The BA Humanities is an innovative, interdisciplinary four-year programme that combines multiple subjects to provide coherence and depth to student learning within nine carefully structured pathways. Taught by expert academics in the Arts and Humanities, the BA Humanities programme offers both intensive training in particular disciplines and unique skill sets that are developed by bringing together subjects that and relate closely to each other. Students will gain essential life and employment skills, including critical, analytical and creative thinking, and expert communications, while learning how to be adaptable and flexible in preparation for employment in a dynamic work environment.
This interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, Art History and History pathway provides an opportunity to study issues ranging across these three fields. The core of this pathway will see students examine the history, literature, language and culture of the Celts across the centuries. It will challenge students to develop their critical thinking and evaluation skills as they develop understanding and an appreciation of the complexities of ideas, societies, cultures, languages and art. Students on this pathway will gain the transferable skills and interdisciplinary competencies most highly valued by organisations in the cultural and heritage sector and education sector, by employers in archives, media, journalism, museums and galleries, and by a wide range of private and public sector employers.
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In this programme the History of the Celts will be placed in a European and global context allowing for a deep understanding of Celtic Civilization from Antiquity to the present day. Students will also engage with the aesthetic, stylistic, historical and critical elements of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, the decorative arts and modern visual art forms, including photography, video and will gain digital expertise in Medieval artifacts. The diversity of choice in the modules that are available – from early Irish and Welsh to Medieval art and architecture, and folklore and migration – draws together Celtic Studies, Art History and History. This unique interdisciplinary programme covers all of these areas, ranging across Celtic Studies, Art History and History. The core of this programme will see students examine the history, literature, language and culture of the Celts across the centuries. It will challenge students and will develop their critical thinking and evaluation skills, as well as providing an appreciation of the complexities of ideas, societies, cultures, languages and art.
In this programme the History of the Celts will be placed in a European and global context allowing for a deep understanding of Celtic Civilization from Antiquity to the present day. Students will also engage with the aesthetic, stylistic, historical and critical elements of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, the decorative arts and modern visual art forms, including photography, video and will gain digital expertise in Medieval artifacts. The diversity of choice in the modules that are available – from early Irish and Welsh to Medieval art and architecture, and folklore and migration – draws together Celtic Studies, Art History and History. This unique interdisciplinary programme covers all of these areas, ranging across Celtic Studies, Art History and History. The core of this programme will see students examine the history, literature, language and culture of the Celts across the centuries. It will challenge students and will develop their critical thinking and evaluation skills, as well as providing an appreciation of the complexities of ideas, societies, cultures, languages and art.
UCD Arts & Humanities Programme Office,
Newman Building,
Belfield,
Dublin 4
Tel: +353 1 716 8321/8102
Web: www.ucd.ie/ahss
Students are pre-registered to 10 core modules (50 credits) and should then choose 1 module (5 credits) from the Option Modules list. Students then choose 1 elective module (5 credits) in Spring.
It is recommended that students spread their credit workload evenly between Autumn and Spring.
Students who remain in UCD for one or both trimesters will take at least 25 credits worth of modules per trimester from the list below and may take two 5 credit modules as an electives or take all 60 credits from the list below. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose an even spread of modules across the subjects for one trimester.
Module ID | Module Title | Trimester | Credits |
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AH10120 | The Art of the Renaissance: Reform and Rebirth | Autumn | 5 |
CAHA10010 | Museums and Collections | Autumn | 5 |
CCIV10010 | Introduction to Celtic Civilization | Autumn | 5 |
CCIV10040 | Vikings in the Celtic World | Autumn | 5 |
HIS10070 | The Making of Modern Europe: 1500-2000 | Autumn | 5 |
HIS10310 | Ireland's English Centuries | Autumn | 5 |
AH10140 | The Baroque to Romanticism: European Art, 1600-1850 | Spring | 5 |
AH10150 | The Modern World 1848-1914 | Spring | 5 |
CCIV10030 | The British Celts | Spring | 5 |
HIS10080 | Rome to Renaissance | Spring | 5 |
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN1OF: Choose a minimum of one of the following option modules. Students who wish to take AH10070 Dublin: Its Museums should contact the BA Humanities Programme Manager for assistance. |
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AH10070 | Dublin: Its Museums and Collections | Autumn | 5 |
HIS10310 | Ireland's English Centuries | Autumn | 5 |
EMIR10010 | Introduction to Early Irish I | Spring | 5 |
HIS10320 | The Making of Modern Ireland, 1800-2000 | Spring | 5 |
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN1OF: Choose a minimum of one of the following option modules. Students who wish to take AH10070 Dublin: Its Museums should contact the BA Humanities Programme Manager for assistance. |
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AH20200 | The Modern to the Contemporary | Autumn | 5 |
HIS21140 | History Today | Autumn | 5 |
HUM20040 | Primary Source Research in the Humanities A: Exploring UCD Cultural Heritage Collections | Autumn | 5 |
IRFL20030 | The Narrative Art | Autumn | 5 |
AH20230 | European Architecture | Spring | 5 |
CCIV20070 | Poets, Power and Performance | Spring | 5 |
IRFL20010 | The Study of Folklore: Origins and Development | Autumn | 5 |
IRFL20100 | Oral history and tradition | Autumn | 5 |
HIS20460 | Islam and Christianity in the Middle Ages | Autumn | 5 |
HIS20950 | European Statecraft, Strategy & Culture, c. 1470-c.1770: Personalities & Power | Autumn | 5 |
HIS21180 | Migration and Environment in Ireland, 1500 - 1800 | Autumn | 5 |
HIS21220 | Modern China Since 1600 | Autumn | 5 |
HIS20960 | Living Loving & Dying in 19th Century Ireland | Spring | 5 |
HIS21170 | The Making of the Middle East | Spring | 5 |
HIS21240 | Celts, Romans and Vikings: The Formation of Early Ireland | Spring | 5 |
AH20210 | Perspectives on Irish Art: From Medieval to Modern | Autumn | 5 |
AH20240 | The Age of Michelangelo: Mannerism in Italy 1520-1600 | Autumn | 5 |
Stage 2 Options - D)MIN0OF: This is a College of Arts and Humanities module. It is the equivalent of an elective. You take it instead of taking one of your Stage 2 electives. Please make sure that you have selected the correct number of programme options from the list above. This is not one of your required options. It is recommended in particular if you are considering applying for an internship option next year. |
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HUM20030 | Career Readiness (Humanities) | Spring | 5 |
Stage 2 Options - D)MIN0OF: This is a College of Arts and Humanities module. It is the equivalent of an elective. You take it instead of taking one of your Stage 2 electives. Please make sure that you have selected the correct number of programme options from the list above. This is not one of your required options. It is recommended in particular if you are considering applying for an internship option next year. |
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Stage 3 Options - *A)MIN0OF: Students must take a minimum of 25 credits from the list of autumn module options below. A further 5 credits may be taken in the place of a 5 credit elective module. Students who are taking up an internship or a trimester exchange should only register to modules for the trimester they are in UCD. |
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AH30010 | Writings on Art | Autumn | 5 |
HIS31320 | The Irish Revolution, 1910-1923 | Autumn | 10 |
HIS31510 | Religion & Society in Independent Ireland, 1922-1968 | Autumn | 10 |
HIS31720 | Irish Emigration and the Diaspora, 1800-2012 | Autumn | 10 |
HIS31860 | Slavery and the New World | Autumn | 10 |
HIS31900 | Roads to Heaven & Hell | Autumn | 10 |
HIS32430 | Florence 1200 - 1400 | Autumn | 10 |
HIS32550 | Gender, War and Memory: Women in Late Qing and Republican China | Autumn | 10 |
HIS31250 | Dynastic Politics, Culture & Diplomacy in Post-Westphalian Germany | Spring | 10 |
Stage 3 Options - *A)MIN0OF: Students must take a minimum of 25 credits from the list of autumn module options below. A further 5 credits may be taken in the place of a 5 credit elective module. Students who are taking up an internship or a trimester exchange should only register to modules for the trimester they are in UCD. |
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Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students must take a minimum of 25 credits from the list of spring module options below. A further 5 credits may be taken in the place of a 5 credit elective module. Students who are taking up an internship or a trimester exchange should only register to modules for the trimester they are in UCD. |
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HIS31280 | Rise, Fall, Rise of Modern Japan | Autumn | 10 |
HIS31320 | The Irish Revolution, 1910-1923 | Autumn | 10 |
AH30080 | Art History Dissertation Module | Spring | 5 |
AH30540 | Georgian Dublin | Spring | 5 |
AH30640 | Contemporary Art and New Media | Spring | 10 |
HIS31290 | Gender, Sexuality and Family in Ireland, 1870s-1970s | Spring | 10 |
HIS31310 | Madness and Civilisation | Spring | 10 |
HIS31400 | British Atlantic History, 1607-1776 | Spring | 10 |
HIS31760 | Irish Foreign Policy, 1919-73: A Place Among the Nations | Spring | 10 |
HIS31840 | The First World War: cultures and consequences | Spring | 10 |
HIS32230 | Biography and History | Spring | 10 |
HIS32330 | Venice in the modern European imagination | Spring | 10 |
HIS32360 | Environment & Power in Modern Russia | Spring | 10 |
HIS32480 | Anticolonial Thought in the Twentieth Century | Spring | 10 |
HIS32620 | US Pivots To Asia, 1890s-1950s | Spring | 10 |
HIS32770 | Life on the Edge: Drugs, Institutions, and Stigma in Ireland since 1960 | Spring | 10 |
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students must take a minimum of 25 credits from the list of spring module options below. A further 5 credits may be taken in the place of a 5 credit elective module. Students who are taking up an internship or a trimester exchange should only register to modules for the trimester they are in UCD. |
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HUM30020 | Internship-Autumn (Humanities) | Autumn | 30 |
HUM30030 | Internship- Spring (Humanities) | Spring | 30 |
Award | GPA | ||||
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Programme | Module Weightings | Rule Description | Description | ||
BHACS024 | Stage 4 - 50.00% Stage 3 - 30.00% Stage 2 - 20.00% |
Standard Honours Award | First Class Honours | 3.68 |
4.20 |
Second Class Honours, Grade 1 | 3.08 |
3.67 |
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Second Class Honours, Grade 2 | 2.48 |
3.07 |
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Pass | 2.00 |
2.47 |