BA in Liberal Arts

Entry Requirements

• IELTS score of 6.0 (or equivalent).

Curriculum

Year 1

• Academic communication
• War and peace in the modern world
• Western arts
• The digital revolution
• Imagination and storytelling
• Anglo-Irish writers
• Cinema and society
• Western religions
• The Enlightenment
• American culture abroad

Year 2

• Shakespeare
• Contemporary China
• Irish migration
• Romanticism
• Representations of sexualities
• Modern art
• Scramble for Africa
• Literary modernism
• India
• The Scientific Revolution

Year 3 (award stage)
Five of the courses offered below should be taken

• Irish nationalism
• The Great Irish Famine
• Oscar Wilde and his circle
• James Joyce’s Ulysses
• Irish cinema
• American literature
• Migrations to America
• The American Civil War
• Hollywood
• America after 9/11
• The rise of the novel
• Modern poetry
• The Spanish Civil War
• The Cold War