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CANCELLED AE-HN522 - A History of UCD
What is the history of University College Dublin (UCD)? How does learning about this campus help us understand and navigate higher education on a global scale? And what sources do scholars have at their disposal to tell such histories? This course addresses these questions as we will learn about the history of UCD, from its foundations as the Catholic University of Ireland and then University College, to aims and missions of the university as it changed over time. We’ll study the origins of the university from the perspective of staff and students, honing in on their involvement in the Irish War of Independence, the physical moving of the campus from Dublin city centre to a purpose build campus in Belfield (and in the 1990s, Blackrock). We will look at protests movements and occupation on campus in the 1960s and compare these to more recent and ongoing protest movements. The course is hands-on, and will include brief weekly walks around campus to discuss the history and placement of specific buildings and we hone in on the unique and local history of UCD and compare our university to other campuses around the world.
Duration: 8 Mondays
Time: 18:00-20:00
Dates: 29 Sept 6, 13, 20 Oct (no class 27 Oct) 3, 10, 17, 24 Nov
- Making UCD
- Teaching UCD
- Rising and UCD
- Moving UCD
- Exploring UCD
- Occupying UCD
- Global UCD
- The Future of UCD
All readings for this course will be electronic and range from academic journal articles and book chapters, to videos, podcasts and images. A reading list will be provided at the start of the course and no materials will be needed in advance.
At the end of this course, learners will be able to outline the history of UCD; evaluate historical sources (including architecture as a source); discuss historical debates, and explain the long histories university campuses.
Each class will be divided between a lecture (for the first half of the session) and group discussions (for the second half of the session). We will also walk to different parts of the UCD campus to see first hand some of the aspects we are discussing. The lecture will provide an introduction to the weekly topic and give a larger overview to the case studies we will be looking at in the second half of the session. Learners will be provided with a range of sources, from primary text and secondary scholarship to video clips and visual images. There will be no assessments.
Dr Jeremiah Garsha is an Assistant Professor in Global History at UCD. He was awarded his PhD in World History from the University of Cambridge, where he also competed an MPhil in African Studies. He also holds an MA in Modern European History and Comparative Genocide from San Francisco State University. Dr Garsha is a cultural history who works on histories of colonialism and postcolonialism.