TRINITY COLLEGE - Evening Short Courses Brochure 2017 Final

Evening and
Short Courses
2017-2018
Contents Introduction to Irish Family History 24
History 25
Kingship and Warfare: Ireland, c.1000-1318 25
Introduction 04
History of Continental Europe 1860 to 1918 26
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule History of modern Ireland 27
(ADOS-2) for the Clinical Setting 06
Europe 1500-1800: Power and Culture 28
Botany 06 Ireland 1534-1815 29
An introduction to Woodcarving 06 American History 30
Beginners Gardening 07 Imperialism to Globalism: Europe and the World
1860-1970 31
Practical Course in Botanical Art 08
Visual Language Course at Botanical Gardens 09 History of Art 32
Architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries 32
Classics 10
Making and meaning in Irish art 33
Greek and Roman art and architecture 10
Art in France 34
Greek and Roman history 11
Antiquity and innovation in early medieval art 35
Greek and Roman mythology and religion 12
Introduction to European painting and sculpture I 36
From Rome to Byzantium: the transition from
classical to early Byzantine world in the history, Introduction to European architecture I 37
culture, literature and art of the 3rd to the 6th
centuries AD 13 Introduction to European painting and sculpture II 38
Latin language and culture for beginners 14 Introduction to European architecture II 39
Latin language and culture: intermediate 16 Painting and sculpture in the Italian Renaissance 39
Ancient Greek language and culture - beginners 17 Post modern and contemporary art 40
Ancient Greek language and culture -intermediate 18 Arts of Japan 41
English 18 Irish 42
English Literature 18 A history of Irish personal names and surnames 42
Cities in Literature 19 Languages 43
Gender and Women’s Studies 20 Chinese, Introduction to Language and Culture 43
Gender: history, culture and representation 20 Chinese, Post-Beginners 44

Dutch 44
Health Policy Management 21
Irish Sign Language (ISL) for Beginners 45
Health Economics 21
Introduction to Irish Sign Language (ISL)
Managing People in Healthcare Organisations 22 (Ten-week course) 46
Japanese, Introduction to Language and Culture 46
Histories and Humanities 23
Japanese, Post-Beginners 47
Reputations V: emperors, presidents and premiers 23
Japanese, Intermediate 47
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Korean, Introduction to Language and Culture 48 Religions and Theology 73 Social Sciences and Philosophy 95 The Making of Catholic Theology: The Medieval
Period 111
Korean, Post-beginners Language and Culture 48 Introduction to World Religions 73 Great Philosophers 95
The Making of Catholic Theology: The Modern
Portuguese 49 Eras and classical authors in the history of Big Questions in Philosophy 95 Period (c. 1900-2000) 111
Christianity 74
Turkish, Introduction to Language and Culture 49 The Logic and Credibility of After-Death Existences 96 The Making of Catholic Theology: The Patristic
Religion in Public: Great Speeches 75 Period 112
Turkisk, Post-Beginners 50
Ethics in Sport and Media Ethics 76 Social Work and Social Policy 97
Turkish Intermediate 50 Theological Anthropology 113
Institutions of Education and Science in Classical Contemporary Perspectives in Social Work 97
Theology in the Reformation and the Counter-
Languages (Slavonic) 51 Islam 77 Reformation 114
The Lir Academy 98
Bulgarian, Beginners 51 The Historical Jesus and the Gospels 78 Ethical Issues Today – Theology and Food 114
Acting and Irish Theatre 98
Bulgarian, Lower Intermediate 52 Contemporary Theories of Religion 79 The Ethics of Embodiment 115
Character and Scene Study 99
Bulgarian, Upper Intermediate 53 Christology: Jesus in the first century, at turning Ecclesiology: Unity& Diversity in Catholic
points of Christian thinking, in music and film 80 Ensemble Study 99
Bulgarian, Advanced 54 Christianity 116
Great Controversies in the Histories of I A Clown 100
Croatian, Beginners 55 Eucharistic Theology 117
Monotheism 81 Introduction to Acting 100
Croatian, Lower Intermediate 56 Approaches to Theological Ethics 82 Campus Map 120
Introduction to Stage Management and Technical
Croatian, Upper Intermediate 57 Introduction to the New Testament and Early Theatre 101
Croatian, Advanced 58 Christianity: texts and contexts 82 Musical Theatre Intensive 101
Czech, Beginners 59 The Qur’an and its history of reception 83 Riverdance - Trinity College Dublin International
Approaches to the Study of Religion 84 Summer School 102
Czech, Upper Intermediate 60
Religion in Public: Great Images 85 Sensing Laban: Movement Expression with Sue
Polish, Beginners 61 Mythen 103
Polish, Lower Intermediate 62 Key Themes in Theology 86
The Clear and Confident Voice, Presenting with
Polish, Upper Intermediate 63 The End of the World: The Johannine Writings 86 Confidence 103
Polish, Advanced 64 Hermeneutics: the Bible, classical texts, modern Young Actors’ Programme (2 weeks) 104
disputes, the environment 87
Russian, Beginners 66 Young Actors’ Programme (4 weeks) 104
Comparative Religious Ethics in Christianity, Islam
Russian, Lower Intermediate 67 and Buddhism 88 The Loyola Institute 105
Russian, Intermediate 68 Contemporary Ethical Issues 89 Catholic Theology in a Secular Age: A Critical
Russian Advanced/Advanced Plus 69 Current Expressions & Movements in Christianity, Introduction 105
Hinduism & Islam 90 Ethics and Society in Catholic Traditions 106
Near and Middle Eastern Studies 70
Religion, Media & the Public Sphere 91 Foundations for Theological Ethics 106
Persian for Beginners 70
Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies 91 God: One and Three 107
Beginners’ Arabic for Business and Tourism 70
Contemporary Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish and Jewish Origins and the Hebrew Bible: Texts and
Certificate in Holocaust Education 71 Contexts 108
Russian Cultures 91
Physics 71 Prohibited Czech Literature and Charter 77 92 Mission, Culture and Diversity in a Global World 108
Foundation Physics for Earth and Life Sciences 71 Contemporary Literature and Cinema in the The Book of Kells: A Theological Reading 109
European Southeast and the Question of Balkan The Development of Wisdom Literature 110
Psychology 72 Identity 94
Psychology: The Science of Behaviour and Mind 72
2 Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

Introduction Réamhrá
Lifelong learning is a continual process for Próiseas leanúnach dúinn uile is ea an

every one of us, whether it is for personal fhoghlaim ar feadh an tsaoil, bímis ina bun
interest or professional development. Trinity as suim phearsanta nó ar mhaithe le forbairt
College Dublin, the University of Dublin phroifisiúnta. Cuireann Coláiste na Tríonóide
offers a wide range of evening and short réimse leathan cúrsaí tráthnóna agus cúrsaí
courses in many different fields which result gearra ar fáil in ábhair éagsúla – cúrsaí a
in the gaining of new ideas, new knowledge, thabharfaidh smaointe úra agus eolas úr duit
and in some instances, new qualifications. agus, i gcás cuid acu, cáilíocht úr freisin.
Today, the continuing nature of education is Sa lá atá inniu ann, tá an t-oideachas

more important than ever. Old skills become leanúnach níos tábhachtaí ná riamh. Tá
obsolete, new skills come to be in high seanscileanna ag dul as feidhm agus tá
demand. The people who can participate éileamh ar scileanna úra. Na daoine a
most effectively in our fast-moving modern ghlacfaidh an pháirt is éifeachtaí i saol tapa
society are those who are most open to an lae inniu ná na daoine atá sásta glacadh
new ideas, most adaptable and willing to le smaointe nua, atá sásta iad féin a chur in
continually re-educate themselves and oiriúint do shaol úr, filleadh ar an oideachas
broaden their perspectives. go tráthúil agus a ndearcadh ar an saol a
leathnú.
In addition to degree and diploma courses,
there is a wide range of short courses to Chomh maith le cúrsaí céime agus
choose from in Trinity, from history of art dioplóma, tá réimse leathan cúrsaí gearra
to social work, philosophy to psychology, ar fail i gColáiste na Tríonóide – ó stair na
Greek and Roman mythology and religion healaíne go hobair shóisialta, ó fhealsúnacht
to physics and a wide variety of languages go síceolaíocht, ó mhiotaseolaíocht agus
among others. We hope that you will find a creidimh na Gréige agus na Róimhe go
course that appeals to you in this booklet. heolaíocht an néarchórais agus rogha
Further information is available at www.tcd. leathan teangacha (i measc ábhar eile).
ie/courses/esc Tá súil againn go dtiocfaidh tú ar chúrsa a
thaitneoidh leat sa leabhrán seo. Tá tuilleadh
eolais ar fáil ag www.tcd.ie/courses/esc

Autism Diagnostic Lecturer Ireland and has been a multi-award winner
at Sculpture in Context in the National
Botany
Observation Schedule
Prof. Louise Gallagher
Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. His work has Beginners Gardening
How to apply been presented to President Mary Robinson
(ADOS-2) for the For those interested in attending the training, and other dignitaries. He has worked on
Hazel Proctor is an accomplished
Clinical Setting please contact large scale sculptures for Dun Laoghaire and
horticulturalist and garden designer with over
Galway County Councils.
Nadia Bolshakova E: ADOS.training@tcd.ie a decade experience working in parks and
The course is primarily aimed as an gardens across Ireland. She is currently the
ADOS-2 is a semi-structured, standardised Fee introduction to woodcarving with all tools Head Gardener at The Steam Museum and
assessment of communication, social
€450 for two full days training and materials provided. The main focus is Lodge Park Walled Garden, in Kildare and
interaction, play/imaginative use of materials
on creativity and individuality and nurturing continues to deliver the Beginners Gardening
and restricted and repetitive behaviours for Date, time and place it through the medium of woodcarving. All Course in conjunction with the Botany
individuals who have been referred because
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James’s abilities will be catered for, as each participant Department.
of possible autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Hospital, Dublin 8. The course is running every will receive individual tuition. Participants
Fundamentally new to the ADOS-2 than During the course, you will gain a wide range
three or four months. will be introduced to the tools and how to
ADOS-G are the procedures involved in the of gardening skills such as how to propagate
sharpen and maintain them and the materials
algorithm computation and the comparison Further information your own plants, the principles of pruning
and characteristics of the different woods.
score for module 1 through 3 which were Visit www.medicine.tcd.ie/neuropsychiatric- and how to choose the right plants for your
revised on the basis of the findings of recent genetics/autism/ados or contact: The How to apply garden. The course also includes lectures on
validation research. The new comparison Extramural Course Co-ordinator, Dr. Nadia Please email Conleth - conlethgent@eircom. the history of garden design and regular plant
score provides a way of indicating a Bolshakova, T: 01 896 2144, E: ADOS.training@ net - to confirm your participation. Places are identification walks. Throughout the year,
participant’s level of autism spectrum related tcd.ie very few in number and strictly limited. we enjoy visits to horticultural gems such as
symptomatology and it can also be used to the War Memorial Garden and The National
interpret an individual’s own change in autism Fee Botanic Gardens. The course starts in October
spectrum related symptoms over time. ADOS- The course will cost €160 for five classes. Tea and runs one day a week, each Wednesday,
2 also includes a toddler module, which is Botany and coffee will be provided and all materials from 10am to 3pm, until May 2017.
designed for very young children who do not
use phrase speech but who are between the An Introduction to will be supplied. Full payment in advance by
July 1st is essential and required to secure
How to apply
ages of twelve and thirty months. The toddler
module has its own algorithms that provide
Woodcarving your place. Please note all monies are non- Please email Hazel at proctoh@tcd.ie to
confirm your booking. Places are limited so
refundable except in the event of course
‘ranges of concern’ instead of cut-off scores. cancellation. early booking is advised.
A variety of specialists will use the ADOS-2, Well known Sculptor Conleth Gent (www.
Date, Time and Place Fee
their use of results in writing reports and conlethgent.ie) will be running a woodcarving
making recommendations to inform medical Every Monday 11am-1pm for five weeks The course costs €900 and a deposit of €200
course two and a half hours per day one day
diagnoses, special education classification commencing on July 30th 2018 in the Trinity must be paid by September 7th to secure
a week over a five week period based in the
and occupational therapists and speech and College Botanic Gardens opposite Palmerston your place. The remainder can be paid in two
Trinity College Botanic Gardens at Dartry,
hearing professionals might use for treatment Park, Dartry, Dublin 6 (nearest Luas Station, further instalments throughout the course of
Dublin 6 (nearest Luas Station, Milltown).
planning. Milltown). the year.
Conleth Gent has exhibited widely throughout
6 Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin Evening and Short Courses 2017 7
Date and time How to apply Botany morning) participants will produce
observational drawings, notes, photos
The course will start in October and will run
until May. Class will be held at the Trinity
Please email Yanny - yannypetters@gmail.com
- to confirm your participation. Places are very
Visual Language and generally discuss and gather ideas.
Botanic Garden in Dartry, Dublin 6, from 10am few in number and strictly limited. Course at Trinity The remainder of the course (Wednesday
afternoon and Thursday) participants will
to 3pm each week. We follow the academic
year so there will be mid-term breaks and Fee College Botanic use their observational work from the
greenhouses to explore unique ways to
holidays during Christmas and Easter. The course will cost €140 for two days. Tea
and coffee will be provided and materials will
Gardens visually compose and learn techniques in
be supplied. Full payment in advance by 1st imaginatively using the information.
July for the Autumn course is essential and David Eager Maher (www.davideagermaher. How to apply
Botany required to secure your place. Please note com) is well known for his works on paper Please email David - eager.maher@
all monies are non-refundable except in the
Practical Course in event of course cancellation.
and is associated with contemporary drawing
internationally. Recent projects include a
googlemail.com - to confirm your
participation. Places are very few in number
Botanical Art Date and time
residency at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and strictly limited.
(2011 – 2015). ‘Inheritance’ a solo exhibition at
Autumn 2017: 19th and 20th September in Fee
Drei Ringe Gallery, Leipzig. Fukt Contemporary
Well known Botanical artist Yanny Petters the Trinity College Botanic Gardens opposite The course will cost €190 for three days. Tea
Drawing #13. His work has been included in
(www.yannypetters.net) will be running a 2 Palmerston Park at Dartry, Dublin 6 (nearest and coffee will be provided. Materials will be
commercial gallery and museum exhibitions
day practical course in botanical drawing and Luas Station, Milltown). All sessions start at supplied, but participants are free to bring any
in Ireland and Internationally, Including
watercolour illustration based in the Trinity 10.30 a.m. and end at 4.00 p.m. preferable drawing and painting materials.
the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and
College Botanic Gardens at Dartry, Dublin 6 Spring 2018: 9th and 10th May in the Trinity Scope Art Fair Basel, 2011 and 2012, Scope Painting materials should be water based
(nearest Luas Station, Milltown). College Botanic Gardens opposite Palmerston Art Fair Miami 2013. He is the recipient only.
Yanny is a member of the Irish Society of Park at Dartry, Dublin 6 (nearest Luas Station, of several awards and his work is held in
Full payment in advance by 1st March (for the
Botanical Artists and exhibits regularly in Milltown). All sessions start at 10.30 a.m. and many international private and permanent
Spring course) or 1st July (for the Autumn
Ireland. Some of her works are in the Shirley end at 4.00 p.m. collections.
course) is essential and required to secure
Sherwood Collection in Kew Gardens, as well Autumn 2018: 18th and 19th September in David Eager Maher will be running a 3 day your place. Please note all monies are non-
as in the OPW collection in Glasnevin and the Trinity College Botanic Gardens opposite visual art course. The primary focus of the refundable except in the event of course
Wicklow Mountains National Park. Palmerston Park at Dartry, Dublin 6 (nearest course will be upon developing an individual cancellation.
In this Autumn course, and following previous Luas Station, Milltown). All sessions start at visual language through observational
drawing and painting. The Trinity College Date, Time and Place
years’ very successful model, all abilities will 10.30 a.m. and end at 4.00 p.m.
be catered for, as each participant will receive Botanic Gardens will provide a subject for Spring 2018: 22nd May to 24th May in the
individual tuition. A botanical drawing session research, through drawing, observational Trinity College Botanic Gardens opposite
occupies the first part of the Wednesday and study, collage and collecting information, Palmerston Park at Dartry, Dublin 6 (nearest
participants produce preparatory drawings students will learn techniques in bringing Luas Station, Milltown). All sessions start at
to work from in the watercolour course on the factual into the imagination. In both 10.30 a.m. and end at 4.00 p.m.
Wednesday afternoon and Thursday. Plants the Spring and Autumn courses all abilities Autumn 2018: 11th to 13th September in the
are scoursed in the extensive gardens and will be catered for, each participant will Trinity College Botanic Gardens opposite
glass houses on site and all drawings are done receive individual tuition. In both courses Palmerston Park at Dartry, Dublin 6 (nearest
from life. the botanical drawing session occupies the Luas Station, Milltown). All sessions start at
first half (Tuesday all day and Wednesday 10.30 a.m. and end at 4.00 p.m.
Classics send it with a cheque/money order made Classics Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity
payable to Trinity College number 1 account College, Dublin 2.
Greek and Roman art to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short Greek and Roman Applications may be made in person in room
and architecture Courses administrator, School of Histories and
Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity
history 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
College, Dublin 2.
appointment.
There are a limited number of places available Applications may be made in person in room There are a limited number of places available
on this course. 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER on this course. Fee
This lecture-only module is an introductory 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by This lecture-only module provides an €300 for the full year or €165 per term.
survey of the development and major artistic appointment. introductory survey of the history of the Greek *Concession €150 or €75 per term
and technical achievements of Greek and and Roman world, from the Greek Archaic
Fee *The concession rate is available to second
Roman architecture, sculpture and painting. age (c.700 BC) to the death of Augustus in
€300 for the full year or €165 per term. and third level students and people whose
The course places art and architecture in AD 14. The main trends and issues of this
*Concession €150 for the course or €75 per primary source of income is social welfare,
its social, political and cultural context. It period will be explored including colonisation,
term health board or a government-sponsored
explores themes such as the representation imperialism, war, the Athenian invention of
employment scheme.
of the human form, the use of narrative and democracy, the rise of Alexander, and the
*The concession rate is available to second
mythology in art, and urbanization, and it emergence of Rome as a major power in the Time and Place
and third level students and people whose
looks at the works of individual artists. It Mediterranean. There will also be discussion
primary source of income is social welfare, DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE
traces the development of architectural forms, of the main historical sources.
health board or a government-sponsored CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
such as temples, theatres and Roman baths
employment scheme. Lecturer www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
with attention to many of the iconic buildings
After 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’
and sites of the ancient world, including Dr Shane Wallace
Time and Place FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
the Parthenon, Delphi and Olympia, the
DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE How to Apply 087 2572017.
Colosseum, the Pantheon and Pompeii.
CONFIRMED, please check our website http:// Closing date for online and postal
www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses Duration
Lecturer applications:
After 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’ This lecture-only module comprises two
Dr Christine Morris
FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO Friday 23 September 2017 for Michaelmas lectures per week over two twelve-week terms
How to Apply 087 257 2017. Term (September) commencing week beginning Monday 25
Friday 12 January 2018 for Hilary Term September 2017, and recommencing week
Closing date for online and postal
Duration beginning Monday 15 January2017. There
applications: (January)
This lecture-only module comprises two is a one week break in each term, (6 - 10
Friday 23 September 2017 for Michaelmas You may register and pay by credit/laser card
lectures per week over two twelve-week terms November 2017and 26 February - 2 March
Term (September) online at http://www.histories-humanities.
commencing the week beginning Monday 25 2018) when no lectures will take place.
tcd.ie/shortcourses After 21st August or
Friday 12 January 2018 for Hilary Term September 2017, and recommencing week
you can download an application form and
(January) beginning Monday 15 January2017. There
send it with a cheque/money order made
is a one week break in each term, (6 - 10
You may register and pay by credit/laser card payable to Trinity College number 1 account
November 2017and 26 February - 2 March
online at http://www.histories-humanities. to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short
2018) when no lectures will take place.
tcd.ie/shortcourses After 21st August or Courses administrator, School of Histories and
Classics the diverse ancient beliefs on death and the Fee Classics
afterlife and the role of mystery religions. This
Greek and Roman lecture-only course will be illustrated.
Lecture only: €150 for the full year or €85 per
term. *Concession €75 for the course or €45
From Rome to
mythology and Lecturers
per term Byzantium: the
religion Dr Christine Morris and Dr Suzanne O’Neill ADDITIONAL SEMINAR OPTION: (€90 (€45
concession) for two terms, or €60 (€30
transition from
OPTIONAL SEMINARS: The optional seminars, concession) per term) classical to early
(LECTURE-ONLY or with ADDITIONAL
OPTIONAL SEMINARS)
which are a new addition to the course, will
comprise two meetings per term. Taking
TOTAL FEE FOR BOTH LECTURE AND Byzantine world in
OPTIONAL SEMINAR: €240 for the full year or
There are a limited number of places available place on Saturday mornings, the seminars will €130 per term. * Concession €135 for the full the history, culture,
last 2.5 hours and will offer an opportunity
on the lecture only course
for small group discussion of key themes in
year or €75 per term
literature and art of
This seminars will run subject to sufficient ancient mythology and religion. Materials
for discussion will be provided ahead of the
the 3rd to the 6th
numbers enrolling – there will be a limited
number of places available. meetings. Light refreshments are included in primary source of income is social welfare, centuries AD
the fee for this option. health board or a government-sponsored
Lecture only module: What is myth? How employment scheme.
do myths deal with fundamental human How to Apply This course will run subject to sufficient
concerns about who we are and the world Time and Place numbers enrolling – there will be a limited
we live in? What is the relationship between DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE number of places available
applications:
myth and religion? Why did the Greeks and CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
Friday 23 September 2017 for Michaelmas Did the Roman Empire really collapse? Was
Romans worship many gods, believe in www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
Term (September) the transition from Classical civilization to
oracles, or perform animal sacrifice? This After 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’
late antiquity the end of an era? Was this
lecture-only module is an introduction to the Friday 12 January 2018 for Hilary Term FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
decline caused by migrations and the advent
major myths and religions of the classical (January) 087 2572017.
of Christianity? In this course we will address
world using the full range of primary source
You may register and pay by credit/laser card Duration these questions and more to explore the
material: literary, artistic and archaeological. It
online at http://www.histories-humanities. period between the third to the seventh
explores the functions of myth within society This lecture-only module comprises one
tcd.ie/shortcourses After 21st August or century AD, which marked one of history’s
and the various theories of myth. The first half lecture per week over two twelve-week terms
you can download an application form and great turning points and the transition from
of the course will focus on themes such as commencing week beginning Monday 25
send it with a cheque/money order made the ancient to the modern world, from pagan
the creation of myths in the wider context of September 2017, and recommencing week
payable to Trinity College number 1 account polytheism to Christianity, from Roman
Near Eastern mythology, the character of the beginning Monday 15 January2017. There
to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short Empire to Medieval States. This dynamic
Olympian gods, heroes and their monstrous is a one week break in each term, (6 - 10
Courses administrator, School of Histories and world was populated by diverse people
opponents, divine-human relations, and the November 2017and 26 February - 2 March
Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity (the “barbarians”) who deeply influenced
major mythic cycles of the Trojan war, and 2018) when no lectures will take place.
College, Dublin 2. the culture, literature and art of the time. In
the Atreus and Theban sagas. The second
OPTIONAL SEMINARS: The optional seminars our studies, we will travel to Constantinople
half of the course will explore the nature of Applications may be made in person in room will comprise two 2.5 hour seminars per term, and Ravenna to appreciate the artistic
Greek and Roman religion in its social context. 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER which will take place on Saturday mornings. continuity with classical tradition and the
It considers key elements of ritual action: 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by Light refreshments are included in the fee for new inspirations coming from the East, and
sacrifice, rites of passage, festivals, as well as appointment. this option. we will meet fascinating personalities such as
Empress Theodora, Justinian, and Julian ‘the Time and Place development of the Latin language, its power Fee
Apostate’, as well as reading exciting sources EVENING COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE of communication, comparisons between €250 for the course/*Concession €125 for the
such as Procopius, Ammianus Marcellinus, CONFIRMED, please check our website http:// formal and informal Latin in antiquity and course
and Nonnus, to understand how much of www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses beyond will also be considered. The second
the empire’s legacy lived on through the After 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’ term will be devoted to a careful study of the
institutions of the church. FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO Latin literary language through samplings
primary source of income is social welfare,
087 2572017. of Latin authors, in both poetry and prose,
Lecturer health board or a government-sponsored
ranging from antiquity to early modern times.
Dr Cosetta Cadau Duration employment scheme.
We will consider the relevance of the past in
This lecture-only module comprises one the present and there will be time to explore
How to Apply Time and Place
lecture per week over two twelve-week terms some favourite topics more in-depth through
Closing date for online and postal Day: TBC, 6 – 7.30 p.m. Venue to be confirmed
commencing Monday 25 September 2017 and inclusive but leisurely class discussion.
applications: Wednesday 17 January 2018. There is a one “The 2 required texts are Hans Henning Duration
Friday 23 September 2017 for Michaelmas week break in each term (6 - 10 November Oerberg, Lingua Latina Pars I: Familia Romana The Course comprises one class per week
Term (September) 2017 and 26 February – 2 March 2018) when and Jeanne Marie Neumann, Lingua Latina: over two twelve-week terms commencing
no classes will take place. A Companion to Familia Romana: Based on Wednesday 27 September 2017, and
You may register and pay by credit/laser card
online at http://www.histories-humanities. Hans Oerberg’s Latine Disco, with Vocabulary recommencing Wednesday 17 January2017.
tcd.ie/shortcourses After 21st August or and Grammar, which can be ordered online There is a one week break in each term, (6 - 10
you can download an application form and or purchased from bookshops. Additional November 2017and 26 February - 2 March
Classics
send it with a cheque/money order made materials will be provided by the teacher.” 2018) when no lectures will take place.
payable to Trinity College number 1 account Latin language and How to Apply
to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short
Courses administrator, School of Histories and
culture for beginners Closing date for online and postal
applications:
College, Dublin 2. Friday 23 September 2017
This course will run subject to sufficient
Applications may be made in person in room numbers enrolling – there will be a limited You may register and pay by credit/laser card
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER number of places available online at http://www.histories-humanities.
21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by tcd.ie/extramural.php After 21st August or
This course offers a comprehensive appraisal
appointment. you can download an application form and
of the language of ancient Rome. It also
explores some central features of Latin send it with a cheque/money order made
Fee
literature. In this course we aim to examine payable to Trinity College number 1 account
€150 for the full course. *Concession €75 for to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short
the cultural context surrounding classical
the course Courses administrator, School of Histories and
Latin and its successors. In the first term, those
*The concession rate is available to second who have knowledge of Latin grammar will Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity
and third level students and people whose be able to review it at a leisurely pace, while College, Dublin 2.
primary source of income is social welfare, people with little or no knowledge will have
Applications may be made in person in room
health board or a government-sponsored an opportunity to learn the basics of the Latin
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
employment scheme. grammar. Aspects such as the origins and
appointment.
Classics You may register and pay by credit/laser card Classics You may register and pay by credit/laser card
online at http://www.histories-humanities. online at http://www.histories-humanities.
Latin language and tcd.ie/extramural.php After 21st August 2017
Ancient Greek tcd.ie/extramural.php After 21st August 2017
culture: intermediate or you can download an application form and or you can download an application form and
send it with a cheque/money order made language and culture - send it with a cheque/money order made
payable to Trinity College number 1 account payable to Trinity College number 1 account
This course will run subject to sufficient to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short beginners to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short
numbers enrolling – there will be a limited Courses administrator, School of Histories and Courses administrator, School of Histories and
number of places available Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity
This course will run subject to sufficient
College, Dublin 2. College, Dublin 2.
numbers enrolling – there will be a limited
An intermediate reading course in Latin is
Applications may be made in person in room number of places available Applications may be made in person in room
combined with an exploration of Roman life
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
and literature. Starting with a swift review of This course offers a comprehensive appraisal
21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
the basics of Latin grammar, we will aim to of the language of ancient Greece. It also
appointment. appointment.
begin reading unadapted works of Roman explores some central features of Ancient
literature by the end of the course. The set Fee Greek literature. In this course we aim to Fee
texts are, Lingua Latina Part 1: Familia Romana €250 for the course *Concession €125 for the examine the cultural context surrounding €250 for the course *Concession €125 for the
and Lingua Latina Part 2: Roma Aeterna by course classical Greek and its successors. In the first course
Hans Henning Orberg. These can be ordered term, those who have knowledge of Greek
online or in any bookshop. All other materials *The concession rate is available to second The concession rate is available to second
grammar will be able to review it at a leisurely
will be supplied by the tutor. and third level students and people whose and third level students and people whose
pace while people with little or no knowledge
primary source of income is social welfare, primary source of income is social welfare,
will have an opportunity to learn the basics
The 2 required texts are Hans Henning health board or a government-sponsored health board or a government-sponsored
of the Greek grammar. Aspects such as the
Oerberg, Lingua Latina Pars II: Roma Aeterna employment scheme. employment scheme.
origins of the language and the dialects will
and Jeanne Marie Neumann, Lingua Latina:
Time and Place also be considered in the first term. The Time and Place
A Companion to Roma Aeterna: Based on
second term will be devoted to a careful
Hans Oerberg’s Instructions, with Vocabulary Day: TBC; 7.30 – 9 pm Venue to be confirmed Thursdays 6 – 7.30 p.m. Venue to be
study of the Ancient Greek literary language
and Grammar, which can be ordered online confirmed
Duration through samplings of Greek authors, in both
or purchased from bookshops. Additional
The Course comprises one class per week poetry and prose, ranging from the archaic Duration
materials will be provided by the teacher.
over two twelve-week terms commencing to Hellenistic times. We will also consider the The Course comprises one class per week
Lecturer Wednesday 28 September 2017, and relevance of the past in the present and there over two twelve-week terms commencing
recommencing Wednesday 18 January2017. will be time to explore some favourite topics Thursday 29 September 2017, and
TBC
There is a one week break in each term, (6 - 10 more in-depth through inclusive but leisurely recommencing Thursday 19 January 2017.
How to Apply November 2017and 26 February - 2 March class discussion. There is a one week break in each term, (6 - 10
Closing date for online and postal 2018) when no lectures will take place. November 2017and 26 February - 2 March
How to Apply
applications: 2018) when no lectures will take place.
Friday 23 September 2017 applications:
Friday 23 September 2017
Classics Fee Fee English
Ancient Greek €250 for the course *Concession €125 for the
course
€60 for the entire series. Individual lectures
are €7 each. Concessionary rates for the full
Cities in Literature
language and culture The concession rate is available to second
series will be €45 or individual lecture €6 each.
Concessionary rates apply to: students, OAPs,
-intermediate and third level students and people whose
unemployed, groups of 20+. Teachers bringing
In this series of lectures, members of the
School of English will give talks on the varied
groups of students receive a free Teacher Pass.
health board or a government-sponsored roles major cities including Dublin, London,
This course will run subject to sufficient employment scheme. Los Angeles, Paris, and New York, have played
How to Apply
numbers enrolling – there will be a limited in literary works of different eras and genres.
Time and Place Online Application:
number of places available. Set in Dublin on a single day in 1904, James
Thursdays 7.30 – 9 p.m. Venue to be Please apply and pay online using this link
In this intermediate course learning and Joyce’s novel Ulysses is perhaps the best-
confirmed to Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie
reading ancient Greek is combined with an known literary work tied to a particular city.
(available shortly)
exploration of literature and culture. Building Duration The works of Charles Dickens and Arthur
on the basics of Greek grammar acquired Conan Doyle transport us to Victorian
The Course comprises one class per week Pay at the Door:
at Beginners level, we will consolidate England’s bustling metropolis of contrasts and
over two twelve-week terms commencing It is possible to pay on the door at the night,
foundations to begin reading unadapted contradictions. Dashiell Hamett, Joan Didion,
Thursday 29 September 2017, and however only those who have pre-booked can
works in Attic and Koine Greek. Books used and Nathanael West captured the dark heart
recommencing Thursday 19 January 2017. be guaranteed admission.
and texts read will be specified by the tutor at of California’s cities. While portrayals of the
There is a one week break in each term, (6 - 10
the beginning of the course. Postal Application: different facets of urban life often underpin
November 2017and 26 February - 2 March
Apply to: Ms Sophia Ní Sheoin, Centre literary renderings of cities, absence of
2018) when no lectures will take place.
How to Apply Executive Officer, Oscar Wilde Centre for something from the depicted urban space can
Closing date for online and postal Irish Writing, School of English, 21 Westland provide an equally powerful creative impetus,
applications: Row, Trinity College Dublin, the University of as witnessed by the wave of literary works,
English Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Phone: 01-8962885 such as Don DeLillo’s The Falling Man or Art
email: wilde@tcd.ie. Application forms will Spiegelman’s In The Shadow of No Towers,
You may register and pay by credit/laser card English Literature be available for download shortly from the dealing with New York City in the wake of the
online at http://www.histories-humanities. Oscar Wilde website: http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/ ineffable loss following the events of 9/11.
tcd.ie/extramural.php After 21st August 2017 evening-lectures. Cheques/Bank Drafts/Postal
or you can download an application form and This course will provide an introduction to Course Director
Orders should be made payable to TCD No. 1
send it with a cheque/money order made major authors of poetry, drama and prose Professor Ema Vyroubalová
Account.
payable to Trinity College number 1 account through close examination of selected texts,
to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short chosen from among those prescribed for Date, time and place How to Apply
Courses administrator, School of Histories and the Leaving Certificate. The course will be Online Application:
There will be ten weekly lectures beginning
Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity of special interest to teachers and pupils
on Tuesday 10th October 2017 at 7 pm, in the Please apply and pay online using this link
College, Dublin 2. preparing for the examination but the lectures
Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity to Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie
will be directed towards a more general
Applications may be made in person in room College Dublin, the University of Dublin, (available shortly)
audience as well.
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER Dublin 2.
Pay at the Door:
21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by Course Director
appointment. It is possible to pay on the door at the night,
Dr Pádraic Whyte
however only those who have pre-booked can Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies August 2017 or you can download an Health Policy and Management
be guaranteed admission. application form and send it with a cheque/
Gender: history, money order made payable to Trinity College Health Economics
Postal Application:
Apply to: Ms Sophia Ní Sheoin, Centre
culture and number 1 account to: Dr Patricia Stapleton,
Evening and Short Courses administrator,
Executive Officer, Oscar Wilde Centre for representation School of Histories and Humanities, Room 3141,
This short course looks at the role of
economic principles in understanding
Irish Writing, School of English, 21 Westland Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
behaviour of users and providers of
Row, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Applications may be made in person in room
‘The story is no longer about the things that healthcare, in setting priorities and in
Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Phone: 01-8962885 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
have happened to women and men and financing access to care. Key issues to
email: wilde@tcd.ie. Application forms will 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
how they have reacted to them; instead it be examined include: the ways in which
be available for download shortly from the appointment.
is about how the subjective and collective individuals respond to incentives; how we can
Oscar Wilde website: http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/
meanings of women and men as categories of best set healthcare priorities
evening-lectures. Cheques/Bank Drafts/Postal Fee
Orders should be made payable to TCD No. 1 identity have been constructed.’ (Joan Scott, by evaluating the costs and effectiveness of
€75 for the course. /*Concession €45 for the
Account. Gender and the Politics of History, New York, healthcare interventions; and what are the
course.
19988, p.6). This lecture-only module will advantages and disadvantages of different
Date, time and place
examine the histories and representations of *The concession rate is available to second ways of financing health services. By the end
There will be 10 weekly lectures beginning on gender, seeking to understand how gender and third level students and people whose of the course, participants should:
Tuesday evenings at 7 pm, from 23th January is constructed by societies, institutions and primary source of income is social welfare,
2018 in the Jonathan Swift Theatre, Arts health board or a government-sponsored • Understand principles of demand
individuals, through the critical analysis of
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University employment scheme. and elasticity as applied to health and
texts, works of art and public actions. Gender,
of Dublin, Dublin 2. healthcare, and the implications for
its role, its construction and it historiography
will be brought together by scholars across Time and Place policies on charging for services and
DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE health promotion.
the school in an interdisciplinary module.
The operation of gender ‘as a tool of CONFIRMED, please check our website http:// • Appreciate options for financing health
analysis’ will be examined in histories of the www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses services, and how different methods
body, sexuality, medicine, religion, politics, after 21 August 2017 for update or text ‘INFO’ affect access to care and performance of
institutions and representations in a variety FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO providers of care.
of texts and contexts which will show the 087 257 2017.
• Describe the methods used in economic
inherent instability and elusive nature of many
Duration evaluation of health.
gendered identities.
This lecture-only module comprises of one
How to apply
How to Apply lecture per week over one twelve-week term
Interested applicants please contact the
Closing date for online and postal commencing in the week beginning Monday
Centre of Health Policy and Management, E:
applications: 15 January 2018. There is a one week break,
mscinhsm@tcd.ie,.
(26 February – 2 March 2017) when no lectures
Friday 12 January 2018
will take place. Admission criteria
You may register and pay by credit/Visa
Applications will be considered from
debit card online at http://www.histories-
applicants with health service management
humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses after 21st
experience. In addition, applicants should
hold a good honours degree in a professional bringing about change and influencing Histories and Humanities Applications may be made in person in room
discipline or hold other qualifications deemed the delivery of person-centred care in 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
appropriate by the course committee. health services. Reputations V: 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
Fee How to apply Emperors, presidents appointment.
€1,000 (excluding application fee) Interested applicants please contact the and premiers Fee
Centre of Health Policy and Management, €180 for the full year or €90 per
Date E: mscinhsm@tcd.ie. term/*Concession: €90 for the full year or €45
This short course is comprised of five three- Following on from our previous evening per term
hour sessions and usually starts in the autumn Admission criteria ‘Reputations’ series, – Reputations I - Classical
term. Precise dates would be provided to Applications will be considered from to Modern; II – The World’s Greatest; III -
interested applicants on request from August. applicants with health service management Female Icons; IV – World Revolutionaries
experience. In addition, applicants should this year’s weekly series of lectures will focus
health board or a government-sponsored
hold a good honours degree in a professional on the reputations of famous leaders of the
employment scheme.
Health Policy and Management discipline or hold other qualifications deemed world, from classical emperors/empresses to
appropriate by the course committee. present day premiers and presidents. Each
Managing People week the lecture will place the person in their
Time and Place
Fee Monday evenings 7 – 8 pm. Swift Theatre.

in Healthcare €2,000 (excluding application fee)
times and assess the influence he or she had
in their own territory and beyond. There will Duration
Organisations be an opportunity for discussion after each
This lecture-only module comprises one
Date
lecture and a small list of recommended
lecture per week over two eight-week terms
This short course is comprised of eleven reading will be circulated for each session.
This short course comprises three subjects: commencing week beginning Monday 2
three-hour sessions and usually runs in the
management and organisational behaviour; How to Apply October 2017 and recommencing Monday
Michaelmas and Hilary terms. Precise dates
human resources management; and 29 January 2018. There is a one week break
would be provided to interested applicants on Closing date for online and postal
organisation development. The synergistic in each term (6 - 10 November 2017 and 26
request from August. applications:
relationship between individual and group February – 2 March 2018) when no lectures
Friday 23 September 2017 for Michaelmas will take place
behaviour and organisational functioning and
Term (September)
organisational culture is central to the course.
Friday 12 January 2018 for Hilary Term
By the end of the course, participants should:
(January)
• Understand and utilise a strategic
approach to the operation of the main
online at http://www.histories-humanities.
activities in the management of people.
tcd.ie/shortcourses after 21st August or
• Understand how to enable the healthy you can download an application form and
functioning of organisation systems send it with a cheque/money order made
through process consultation. payable to Trinity College number 1 account
• Appreciate the role of the manager or to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short
leader in Irish healthcare, particularly in Courses administrator, School of Histories and
College, Dublin 2.
Histories and Humanities Please note: This is a lecture-only course and Time and Place How to Apply
does not include access to computers on
Introduction to Irish campus. Participants must have access to
Tuesday evenings 6 – 7 pm. Venue TBC Closing date for online and postal
applications:
Family History their own computers at home for follow up
clinics and research.
Duration
This lecture-only module comprises one
lecture per week over two eight-week terms You may register and pay by credit/Visa
How to Apply
(This course will run subject to sufficient commencing week beginning Monday 2 debit card online at http://www.histories-
numbers applying) Closing date for online and postal October 2017 and recommencing Monday humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses After 21st
applications: 29 January 2018. There is a one week break August or you can download an application
Family History isn’t just about the past:
Friday 23 September 2017 for Michaelmas in each term (6 - 10 November 2017 and 26 form and send it with a cheque/money order
learning about our origins allows people
Term (September) February – 2 March 2018) when no lectures made payable to Trinity College number 1
to get down to the granular details of our
will take place. account to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening
ancestors’ lives. It enables people to construct Friday 12 January 2018 for Hilary Term and Short Courses administrator, School of
their own family narrative and their personal (January) Histories and Humanities, Room 3141, Arts
identity.
You may register and pay by credit/laser card History Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
This lecture-only module is taught through
a series of eight lectures per term over two
Kingship and Warfare: Applications may be made in person in room
terms by Fiona Fitzsimons & Brian Donovan
of the Irish Family History Centre (Eneclann).
you can download an application form and Ireland, c.1000-1318 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
send it with a cheque/money order made appointment.
The course covers a broad sweep of Irish payable to Trinity College number 1 account
history (1650s to 1950s), and is deeply to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short This module begins with the rise of Brian Fee
rooted in the sources. The focus is on the Courses administrator, School of Histories and Boru from modest origins to become Ireland’s €150 for the course. /*Concession €75 for the
records generated by churches, central and Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity most famous high king—a spectacular career course.
local government, enterprises, families and College, Dublin 2. that ended in the iconic battle of Clontarf
individuals; exploring what section of the Irish in 1014. We explore how Irish society and *The concession rate is available to second
Applications may be made in person in room and third level students and people whose
population is documented in these records, kingship changed in the aftermath of Clontarf
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER primary source of income is social welfare,
and how to interpret the evidence. Where as a result of inter-provincial warfare and
21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by health board or a government-sponsored
record collections were destroyed, do any the changing role of the church. The second
appointment. employment scheme.
collateral records survive that contain relevant half of the module examines the causes and
information? Fee implications of the English (or Anglo-Norman)
Time and Place
The fee includes free access to the largest Irish invasion of the late 1160s, perhaps the single
€250 for the full year or €125 per DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE
collection online, www.Findmypast.ie as well most formative development in Irish secular
term/*Concession: €125 for the full year or €75 CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
as free access to EPIC and the Irish Family affairs. We study the interaction of cultures
per term www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
History Centre in CHQ. It will also provide in its aftermath and the Irish opposition
*The concession rate is available to second after 21 August 2017 for update or text ‘INFO’
support for all participants to construct a to English rule that saw the emergence of
and third level students and people whose FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
simple family history portfolio over sixteen England’s ongoing Irish problem through
primary source of income is social welfare, 087 257 2017.
weeks, including creating a family profile; later centuries. The module closes with the
health board or a government-sponsored most serious challenge to English power in
research to collect documentary evidence; Duration
employment scheme. medieval Ireland: the Scottish invasion (1315-
building a family tree; and writing a simple This lecture-only module comprises two
report. 18) led by Edward Bruce, brother of Robert
lectures per week over one twelve-week term
Bruce king of Scots.
commencing in the week beginning Monday and Short Courses administrator, School of History Applications may be made in person in room
25 September 2017. There is a one week break Histories and Humanities, Room 3141, Arts 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
(6 - 10 November 2017) when no lectures will Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. History of modern 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
take place.
Applications may be made in person in room Ireland appointment.
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER Fee

History 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
The lecture-only module covers political, €150 for the course. /*Concession €75 for the
appointment.
History of Continental Fee
religious, social, and economic themes in the course.
history of Ireland from the Act of Union to the *The concession rate is available to second
Europe 1860 to 1918 €150 for the course. /*Concession €75 for the early twentieth century, including the conduct and third level students and people whose
course. of Irish government under the Union, Irish primary source of income is social welfare,
involvement in the Empire, the development health board or a government-sponsored
This lecture-only module examines the *The concession rate is available to second
of nationalism and unionism, the conflicts employment scheme.
evolution of a Europe that dominated the and third level students and people whose
over Repeal and Home Rule, the increasing
planet in the mid-19th century, and which primary source of income is social welfare, Time and Place
polarisation of Catholics and Protestants,
stood at the zenith of colonial domination of health board or a government-sponsored
the origins and impact of the Great Famine, DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE
the non-European world, to a continent in employment scheme.
post-Famine ‘modernisation’, the importance CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
the 1920s that was shaken by the First World of emigration and Irish settlement abroad,
Time and Place www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
War and the redistribution of global power and the political crises of the early twentieth after 21 August 2017 for update or text ‘INFO’
(to the USA, USSR and Japan). It also faced DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE
century culminating in the revolution of 1916– FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
the first stirrings of anti-colonial opposition. CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
21. Attention is given to the imprint of religion, 087 257 2017.
The module will enable you to gain a good www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
social class, and gender on Irish politics and,
understanding of the forces that have shaped after 21 August 2017 for update or text ‘INFO’ Duration
more generally, on Irish life.
contemporary Europe since the mid-19th FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
This lecture-only module comprises two
century. It will introduce you to a vital period 087 257 2017. How to Apply lectures per week over one twelve-week term
in Europe’s recent past and offer you insights Closing date for online and postal commencing in the week beginning Monday
Duration
into different kinds of history – political, applications: 25 September 2017. There is a one week break
economic, social, and cultural. This lecture-only module comprises two
(6 - 10 November 2017) when no lectures will
lectures per week over one twelve-week term Friday 23 September 2017
take place.
How to Apply commencing in the week beginning Monday
Closing date for online and postal 25 September 2017. There is a one week break
applications: (6 - 10 November 2017) when no lectures will
humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses After 21st
take place.
Friday 23 September 2017 August or you can download an application
form and send it with a cheque/money order
You may register and pay by credit/Visa made payable to Trinity College number 1
debit card online at http://www.histories- account to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening
humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses After 21st and Short Courses administrator, School of
August or you can download an application Histories and Humanities, Room 3141, Arts
form and send it with a cheque/money order Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
made payable to Trinity College number 1
account to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening
History Applications may be made in person in room History Applications may be made in person in room
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
Europe 1500-1800: 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by Ireland 1534-1815 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
Power and Culture appointment. appointment.
Fee This module examines political, social and Fee

€150 for the course. /*Concession €75 for the cultural developments in Ireland during the €150 for the course. /*Concession €75 for the
This lecture-only module explores the political
course. early modern period within a narrative and course.
and cultural history of Europe during the
thematic framework, starting with Tudor
early modern period. It analyses the efforts *The concession rate is available to second *The concession rate is available to second
political reform and continuing through
of reformers to revive their churches and and third level students and people whose and third level students and people whose
to the Act of Union in 1800. The principal
societies during the sixteenth century. It primary source of income is social welfare, primary source of income is social welfare,
issues dealt with include the impact of the
then examines the legacy of these reform health board or a government-sponsored health board or a government-sponsored
Reformation and Counter-Reformation; the
movements, and considers how cultural employment scheme. employment scheme.
wars/rebellions of the sixteenth century and
divisions as well as competition for power led
the demise of Gaelic Ireland; ‘colonization’
to prolonged periods of conflict within states Time and Place Time and Place
and ‘civilization’ of Ireland by the English and
and between states during the sixteenth and DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE
the Scots; Confederate Ireland and the Wars
seventeenth centuries. This module then CONFIRMED, please check our website http:// CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
of the Three Kingdoms; the Cromwellian and
charts the emergence during the eighteenth www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
Restoration land settlements; the War of the
century of new ways of thinking about private after 21 August 2017 for update or text ‘INFO’ after 21 August 2017 for update or text ‘INFO’
Three Kings; the ‘Protestant Ascendancy’ and
life and popular culture and of new ideas FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
the Penal Era; the impact of the American
about science, society and the self of the 087 257 2017. 087 257 2017.
and French revolutions; the rebellion of the
Enlightenment. Finally, it explores how these
United Irishmen; the formation of ‘Irish’ and
ideas contributed to political crisis following Duration Duration
‘British’ national identities; Irish migration to
the French Revolution. This lecture-only module comprises two This lecture-only module comprises two
continental Europe; Ireland and Empire.
lectures per week over one twelve-week term lectures per week over one twelve-week term
How to Apply commencing in the week beginning Monday commencing in the week beginning Monday
How to Apply
Closing date for online and postal 15 January 2018. There is a one week break, 15 January 2018. There is a one week break,
applications: (26 February – 2 March 2017) when no lectures (26 February – 2 March 2017) when no lectures
applications:
will take place. will take place.
August 2017 or you can download an
August 2017 or you can download an
application form and send it with a cheque/
money order made payable to Trinity College
money order made payable to Trinity College
number 1 account to: Dr Patricia Stapleton,
School of Histories and Humanities, Room
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
History Fee History You may register and pay by credit/Visa
American History €150 for the course. /*Concession €75 for the
course.
Imperialism to humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses After 21st
*The concession rate is available to second Globalism: Europe August 2017 or you can download an
An introduction to the main events of
American history from the beginnings of
and the World 1860- money order made payable to Trinity College
English colonization in the early seventeenth health board or a government-sponsored 1970 Evening and Short Courses administrator,
century to the present, this lecture-only employment scheme. School of Histories and Humanities, Room
module is divided chronologically in two
parts. Among topics covered are the colonial Time and Place Global integration is not only a fact of
period; the establishment of American DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE modern life, but of modern history writing. Applications may be made in person in room
independence; the U.S. constitution; slavery; CONFIRMED, please check our website http:// The interconnectedness of distant societies 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
the Civil War; industrialization, urbanisation www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses and states, and powerful forces making for 21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
and the problems of a multi-ethnic society. after 21 August 2017 for update or text ‘INFO’ social, cultural and economic interaction have appointment.
Changes in American popular culture are FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO prompted significant scholarly assessment.
Fee
considered, as are the emergence of the US as 087 257 2017. This lecture-only module investigates some
a world power and American foreign policy. €150 for the course. /*Concession €75 for the
of the events and processes which have led
Duration course.
to a more integrated world order between
How to Apply
This lecture-only module comprises two the mid-nineteenth century and the later *The concession rate is available to second
Closing date for online and postal lectures per week over one twelve-week term and third level students and people whose
twentieth century. For most of that period
applications: commencing in the week beginning Monday primary source of income is social welfare,
much of the world was carved up between a
Friday 12 January 2018 15 January 2018. There is a one week break, number of inter-continental empires centred health board or a government-sponsored
(26 February – 2 March 2017) when no lectures in Europe. How those empires grew, exerted employment scheme.
You may register and pay by credit/Visa will take place. control and in due course retreated will be
debit card online at http://www.histories- Time and Place
the particular focus of the module. But other
humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses After 21st DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE
processes, too, will be considered, not least
August 2017 or you can download an CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
the integrating force of economic changes
application form and send it with a cheque/ www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
and the spreading power of capitalism
money order made payable to Trinity College after 21 August 2017 for update or text ‘INFO’
across the globe. Attention will be given to
number 1 account to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
the evolution of ideologies of imperialism
Evening and Short Courses administrator, 087 257 2017.
and social Darwinism and to whether or not
such ideologies impacted upon changing
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Duration
global power relationships. The module,
Applications may be made in person in room while broadly chronological in approach, will This lecture-only module comprises of one
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER focus on a wide range of themes in cultural, lecture per week over one twelve-week term
21ST AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by economic and political history. commencing in the week beginning Monday
appointment. 15 January 2018. There is a one week break,
How to Apply (26 February – 2 March 2017) when no lectures
Closing date for online and postal will take place.
applications: Friday 12 January 2018
History of Art 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER History of Art College, Dublin 2.
Architecture in appointment. Making and meaning Applications may be made in person in room
the 19th and 20th Fee in Irish art 21st AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
centuries €150 for the full year or €85 per

appointment.
term/*Concession: €75 for the full year or €45 Fee

The lecture-only module is designed as
per term
an introduction to Irish visual culture €150 for the full year or €85 per
This lecture-only module offers an overview
*The concession rate is available to second dating from pre-history to the end of the term/*Concession: €75 for the full year or €45
of architecture in the modern period
and third level students and people whose twentieth century. Lectures will include the per term.
and examines the theoretical principles
primary source of income is social welfare, identification of key works form Irish art and
of modernism and post-modernism. *The concession rate is available to second
health board or a government-sponsored architecture, addressing fine, applied and
Traditionally this period is represented as a and third level students and people whose
employment scheme. popular artforms. Throughout the module,
radical departure from the past. Students will primary source of income is social welfare,
Irish visual culture will be discussed within
be encouraged to analyse this assessment Time and Place health board or a government-sponsored
its artistic, social and cultural contexts and
and to consider continuities in the design and employment scheme.
DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE will be cognisant of its place within a broader
making of buildings.
CONFIRMED, please check our website http:// European perspective. Time and Place
Lecturer: Dr Christine Casey www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE
after 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’ Lecturer: Dr Angela Griffith
CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
How to Apply FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO Academic staff from the department of History www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
Closing date for online and postal 087 257 2017. of Art and Architecture after 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’
applications: FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
Duration How to Apply
Friday 23 September 2017 for Michaelmas 087 257 2017.
This lecture-only module comprises one Closing date for online and postal
Term (September) lecture per week over two twelve-week terms applications: Duration
Friday 12 January 2018 for Hilary Term commencing week beginning Monday 25
Friday 23 September 2017 for Michaelmas This lecture-only module comprises one
(January) September 2017 and recommencing Monday
Term (September) lecture per week over two twelve-week terms
15 January 2018. There is a one week break
You may register and pay by credit/laser card commencing Monday 25 September 2017,
in each term (6 - 10 November 2017 and 26 Friday 12 January 2018 for Hilary Term
online at http://www.histories-humanities. and recommencing Monday 15 January 2018.
February – 2 March 2018) when no lectures (January)
tcd.ie/shortcourses after 21st August or There is a one week break in each term (6 - 10
will take place.
you can download an application form and You may register and pay by credit/laser card November 2017 and 26 February – 2 March
send it with a cheque/money order made online at http://www.histories-humanities. 2018) when no lectures will take place
payable to Trinity College number 1 account tcd.ie/shortcourses after 21st August or
to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short you can download an application form and
Courses administrator, School of Histories and send it with a cheque/money order made
Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity payable to Trinity College number 1 account
College, Dublin 2. to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short
History of Art Fee History of Art tcd.ie/shortcourses after 21st August or
Art in France €150 for the year/*Concession: €75 for the year
Antiquity and send it with a cheque/money order made
and third level students and people whose innovation in early payable to Trinity College number 1 account
This lecture-only module will examine an
era which saw dramatic and accelerating
health board or a government-sponsored
medieval art Courses administrator, School of Histories and
change, the outcome of which was a shift employment scheme. College, Dublin 2.
in the balance of French art occasioned by The reign of King, later Emperor, Charlemagne
the emergence of the avant-garde and its Time and Place Applications may be made in person in room
(768–814) marked a flourishing of the
challenges to established artistic conventions. DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
visual arts that had not been seen since
Particular attention will be given to the CONFIRMED, please check our website http:// 21st AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
the fall of the Roman Empire. Often styled
development of unofficial exhibitions such as www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses appointment.
the ‘Carolingian Renaissance’, the artistic
those of the Impressionists. Specific artists to after 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’ culture of the period was characterised by a Fee
be studied closely include Courbet, Bazille, FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO politically-motivated evocation of the classical
Manet, the Impressionists, Cezanne, Van Gogh 087 257 2017. €150/*Concession: €75
past, fused with elements of existing art styles
and Gauguin. Reference will also be made to and innovation in areas such as monastic *The concession rate is available to second
sculpture, photography and print media. Duration
planning and the commission of new types of and third level students and people whose
This lecture-only module comprises two fine metalwork and illuminated manuscript. primary source of income is social welfare,
Lecturer lectures per week over one twelve-week term. This lecture-only module aims to introduce health board or a government-sponsored
Dr Philip Mc Evansonya Commencing week beginning Monday 25 students to key works of art and architecture employment scheme.
September 2017. There is a one week break in Western Europe during the period c. 600
How to Apply (6 - 10 November 2017) when no lectures will Time and Place
– c. 900. It will examine the development of
Closing date for online and postal take place. DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE
distinctive artistic traditions leading up to
applications: CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
the reign of Charlemagne (including that of
Friday 23 September 2017 Ireland and its cultural sphere), the forging of www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
the unique characteristics of Carolingian art after 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’
during the King/Emperor’s supremacy, and its FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
legacy both within the Carolingian Empire and 087 257 2017.
beyond.
you can download an application form and Duration
send it with a cheque/money order made Lecturer This lecture-only module comprises two
payable to Trinity College number 1 account lectures per week over one twelve-week term.
Dr Laura Cleaver
to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short Commencing week beginning Monday 25
Courses administrator, School of Histories and How to Apply September 2017. There is a one week break
Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity (6 - 10 November 2017) when no lectures will
College, Dublin 2. take place.
applications:
21st AUGUST ONLY2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by You may register and pay by credit/laser card
appointment. online at http://www.histories-humanities.
History of Art Applications may be made in person in room History of Art Fee
Introduction to 21st AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by Introduction to €75 for the course. *Concession €45 for the
course
European painting appointment.
European architecture I *The concession rate is available to second
and sculpture I Fee and third level students and people whose
€150 for the course/*Concession: €75 for the This lecture-only module offers a survey of
course health board or a government-sponsored
Western architecture up to c.1520. It provides
This lecture-only module offers a survey of employment scheme.
*The concession rate is available to second an introduction to the critical analysis of
Western painting and sculpture up to c.1520.
and third level students and people whose building types. This lecture-only module Time and Place
It provides an introduction to the critical
primary source of income is social welfare, considers such matters as issues of style, the
analysis of artworks and considers such Time: 5 – 6 p.m. Tuesdays. Venue: Emmet
health board or a government-sponsored functions architecture, as well as the range
matters as the iconography of major religious Theatre.
employment scheme. of technical methods employed by architects
and mythological subjects, issues of style, the
in the context of influential factors such as Please note all course times are subject to
functions of works of art and architecture,
Time and Place historical period, geographic location, and change. Please check our website www.
as well as the range of technical methods
Time: 5 – 6 pm Mondays and Thursdays. the prevailing social, political and religious histories-humanities.tcd.ie/extramural.php
employed by artists. Art works are considered
Venue: Emmet Theatre. environments. after 21 August for updates or text ‘INFO’ TO
in the context of influential factors such as
087 2572017.
historical period, geographic location, and Please note all course times are subject to Lecturers
the prevailing social, political and religious change. Please check our website www. Academic staff from the department of History Duration
environments. histories-humanities.tcd.ie/extramural.php of Art and Architecture This lecture-only module comprises one
after 21 August for updates or text ‘INFO’ TO lecture per week over one twelve-week term
Lecturers How to Apply
087 2572017. commencing Tuesday 26 September 2017.
Dr Peter Cherry, Dr Christine Casey, Dr Rachel Closing date for online and postal There is a one week break (6 - 10 November
Moss, Dr Angela Griffith Duration
applications: 2017) when no lectures will take place.
This lecture-only module comprises two
How to Apply Friday 23 September 2017
lectures per week over one twelve-week term
Closing date for online and postal commencing Monday 25 September 2017. You may register and pay by credit/laser card
applications: There is a one week break (6 - 10 November) online at http://www.histories-humanities.
Friday 23 September 2017 when no lectures will take place. tcd.ie/shortcourses after 21st August or
payable to Trinity College number 1 account
College, Dublin 2.
Courses administrator, School of Histories and Applications may be made in person in room
Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER
College, Dublin 2. 21st AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by
appointment.
History of Art Applications may be made in person in room History of Art is a one week break (26 February – 2 March
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER 2018) when no lectures will take place.
Introduction to 21st AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by Introduction to History of Art
appointment.
European painting European architecture II
Painting and
and sculpture II Fee
€150 for the course. *Concession: €75 for the
This lecture-only module offers a survey sculpture in the
course
This lecture-only module offers a survey of *The concession rate is available to second
of Western architecture from c.1520. It Italian Renaissance
provides an introduction to the critical
Western painting and sculpture from c.1520. and third level students and people whose analysis of building types. The module
It provides an introduction to the critical primary source of income is social welfare, considers such matters as issues of style, the This lecture-only module is an exploration
analysis of artworks and considers such health board or a government-sponsored functions architecture, as well as the range of Italian art and its contexts from c.1300 to
matters as the iconography of major religious employment scheme. of technical methods employed by architects the late 1400s. The era is distinguished by a
and mythological subjects, issues of style, the
in the context of influential factors such as revival of interest in Italy’s classical past and
functions of works of art and architecture, Time and Place historical period, geographic location, and the emergence of Humanist philosophies; the
as well as the range of technical methods
Time: 5 - 6 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays. the prevailing social, political and religious impact of both on artistic production will be
employed by artists. Art works are considered
Venue: Emmet Theatre. environments. investigated. Traditional themes in art, such
in the context of influential factors such as
as religious subject matter, will be analysed as
historical period, geographic location, and Please note all module times are subject Fee
will the development of new secular themes
the prevailing social, political and religious to change. Please check our website www.
€75 for the course/*Concession: €45 for the including portraiture and classical mythology.
environments. histories-humanities.tcd.ie/extramural.php
course The role of patronage, civic and private, the
after 21 August for updates or text ‘INFO’ TO
Lecturers *The concession rate is available to second dissemination of Italian Renaissance ideas
087 2572017.
and third level students and people whose throughout Europe and the rising status of the
Dr Philip McEvansoneya, Dr Peter Cherry, Dr
Duration primary source of income is social welfare, artist will be considered and formal issues of
Christine Casey, Dr Yvonne Scott, Dr Rachel
The lecture-only module comprises two health board or a government-sponsored style, art processes and production will figure
Moss
lectures per week over one twelve-week term employment scheme. prominently.
How to Apply commencing Monday 15 January 2018. There Lecturer
Time and Place
Closing date for online and postal is a one week break (26 February – 2 March Dr Peter Cherry
applications: Friday 12 January 2018 2018) when no lectures will take place. Time: 6 – 7 p.m. Tuesdays. Venue: Emmet
Theatre. Please note all module times are How to Apply
You may register and pay by credit/laser card subject to change. Please check our website Closing date for online and postal
online at http://www.histories-humanities. www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/extramural. applications:
tcd.ie/shortcourses after 21st August or php after 21 August for updates or text ‘INFO’
you can download an application form and TO 087 2572017. Friday 12 January 2018 for Hilary Term
send it with a cheque/money order made (January)
Duration
to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short This lecture-only module comprises one
Courses administrator, School of Histories and lecture per week over one twelve-week term
Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity commencing Tuesday 17 January 2018. There
College, Dublin 2.
you can download an application form and History of Art send it with a cheque/money order made History of Art
send it with a cheque/money order made payable to Trinity College number 1 account
payable to Trinity College number 1 account Post modern and to: Dr Patricia Stapleton, Evening and Short Arts of Japan
contemporary art Courses administrator, School of Histories and
This lecture-only module will examine
Humanities, Room 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
cultural highpoints in the arts of Japan from
College, Dublin 2. This lecture-only module examines the Applications may be made in person in room the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Applications may be made in person in room art of the last fifty years or so from the mid 3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER Artefacts in all media – painting, ceramics,
3141, Arts Building, Trinity College AFTER 1960s to the present day. Post-modernism 21st AUGUST ONLY2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by lacquer and textiles – will be examined in the
21st AUGUST ONLY 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by simultaneously built on and challenged appointment. context of the influence of China on Japan,
appointment. aspects of Modernism. Inspired by the
the creation of the Shogun Court, the rise of
challenges to the fundamental meaning Fee
the merchant classes and the establishment
Fee and purpose of art by Marcel Duchamp, €150 for the course *Concession: €75 for the of the pleasure districts in burgeoning Tokyo.
€150 for the course *Concession: €75 for the Post-Modernism found its initial impetus course Particular attention will be paid to lacquer
course in the pivotal phases of Minimalism and
*The concession rate is available to second ware created for the domestic and European
Pop Art, leading in turn to new concepts,
*The concession rate is available to second and third level students and people whose market, the arts associated with the tea
methods and styles as found for example in
and third level students and people whose primary source of income is social welfare, ceremony and traditional Japanese theatre.
Conceptualism and Land Art, as well as to the
primary source of income is social welfare, health board or a government-sponsored Themes of Japonisme will be explored,
adoption of ‘new’ materials involving time-
health board or a government-sponsored employment scheme. particularly in nineteenth century Ireland
based, performance, and lens-based media.
employment scheme. as Japan emerged after 250 years of self-
We will examine the relationship between Time and Place imposed isolation from the outside world.
Time and Place Conceptualism and traditional art forms
DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE
like painting, as well as the emergence of Lecturer
DAY-TIME COURSE: TIME AND VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED, please check our website http://
alternative three-dimensional and installation Ruth Starr
CONFIRMED, please check our website http:// www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses
formats.
www.histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses after 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’
How to Apply
after 21st August for update or text ‘INFO’ Lecturer FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO
FOLLOWED BY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO 087 257 2017. Closing date for online and postal
Dr Yvonne Scott applications:
087 257 2017.
Duration
How to Apply Friday 12 January 2018
Duration The lecture-only module comprises two
Closing date for online and postal You may register and pay by credit/laser card
This lecture-only module comprises two lectures per week over one twelve-week term.
applications: online at http://www.histories-humanities.
lectures per week over one twelve-week term. Commencing week beginning Monday 15
Commencing week beginning Monday 15 Friday 12 January 2018 for Hilary Term January 2018. There is a one week break, (27 tcd.ie/shortcourses after 21st August or
January 2018. There is a one week break, (26 (January) Feb - 2 March 2018) when no lectures will take you can download an application form and
February – 2 March 2018) when no lectures place. send it with a cheque/money order made
will take place. payable to Trinity College number 1 account
College, Dublin 2.
Applications may be made in person in room Irish How to apply Languages
21st AUGUST ONLY2.30 pm - 4.30 pm or by A history of Irish The closing date for online and postal
applications is Friday 8th September 2017.
Chinese, Introduction
appointment.
personal names and You can download an application form (www. to Language and
tcd.ie/Irish/shortcourses) and send it with a
Fee
surnames cheque/money order made payable to Trinity Culture
€75 for the course/*Concession: €45 for the College Dublin number 1 account to: Damian
course McManus, Department of Irish and Celtic
This lecture-only course in Irish personal This course teaches a basic ‘survival’
*The concession rate is available to second languages, Room 4056, Arts Building, Trinity
names and surnames will present a history repertoire of spoken Chinese and introduces
and third level students and people whose College Dublin, Dublin 2. Applications may be
of Irish names from the oldest sources up some central aspects of Chinese culture,
primary source of income is social welfare, made in person by arrangement with Damian
to the present day. The anatomy of the including the writing system. As much use
health board or a government-sponsored McManus by contacting him at 01-8961105 or
personal name will be examined and it will as possible is made of authentic materials.
employment scheme. at the e-mail address: pmcmanus@tcd.ie.
be demonstrated that Irish names have a This course will take place only if there are
Celtic past dating back into the pre-Christian Fee sufficient enrolments to make it viable.
Time and Place
period, and an Indo-European past of greater The fee for the series is €85. The concession
Time: 6 – 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Venue: Emmet How to apply
antiquity. Sources from Continental Gaul, fee is €45. A concession rate is available to
Theatre. Further information available from www.tcd.
Wales and Early Christian Ireland (Ogam second and third level students and people
Please note all module times are subject inscriptions) will get the course started, ie/slscs/clcs, E: clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560.
whose primary source of income is social
to change. Please check our website www. and we will follow the development of Irish Applications should be made before 11th
welfare, health board or a government-
histories-humanities.tcd.ie/extramural.php names through Old, Middle and Early Modern September 2017.
sponsored employment scheme.
after 21 August for updates or text ‘INFO’ TO Irish manuscript sources, drawing on saga,
Please note: you must be 18 years of age or
087 2572017. genealogy, history and Dindshenchas. The Time and place older to enrol in the CLCS extra-mural evening
Irish were first in Europe to develop hereditary Please check our website www.tcd.ie/Irish/ language courses.
Duration surnames and that development will be shortcourses after 7th August for update or
This lecture-only module comprises one examined, as will the influence of Latin, Welsh, contact Caoimhe ní Bhraonáin at Fee
lecture per week over one twelve-week term Scandinavian, Anglo-Norman and English on nibhraoc@tcd.ie. €395 payable in advance (reduced fee for
commencing Wednesday 18 January 2018. the Irish name-types. The relative frequency of unemployed persons and those in receipt of
There is a one week break (26 February – 2 personal names will be assessed at different social welfare pension). This fee is strictly non-
March 2018) when no lectures will take place. points to demonstrate changes in fashion, and refundable once the course has commenced.
here the census returns of the last century and
a half will bring us up to the present day. The Time and place
course will extend over a twelve-week term Monday, 6.30 – 8.30 p.m., beginning on 25th
commencing on Monday 25th September, at September 2017, in the Centre for Language
6pm, with a one-week break in the term (6th- and Communication Studies, Arts Building,
10th November). Trinity College, Dublin 2.
OR
Course co-ordinator
Thursday, 6.30 – 8.30 p.m., beginning on 28th
Damian McManus September 2017, in the Centre for Language
and Communication Studies, Arts Building,
Trinity College, Dublin 2.
Duration Languages special preparation module in April 2018 (2 Languages
x 2 hour classes) specifically for the CNaVT
The course lasts for twenty-four weeks,
divided into two terms (twelve + twelve)
Dutch examinations. Irish Sign Language
Further information (ISL) for Beginners
Languages The Department of Germanic Studies will E: germanic@tcd.ie; T: 01 896 1373;
run Dutch language courses at the following
Chinese, Post- levels: www.tcd.ie/Germanic_Studies/courses/
evening_courses/dutch
This course introduces learners to ISL and
delivers a curriculum that is aligned to the
Beginners General Dutch Common European Framework of Reference
• Beginners for Languages (CEFR). The aim is to bring
students to level A2 receptive skills and A1
Continuing from the Introduction to Chinese • Intermediate productive skills which allows for engagement
Language and Culture, this course is designed in basic conversation with Deaf people. This
Fee
to extend learners’ ‘survival’ repertoire course also introduces students to Deaf
of spoken Chinese and their knowledge €210 for each eleven hour course. culture.
of the Chinese writing system (there is This includes the course reader.
regular practice in character composition How to apply
and recognition). Aspects of the cultural Date, time and location Further information available from www.tcd.
background are also dealt with. This course All courses are offered subject to minimum ie/slscs/cds, E: cdsinfo@tcd.ie T: 01 896 1560.
will take place only if there are sufficient registration numbers. Applications should be made before 11th
enrolments to make it viable. September 2017. Please note: you must be
The course will run for one hour per week over
18 years of age or older to enrol in the CLCS
How to apply eleven weeks.
extra-mural evening language courses.
Further information available from www.tcd. Courses commence in October and January.
ie/slscs/clcs, October dates are: Fee
Group 1 (mixed level beginners) - Tuesday €400 payable in advance. This fee is non-
E: clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560. Applications
7-8 pm, Room 5086, Arts Building (11 weeks, refundable once the course has commenced.
should be made before 11th September 2017
starting 3 Oct)
Please note: you must be 18 years of age or Date, time and place
older to enrol in the CLCS extra-mural evening Group 2 (mixed level intermediate) - Tuesday Participants will be divided into two groups;
language courses. 8-9 pm, Room 5086, Arts Building (11 weeks, Mondays, 7.30 p.m. – 9 p.m., beginning on
starting 3 Oct) 25th September 2017 and Wednesdays,
Fee
7.30 p.m. – 9 p.m., beginning on 27th
€395 payable in advance (reduced fee for Times for January 2018 course will be September 2017 in room 111 (Mondays) and
unemployed persons and those in receipt of published on the website in November. room 112 (Wednesdays), Centre for Deaf
social welfare pension). This fee is strictly non-
Studies, First Floor, 7-9 South Leinster Street,
refundable once the course has commenced. Should there be interest, some preparation
Dublin 2.
for three levels of the Certificate in Dutch
Duration
as a foreign language (CNaVT), which is Duration
The course lasts for twenty-four weeks, examined annually in May, is offered as part
divided into two terms (twelve + twelve) of the above courses. There will also be a
divided into two twelve-week terms.
Languages Languages Languages Languages
Introduction to Irish Japanese, Japanese, Post- Japanese,

Sign Language (ISL) Introduction to Beginners Intermediate
(Ten-week course) Language and Culture
Continuing from the Introduction to Japanese This course is offered to learners who have
Language and Culture, this course is designed successfully completed Post-Beginners’
This course introduces the learners to ISL and This course teaches a basic ‘survival’
to extend learners’ ‘survival’ repertoire of Japanese. It will take place only if there are
delivers teaching to the Common European repertoire of spoken Japanese and introduces
spoken Japanese and their knowledge sufficient enrolments to make it viable.
Framework of Reference for Languages some central aspects of Japanese culture,
of the Japanese writing system (there is
(CEFR). The aim is to bring students to A1 including the writing system. As much use How to apply
regular practice in character composition
receptive skills and A1 productive skills to as possible is made of authentic materials. Further information available from www.tcd.
and recognition). Aspects of the cultural
engage a basic conversation with Deaf people. This course will take place only if there are ie/slscs/clcs, E:clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560.
background are also dealt with. This course
This course also introduces some selected sufficient enrolments to make it viable. Applications should be made before 11th
will take place only if there are sufficient
parts of Deaf culture. enrolments to make it viable. September 2017.
How to apply
How to apply Further information available from www.tcd. How to apply Please note: you must be 18 years of age or
ie/slscs/clcs, E: clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560. older to enrol in the CLCS extra-mural evening
Further information available from www.tcd. Further information available from www.tcd.
Applications should be made before 11th language courses.
ie/slscs/cds, E: cdsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560. ie/slscs/clcs, E: clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560.
September 2017.
Applications should be made before 12th Applications should be made before 11th Fee
January 2018. Please note: you must be 18 years of age or September 2017. Please note: you must be
€395 payable in advance (reduced fee for
older to enrol in the CLCS extra-mural evening 18 years of age or older to enrol in the CLCS
unemployed persons and those in receipt of
Please note: you must be 18 years of age or language courses. extra-mural evening language courses.
social welfare pension).
older to enrol in the CLCS extra-mural evening
Fee
language courses. Fee This fee is strictly non-refundable once the
€395 payable in advance (reduced fee for course has commenced.
Fee unemployed persons and those in receipt of
unemployed persons and those in receipt of
€180 payable in advance. This fee is non- social welfare pension). This fee is strictly non- Time and place
social welfare pension). This fee is strictly non-
refundable once the course has commenced. refundable once the course has commenced. Wednesdays, 6.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m., beginning
refundable once the course has commenced.
on 27th September 2017, in the Centre for
Date, time and place Time and place
Time and place Language and Communication Studies, Arts
Tuesdays, 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m., beginning on Tuesdays, 6.30 – 8.30 p.m., beginning on 26th Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
Thursdays, 6.30 – 8.30 p.m., beginning on 28
16th January 2018 in room 111, Centre for September 2017 in the Centre for Language
September 2017, in the Centre for Language
Deaf Studies, First Floor, 7-9 South Leinster and Communication Studies, Arts Building, Duration
and Communication Studies, Arts Building,
Street, Dublin 2. Trinity College, Dublin 2. The course lasts for twenty-four weeks,
Trinity College, Dublin 2.
Duration
Duration
Languages Languages Languages Languages
Korean, Introduction Korean, Post- Portuguese Turkish, Introduction

to Language and beginners Language to Language and
Culture and Culture The Department of Hispanic Studies will run
Portuguese language and culture courses at
Culture
the following levels:
Learn a basic survival repertoire of spoken Continuing from the introduction to Korean This course will teach basic spoken Turkish for
Beginners:
Korean and some central aspects of Korean language and culture, this course is designed everyday communication and introduce some
culture, including the unique and easy to to extend learners’ basic repertoire of spoken This course gives students a basic knowledge central aspects of Turkish culture. As much
learn writing system (Hangul). As much use Korean and their familiarity with the Korean of Portuguese language, culture, and use as possible will be made of authentic
as possible is made of authentic Korean writing system. Aspects of Korean culture are contemporary society. Students should learn materials. This course will take place only
materials. This course will take place only also explored. It will take place only if there to make themselves understood in everyday if there are sufficient enrolments to make it
if there are sufficient enrolments to make it are sufficient enrolments to make it viable. conversational situations and be able to read viable.
viable. and write simple Portuguese texts.
How to apply
How to apply
How to apply Further information available from www.tcd. Intermediate: Further information available from www.tcd.
ie/slscs/clcs, E:clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560.
Further information available from www.tcd. This course is offered to learners who have the ie/slscs/clcs, E: clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560.
Applications should be made before 11th
ie/slscs/clcs, E: clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560. required knowledge of Portuguese grammar Applications should be made before 11th
September 2017. Please note: you must be
Applications should be made before 11th and some communicative competence, September 2017
18 years of age or older to enrol in the CLCS
September 2017. which it aims to develop in all language areas
extra-mural evening language courses. Please note: you must be 18 years of age or
through study of Portuguese culture.
Please note: you must be 18 years of age or older to enrol in the CLCS extra-mural evening
Fee
older to enrol in the CLCS extra-mural evening Fee language courses.
language courses.
unemployed persons and those in receipt of EUR 390 for a 22-week course. This includes Fee
Fee social welfare pension). course materials. This fee is non-refundable
once the course has commenced. A
€395 payable in advance (reduced fee for This fee is strictly non-refundable once the unemployed persons and those in receipt of
concession rate (€280) is available to Trinity
unemployed persons and those in receipt of course has commenced. social welfare pension). This fee is strictly non-
undergraduate and postgraduate students,
social welfare pension). This fee is strictly non- refundable once the course has commenced.
Time and place to unemployed, and to those in receipt of a
social welfare pension. Time and place
Wednesday, 6.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. beginning
Time and place on 27th September 2017, in the Centre for Tuesdays, 6.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m., beginning
Further Information
Tuesday, 6.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m., beginning on Language and Communication Studies, Arts on 26th September 2017, in the Centre for
Application forms will be available from the
26th September 2017, in the Arts Building, Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Language and Communication Studies, Arts
Department of Hispanic Studies. Enrolment
Trinity College, Dublin 2. Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
Duration ends on Monday 11 September 2017. E:
Duration spanish@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1257. Duration
The course lasts for twenty-four weeks, divided into two terms (twelve + twelve) The course lasts for twenty-four weeks,
divided into two terms (twelve + twelve) divided into two terms (twelve + twelve).
Languages Languages Languages - Slavonic A concession rate (€480) is available to
Trinity undergraduate students who are
Turkish, Post- Turkish Intermediate Bulgarian, Beginners not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
Beginners from their head of department or supervisor
This course is offered to learners who have This course gives students a basic knowledge
indicating that they are required to develop
successfully completed Post-Beginners’ of Bulgarian language, culture and
their Bulgarian-language skills, and those in
Continuing from the Introduction to Turkish Turkish. It will take place only if there are contemporary Bulgarian society. By the end
receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are
Language and Culture, this course is designed sufficient enrolments to make it viable. of the year students are expected to have a
unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
to extend learners’ communicative capacity reasonably good level of spoken Bulgarian in
How to apply payment, contact the facilitator in your local
in spoken Turkish and their familiarity with a number of real-life situations and to be able
social welfare office. You may be entitled to
Turkish culture. This course will take place Further information available from www.tcd. to read and write simple texts.
certain assistance in funding. The number of
only if there are sufficient enrolments to make ie/slscs/clcs, E: clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560.
The class consists of two one and a half hour concession rate places in any given class is
it viable. Applications should be made before 11th
sessions per week of grammar, listening and restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
How to apply September 2017.
reading comprehension and conversation. accompany applications.
Further information available from www.tcd. Please note: you must be 18 years of age or The total number of contact hours is sixty-
ie/slscs/clcs, E: clcsinfo@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 1560. older to enrol in the CLCS extra-mural evening three (twenty-one weeks). At the end of the Course materials
Applications should be made before 11th language courses. course students have an option of a final Course materials are prepared by the teacher.
September 2017. written and oral assessment. There is a photocopying levy of €15.
Please note: you must be 18 years of age or Time and place

Fee How to apply
older to enrol in the CLCS extra-mural evening
€395 payable in advance (reduced fee for Application forms are available from the 7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Mondays and
language courses.
unemployed persons and those in receipt of Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies Wednesdays in Room 3070, Arts Building,
Fee social welfare pension). This fee is strictly non- either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
refundable once the course has commenced. www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ Dublin 2.
unemployed persons and those in receipt of index.php). The completed application
Time and place Duration
social welfare pension). This fee is strictly non- form accompanied by payment (course
Thursdays, 6.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m., beginning fee and photocopying levy) in the form of Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two
on 28th September 2017, in the Centre for a personal cheque, postal money order or terms commencing on Monday 2nd October
Time and place Language and Communication Studies, Arts bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin 2017 and recommencing on Monday 15th
Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd January 2018. There is a one week break in
Wednesdays, 6.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m., beginning
September 2017. Contact information: The each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and
on 27th September 2017, in the Centre for
Duration 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no
Language and Communication Studies, Arts Executive Officer, Department of Russian and
The course lasts for twenty-four weeks, Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building, classes will take place.
Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
divided into two terms (twelve + twelve). Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
Duration Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie
Fee
€690 payable in advance. This fee is non-
Languages - Slavonic Fee Languages - Slavonic Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building,
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
Bulgarian, Lower €690 payable in advance. This fee is non-
Bulgarian, Upper Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie
Intermediate A concession rate (€480) is available to Intermediate Fee

not taking this course for ECTS credits, to €690 payable in advance. This fee is non-
This course is aimed at students who have Trinity postgraduate students with a letter This course is aimed at students who have refundable once the course has commenced.
successfully completed the Bulgarian from their head of department or supervisor completed previous Bulgarian courses, A concession rate (€480) is available to
for beginners programme. Otherwise indicating that they are required to develop otherwise placement in this course is based Trinity undergraduate students who are
placement in this course is based on their Bulgarian-language skills, and those in on an entrance assessment (written and oral). not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
entrance assessment (written and oral). receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are This course is offered to learners who already Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
Dates and times of the test will be advised unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare have good knowledge of Bulgarian grammar from their head of department or supervisor
on the course application form. This course payment, contact the facilitator in your local and good communicative competence in the indicating that they are required to develop
further develops students’ knowledge of social welfare office. You may be entitled to language. The course is designed to extend their Bulgarian-language skills, and those in
Bulgarian language and culture, as well as certain assistance in funding. The number of learners’ knowledge of Bulgarian language receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are
reading and communication skills. The class concession rate places in any given class is and culture, so as to enable them to read unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
consists of two one and a half hour sessions restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must journalistic and literary texts and speak payment, contact the facilitator in your local
per week of grammar, listening and reading accompany applications. Bulgarian with a reasonable degree of fluency. social welfare office. You may be entitled to
comprehension and conversation. The The class consists of two one and a half hour certain assistance in funding. The number of
total number of contact hours is sixty-three Course materials sessions per week of grammar, listening and concession rate places in any given class is
(twenty-one weeks). At the end of the course Course materials are prepared by the teacher. reading comprehension and conversation. restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
students have an option of a final written and There is a photocopying levy of €15. The total number of contact hours is sixty- accompany applications.
oral assessment. three (twenty-one weeks). At the end of the
Time and place Course materials
course students have an option of a final
How to apply 7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays Course materials are prepared by the teacher.
written and oral assessment.
Application forms are available from the in Room 4097 (Tuesdays) and Room 3025 There is a photocopying levy of €15.
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies (Thursdays), Arts Building, Trinity College How to apply
Time and place
either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2. Application forms are available from the
Time and venue to be confirmed. Please
www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Duration see our website: http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/
index.php). The completed application either in hard copy or electronic form (http://
Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two courses/evening-courses/index.php
form accompanied by payment (course www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
fee and photocopying levy) in the form of terms commencing on Tuesday 3rd October index.php). The completed application Duration
a personal cheque, postal money order or 2017 and recommencing on Tuesday 16th form accompanied by payment (course
January 2018. There is a one week break in Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two
bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin fee and photocopying levy) in the form of
each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and terms commencing on Monday 2nd October
no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd a personal cheque, postal money order or
26th February – 4th March 2018) when no 2017 and recommencing on Monday 15th
September 2017. Contact information: The bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin
classes will take place. January 2018. There is a one week break in
Executive Officer, Department of Russian and no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd
each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and
Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building, September 2017. Contact information: The
26th February – 4th March 2018) when no
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Executive Officer, Department of Russian and
classes will take place.
Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie
Languages - Slavonic Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Languages - Slavonic no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd
Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie September 2017. Contact information: The
Bulgarian, Advanced Croatian, Beginners Executive Officer, Department of Russian and
Fee Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building,
€460 payable in advance. This fee is non- Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
This course is aimed at students who have refundable once the course has commenced. This course gives students a basic
completed previous Bulgarian courses, A concession rate (€320) is available to knowledge of Croatian language, culture
otherwise placement in this course is based Trinity undergraduate students who are and contemporary Croatian society and is Fee
on entrance assessment (written and oral). not taking this course for ECTS credits, to aimed at students with little or no previous €690 payable in advance. This fee is non-
During this course students will review their Trinity postgraduate students with a letter knowledge of the language. It is designed refundable once the course has commenced.
knowledge of Bulgarian morphology and from their head of department or supervisor to establish a foundation in understanding, A concession rate (€480) is available to
syntax by focusing on four language skills, indicating that they are required to develop speaking, reading and writing in Croatian Trinity undergraduate students who are
namely speaking, listening, reading, and their Bulgarian-language skills, and those in using basic vocabulary and grammar not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
writing. Students will familiarise themselves receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are structures common to everyday situations. Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
with Bulgarian culture and increase their unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare Students who have completed this course from their head of department or supervisor
ability to use effective strategies for language payment, contact the facilitator in your local should be able to hold simple basic indicating that they are required to develop
learning and communication. In addition, social welfare office. You may be entitled to conversations about daily routine, home, their Croatian-language skills, and those in
students will expand their knowledge of certain assistance in funding. The number of family, school and work; read and understand receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are
Bulgarian pragmatics, syntax, morphology, concession rate places in any given class is simple texts; write short and simple unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
and lexicology, which should enable them restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must compositions about general things in their life; payment, contact the facilitator in your local
to communicate fluently in Bulgarian. The accompany applications. and finally, be familiar with most important social welfare office. You may be entitled to
class is held once a week for two hours. The aspects of Croatian cultural heritage. The class certain assistance in funding. The number of
total number of contact hours is forty-two Course materials consists of two one and a half hour sessions concession rate places in any given class is
(twenty-one weeks). At the end of the course Course materials are prepared by the teacher. per week of grammar, listening and reading restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
students have an option of a final written and There is a photocopying levy of €15. comprehension and conversation. The accompany applications.
oral assessment. total number of contact hours is sixty-three
Time and place (twenty-one weeks). At the end of the course Course materials
How to apply students have an option of a final written and
Time and venue to be confirmed. Please Course materials are prepared by the teacher.
Application forms are available from the see our website: http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/ oral assessment. There is a photocopying levy of €15.
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies courses/evening-courses/index.php
either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// How to apply Date and time
www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ Duration Application forms are available from the 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Mondays and
index.php). The completed application Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies Wednesdays in Room 4018 (Mondays) and
form accompanied by payment (course terms commencing on Monday 2nd October either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// Room 5033 (Wednesdays), Arts Building,
fee and photocopying levy) in the form of 2017 and recommencing on Monday 15th www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
a personal cheque, postal money order or January 2018. There is a one week break in index.php). The completed application Dublin 2.
bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and form accompanied by payment (course
no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no fee and photocopying levy) in the form of Duration
September 2017. Contact information: The classes will take place. a personal cheque, postal money order or Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two
Executive Officer, Department of Russian and bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin terms commencing on Monday 2nd October
Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building,
2017 and recommencing on Monday 15th students have an option of a final written and Course materials reading comprehension and conversation.
January 2018. There is a one week break in oral assessment. Course materials are prepared by the teacher. The total number of contact hours is sixty-
each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and There is a photocopying levy of €15. three (twenty-one weeks). At the end of the
26th February – 4th March 2018) when no How to apply course students have an option of a final
classes will take place. Application forms are available from the Date and time written and oral assessment.
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies 7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// How to apply
The venue is to be confirmed. Please see our
www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ website: http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/ Application forms are available from the
Languages - Slavonic index.php). The completed application Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
evening-courses/index.php
form accompanied by payment (course
Croatian, Lower
either in hard copy or electronic form (http://
fee and photocopying levy) in the form of Duration www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
Intermediate a personal cheque, postal money order or Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two index.php). The completed application
bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin terms commencing on Tuesday 3rd October form accompanied by payment (course
no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd 2017 and recommencing on Tuesday 16th fee and photocopying levy) in the form of
This course is aimed at students who have September 2017. Contact information: The January 2018. There is a one week break in a personal cheque, postal money order or
successfully completed elementary Croatian Executive Officer, Department of Russian and each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin
programme, otherwise placement in this Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building, 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd
course is based on entrance assessment Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, classes will take place. September 2017. Contact information: The
(written and oral). It builds a foundation in Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E slavonic@tcd.ie Executive Officer, Department of Russian and
understanding, speaking, reading and writing Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building,
Croatian language using vocabulary and Fee Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
grammar structures common to everyday €690 payable in advance. This fee is non- Languages - Slavonic Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie
situations. Cultural material will also be dealt refundable once the course has commenced.
with during the course through visual and A concession rate (€480) is available to Croatian, Upper Fee
audio presentations and through student Trinity undergraduate students who are
not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
Intermediate €690 payable in advance. This fee is non-
presentations on various topics related to
Croatia and other countries in the region. Trinity postgraduate students with a letter A concession rate (€480) is available to
Students who have completed this course from their head of department or supervisor This course is aimed at students who have Trinity undergraduate students who are
should be able to talk about daily routine, indicating that they are required to develop completed previous Croatian courses, not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
home, family, school and work; read and their Croatian-language skills, and those in otherwise placement in this course is based Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
understand longer texts such as short stories receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are on an entrance assessment (written and oral). from their head of department or supervisor
and poems; write compositions about unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare This course is offered to learners who already indicating that they are required to develop
general things in their life; and finally, should payment, contact the facilitator in your local have good knowledge of Croatian grammar their Croatian-language skills, and those in
be familiar with most important aspects social welfare office. You may be entitled to and good communicative competence in the receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are
of Croatian cultural heritage. The class certain assistance in funding. The number of language. The course is designed to extend unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
consists of two one and a half hour sessions concession rate places in any given class is learners’ knowledge of Croatian language payment, contact the facilitator in your local
per week of grammar, listening and reading restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must and culture, so as to enable them to read social welfare office. You may be entitled to
comprehension and conversation. The accompany applications. journalistic and literary texts and speak certain assistance in funding. The number of
total number of contact hours is sixty-three Croatian with a reasonable degree of fluency. concession rate places in any given class is
(twenty-one weeks). At the end of the course The class consists of two one and a half hour restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
sessions per week of grammar, listening and accompany applications.
Course materials is held once a week for two hours. The total Course materials The class consists of one two-hour session
Course materials are prepared by the teacher. number of contact hours is forty-two (twenty- Course materials are prepared by the teacher. per week: the total number of contact hours
There is a photocopying levy of €15. one weeks). At the end of the course students There is a photocopying levy of €15. is forty-two (twenty-one weeks). At the end of
have an option of a final written and oral the course students have an option of a final
Time and place assessment. Time and place written and oral assessment. Level reached
Time and venue to be confirmed. Please Time and venue to be confirmed. Please at the end of the course (CEFR): (completed)
How to apply A2
see our website: http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/ see our website: http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/
courses/evening-courses/index.php Application forms are available from the courses/evening-courses/index.php The course will normally run if there is a
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
minimum of twelve students enrolled for the
Duration either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// Duration
year. Groups will normally be closed when
Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two
twenty students have enrolled.
terms commencing on Monday 2nd October index.php). The completed application terms commencing on Monday 2nd October
2017 and recommencing on Monday 15th form accompanied by payment (course 2017 and recommencing on Monday 15th How to apply
January 2018. There is a one week break in fee and photocopying levy) in the form of January 2018. There is a one week break in Application forms are available from the
each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and a personal cheque, postal money order or each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
26th February – 4th March 2018) when no bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no either in hard copy or electronic form (http: //
classes will take place. no. 1 account, should be returned by. 22nd classes will take place. www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
September 2017. Contact information: The
index.php). The completed application form
Executive Officer, Department of Russian and
accompanied by payment in the form of a
personal cheque, postal money order or
Languages - Slavonic Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Languages - Slavonic
bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin
Croatian, Advanced Czech, Beginners no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd
Fee September 2017. Contact information: The
Executive Officer, Department of Russian and
This course is aimed at students who have This course is aimed at students with no prior Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building,
completed previous Croatian courses, knowledge of Czech. Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
A concession rate (€320) is available to
otherwise placement in this course is based Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie
Trinity undergraduate students who are This course gives students a basic knowledge
on entrance assessment (written and oral).
not taking this course for ECTS credits, to of Czech language, culture and contemporary Fee
During this course students will review their
Trinity postgraduate students with a letter Czech society. By the end of the year students
knowledge of Croatian morphology and €460 payable in advance. This fee is non-
from their head of department or supervisor are expected to have a reasonably good
syntax by focusing on four language skills, refundable once the course has commenced.
indicating that they are required to develop level of spoken Czech in a number of real-life
namely speaking, listening, reading, and A concession rate (€320) is available to
their Croatian-language skills, and those in situations and to be able to read and write
writing. Students will familiarise themselves Trinity undergraduate students who are
receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are simple texts. The course addresses grammar,
with Croatian culture and increase their not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare reading and listening comprehension and
ability to use effective strategies for language Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
payment, contact the facilitator in your local conversation. Topics include greetings and
learning and communication. In addition, from their head of department or supervisor
social welfare office. You may be entitled to introductions; origins and nationalities; family;
students will expand their knowledge of indicating that they are required to develop
certain assistance in funding. The number of my house; occupations; food; shopping;
Croatian pragmatics, syntax, morphology, their Czech-language skills, and those in
concession rate places in any given class is normal day and weekend; likes and dislikes;
and lexicology, which should enable them to receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are
restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must birthdays and holidays; Prague and the Czech
communicate fluently in Croatian. The class unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
accompany applications. Republic.
payment, contact the facilitator in your local
social welfare office. You may be entitled to Languages - Slavonic bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin of Dublin, Dublin 2. The exact venue/room is
certain assistance in funding. The number of no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd to be confirmed. Please see our website:
concession rate places in any given class is Czech, Upper September 2017. Contact information: The
http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-
restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
accompany applications.
Intermediate Executive Officer, Department of Russian and
courses/index.php.
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Duration

Course materials Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie
This course is aimed at students who have Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two
Ivana Rešková and Magdalena Pintarová, completed about one hundred contact hours
Fee terms commencing on Tuesday 3rd October
Communicative Czech: Elementary Czech of Czech. It is offered to learners who already 2017 and recommencing on Tuesday 16th
have some knowledge of Czech grammar €460 payable in advance. This fee is non-
Date and time January 2018. There is a one week break in
and some communicative competence in the refundable once the course has commenced.
each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and
7 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Arts A concession rate (€320) is available to
language. The course is designed to extend 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University Trinity undergraduate students who are
learners’ knowledge of Czech language classes will take place.
of Dublin, Dublin 2. The exact venue/room is not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
and culture, so as to enable them to read
to be confirmed. Please see our website: Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
journalistic and literary texts and speak Czech
with a reasonable degree of fluency. Topics from their head of department or supervisor
http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-
addressed include theatre and media; sports; indicating that they are required to develop Languages - Slavonic
courses/index.php.
health; our body; housing; cultural and their Czech-language skills, and those in
Duration historical personalities; and others. receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are Polish, Beginners
Duration of the course is 21 weeks over unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
two terms commencing on Wednesday The class consists of one two-hour session payment, contact the facilitator in your local
social welfare office. You may be entitled to This course gives students a basic knowledge
4th October 2017 and recommencing on per week: the total number of contact hours is
certain assistance in funding. The number of of Polish language, culture and contemporary
Wednesday 17th January 2018. There is forty-two (twenty-one weeks). Level reached
concession rate places in any given class is Polish society. By the end of the year students
a one week break in each term (6th – 12th at the end of the course (CEFR): (completed)
restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must are expected to have a reasonably good
November 2017 and 26th February – 4th B2. At the end of the course students have an
accompany applications. level of spoken Polish in a number of real-life
March 2018) when no classes will take place. option of a final written and oral assessment.
situations and to be able to read and write
The course will normally run if there is a
Course materials simple texts. The class consists of two one
Course materials are prepared by the teacher. and a half hour sessions per week of grammar,
There is a photocopying levy of €15. reading and listening comprehension and
twenty students have enrolled.
conversation. The total number of contact
How to apply hours is sixty-three (twenty-one weeks). At the
Application forms are available from the end of the course students have an option of a
Lecturers final written and oral assessment. This course
Ivana Rešková and Magdalena Pintarová, will normally run if there is a minimum of
either in hard copy or electronic form (http: //
Communicative Czech: Intermediate Czech twelve students enrolled for the year. Groups
www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
index.php). The completed application form will normally be closed when twenty students
Time and place
accompanied by payment in the form of a have enrolled.
7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. on Tuesdays, in the Arts
personal cheque, postal money order or
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
How to apply Date and time How to apply Time and place
Application forms are available from the 7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Mondays and Application forms are available from the 7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies Wednesdays in Room 5051, Arts Building, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies in Room 5051, Arts Building, Trinity College
either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2.
www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ Dublin 2. www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
index.php). The completed application form index.php). The completed application form Duration
accompanied by payment in the form of a Duration accompanied by payment in the form of a Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two
personal cheque, postal money order or Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two personal cheque, postal money order or terms commencing on Tuesday 3rd October
bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin terms commencing on Monday 2nd October bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin 2017 and recommencing on Tuesday 16th
no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd 2017 and recommencing on Monday 15th no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd January 2018. There is a one week break in
September 2017. Contact information: The January 2018. There is a one week break in September 2017. each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and
Executive Officer, Department of Russian and each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no
Contact information: The Executive Officer,
Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building, 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no classes will take place.
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies,
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, classes will take place.
Room 5045, Arts Building, Trinity College
Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T:
Fee 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie Languages - Slavonic
Languages - Slavonic
refundable once the course has commenced. Polish, Lower Fee
Polish, Upper
A concession rate (€480) is available to Intermediate refundable once the course has commenced. Intermediate
Trinity undergraduate students who are A concession rate (€480) is available to
not taking this course for ECTS credits, to Trinity undergraduate students who are
This course is aimed at students who have This course is aimed at students who have
Trinity postgraduate students with a letter not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
completed a beginner’s course in Polish of completed about one hundred contact hours
from their head of department or supervisor Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
sixty to eighty contact hours. In other cases of Polish. Students’ placement in this course
indicating that they are required to develop from their head of department or supervisor
students’ placement in this course may be may be based on an entrance test (written
their Polish-language skills, and those in indicating that they are required to develop
based on an entrance test (written and oral). and oral). Dates and times of the test will be
receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are their Polish-language skills, and those in
Dates and times of the test will be advised advised on the course application form. This
unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are
on the course application form. This course course is offered to learners who already
payment, contact the facilitator in your local unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
aims to further develop students’ knowledge have some knowledge of Polish grammar
social welfare office. You may be entitled to payment, contact the facilitator in your local
of Polish language and culture, as well as and some communicative competence in the
certain assistance in funding. The number of social welfare office. You may be entitled to
their reading and communication skills. The language. The course is designed to extend
concession rate places in any given class is certain assistance in funding. The number of
class is held twice a week for one and a half learners’ knowledge of Polish language
restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must concession rate places in any given class is
hours. The total number of contact hours is and culture, so as to enable them to read
accompany applications. restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
sixty-three (twenty-one weeks). At the end of journalistic and literary texts and speak Polish
accompany applications.
Course materials the course students have an option of a final with a reasonable degree of fluency. The
written and oral assessment. This course will Course materials class is held once a week for two hours. The
Students are expected to obtain a course
normally run if there is a minimum of twelve total number of contact hours is forty-two
book (approximate cost is €20); the course Students are expected to obtain a course
students enrolled for the year. Groups will (twenty-one weeks). At the end of the course
book is continued at the next level (lower book (approximate cost is €20) during the
normally be closed when twenty students students have an option of a final written and
intermediate Polish). year.
have enrolled. oral assessment. This course will normally
run if there is a minimum of twelve students Course materials run if there is a minimum of twelve students Course materials
enrolled for the year. Groups will normally be Course materials are prepared by the teacher. enrolled for the year. Groups will normally be Course materials are prepared by the teacher.
closed when twenty students have enrolled. There is a photocopying levy of €15. closed when twenty students have enrolled. There is a photocopying levy of €15.
How to apply Time and place How to apply Time and place
Application forms are available from the 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room 4057, Application forms are available from the 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room 4045,
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, the
either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// University of Dublin, Dublin 2. either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// University of Dublin, Dublin 2.
www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
index.php). The completed application Duration index.php). The completed application form Duration
form accompanied by payment (course Duration of the course is 21 weeks over accompanied by payment (course fee and Duration of the course is 21 weeks over
fee and photocopying levy) in the form of two terms commencing on Wednesday photocopying levy) in the form of a personal two terms commencing on Wednesday
a personal cheque, postal money order or 4th October 2017 and recommencing on cheque, postal money order or bank draft, 4th October 2017 and recommencing on
bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin Wednesday 17th January 2018. There is payable to Trinity College Dublin no. 1 account, Wednesday 17th January 2018. There is
no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd a one week break in each term (6th – 12th should be returned by 22nd September 2017. a one week break in each term (6th – 12th
September 2017. Contact information: The November 2017 and 26th February – 4th Contact information: The Executive Officer, November 2017 and 26th February – 4th
Executive Officer, Department of Russian and March 2018) when no classes will take place. Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, March 2018) when no classes will take place.
Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building, Room 5045, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin,
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896
Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie
Languages - Slavonic
Fee Fee
€460 payable in advance. This fee is non- Polish, Advanced €460 payable in advance. This fee is non-
refundable once the course has commenced. refundable once the course has commenced.
A concession rate (€320) is available to A concession rate (€320) is available to
This course is aimed at students who have
Trinity undergraduate students who are Trinity undergraduate students who are
completed about one hundred contact hours
not taking this course for ECTS credits, to not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
of Polish. Students’ placement in this course
Trinity postgraduate students with a letter Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
may be based on an entrance test (written
from their head of department or supervisor from their head of department or supervisor
and oral). Dates and times of the test will
indicating that they are required to develop indicating that they are required to develop
be advised on the course application form.
their Polish-language skills, and those in their Polish-language skills, and those in
This course is offered to learners who have a
receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are
good understanding and command of Polish
unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
grammar and communicative competence and
payment, contact the facilitator in your local payment, contact the facilitator in your local
fluency. The course aims to further develop
social welfare office. You may be entitled to social welfare office. You may be entitled to
students’ knowledge of Polish language and
certain assistance in funding. The number of certain assistance in funding. The number of
culture. The class is held once a week for two
concession rate places in any given class is concession rate places in any given class is
hours. The total number of contact hours is
restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
forty-two (twenty-one weeks). At the end of the
accompany applications. accompany applications.
course students have an option of a final written
and oral assessment. This course will normally
Languages - Slavonic Fee Languages - Slavonic Room 5045, Arts Building, Trinity College
Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01
Russian, Beginners €690 payable in advance. This fee is non-
Russian, Lower 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie
A concession rate (€480) is available to Intermediate Fee
This course gives students a basic €690 payable in advance. This fee is non-
not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
knowledge of Russian language, culture and refundable once the course has commenced.
Trinity postgraduate students with a letter This course is aimed at students who
contemporary Russian society. By the end A concession rate (€480) is available to
from their head of department or supervisor have successfully completed the Russian
of the year students are expected to have a Trinity undergraduate students who are
indicating that they are required to develop for beginners programme. Otherwise
reasonably good level of spoken Russian in a not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
their Russian-language skills, and those in placement in this course is based on
number of real-life situations and to be able to Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are entrance assessment (written and oral).
read and write simple texts. from their head of department or supervisor
unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare Dates and times of the test will be advised
The class consists of two one and a half hour payment, contact the facilitator in your local on the course application form. This course indicating that they are required to develop
sessions per week of grammar, listening and social welfare office. You may be entitled to further develops students’ knowledge of their Russian-language skills, and those in
reading comprehension and conversation. certain assistance in funding. The number of Russian language and culture, as well as receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are
The total number of contact hours is sixty- concession rate places in any given class is reading and communication skills. The class unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
three (twenty-one weeks). At the end of the restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must consists of two one and a half hour sessions payment, contact the facilitator in your local
course students have an option of a final accompany applications. per week of grammar, listening and reading social welfare office. You may be entitled to
written and oral assessment. comprehension and conversation. The certain assistance in funding. The number of
Course materials total number of contact hours is sixty-three concession rate places in any given class is
This course will normally run if there is a
Students are expected to obtain a course (twenty-one weeks). At the end of the course restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
book (approximate cost is €35); the course students have an option of a final written and accompany applications.
twenty students have enrolled. book is continued at the next level (lower oral assessment. This course will normally
Course materials
intermediate Russian). run if there is a minimum of twelve students
How to apply The course book is continued from the
enrolled for the year. Groups will normally be
Time and place previous level (Russian for beginners) plus
Application forms are available from the closed when twenty students have enrolled.
7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays teacher’s materials.
in Room 3027, Arts Building, Trinity College How to apply
either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// Time and place
www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2. Application forms are available from the
7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays
index.php). The completed application form Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Duration in Room 5040, Arts Building, Trinity College
accompanied by payment in the form of a either in hard copy or electronic form (http://
Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2.
personal cheque, postal money order or www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
terms commencing on Monday 2nd October index.php). The completed application form
bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin Duration
2017 and recommencing on Monday 15th accompanied by payment in the form of a
no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two
January 2018. There is a one week break in personal cheque, postal money order or
September 2017. terms commencing on Tuesday 3rd October
each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin
Contact information: The Executive Officer, 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no 2017 and recommencing on Tuesday 16th
no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, classes will take place. January 2018. There is a one week break in
September 2017.
Room 5045, Arts Building, Trinity College each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and
Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 Contact information: The Executive Officer, 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no
896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, classes will take place.
Languages - Slavonic index.php). The completed application Duration Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
form accompanied by payment (course either in hard copy or electronic form (http://
Russian, Intermediate fee and photocopying levy) in the form of
Duration of the course is 21 weeks over two
terms commencing on Monday 2nd October www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
a personal cheque, postal money order or 2017 and recommencing on Monday 15th index.php). The completed application
bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin January 2018. There is a one week break in form accompanied by payment (course
This course is aimed at students who have
no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd each term (6th – 12th November 2017 and fee and photocopying levy) in the form of
successfully completed about one hundred
September 2017. Contact information: The 26th February – 4th March 2018) when no a personal cheque, postal money order or
and forty contact hours of Russian (Russian for
Executive Officer, Department of Russian and classes will take place. bank draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin
beginners and lower intermediate Russian).
Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building, no. 1 account, should be returned by 22nd
In other cases placement in this course is
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, September 2017. Contact information: The
based on an entrance assessment (written
Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie Executive Officer, Department of Russian and
and oral). Dates and times of the test will
Languages - Slavonic Slavonic Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building,
be advised on the course application form. Fee Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
This course is offered to learners who have a €345 payable in advance. This fee is non- Russian, Advanced / Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie
reasonable knowledge of Russian grammar
and some communicative competence. The
A concession rate (€240) is available to
Advanced Plus Fee
course aims to develop students’ knowledge Trinity undergraduate students who are €345 payable in advance. This fee is non-
of Russian language and culture. At the end not taking this course for ECTS credits, to refundable once the course has commenced.
This course is offered to learners who have a
of the course students should be able to Trinity postgraduate students with a letter A concession rate (€240) is available to
good understanding and command of Russian
read and comprehend journalistic as well as from their head of department or supervisor Trinity undergraduate students who are
grammar and communicative competence.
literary texts, and to communicate with native indicating that they are required to develop not taking this course for ECTS credits, to
The course aims to further develop students’
Russian speakers. their Russian-language skills, and those in Trinity postgraduate students with a letter
knowledge of Russian language and culture.
The class is held once a week for one and a receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are Students’ placement in this course is based from their head of department or supervisor
half hours. The total number of contact hours unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare on an entrance test (written and oral) only. indicating that they are required to develop
is thirty and a half (twenty-one weeks). At the payment, contact the facilitator in your local Dates and times of the test will be advised their Russian-language skills, and those in
end of the course students have an option social welfare office. You may be entitled to on the course application form. The class is receipt of a social welfare pension. If you are
of a final written and oral assessment, which certain assistance in funding. The number of held once a week for one and a half hours. unemployed or in receipt of a social welfare
may be one of the entrance requirements in concession rate places in any given class is The total number of contact hours is thirty payment, contact the facilitator in your local
order to proceed to the next level, advanced restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must and a half (twenty-one weeks). At the end of social welfare office. You may be entitled to
Russian. This course will normally run if there accompany applications. the course students have an option of a final certain assistance in funding. The number of
is a minimum of twelve students enrolled for written and oral assessment. This course will concession rate places in any given class is
Course materials restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
the year. Groups will normally be closed when normally run if there is a minimum of twelve
twenty students have enrolled. Course materials are prepared by the teacher. students enrolled for the year. Groups will accompany applications.
There is a photocopying levy of €15. normally be closed when twenty students
How to apply Course materials
have enrolled. Groups will normally be closed
Time and place Course materials are prepared by the teacher
Application forms are available from the when twenty students have enrolled.
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies 7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Mondays in Room 5040, and are based on the first certified level of
either in hard copy or electronic form (http:// Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, the How to apply the Russian State language tests. There is a
www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ University of Dublin, Dublin 2. Application forms are available from the photocopying levy of €15.
Time and place Near and Middle Eastern Studies Near and Middle Eastern Studies Physics
7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room
5025, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, the
Beginners Arabic for Certificate in Physics
University of Dublin, Dublin 2. Business and Tourism Holocaust Education
Duration The following course is particularly aimed at
graduates in earth or life sciences that did not
Duration of the course is 21 weeks over This course introduces the student to the The Herzog Centre in the Department of Near
take physics as part of their degree and who
two terms commencing on Wednesday basic language skills of Modern Standard and Middle Eastern Studies with Holocaust
wish to teach physics up to Junior Certificate
4th October 2017 and recommencing on Arabic required for travelling and conducting Education Trust Ireland offers a Certificate in
level. Successful completion of this course will
Wednesday 17th January 2018. There is business, as well as providing a guide to Holocaust Education which provides in-depth
serve as part-fulfillment, along with a post-
a one week break in each term (6th – 12th contemporary culture in the Middle East. tuition on the historical significance and
graduate qualification in education and the
November 2017 and 26th February – 4th contemporary resonance of the Holocaust.
This course will run if there is a minimum of appropriate primary degree, of the Teaching
March 2018) when no classes will take place. This programme provides participants with
seven students enrolled for the year. Council’s conditions for registration as a post-
information, tools and skills to address this
primary teacher in Ireland.
Class commences week beginning 2nd subject in their area of work and to develop
October 2017. Date & time to be confirmed. pedagogic expertise to complement their Students registered on a full-time course
Near and Middle Eastern Studies knowledge. The programme is divided into in Trinity College will need the written
Fee €480 (concession rate €350), payable in
permission of their Course Director or Head
Persian for Beginners advance. Made payable to Trinity College no. four modules, all of which must be completed
by participants who wish to attain the of School to be allowed take this course
1 account.
certificate. concurrently with their degree.
Arabic II for those who have completed
This one year course introduces the student (Continuous Professional Development) Other interested people are also welcome to
Beginners Arabic runs if a minimum of seven
to the basic language competency of Persian Special Purpose Award at NFQ Level 7 take this course and their attention is drawn to
students enrol. This course continues to
required for everyday dialogue and reading carrying 20 ECTS. the entry requirements.
develop the skills of the student.
modern text. The participants will develop
This programme is ideally suited for teachers
skills of writing, reading, speaking and
and those involved in community and Physics
listening. This course will run if there is a
outreach education.
minimum of seven students enrolled for the
year. For further information contact: Holocaust Foundation Physics
How to apply Education Trust on +353-1-669 0593 or mail: for Earth and Life
info@hetireland.org
For further information please contact:
Executive Officer, Department of Near and
Sciences
Middle Eastern Studies, Arts Building, Trinity
College, Dublin 2. Phone: 01 896 1451, email: This course is aimed at students who may
nmes@tcd.ie have no prior background in physics but
Class commences week beginning 2nd who would like to learn about how physics
October 2017. Date & time to be confirmed. affects the world around them, in particular
the impact physics has on the earth and life
Fee €480 (concession rate €350), payable in sciences. This course may be of particular
advance. Made payable to Trinity College no.
1 account.
interest to those considering a career in post- the necessary ability in mathematics e.g. later development, social neuroscience, Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College
primary teaching. It carries 10 credits (ECTS). have completed first-year mathematics in an childhood sexual abuse & its psychological Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2.
undergraduate degree in a technical subject. consequences and many more. Participants
It is a foundation course of 44 hours Duration
who attend at least seventy-five per cent
of lectures or tutorials and 33 hours of How to apply of the course will receive a certificate of Eighteen weeks over two terms: Michaelmas
experimental laboratory work and includes
Interested applicants should contact the attendance. term, commencing Wednesday 18th October
the following topics: physics of motion
Administrative Manager, School of Physics, 2017 (nine weeks). Hilary term, commencing
(mechanics), biomechanics, physics of * Lecture topics may vary depending upon
Dr. Colm Stephens, Wednesday 24th January 2018 (nine weeks).
hearing and seeing (waves), electricity and staff availability.
magnetism and bioelectricity, radioactivity, e: colm.stephens@tcd.ie t: +353 (1) 896 2024. T: 01 896 1886, E: psychology@tcd. ie
nuclear physics and related medical How to apply
Fee Apply in advance by sending an application
applications, heat, pressure and fluids and
some of their biological, geological and €1,000 (waged) form, available for download (from the first Religions and Theology
week in August 2017) at http://psychology.
medical applications. €500 (unwaged)
tcd.ie/evening-course/, together with a Introduction to World
Learning Outcomes Date cheque/bank draft/postal money order, Religions
• Demonstrate the application of classical This is a daytime course given in Hilary Term made payable to Trinity College Dublin no.
physics within the biomedical and earth (Semester 2 – 15 January – 6 April 2018). The 1 account and sent to: Psychology Evening
sciences lectures/tutorials are likely to take place on Course Coordinator, School of Psychology, This course seeks essentially to give students
Mondays at 14.00, Tuesdays at 14.00 and Áras an Phiarsaigh, Trinity College Dublin, the an experience of religion in Southeast Asia.
• Connect the study of wave phenomena
15.00 and Wednesdays at 14.00. The 3-hour University of Dublin, Dublin 2. Applicants may Emphasising the heterogeneity of religion
and electromagnetism with ultrasound
practical class will be either Friday morning or also pay by Credit or Debit Card via our PayPal in Asia, it will present an overview, while
diagnostics and vision
afternoon (two groups). Facility available on the Evening Course concentrating on Hinduism, Buddhism and
• Relate basic knowledge of atomic and website (from late August). An application Jainism. There will be an examination of the
nuclear physics to radiation diagnostics form must also be sent in for online payment various cosmologies, gods and goddesses,
and therapy, and to geological Psychology applicants. and important concepts dharma, bhakti,
applications samnyasa as well as the caste system.
• Prepare a brief report, including error
Psychology: The Fee
Students will engage critically with the
analysis, on a simple physical experiment Science of Behaviour €220 for eighteen weeks. Concession rate
(€140) is available to second and third level
scriptures, notably the Vedas, the Upanishads
and the Bhagavad Gita. The course will deal
• Through homework: (i) to identify the and Mind students, unemployed persons and those in with the question of Hindu identity and the
appropriate concepts, principles, and receipt of a social welfare pension. more recent politicisation of Hinduism in the
relations that apply to the problem; (ii) Hindutva movement. The use of iconography
Please note, if applying at concession rate,
to provide a reasonable and appropriate This lecture course will present an overview is an important element of the course as it will
proof of status must accompany application
explanation of why they apply; and (iii) to of contemporary psychology and introduce help to give students an understanding of the
form e.g. letter from second/third level
solve physics problems at a foundation participants to cutting-edge research wider cultural world of Asian religions.
institution, proof of receipt of social welfare
level undertaken by School of Psychology staff.
pension/ unemployment benefits.
Topics include:* how babies learn to talk,
Admission criteria brain imaging, experimental neuropsychology Time and place
Applications will be considered from students - revelations from the broken brain, using
7 p.m. – 8.20 p.m. on Wednesdays in the
or graduates of degrees in earth or life emotions to overcome emotional distress,
sciences or from others who can demonstrate perceiving our world, early adversity and
Name of lecturer Religions and Theology Fee Religions and Theology
Professor Patrick Claffey
Eras and classical €150 for the course. For security reasons
payment should be by cheque/draft/postal Religion in Public:
How to apply
authors in the history money order only, made payable to Trinity
Great Speeches
Applications can be made in person on College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession
Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 4 p.m. – of Christianity rate is available to second and third level
6 p.m. in the Department of Religions and students, unemployed persons and those in This module investigates “Great Speeches”
Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts receipt of a social welfare pension. – famous, influential, remembered speeches
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University This course introduces discourse about God
that made an impact on cultural and political
of Dublin, Dublin 2, or by post by 18th in Eastern and Western European Christianity Date
changes in different areas of the world – with
September 2017. from the patristic to the modern eras. It Teaching commences during the week a special focus on the many and diverse
examines key turning points in theological beginning 25th September 2017. Please note roles religion has been playing in important
history: the role and achievements in this is a day-time course.
Fee moments of cultural change. The goal of
Christology of the Ecumenical Councils in
the module is to provide different scholarly
€150 for the course. For security reasons the patristic period with a focus on Nicaea
perspectives on the diversity of how religion
payment should be by cheque/draft/postal (325); Byzantine Iconoclasm, the Schism Duration
is mediated and has been part of public
money order only, made payable to Trinity East and West in relation to theologies of the The course runs for a total of twelve weeks,
debate in many, and often unexpected
College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession Holy Spirit; the rise of the monasteries with a with no meeting in week 7.
ways. Through the lenses of Biblical, Islamic
rate is available to second and third level focus on the Rule of St Benedict; the medieval
Further information and Literary Studies, Theology and the
students, unemployed persons and those in synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and
Cultural Study of Religion we will analyse the
receipt of a social welfare pension. Christian theology (Aquinas); the Reformation Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
speeches and their contexts, from politics
(Luther) and Counter-reformation Department of Religions and Theology, Arts
Date and cultural life, linked to the relevance of
(Council of Trent); theology in Modernity Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
religion as argument, as rhetoric and as value
Teaching commences during the week (Schleiermacher) and contemporary theology, of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@
background. Names such has Mahatma
beginning 25th September 2017. Please note including the reception of humanist atheism tcd.ie
Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Arundhati
this is a day-time course. (Feuerbach) and ‘nihilism’ (Nietzsche).
Roy and Albert Camus, Mohammad the
Duration Name of lecturer Prophet and Friedrich Schleiermacher at the
The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, Professor Cathriona Russell turn of the Enlightenment into Romanticism,
with no meeting in week 7. demonstrate the scope of backgrounds we
How to apply will address. Knowing about the impact of
Further information Applications can be made in person on religion as a cultural force will build up a
Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer, Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 4 p.m. – competence which is most important for the
Department of Religions and Theology, Arts 6 p.m. in the Department of Religions and encounter within a multi-cultural globalized
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts world.
of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University Lecturers
E: jwelch@tcd.ie of Dublin, Dublin 2, or by post by 18th Profs. A. Grieser, C. Russell, M. Junker-Kenny,
September 2017. Dr. W. Young
How to apply Religions and Theology Lecturer Religions and Theology
Applications can be made in person on
Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 4 p.m. – Ethics in Sport and
Dr. John Scally
Institutions of
6 p.m. in the Department of Religions and
Media Ethics
How to apply
Education and Science
Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts Applications can be made in person on
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 4 p.m. – in Classical Islam
of Dublin, Dublin 2, or by post by 18th Beginning with an overview of traditions of 6 p.m. in the Department of Religions and
September 2017. ethics, this module treats two key areas of Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University This module will explore the historical
applied ethics. Sport in contemporary society
Fee of Dublin, Dublin 2, or by post by 18th development of the various institutions that
has been described both as an expression of
€150 for the course. For security reasons September 2017. shaped religious and scientific knowledge
the highest human and social values, and as
payment should be by cheque/draft/postal in Islamic civilization. It will examine
a legally secured parallel world of the elite
money order only, made payable to Trinity Fee philosophical/scientific and religious contexts
pursuit of victories and medals. On the one
College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession €150 for the course. For security reasons of learning in their symbiotic relationship, with
hand, as a sphere of physical self-realization,
rate is available to second and third level payment should be by cheque/draft/postal an emphasis on the connections between
social formation and of moral training in
students, unemployed persons and those in money order only, made payable to Trinity science and religious tradition, revelation
fairness, it is seen as an area with standards
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of excellence that can be closely aligned to
rate is available to second and third level module will survey the main institutions that
ethics. On the other hand, individual sport
Date students, unemployed persons and those in marked the full development of classical
stars and the institutions of organized sport
Teaching commences during the week receipt of a social welfare pension. Islamic scholarship, ranging from the hospital
have been subject to multiple enquiries and
beginning 25th September 2017. Please note and observatory, to the library, mosque,
critiques: for example, on doping, corruption, Date
this is a day-time course. caliphal palace and especially the madrasa
sponsorship, the power of mentors and
Teaching commences during the week or Islamic university. Topics covered in
child protection. The variety of facets to the
Duration beginning 25th September 2017. Please note class will include patterns and practices
question of ethics in the domains of sport
The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, this is a day-time course. of knowledge production in medieval and
requires a multidisciplinary response. In
with no meeting in week 7. postclassical Islam (circles of learning,
order to connect to the necessary element of Duration patronage, medieval Islamic curricula, etc.),
Further information “field work”, an integral part of this module
The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, the place of science in medieval Islamic
Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer, will be attendance in a conference on Ethics
with no meeting in week 7. scholarship, modern scholarly debates about
Department of Religions and Theology, Arts in Sport which will take place in the Trinity
the relationship between science and Islam,
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University Long Room Hub on Saturday Nov 4th, 2017. Further information and the development of the madrasa from its
of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ It will feature some leading personalities in
Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer, medieval origin up to the modern period and
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practitioners’ perspective on ethics and sport.
The concluding part of the module with deal Name of lecturer
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with Media Ethics. At a time of “fake news” and Dr Walter Young
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of debates on the effects of social media, its
importance is inescapable. How to apply
Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 4 p.m. –
6 p.m. in the Department of Religions and Religions and Theology of Dublin, Dublin 2, or by post by 18th myth, ritual, and religious experience.
Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts September 2017.
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University The Historical Jesus Fee
Name of lecturer
of Dublin, Dublin 2, or by post by 18th Professor Alexandra Grieser
September 2017. and the Gospels €150 for the course. For security reasons
payment should be by cheque/draft/postal How to apply
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Who was the historical Jesus – the Jewish
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Galilean whose activities and death resulted
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in the emergence of Christianity? This class
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explores questions about Jesus the man, his
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world, his Jewish disciples and their literary
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activities. The earliest literary witness to his Date
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and Luke—occupy a significant amount Fee
beginning 25th September 2017. Please note
Date of our attention. In order to assess Jesus’
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environment and social milieu we shall
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engage with material culture and archaeology, Duration
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as well as other ancient literature such as
this is a day-time course. The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession
Josephus and selected Dead Sea Scrolls. You
with no meeting in week 7. rate is available to second and third level
Duration will have the opportunity to study literary
students, unemployed persons and those in
theories and approaches used to read Further information
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ancient literature in order to develop and Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
with no meeting in week 7.
articulate your own viewpoint on the origins Department of Religions and Theology, Arts Date
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of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ ancient Judaism and early Islam (i.e. the
Duration
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The course runs for a total of twelve weeks,
Name of lecturer
Contemporary with no meeting in week 7.
Professor Benjamin Wold
Theories of Religion Further information
How to apply Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
Applications can be made in person on Department of Religions and Theology, Arts
Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 4 p.m. – This course provides a survey of recent Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
6 p.m. in the Department of Religions and developments in the academic study of of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@
Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts religion. We will get to know and discuss tcd.ie
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University contemporary theories of religious thought
and behaviour by comparing sociological,
cognitive and anthropological approaches to
Religions and Theology Fee Religions and Theology 6 p.m. in the Department of Religions and
Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts
Christology: Jesus €150 for the course. For security reasons
payment should be by cheque/draft/postal
Great Controversies Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
in the first century, money order only, made payable to Trinity in the Histories of of Dublin, Dublin 2, or by post by 18th
September 2017.
College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession
at turning points of rate is available to second and third level Monotheism Fee
Christian thinking, in students, unemployed persons and those in
receipt of a social welfare pension. €150 for the course. For security reasons
music and film Date
European thinking has been marked by
great disputes in the encounter between the
money order only, made payable to Trinity
Teaching commences during the week monotheistic religions with the philosophical College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession
This course investigates Christology, the study beginning 25th September 2017. Please note and ethical thinking of their times. The rate is available to second and third level
of the person of Jesus Christ, and Soteriology, this is a day-time course. module will treat key questions and turning students, unemployed persons and those in
the understandings of his work of redemption points in the history of thinking from Antiquity receipt of a social welfare pension.
as they were developed in different eras. The Duration to Modernity: the conflict between Gnosticism
and a positive biblical understanding of Date
first part will begin with the worship of Jesus The course runs for a total of twelve weeks,
Christ in the first Christian communities and with no meeting in week 7. creation, debates about free will and human Teaching commences during the week
conclude with the first Christian councils sin between Augustine and Pelagius, and beginning 25th September 2017. Please note
from Nicaea to Chalcedon which tried to Further information on reason and revelation in Islamic religious this is a day-time course.
resolve disputes about the understanding Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer, thought. The polemics on God as One or as
Triune between Islam and Christianity will Duration
of his person in the intellectual categories Department of Religions and Theology, Arts
of Greek philosophical culture. The second Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University be investigated, before turning to the early The course runs for a total of twelve weeks,
part will follow the developments in the of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ modern ages with Las Casas’ defense of the with no meeting in week 7.
theological understanding of his person and tcd.ie humanity of the natives of Latin America. The
Further information
his work of redemption from the Middle Ages controversy between Luther and Erasmus is
followed by the religion versus science dispute Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
to Modernity. Specific elements of the cultural
of Galileo. The challenge of Kant’s demolition Department of Religions and Theology, Arts
history of reception of Christology will be
of the proofs for God’s existence for theology Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
exemplified in classical music and modern
and Schleiermacher’s response will conclude of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@
film.
the study of the series of conflicts that have tcd.ie
Names of lecturers
constituted key elements of the West’s
Professors Daniele Pevarello and Maureen intellectual history.
Junker-Kenny
Names of lecturers
How to apply
Profs. D. Pevarello, c. Russell, M. Junker-
Applications can be made in person on Kenny, Dr. W. Young
Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 4 p.m. –
6 p.m. in the Department of Religions and How to apply
Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts Applications can be made in person on
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 4 p.m. –
of Dublin, Dublin 2, or by post by 18th
September 2017.
Religions and Theology students, unemployed persons and those in How to apply Religions and Theology
receipt of a social welfare pension. Applications can be made in person on
Approaches to Date
Wednesday, 20th December 2017, 4 p.m. – 6 The Qur’an and its
Theological Ethics Teaching commences during the week
p.m. in the Department of Religions and
history of reception
beginning 25th September 2017. Please note Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
this is a day-time course. of Dublin, Dublin 2 or by post by 22nd
The contributions Christian ethicists make to This is an introductory course on the Qurʾān,
debates in the public sphere depend on the December 2017. the sacred text of Islam, and on its reception
Duration
approaches they take to this discipline, basing both in the classical Islamic period and
The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, Fee
it on the Bible or the worshipping community, modernity. The course does not require
with no meeting in week 7. €150 for the course. For security reasons
on virtue, on classical or revisionist Natural prior knowledge of the subject and will
Law, on principled autonomy in a Christian payment should be by cheque/draft/postal introduce students to some of the major
Further information
framework, or on different feminist money order only, made payable to Trinity Qurʾānic themes and to the ways in which
Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
positions. The module will investigate these College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession this foundational work has been interpreted
Department of Religions and Theology, Arts
approaches in terms of their methods and rate is available to second and third level by generations of medieval and modern
basic concepts, and on how they relate to students, unemployed persons and those in readers. Topics to be discussed include the
movements of philosophical thought and to receipt of a social welfare pension. social, religious, and historical circumstances
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other theological disciplines, such as biblical surrounding the emergence of the Qurʾān;
Date
studies and hermeneutics. How they evaluate the structure, style, and literary techniques
Teaching commences during the week
some concrete ethical issues and justify their Religions and Theology underlying the Qurʾānic text; the tradition of
beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this
positions will also be compared. religious exegesis (tafsīr) that developed in
Name of lecturer
Introduction to the is a day-time course.
Islam; and key Qurʾānic narratives and themes.
Students will acquire a basic understanding
Professor Maureen Junker-Kenny New Testament and Duration
of the place of this scripture in the Islamic
How to apply Early Christianity: with no meeting in week 7.
tradition and of its role in Muslim worship and
cult. The class will consist of both lectures and
Applications can be made in person on texts and contexts Further information student discussion on key themes covered by
Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 4 p.m. – the readings. We will also be reading various
6 p.m. in the Department of Religions and Qurʾānic verses in a comparative perspective
Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts This course invites learners to engage with with the other monotheistic traditions.
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University the earliest extant written records of believers
of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ Name of Lecturer
of Dublin, Dublin 2, or by post by 18th in Jesus: the narratives and letters that make
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September 2017. up the New Testament, employing a variety of Dr Walter Young
approaches used in biblical scholarship today.
Fee Students will discover both the consistency How to apply
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payment should be by cheque/draft/postal characterised early Christian belief, ritual and Wednesday, 20th December 2017, 4 p.m. – 6
money order only, made payable to Trinity practice. p.m. in the Department of Religions and
College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts
Name of lecturer
rate is available to second and third level
Professor Daniele Pevarello
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University Religions and Theology beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this propaganda, conflict and contemporary
of Dublin, Dublin 2 or by post by 22nd is a day-time course. interreligious dialogue.
December 2017. Approaches to the Duration Name of Lecturer(s)
Fee Study of Religion The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, Prof. Daniele Pevarello, Prof. Cathriona
€150 for the course. For security reasons with no meeting in week 7. Russell, Dr Gesa Thiessen, Dr Walter Young
Religion as a cultural phenomenon is Further information How to apply
interrelated with all aspects of human life.
College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer, Applications can be made in person on
A broad range of approaches are applied
rate is available to second and third level Department of Religions and Theology, Arts Wednesday, 20th December 2017, 4 p.m. – 6
within the academic study of religion. After
students, unemployed persons and those in Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University p.m. in the Department of Religions and
a short overview of the disciplinary history
receipt of a social welfare pension. of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts
of this subject, the course will provide an
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Date introductory understanding of ‘classical’
of Dublin, Dublin 2 or by post by 22nd
approaches such as the sociology, the
Teaching commences during the week December 2017.
anthropology and the psychology of religion, Religions and Theology
and of more recently emerging concepts such Fee
is a day-time course.
as the economy or the aesthetics of religion. Religion in Public: €150 for the course. For security reasons
Duration
Name of Lecturer Great Images payment should be by cheque/draft/postal
Professor Alexandra Grieser
with no meeting in week 7. College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession
How to apply: Religion is too often seen as a matter of rate is available to second and third level
Further information students, unemployed persons and those in
Applications can be made in person on reading and interpreting holy books and
Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer, doctrinal formulations. Religious expression, receipt of a social welfare pension.
Wednesday, 20th December 2017, 4 p.m. – 6
Department of Religions and Theology, Arts however, is also a function of the eyes,
p.m. in the Department of Religions and Date
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University where seeing and being seen play a central
of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ role in the public expression of religious Teaching commences during the week
tcd.ie thoughts. “Great Images” are visual examples beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this
of the public understanding of religion from is a day-time course.
December 2017.
antiquity to contemporary society which
Duration
Fee will be studied at different levels (political,
social, and cultural). Students will be offered The course runs for a total of twelve weeks,
€150 for the course. For security reasons
the opportunity to reflect on examples of with no meeting in week 7.
money order only, made payable to Trinity religious visual culture such as the depiction
Further information
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rate is available to second and third level of icons in Orthodox Christian devotion and
students, unemployed persons and those in worship, important landmarks of Islamic
receipt of a social welfare pension. architecture, the role of artistic expression
in the theological debate of European
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Date modernity, as well as its role in religious
Religions and Theology Date and especially the Gospel of John; (2) ancient Religions and Theology
Jewish apocalyptic thought; and (3) the so-
Key Themes in Teaching commences during the week
beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this called early Christian “Gnostic” writings. Hermeneutics: the
Theology is a day-time course.
Name of lecturer Bible, classical texts,
Duration Professor Benjamin Wold modern disputes, the
This module first presents key systematic
themes in theology: the truth claim of
with no meeting in week 7.
How to apply environment
monotheism and its alleged link to violence,
Further information Wednesday, 20th December 2017, 4 p.m. – 6
understandings of humans being made in the This course will trace the history of
Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer, p.m. in the Department of Religions and
image of God, of Adam’s sin and of salvation interpretation of texts, investigating the
Department of Religions and Theology, Arts Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts
in the history of Christian thinking, theodicy nature of language and meaning, of action,
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
and eschatology. Secondly it will introduce interpretation and subjectivity. It will reflect
of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ of Dublin, Dublin 2 or by post by 22nd
key modern contextual theologies: political, on the theological and philosophical
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liberation and feminist theologies. Its third presuppositions that influenced Biblical
part will discuss the question of theology at interpretation in the history of those texts’
Fee
the university since 1800. reception. It will explore the hermeneutical
Religions and Theology €150 for the course. For security reasons
payment should be by cheque/draft/postal approaches and evaluations of Friedrich
Name of Lecturer
Prof. Maureen Junker-Kenny The End of the World: money order only, made payable to Trinity Schleiermacher, Hans-Georg Gadamer and
Paul Ricoeur and case studies in hermeneutics
How to apply
The Johannine College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession
rate is available to second and third level in biblical studies, historiography, translation,
Applications can be made in person on Writings students, unemployed persons and those in ecology, ethics and intercultural encounter.
Wednesday, 20th December 2017, 4 p.m. – 6 receipt of a social welfare pension.

Name of lecturer
p.m. in the Department of Religions and Professor Cathriona Russell
The book of Revelation depicts a series of Date
apocalyptic, end time judgments that lead Teaching commences during the week
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University How to apply
to cosmic catastrophe followed by a new beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this
of Dublin, Dublin 2 or by post by 22nd Applications can be made in person on
heaven and new earth. The author of the is a day-time course.
December 2017. Wednesday, 20th December 2017, 4 p.m. – 6
Apocalypse, John at Patmos, is not alone
Duration p.m. in the Department of Religions and
Fee in believing that there is more than just
The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts
€150 for the course. For security reasons this world—there is another world. As such,
with no meeting in week 7. Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
payment should be by cheque/draft/postal the book of Revelation is participating in a
money order only, made payable to Trinity worldview in which reflection upon another
Further information December 2017.
College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession world and otherworldly beings are dominant
themes. Expectations of the end are not only Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
rate is available to second and third level Fee
thought about in terms of time (i.e. a linear Department of Religions and Theology, Arts
students, unemployed persons and those in €150 for the course. For security reasons
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but also space (e.g. the world above and of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297,
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below; material vs. spiritual). To better
understand the Apocalypse of John this class
sets it among: (1) other early Christian writings
College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession Religions and Theology iv) their attitudes to violence. The module Religions and Theology
rate is available to second and third level will conclude with a case study on Engaging
students, unemployed persons and those in Comparative Religious Sacred Values: Peace making in the Holy Land. Contemporary Ethical
receipt of a social welfare pension.
Ethics in Christianity, Names of lecturers Issues
Date
Islam and Buddhism Profs. L. Hogan, Jude Lal Fernando, ISE, and
Teaching commences during the week Dr W. Young The course analyses contemporary
beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this biomedical debates in their underlying
is a day-time course. Comparative religious ethics has long been How to apply
philosophical and theological principles,
an area of academic interest, one which has Applications can be made in person on
values, and views of the human being. It
Duration acquired greater significance over recent Wednesday, 20th December 2017, 4 p.m. – 6
examines the different Irish, European and
The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, decades. In the contemporary context of p.m. in the Department of Religions and
international argumentations and legislations
with no meeting in week 7. global interdependence the comparative Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts
that these debates have produced. Issues at
study of religious ethics is of great Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
the beginning and at the end of human life,
Further information importance since it provides opportunities of Dublin, Dublin 2 or by post by 22nd
the possible conflict between parents’ and
Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer, for mutual understanding and cross-cultural December 2017.
children’s perspectives, and the visions of
Department of Religions and Theology, Arts engagement. Using a variety of theoretical,
Fee society and humanity implied in positions
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University historical, hermeneutical and narrative
on advance care directives, on the new
of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ approaches, comparative religious ethics €150 for the course. For security reasons
reproductive technologies, genetics, healing,
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enhancement, and cloning will be discussed.
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Films and excerpts from (what used to be?)
various religious traditions; an interrogation College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession
science fiction will provide additional avenues
of their apparent similarities and differences rate is available to second and third level
to the topics.
and an appreciation of the evolution of, and students, unemployed persons and those in
diversity within, some of world’s the most receipt of a social welfare pension. Name of Lecturer
influential moral traditions. This module Prof. Maureen Junker-Kenny
Date
provides an introduction to the comparative
study of religious ethics, with an emphasis Teaching commences during the week How to apply
on the religions of Buddhism, Islam and beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this
Christianity. The module will begin with a is a day-time course.
discussion of the methods and purpose of p.m. in the Department of Religions and
Duration
the comparative study of religious ethics, Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts
highlighting the different conceptual and The course runs for a total of twelve weeks,
methodological approaches and discussing with no meeting in week 7.
their relative limitations and strengths. The December 2017.
Further information
module will then examine the traditions of
Buddhism, Islam and Christianity focusing in Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer, Fee
each case on i) their conceptualization of the Department of Religions and Theology, Arts
moral life, ii) understandings of the self, iii) of Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
the individual in social and political life and of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297,
E: jwelch@tcd.ie
College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession How to apply Religions and Theology Further information
Religion, Media & the Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
receipt of a social welfare pension. p.m. in the Department of Religions and Public Sphere Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
Theology, Room 5010, Level 5 of the Arts of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@
Date
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University tcd.ie
Teaching commences during the week of Dublin, Dublin 2 or by post by 22nd The multiple ways in which religion is present
beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this December 2017. in the media and their impact on shaping the
is a day-time course. public sphere will be analysed in this module.
Fee Russian, Central and Eastern European
Duration Name of lecturer Studies
The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, Professor Alexandra Grieser
Contemporary
with no meeting in week 7. money order only, made payable to Trinity
Further information
College Dublin no. 1 account. A concession How to apply
Bulgarian, Croatian,
students, unemployed persons and those in Wednesday, 20th December 2017, 4 p.m. – 6 Polish and Russian
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Cultures
of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ Date Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
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This lecture course is intended for a wide
beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this December 2017.
audience with a general interest in the cultural
is a day-time course. history in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern
Religions and Theology Fee
Europe and Russia. The course is structured
Duration
Current Expressions The course runs for a total of twelve weeks,
into four five-week blocks, each of which is
devoted to a particular country or region.
& Movements in with no meeting in week 7. money order only, made payable to Trinity
The course combines cultural history, arts
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Christianity, Hinduism Further information rate is available to second and third level
(painting, music, film), dominant trends in
the social sphere. For more detail see the
& Islam Contact: Jane Welch, Executive Officer,
receipt of a social welfare pension.
Department web page.

The course is supported by the Embassies of
of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1297, E: jwelch@ Date
This module compares developments Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland.
within these three religions in the context tcd.ie Teaching commences during the week
of modernity, such as revivals, political beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this Lectures are delivered by staff of Trinity
expressions, and fundamentalism. is a day-time course. College Dublin and special guest lecturers.
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Professor Patrick Claffey The course runs for a total of twelve weeks, Application forms are available from the
with no meeting in week 7. Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
either in hard copy or electronic form (www. Russian, Central and Eastern European of Czech literature, as well as its role in the draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin no. 1
tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/ Studies cultivation of the Czech language in a period account should be returned to: The Executive
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accompanied by payment in the form of a Prohibited Czech censorship. We shall also consider the role of Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building, Trinity
personal cheque, postal money order or bank
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Literature and Charter translation of prohibited Czech books (into
English and other major languages) in the
College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
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Fee
Officer, Department of Russian and Slavonic of free speech and the regime’s monopoly on
Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building, Trinity information. €150 for ten 90-minute lectures, payable in
Lecturer advance (by 22nd September 2017). This
College Dublin, the University of Dublin,
As this year we are marking 40 years since
Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie Dr Jana van der Ziel Fischerová fee is non-refundable once the course has
the creation of Charter 77, an informal civic
commenced. A concession rate (€100) is
Fee This course is intended for all those who like initiative which monitored the communist
available to Trinity undergraduate and
to read, and especially for those intrigued regime’s breaching of human rights
€50 for each block of five lectures, payable postgraduate students. The number of
by the relationship between literature and conventions, a part of our programme will be
in advance (by 22nd September 2017). concession rate places in any given class is
(undemocratic) society. It caters for people devoted to a consideration of its legacy. Its
This fee is non-refundable once the course restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must
who already have a specific interest in Czech co-creators Václav Havel and philosopher Jan
has commenced. Please indicate on the accompany applications.
literature and culture, as well as those who Patočka will be among those discussed, as
application form which five-week blocks you
simply like to explore new contexts and will the involvement in its work of a number of Time and place
would like to attend.
themes. prohibited Czech writers.
Mondays, 7 p.m. - 8.30 p.m., in Room TBA, Arts
Time and place We have invited one of the chief former Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
Course outline
Fridays, 6 p.m. - 7.30 p.m., in Room 5051, Arts samizdat publishers, together with a former of Dublin, Dublin 2.
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University In the 1970s-1980s, a number of the samizdat translator, to join us for a discussion
of Dublin, Dublin 2. most significant Czech writers were at the end of the course. Duration
unable to officially publish their works in Lecturing commences on Monday 2nd
Duration A reading list of key texts (fiction and essays)
Czechoslovakia. Václav Havel, Ivan Klíma, October 2017. There will be no lecture on
will be supplied closer to the starting date of
Teaching commences on Friday, 6th October Milan Kundera, Josef Škvorecký, and other 30th October (Bank Holiday).
the course, for those who wish to familiarise
2017. The course comprises of four five-week world-renowned authors, came into conflict
themselves with these prior to the lectures.
blocks of lectures. with the neo-Stalinist regime installed in the
Block 1 - Croatia (Lectures take place in 2017: country after the suppression of the Prague The course is subsidised by the Ministry of
6 October, 13 October, 20 October, 27 October, Spring, and found themselves blacklisted. Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
3 November). Their texts survived only thanks to the
alternative system of book production and How to apply
Block 2 – Russia (2017: 17 November, 24
distribution – the unofficial networks of Application forms are available from the
November, 1 December, 8 December, 15
samizdat and exile publishing. This course Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
December).
examines the ways in which these networks either in hard copy or electronic form (http://
Block 3 - Bulgaria (Lectures take place in operated, who ran them and at what risk, and www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
2018: 19 January, 26 January, 2 February, 9 how their work benefitted the contemporary index.php). The completed application form
February, 16 February). Czech reader. We shall discuss and critically accompanied by payment in the form of a
Block 4 – Poland (2017: 23 February, 9 March, evaluate the importance of samizdat and personal cheque, postal money order or bank
16 March, 23 March, 30 March). exile publishing for preserving the continuity
Russian, Central and Eastern European such thing). Balkanness is not on the surface, Duration Fee
Studies national and social identity seem to be more Lecturing commences on Monday 2nd The cost for the full series is €100.
apparent markers. The lecturer will argue
Contemporary that the Balkan aspect is crucial for both the
October 2017. There will be no lecture on
30th October (Bank Holiday).
Concession rate (€50) is available to students,
unemployed persons and those in receipt of a
Literature and Cinema formation and understanding of Bulgarian
narratives past and present. The mystery of
social welfare pension.
in the European Balkanness as the internal other of Europe will Social Sciences and Philosophy
thus appear as an optics towards a European
Southeast and the self-perception. The course is subsidised by Great Philosophers
There will be eleven lectures beginning on
Tuesday 26th September 2017 from 7.30 p.m.
Question of Balkan the Ministry of Education of the Republic of to 9 p.m., in the Uí Chadhain Theatre, Arts
Bulgaria Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University
Identity How to apply
Following on from last year’s highly successful of Dublin, Dublin 2. Please note there will be
course, this course introduces a further no lecture on Tuesday 7th November 2017.
Application forms are available from the
selection of great philosophers who helped
This course provides an overview of Bulgarian Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
form Western civilization. Crucial ideas about Further information
contributions to the narrative arts of fiction either in hard copy or electronic form (http://
the nature of reality, humankind’s place in Philosophy Department, Trinity College
and cinema today. Bulgaria is known for its www.tcd.ie/Russian/courses/evening-courses/
the world, the good society, human destiny, Dublin, the University of Dublin, T: 01 896
folklore, choirs, opera singers and Christo index.php). The completed application form
values and knowledge were articulated and 1529, E: Philosophy@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/
(Yavashev and Stoichkov), but its literature accompanied by payment in the form of a
developed by these thinkers. Each lecture is philosophy/events
is rarely translated and its cinema is seldom personal cheque, postal money order or bank
an introduction to the life, work, context and
screened. This course shows why this attitude draft, payable to Trinity College Dublin no. 1
impact of the philosopher in question.
is unwarranted, but also what stands behind account should be returned to: The Executive
it: what are the likely cultural and historical, Officer, Department of Russian and Slavonic Lecturers Social Sciences and Philosophy
aesthetic and stylistic, marketing and publicity Studies, Room 5045, Arts Building, Trinity The lecturers are drawn from the staff of the
issues for such a notorious non-presence. College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Big Questions in
Dublin 2. T: 01 896 1896, E: slavonic@tcd.ie.
The course focuses exclusively on Dublin, the University of Dublin.
Philosophy
masterpieces: 5 books – (Ivaylo Petrov, Before Fee How to apply
I Was Born and Afterwards, Vera Mutafchieva €150 for ten 90-minute lectures, payable Register in advance (prior to 26nd September Following on from last year’s highly
The Case Djem, Yordan Radichkov, Fierce in advance (by 22nd September2017). This 2017) by post, to the Executive Officer, successful course, this course introduces a
Mood, Georgy Gospodinov, The Physics fee is non-refundable once the course has Department of Philosophy, Arts Building, further selection of great questions facing
of Sorrow and Milen Ruskov, Thrown into commenced. A concession rate (€100) is Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, humankind. Topics such as whether we have
Nature) and 5 movies (Methodi Antonov, The available to Trinity undergraduate and Dublin 2 enclosing a cheque/draft/ postal free will, what’s the basis of morality, is there
Goat’s Horn, Georgy Djulgerov, Advantage, postgraduate students. The number of money order made payable to Trinity College any certain knowledge, what is meaning,
Rangel Valchanov, The Unknown Soldier’s concession rate places in any given class is Dublin no. 1 account. Your receipt will be what is the relation of mind to body will be
Patent Lather Shoes, Yavor Gardev, Zift, restricted to twenty per cent. Payment must your ticket for the series. Registration is also addressed. Each lecture is a stand-alone
Kamen Kalev, Eastern Plays). All these books accompany applications. possible on the evening of the first lecture of topic and presupposes no prior knowledge of
and movies pose the question “Who are we,
the series (outside the lecture theatre). philosophy.
where do we come from and what is our Time and place
destiny?” All of them address the question Mondays, 5.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m., in Room
of identity and try to grasp what makes “us” TBA, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, the
different – what makes us “us” (if there is University of Dublin, Dublin 2.
Lecturer Social Sciences and Philosophy explain why, apart from Plato and McTaggart, Social Work
reincarnation has not (apart from one or two
The lecturers are drawn from the staff of the
Contemporary
Department of Philosophy at Trinity College The Logic and possible exceptions) been taken seriously by
Dublin, the University of Dublin. philosophers in the West.
Perspectives in Social
Credibility of After-
How to apply
More information about the content of this
Work
Register in advance (prior to Tuesday 16th
Death Existences course can be found in a workbook on the
subject, written by the lecturer and available
January 2018) by post, to the Executive from him.
Officer, Department of Philosophy, Arts This eight week lecture series on issues,
The main focus of these lectures is on the approaches and research in contemporary
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University two most formidable forms of after-death Lecturers
of Dublin, Dublin 2 enclosing a cheque/draft/ social work practice today will be held on
existence: (1) the next life as a dream-image Prof. David Berman
postal money order made payable to Trinity Tuesday evenings, from 3rd October 2017
world in which the deceased person continues to 21st November 2017. It will be presented
College Dublin no. 1 account. Your receipt How to apply
as a dream-image person or self; which (2) by experienced lecturers and practitioners
will be your ticket for the series. Registration is is then followed by the reincarnation of his Register in advance by post, to the Executive
also possible on the evening of the first lecture associated with the School of Social Work and
natural or innate character. Something close Officer, Department of Philosophy, Arts
of the series (outside the lecture theatre). Social Policy.
to these two forms of after-death existence Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2 enclosing
are powerfully presented in Plato’s Republic a cheque/draft/ postal money order made The course is designed for professionally
Fee
614-21, in the myth of Er. But Plato’s accounts payable to Trinity College no. 1 account. qualified social workers and may be
The cost for the full series is €100. Your receipt will be your ticket for the series. of particular interest to prospective
needed a new and more literal re-working,
Concession rate (€50) is available to students, Registration might also be possible on the and established practice teachers. This
which I believe is to be found in the writings
unemployed persons and those in receipt of a morning of the first lecture. But note that the programme provides learning opportunities
of two 20th century philosophers: the first in
social welfare pension. number of places is limited to 20. relevant to continuing professional
the Oxford analytic philosopher H. H. Price,
the second the Cambridge idealist John development. A certificate of attendance
Date, time and place Fee
McTaggart. But crucial difficulties still remain, will be provided for Continuing Professional
There will be eleven lectures beginning on The cost for the ten lectures is €90. Development purposes.
especially how a person can exist as a dream-
Tuesday 16th January 2018 from 7.30 p.m. Concession rate (€60) is available to students,
image person after being divested of his or How to apply
to 9 p.m., in the Uí Chadhain Theatre, Arts unemployed persons and those in receipt of a
her body and brain, and how reincarnation http://www.tcd.ie/swsp/short-courses/
Building, Trinity College Dublin, the University social welfare pension.
can be of any interest or value if the supposed eveningcourse.php. For further information E:
of Dublin, Dublin 2. Please note there will be
reincarnated self does not remember its Fieldwork.Unit@tcd.ie, T: 01 896 4579
no lecture on Tuesday 27th February 2018. Date, time and place
previous life.
The ten lectures take place on Saturdays, Fee
Further information Although I look at the evidence for and 10:00 a.m.- 11:15, in the Philosophy seminar €100. A reduced fee of €50 for current Trinity
Philosophy Department, Trinity College against both forms of after-death existence, room, 5012, Arts Building, Trinity College, College practice teachers.
Dublin, the University of Dublin, T: 01 896 my focus in these lectures is on McTaggart’s Dublin 2. The first lecture is on 30 September
1529, E: Philosophy@tcd.ie, www.tcd.ie/ defence of immortality, which is in his 2017. Date, Time and Location
philosophy/events Human Immortality and Pre-Existence, This eight week course will be held on
1916. However, I also examine additional Further information Tuesday evenings from 6.30 p.m. – 8 p.m. from
elements relating to reincarnation and Further information can be obtained from Prof. 3rdOctober to 21st November 2017 in Room
after-death existences, as well as trying to Berman, Philosophy Dept, Trinity College Dublin, 3074, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, the
Dublin 2; T: 01 896 1126, dberman@tcd.ie University of Dublin, Dublin 2.
The Lir Academy muscularity of text. A further class will explore The Lir Academy The Lir Academy
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with a professional director to rehearse and
international students who wish to expand, Date, time and place course, this ten week course concentrates
produce a full length play. The play will be
explore and deepen their awareness of Irish Monday 17th July – Friday 11 August 2017, on working with a Director on the study of
presented to friends and family at the end of
theatre. The course draws on the central 10.00 a.m. – 5.00p.m. at The Lir Academy, characters and individual scenes from a
the course.
aspects of The Lir Academy’s core teaching, Pearse Street at Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2. number of contemporary plays. Participants
focusing particularly on twentieth and twenty- will call upon their learnings from the Fee
This course is run every summer, please check
first century Irish plays and playwrights. Introduction to Acting course to fully explore €495
the website for dates in 2018
and develop character behaviours and traits
The course is aimed at professional actors or
Further information and How to apply and by the end of the course each person Date, time and place
those who are undertaking serious training
will possess the skills to better express and Wednesday evenings, 20th September – 22nd
elsewhere and are about to set out on a www.thelir.ie/courses/view/acting-and-irish-
portray themselves in the characters within November 2017 7.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m. at The
professional acting career. theatre
the chosen play. Students will work closely as Lir Academy, Pearse Street at Grand Canal
This course is worth 10 ECTS (European Credit a team not only with each other but with the Quay, Dublin 2.
Transfer Accumulation System). Director, Movement Coach, and Voice Coach.
Participants on the course will engage with
Fee
some of the greatest plays in the history of the Please check the website for further dates
€390
English language written by some of Ireland’s throughout the year
leading writers including J.M. Synge, Sean Date, time and place
O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Tom Further information and How to apply
Thursday evenings, from, 7.00 p.m.
Murphy, Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh, www.thelir.ie/courses/view/ensemble-
Marina Carr and Enda Walsh. • 10.00 p.m. at The Lir Academy, Pearse company
Street at Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2.
Acting, Voice and Movement classes will
focus on the unique demands of performing • Please check the website for dates
Irish plays. Voice classes will focus on the
Further information and How to apply
particular requirements of Irish texts including
a wide range of Irish contemporary and www.thelir.ie/courses/view/character-and-
historic dialects. The actor will explore the scene-study
notion of body and movement in Irish play
texts through different periods of history in
relation to culture, clothing, dance, beliefs and
superstitions, urban and rural environments,
physical embodiment of work, past-time and
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This two week intensive musical theatre
clown performer, teacher, director and inquisitive about a future career in acting
course is aimed at intermediate and advance
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level performers/singers who have already
Theatre of Clown through The Mask of themselves by stretching their creative considering training in stage management
received some formal vocal training and want
Four Temperaments and The Mask of Red muscles. Led by some of The or any of the disciplines associated with
to pursue musical theatre as an interest or a
Nose. The Mask of Four Temperaments technical theatre. This course is designed so
Lir Academy’s core teachers, this workshop- career. During the course students will work
– The constitutional types of the Four that participants can attend the full week or
based evening course is taught over 10 with a singing tutor/musical director, core Lir
Temperaments, Choleric, Sanguine, opt in for full day workshops.
weeks. Each two and a half hour session teachers and some of Ireland’s leading music
Phlegmatic and Melancholic, manifest in
consists of a physical warm-up followed by The areas covered in this course will reflect theatre directors and choreographers, to
the shape and rhythm of the human being.
a voice or movement/improvisation class the key subjects covered in the Professional develop acting, voice, movement, singing and
Connected to the four elements and the
and culminates with a 90 minute acting Diploma in Stage Management and Technical dance skills. Through group and individual
medieval ‘four humours’, exploring these
workshop. The course will cover key elements Theatre course at The Lir including; managing classes and rehearsals, participants will
extreme approaches to life aiming to increase
of actor training including Voice, Movement the stage, technology and the stage, making develop the skills necessary for performing
our flexibility and range of physical and
and Improvisation, but will also introduce the stage and dressing the stage. in Musical Theatre productions of the highest
vocal expression. The Red Nose is the Mask
participants to classical and contemporary standards. Participants will work on new solo
behind and through which is revealed the
play texts, using both scenes and monologues pieces, duets or trios and ensemble numbers.
very essence of our being in all its greatness
to hone your craft. These workshops act as Fee
and in all its fragility. The course will focus This intensive immersion in musical theatre
both a taste of drama school training and as €350
on a journey of unearthing each participant’s will help build confidence, develop new skills
a broad and basic introduction to the craft of
individual clown. The goal is to gain Date, time and place and expand existing knowledge of the genre.
acting.
understanding and practice of the clown state, Participants will also be given guidance on
Monday 21st August – Friday 25 August 2017,
what it is to be ‘authentically present’ and how Fee audition techniques and the development
10.00 a.m.– 5.00 p.m.
to bring that authentic presence into play. of an audition repertoire. At the end of the
€390
Further information and how to apply http:// fortnight, the group will present a workshop
Fee www.thelir.ie/courses/view/introduction-to-
Date, time and place performance of well-known musical theatre
€250 stage- management-and-technical-theatre numbers for an audience of students and
Tuesday evenings, 19th September – 21st
November, 2017 7.00 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. at The tutors.
Lir Academy, Pearse Street at Grand Canal
Monday 7th August – Friday 11th August Fee
Quay, Dublin 2.
2017at The Lir Academy, Pearse Street at €1,250
Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2. This course is run at least three times during the
year. Please check the website for further dates. Date, time and place
Further information and how to apply
Monday 15th August – Friday 25th August
www.thelir.ie/courses/view/clown-for-actors Further information and how to apply
2017, 9.30 a.m. – 5.00p.m. at The Lir Academy,
www.thelir.ie/courses/view/acting-training
Pearse Street at Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2. a group number in the show (a small The Lir Academy The Lir Academy
selection of dancers aged 16 and older
the website for dates in 2018
may be chosen) Sensing Laban: The Clear and
• Audition for Riverdance (for dancers aged Movement Expression Confident Voice,
www.thelir.ie/courses/view/musical-theatre-
18 and over)
with Sue Mythen Presenting With
• Accommodation at Trinity College
intensive
Dublin, the University of Dublin is Confidence
available for this course. A one day workshop with Head of Movement
at The Lir Academy, Sue Mythen. The
Fee This workshop is geared for anyone who
The Lir Academy workshop will explore a somatic approach to
uses their voice at work (Barristers, Teachers,
€650 non-residential and €950 residential learning the dynamics of your own body.
Riverdance – Trinity Date, time and place Participants will also be introduced to the
Lecturers, Broadcasters, those who give
presentations etc.) or for anyone who is
College Dublin Monday 24th July – Saturday 29th July
vocabulary of movement devised by Rudolf interested in improving their voice. It will offer:
Laban including principles of Space, Harmony clarity of thought and speech, greater physical
International Summer Monday 31stJuly – Saturday 5th August and Efforts. and vocal presence, better breath support,
School At The Lir Academy, Pearse Street at Grand The aim is to develop enhanced expressivity tools to strengthen your voice, ways to
increase the range and carrying power of your
Canal Quay and specificity in the acting body through
the exploration of movement observation, voice, guidelines on how to keep your voice
This one week course is taught by Riverdance Further information and how to apply healthy and a greater sense of confidence
analysis and embodiment… and to play!
professionals in the city where it originated, http://academy.riverdance.com/ when public speaking.
This work is applicable to actors, movers and
Dublin, Ireland. Students will participate in
dancers although no movement experience is Fee
a range of exciting classes that will include
necessary. €120
learning the iconic Riverdance choreography,
training in all aspects of being a professional Fee Date, time and place
dancer from nutrition to fitness in preparation Regular dates throughout the year.
€100
for a working life as a performer and gaining
insight into how to choreograph new dance Date, time and place Further information and how to apply
routines and what it takes to put a live www.thelir.ie/courses/view/Speaking-with-
This course is run periodically throughout the
performance on stage. confidence
year, please check the website for dates.
Everyone will attend a performance of
Riverdance at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, Further information and how to apply
which will include a meet and greet with the http://www.thelir.ie/courses/list/category/
cast backstage. movement
For those dreaming of life as a performer, the

school offers unique opportunities to:
• Join the Riverdance troupe onstage for
The Lir Academy The Lir Academy Date, time and place How to apply
Young Actors’ Young Actors’ Monday 31st July – Friday 25th August 2017,
10.00 a.m. – 5.00p.m. at The Lir Academy,
Applications to: The Executive Officer, Loyola
Institute, Irish School of Ecumenics-Loyola
Programme (2 weeks) Programme (4 weeks) Pearse Street at Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2. Institute Building, Trinity College Dublin, the
University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 4790,
the website for dates in 2018 E: loyola@tcd.ie
The course is designed for young people This four week course, designed for young
aged 16+ who have a passionate interest in people aged 16+, includes all the elements of Further information and how to apply Fee
performing, who may be thinking of applying the two week programme but also includes
www.thelir.ie/courses/view/young-actors- €150 for the course. Payment should be
to The Lir Academy or a similar drama a particular focus on musical theatre. The
programme-4- weeks made by cheque/ draft/postal money order
academy or have an interest in theatre and programme introduces young performers to
only, payable to Trinity College Dublin no. 1
who would like to explore the craft of acting the reality of intensive training, replicating four
account.
further. The programme introduces young weeks in the life of a full- time acting degree. The Loyola Institute
performers to the reality of intensive training, The course will provide an introduction to Date
replicating two weeks in the life of a full-time the skills required to become a professional Catholic Theology in a Teaching commences during the week
acting degree. The course will also provide an performer. It combines the two week Young
introduction to the skills required to become Actors’ Programme with the two week Musical Secular Age: A Critical beginning 25th September 2017 Please note
this is a day-time course.
a professional actor. Classes focus on the core Theatre Intensive Programme. Introduction
modules of Acting, Voice and Movement and Duration
Group classes focus on the core modules
are led by The Lir Academy’s core teaching The course comprises two lectures a week for
of Acting, Voice and Movement and are led
staff. The course also prepares students The purpose of this course is to introduce a total of eleven weeks.
by The Lir Academy’s core teaching staff.
intending to audition for drama schools the student to the foundational concepts of
Individual voice, singing and monologue
covering audition technique and the choice Catholic theology as a living tradition with Further information
classes supplement the four week
and delivery of audition monologues. deep roots of intellectual enquiry, and to do Contact: The Executive Officer, Loyola
programme. Through group and individual
so in the context of the secular age in which Institute, Irish School of Ecumenics-Loyola
Fee classes and rehearsals, students will develop
we live. There is a study of the concept of Institute Building, Trinity College Dublin, the
the skills necessary for performing in Musical
€950 secularity and post secularity. University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 4790,
Theatre productions of the highest standards.
Date, time and place Participants will work on new solo pieces, There will be an examination of the argument E: loyola@tcd.ie
duets or trios and ensemble numbers. This that there is a sort of ‘buried’ theological
Monday31st July – Friday 11 August 2017
course will also include a presentation narrative in western culture and its
10.00 a.m. – 5.00p.m. at The Lir Academy,
to friends and family at the end of the consequences explored. Theological method
Pearse Street at Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2.
programme. This course prepares students will be introduced, including hermeneutical
This course is run every summer, please check intending to audition for drama schools theory and the debates about the ‘systamtity’
the website for dates in 2018 covering audition technique and the choice of Catholic theology, which encompasses the
and delivery of audition monologues and efforts to create an intellectual and integrated
songs. synthesis. There will be a short introduction to
www.thelir.ie/courses/view/young-actors- the thought of Thomas Aquinas.
programme Fee
€1,980
The Loyola Institute Duration How to apply early councils of the Church. The Trinitarian
theologies of some major theologians in the
Ethics and Society in The course comprises two lectures a week for
a total of eleven weeks.
Institute, Irish School of Ecumenics-Loyola Western tradition, particularly Augustine and
Catholic Traditions Further information

Institute Building, Trinity College Dublin, the Aquinas, will be studied, and the distinct path
taken by the Eastern tradition sketched. The
Contact: The Executive Officer, Loyola course studies the work of contemporary
E: loyola@tcd.ie theologians, whose work has contributed
This course studies the modern tradition of Institute, Irish School of Ecumenics-Loyola
Catholic social thought. It has a dual focus, Institute Building, Trinity College Dublin, the significantly to the renewal of Trinitarian
Fee
namely, on the social encyclicals of different University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 4790, theology. A study of the theology of the Holy
€150 for the course. Payment should be
pontiffs in the nineteenth and twentieth Spirit will be an important part of this course.
E: loyola@tcd.ie made by cheque/ draft/postal money order
centuries, and on the diverse theological
only, payable to Trinity College Dublin no. 1 How to apply
traditions of interpretation in different
account. Applications to: The Executive Officer, Loyola
historical, cultural and geographical contexts.
Key concepts including solidarity, subsidiarity Institute, Irish School of Ecumenics-Loyola
The Loyola Institute Date
and common good will be considered through Institute Building, Trinity College Dublin, the
Foundations for
the lens of these texts and the interpretative University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 4790,
traditions. Theological analyses of, and
responses to, specific social and political
Theological Ethics this is a day-time course. E: loyola@tcd.ie
issues will be assessed. Among the issues that Duration Fee

will be considered will be: religious liberty, This course studies central concepts and The course comprises two lectures a week for €150 for the course. Payment should be
economic justice, war and political conflict. key debates in theological ethics, including a total of eleven weeks. made by cheque/ draft/postal money order
natural law and the universality of ethics; only, payable to Trinity College Dublin no. 1
How to apply Further information
the nature and role of conscience, moral account.
Applications to: The Executive Officer, Loyola Contact: The Executive Officer, Loyola
reasoning and the role of moral principles;
Institute, Irish School of Ecumenics-Loyola Date
the role of church teaching authority in the Institute, Irish School of Ecumenics-Loyola
Institute Building, Trinity College Dublin, the Institute Building, Trinity College Dublin, the Teaching commences during the week
Catholic tradition (the magisterium) in the
University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 4790, University of Dublin, Dublin 2. T: 01 896 4790, beginning 15th January 2018. Please note this
moral area. It studies the nature of moral
experience and its relation to religious faith is a day-time course.
E: loyola@tcd.ie E: loyola@tcd.ie
and, in this context, will consider the role
Duration
Fee of the bible in theological ethics from both
The course comprises two lectures a week for
€150 for the course. Payment should be historical and contemporary perspectives. The The Loyola Institute
a total of eleven weeks.
made by cheque/ draft/postal money order course will introduce students to the diversity
only, payable to Trinity College Dublin no. 1 of methodological approaches in Catholic God: One and Three Further information
account. theological ethics including the moral area,
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the book of Proverbs will be discussed a total of eleven weeks.
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account. The course is taught over twenty-two weeks
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appropriation of some of the best elements
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and Catholic Christian thought in particular.
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and Calvin will be evaluated critically. The themes of “vulnerability” and “resilience”, this
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