Overview
Status: Not on offer
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: Graduate Attributes: - Effective global citizen
- Independent and creative thinker
Work-Integrated Learning (Including Placement): No
The MA (Medieval History: Culture, Text, Image) is a full-time, taught programme running for 12 months or part-time over 24 months from the date of first registration for the programmes.
Students take modules to the value of 90 credits comprising of taught modules to the value of 45 credits (Part I) and a dissertation to the value of 45 credits (Part II).
Postgraduate Certificate in Medieval History: Culture, Text, Image
Candidates who pass at least 30 credits of taught modules may opt to exit the programme and be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Medieval History: Culture, Text, Image.
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| |
| HI6090 | The Insular World in Text and Image | 10 |
| HI6091 | Skills for Medieval Historians: Sources, Methods and Public History | 10 |
| HI6094 | Imagining the medieval city: historical contexts for medievalists | 10 |
| 15 |
| Beginners' Latin (15) | |
| Latin Project (10) | |
| |
2 | |
| The Archaeology of Early Medieval and Viking Britain (5) | |
| Early Medieval Ireland: Archaeology and Art (5) | |
| Ireland's Golden Age: Art and Craft AD 600 - 1200 (5) | |
| Old Irish (10) | |
| Continuing Old Irish (10) |
| Palaeography and Manuscript-based Research (10) | |
| Devotion and Belief in Pre-Norman Ireland (10) | |
| The Culture of Gender in Early Ireland (10) | |
| Roman Imperial History: AD 14-68 (5) | |
| The Rise of Christianity (5) | |
| Byzantium and the Rise of Islam (5) | |
| The Vikings (5) | |
| Ireland and Rome: History, Culture, and Contact (5) | |
| The Tudors and Ireland (5) | |
| From Pagans to Christians (5) | |
| Ritual and Space in the Late Middle Ages (5) | |
| Reading Latin (5) | |
| |
| HI6100 | History Dissertation 3 | 45 |
| 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 Medieval History: Culture, Text, Image (NFQ Level 9, Major Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the particular field of study;
- Demonstrate a critical awareness of the major issues and problems within the study of history/international relations/cultural contact;
- Evaluate and incorporate new insights informed by the forefront of the field of learning;
- Demonstrate competence in a range of level 9 research training methodologies and a range of discipline specific research skills;
- Take responsibility for their research agenda and project, and initiate and evaluate appropriate methodologies.
