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SPOL30310 - Understanding Irish Modernisation (Credit) 2016

Understanding Irish Modernisation: Ideological and Intellectual Conflicts and Debates (1800-2008) (level 3)
The module examines processes, ideas and debates that have shaped the modernisation of Ireland from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. It is appropriate for students who have previously studied social science, politics, history or philosophy. The module consists of three blocks:
(1) The Sociology of Irish Modernisation: The focus here is on the shifting sociological analyses of Irish society since 1800. Here the focus is on changing understandings of processes of social change set out in the writings of some nineteenth-century political economists and well as those of twentieth-century anthropologists and sociologists. 
(2) Champions and Critics of Irish Modernisation: The focus of this second block is upon understandings of and critiques of Irish society by some prominent nineteenth and twentieth century writers. Block Two will examine writings of figures including Thomas Malthus, Friedrich Engels, John Mitchel, Horace Plunkett, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Daniel Corkery and Sean O’Faolain. 
(3) Post-Independence Cultural and Economic Nation-Building: Nations, Benedict Anderson has influentially argued, are imagined communities. And what is being imagined of course changes over time. The focus of the third block the main shifts in dominant ideas and shifting cultural, economic and political circumstances during the last hundred years. What is being examined are shifting representations of nation-building goals set out in seminal periodicals, books and government reports. For the most part the focus is on mainstream vantage points and critiques of these.

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Semester 2

Level 3

Lectures:  Tuesdays 14:00 - 15:00 and Thursdays 14:00 - 15:00, beginning 23 January, 2018

Tutorials:  There are no tutorials for this module.

 

If you are taking this module for credit, please take note of the dates below:

Term dates for revision:  Saturday, 28 April - Sunday, 6 May             

Term dates for exams:    Tuesday, 8 May – Saturday, 19 May

Open Learning Fee (audit only) €350 per module

Open Learning Fee (with assessment) €500 per 5 credit module

 

Upgrading from audit to credit:  You may upgrade from being an audit student to a credit student up to three weeks into term. Please note, however, that you can't change back to being an audit student - if you decide not to complete the assignments and/or sit the exams, this will appear on your academic record.

 

Concessions
There are no concessions available for Open Learning modules.

 

Refunds
Refunds may in some instances be available for extenuating circumstances, such as serious illness, within two weeks of the start of the module.  Requests for refunds must be submitted in writing, with supporting documents where appropriate.

Prof Bryan Fanning