| In the third and final year of the Liberal Arts programme, all students will follow a core module, Liberal Arts: Work Related Learning and will choose two further modules from a menu comprised of options offered by tutors within Human Development Studies, ‘Ireland in Europe’ and the subject studies areas.
In this core module taken by all students, students will study organisations and their operating context; issues relating to globalisation; the complexities of the global marketing system; and the interaction between business organisation and social change. Students will develop research skills for the business environment; and enhance their graduate employability skills. A period of placement learning (February-March) within an organisation (private, public or voluntary sectors) with opportunities to observe, participate and reflect on aspects of operational and management processes in order to enhance career and personal development, employability and transferable skills. As a result, students will complete a personal reflective learning audit.
This module is offered by HDS tutors as one of the options available to Year Three students.
In this module, students explore a topic which is central to our understanding of contemporary society and politics: identity. Beginning with an examination of some key concepts (e.g. class, gender, race), students have opportunities to engage in case studies which investigate the constitutive role of popular culture and of political conflict in the construction of identity. Drawing on theoretical insights from social and political theory, as well as cultural studies, this study will critique some of the theoretical frameworks which inform our study of identity (e.g. Marxism, socialization theories, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, feminism and post-colonialism). The focus of the module lies in the exploration of the politics of identity. To this end, we examine the political constitution of identity on the one hand, and the role of identity in political conflict on the other. We will emphasise particularly the malleability and hybridity of identity, and we will explore how the various markers of identity intersect with one another.
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