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ARCH1001J

Academic Year 2024/2025

Ireland - Landscape, Heritage and Culture (ARCH1001J)

Subject:
Archaeology
College:
Social Sciences & Law
School:
Archaeology
Level:
1 (Introductory)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Dr Amanda Kelly
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades
Campus of Delivery:
BDIC(UCD) Beijing

Curricular information is subject to change.

This module, prepared specifically for students with little previous experience of Ireland, is designed to convey a sense of the country and its people, notably its landscape, heritage and culture.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

Having taken this module, students will be expected to:
* have a broad and cursory sense of the Irish landscape, both urban and rural.
* demonstrate a rudimentary knowledge of the human story in Ireland
* be able to discuss certain cultural and societal themes with a certain amount of knowledge.

Relevant transferable skills:
* Students will develop an analytical perspective
* Descriptive and linguistic improvement
* Teamwork
* Heightened communication skills (in terms of written work, presentation and visual technologies)
* Students will be working through the English language, many for the first time, and a progressive improvement will mark every stage of their assessment and progression will be rewarded as such.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

20

Specified Learning Activities

30

Autonomous Student Learning

50

Total

100


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures and group work

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): This is a final in-class exam worth 70% of the overall grade. Week 12 Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No
70
Yes
Exam (Online): This is a midterm online assessment worth 30% of the overall grade Week 6 Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No
30
Yes

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Dr Amanda Kelly Lecturer / Co-Lecturer