College of Social Sciences and Law
All students registered on the PhD degree programme in the College of Social Sciences and Law (CSSL) must successfully complete 30 credits through taught modules during the course of their programme. All modules are agreed in advance with the Principal Supervisor.
Modules listed below are made available by CSSL Schools to students outside of their own School. Please note that some Schools have their own programme requirements.
College of Social Sciences and Law Graduate School PhD Programmes
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- EDUC41320 - Advanced Research Methods 2 (Quantitative)
- (opens in a new window)GSBL50050 - Approaches and techniques in qualitative research
- IS40820 - Research Theory and Practice
- IS41510 - Social Networks Online and Off
- (opens in a new window)LAW50030 - Advanced research in law
- POL50220 - Social Science Methodology
- POL50050 - Quantitative Methods II
- SPOL41020 - Data and Methods for Policy Analysis
School of Archaeology
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
School of Economics
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- (opens in a new window)ECON50710 - PhD Econometrics 1
- (opens in a new window)ECON50580 - PhD Econometrics 2
- (opens in a new window)ECON50570 - PhD Microeconomics 1
- (opens in a new window)ECON50720 - PhD Microeconomics 2
- (opens in a new window)ECON50740 - PhD Macroeconomics 1
- (opens in a new window)ECON50730 - PhD Macroeconomics 2
School of Education
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- (opens in a new window)EDUC40310 - Education Sciences: Psychology Applied to Schools
- (opens in a new window)EDUC40420 - Inclusive Education for Pupils with Additional support Needs
- (opens in a new window)EDUC41290 - Advanced Research Methods 1 (Qualitative)
- (opens in a new window)EDUC41500 - Critical Policy Analysis
- (opens in a new window)EDUC41520 - Children's Rights and Participation
- (opens in a new window)EDUC42140 - Students, Schools and Society
School of Geography
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40390 - Research Design
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40450 - Critical Geopolitics of Europe
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40750 - Reimagining Dublin: An Interdisciplinary Exploration in Urban Regeneration
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40770 - GIS for Environmental Assessment
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40820 - GIS Principles and Applications
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40850 - GIS for Environmental Investigations
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40860 - Practical Environmental Assessment
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40870 - Advanced GIS
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40890 - Remote Sensing
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40940 - International Urban Fieldwork
- (opens in a new window)GEOG40970 - Critical Geographies
- GEOG41050 - Globalisation, Empire and Race: Economic Geography
- GEOG41060 - Geostatistics and Programming for GIS
School of Information and Communication Studies
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- (opens in a new window)IS30020 - Web Publishing
- (opens in a new window)IS40030 - People, Information and Communication: Our Information Behaviour
- (opens in a new window)IS40560 - Digital Libraries
- (opens in a new window)IS40630 - Digital Curation: Core Concepts
- IS40640 - Research Methods
- IS40730 - Quantitative Data Analysis
- IS40760 - Research Data Management
- (opens in a new window)IS40900 - Scholarly Communication
- IS41060 - Research and Practice in LIS
- IS41510 - Social Networks Online and Off
- IS41520 - UXD: User-centred Design
School of Law
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- (opens in a new window)LAW40060 - International Commercial Arbitration
- (opens in a new window)LAW40120 - Foundations of Environmental Law
- (opens in a new window)LAW40280 - Trade Mark Law
- (opens in a new window)LAW40360 - Advanced Issues in European Competition Law
- (opens in a new window)LAW40670 - Corporate Governance
- (opens in a new window)LAW40760 - NGOs: Law, Governance and Social Change
- (opens in a new window)LAW40780 - Law of the ECHR
- (opens in a new window)LAW41040 - Law and Governance of the EU
- (opens in a new window)LAW41090 - Climate Change Law and Policy
- (opens in a new window)LAW41150 - Online Regulation
- (opens in a new window)LAW41270 - Data Protection and Privacy: European and US Perspectives
- (opens in a new window)LAW41450 - International Tax Law
- (opens in a new window)LAW41730 - Foundations of Environmental Law SBES
- (opens in a new window)LAW42000 - Copyright Law
- (opens in a new window)LAW42010 - Financial Regulation
- (opens in a new window)LAW42020 - Law of Armed Conflict
- (opens in a new window)LAW42040 - Culture, Heritage and Human Rights
- (opens in a new window)LAW50030 - Advanced Research in Law
School of Philosophy
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- (opens in a new window)PHIL40250 - Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception
- (opens in a new window)PHIL40410 - Philosophy and literature
- (opens in a new window)PHIL40960 The Cultural Mind
- (opens in a new window)PHIL41240 John Henry Newman – a philosophical prespective
- (opens in a new window)PHIL41280 - Feminist and gender theory
- (opens in a new window)PHIL41320 - Topics in continental philosophy
- PHIL41330 - Philosophy of Time
- (opens in a new window)PHIL41510 Ethics: Theory and Practice
- PHIL41810 - Critique, Destruction and Deconstruction
- PHIL41840 - Invention of the Modern Self
School of Politics and International Relations
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- DEV40020 - Gender and Development
- (opens in a new window)POL40140 - Theories of Global Justice
- POL40160 - Comparative Public Policy
- (opens in a new window)POL40370 - International Political Economy
- POL40540 - Comparative European Politics
- POL41510 - Politics and Change in the Middle East and North Africa
- (opens in a new window)POL42040 - Gender and the Political System
- (opens in a new window)POL42050 - Quantitative Text Analysis
- POL42340 - Programming for Social Scientists
- POL42550 - Feminist Theory
- POL42530 - Politics of International Trade and Investment
- POL42430 - IR Theory: Conflict and Identity
- POL50200 - Qualitative Research Methods
- POL50220 - Social Science Methodology
* Please consult with the Module Coordinator before signing up.
School of Psychology
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- PSY40950 - Adv Qual Design &Analysis O/L
- (opens in a new window)PSY40270 - Ethics in Psychology Research
- PSY40310 - Psychology Writing Group
- (opens in a new window)PSY40510 - Advanced Psychology Skills
- (opens in a new window)PSY40520 - Psychology Research Seminars
- (opens in a new window)PSY50040 - Advanced Psychology Seminars
- PSY40630 - Advanced Quantitative Design
School of Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- (opens in a new window)SSJ40010 - Feminist egalitarian research
- SSJ50180 - PhD Roundtable
- SSJ50170 - PhD Roundtable
- (opens in a new window)SPOL40470 - Comparing healthcare systems
- SPOL40850 - Women and Substance Use
School of Sociology
Commonly taken modules in this UCD School. The following is not a definitive list.
- (opens in a new window)SOC40080 - Policing and Social Conflict
- (opens in a new window)SOC40220 - Sociological Research: Theoretical and Applied Issues
- (opens in a new window)SOC40330 - Workshop in Qualitative Research
- (opens in a new window)SOC40620 - Nationalism and Social Change
- (opens in a new window)SOC40640 - Social Simulation: Methods and Models
- (opens in a new window)SOC40720 - Organised Violence and Society
- (opens in a new window)SOC40730 - Social and Political Thought: Basic Texts and Discussions
- (opens in a new window)SOC40810 - Introduction to Comparative Social Change: Concepts and Cases
- (opens in a new window)SOC41040 - Research Design
- (opens in a new window)SOC41060 - Religion in Compar Perspective
- SOC41120 - Human Development Challenges in the Global South
- SOC41130 - AI and Society
- SOC41150 - Queering Global Challenges
- SOC41160 - Global Solutions and Applied Social Change
- SOC41170 - Conflict, justice and the Industries of Peace
- SOC50060 - PhD/MLitt Roundtable
- SOC40790 - Art, Knowledge and Social Change
- SOC40620 - Nationalism and Soc Change
- SOC40330 - Workshop in Qualitative Research
Further Recommended UCD Modules
Commonly taken modules in these UCD Schools. The following is not a definitive list.
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering