Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Major Award
Duration Full Time: 12 Month(s)
Duration Part Time: 24 Month(s)
Total Credits: 90
Delivery Method: In-Person
Connected Curriculum: - Global Reach
- Inter-and Transdisciplinary
- Research Based Teaching
- Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Graduate Attributes: - Creator, evaluator and communicator of knowledge
- Digitally Fluent
- Independent and creative thinker
Work-Integrated Learning (Including Placement): No
The MA in The Beginnings of Irish Christianity is a full-time programme taken over 12 months or a part-time programme taken over 24 months from the date of first registration for the programme.
Postgraduate Certificate in the Beginnings of Irish Christianity
Upon satisfactory completion of 30 credits (10 credits of which must be a core module), students may opt to exit the programme and be conferred with a Postgraduate Certificate in The Beginnings of Irish Christianity.
Postgraduate Diploma in the Beginnings of Irish Christianity
Upon satisfactory completion of 60 credits, students may opt not to complete the dissertation and exit the programme and be conferred with a Postgraduate Diploma in The Beginnings of Irish Christianity. A student who subsequently applies to continue to Master’s level must do so within 5 years of successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma.
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| |
| CC6014 | Independent Research: Early Christian Ireland 1 | 10 |
| or CC6021 | Devotion and Belief in Pre-Norman Ireland |
| 15-0 |
| The Rise of Christianity (5) | |
| The Archaeology of Early Medieval and Viking Britain (5) | |
| The Viking World and Ireland (5) | |
| Early Medieval Ireland: Archaeology and Art (5) | |
| Latin in Practice (5) | |
| Ireland and the beginnings of Europe (10) | |
| 35-50 |
| Old Irish (10) | |
| Continuing Old Irish (10) |
| Research Seminar (10) | |
| Special Topic (10) 3 | |
| Palaeography and Manuscript-based Research (10) | |
| Field Trips to Early Christian Sites (15) | |
| The Earliest Vernacular Literature: Monasticism and Literacy (10) 4 | |
| The Culture of Gender in Early Ireland (10) 5 | |
| Beginners' Latin (15) | |
| |
| CC6016 | Dissertation in the Beginnings of Irish Christianity 6 | 30 |
| Total Credits | 90 |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Programme Learning Outcomes
Programme Learning Outcomes for MA in The Beginnings of Irish Christianity (NFQ Level 9 Major Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Command a comprehensive knowledge of the early Latin church from which medieval Irish religious culture arose, and of which it continued to form a part;
- Identify the strategies whereby Irish Christianity accommodated important elements of the indigenous culture;
- Draw upon in-depth familiarity with a broad range of different types of medieval Irish religious literature;
- Clearly formulate, and apply in their work, an understanding of the cultural dynamic which rendered the early Irish church so distinctive while at the same time being open to the wider world;
- Utilise and communicate an integrated vision of the subject, informed both by literary evidence and physical remains;
- Make confident use of individual initiative and developed analytic skills in carrying out supervised research.
