate College Limerick
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Liberal Arts (BA)
Honours Degree
Faculty of
Arts
There are thirteen subjects from
which to choose in first year: English,
French Studies, Gaeilge, Geography,
German
Studies,
History,
Mathematics, Léann Dúchais/Irish
Heritage
Studies,
Media
and
Communication
Studies,
Music,
Philosophy, Psychology, Theology
and
Religious Studies, Léann Dúchais
/Irish Heritage Studies is available in
first year only. Students select four
subjects in first year and continue the
study of two of the selected subjects
from the beginning of second year
onwards.
The
Geography
programme
includes
modules in both physical and human
geography. In physical geography the aim is
to provide students with a sound
understanding of the processes at work in the
natural world, and of environmental changes
in both past and present times. The human
geography programme deals with issues and
problems that range in scale from the global
to the local, including globalisation and its
geographical impacts, geopolitical conflict,
economic restructuring and dislocation,
urbanisation, and the challenges of
sustainable development.
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Bachelor of Arts
with Latin
American Studies
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
The BA with Latin American Studies
is an exciting programme that offers
students the opportunity to explore
one of the world’s most dynamic and
diverse regions from an
interdisciplinary perspective.
Students will gain an insight into
topics ranging from Latin American
cinema and literature, visual arts and
culture, to history, society and
politics. Students must also take
Spanish.
Graduates will have a regular Arts
Degree, as well as key transferable
skills and a broad understanding of
the history, society and culture of
Latin America. They will also have a
high level of proficiency in Spanish.
Modules include:
Representations of Latin America
Introduction to Latin American Politics and
Society
Introduction to Latin American Culture
Latin American History and Society
Cultural Debates in Latin America
The third year of the programme is devoted
exclusively to Latin American Studies and
students will pursue academic studies or a
work placement (or a combination of both
elements) in Latin America.
Course length
Contact
The Bachelor of
Arts is a fouryear degree
course in the
Liberal Arts with
three years on
campus at MIC
and one year on
work placement
and/or study
abroad.
Professor Michael
Breen, Dean, Faculty
of Arts
Course length
Contact
4 years full-time
Dr Kate Quinn,
School of Languages,
Literatures and
Cultures (Spanish)
T 353 (0)91 492702
F 353 (0)91 494580
E
kate.quinn@nuigalway
.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/spa
nish/undergraduate_co
urses/ba_connect.html
Professor Desmond
McCafferty
Head of Department of
Geography
Tel 061-204317
E-mail
[email protected]
.ie
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Bachelor of Arts
with Human
Rights*
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
The BA with Human Rights explores
and challenges the theoretical
background of human rights against
their practical application in the
contemporary world. It is taught in
conjunction with the Irish Centre for
Human Rights. The course examines
the philosophical basis, history and
origin of human rights while
remaining grounded in the reality of
events that have shaped the world.
The concept of human rights is
closely associated with ethics and
morality
and
the
programme
examines these issues in the context
of the development of human rights
doctrine and discourse. This course
will equip students with the skills and
knowledge to navigate their way
through this field by engaging in
purposeful and appropriate research
and debate.
The first year uses the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights as a framework document,
and students will examine patterns and
themes in human rights so they can appraise
the more complex systems of rights
protection (like human dignity, equality, right
to life and the prohibition on torture and
slavery). Students will explore these issues
by looking to contemporary applications: the
abolitionist movement against the death
penalty, human trafficking, conflict and postconflict treatment of civilians, the scourge of
HIV/AIDS, standards of living around the
world and issues relating to refugees and
asylum
seekers.
The second year offers an introduction to the
United Nations' system of human rights
protection and promotion. It will look at the
role
of
the
United
Nations
High
Commissioner for Human Rights and Human
Rights Council. It will examine regional and
national systems for the protection and
promotion of human rights, and the role of
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
The third year offers a thematic approach to
issues relating to globalization and migration,
minorities and socio-economic rights, conflict
and international justice. Students may avail
of placements within NGOs and university
based human rights institutes (amongst other
options) during this year of their study.
Course length
Contact
4 Years full-time
The coordinator of the
programme is Dr. Kim
Turcotte E-mail
[email protected]
m and the website is
http://www.nuigalway.i
e/human_rights/
College of Arts, Social
Sciences, and Celtic
Studies
T 353 (0)91 493 958
F 353 (0)91 495 508
Email: collegearts
nuigalway.ie and
humanrights
nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/arts
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Bachelor of Arts
with Global
Women’s Studies
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
Through Global Women's Studies
(GWS), students explore how gender
shapes the lives and identities of
women and men and the exercise of
power in every sphere - cultural,
economic, personal, political, legal
and social. Its scope extends from
the politics of interpersonal, family
and working life to the gendered logic
of the nation and the global
economy. The programme also
covers historical perspectives on
women and gender,
women's
creative expression, and cultural
representations of women and
gender. Because gender and gender
identity do not operate in isolation,
the course also examines how other
aspects of identity and experience
intersect with gender including
sexuality, class, disability, 'race',
ethnicity, and more.
GWS complements a wide range of
Arts subjects including:
Economics
English
Classics
Geography
History
Philosophy
Sociological and Political Studies
Languages
To be
discontinued from
2012
Modules include:
Introduction to Women, Culture, Media and
Society
Creative Expression and Civic Engagement
Blue Jeans Project: Women and Girls in the
Global Economy
Transforming Thinking: Feminist Ideas in
Action
Transforming Women: Women Making a
Difference
Electives:
Girls' human rights
Women in film
Local and global feminisms
Gender and the law
Women, men and the economy
Opportunity to participate in a civic
engagement placement and/or study abroad
related to GWS themes in a range of relevant
organizations and professional settings.
Course length
Contact
4 years full-time
Dr. Niamh Reilly
Global Women's
Studies Programme
School of Political
Science and Sociology
Aras Moyola, Room
326
National University of
Ireland, Galway
Ireland
T +353 91 495 403
E niamh.reilly
nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/wo
men_studies
College of Arts, Social
Sciences, and Celtic
Studies
T 353 (0)91 493958
F 353 (0)91 495 508
E collegearts
nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/arts
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Course length
Contact
Structured PhD
(Arts, Humanities,
and Social
Sciences)
Global Women’s
Studies
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
School of
Political
Science and
Sociology
The Global Women's Studies cluster
is committed to the development of
gender-focused research across a
range of issues and disciplines within
the School of Political Science and
Sociology. Research in this area
investigates the operation of
gendered power relations, gender
inequalities as they intersect with
other forms of inequality, changing
notions of gender and sexual identity,
feminism and multi-culture, and the
challenges achieving women's
empowerment and human rights in a
context of globalization, economic
crisis and in conflict affected
situations.
As part of the doctoral training available on
the Structured PhD programme, students
avail themselves of a range of
interdisciplinary taught modules. The wide
menu of available options include modules
that:
1. Discipline-Specific in that they augment
the student’s existing knowledge in their
specialist area, e.g., gender perspectives on
social science research
2. Dissertation-Specific in that they supply
core skills which are essential to completion
of the research project e.g. qualitative and
quantitative research methods
3. Acknowledge a student’s professional
development, e.g., presentation of a paper at
an International Conference
4. Enhance a student’s employability through
generic training, e.g., Careers Workshops,
Computer literacy.
Full- time
Dr. Niamh Reilly
Global Women's
Studies Programme
School of Political
Science and Sociology
Aras Moyola, Room
326
National University of
Ireland, Galway
Ireland
T +353 91 495 403
E niamh.reilly
nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/wo
men_studies
PhD Human
Rights
College of
Business,
Public Policy
and School
of Law
The Irish Centre for Human Rights is
at the forefront of doctoral research
on international human rights law in
Europe. The doctoral programme is
unique not only because of the
exceptional standard of research and
level of publication but also because
of the environment in which doctoral
students work.
A thriving research community exists
at the Centre with in excess of 40
doctoral candidates enrolled on the
programme each year. Student from
a range of academic backgrounds
are engaged in research on a broad
spectrum of issues related to
international human rights law,
international criminal law,
international humanitarian law and
international relations.
Modules
 Conflict and Post-Conflict
 International Humanitarian Law
 International Criminal Law
 Counter-terrorism
 Transitional Justice
 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
 International Peace Support
 International Criminal Justice
 Transitional Justice
Full-time or
Part-time
Dr. Shane Darcy
Director of the PhD
Programme
T +353 91 493 947
E shane.darcy
nuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.i
e/courses/researchpostgraduateprogrammes/lawhuman-rights.html
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MA Community
Development
School of
Politicial
Science &
Sociology
Community development has quite a
long history in Ireland and its
evolution over time has seen it
emerge as a main-stream activity in
redressing
contemporary
socioeconomic problems. In this context,
professional community development
workers play a critical role in
mobilizing
and
supporting
communities to play an active part in
this
process.
The
two-year
programme is delivered through
the School of Political Science and
Sociology. The Programme aims to
impart specialist knowledge of the
practical, organizational, managerial
and developmental skills required for
the practice of community work and
to increase analytical and evaluative
understandings of the policy contexts
within which community development
practice takes place. It provides an
understanding
of
the
working
principles and methods that underpin
professional
community
work
practice.
It links with three other
taught MA Programme’s, offered
within the School.
In Semester 3 of Year 2, students must
complete a placement for a minimum fourmonth period in a practical community work
environment, during which time participants'
knowledge and skills of community work
practice is reinforced and their ability to apply
practical work practices in innovative
development processes is enhanced.
Course length
Contact
2 years full-time
Dr Brian McGrath
School of Politicial
Science & Sociology
T +353 91 493 405
E brian.mcgrath
nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/soc
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MA Culture and
Colonialism
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
The MA (Culture and Colonialism) is
a multi-disciplinary taught Master of
Arts programme, designed for
graduates from the Arts, Humanities,
and Social Sciences. It was
established
to
further
an
understanding of the meaning of the
concepts 'colonialism', 'imperialism',
'colonialism', and 'neo-colonialism'
across a range of disciplines. The
MA sets out to broaden and extend
the analysis of colonialism and its
effects by means of a multidisciplinary approach and the writing
of a minor dissertation.
The course teaches a variety of
research and analytical skills, and
encourages independent reading and
research. Students are encouraged
to view colonialism in the widest
possible contexts, in both historical
and contemporary forms, and to
consider its significance in relation to
the spread of globalization.
Modules offered (varying in any given year)
include:
 Local and global feminisms
 Gender and the law
 Colonialism in 20th-Century Cultural
Theory
 Approaches to the Study of Culture and
Colonialism
 Decolonization and Neo-Colonialism: The
Politics of 'Development'
 Studies in the history of colonialism and
imperialism
 Literature and Colonialism
 Capitalism,
 Globalisation and International Political
Economy
 Cinema and Colonialism
 Gender & Colonialism
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime
College of Arts, Social
Sciences, and Celtic
Studies
Dr. Muireann Ó
Cinnéide
T 353 91 495 388
E
muireann.ocinneide
nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/engl
ish/macc.html
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MA Environment,
Society and
Development
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
The MA in Environment, Society and
Development is designed to enable
students
to
synthesize
both
theoretical and practical concerns in
bringing
critical
thinking
to
environment-society relations in the
field. The programme involves
engagement with a number of core
areas in critical human geography,
including issues of geopolitics,
development,
governance
and
political ecology, and exposes
students to vital global challenges
that encompass a complex and
dynamic mesh of environmental,
social and economic processes.
The emphasis on transferable and
problem-solving skills is further
reflected in the focus on field-based
learning practices that are embedded
in all modules. The programme is
also designed to enhance students'
prospects for undertaking further
research at PhD level.
Running through the MA is an overarching
aim to impart understanding of how different
philosophical and ideological approaches to
environment-society relations influence policy
formulation and implementation. In this
context, our hope is to empower students to
become critically informed by, and ethically
engaged with, the various (geo) political,
social,
economic
and
environmental
processes that shape the world in which we
live. The practical emphasis of the MA is
reflected in a field-based learning module in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, where students will
intersect with the development work of the
European Commission, UN agencies and
various NGOs. In connecting with the work of
UN agencies like the United Nations
Development Programme, a key challenge
for students will involve thinking through the
scalar nature of all forms of development, in
which initiatives on the ground are framed by
broader
geopolitical,
economic
and
institutional structures that both enable and
hinder development in complex ways.
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime
Dr John Morrissey
Director
T +353 91 492 267
E john.morrissey
nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/geo
graphy/ma/esd.html
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MA/Postgraduate
Diploma Public
Advocacy and
Activism
Huston
School of
Film and
Digital Media
This innovative new master’s degree
was developed to focus on the issues
and skills central to the role of those
working in organizations which seek
to shift attitudes and understandings
in order to initiate change.
The
Masters Degree in Public Advocacy
and Activism offers an advanced
programme for those working, or
intending to work, in international or
local advocacy; including community
organization, development, labour,
rights, health, and environment.
Students on this course will also work
with teams from the MA in Production
and Direction to realize short film
projects.
Contemporary human concerns,
advocacy and proposed solutions
increasingly
transcend
national
boundaries and, in a globalized
society,
the
roles
of
NonGovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
play an ever more essential role.
The wide-ranging course will include an
overview of the global context in which
advocacy takes place and encourage
discussion of issues such as cross-cultural
communication and social justice; relevant
professional skills and media training will be
central to the programme.
Modules include:
 Advocacy – Theory and Practice;
 Introduction
to
Human
Rights
for
Advocates;
 How to argue with an Economist;
 Communication, Media and Marketing;
 Film and Politics;
 Globalisation;
 Transcultural Understanding;
 Production Project;
 Organisational Analysis and Management.
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime
Dr Fiona Bateman,
Programme Director
National University of
Ireland, Galway
University Road
Galway
Email
Fiona.bateman@nuiga
lway.ie
T +353 91 495 918
www.filmschool.ie/cour
ses
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MA/Postgraduate
Diploma Gender,
Globalisation and
Rights
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
The MA in Gender, Globalization and
Rights offers students a unique
opportunity to combine advanced
study of two important fields—
globalization and human rights—
through a critical, advocacy-oriented,
gender lens. Globalization processes
from the perspectives of women in
different regions of the world with a
view to documenting, analyzing, and
redressing
inequalities
and
exclusions fostered by mainstream
development
and
globalisation
processes are explored. Including
the gender dimensions of traditional
understandings of human rights and
the limitations and transformative
potential of ongoing initiatives to
advance 'women's rights as human
rights.' The course pays particular
attention to the development of
human rights-based responses to a
range of global issues—with a
particular focus on how they affect
women and girls in contexts of
unequal
gender
relations.
The course places a strong emphasis
on the role of civil society and
transformative civic engagement in
bringing about change from the local
to the global level.
The MA (Gender, Globalisation and Rights)
aims to equip students with the in-depth
knowledge and analytical skills needed to
understand and address the gender
dimensions of global inequalities and timely
issues from trafficking, violence against
women and HIV/AIDS to war and conflict and
rising fundamentalisms. Through a focus on
particular issues, students learn about and
engage critically with specific areas of global
governance,
policy-making
and
norm
setting—especially established development,
human rights, security, and macroeconomic
paradigms.
Modules include
 Feminist theory,
 Applied gender analysis,
 Issues of women's human rights,
 Historical perspectives of feminism,
 Gender perspectives of globalization,
 Research
methods(qualitative
and
quantitative)
 Issues of women's power and agency,
 Gender dimensions of conflict and human
security,
 Gender dynamics of global health crises,
 Links between gender, development and
human rights
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime
Dr. Nata Duvvury
Programme Director
Global Women’s
Studies Programme
School of Political
Science and Sociology
Room 219
Aras Moyola
National University of
Ireland, Galway
University Road
Galway
Ph: +353 (91) 495399
Email:
nata.duvvury@nuigalw
ay.ie
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MA Philosophy:
Ethics, Culture,
and Global
Change
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
In this programme students are
introduced to the fundamental
conceptual and ethical questions that
global change is bringing about in
contemporary life, particularly in
relation to cultural and technological
change. This programme is designed
to stimulate students to reflect on
issues such as Poverty and Justice,
Political Violence and War, Cultural
Diversity,
Intercultural
Communication,
Toleration
and
Pluralism, Gender Difference, Human
Rights, Genetic Research and
Human Life, Environmental Damage
and
Obligations
to
Future
Generations.
The programme is designed for
students
who
wish
to bring
philosophical reflection to bear on
global issues in which they have a
genuine interest. Students will be
encouraged to explore the ways in
which theoretical knowledge can be
applied in these areas, with a
particular emphasis on areas of
ethical relevance. It aims to equip
graduates with skills in critical
thinking and reflection on issues of
global integration and diversity.
Modules include:
 Professional Ethics
 Environmental Ethics
 Ethical and Political Concepts
 Philosophy,
 Hermeneutics and Intercultural
Communication
 Placement
 Research Methods
 Dissertation
Optional courses (in conjunction with the MA
in Culture and Colonialism):
 Political Economy,
 Colonialism and Globalisation
 Literature and Colonialism
 Cinema and Colonialism
 Ecology and Colonialism
The programme includes a service learning
component which consists of a minimum of
100 hours of practical experience in
cooperation with community organizations,
NGOs, service institutions or companies with
focus on issues of global change which
enables students to apply the philosophical
knowledge they gain in a practical context.
Course length
Contact
One year full
time two years
part-time
Dr. Heike-SchmidtFelzmann
T +353 91 495 043
E heike.felzmann
nuigalway.ie
W
www.nuigalway.ie/phil
osophy/courses/post_
grad/ethic_culture
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
LLM International
and Comparative
Disability Law and
Policy
College of
Business,
Public Policy
and Law
The
LLM
(International
and
Comparative Disability Law and
Policy) offers students an innovative
and
internationally
focused
programme dealing with the process
of law reform and policy in the field of
disability. This area of law is
experiencing huge growth, with the
introduction of the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities, which in turn has
resulted in the development of
disabilities strategies at regional and
national level.
The course provides students with an
in-depth understanding of the core
foundational themes in disability law
and policy, and the necessary
research skills to complete their
programme of study. The optional
modules address law and policy at
international and regional level as
well as some very topical subjects
such as Legal Capacity, Independent
Living, and Inclusive Education.
In the School of Political Science and
Sociology, PhD students pursue their
research as part of the thematic
Research Cluster in which their
supervisor is located.
Structured PhD
Arts, Humanities,
and Social
Sciences
Political Science
and Sociology
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
School of
Political
Science and
Sociology
Compulsory modules:
 Foundational Theoretical Framework for
Disability Law and Policy
 Advanced Legal Research Methods
 Law, Regulation and Policy
 Introduction to Quantitative and Qualitative
Research Methods
 Dissertation
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime
Shivaun Quinlivan
E llmdisability
nuigalway.ie
Mary McQuinn
E llmdisability
nuigalway.ie
Full-time
Dr. Kate Kenny
Course Director for
2011/2012
T +353 91 495 401
Email: kate.kenny
nuigalway.ie
Optional Modules
 U.S. Disability Law and Policy
 Irish Disability Law and Policy
 Regional Disability Law and Policy
 Law and Policy on Independent Living
 Legal Capacity Law and Policy
 Mental Health Law and Policy
 Inclusive Education Law and Policy
 Advocacy and Access to Justice
 Contemporary Challenges in Disability Law
and Policy
 Life course issues in Disability Law and
Policy
The School's Research Clusters are:
 Children, Youth and Families (the Child
and Family Research Centre)
 Gender, Empowerment and Globalisation
 Governance and Sustainable Development
 Power, Conflict and Ideologies
Dr. George Taylor
Course Director from
September 2012.
School of Political
Science and Sociology
T +353 91 493 076
E george.taylor
nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/soc
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
LLM International
Criminal Law
College of
Business,
Public Policy
and Law
Designed and delivered by experts
unrivalled in the field, the LLM in
International Criminal Law at the Irish
Centre for Human Rights will provide
students
with
an
advanced
understanding of the history and
institutional structures of the various
international criminal tribunals and
the International Criminal Court. It will
equip students with an in-depth
knowledge of the principles of
international criminal law and its
component crimes and procedural
issues, while also allowing them to
develop a critical approach to the
alternatives in international criminal
justice, such as truth commissions.
Students are encouraged to put into
practice the foundational work
provided by the LLM, by conducting
internships, following their studies,
with international institutions and
non-governmental organizations.
Courses each year are subject to change, but
may include the following:
 African and Inter-American Regional
Systems of Protecting Human Rights
 Business and Human Rights
 Children's Rights
 Conflict and Post-Conflict
 Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights
 Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
 European Convention on Human Rights
 European Union and Human Rights
 How to Argue with an Economist
 International Criminal Law
 International Criminal Procedure
 International Humanitarian Law (Term I)
 International Humanitarian Law (Term II)
 International Refugee Law
 Introduction to Human Rights Law
 Minority Rights
 Peace Support Operations
 Public International Law
 Procedure before International Criminal
Courts
 Right to Development
 Transitional Justice
Course length Contact
One year fulltime two years
part-time
Dr Kathleen
Cavanaugh
Lecturer & LLM
Director
Irish Centre for Human
Rights
Faculty of Law
National University of
Ireland
Galway, Ireland
+353 91 493799
kathleen.cavanaugh@
nuigalway.ie
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
LLM International
Human Rights
College of
Business,
Public Policy
and Law
The LLM programme aims to build
specific and general skills with
respect to the modern regime of
human
rights
protection,
and
knowledge of the philosophies and
theories that underpin it. The course
provides students with the requisites
enabling them to contribute to the
advancement of human rights
globally, both in their individual
capacities and in association with
institutions that have such a focus.
Students are encouraged to put into
practice the foundational work
provided by the LLM, by conducting
internships, following their studies,
with such organizations
Courses each year are subject to change, but
may include the following:
 African and Inter-American Regional
Systems of Protecting Human Rights
 Business and Human Rights
 Children's Rights
 Conflict and Post-Conflict
 Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights
 Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
 European Convention on Human Rights
 European Union and Human Rights
 How to Argue with an Economist
 International Criminal Law
 International Criminal Procedure
 International Humanitarian Law (Term I)
 International Humanitarian Law (Term II)
 International Refugee Law
 Introduction to Human Rights Law
 Minority Rights
 Peace Support Operations
 Public International Law
 Procedure before International Criminal
Courts
 Right to Development
 Transitional Justice
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime or two
years part-time
Dr Kathleen
Cavanaugh
Lecturer & LLM
Director
Irish Centre for Human
Rights
Faculty of Law
National University of
Ireland
Galway, Ireland
+353 91 493799
kathleen.cavanaugh@
nuigalway.ie
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
LLM Peace
Operations,
Humanitarian Law
and Conflict
College of
Business,
Public Policy
and Law
The LLM programme aims to prepare
graduates for work in the field of
international
peace
support
operations,
with
international
organizations,
non-governmental
organizations, and as individual
advocates
The programme draws upon the
resources of the LLM in International
Human Rights Law, with the addition
of
specialized
courses
on
peacekeeping. The course work
begins with a general introduction to
international
peacekeeping
and
peace support operations, and
continues with a series of specialized
courses
in
such
areas
as
international
relations
and
international
organizations,
international
humanitarian
law,
refugee law, conflict and post conflict
studies, and international criminal
law.
Courses each year are subject to change, but
may include the following:
 African and Inter-American Regional
Systems of Protecting Human Rights
 Business and Human Rights
 Children's Rights
 Conflict and Post-Conflict
 Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights
 Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
 European Convention on Human Rights
 European Union and Human Rights
 How to Argue with an Economist
 International Criminal Law
 International Criminal Procedure
 International Humanitarian Law (Term I)
 International Humanitarian Law (Term II)
 International Refugee Law
 Introduction to Human Rights Law
 Minority Rights
 Peace Support Operations
 Public International Law
 Procedure before International Criminal
Courts
 Right to Development
 Transitional Justice
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime or two
years part-time
Dr. Kathleen
Cavanaugh
Lecturer & LLM
Director
Irish Centre for Human
Rights
Faculty of Law
National University of
Ireland
Galway, Ireland
+353 91 493799
kathleen.cavanaugh@
nuigalway.ie
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Structured PhD
Arts, Humanities,
and Social
Sciences
Latin American
Studies
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and Celtic
Studies
School of
Languages,
Literature
and Culture
The Structured PhD in Latin
American Studies at NUI Galway
offers students a unique opportunity
to study within a Latin American
focused academic environment, with
expertise in Southern Cone, Central
American and Mexican literatures
and cultures. There are currently five
academic members of staff actively
researching in the area of Latin
American
Studies
within
the
discipline of Spanish. This PhD is
highly interdisciplinary in nature and
is a very attractive option for students
interested in continuing in academia
as well as those who intend in
diversifying
and
working
in
Development or NGOs throughout
the Americas. Current PhD students
are working in the areas of literary
studies, gender studies, cinema,
detective fiction and cultural studies
in Mexican, Chilean, Argentine and
Cuban contexts. As part of this
programme students will usually
have the opportunity to engage in
research in different Latin American
countries.
One of the most exciting elements of the
Structured PhD is the plethora of crossdisciplinary taught modules offered to the
student, which serve to consolidate the
student’s learning and guide them towards
very
interesting
and
innovative
interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to
their research topic. The wide menu of
available options include modules that:
 Are Discipline-Specific in that they augment
the student’s existing knowledge in their
specialist area, e.g., Latin American
Literature I and II
 Are Dissertation-Specific in that they supply
core skills which are essential to
completion of the research project e.g.
additional language skills
 Acknowledge a student’s professional
development, e.g., presentation of a paper
at an International Conference
 Enhance a student’s employability through
generic training, e.g., Careers Workshops,
computer literacy.
Course length
Contact
Full-time
Professor Bill
Richardson
T 353 91 492 136
E bill.richardson
nuigalway.ie
National University of Ireland Galway
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Structured PhD
Arts, Humanities,
and Social
Sciences
Health Promotion
College of
Arts, Social
Sciences,
and
Humanities
School of
Health
Sciences
The Discipline of Health Promotion is
the only one of its kind in the
Republic of Ireland and is the
national centre for professional
training and education in health
promotion. Attached to the Discipline
is the Health Promotion Research
Centre, which has an active
multidisciplinary research programme
in place. The Discipline offers
supervision of postgraduate research
in a wide range of areas, including
Health Promotion, Population Health,
Health Services Research, Social
Care and Occupational Health.
PhDs in Health Promotion are
through the College of Medicine,
Nursing and Health Sciences or the
College of Arts, Social Science and
Celtic Studies.
Modules
 Breastfeeding
 Child and adolescent health
 Communicable disease control and
environmental health
 Community health
 Evaluation research
 Evidence-based practice
 Food poverty
 Global and international health and
development
 Health and human rights
 Health and the media
 Health impact assessment
 Health inequalities and inequities
 Health policy
 Health promotion competencies
 Health services research
 Healthy ageing
 Migrant health
 Violence and injury prevention
 Mental health promotion
 Participative research processes
 Research dissemination, translating
research into practice
 Settings for health promotion: workplace
and schools
 Sexual and reproductive health
 Social capital and social connectedness
Course length
Contact
Full-time
National University of
Ireland, Galway
University Road,
Galway, Ireland
T +353 91 524411
Dr. Diarmuid O
Donovan
E
diarmuid.odonovan@n
uigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/hprc
Title of Course
Structured PhD in
Health Systems
Research for
Africa *
National University of Ireland Galway with Royal College of Surgeons and Trinity College Dublin
School
Aim of course
Development component/module
Course length
CHRAIC
partners
include
researchers
in the Royal
College of
Surgeons in
Ireland
(RCSI),
Trinity
College
Dublin,
National
University of
Ireland
Galway, The
Malaria
Consortium,
and from
institutions in
Lesotho,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Sierra Leone,
Sudan and
Uganda
Researchers
from
three
Irish
institutions, six African countries and
one non-governmental organisation
(NGO)
comprise
a
long-term
partnership for capacity building for
pro-poor health research in Africa.
This programme, the Connecting
Health Research in Africa and Ireland
Consortium (CHRAIC), is supported
by Ireland's development assistance
programme, through Ireland's Higher
Education Authority (HEA), and
increasingly from the Irish institutions
involved.
The African researchers are from
Lesotho,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda.
The Malaria Consortium's main
headquarters is in the UK and its
main Africa office is in Uganda.
The Council for Health Research for
Development -http://www.cohred.org,
which has unique expertise in
research capacity building, and the
Alliance for Health Policy & Systems
Research
(http://www.alliancehpsr.org/),
which
focuses
on
research prioritisation and research
into policy processes, are both
advisers to the Programme.
CHRAIC aims to synthesise research
and identify knowledge gaps in six
African
countries
on
human
resources for health, equity and
access to services; and governance
of the health system. These three
areas are essential to delivering
interventions for the Health and
HIV/AIDS Millennium Development
Goals
(MDGs).
CHRAIC
has
established a doctoral training
programme to strengthen research.
The PhD programme is part of a five year
programme that will provide the foundation
for a long-term partnership of capacity
building for pro-poor health research in
selected African countries.
The first year comprises a 24-week taught
programme. Most of the Year 1 teaching is in
Dublin, but it is also in Galway and Cork. The
modules include some common modules with
the Health Services Research Scholars (see
above), namely: Population Health; Health
Informatics; Evidence Synthesis & Clinical
Trials; Applying Research Methods:
Quantitative & Qualitative, and; Hands on
Data Analysis with STATA. Additional
modules are provided by NUIG on the Social
Determinants of Health and two modules,
from the Masters in Global Health at Trinity
College Dublin, with a focus on health
systems in Low and Middle Income Countries
are included.
In year 2 and 3 fieldwork will usually be in
Africa. The themes for health systems
research are:
 Governance: research that contributes to
strengthening the capacity of government
institutions and the involvement of civil
society and other stakeholders in providing
services that meet the health needs of the
poor.
 Human resources for health: research to
identify strategies for ensuring that health
workers are available, able and motivated
to deliver health services, especially to
those who are poor or marginalised.
 Access and Equity: research that
contributes to understanding and
overcoming barriers that the poor and other
disadvantaged groups experience in
seeking to access health services.
3 years full-time
Contact
Website:
http://www.chraic.org/
RCSI project team:
Ruairí Brugha, Elaine
Byrne
National University of
Ireland Galway
Dr Diarmuid
O’Donovan
Email:
diarmuid.odonovan@n
uigalway.ie
National University of Ireland Maynooth
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Course length
Contact
BA Anthropology*
Department
of
Anthropology
Anthropology is the holistic study of
humanity attempting to understand
and interpret cultures beyond our
own, as well as to shed light on our
society and help appreciate the
differing values and ways of life of
other people.
NUI Maynooth is the only university
in Ireland to offer a specialised
degree in Anthropology.
Anthropology
is
divided
into
specialities that focus on particular
areas of human experience, e.g.
medical anthropology, economic
anthropology, linguistic anthropology
but making connections across these
disciplines in comparisons of cultures
and societies is encouraged.
At NUI Maynooth both theoretical and applied
anthropology are emphasized. Theoretical
anthropology is mainly concerned with
developing theory and interpreting cultural
practices, while applied anthropology is
mostly focused on applying ideas and
knowledge to problems. These problems
range from famine in Africa to homelessness
on the US/Mexico border to drug abuse to
the reshaping of inner-city neighbourhood’s.
3 years
Ms Jacqui Mullally/
Ms Deirdre Dunne
Tel: 01 708 3984
Fax: 01 708 3570
Email:
anthropology.office@n
uim.ie
http://anthropology.nui
m.ie
M.SC.
Immunology
Global Health*
Institute
of
Immunology,
This programme represents an
innovative development in higher
degree options in the biological
sciences. It is targeted at biological
and health science graduates
interested in the major challenges in
health and development. It broadens
the understanding of immunology, its
importance in global health and the
factors that impact on immunological
intervention strategies in health and
disease. The course a solid
grounding and appreciation of
modern immunology, its importance
to human health and well-being and
how expertise and knowledge in
immunology can be successfully
applied in tackling global health
problems. An important component
of the course covers emerging and
re-emerging
diseases
including
diseases of poverty.
The programme will be delivered as 12
taught modules and a lab-based research
project.
The Taught Modules include:
 Fundamental,
clinical
and
applied
immunology,
 Global health and diseases of poverty,
 Epidemiology,
 Medical geography,
 Systems biology,
 Clinical trials, patenting, licensing and
bioethics.
1 year full-time
Programme
Director
Dr Noel Murphy
Tel +353 (0)1 708
6480
Email
[email protected]
Website
http://immunology.nui
m.ie
Address Institute of
Immunology,
NUI
Maynooth, Maynooth,
Co. Kildare
&
National University of Ireland Maynooth
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Course length
Contact
MA/ Postgraduate
certificate in
Anthropology and
development
Department
of
Anthropology
The field orientation of anthropology
focuses on the links between global
and local processes, between
abstract theory and real behaviour,
and among the various dimensions of
human life – political, economic,
familial,
religious,
etc.
The
interconnections and interactions
among these is the principal concern
of the discipline, and the real context
for any development work
Modules:
 Introduction
to
Anthropology
&
Development
 Topics in Anthropology and Development
and other course work.
1 year part-time
for Postgraduate
certificate
2 years full time
for Masters
Programme Director:
Jamie. A. Saris
Tel: (01) 708 3983/
3984
Fax: (01) 708 3570
Email: ajamiesaris@nui
m.ie/
anthropology.office@n
uim.ie
Website: http://anthrop
ology.nuim.ie/postgrad
uates
Address: Department
of Anthropology, NUI
Maynooth, Maynooth,
Co. Kildare
Anthropology PhD / MLitt
Structured
Research
Programme
Department
of
Anthropology
The objective of this programme is to
provide students with professional
training in academic research in
Anthropology, and to produce
scholars capable of contributing to
international
networks
in
the
discipline in an original, ethical, and
effective fashion. To this end, the
programme provides the students
with the necessary research skills,
along with any other specialist
training, required for their particular
project. Above all, the department
aims to provide students with the
opportunity to pursue effectively their
own specific research interests,
working independently under the
supervision of members of staff, who
will provide detailed feedback and
advice on the work.
The PhD in Anthropology is a ‘structured’
four-year degree, comprising of classes
taken over the course of the programme and
research.
Most of these courses are
delivered by the Anthropology Department,
but some may be taken, in other parts of the
university.
Anthropology has become
increasingly important as a job skill in an
information-based world economy, where an
understanding of cultural differences is
increasingly crucial – from local to
international contexts. The choice of
Anthropology in combination with other
subjects give an extensive platform for
students to gain skills for work in a variety of
areas from community work, education, the
health
professions,
product
design,
international aid and development projects,
and business and administration.
4 years full-time
but can also be
undertaken parttime
Programme Director:
Jamie. A. Saris
Tel: (01) 708 3983/
3984
Fax: (01) 708 3570
Email: ajamiesaris@nui
m.ie/
anthropology.office@n
uim.ie
Website: http://anthrop
ology.nuim.ie/postgrad
uates
Address: Department
of Anthropology, NUI
Maynooth, Maynooth,
Co. Kildare
Queens University
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
BA Single, Major
and Joint Honours
in:
International
Politics and
Conflict Studies*
School of
Politics,
International
Studies and
Philosophy
The BA in International Politics and
Conflict explores armed conflict and
insurgency and also examines trends
such as globalisation (and considers
the challenge from the rise of China
and India and the impact of the
American mortgage markets on the
political economy of Western Europe)
and also humanitarian issues (such
as poverty, development, disease
and malnutrition and the search for a
global resolution).
Comparative
Ethnic
Conflict
MA, PG Diploma
School of
Politics,
International
Studies and
Philosophy
Social sciences tools are explored in
analysing the causes and the
attempted resolution of political
conflict in ethnically divided regions
such as Northern Ireland, the Middle
East, Africa and South Asia.
Modules:
 Introduction to the study of politics, the
state of world politics, international history,
contemporary Europe and politics and the
media.
 The political, economic and social
th
transformations of the 20 century and
beyond.
Optional modules
 International Organisations;
 Deeply Divided Societies;
 Comparative Politics in Europe and
 America,
 International Relations Theory,
 The politics and policies of the European
Union and security and terrorism.
 The Middle East,
 Southern Africa,
 The European Union,
 Conflict and conflict resolution
 Foreign policy
Modules:
 Ethnic conflict regulation:
 Conflict Intervention
 National and Ethnic Conflict Management
 Theories of Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict
 Case studies (Israeli Palestinian Conflict)
 Comparative Politics of Southern Africa
Optional modules:
 Democracy,
 Freedom and Equality
 Global Terrorism
 International Political Philosophy
 Ireland and Europe
 Issues in European Governance
 Northern Ireland and the World
 Politics and Cultural Forms
 Politics of the Republic of Ireland
 The Media and Conflict
 Utopias and Utopianism
Course length
Contact
3 years full time
Email:
[email protected]
k
T: +44 (0)28 9097
3838
Dr Cathal McCall
School of Politics,
International Studies
and Philosophy
T: +44 (0)28 9097
3378
E: [email protected]
W:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/s
chools/pisp
1 year full time
or 2 years parttime
Professor Adrian
Guelke
School of Politics,
International
Studies and
Philosophy
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
3658
email:
[email protected]
http://www.qub.ac.uk/p
isp
Queens University
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Human Rights
and
Criminal Justice
School of
Law
The LLM in Human Rights and
Criminal Justice is designed for those
with an academic or professional
interest in human rights and criminal
justice. The programme combines
the
exceptional
research
and
teaching strengths of the Human
Rights Centre and the Institute of
Criminology and Criminal Justice in
the School of Law.
Modules:
 Human Rights: Concepts and Institutions
Either:
 Criminal Justice Processes, or
 Theory and Practice in Criminology
Optional Modules
 A Social History of Criminal Justice
 Comparative Youth Justice
 Gender, Sexuality and Violence
 Crime Prevention and Community Safety
 Penal Policies and Practice
 Policing
 Psychological Aspects of Crime and
Delinquency
 Punishment and Social Control
 Race and Criminal Justice
 Restorative Justice
 Transitional Justice and Conflict
Transformation
 War, Crime and Criminology
 Economic and Social Rights
 Exploitation and Human Rights
 Human Rights in the Americas
 Human Rights in Time of Conflict
 International Protection of Refugees
 Religion and Law
 The Rights of the Child
 The Rights of Women
 Human Rights and the Environment
 Medical Law and Ethics
Course length
Contact
1 year full time
or 2 years parttime
Dr Hakeem Yusuf
Programme Coordinator
School of Law
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
3842
email:
[email protected]
c.uk
http://www.law.qub.ac.
uk
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Human Rights
Law
School of
Law
This course provides a strong
grounding in international and
regional
human rights standards and
mechanisms, enabling students to
engage with and contribute to
contemporary human rights
developments and debates.
International
Relations
MA, PG Diploma*
School of
Politics,
International
Studies and
Philosophy
Queens University
Development component/module
To analyse in a scholarly, critical and
methodologically sophisticated
manner various aspects of
international relations.
Modules:
 Human Rights: Concepts and Institutions
Optional modules:
 Human Rights as Power, Politics and
Paradox
 Equality: the Foundations
 Human Rights in Modern Europe
 Economic and Social Rights
 Exploitation and Human Rights
 Human Rights in the Americas
 Human Rights in Time of Conflict
 International Protection of Refugees
 Religion and Law
 The Rights of the Child
 The Rights of Women
 Human Rights and the Environment
 Medical Law and Ethics
Modules:
 Evolution of international relations, and the
trends toward globalisation, regionalisation
and devolution.
 International Political Economy
 International Security
 Theories and Issues in International
Relations
Optional modules:
 Conflict Intervention
 Global Terrorism
 International Political Philosophy
 Ireland and Europe
 Issues in European Governance
 Comparative Ethnic Conflict:
 Case Studies Democracy,
 Freedom and Equality
 Ethics and Foreign Policy
 Green Political Theory
 Illicit Political Economies
 Media and Conflict
Course length
Contact
1 year full time
or 2 years parttime
Dr Hakeem Yusuf
Programme Coordinator
School of Law
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
3842
email:
[email protected]
c.uk
http://www.law.qub.ac.
uk
1 year full time
or 2 years parttime
Dr Dan Bulley
School of Politics,
International
Studies and
Philosophy
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
3165
email:
[email protected]
http://www.qub.ac.uk/p
isp
Queens University
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Law and
Governance
School of
Law
This topical postgraduate programme
focuses on some of the most
challenging issues facing policy
communities at every level of
governance in the world today, such
as modernising government and
better law-making. Explores complex
issues associated with EU, global,
national and regional governance, it
develops a strong focus on the
changing roles of law, governance
and government.
Core Modules:
 Approaches to Law and Regulation
 Multi-level Governance
 Techniques and Methods in Law and the
 Social Sciences
Managing sustainability is one of the
most challenging and rapidly growing
areas in both the public and private
sectors. This innovative programme
embraces action based learning,
facilitated through a series of work
placements and group projects to
foster critical thinking and promote
the use of initiative for problem
solving and decision making.
Such experiences also provide the
opportunity to contribute positively to
the sustainable development agenda
whilst enhancing key employability
skills in a professional environment.
Modules:
 Foundations for sustainable development 1
 Foundations for sustainable development 2
 Leadership for Sustainable Development
 Effective Leadership: Group Project
MSc Leadership
for Sustainable
Development
School of
Biological
Sciences
(Gibson
Institute for
Land, Food &
Environment)
Course length
Contact
1 year full time
or 2 years parttime
Dr Dieter Pesendorfer
Programme Coordinator
School of Law
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
3842
email:
[email protected]
c.uk
http://www.law.qub.ac.
uk
1 Year full time
Dr Jude Stephens
The Gibson Institute
for Land, Food
and Environment
School of Biological
Sciences
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
2114
email:
[email protected]
http://www.qub.ac.uk/
gibsoninstitute
Optional Modules:
 Climate Change and Energy
 Company Law and Corporate Governance
 Devolved, Diffuse and Federal Governance
 e-Government and e-Democracy
 Environmental Justice
 European Competition Law and Policy
 Governing the public Sector in a globalised
 context
 Intellectual Property and Technology Law
 International corporate social responsibility
 International Trade Law
 Regulation, International Banking and
 Financial Markets
 Regulation, Privatisation and the Company
 The Idea of The Public
A series of three eight-week placements in
partnership with a range of organizations
where managing sustainability is key.
Placement modules are as listed:
 Placement 1 Sustainable Development in
Non-Governmental Organization’s
 Placement 2 Sustainable Development in
Governance
 Placement 3 Sustainable Development in
Business
Queens University
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Course length
Contact
MSc Sustainable
Rural
Development and
Project
Management
School of
Biological
Sciences
(Gibson
Institute for
Land, Food &
Environment)
Sustainable rural development is
seen as critical to survival of rural
areas at a local and a global level.
Central to the success of any rural
development programme, is a skilled
team of experts to think strategically
about rural development and ensure
its
delivery.
This
graduate
programme will be of direct relevance
to those interested in becoming
leaders and champions in rural
development
and
promoting
sustainability in the rural sector. It will
also be of interest to those currently
employed in rural development.
Modules:
 Policies and Strategies for Sustainable
Rural Development
 Foundations for Sustainable Development
 Rural Development: Rhetoric and Reality
 Methods for Rural and Sustainability
Research
 Rural Development Placement (a twelve
week placement in the rural/sustainability
sector undertaking an agreed project).
 Rural Development Project – independent
research and analysis leading to a thesis.
1 Year full time
Dr Jude Stephens
The Gibson Institute
for Land, Food
and Environment
School of Biological
Sciences
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
2114
email:
[email protected]
http://www.qub.ac.uk/
gibsoninstitute
MA, Graduate
Diploma Social
Anthropology*
School of
History and
Anthropology
To provide students with a general
knowledge of the principles and
methods of Social Anthropology.
Compulsory modules:
 Anthropological Methods in Context and
Practice
MA: 1 year fulltime or up to 3
years
Optional
 Anthropological Perspectives
 Ethnographic writing in social anthropology
 Frontiers of Anthropology
 Constructing Livelihoods
 Introducing Social Anthropology: Theory,
Method and Practice
 Key Debates in Anthropology
 Religion and Ritual
part-time,
Graduate
Diploma:
Or 3 years part
time
1 year full-time
or 2 years parttime.
Marie George
School of History and
Anthropology
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
3876
email:
[email protected].
uk
http://www.qub.ac.uk/a
nthropology
Queens University
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Course length
Contact
MSc
Sustainability and
Corporate
Social
Responsibility
Queen’s
University
Management
School
To prepare graduates for a career in
the
private,
public
or
nongovernmental sectors in managing
their organisation’s response to
corporate
social
responsibility,
environmental management and
sustainable development issues.
The course involves studying a
combination of modules that focus on
the core functional areas of business
and aspects of sustainability.
Core modules:
 Corporate Social Responsibility and
Governance
 Environmental Communication
 Environmental Legislation
 International Corporate Social responsibility
 Issues in Sustainability
 Managing the 21st-Century Business
 Managing the Sustainable Business
 Roots of Modern Environmentalism
 Sustainability Consultancy Project
 Planning and Risk Management
 Data Analysis
 Research Methods
1 Year full time
or 2-3 years
part-time
MA, PG Diploma
Violence,
Terrorism and
Security*
School
of
Politics,
International
Studies and
Philosophy
This programme provides dynamic
and critical study in violence,
terrorism and international security. It
challenges accepted wisdom and
opens up the debate about the role of
violence in relation to political power
in the late 20th and early 21st
centuries. The aim is to help students
develop a critical and analytical
approach to problems in history and
the contemporary world of violence,
terrorism and security.
Compulsory modules:
 Conflict Intervention
 Global Terrorism
 International Security
 Violence, Terrorism and Security
Electives:
 International Political Economy
 International Political Philosophy
 Ireland and Europe
 Issues in European Governance
 Politics of the Republic of Ireland
 Comparative Ethnic Conflict
 Democracy, Freedom and Equality
 Ethics and Foreign Policy
 Green Political Theory
 Illicit Political Economies
 Media and Conflict
 Politics and Cultural Forms
 Theories of Modernity
 Utopias and Utopianism
1 year full time
or 2 years parttime
Dr Julian Warner
Programme Director
Queen’s University
Management
School
email:
[email protected]
http://www.qub.ac.uk/
mgt
Dr Diane Holt Lecturer
in Management and
Sustainability
Queen's University
Management School
Riddel Hall
185 Stranmillis Road
Belfast,
Northern Ireland | UK |
BT9 5EE
T: +44 (0) 28 9097
4538
Dr Mike Bourne
School of Politics,
International
Studies and
Philosophy
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
3743
email:m.bourne@qub.
ac.uk
http://www.qub.ac.uk/p
isp
Queens University
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MSc Public
Health*
School of
Medicine,
Dentistry and
Biomedical
Sciences
The programme aims to introduce
the ‘science” of public health
practice: a robust, systematic and
evidence-based approach to define
and understand population health
issues and problems, and to identify
optimal solutions for health gain
within available resources, as well as
the ‘art’ of public health practice:
interpersonal and organisational
skills to work in partnership with
others, influence decisions, support
implementation
of
policy,
programmes or interventions, and
effect real change.
Title of Course
School
LLM (Human
Rights Law)
(Cross-border)
LLM (Human
Rights and
Criminal Justice)
(Cross-border)
This LLM is
offered in
conjunction
with the Irish
Centre for
Human
Rights,
National
University of
Ireland,
Galway and
Queen's
University
Belfast
Human Rights
Law
(Cross Border)
Programme content is based on the Diploma
(Part
A)
Examination
syllabus
for
Membership of the UK Faculty of Public
Health. There are six taught sequential
modules over two semesters.
Semester 1: introduces core concepts,
methodologies and approaches
Semester 2: outlines public health practice
within the three principle domains: Health
Improvement; Health Protection; and Health
and Social Care Systems
Semester 3: requires completion of an
appropriate, discrete, academic and service
public health dissertation project to integrate
and apply public health-related knowledge
and skills
Course length
Contact
1 year full time
Dr Dermot O Reilly
Department of
Epidemiology and
Public Health
School of Medicine,
Dentistry and
Biomedical Sciences
Mulhouse Building,
RVH Site
Tel: +44 (0)28 9063
2738
email:
[email protected]
http://www.qub.ac.uk/s
chools/mdbs/
ProspectiveStudents/p
gd
Queens University Belfast and National University of Ireland Galway
Aim of course
Development component/module
Course length
The (Cross Border) LLM allows
students to benefit from research and
study in two jurisdictions. Students
will attend classes for Semester 1 in
Belfast and Semester 2 in Galway.
By having access to academic staff
and research facilities in Belfast and
Galway, students are given the
possibility to develop and understand
a number of perspectives of the
study of the human rights law.
 Human Rights: Concepts and Institutions
 Theory & Practice in Criminology
 Criminal Justice Processes
Optional modules for Human Rights LLM
 Human Rights as Power, Politics and
Paradox
 Equality: the foundations
 Human Rights in Modern Europe
 Human Rights in Time of Conflict
 Medical Law and Ethics
 Abolition of Capital Punishment
 Cases of Conflict and Post-conflict
 Child Rights
 International Criminal Law
 International Humanitarian Law
 International Refugee Law
 Regional Systems of Human Rights
 Minorities and Self-determination
One year full
time
Contact
Dr Hakeem Yusuf
Programme Coordinator
School of Law
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097
3842
email:
[email protected]
c.uk
http://www.law.qub.ac.
uk
Royal College of Surgeons
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Epidemiology &
Public Health
Medicine
Undergraduate
Teaching*
Population
and
international
health
The Department of Epidemiology and
Public health Medicine delivers a 10credit module in the third trimester of
the
Junior
Cycle,
comprising
Evidence-Based Health (EBH) and
Population and International Health
(PIH).
EBH introduces students to the
traditional subjects of statistics and
epidemiology in a way that enables
them to develop the skills to
understand
study
design
and
interpret the evidence base that
underpins the scientific basis of
medicine. RCSI staff from across the
pre-clinical and clinical departments
provides students with examples
from their current research. PIH is
the fourth of five domains of the
RCSI Graduate Profile and the PIH
module enables students understand
how the principles of epidemiology
are applied in population health
programmes.
Population and International Health (PIH)
aims to give students an understanding of the
application of public health medicine theory
and methods to 1) assessing the health
needs of different populations, 2) developing
and evaluating appropriate interventions to
promote health and prevent disease, and 3)
informing public health policy. PIH is
organised around five themes which move
from general principles, through applications
of these principles to the planning and
provision of services. Throughout the EBHPIH module, an international perspective is
taken, with applications drawn from both
developed and developing countries, and a
discussion of key issues at global as well as
a national level. EBH-PIH provides a basis
for student learning of international health
and tropical medicine, most of which is
delivered in the Intermediate Cycle.
Health and disease all around the
world is the subject matter of this
discipline which links epidemiology,
social sciences, the biology of
infection, immunity and vaccinology
to political science, diplomacy,
economics and development studies.
Traditionally Tropical Medicine was the
medical specialist which specialised in the
diagnosis, prevention and treatment of
conditions found mostly in the tropical
countries like the viruses yellow fever and
dengue, protozoa like malaria and amoeba
and helminths of all sorts. In the last 2
decades this has changed and the specialty
is dominated by the diseases of a resourcepoor setting. HIV, tuberculosis, malaria,
pneumonia and diarrhoea. Delivery of best
medical care in a resource poor-setting is a
challenge, and combining the preventative
approach with the curative one is now an
important component of Tropical Medicine.
International
Health & Tropical
Medicine*
Department
of
international
health and
Tropical
Medicine
Course length
Contact
Undergraduate
course
Head of Department
Ruairi Brugha
[email protected]
Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland,
123 St Stephens
Green, Dublin 2,
Ireland.
Tel:
+353 1 402 2100
Email: [email protected]
DepartmentalSecretari
es ([email protected])
Mary O'Connell
Deirdre Smith
Head of the
Department Professor
Samuel J. McConkey
Mairead Lamb,
Administrator,
Department of Tropical
Medicine,
Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland,
123 St. Stephen's
Green, Dublin 2.
Tel: +353 1 402 2186
Fax: +353 1 4022462
E-mail: [email protected]
Royal College of Surgeons
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Course length
Contact
Diploma in
Tropical
Medicine*
Department
of
international
health and
Tropical
Medicine
An intensive full-time six weeks
course on clinical tropical medicine is
offered annually at the Royal College
of Surgeons in Ireland.
The course emphasises the clinical,
diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of tropical
medicine and is based on a tutorial approach.
The Postgraduate Course leading to a
Diploma in Tropical Medicine (D.T.M.
R.C.P.& S. Irl.)
6 week intensive
course providing
a postgraduate
Diploma
Basic Course in
Travel Health*
Department
of
International
Health &
Tropical
Medicine
• Day one concentrates on setting up and
running a Travel Health Clinic and in
particular on vaccinology.
• Day two concentrates on the common
illnesses and hazards associated with travel
and living overseas.
• Day three concentrates on Special Groups
and the Returned Traveller followed by the
Certificate Examination in Travel Medicine.
• The course is accredited with the ICGP and
An Bord Altranais.
3 days intensive
course
Surgeons in the
Developing
World*
Department
of
International
Health &
Tropical
Medicine
An intensive full-time three-day
course on Travel Health is being
offered at the Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland. This course is
suitable for Doctors, Nurses and
other Health Care Professionals
working in the field of Travel and
International Health. It covers a basic
knowledge of Travel Health and is
therefore of use in dealing with those
travelling overseas for work or leisure
as well as for returnees and
immigrants.
The purpose of this module is to
introduce surgeons in training to the
global health care context and
specific issues relevant to the
surgical profession. Students are
expected to gain awareness of
surgical needs unique to developing
countries and in humanitarian crises.
They will also gain insight into
strategies that can contribute to
improved surgical outcomes in the
short-term
while
implementing
broader healthcare management
schemes to sustain development in
the long-term.
Mairead Lamb,
Administrator,
Department of Tropical
Medicine,
Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland,
123 St. Stephen's
Green, Dublin 2.
Tel: +353 1 402 2186
Fax: +353 1 4022462
E-mail: [email protected]
Mairead Lamb,
Administrator,
Department of Tropical
Medicine,
Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland,
123 St. Stephen's
Green, Dublin 2.
Tel: +353 1 402 2186
Fax: +353 1 4022462
E-mail: [email protected]
The role of surgery is becoming increasingly
recognized as an essential component of
public health in developing countries.
However the global disparity in access to
surgical services has yet to be fully
understood. The purpose of this module is to
address the global burden of disease from a
surgical perspective as a building block for
more effective public health systems.
Students will gain awareness of surgical
needs unique to developing countries and in
humanitarian crises.
Instruction will include:
• Surgery and health policy at the global and
local level
• The role of the surgeon in resource
constrained areas
• Surgical care in conflict zones.
Mairead Lamb,
Administrator,
Department of Tropical
Medicine,
Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland,
123 St. Stephen's
Green, Dublin 2.
Tel: +353 1 402 2186
Fax: +353 1 4022462
E-mail: [email protected]
Title of Course
Structured PhD in
Health Systems
Research for
Africa *
Royal College of Surgeons with Trinity College Dublin and National University of Ireland Galway
School
Aim of course
Development component/module
Course length
CHRAIC
partners
include
researchers
in the Royal
College of
Surgeons in
Ireland
(RCSI),
Trinity
College
Dublin,
National
University of
Ireland
Galway, The
Malaria
Consortium,
and from
institutions in
Lesotho,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Sierra Leone,
Sudan and
Uganda
Researchers from three Irish
institutions, six African countries and
one non-governmental organisation
(NGO) comprise a long-term
partnership for capacity building for
pro-poor health research in Africa.
This programme, the Connecting
Health Research in Africa and Ireland
Consortium (CHRAIC), is supported
by Ireland's development assistance
programme, through Ireland's Higher
Education Authority (HEA), and
increasingly from the Irish institutions
involved.
The African researchers are from
Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda.
The Malaria Consortium's main
headquarters is in the UK and its
main Africa office is in Uganda.
The Council for Health Research for
Development -http://www.cohred.org,
which has unique expertise in
research capacity building, and the
Alliance for Health Policy & Systems 
Research (http://www.alliancehpsr.org/), which focuses on
research prioritisation and research
into policy processes, are both
advisers to the Programme.
CHRAIC aims to synthesise research 
and identify knowledge gaps in six
African countries on human
resources for health, equity and
access to services; and governance
of the health system. These three

areas are essential to delivering
interventions for the Health and
HIV/AIDS Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs). CHRAIC has
established a doctoral training
programme to strengthen research.
The PhD programme is part of a five year
programme that will provide the foundation
for a long-term partnership of capacity
building for pro-poor health research in
selected African countries.
The first year comprises a 24-week taught
programme. Most of the Year 1 teaching is in
Dublin, but it is also in Galway and Cork. The
modules include some common modules with
the Health Services Research Scholars (see
above), namely: Population Health; Health
Informatics; Evidence Synthesis & Clinical
Trials; Applying Research Methods:
Quantitative & Qualitative, and; Hands on
Data Analysis with STATA. Additional
modules are provided by NUIG on the Social
Determinants of Health and two modules,
from the Masters in Global Health at Trinity
College Dublin, with a focus on health
systems in Low and Middle Income Countries
are included.
In year 2 and 3 fieldwork will usually be in
Africa. The themes for health systems
research are:
Governance: research that contributes to
strengthening the capacity of government
institutions and the involvement of civil
society and other stakeholders in providing
services that meet the health needs of the
poor.
Human resources for health: research to
identify strategies for ensuring that health
workers are available, able and motivated to
deliver health services, especially to those
who are poor or marginalised.
Access and Equity: research that
contributes to understanding and overcoming
barriers that the poor and other
disadvantaged groups experience in seeking
to access health services.
3 years full-time
Contact
Website:
http://www.chraic.org/
RCSI project team:
Ruairí Brugha, Elaine
Byrne
National University of
Ireland Galway
Dr. Diarmuid
O’Donovan
Email:
diarmuid.odonovan@n
uigalway.ie
Trinity College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MSc in Global
Health
School of
Medicine
The MSc in Global Health augments
traditional approaches to public and
international health by bringing
together perspectives and insights
from a range of health and social
sciences in understanding and
resolving the challenges of global
health. The course emphasizes an
interconnected and interdisciplinary
approach to global health, with a
particular focus on strengthening
health systems. All countries give
rise to inequities in health, wealth,
education and human rights, and the
interconnectedness of these issues
will be a major theme running
throughout the course. The course
also lays emphasis on ‘local'
experiences that resonate globally in
the case of Ireland. These include
the influence of poverty and rapid
social change on health and identity
in Ireland; migration and refugee
welfare, the consequences of ethnic
conflict, the peace process and the
challenges of reconciliation for
creating inclusive health services.
The strongest emphasis within the
course is on health in developing
countries and the impact of
globalisation.
Compulsory Modules:
 Determinants of Health
 Health Economics and Financing
 Health Policy and Systems
 Principles of Social Research
 Introduction to critical reading for statistics in
Global Health
 Epidemiology
 Key Skills in Global Health
 Epidemiology in Humanitarian Emergencies
Optional Modules:(this list is subject to
change):
 Environmental health and climate change
 Reproductive, maternal and child health
 Human resources and health
 Human rights and inclusive global health
 Media and advocacy
 Nutrition and Global Health
 Culture health and illness
 Systematic reviews
Course length
Contact
1 year full time
with an option to
take the course
part time over 2
years
Course Director:
Dr Fiona Larkan
Tel: +353 1 896 2764
E-mail:[email protected]
Website: www.globalhealth.tcd.ie/postgradu
ate/msc/
Trinity College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
International
Doctorate in
Global Health
(Indigo)
School of
Medicine
The International Doctorate in Global
Health (Indigo), is offered by the
International Doctoral School in
Global Health, and coordinated by
the Centre for Global Health at Trinity
College,
Dublin.
Participating
partners include Addis Ababa
University (Ethiopia), University of
Malawi, Ibadan University (Nigeria),
Makerere
University
(Uganda),
Columbia University (USA), Harvard
Medical School (USA) and UK
Cochrane Centre (UK). COHRED
(Switzerland), HSRC (South Africa)
The main focus of Indigo is on
strengthening health systems in
Africa, and three areas of research
will be promoted: maximizing human
resources for health; managing
communicable diseases; promoting
equitable and inclusive access to
health. Indigo promotes social health
sciences in the areas of 1) human
resource for health, 2) inclusive
global health and 3) global health
governance.
Indigo seeks to enable partners in
the global South to become Regional
Centre’s
of
Excellence
in
Interdisciplinary Health Research,
producing research leaders who will
develop the evidence base for health
systems capable of developing and
implementing effective treatment
strategies and technologies.
In their first year, Indigo students choose
taught courses in global health from a wide
range of options offered at the Centre for
Global Health (Trinity College Dublin) and at
the Mailman School of Public Health
(Columbia University, New York). It can
include time in Dublin and New Work,
depending on individual needs, as well as an
internship at the Human Sciences Research
Council, South Africa, where they may be
attached to a research project in their area of
interest.
Available courses may include the following:
• Determinants of Health
• Priorities in Global Health
• Health Economics and Financing
• Health Policy and Systems
• Principles of Social Research
• Statistics and data analysis for global health
• Case Studies in global health care delivery
• Introduction to Systematic Reviews
• Topics in Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Epidemiology of HIV and AIDS
• Cross-national health policy and
management
• Water and sanitation in complex
emergencies
• Human Resources for Health
• Inclusive Global Health
• Climate Change and Global Health
The following three years will be spent
researching
and
writing-up
individual
research projects in students’ chosen fields,
under the supervision of an international
panel of experts. During this time, students
will usually be based at one of the African
partner universities: University of Malawi,
Makerere (Uganda), Ibadan (Nigeria) or
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and their final year in
Dublin to write up their Thesis.
Course length
Contact
Four year
flexible doctoral
programme
Indigo Programme
Director: Prof. Malcolm
MacLachlan.
For further details
please contact the
Indigo Programme
Coordinator,
Dr Ogenna Udum
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
http://www.globalhealth.tcd.ie/indigo/
Tel: +353-1-896-4177
Fax: +353-1-896-4956
Trinity College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
M.Phil. in
International
Peace Studies
Irish School
of Ecumenics
The M.Phil. in International Peace The
module
on
“Armed
Conflict,
Studies provides an interdisciplinary Peacebuilding and Development” involves a
approach to understanding the critical examination of development theory
social,
political,
ethical
and and practice from the perspective of the
ideological dimensions of war and complex relationship between armed conflict
armed conflict.
It examines the and development. This includes issues such
conditions for achieving sustainable as the connection between peacebuilding
peace through conflict resolution, and development in post-war societies, the
mediation,
peacebuilding
and role of NGOs in development, the impact of
nonviolence. The programme draws multilateral institutions such as the World
on the fields of international relations, Bank, development ethics, and the evolution
politics, human rights, sociology, of development theory. Case studies from
philosophy, development and gender Asia, Africa and Latin America are used to
studies in the pursuit of a explore the relationship between conflict and
comprehensive understanding of war economic
grievances,
resources,
war
and peace.
Our graduates are economies, and the global economy.
employed in the diplomatic service, in
NGOs
and
international Other modules in the programme relevant to
organisations such as the UN, in development include:
media and education.
Others  “The Politics of Peace and Conflict”,
continue to PhD programmes.
 “The United Nations and Peacekeeping”,
 “Human Rights in Theory and Practice”,
 “Gender, War and Peace”.
Students may also choose to write their M.Phil
dissertation (15-20,000 words) on a
development-related topic.
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime, two years
part-time.
Dr Etain Tannam,
Course Coordinator,
International Peace
Studies,
E-mail:
[email protected],
Telephone: (01) 206
0355
Mary Priestman,
Executive Officer,
International Peace
Studies,
E-mail:
[email protected],
Telephone: (01) 218
0532
Title of Course
School
TCD-UCD
Masters in
Development
Practice
(M.Sc./Postgradu
ate Diploma)
UCD School
of Politics
and
International
Relations
TCD
Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin
Aim of course
Development component/module
The joint TCD-UCD Master’s degree
in Development Practice (MDP) is
part of the MacArthur Foundation
funded global network of masters in
development practice, with a global
secretariat
headquartered
in
Columbia University, USA. It is being
delivered in collaboration with the
National University of Rwanda. This
innovative course is designed to
provide a comprehensive theoretical
grounding and applied skills in
development practice. The course is
jointly taught by University of Dublin
Trinity College and
University
College Dublin academic staff, and a
joint award at the Masters level, with
an exit Postgraduate Diploma, is
offered to successful graduates by
both universities
The programme trains future development
practitioners to world-class level in four
thematic areas: 1) economics and social
sciences,
2)
natural
sciences
and
environment, 3) global health and 4)
management.
The National University of Rwanda is a key
partner and students will spend a portion of
time completing cross-disciplinary fieldwork
in Rwanda in year one. Year Two has a
placement in an International Organisation.
Particular emphasis will be laid upon the
interconnectedness between Economics,
Governance,
Civil
Society,
Health,
Environment and Agriculture, amongst others
things.
Course length
Contact
Two years full
time
Trinity course Director:
Dr Pádraig Carmody
Email:
[email protected]
Telephone: +353-18961243
UCD Course Director:
Dr Patrick Paul Walsh
Email:
[email protected]
Telephone 353
(0)1716 8435
Title of Course
Structured PhD in
Health Systems
Research for
Africa *
Trinity College Dublin with National University of Ireland Galway and Royal College of Surgeons
School
Aim of course
Development component/module
Course length
CHRAIC
partners
include
researchers
in the Royal
College of
Surgeons in
Ireland
(RCSI),
Trinity
College
Dublin,
National
University of
Ireland
Galway, The
Malaria
Consortium,
and from
institutions in
Lesotho,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Sierra Leone,
Sudan and
Uganda
Researchers from three Irish
institutions, six African countries and
one non-governmental organisation
(NGO) comprise a long-term
partnership for capacity building for
pro-poor health research in Africa.
This programme, the Connecting
Health Research in Africa and Ireland
Consortium (CHRAIC), is supported
by Ireland's development assistance
programme, through Ireland's Higher
Education Authority (HEA), and
increasingly from the Irish institutions
involved.
The African researchers are from
Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda.
The Malaria Consortium's main
headquarters is in the UK and its
main Africa office is in Uganda.
The Council for Health Research for
Development -http://www.cohred.org,
which has unique expertise in
research capacity building, and the
Alliance for Health Policy & Systems
Research (http://www.alliancehpsr.org/), which focuses on
research prioritisation and research
into policy processes, are both
advisers to the Programme.
CHRAIC aims to synthesise research
and identify knowledge gaps in six
African countries on human
resources for health, equity and
access to services; and governance
of the health system. These three
areas are essential to delivering
interventions for the Health and
HIV/AIDS Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs). CHRAIC has
established a doctoral training
programme to strengthen research.
The PhD programme is part of a five year
programme that will provide the foundation
for a long-term partnership of capacity
building for pro-poor health research in
selected African countries.
The first year comprises a 24-week taught
programme. Most of the Year 1 teaching is in
Dublin, but it is also in Galway and Cork. The
modules include some common modules with
the Health Services Research Scholars (see
above), namely: Population Health; Health
Informatics; Evidence Synthesis & Clinical
Trials; Applying Research Methods:
Quantitative & Qualitative, and; Hands on
Data Analysis with STATA. Additional
modules are provided by NUIG on the Social
Determinants of Health and two modules,
from the Masters in Global Health at Trinity
College Dublin, with a focus on health
systems in Low and Middle Income Countries
are included.
In year 2 and 3 fieldwork will usually be in
Africa. The themes for health systems
research are:
 Governance: research that contributes to
strengthening the capacity of government
institutions and the involvement of civil
society and other stakeholders in providing
services that meet the health needs of the
poor.
 Human resources for health: research to
identify strategies for ensuring that health
workers are available, able and motivated to
deliver health services, especially to those
who are poor or marginalised.
 Access and Equity: research that
contributes to understanding and overcoming
barriers that the poor and other
disadvantaged groups experience in seeking
to access health services.
3 years full-time
Contact
Website:
http://www.chraic.org/
RCSI project team:
Ruairí Brugha, Elaine
Byrne
National University of
Ireland Galway
Dr. Diarmuid
O’Donovan
Email:
diarmuid.odonovan@n
uigalway.ie
University College Cork
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
International
Development &
Food Policy BSc
(Hons)
College of
Science,
Engineering
and Food
Science
This exciting programme is unique in
Ireland as the first undergraduate
degree programme to have a primary
focus on international development.
The programme combines a strong
focus on understanding key
dimensions of development and
acquiring skills to work effectively in
this area, with the opportunity to
pursue more specific issues in the
areas of food policy; human rights
and development; health-related
aspects of development and modern
languages.
In Third Year, students undertake a
substantial work placement of about
24 weeks’ duration. Where possible,
all or most of the placement period
will be overseas, hosted by an Irish
or international development
organization. Placement
opportunities are identified through
the extensive network of contacts
which the Department of Food
Business and Development and the
Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods
have developed.
This degree programme is aimed at
people who are interested in
understanding global development
and who wish to pursue
development-oriented careers which
contribute to addressing global
economic and social inequalities.
Modules over 4 years include:
 Development Studies;
 Food and Agricultural Economics;
 Management and Organization;
 International Food Policy
 Globalisation, Trade and Development;
 Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis;
 Supply Chain Management;
 SME and Local Development;
 Communication Skills in Development;
 Human Rights Law;
 Race and Ethnicity;
 Statistics for Development Research
 Socio-economic Research Methods;
 Programme Planning and Management;
 Development Management and
Organization’s;
 Gender and Development;
 Work Placement
 Advanced Programme Planning and
Policy Processes;
 Global Food Policy;
 Macro Economic Issues in
Development;
 Contemporary Issues in Development;
 Humanitarian Action in Development;
 Dissertation
Electives: Co-operative Business and the
Rural Economy; Markets, Society and Social
Policy; Co-operative Banking; Rural
Development Policy; Health and
Development; Global Governance; Language
(French/Spanish/Chinese); Conflict; Human
Rights and Development; Dairy and Meat
Marketing; Micro-Finance and Development
Course length
Contact
4 years full-time
Course coordinator:
Nick Chisholm and
Nora Hennessy
Tel :+353 (0)21 490
2570 / 2114
E-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]
w:http://food.ucc.ie
University College Cork
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Masters in
International
Public Policy &
Diplomacy
Collage of
Business and
Law
The MBS International Public Policy
and Diplomacy is a programme for
those aspiring to pursue careers in
international policy environments
such as departments of foreign
affairs
and
other
government
ministries,
international
organizations, armed forces, aid
agencies,
non-governmental
organizations and think-tanks, and
international businesses. The MBS
International Public Policy and
Diplomacy has a strong vocational
element including policy-oriented
brief- and report-writing, visiting
speaker series of current and former
policy-makers, tailored advice on
career development, a fieldtrip to the
European institutions in Brussels, a
fieldtrip to Dublin (examining national
policy-making) and a work placement
in
an
international
policy
environment. The MBS International
Public Policy and Diplomacy is a
one-year full-time programme offered
by
UCC’s
Departments
of
Government,
History,
Law,
Management and Marketing and
languages. Students take taught
courses from early September to end
March and a work placement (or a
research dissertation) during the
summer.
Students studying for the MBS International
Public Policy and Diplomacy take the
following modules:
Core Modules:
 Contemporary Global Policy Challenges
 EU Political System and Policies
 International Law
 Leadership and Followership
 Global Economic Policies and Institutions
 European Law
 Foreign Policy and Diplomacy: Case
Studies in Crises and Decision-making
 Either Work Placement and Portfolio OR
Research Dissertation
Elective modules
 European Security
 The Development of International Society
 US Foreign Policy and Contemporary
History
 Immigration & Refugee Law
 International Humanitarian Law
 International Criminal Law
 International Trade Law and Policy
 Language modules Chinese OR French
OR German OR Spanish OR Italian OR
Modern Irish
Course length
Contact
1 year full-time
Dr Andrew Cottey
Director, MBS
International Public
Policy and Diplomacy
Department of
Government
University College
Cork
Cork
Ireland
Tel. +353 21 490-2087
E-mail:
[email protected]
University College Cork
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Masters in
International
Human Rights
Law and Public
Policy [LLM
(International
Human Rights
Law and Public
Policy)]
Collage of
Business and
Law
The LLM in International Human
Rights Law and Public Policy is an
innovative and exciting new LLM
programme, which builds on the Law
Faculty’s reputation for excellence in
international and European human
rights law. The programme, which
includes a core International Human
Rights clinic module, is designed
specifically to engage students in the
practice and policy context of Human
Rights Law. Students will benefit
from a series of guest seminars with
representatives of civil society,
Government, international human
rights bodies and the world of legal
practice.
Compulsory Modules
 Human Rights in Practice (Clinic)
 Contemporary Issues in International Law
 LLM (International Human Rights and
Public Policy)
 Thesis (Research topic in the area of
human rights law)
Optional Modules (At least four modules)
 International Criminal Law
 Immigration and Refugee Law
 War Law 1: Ius Ad Bellum
 War Law 2: Ius in Bello
 Information Rights Law
 Children’s Rights
 Juvenile Justice
 Child Law (Clinical)
 Terrorism, dissonance and criminal justice
 Disability and the Law
 The Family and the Law
 Challenges in Medical Law and Policy
 Contemporary Issues in Constitutional Law
 Mental Health Law
 Principles of Environmental Law
Course length
Contact
1 year full-time
or 2 years parttime
Veronica Calnan,
Faculty of Law,
University College,
Cork.
Tel: 021 4903995
E-mail:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.ucc.ie/en/la
wsite/study/postgrad/ll
mhr/
University College Cork
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Nutritional
Sciences (BSc)
College of
Science,
Engineering
and Food
Science
Nutritional Science as a subject
focuses on food as it affects our
health and is concerned with the
provision of food and nutrients to the
body to facilitate optimum physical
and
mental
development
and
maintenance of health throughout a
lifetime. Nutritional Scientists have an
increasingly
important
role
in
advancing our knowledge of the
relationship of diet to health through
research,
and
applying
that
knowledge to the provision of
nutritional advice to the public as well
as providing safe, wholesome and
nutritious food to consumers.
The BSc Nutritional Sciences degree
at UCC has an annual intake of
approximately 35 students and is
accredited with the Nutrition Society.
Modules in development include:
 Human Nutrition
 Basic and advanced Vitamins and
Minerals
 Energy balance and metabolism
 Clinical Nutrition
 Nutritional Assessment
 Nutrition in Growth and Development
 Public Health Nutrition
 Nutrition in the Developing World
 Special Topics in Nutrition
 Determinants of Food Choice & Eating
Behaviour
Course length Contact
4 years full time
Course Co-ordinator:
Dr Mairead Kiely
Course Co-ordinator
Department: Dept of
Food & Nutritional
Science
ph:+353 (0)21 490
3527
Email: [email protected]
w:http://food.ucc.ie
w.: www.foodatucc.ie
Masters in
Applied Science
(Nutritional
Sciences)
College of
Science,
Engineering
and Food
Science
The aim of this programme is to
equip students with the necessary
skill-set to understand the key issues
in the field of nutritional sciences and
apply critical thinking skills to solve
problems in nutrition
Modules in development include:
 Current Topics in Public Health Nutrition
 Food Security and Implications for
Human Nutrition
 Nutrition in the Developing World
One year fulltime
Course Director:
Professor Nora
O'Brien,
Department of Food &
Nutritional Sciences,
University College
Cork
Telephone + 353 (21)
4902884
E-mail: [email protected]
University College Cork
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
BSc (Hons) Public
Health and Health
Promotion
Collage of
Medicine and
Health
This programme is the only
undergraduate degree in Ireland
specializing in Public Health. It
addresses the prevention of disease,
the prolonging of life and the
promotion of health through the
organized efforts of society.
Effective Public Health and Health
Promotion involves all levels of
society, from counseling individuals
about their health choices, to
improving the health of entire
communities,
to
working
with
governments
and
international
agencies to foster health.
The BSc in Public Health and Health
Promotion at UCC provides a broadly
based training, reflecting the range of
skills that are involved in keeping
people healthy and preventing
disease.
Modules over 4 years include:
 Determinants of Health;
 Epidemiology;
 Health Information Systems;
 Basic Sciences;
 Environmental Sciences;
 Social Sciences;
 Statistics
 Public Health & Health Promotion;
 Nutrition;
 Microbiology;
 Management;
 Public Health Practice;
 Data Management;
 Work Placement
 Health Services;
 Health Protection;
 Public Health Advocacy;
 Primary Health Care;
 Politics in Public Health;
 Health Economics;
 Project;
 Elective Modules
Course length
Contact
4 years full-time
Course Co-ordinator:
Dr Fiona Mc Leod
Department:
ph:+353 (0)21 490
1573
e:[email protected]
e
w:http://www.ucc.ie/ac
ademic/pubh
University College Cork
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Master’s in
Public Health
(MPH)
College of
Medicine and
Health
The aim of this programme is to
provide students, from a range of
different professional backgrounds,
academic
and
experiential
development in the theory and
practice of Public Health. It allows
students, if they wish, to focus on a
selection of sub-specialties of
Public Health.
MPH- HEALTH PROMOTION
MPH - HEALTH PROTECTION
MPH – EPIDEMIOLOGY
As part of this programme students
who
complete
the
required
modules can now also exit with a
Postgraduate Diploma in Public
Health with Specialism in Health
Protection (Infection Control)
This Postgraduate Diploma has
received An Bord Altranais
approval. Postgraduate Certificate
in Public Health
Core Modules –
 Principles and Practice of Public Health
 Applied Research for Public Health
 Public Health Informatics
 Leadership in Public Health
Pathway 1: Health Promotion
 Principles and Practice of Public Health
 Applied Research for Public Health
 Public Health Informatics
 Leadership in Public Health
 Public Health Psychology
 Health Promotions: Concepts, Principles
and Practice
 Environment and Health
 Practice Portfolio
 Critical Social Science Perspectives on
Public Health
Pathway 2: Health Protection
 The Principles and Practices of Multidisciplinary Health Protection
 Practice Portfolio
 Microbiology for Health Protection
 The Global Burden of Communicable
Diseases
 Environment and Health
 Infection Control: Theories, Modules and
Management
Pathway 3: Epidemiology
 Advanced Epidemiology
 Advanced Biostatistics
 Survival Analysis
Pathways 1 and 2
 Minor Thesis in Public Health and
Epidemiology
Pathway 3
 Minor Thesis in Epidemiology
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime and parttime options
available
Course Director:
Linda O Connor
Dept of
Epidemiology &
Public Health
Brookfield Health
Sciences Complex
University College
Cork.
Telephone +353-214901627
E:mail:
[email protected]
e
University College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Grad Dip in
Politics and
International
Relations
UCD School
of Politics
and
International
Relations
(SPIRe)
The graduate diploma is an entry
degree
programme,
in
which
students
with
professional
backgrounds or students with not
closely related prior degrees can
enter the programme. Depending on
their performance, aspirations and
selection of modules, students can
transfer from the graduate diploma
into the MA in the subject area in
which they specialized.
Students can choose modules from the broad
list of SPIRe courses
Modules
 Africa in Crisis?
 Human & Econ Development
 International Economic Crisis
 Theories of International Relations
 Politics of Development
 International Security
 Northern Ireland
 Irish Political Development
 Comparative European Politics
 Theory of Human Rights
 Qualitative Methods
 Introduction to Research Design
 Dissertation Design
 Development Management
 International Relations II
 European Public Opinion and Po
 Governing the Global Economy
 Politics of Human Rights
 US Foreign Policy
 Political Geog of Europe
 MegaRegions
 Food Security
 Development and Global Justice
 Comparative Public Policy
 Comparative Ethnic Conflict
 Debates on Citizenship
 EU Foreign and Security Policy
 Regions in a multi-polar world
 Descriptive statistics
 Inferential statistics
Course length
Contact
Duration: one
year full time,
two years part
time
Programme
coordinator:
Dr Basak Kus
[email protected]
Phone : +353 7168242
Administrator:
Katarzyna Glosnicka
katarzyna.glosnicka@
ucd.ie +353 (0)1716
8182
University College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MA Nationalism
and Ethnic
Conflict
UCD School
of Politics
and
International
Relations
(SPIRe)
This programme uses comparative
political science models and methods
to analyze patterns of conflict and
settlement, with a focus on internal
violent conflicts, past and present.
Internal conflicts are among the most
important factors destabilizing entire
regions
and
affecting
wider
international relations.
Equally international and global
developments –from global economic
trends, to climate change, to the rise
and fall of empires and states – affect
the likelihood of internal conflict.
One key set of topics is concerned
with different models of conflict and
settlement, from consociationalism to
federalism to partition and the role of
international interventions. Another
looks at the ways in which
oppositional categories and groups in
conflict are formed. While internal
conflicts are often fought in the name
of nationalism and conflicting groups
see themselves as ethnic descent
groups, the very character of
nationalism
and
ethnicity
are
complex. This course allows analysis
of the different ways that religion,
ethnicity and inequality combine to
generate violence. Examples range
widely, and change from year to
year: some of the core texts are
concerned with countries from
Estonia to India, from Transylvania to
Cyprus and from Northern Ireland to
the Basque Country.
The wide range of expertise in SPIRe
feeds into the programme, with its
specialist resources in the study of
theories of ethnicity, identity, conflict;
comparative ethnic conflict; Northern
The programme is designed to provide
participants with a rigorous understanding of
the character, causes and consequences of
processes of conflict and settlement and with
a range of skills to enable them to continue
on to work in this field, for example in
international and national NGOs. Funded
doctoral and post-doctoral research on
conflict in the Global Irish Institute and the
Institute for British Irish Studies creates a
lively intellectual environment. Students are
often offered special topics courses related to
research projects and specialist workshops
and conferences.
Modules
 International Security
 Public Diplomacy
 Africa in Crisis?
 Special Topics NECC
 Human & Econ Development
 International Economic Crisis
 Law, Liberty & the State
 Theories of International Relations
 Politics of Development
 International Security
 Irish Political Development
 Comparative European Politics
 Theory of Human Rights
 Imaging Conflict
 Development Management
 International Relations II
 European Public Opinion and Po
 Governing the Global Economy
 Politics of Human Rights
 Special Topics NECC II
 US Foreign Policy
 Political Geog of Europe
 MegaRegions
 Paradigms in Cultural Criticism
Course length
Contact
Duration: one
year full time;
two years part
time
Programme
coordinator:
Professor John
Coakley
[email protected]
+3537168696
Administrator:
Katarzyna Glosnicka
katarzyna.glosnicka@
ucd.ie
Tel: +353 (0)1716
8182
Ireland, Western Europe and relevant
cognate
specialisms
in
civic
republicanism, justice and human
rights,
international
security,
European politics, and development
studies.








The Good Society
Food Security
Development and Global Justice
Comparative Public Policy
Debates on Citizenship
EU Foreign and Security Policy
Regions in a multi-polar world
Sociology of Migration
University College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MA International
Relations
UCD School
of Politics
and
International
Relations
(SPIRe)
As an academic discipline,
international relations deals with the
causes and consequences of
international phenomena such as
war, trade, regional integration,
migration and terrorism. While rooted
in political science, teaching and
research on international relations at
SPIRe brings together different
methodologies and theoretical
perspectives. Particular strengths in
the School include international
political economy, international
security, cultural and socialpsychological approaches to
international politics, regional
integration, international institutions,
development and human rights.
Geographical expertise centres on
Europe, Africa, North America and
the Middle East.
Students in the MA programme
participate in the two-course core
subject modules in international
relations.
Participants in the subject-oriented
MA programme can choose four
electives from the wide range of
courses offered in the School.
Modules
 Africa in Crisis?
 Human & Econ Development
 International Economic Crisis
 Politics of Development
 International Security
 Northern Ireland
 Irish Political Development
 Comparative European Politics
 Theory of Human Rights
 Development Management
 European Public Opinion and Po
 Governing the Global Economy
 Politics of Human Rights
 US Foreign Policy
 Political Geog of Europe
 MegaRegions
 Food Security
 Development and Global Justice
 Comparative Public Policy
 Comparative Ethnic Conflict
 Debates on Citizenship
 EU Foreign and Security Policy
 Regions in a multi-polar world
Course length
Contact
Duration: one
year full time;
two years part
time
Programme
coordinator:
Dr Tobias Theiler
[email protected]
+3537168287
Katarzyna Glosnicka
katarzyna.glosnicka@
ucd.ie
Tel: +353 (0)1716
8182
University College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MSc Equality
Studies*
Graduate
School of
Human
Sciences
Social
Justice
The programme is about
understanding social injustice with a
view to bringing about positive social
change in the world. It is
interdisciplinary and emphasizes the
relationship of theory to practice.
Exploring and developing ideas on a
wide range of equality, human rights
and global justice issues. Core
themes addressed are:
1. Social Class, Capitalism and
Economic Inequality
2. Gender and Social Justice –
Issues for Women and Men
3. Global North-South Inequalities –
Challenging the Global Divides
4. Minorities, Discrimination and the
Recognition of Differences.
Graduate
School of
Human
Sciences
Social
Justice
Women, Gender & Society Studies is
aimed at those who have already
completed an undergraduate degree
in sociology, politics, history or other
relevant fields and are interested in
exploring further how gender plays a
crucial role in the way the world is
viewed and how it is organized. The
MA provides students with an
opportunity to develop their critical
understanding of contemporary
society and bring their knowledge
and understanding of policy making
and social change to a new depth. It
provides the opportunity to examine
society from the standpoint of women
and the process of achieving social
and economic justice from the
perspective of both women and men.
Graduate Diploma
in Equality
Studies*
Graduate
Certificate in
Equality Studies*
MA in Women,
Gender &
Society*
Core modules:
 Egalitarian Theory
 Human Rights Law and Equality
 Sociology of Inequality
 Economics of Inequality
 Gender Justice: feminist theory & practice
 Global Justice & Development
 Achieving Egalitarian Change
 Egalitarian Theory
Options:
 Discrimination Law
 Education and Equality
 Disability Issues and Equality
 Masculinities & Equality
 Sexualities
 Racism and Anti-Racism
 Political Theory of Equality
 Equality and the Media
 International Human Rights Law
 Equality and Diversity in Higher Education
 Women, Inequality and Policy
 Poverty, Development and Global Justice
Women's Studies in UCD is twenty years in
existence and has become one of the most
dynamic women's studies center in Europe.
The Centre hosts the newly established
Feminist and Gender Studies Network, UCD
comprising lecturers and researchers from
many different disciplines.
Modules
 Feminist theory and politics,
 Research methodology and perspectives,
 Global perspectives on women,
 Inequality and public policy,
 Sexualities,
 Women’s history and literature,
 Psychology,
 Education,
 International human rights law.
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime or two
years part-time
Elizabeth Hassell
elizabeth.Hassell@ucd
.ie
017167140
One year full
time two years
part-time
Elizabeth Hassell
elizabeth.Hassell@ucd
.ie
017167140
University College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
MSocSc
Migration, Race
and Ethnicity
School of
Sociology
The course provides an in depth and
critical understanding of ethnoracial
processes and of migration. Though
the course will centre on Ireland
there is a strong comparative focus
providing powerful conceptual and
empirical knowledge about race,
identity, ethnicity, community, and
culture.
The
MSocSc
programme
in
Migraiton, Race and Ethnicity has
been specifically designed to provide
advanced interdisciplinary training in
race,
ethnicity,
identity,
and
migration. The programme will
develop a number of important
critical faculties and research skills
providing a sound understanding of
theories and substantive issues
concerning migration and diversity.
Core modules:
 Sociology of Migration
 Race, Ethnicity and Society
 Sociological Research: Theoretical and
Applied Issues
Optional modules:
 Cultural Theory and Analysis
 Economic Globalization and Social Change
 Crime and Social Control
 Social Networks and Agent Based
Simulation
 Health, Illness and Society
 Contested Urban Environments
 Understanding Media Audiences
 Researching Issues in Health and Illness
 Contemporary Sociological Theory
 Others and Exiles: Creative Research
 Research Methodologies: Qualitative OR
Quantitative
 Qualitative Data Research
 Comparative Politics of Inequality and
redistribution
 Development Education: embodying a
global ethical perspective
 Racism and Anti-Racism
 International Human Rights Law
 Comparative Ethnic Conflict
 Foundations and Key Issues in Human
Rights [not available 2009-11]
Course length
Contact
One year full
time or two
years part-time
Dr Michael Punch,
Course Director
Email:michael.punch@
ucd.ie
Telephone: +353 0(1)
716 8506
Title of Course
MPH Public
Health*
MPH Public
Health (nutrition)*
MSc Human
Rights
School
UCD Life
Sciences
Graduate
School
UCD School
of Politics
and
International
Relations
Aim of course
University College Dublin
Development component/module
Course length
Contact
As UCD has a globally acclaimed
reputation in the area of Public
Health learning, students will gain the
skills and knowledge necessary to
thrive in a wide range of careers in
the Public Health sector. The Master
of Public Health provides broadbased education and training in the
basic disciplines which underlie the
practice of Public Health. The course
provides the academic foundation for
the practice of Public Health.
The UCD MPH Public Health course is
divided into four six-week blocks, each of
which contain Core and Option modules.
Three modules must be completed in each
block.
Students will have knowledge of the factors
influencing health status and epidemiological
skills in study design and analysis. The will
be able to assess the health status of
populations and understand Public Health
function and organization and financing of
Health Services and their impact on
population health.
One year full
time or one year
part-time
Postgraduate
administrator
public.postgraduate@
ucd.ie
Political science describes and
explains variations in how
governments interpret and respond
to human rights claims. The
institutional expression of human
rights occurs in the legal frameworks
of international and national human
rights law. The inter-disciplinarity of
human rights is served by the
strengths of the School in social
contract theory, citizenship, social
and international justice,
development, international relations,
comparative politics and
ethnonational conflict. The School
has national and international
connections with governmental and
non-governmental organizations and
is a founding member of the
European Inter-University Centre
which manages the European MA in
Human Rights and Democratization.
Core modules include
 Political theory of human rights,
 The European law of human rights,
 The politics of human rights,
 The international law of human rights,
Duration: one
year full time;
two years part
time
Elective modules change from year to year
but typically include such topics as:
 The Northern Ireland conflict,
 International political theory,
 Comparative ethnic conflict,
 Africa in crisis,
 Food security,
 Political economy of transition,
 Issues in international relations.
+353 (0)1 716 3429
Course Director:
Professor Daniel
Thomas
Tel 01 716 8154
Administrator:
Katarzyna Glosnicka
katarzyna.glosnicka@
ucd.ie +353 (0)1716
8182
University College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Postgraduate
Diploma/ Masters
in Development
Studies*
UCD School
of Politics
and
International
Relations
The
academic
subject
of
Development Studies focuses on
processes of social, political and
economic change taking place
primarily – although not exclusively –
in developing countries. Teaching
and research on development is
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary,
bringing together academic expertise
in politics, economics, agriculture,
political economy and other areas,
while also drawing on the broader
strengths of the School of Politics
and
International
Relations.
The
Graduate
Diploma
in
Development Studies is designed to
provide
participants
with
an
interdisciplinary understanding of the
process of development and with a
range of skills to enable them to work
effectively in this field
Core modules
Modules in development include:
 Politics, economics and political
economy of development
 Human and Economic Development,
 Governing the Global Economy
 Politics of Development).
Electives may vary:
 Food Security,
 Development Management,
 Political Economy of Transition,
 Africa in Crisis?,
 Development and Global Justice,
 Human Rights,
 Politics of the Middle East and others.
Unlike the MSc (Development Studies), the
postgraduate diploma programme does not
require the completion of a minor thesis.
Course length
Contact
Duration: one
year full time;
two years part
time
Course Director: Dr
Andy Storey
Tel 01 716 8126
Administrator:
Katarzyna Glosnicka
E:mail:
katarzyna.glosnicka@
ucd.ie
Tel: +353 (0)1716
8182
University College Dublin
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
PhD in Global
Human
Development
School of
Politics &
International
Relations
The
PhD
in
Global
Human
Development is a 3-year full time
‘sandwich’ programme jointly offered
by UCD and one of a number of
other universities in Tanzania,
Malawi, Zimbabwe and China.
(University of Dar Es Salaam,
University of Malawi, University of
Zimbabwe and Xiamen University),
or any other university in a
‘developing country’ willing to accept
students for their obligatory research
stay. The aim of this programme is
to pool the respective capacities of
UCD and the respective partner
universities to provide graduate
research students and supervisors
with what is necessary to conduct top
class research in the field of
development.
The PhD in Global Human Development can
be undertaken in the areas of Agricultural
Science, Business Studies, Economics,
Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Politics,
Sociology and other related areas of study
whose ultimate focus is Global Human
Development, in particular, poverty reduction.
PhD students on the programme are required
to spend one semester per academic year at
UCD. Consequently the following semester
has to be spent at their research university
under the supervision of the student’s ‘local’
supervisor. Both institutions will provide
members to the student’s Doctoral Studies
Panel. Students will be provided with the
academic and intellectual tools to work on the
issues related to the Millennium Development
Goals and poverty reduction through their
respective core disciplines and place this
within real-world experience and research in
the developing world
Course length
Contact
3 years full time
Professor Patrick Paul
Walsh
Professor of
International
Development Studies
Phone 01 716 8453
Email:[email protected]
Yuko Conlon (Ms)
Collaborative
Graduate Programmes
Assistant, UCD
College of Human
Sciences, G207
Newman Building,
University College
Dublin, Belfield, Dublin
4, Ireland
Phone:01 716 8643
Email:
[email protected]
University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin
TCD-UCD
Masters in
Development
Practice
(M.Sc./Postgradu
ate Diploma)
UCD School
of Politics
and
International
Relations
TCD
The joint TCD-UCD Master’s degree
in Development Practice (MDP) is
part of the MacArthur Foundation
funded global network of masters in
development practice, with a global
secretariat
headquartered
in
Columbia University, USA. It is being
delivered in collaboration with the
National University of Rwanda. This
innovative course is designed to
provide a comprehensive theoretical
grounding and applied skills in
development practice. The course is
jointly taught by University of Dublin
Trinity College and
University
College Dublin academic staff, and a
joint award at the Masters level, with
an exit Postgraduate Diploma, is
offered to successful graduates by
both universities
The programme trains future development
practitioners to world-class level in four
thematic areas: 1) economics and social
sciences,
2)
natural
sciences
and
environment, 3) global health and 4)
management.
The National University of Rwanda is a key
partner and students will spend a portion of
time completing cross-disciplinary fieldwork
in Rwanda in year one. Year Two has a
placement in an International Organisation.
Particular emphasis will be laid upon the
interconnectedness between Economics,
Governance,
Civil
Society,
Health,
Environment and Agriculture, amongst others
things.
Two years full
time
Trinity course Director:
Dr Pádraig Carmody
Email:[email protected]
e
Telephone: +353-18961243
UCD Course Director:
Dr Patrick Paul Walsh
Email:
[email protected]
Telephone 353
(0)1716 8435
University of Limerick
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Development
Graduate
Diploma/MA*
Department
of Politics
and Public
Administratio
n
The Masters and Graduate Diploma
in Development explores the nature
of development in a local and global
context and enables participants to
increase their own capacity as
development
actors
and/or
motivators
in
a
variety
of
development contexts. The course
provides a broad understanding of
development in theory and in practice
- in relation to economic, social and
cultural change and the associated
role of individuals and institutions
involved in developmental praxis.
This programme of study is designed
to increase knowledge of different
developmental contexts and issues,
and to provide students with
adequate training to recognise and
analyse alternative developmental
contexts and issues. Providing the
appropriate skills base, so as to
enable participants to operate more
effectively as developmental actors
and change managers.
Core modules:
 Development Theory and Practice*,
 Issues in International Development*
 Research Methods*, Generic skills training
module
 Foreign Aid and Development*,
 Global Transformation and Exclusion*
Electives:
 Political Reconciliation in the Aftermath of
Conflict,
 International Security,
 Russian and Post Soviet Politics,
 Partnership and Governance,
 Feminist Perspectives on Conflict and
Development Issues,
 Comparative Politics,
 Issues in International Public Policy,
 Issues in Contemporary Democratic
Theory, Origins,
 Development and Resolution of Conflict,
 External Relations of the European Union
Some elective modules may not be offered if
student numbers are too small or if there are
irresolvable timetable clashes.
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime or two
years part-time
Course Director, Dr
Rachel Ibreck,
Department of Politics
and Public
Administration,
Tel. +353-61-202633
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
www.humanities.ul.ie
University of Limerick
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
International
Studies MA*
Department:
Politics and
Public
Administratio
n
This programme of study is intended
for recent graduates and graduates
with professional experience. The
course is designed to attract able and
ambitious candidates who wish to
obtain a comprehensive knowledge
and understanding of contemporary
problems in the international
environment.
Masters Peace
and Development
Studies
College of
Humanities.
The aim of the course is to prepare
graduates to follow a career in the
global market economy, international
organisations, the United Nations,
Diplomatic Service, the media and
NGOs. The course also prepares
students who intend to go on to
further studies in international
relations
A prime objective of the course will
be to provide individuals with
expertise in peace-building and
development issues and to provide
informed and committed personnel to
contribute effectively in these areas
at a professional level.
Objectives
 To apply an interdisciplinary
approach to an understanding of
the field of conflict resolution and
development studies throughout
the world;
 To provide an opportunity for
students to engage in significant
and appropriate research within the
field;
 To prepare students for
professional positions in fields of
conflict resolution and development
issues.
Core Modules
 International Relations,
 International Organisation.
 Resources and Development,
 Research Methodology.
Course length
Contact
One year fulltime
Course Director: Dr
Lisa McInerney
Tel : 353-61-202633
Email :
[email protected]
Web:
www.humanities.ul.ie
One year fulltime
Department: Politics
and Public
Administration.
Course Director:
Professor Tom Lodge
Tel : 353-61-213085
Email :
[email protected]
Web :
www.humanities.ul.ie
Elective modules:
 International Economics;
 International History of the Twentieth
Century;
 American Foreign Relations;
 External Relations of the European Union
Strategic Studies;
 Public International; International Public
Policy;
 Central and Eastern Europe Continuity and
Change.
Core modules:
 Origins, Development and Resolution of
Conflict,
 Peacekeeping and Peace-building,
 Development Issues and Conflict,
 Transformation in Emerging Societies,
 Research Methodology.
Elective modules:
 External Relations of the European Union,
 Middle East - Regional and Strategic
Issues,
 American Foreign Relations,
 International History of Twentieth Century,
Central and Eastern Europe: Continuity
and Change,
 International Security,
 International Economics,
 Feminist Perspectives on Conflict and
Development Issues,
 Russian and Post Soviet Politics, Issues in
International Policy.
University of Limerick
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Bachelor of Arts
in Politics and
International
Relations
Arts
humanities
and social
sciences
Politics and international relations is
all about thinking critically and
understanding change and the way
the world works.
The BA in Politics and International
Relations addresses issues around
the destruction of the environment,
reduction of global poverty, peace in
the world’s trouble spots, and social
justice among other issues - in the
contemporary world.
The BA in Politics and International
Relations is the only standalone
degree - that is not a part of a joint
Arts degree or a two-subject degree in political studies in Ireland. It
therefore
provides
a
unique,
comprehensive introduction to all the
areas of political studies and to
researching political life. In the first
year the BA is divided into three parts
1. An introduction to politics and
international relations. 2. Subsidiary
streams chosen from two of the
following: History, Sociology, French,
Spanish, Economics, German or
Irish. 3.A grounding in political
science research and methods.
Year two will introduce the major
sub-fields of politics by way of core
modules taken by all students. These
sub-fields are: international relations,
comparative politics, political theory,
European Union politics, public
administration and Irish politics. In
year three there is an external
placement and external academic
placement. Year four, specialises in
the areas of politics and international
relations that are of interest, through
final year project and a choice of
elective modules.
Modules:
 Introduction to Government and Politics
 Modern European Political Thought
 Ideas and Concepts in Public
Administration
 The Civil and Public Service
 Methods and Research in Political Science
 Capitalism and Industrial Society:14501900
 Comparative European Politics
 Government and Politics of The European
Union
 International Relations
 Public Policy Process
 Regional Development
 Global Political Economy
 Introduction to Irish Politics
 Methods and Research in Political Science
Four electives from:
 Nationalism, Ethnicity and Conflict
 Russian Politics
 International Organisation and Global
Governance
 Multiculturalism and Political Theory
 Sub-National Government
 Power, Politics and Social Change in Latin
America
 Issues in World Politics
 Issues in European Integration
 State and Society in Post-modern Europe
 Public Administration in Democratic States.
 African Politics: Development and
Democracy
 Politics of the Third World
 Studies in Political Thought
Course length
Contact
Four years full
time
Course Leader: Dr
Owen Worth
Phone: 353-61-202633
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
www.humanities.ul.ie
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
Various
undergraduate
degrees
incorporating
International
Development as a
Minor
Life and
Health
Sciences
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University of Ulster Coleraine
Development component/module
BSc Hons Environmental
Science with International
Development
BSc Hons Geography with
International Development
BSc Hons Business Studies with
International Development
BA Hons English with
International Development
BA Hons Film Studies with
International Development
BA Hons French with
International Development
BA Hons German with
International Development
BA Hons History with
International Development
BA Hons Irish with International
Development
BA Hons Journalism with
International Development
BA Hons Media Studies with
International Development
BA Hons Spanish with
International Development
The Minor in International Development
makes up one-third of the undergraduate
degree programme. The course is delivered
by the University’s International Development
Programme team in conjunction with staff
from the School of Environmental Sciences.
Students studying the Minor take the
following six modules over the course of their
degree:
 Introduction to Globalisation and
International Development
 Geographical Disparities
 Political Geography
 Economic Geography
 Development, Environment and Society
 The Development Practitioner – an
Independently Guided Study
 Environment and International Development
Course length
Contact
3-4 years full
time (as
determined by
major course of
study)
For further information,
contact Course
Director
Roisin McEvoy:
School of Education
University of Ulster
Cromore Road
Coleraine
Co. Londonderry
BT52 1SA
T: +44 (0)28 9036
8760
Email:
[email protected]
University of Ulster Coleraine
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
BSc Hons Food
and Nutrition with
DIS/DAS
Life and
Health
Sciences
Food and nutrition form an integral
part of the daily life of everyone as a
consumer.
Furthermore,
it
is
becoming increasingly clear that the
food we eat can influence our health,
and that certain foods may help to
decrease the risk of many serious
diseases. Today's food industry aims
to satisfy the needs of the consumer
for safe, good tasting, inexpensive,
convenient, nutritious and healthy
foods that are available all year
round. Food and nutrition thus
embraces a range of subjects
including sciences, business and
consumer marketing and consumer
behaviour. The programme is mainly
taught by academic staff from the
Northern Ireland Centre for Food and
Health (NICHE), a world-renowned
research centre in the School of
Biomedical Sciences. NICHE is
engaged in numerous regional and
international
research
projects
concerned with food, nutrition and
health, many of which involve close
collaborations with the food industry.
Optional ‘International Development’ (ID)
Pathway
In addition to the core food and nutrition
modules in the course, the ID pathway
involves five core ID modules provided by the
‘International Development’ team based at
the UNESCO Centre (School of Education).
Modules over 4 years include:
 The Role of International Organisations in
Development
 Development, Politics and Economics
 Development, Environment and Society
 Placement within an ‘International
Development’
 The Development Practitioner – an
Independently Guided Study
 Cross-cutting Development Issues
Course length
Contact
4 years full time
Course Director:
Dr G O’Brien
School of Biomedical
Sciences
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Cromore Road
Coleraine
Co. Londonderry
BT52 1SA
Tel: 028 70324156
Email:gm.obrien@ulst
er.ac.uk
University of Ulster Jordanstown
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
PgDip/MSc
Health Promotion
and Population
Health
Nursing in
Faculty of
Life and
Health
Sciences
This programme is designed to
provide an advanced education in the
theory, principles and practice of
health promotion and population
health to enable students to engage
in partnership working to effect
change in individuals and
communities to improve health gain
for all. The course is offered in two
pathways: Multidisciplinary Practice
pathway and Education and Youth
Sector pathway. The
Multidisciplinary Practice pathway
seeks to prepare students from a
wide variety of backgrounds for
specialist roles within the expanding
field of health promotion, public
health and population health. Within
this pathway the student is afforded
the opportunity to visit health
promotion workplace(s) and/or
community setting(s) for the purpose
of gaining an insight into specific
areas of health promotion/public
health practice. The Education and
Youth sector pathway seeks to
prepare students from the Education
and Youth Sectors to facilitate health
promotion and public health practice
within those settings. The content of
the course is mapped to the
professional competencies for a
number of health promotion/public
health organisations.
Multidisciplinary Practice Mode
 Advanced methods in health and social care
research
 Epidemiology for population health
 Leadership and management in promoting
the public’s health
 Planning and practice for population health
 Promoting the health of the public
 Society, policy and population health
Education and Youth Sector Mode
 Advanced methods in health and social care
research
 Health and its promotion
 Health promotion curriculum and project
Planning OR Curriculum and project
planning for Relationships and Sexuality
Education
 Leadership and management in the settings
environment
All modules can be undertaken as short
courses.
Course length
Contact
Full time: PgDip
– one academic
year; MSc – one
calendar year
Dr Karen Casson
Lecturer in Health
Promotion
Tel: 028 90368293
Email:
[email protected]
Part time: PgDip
– 18 to 48
months; MSc –
one to two
academic years
Title of Course
School
BSc Hons
Community
Development(Ma
gee/
Jordanstown)
Title of Course
BA Hons
International
Politics
No longer taking
new students and
due to cease in 2
years
Aim of course
University of Ulster Jordanstown and Magee
Development component/module
This degree is designed to produce
graduates with an interdisciplinary
understanding
of
the
history,
theoretical approaches and practices
within the community development
field, in response to community and
human need and aspiration. Built
around the value base and practice
principals
of
the
National
Occupational
Standards
in
Community Development Work, it will
introduce you to a range of skills and
to a core body of knowledge and
debate so that they may become
effective professional practitioners
and/or
activists
in
community
development.
School
Aim of course
The course explores the links between
policy-making, poverty and social exclusion,
and community development approaches to
problem solving. It examines the causes and
manifestations of underdevelopment in
particular places and the relevance of the
social economy. It also investigates the role
of community development in addressing the
legacy of conflict and its contribution to
peace-building.
University of Ulster Magee
Development component/module
The BA International Politics explores
issues such as the impact of
globalization, the role of international
organizations such as the EU and the
UN, the causes and consequences of
global violence in a variety of forms.
It encourages contemporary debates
about global politics.
The presence of the INCORE centre
(International Conflict Resolution) at
the Magee campus is also a
significant asset.
The degree can be taken as a joint,
major or minor with one of the
following
subjects:
Advertising,
Computing,
Economic
Studies,
Management Studies, Psychology,
Spanish, French, Irish, Drama,
Marketing and Sociology. It can also
be studied as a minor with Law and a
main subject with Irish History and
Sociology.
Modules include:
 The international political system,
 Contemporary international history,
 Political theory,
 The European Union and issues in world
politics.
 International Conflict and Cooperation,
 The Northern Ireland Conflict and Morality
and Conflict.
 Research methods
 International political theory.
 Genocide
 Global violence against civilians,
 US Foreign Policy,
 Divided societies,
 Human and political rights. Different options
may appear from time to time.
Course length
Contact
Part-time, 3
years.
Mrs Laura Irwin/Mrs
Ruth McKeegan
Tel: 028 9036 6134
Email:
[email protected]
Email:
rm.mckeegan@ulster.
ac.uk
Dr Isobel HawthorneSteele
Lecturer in Community
Development
Tel: 028 71375099
Email:
[email protected].
uk
Course length
Contact
3 years full time
or 6 years parttime
Course Director
Dr. Leonie Murray,
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 028 71375246
Email:
[email protected]
k
Coleraine Tel. (028)
7032 4391 Fax (028)
7032 4925
Magee Tel. (028) 7137
5277 Fax (028) 7137
5207
Title of Course
Degree Courses
with International
Politics (Can be
taken as a joint,
major or minor
degree)
No longer taking
new students and
due to cease in 2
years
School
Aim of course
University of Ulster Magee
Development component/module
BA Hons International Politics and
Irish History
BA Hons International Politics
BA Hons International Politics with
Irish
BA Hons International Politics with
Advertising
BA Hons International Politics with
Computing
BA Hons International Politics with
Economic Studies
BA Hons International Politics with
Management Studies
BA Hons International Politics with
Irish History
BA Hons International Politics with
Psychology
BA Hons International Politics with
Sociology
BA Hons International Politics with
Marketing
BA Hons International Politics with
French
BA Hons International Politics with
Spanish
BA Hons International Politics with
Drama
BSc Hons Business Studies with
International Politics
LLB Hons Law with International
Politics
Modules include:
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The international political system,
Contemporary international history,
Political theory,
The European Union and issues in world
politics.
International Conflict and Cooperation,
The Northern Ireland Conflict and Morality
and Conflict.
Research methods
International political theory.
Genocide
Global violence against civilians,
US Foreign Policy,
Divided societies,
Human and political rights. Different options
may appear from time to time.
Course length
Contact
3-4 years full
time
University of Ulster
Magee Tel. (028) 7137
5277 Fax (028) 7137
5207
Course Director
Dr. Leonie Murray,
[email protected]
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Senior Lecturer
Tel: 028 71375246
Email:
[email protected]
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University of Ulster Magee
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
BSc (Hons)
Sociology with
Minor in one of:
School of
Sociology
and Applied
Social
Studies
The study of society and social
change are at the heart of sociology.
At Magee, the focus of the Sociology
programme is on the themes of
diversity, inequality, heritage and
conflict. The scope is both “local” and
“global”. The programme includes a
focus from year one on how
supervised “real-world” research can
inform student learning and the skills’
development from data analysis to
project management.
Magee hosts research units which
complement elements of our
teaching programme including
INCORE (International Conflict
Research Institute, part of the United
Nations University).
Psychology
Human Resource
Management
Irish
PgDip/MA Peace
and Conflict
Studies
INCORE
(International
Conflict
Research
Institute)
Magee is at the heart of a
sociologically fascinating city and
region, forming an ideal location for
the study of this subject and for
researching social change and
local/regional development. Students
also have the option of studying part
or all of an academic year at a
partner institution in Hong Kong, USA
or Australia.
The programme offers in-depth
knowledge and understanding of the
origins, dynamics and resolution of
destructive conflicts, with special
reference to divided societies. It
involves an advanced critical
understanding of approaches and
concepts in the field of peace and
conflict studies.
This programme has an excellent
reputation and is based in INCORE
(the University of Ulster/United
Nations International Conflict Centre.
Course length
Contact
Sociology modules include:
 Introduction to Sociology
 Contemporary global issues
 Modern Ireland
 Cross-cultural perspectives on society
 Nationalism and ethnic conflict
 Research methods
 Africa in transition;
 Sociology of the media
 Genocide
 Dissertation
3 years full time
or 4½ to 7 years
part-time
Dr Rachel Naylor
Subject Director for
Sociology
University of Ulster at
Magee,
Derry/Londonderry,
BT48 7JL.
Tel: 028 (048 from
RoI) 71 375298
[email protected]
Modules:
 Divided societies in the modern world
 Peace and conflict research
 Peace building in divided societies
 The Northern Ireland conflict
Full time: PgDip
– one academic
year; MA – one
calendar year
Part time: PgDip
– two academic
years (four
semesters); MA
– three years
Course Director:
Dr Stephen Ryan
INCORE
University of Ulster
Magee campus
Londonderry
BT48 7JL
Tel: 028 71375246
Email:
[email protected]
http://www.incore.ulste
r.ac.uk/courses/MA.ht
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Title of Course
School
Undergraduate
programmes with
Sociology as a
Minor:
Aim of course
University of Ulster Magee
Development component/module
At Magee, the focus of the Sociology
Minor programme is on the themes of
diversity, inequality, heritage and
conflict. The scope is both “local” and
“global”.
LLB Law with
Sociology
BA American
Studies with
Sociology
BA Irish History
with Sociology
MSc Human
Rights and
Peacebuilding
Transitional
Justice
Institute and
School of
English,
History and
Politics
The programme provides an in-depth
knowledge of the theoretical and
practical application of peacebuilding
and related areas of human rights
and humanitarian law in conflicted
and
transitional
societies.
This interdisciplinary course is
delivered by three University units in
close collaboration. The Transitional
Justice Institute in Northern Ireland is
one of the leading institutes globally
in this area. INCORE (International
Conflict Research Institute) and the
staff associated with the School of
English, History and Politics houses
have international reputations in the
area of peacebuilding, and a long
history of work relating to the conflict
in Northern Ireland in comparative
context.The course is relevant to
legal practice and to policy, research
and advocacy roles in the voluntary,
public and private sectors within the
UK and Ireland and internationally.
Sociology Minor modules are:
 Introduction to Sociology
 Social Structures of Modern Ireland
 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Society
 Africa in Transition;
 Sociology of the Media
Other options may vary but currently include:
 Genocide; Silent War:
 Global Violence;
 Capital and Labour;
 Modern Latin America;
 Self, Identity and Conflict.
Law modules include:
 Human rights law
American Studies modules include:
 Indigenous people: issues & perspectives
 Modern Latin America
Modules:
 Foundations of Transitional Justice
 Peacebuilding in Divided Societies
The following modules are optional:
 Peace and Conflict Research
 The Northern Ireland Conflict
 Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
 Gender and Political Transition
 Memory,Transition and Conflict
 Transitions from Conflict
 Law and Politics
 International Criminal Justice
 Policing and Human Rights
 Foundations of Transitional Justice
 Peacebuilding in Divided Societies
Course length
Contact
Full-time - three
semesters (1
calendar year)
Part-time - six
semesters (2-3
calendar years)
Brian Collins
Subject Director for
Law
Tel: (048 from RoI)
7137 5335
[email protected]
Dr Dianne Kirby
Subject Director for
American Studies
Tel: 028 (048 from
RoI) 71375285
[email protected]
Irish History enquiries:
Ros O’Hagan
Tel: 028(048 from RoI)
71 375277
[email protected]
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Dr Khanyisela Moyo
Course Director MSc
Human Rights and
Peacebuilding
Transitional Justice
Institute
University of Ulster
Magee Campus
BT48 7JL
Tel - 028 71 375481
Email [email protected]
Fax - 028 71 375184
For further information
contact:
Ms Emer Carlin
Secretary
Transitional Justice
Institute
Magee campus
Tel: + 44 (0) 28
71375146
Email:
[email protected]
University of Ulster Magee
Development component/module
Title of Course
School
Aim of course
LLM Human
Rights Law and
Transitional
Justice
Transitional
Justice
Institute
This programme explores countries
in transition from conflict or
authoritarian rule. The Transitional
Justice Institute in Northern Ireland is
uniquely placed to deliver an
effective and stimulating programme
of study in this area, offering students
insights into the legal protection of
rights in transitional contexts, while
studying in a society currently in a
process of transition. Provides an indepth knowledge of the theoretical
and practical application of human
rights law, and develops an
understanding of the particular
human rights issues in such
societies.
Modules:
 Foundations of international human rights
law
 Foundations of transitional justice
Optional modules
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


LLB Law with
Sociology
Law
This offers an undergraduate law
degree with a Minor in Sociology.
Critical perspectives on human rights
Economic, social and cultural rights
Equality law
Gender and transition
Globalisation, development and human
rights
Human rights and conflict resolution
International Criminal Justice
Memory, Transition and Conflict
Policing and human rights
Political violence, ‘wars on terror’ and the
law
Transitions from conflict: law and politics
Law modules include:
• Core law modules needed for Qualifying
Law Degree Status
• Human Rights law
Sociology Minor modules are::
• Introduction to Sociology
• Modern Ireland
• Cross-cultural perspectives on society
• Nationalism and ethnic conflict
• Africa in transition
• Genocide, or, Sociology of the media
Course length
Contact
Full time: Three
semesters
Part time: Six
semesters
Course Director:
Dr Anne Smith
Room ME204
Transitional Justice
Institute
University of Ulster
Magee campus
Londonderry
BT48 7JL
Email:
[email protected]
Tel: 44 (0)28
71375154
Email: msc-hrpeacebuilding@ulster.
ac.uk
For further information
contact:
Ms Emer Carlin
Secretary
Transitional Justice
Institute
Magee campus
Tel: + 44 (0) 28
71375146
Email:
[email protected]
Mrs Alice Diver
Subject Director for
Law
Tel: (048 from RoI) 28
71675647
[email protected]
Title of Course
BSc Hons
Community
Development
(Magee/
Jordanstown)
School
Aim of course
University of Ulster Magee and Jordanstown
Development component/module
This degree is designed to produce
graduates with an interdisciplinary
understanding
of
the
history,
theoretical approaches and practices
within the community development
field, in response to community and
human need and aspiration. Built
around the value base and practice
principals
of
the
National
Occupational
Standards
in
Community Development Work, it will
introduce you to a range of skills and
to a core body of knowledge and
debate so that they may become
effective professional practitioners
and/or
activists
in
community
development.
The course explores the links between
policy-making, poverty and social exclusion,
and community development approaches to
problem solving. It examines the causes and
manifestations of underdevelopment in
particular places and the relevance of the
social economy. It also investigates the role
of community development in addressing the
legacy of conflict and its contribution to
peace-building.
Course length
Contact
Part-time, 3
years.
Mrs Laura Irwin/Mrs
Ruth McKeegan
Tel: 028 9036 6134
Email:
[email protected]
Email:
rm.mckeegan@ulster.
ac.uk
Dr Isobel HawthorneSteele
Lecturer in Community
Development
Tel: 028 71375099
Email:
[email protected].
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Summary of Development Education in Teaching Colleges
Course Title
School
Degree of
Bachelor of
Education*
In
association
with Trinity
College
Dublin
Church of Ireland College of Education and Trinity College Dublin
Aim of course
Development Component/Module
The Church of Ireland College of
Education is one of five colleges of
education in the Republic of Ireland
providing the Bachelor of Education
(B. Ed.) degree, the qualification
generally required to teach in Irish
primary schools. The college
provides a supply of teachers for
primary schools under the
management of the Church of Ireland
and other Protestant denominations.
The B. Ed. degree is a professional
qualification designed to equip
student teachers with the range of
knowledge and skills related to the
profession of primary school
teaching. It is taught jointly by the
College of Education and the
Department of Teacher Education in
the University of Dublin, Trinity
College (TCD). Students attend
courses in CICE and TCD.
Social, Environmental and Scientific
Education (SESE) contributes to the
development of the child's
awareness and appreciation of the
natural, human, social, cultural, and
historical dimensions of life. SESE is
presented under three distinctive yet
closely related subject headings:
History, Geography, and Science.
Inclusive Education
In an increasingly complex global and multicultural society, children need an education
that will enable them understand and
participate actively in the world in which they
live. The overall aim of this course is to help
students integrate a global and intercultural
dimension (based on the promotion of justice
and human rights) into their teaching.
Concepts and issues raised include global
interdependence, global poverty and
inequality, human rights, fair and unfair trade,
environmental awareness, sustainable
development, conflict and conflict resolution,
cultural similarities and differences.
This course comprises the following three
components:
 Intercultural component: The World in the
Classroom - Development and Intercultural
Education
 Disadvantaged component: Disadvantage
Education
 Special Education Component: Special
Education Syllabus (Intercultural
component)Introduction, theory, and
definitions of development and intercultural
education (DE/ICE);
Course length
Contact
3 years full time
Church of Ireland
College of Education,
96 Upper Rathmines
Road,
Dublin 6,
Ireland.
Tel: + 353 (0)1 497
0033
Fax: + 353 (0)1 497
1932
Email: [email protected]
Course Title
School
Bachelor of
Education Degree
(B.Ed.)
MIE is an
associated
college of
Trinity
College
Dublin
Marino Institute of Education (an associated college of Trinity College Dublin)
Aim of course
Development Education / Intercultural Course length
Education Module
The Bachelor in Education Degree
(B.Ed.) is a four year professional
course that meets the academic and
professional requirements for primary
teachers.
The integrated course of study is
designed to equip student teachers
with a range of knowledge and skills
related to the profession of primary
school teaching.
Elective Course in teaching English
as an additional language. The aim
of the programme is to enable
students to take an in-depth
exploration of approaches to working
with children, young people and
parents from minority language and
ethnic / cultural backgrounds in
primary schools
A Postgraduate Diploma in
Intercultural Education was offered in
2009 and 2010. This course is
currently being developed into a
Master’s programme, accredited by
Trinity College, and will be available
from September 2012 (as a Master of
Education Studies: Intercultural
Education). A component of this twoyear course will focus on the Global
South, specifically on human rights
and human rights education, as well
as exploring some of the theoretical
connections and tensions between
development education and
intercultural education.
10-week module in development education
and intercultural education, offered in Year 2
as part of Inclusive Education. This course
consists of a weekly lecture and covers a
range of topics including:
•Development issues and development
education
•The Millennium Development Goals
•Trade and aid,
•The use of images of the Global South in the
classroom,
•Human Rights and Human Rights Education
•The inclusive intercultural classroom
There are on-going links between MIE and a
range of NGOs including FOMACS,
Amnesty, Metro Éireann, Trócaire, Irish
Traveller Movement, 80:20, Value Added in
Africa, amongst others. This involvement
consists of invitations to NGO staff to speak
to student teachers in MIE. MIE also holds an
annual Resource Fair at which personnel
from NGOs can speak to students about their
work and their educational materials.
3 Years full time
Contact
Registrar’s Office:
[email protected]
Tel +353 (0)1 853
5133
General Enquiries:
[email protected]
Tel +353 (0)1 853
5123
Website: www.mie.ie
Trinity College:
www.tcd.ie
Contacts
Admissions Officer:
[email protected]
Tel +353 (0)1 853
5123
Course Title
School
Higher Diploma in
Education
(Primary)
MIE is an
associated
college of
Trinity
College
Dublin
Marino Institute of Education (an associated college of Trinity College Dublin)
Aim of course
Development Education / Intercultural Course length
Education Module
The Higher Diploma in Education
(Primary) is an eighteen-month
professional course that meets the
academic and professional
requirements for primary teachers.
The diploma is an integrated course
of study designed to equip student
teachers with a range of knowledge
and skills related to the profession of
primary school teaching.
Post Graduates: undertake development
education and intercultural education through
workshop-style sessions.
Workshops generally include the following:
Traveller education
Development education resources
Teaching children from minority language
groups.
Global Week is an annual event during which
a number of activities, workshops and
seminars are organised to raise awareness
about global justice. For example:
 Fairtrade
 Trade and aid
 Global art workshop
 Global wellness
 Film studies
18 Months Full
Time
Contact
Admissions Officer:
[email protected]
Registrar’s Office:
[email protected]
Tel +353 (0)1 853
5133
General Enquiries:
[email protected]
Tel +353 (0)1 853
5123
Website: www.mie.ie
Trinity College:
www.tcd.ie
In 2012 this will consist of a four-week series
of events with the title ‘Stand Up, Stand Out’
and which will be held over January and
February. All of the events are open to all
students and all staff.
Master in
Education Studies
(Intercultural
Education)
Accredited
by Trinity
College
This innovative course, using face-toface and online learning, is open to
applicants with primary and postprimary teaching experience. It is
particularly relevant to those
interested in social justice, equality
and diversity.
A component of this two-year course will
focus on the Global South, specifically on
human rights and human rights education, as
well as exploring some of the theoretical
connections and tensions between
development education and intercultural
education.
Registrar’s Office:
[email protected]
Tel +353 (0)1 853
5133
General Enquiries:
[email protected]
Tel +353 (0)1 853
5123
Website: www.mie.ie
Mary Immaculate College Limerick
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Graduate
certificate/
Diploma/M.E.D in
Development
Education*
School of
Education
The first year provides a graduate
certificate and those extending the
programme over two academic
years, receive a Diploma. Course
participants who meet certain criteria
are eligible to undertake the Masters
Degree programme. The M. Ed
programme comprises all the taught
modules of the Graduate Diploma
programme, a module on research
methods (which requires attendance
at lectures in the College on a parttime basis for the first semester) and
the writing of a dissertation on an
approved topic. It involves both
residential weekends and practical
modules.
This course, the first of its kind to be offered
in the Republic of Ireland, is in response to
the need for a University accredited
programme for educating Development
Education practitioners and to promote the
highest standards in all aspects of
Development Education work.
The Bachelor of Education honours
degree is designed to qualify
students to teach in primary school.
There are ten academic
programmes: English, French
Studies, Gaeilge, Geography,
German Studies, History,
Mathematics, Music, Philosophy,
plus Theology and Religious Studies
and students select two academic
subjects in first year, in addition to
Gaeilge as an academic subject, and
continue the study of one subject in
second and third year. A
requirement of the B.Ed programme
is to complete two weeks of
Additional Education Experience
(A.E.E.) which provide a unique
opportunity to branch out from the
typical teaching practice and allows
observation and work in a different
educational setting. Some students
travelled to the Gambia for this
experience.
The Geography programme includes
modules in both physical and human
geography. In physical geography the aim is
to provide students with a sound
understanding of the processes at work in the
natural world, and of environmental changes
in both past and present times. The human
geography programme deals with issues and
problems that range in scale from the global
to the local, including globalisation and its
geographical impacts, geopolitical conflict,
economic restructuring and dislocation,
urbanisation, and the challenges of
sustainable development.
Bachelor of
Education (B.Ed.)
Honours Degree
School of
Education
The course is open to professional
Development Education personnel in NGOs
and other organisations, community workers,
returned development workers, teachers and
those with an interest in Development
Education.
Electives
 Political Geography: Geopolitics and
Governance
 Economic Geography: Globalisation and
Uneven Development
 Global Environmental Change
 Geography of the Developing World
Course length
Contact
The
postgraduate
Diploma in
Development
Education is
part time and by
distance
education,
accessible from
all parts of
Ireland.
Further information
also available on
www.mic.ul.ie
3 years full time
Prof Desmond
McCafferty
Head of Geography
Department
Tel 061-204317
E-mail
[email protected]
.ie
Course Director
Professor Claire W.
Lyons
Tel 061-204324
Email
[email protected]
General Information
Tel +353-61-204300
Fax +353-61-313632
College Web Site
www.mic.ul.ie
Admission Enquires
Mary Immaculate
College
South Circular Road
Limerick, Ireland
Tel + 353-61-204929 /
204348
Email
[email protected]
St Mary’s University College Belfast
Development component/module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Bachelor of
Education
(Honours)
Primary*
School of
Education
This is a four-year honours degree
programme leading to full recognition
to teach by the Department of
Education and registration with
General Teaching Council for
Northern Ireland. Each year contains
the following two elements:
Certificate in
Global Dimension
in Education*
(only on offer to
students
registered at St.
Mary's University
College)

Professional Studies (compulsory)
and
Subject Study (chosen by the student
from the following:

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

Art & Design
Irish
English
Geography
History
Mathematics
Music
Physical Education
Religious Studies
Science
The Global Dimension in Initial Teacher
Education' was created to assist those
involved in embedding global dimension
concepts into teacher education programmes
and it is a core element in the revised
Northern Ireland curriculum forming an
integral part of compulsory provision. It aims
to support and enable students and others in
developing appropriate values, attitudes,
skills, good practice, knowledge and
understanding in relation to the 8 Global
Dimension concepts of global citizenship,
conflict resolution, diversity, human rights,
interdependence, social justice, sustainable
development and values and perceptions. It
is placed in a more general drive to engage
innovatively with some of the most
challenging questions our society is dealing
with today, regarding conflict and peace,
poverty and excess wealth, interdependence
and dependence and human rights.
In this volatile geo-political environment the
need to understand and appreciate the
changes that are occurring has become ever
important.
It shares the College's experience of how to
incorporate values and attitudes related to
social justice, diversity, interdependence,
global citizenship, sustainable development
and conflict resolution into teaching and
learning in the classroom.
Course length
Contact
Four years full
time
St Mary’s University
College,
191 Falls Road,
Belfast, N. Ireland,
BT12 6FE
Tel: +44 (0)28 9032
7678 Fax:+44 (0)28
9033 3719
Professional Studies
Co-ordinator: Frank
Quinn
Email :
[email protected]
St Mary’s University College Belfast
Development component/module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Bachelor of
Education
(Honours) Post
primary*
School of
Education
This is a four-year honours degree
programme leading to full recognition
to teach by the Department of
Education and registration with the
GTCNI. Each year contains the
following two elements:
Professional Studies (compulsory)
Subject Study (chosen by the student
from the following)




Business Studies
Mathematics
Religious Studies
Technology & Design
In years 1 and 2, students also study
a subsidiary subject which they
choose themselves.
The Subsidiary Subjects are:





Science
ICT
English
History
Geography
The Global Dimension in Initial Teacher
Education' was created to assist those
involved in embedding global dimension
concepts into teacher education programmes
and it is a core element in the revised
Northern Ireland curriculum forming an
integral part of compulsory provision. It aims
to support and enable students and others in
developing appropriate values, attitudes,
skills, good practice, knowledge and
understanding in relation to the 8 Global
Dimension concepts of global citizenship,
conflict resolution, diversity, human rights,
interdependence, social justice, sustainable
development and values and perceptions. It
is placed in a more general drive to engage
innovatively with some of the most
challenging questions our society is dealing
with today, regarding conflict and peace,
poverty and excess wealth, interdependence
and dependence and human rights.
In this volatile geo-political environment the
need to understand and appreciate the
changes that are occurring has become ever
important.
It shares the College's experience of how to
incorporate values and attitudes related to
social justice, diversity, interdependence,
global citizenship, sustainable development
and conflict resolution into teaching and
learning in the classroom.
Course length
Contact
Four years full
time
St Mary’s University
College,
191 Falls Road,
Belfast, N. Ireland,
BT12 6FE
Tel: +44 (0)28 9032
7678 Fax:+44 (0)28
9033 3719
Professional Studies
Co-ordinator: Frank
Quinn
Email :
[email protected]
Course Title
Bachelor of
Education Degree
School
Aim of course
St Patricks Collage Drumcondra
Development Component/Module
The three-year Bachelor of Education
Programme aims to prepare students
for their professional work as primary
school teachers.
Development/global education is an
intrinsic element of the programme
and has dedicated and elective
modules. Enabling student teachers
to teach for global and local
citizenship and to work in multicultural and diverse contexts are
among the aims of the programme.
Citizen Teacher: (First Year Mandatory
Course). This mandatory course provides
students with opportunities to examine and
reflect on issues of identity and the role place
by culture, nationality, ethnicity and
community in the construction of identity. It
looks at how we conceptualise and engage
with the ‘other’ in local and global contexts
and explores what it means to be a global
citizen and to live in multi-cultural and
democratic societies.
The Global Teacher (Third Year Mandatory
Course). This is a mandatory course for all
students. The course will equip students with
the skills and understandings necessary to
teach from a global justice perspective.
Students engage with practical
methodologies and approaches which will
enable them to explore human rights,
development and diversity issues across all
age and ability levels in the primary school,
with special reference to the multi-cultural
classroom.
Development and Intercultural Education
Elective: (Third Year Elective Course):
This elective provides student teachers in
their final year with the opportunity to
specialise in development and intercultural
education. The course is seminar based and
uses participatory methodologies and
reflective activities to help student teachers
engage with global and local issues. There is
a strong emphasis on global justice and on
understanding development.
Integrated components: Development
education/global justice education is also
integrated across a range of modules and
courses including: geography education;
history education; digital learning; sociology
of education; social, personal and health
education.
Course length
Contact
Three Years full
time
Further information
available from the
College website
www.spd.dcu.ie
Admission Enquiries:
[email protected]
admissions.office@sp
d.dcu.ie
The Admissions
Office, St. Patrick's
College, Dublin 9.
Phone 01 884 2013 /
01 884 2025 /
01 884 2096
Course Title
Graduate Diploma
in Education
School
Aim of course
St Patricks Collage Drumcondra
Development Component/Module
The aim of this programme is to
provide graduate entry into initial
teacher education. It prepares
student teachers for teaching at
primary level in Ireland. Like the
Bachelor
of
Education,
Development/global education is an
intrinsic element of the programme
and has dedicated and elective
modules. Enabling student teachers
to teach for global and local
citizenship and to work in multicultural and diverse contexts are
among the aims of the programme.
Citizen Child, Citizen Teacher:
This is a mandatory course for all students.
The course focuses on the skills and
understandings necessary to teach from a
global/local citizenship perspective. Students
engage with practical methodologies and
approaches which will enable them to explore
human rights, development and diversity
issues across all age and ability levels in the
primary school, with special reference to the
multi-cultural classroom.
Development and Intercultural Education
Elective:
This elective provides student teachers with
the opportunity to specialise in development
and intercultural education. The course is
seminar based and uses participatory
methodologies and reflective activities to help
student teachers engage with global and
local issues. There is a strong emphasis on
global justice and on understanding
development.
Integrated components: Development
education/global justice education is also
integrated across a range of modules and
courses including: geography education;
history education; digital learning; sociology
of education; social, personal and health
education.
Course length
Contact
Eighteen
months full-time
Programme Director:
Philomena.Donnelly
@spd.dcu.ie;
Dean of Education:
Fionnuala.Waldron@s
pd.dcu.ie
St Patricks Collage Drumcondra
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
M.Ed Human
Rights Education
and Citizenship
Education
The Centre
for Human
Rights and
Citizenship
Education
Recent years have seen the
development of policy and practice
which recognise the need for schools
and other educational settings to
address the diverse needs of their
pupils and communities and to
enable young people to develop the
knowledge, skills and attitudes
conducive to global citizenship. This
option will enable participants to
develop their understanding,
knowledge and skills in human rights
and citizenship education. The
course will be underpinned by the
values and principles of international
human rights instruments particularly
the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and Convention on the Rights
of the Child. The course is targeted
at practitioners including school
leaders and prospective school
leaders who wish to apply democratic
and human rights principles in their
school practice, primary and post
primary teachers and those working
in non-formal settings. There will be a
strong global dimension to the course
and the opportunity to engage
directly with leading theorists and
practitioners in the field nationally
and globally.
Modules:
 Human rights and citizenship education –
personal and wider perspectives
 Human rights and international law
 Historical development and conceptual
underpinnings of human rights
 Concepts of citizenship
 Citizenship and human rights
 Emancipatory and democratic research
approaches
 Case study: the Right to Education
 Case study: the Convention on the Rights
of the Child
 Identifying the issues: human rights
education, citizenship education and the
challenge of diversity
 Diversity: Ethnic and religious
 Diversity: Gender and sexuality
 Diversity: Disability and special needs
 Diversity: Cross-cutting issues: Class and
community
 Case study: National and international
policy and practice: conflict resolution
 Case study: National and international
policy and practice: the ideas of
participation and sustainability
 Child citizenship and participation in school
and community, local and global.
 Education for sustainable development in a
curricular and whole school context
 Teaching for global justice: integrating
development education into the curriculum
Course length
Contact
The Centre for Human
Rights and Citizenship
Education,
St. Patrick’s College.
Tel: 01 8842345
www.spd.dcu.ie/chrce
St Patricks Collage Drumcondra
Development Component/Module
Course Title
School
Aim of course
Bachelor of
Education Degree
with Geography /
Masters in
Humanities
Geography
Department
Geography is the study of the interrelationship between people and
environments - both natural and
created by people. In both narrow
and wider senses Geography is all
around us. It may be seen at many
levels or scales of environment, from
the local through to the global.
Geographers concern themselves
with the human and physical
elements of these environments,
together
with
their
historical
development, spatial organisation,
inter-relationships, management and
planning. The nature and sequence
of the course in Geography will
provide students with a framework
that will guide them from an
introductory level through to a
detailed analysis of topical issues
and themes.
School
Aim of course
Postgraduate
Certificate in
Education
School of
Education
The Post-primary PGCE programme
equips students to teach their
specialist subject at Key Stage 3, 4
and beyond (ages11-19). Options
available include:
Coleraine Campus
Art and Design
English with Drama and Media
Studies
Geography
History
Home Economics
Music
Course length
Contact
Three Years full
time / Masters
by major thesis
Head of Geography
Department Ruth
McManus
[email protected]
cu.ie
 An Introduction to Human Geography
 Society, Space and Inequality
 Mediterranean, Middle East and North
Africa
 Humanitarian Action
 Landscape, Heritage and Identity
University of Ulster Coleraine
Development component/module
Course Title
Jordanstown Campus
Physical Education
Technology and Design
Each year has an integrating theme:
sustainability / citizenship and human rights /
professional specialisation, each of which
offers a development aspect.
Modules
currently available to students taking
geography at undergraduate level include:
Three students drawn from the whole PGCE
group are given the opportunity to complete a
teaching placement in Malawi. Some of the
students have also been involved in Habitat
projects in Ethiopia.
www.spd.dcu.ie/main/
academic/geography/
Course length
Contact
One year
University of Ulster
Cromore Road
Coleraine
Co. Londonderry
BT52 1SA
Tel: 028 70123456
Admin Contact:
Mrs Angela Graham
Tel: 029 7012 4595
Email:
[email protected].
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