Dublin, Ireland

UNDERGRADUATE LANGUAGE COURSES

Undergraduate students must register for 8 points. All courses are open to undergraduates. A limited number of courses are open to graduate students. Graduate students may register for 4 or 8 points.

IRISH-UA 9100 - Elementary Irish I - Ó Cearúill (4 points)
Open to undergraduates only.
The aim of this course is for students to achieve fundamental proficiency in Gaelic, as it is spoken in the Donegal Gaeltacht. Beginning with basic vocabulary and grammar, students master conversational phrases and traditional songs by the end of this course. Students have many opportunities to practice language skills throughout the program.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH

Topics in Irish Literature: Contemporary Irish Literature
IRISH-UA 9762 – Creaney – 4 points
This course explores the nature and evolution of Irish writing through an overview of the works of the most important figures in the Irish literary and dramatic world in the past century. We will read key texts of the early twentieth-century literary revival by W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge and James Joyce and think about the ways in which literature was instrumental in forming and defining an emerging national identity. We will then move on to the midcentury works of Samuel Beckett and Elizabeth Bowen, and finally consider more contemporary representations of Irish identity in works by Marina Carr, Sebastian Barry, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon and Paul Murray. The class will take a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, and will feature guest lectures from notable Irish writers and scholars.

The Irish Renaissance
Waters – 4 points
This course seeks to understand the extraordinary achievements of Irish writers in the last decade of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th. We read widely in all the different genres – poetry, polemic, short story, novel, drama – that were remade by Irish writers during the tumultuous period from the fall of Charles Stuart Parnell into the early years of national government in the 1930s. Authors read on the course include James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Augusta Gregory, John Synge, Sean O’Casey, Elizabeth Bowen, and Flann O’Brien. We will balance our readings of literature with consideration of the social and historical contexts of Ireland under the Union with Britain, and after that Union was partially broken. In attempting to refine the proper lens through which to view this literature, we address a number of salient issues, including the forms of Irish cultural nationalism, the violence of civil war, the social position of literature and of intellectuals in projects of national reconciliation and national identity, and the clash between revolutionary anti-imperialism and conservative Catholicism, between rural and urban identities, between provincialism and cosmopolitanism as strategies for literary self-fashioning. The class draws on our setting in Dublin to visit literary and historical landmarks around the city.

History of Modern Ireland
IRISH-UA 9184 – Staff – 4 points
to the contemporary peace process. The course begins with an examination of the era of revolution and war that gave rise to a divided Ireland and moves on to study the following decades of state-building, the impact of the Second World War, cultural identity, religion, emigration, modernization, the reemergence of the "troubles" and the subsequent "war" in Northern Ireland, and the recent moves toward peace. Lectures from guest speakers and politicians and field trips to sites of historical interest form an integral part of the course.

Irish Culture: Tradition and Modernity
IRISH-UA 9104 – Ó Cearúill – 4 points
This course analyzes the traditional cultural patterns embedded in folklore, popular culture, language, religious, cultural and sporting institutions. The objective is to discover how such structures transformed from their past existence and to examine the changing patterns and values of contemporary life in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Of particular interest in this course is the place of tradition in a society that is rapidly changing, becoming more modern, European, secular, and urban.

Contemporary Irish Politics and Society: Understanding the Sociology of Change
IRISH-UA 9515 – Slater – 4 Points Syllabus TBA
Enormous changes have occurred in Ireland in the last decade, especially the social and cultural implications of the economic boom known as the "Celtic Tiger" that have transformed the country in so many ways. What happens to the social life of a nation that leapfrogs from being an agricultural economy to a technologically-advanced postindustrial one? The changes that Ireland has undergone extend to all areas of public and private life: the (uneven) rise in levels of personal wealth; the decline of the Catholic church, both as a means of social organization and as a mode of private, personal understanding of the world; the change from being a population defined by emigration to one now experiencing much higher levels of immigration; and the attendant challenges of our transformation into a more dramatically multicultural society. How did the transformation happen? Ireland managed to attract a huge amount of foreign direct investment but to what extent is Ireland dependent on other nations, especially the U.S., for its current prosperity? How has affluence (and the recent precipitous drop in the nation’s economic prosperity) changed the way that Irish people live? Ireland is often seen as a post-colonial society; if true, what influence does this condition have on Irish ability to participate in the 21st-century global economy?

GRADUATE COURSES

There are a limited number of courses open to graduate students. Graduate students may register for 4 or 8 points.

The following courses offered at the undergraduate level are also offered to graduate students, who attend the same classes and lectures as the undergraduate students. However, in terms of academic requirements, graduate students are expected to write a research paper for each of their courses, to meet with the professor one additional hour per week, and to take full advantage of their professor's area of expertise in terms of advice, supervision, and use of research resources in Dublin. For each of the following courses, see the corresponding description given in the undergraduate section.

The Irish Renaissance
Waters – 4 points
For description, see IRISH-UA 9621, above.

Topics in Irish Literature: Contemporary Irish Literature
ENGL-GA 9731 – Creaney – 4 points
For description, see IRISH-UA 9762, above

History of Modern Ireland
HIST-GA 9417 – 4 points
For description, see IRISH-UA 9184, above.

Contemporary Irish Politics and Society: Understanding the Sociology of Change
IRISH-GA 9467 – Slater – 4 points
For description, see IRISH-UA 9515, above.

COSTS

8 points are required for undergraduate students to participate in this program.

Undergraduate Tuition 
$6744 (8 points) 

Graduate Tuition 
$1111 (per point) 

Program & Activities Fee 
$650

International Health Insurance
approximately $70

Housing
$2355 single room in two-person apartment

PLEASE NOTE: All students participating in the program are required to live in NYU-provided housing.

There is an additional registration and services fee of:

$250 for students registered at NYU for spring 2012
$276 for students not registered at NYU for spring 2012