offers a second tier of survey courses to assure coverage of major works and trends in the field via two-part surveys of Irish history, History of Modern Ireland I and II, IRSH-GA 1416 and IRSH-GA 1417, and of Irish literature, Literature of Modern Ireland I and II, IRSH-GA 1083 and IRSH-GA 1084. Students who demonstrate prior study of the language may be exempted from this requirement with permission of the director of the M.A.įield Specialization: The M.A. The course will allow students better to comprehend the influence of Irish language place names, folklore, and Gaelic customs in modern Ireland. This seminar is designed to give students an accelerated introduction to conversational Irish and to the grammar, structure, and history of the language. The Irish language forms an integral part of Irish political and cultural history as well as contemporary intellectual life, yet very few universities offer course work in it. program without prior Irish language study. The Irish Studies Seminar II is required of all students entering the M.A. It is designed to engage participants with the ideas and debates that animate all the component disciplines of Irish studies and to prepare students for the topics-oriented classes that form the bulk of the M.A. The Irish Studies Seminar I is the core course of the M.A.
are required to take two courses in their first year, the Irish Studies Seminar I, IRSH-GA 1001 (fall), and the Irish Studies Seminar II: An Teanga Bheo-The Irish Language, IRSH-GA 1002 (spring). The curriculum is structured in three tiers: core courses (8 credits), field specialization courses (8 credits), and electives (16 credits).Ĭore Courses: All students enrolled in the M.A.
Courses are offered in history, literature, music, language, and cultural studies. in Irish and Irish-American studies has been structured to offer students both a comprehensive grounding in the Irish studies field and the opportunity for in-depth course work and research in the new forms of inter- and transdisciplinary scholarship characteristic of the best recent work in the field.
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