Programme Overview:
- Duration:
- 4 Months
- Attendance:
- Full Time
- Mode of Delivery:
- Online
- Next Intake:
- 2024/2025 September
- Contact Name:
- Claire Nolan
- Contact Number:
- +353 1 716 8368
- Fees:
- Fee Information
With support from Microsoft Ireland, UCD’s School of Information and Communication studies is establishing the Microsoft-UCD Digital Policy Programme with the goal of building digital policy training and capability in Ireland and Europe.
The innovative programme mixes the abstract and the applied with core modules from the School of Information and Communication Studies and optional modules from other Schools in the College of Social Sciences and Law (COSSL) and Computer Science. This programme introduces students to basic concepts and issues in digital policy, giving a historical and critical understanding of how to theorise digital objects and environments by learning to situate them in perspectives such as platform capitalism, governance, data infrastructures, information analytics, interface critique and software studies.
The Professional Certificate in Digital Policy is designed to prepare graduates for careers in evaluating, implementing, and studying core topical, theoretical, and methodological issues that arise in digital policy today. The course will take a multi-disciplionary approach to investigating the institutional and public policy dimensions of the prevalence of digital technology, as well as the underlying social conditions (economic, political, and cultural) and public/private sector contexts that give rise to such technologies and their governance. Content will include lectures and hands-on exercises by academics, representatives from digital industries, and representatives of of civil society.
**STARTS - SEPTEMBER - ONLINE**
The course will run online for one semester, Wednesday afternoons 2pm - 4pm, starting in September. Students will be provided with readings in advance with assessments due afterwards.
Curricular information is subject to change
Full Time option suitable for:
Domestic(EEA) applicants: Yes
International (Non EEA) applicants currently residing outside of the EEA Region. Yes
The course is designed as a brief overview to some of the academic, government, civil society, and industry perspectives on contemporary digital policy issues. Individuals with professional experience who wish to get a broader perspective on digital policy issues and trends would benefit from this course.
Professional Certificate in Digital Policy
With support from Microsoft Ireland, UCD’s School of Information and Communication studies is establishing the Microsoft-UCD Digital Policy Programme with the goal of building digital policy training and capability in Ireland and Europe.
The Professional Certificate in Digital Policy is designed to prepare graduates for careers in evaluating, implementing, and studying core topical, theoretical, and methodological issues that arise in digital policy today. The course will take a multi-disciplionary approach to investigating the institutional and public policy dimensions of the prevalence of digital technology, as well as the underlying social conditions (economic, political, and cultural) and public/private sector contexts that give rise to such technologies and their governance.
Knowledge and understanding
• Understand both theoretical and applied issues in digital policy
• Demonstrate advanced conceptual knowledge of digital technologies and their implications for socio-political life
• Understand the dilemmas and tensions involved in regulating digital technologies
Applying knowledge and understanding
• Critically appraise evidence from research papers concerning topics in digital policy
• Critically evaluate existing digital policies and policy proposals and their limitations
Making judgements
• Systematically analyse the research literature in a key area of digital policy as part of their dissertation
• Decide, under guidance, on appropriate methodology and materials to be analysed for their dissertation
Communications and working skills
• Articulate theoretical concepts, current debates and research findings to both specialist and non-specialist
audiences from a digital policy perspective
• Work effectively with peers in learning, research, and presentation
Learning skills
• Collect or source data using research methodologies taught on the programme
• Engage in independent research and analysis under supervision
• Write to a high academic standard
ProfCert Digital Policy (W569) Full Time
EU/NONEU fee per year - € 920
***Fees are subject to change
€3,200 for Non-EU citizens
Some fee waivers are available for human rights, NGO and community organisation works and people in the global south who email a one paragraph statement of interest to: elizabeth.farries@ucd.ie.
Apply now here
The course will run online for one semester, Wednesday afternoons 2pm - 4pm, starting in September.
Students will be provided with readings in advance with assessments due afterwards.