BA IN POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY

Third Year

Third Arts in Sociological and Political Studies

JANUARY 2010 - SPECIAL NOTICE

To view a timetable of the Option Courses for Semester 2, 2011-12, click here.

To download the registration form for the Option Courses for Semester 2, 2011-12, click here.

Submission of Completed Option Registration Forms will take place at 2pm on Tues 10th January 2012 at the McMunn Theatre on the Concourse.

In the final year of the undergraduate programme, we offer students in the School of Political Science and Sociology four Core Courses and a large number of Option Courses to choose from. 3BA1 (Arts), 4BA4 (International) and 3BA5 (Environment and Society/Youth and Family Studies) students are required to take 2 Core courses and 1 Option course per semester, a total of 6 courses over the year.

The Core Courses contribute to a more in-depth understanding of society and politics in both the Irish and international contexts. By combining theoretical and empirical perspectives on a wide range of issues, students are encouraged to critically evaluate the themes, topics and questions built into each course (i.e. development and change, political and social theory, and public and social policy).

With respect to Option Courses, we offer approximately twenty courses per semester, and these courses provide an ideal opportunity to acquire specialist knowledge in a range of subject areas, as well as providing the opportunity for a more active approach to learning than is possible in the large lecture format.

In the first week of the semester students should indicate to the School their choice of option courses by completing the School's registration form.. Students are advised to register on time as the number of places per course is strictly limited. Students are reminded that they must register both with the School and with the University as these are two separate processes.

More detailed information on courses (including timetables) as well as option registration forms are available in the downloadable final year booklet.

Programme Structure and Requirements

Semester 1

Core Courses

SP 404 Development and Change
SP 405 Contemporary Social Thought

Option Courses include:

SP647 Northern Ireland: The Politics of a Divided Society
SP703 Spirits of Work and Capitalism
SP423 Sociology of Deviance
SP407 Sociology of Work
SP702 Ireland: a Changing Society
SP352 US Politics
SP698 Transforming Children's Services
SP617 Women's Human Rights
SP693 Ethnicity, Nationalism and the State
SP446 Data Analysis for the Social Sciences
SP507 Theories of the Welfare State
SP694 The Story of Power and Narrative
SP590 The Politics of Poverty
SP491 Sociology of Ethnicity and Nationalism
SP416 Environmental Politics and Policy
SP449 Mexican Politics and Society
SP619 Ageing, the Life Course and the Sociology of Wisdom
SP419 Marxist Theory
SP498 Sociology of Religion
SP459 The Irish Administrative System
SP496 Anthropology of Migration and Diasporas
SP690 Development & Communities
SP585 Comparing Nations and Cultures
SP695 Social and Political Context of Activism and Advocacy

To view a timetable of the Option Courses for Semester 1, 2011-12, click here.

Semester Two

Core Courses

SP305 Comparative Public Policy
SP406 Principles of Political Theory

Option Courses include:

Minor dissertation
Women in Irish Society
Northern Ireland: The Politics of a Divided Society
Medical Sociology
Ethnicity, Nationalism and the State
The Sociology of War
Buddhism Politics and Society
Sociology of the Environment
Welfare Words: Key Words in Social Work and Social Welfare
Social Stratification and Inequality
Politics in the Republic of Ireland
Spirits of Work and Capitalism
Understanding Strangers
Co-operation and Conflict
The Abnormal: The Sociology and Politics of Difference
Children and Young People in Families Today
Political Anthropology
Agrarian Politics
Environmentalism
The Sociology of Sexuality
Contemporary Families and the Roles and Responsibilities of Fathers
Revisiting Violence: Aggression and Abuse in Contemporary Irish Family and Institutional Life

To view a timetable of the Option Courses for Semester 2, 2011-12, click here.

To download the registration form for the Option Courses for Semester 2, 2011-12, click here. [Submission of Completed Option Registration Forms will take place at 2pm on Tues 10th January 2012 at the McMunn Theatre on the Concourse.]

Student Handbook

To download the Student Handbook for 2011-2012, click here.

Essay Entry Form

To download the 3rd Year Essay Entry Form for 2011-2012, click here.

Introductory Lectures

To download the 3rd Year Introductory Lectures for 2011-2012, click here.

Core Timetable

To download the 3rd Year Core Timetable for 2011-2012, click here. [Available soon]

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