College of Arts & Humanities
All students registering to the UCD PhD Degree programme are required to gain 30 credits across a range of modules during the course of their PhD programme. All modules will be selected in consultation and agreement with your Principal Supervisor.
There is a large selection of modules available across the University, both discipline-specific modules and research skills modules.
Below is an indicative list of modules, by School, in the UCD College of Arts and Humanities.
College of Arts and Humanities
- HUM40040 - Creative Approaches
- HUM40050 - Arts and Events Programming
- (opens in a new window)HUM50010 - Tutor Training for Arts
- (opens in a new window)HUM50000 - Critical Acting
- (opens in a new window)ENG50010 - English, Drama and Film Career Development
- (opens in a new window)ENG50030 - English, Drama and Film Graduate Research Culture
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
PhD Students will be required to take some of these modules – please contact the School Office for further information. These modules are also open to PhD students from other UCD Schools.
- (opens in a new window)AH50010 - Teaching and Tutoring
- (opens in a new window)AH50020 - Research Methods
- (opens in a new window)AH50030 - Art History and Cultural Policy Seminar Series
- (opens in a new window)AH50050 - Conference Presentation
- (opens in a new window)AH50060 - Research Resources
School of Classics
PhD Students will normally be required to take modules in Greek or Latin. Beginner's modules are available to learn both languages. For further information, please contact the School Office. These modules are also open to PhD students from other UCD Schools.
LATIN:
Level 1
- (opens in a new window)LAT10090 - Beginners’ Latin 1
- (opens in a new window)LAT10100 - Beginners’ Latin 2
Level 2
Level 3
- (opens in a new window)LAT30120 - Virgil’s Aeneid
- (opens in a new window)LAT40010 - Advanced Latin Texts (10 credits)
GREEK:
Level 1
- (opens in a new window)GRK10090 - Greek Language 1
- (opens in a new window)GRK10100 - Greek Language II
Level 2
- (opens in a new window)GRK20140 - Intermediate Greek
- (opens in a new window)GRK20110 - Greek Texts: Plato
Level 3
- (opens in a new window)GRK30110 - Greek Texts: Epic
- (opens in a new window)GRK30020 - Greek Texts: Thucydides
- (opens in a new window)GRK30090 - Greek Texts: Euripides
- (opens in a new window)GRK30060 - Greek Texts: Aeschylus
School of English, Drama and Film
PhD students are encouraged to take at least one of the modules listed. They are School-specific and are not open to students from other Schools.
Level 5 modules currently offered by the School:
- (opens in a new window)ENG50010 - English, Drama and Film Career Development
- (opens in a new window)ENG50030 - English, Drama and Film Graduate Research Culture
- EDF50010 - Graduate Futures
School of History
- (opens in a new window)HIS50010 - Advanced Research and Writing
- HIS50020 - Introduction to Research and Writing
School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore
PhD students from other Schools who wish to register to these modules must contact theSchool Officein the first instance.
Irish Studies
Irish Folklore
- IRFL40110 - Aspects of Ethnology
- IRFL40120 - Folklore and Folkloristics
- IRFL40150 - Folklore in Focus
- IRFL40160 - The Life Cycle
- IRFL40170 - The Narrative Art
- IRFL40180 - Calendar Custom
- IRFL40200 - Collectors of Music and Song
- IRFL40270 - Identity and Ethnography
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
- FR40340 - Proust: The Writer in Society
- FR40390 - Reading French for Research Purposes
- FR40400 - Thinking Things
- GER40280 - Transcultural Encounters
- GER40290 - German-speaking cinema post 90
- LING40370 - Research Skills 1
- LING40360 - Research Skills 2
- LING40470 - Sociolinguistics
- LING40460 - Phonology
- LING40440 - Corpus Linguistics
- LING40450 - Syntax
- SLL40130 - Introduction to Theory
- SLL40230 - Introduction to Cultural Theory
- SPAN40310 - Surrealism in Spain
- SPAN40360 - Historical Memory in Spain
- SPAN40370 - Latin American literature
School of Music
PhD Students are not required to take specific modules. They can choose from seminars, teaching practice and also the colloquium. PhD students from other Schools who wish to register to these modules must contact the School Office in the first instance.
- (opens in a new window)MUS50030 - Teaching Practice 1 (Semester 1)
- (opens in a new window)MUS50040 - Teaching Practice 2 (Semester 2)
- MUS50070 - Professional Development 1 (Semester 1)
- MUS50080 - Professional Development 2 (Semester 2)