This, the first undergraduate programme in Global Studies in Ireland, responds to a significant ‘global turn’ in the direction of humanities research in recent years, and to the demands of global citizenship. It combines core training in the disciplines of: History with a focus on international and global historical methods; Languages with a focus on those spoken outside of Europe; as well as Literature, Film and Drama with a focus on critical theory and world literature. The first year core module Of Borders and Belonging will be taught within the School of History while in the second year the core module will be taught out of the School of English, Film and Drama. In all the cores, a focus on interdisciplinary methods will be retained including of disciplines not currently taught at UCD such as anthropology, for example.

As the Global Studies programme places foreign language acquisition at the centre of its mission, it features at least one semester abroad wherein students can put into practice the training they have received locally.  In addition to the core disciplines there will be the possibility for students to take electives in relevant social science modules. In the final year, students will be supervised in one school but will be encouraged to write a dissertation that brings insights from the other disciplines they have received training in.

Our Global Studies graduates have found employment in; Business Consultancy, Journalism, Diplomatic Service, Marketing, NGOs, Policy Analyst, Public Relations, Radio/TV Producer, Translating/Interpreting.

Graduates are prepared for a wide range of taught MA Programmes in the fields of Arts and Humanities such as: MA in Global History, MA in International War Studies, MA in Environmental Humanities, MA in European History, MA in Modern Languages, MA in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, MA in Public History, MA in Cultural Policy & Arts Management. Graduates are also prepared for MPhil and PhD study. See www.ucd.ie/graduatestudies

Stage 1: Students should take 55 credits plus 5 elective credits. The 55 credits consists of four 5-credit core modules (20 credits in total), and students should select 35 credits of option modules. Out of the 35 credits of option modules, a minimum of 10 credits should come from History, 10 from Languages and 5 credits from English.


All students are strongly advised to balance their workload evenly across both trimesters. This means you should pick 30 credits in autumn (Trimester 1) and 30 credits in spring (Trimester 2)

Students should take 50 credits plus 10 elective credits.

In addition to 10 credits of core modules, students should pick a minimum of 10 credits of English modules and 10 credits of History modules.

Students may continue to study the language that they took at Stage 1 and they can take 10 credits of Language modules (both in the same language).

In addition, student take 10 further credits of option modules.

All students are strongly advised to balance their workload evenly across both trimesters. This means you should pick 30 credits in autumn (Trimester 1) and 30 credits in spring (Trimester 2).

All Global Studies students are strongly encouraged to spend at least one trimester studying abroad. Students who remain in UCD for the full year should take 50 programme credits plus 10 elective credits.


Instructions for full year UCD Students not on an exchange or on an internship (or combination):

*Select a minimum of 20 credits of Global History modules: 2 x 10 credit modules
*Select a maximum of 10 credits of Global Social Science modules: 2 x 5 credit modules or 1 x 10 credit module
* Select a maximum of 10 credits of Global Literature modules: 1 x 10 credit module
* Select a maximum of 10 credits of Language/Culture modules 2 x 5 credit modules


If the amount of credits you have selected makes up less than 50 credits (excluding your electives), you should make up the required credits with global history courses.


Instructions for one-trimester UCD Students in UCD for either Autumn or Spring:

*Select a minimum of 10 credits of Global History modules: 1 x 10 credit module
*Select a maximum of 5 credits of Global Social Science modules: 1 x 5 credit module

EITHER:

* Select a maximum of 10 credits of Global Literature modules: 1 x 10 credit module
OR
* Select a maximum of 10 credits of Language/Culture modules 2 x 5 credit modules

Extra option modules from your programme can be taken in place of your electives if you wish.

Global Studies Stage 4 Options


All students are required to take 60 credits at stage 4: 50 credits from your programme and 10 elective credits. There are two options at stage 4 as follows:


OPTION 1: GLOBAL HISTORY DISSERTATION: The dissertation is optional for all students. Students who choose the Global History dissertation option at stage 4 will take a 5-credit research skills autumn module and a 15-credit spring Dissertation. In addition, students must also take a minimum of two 10-credit History options, and a further 10 credits taken from EITHER the Global Literature and Language Culture options OR the Social Science options.


OPTION 2: NO DISSERTATION: Students who do not wish to take the dissertation option must take at least three 10-credit option modules in Global History, 10 credits from Global Literature and Language Culture options, and a further 10 credits from the Social Science options.


All students should take care to balance their workload across the autumn and spring trimesters. The recommended workload split is 30 credits per trimester.


Students can substitute their elective allowance of 10 credits to take more options from their programme if they wish to do that.