Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Minor Award
Total Credits: 30
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
Exit Award only
Upon satisfactory completion of 30 credits (10 credits of which must be a core module), students on the MA (The Beginnings of Irish Christianity) programme may opt to exit the programme and be conferred with a Postgraduate Certificate in The Beginnings of Irish Christianity.
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 | |
| The Archaeology of Early Medieval and Viking Britain | |
| The Viking World and Ireland | |
| Early Medieval Ireland: Archaeology and Art | |
| Latin in Practice | |
| Ireland and the beginnings of Europe | |
| 35-50 |
| Old Irish | |
| Continuing Old Irish |
| Research Seminar | |
| Special Topic 3 | |
| Palaeography and Manuscript-based Research | |
| Field Trips to Early Christian Sites | |
| The Earliest Vernacular Literature: Monasticism and Literacy 4 | |
| The Culture of Gender in Early Ireland 5 | |
| Beginners' Latin | |
| Total Credits | 60 |
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 Postgraduate Certificate in The Beginnings of Irish Christianity (NFQ Level 9 Minor 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;
- Explicate the spiritual dimension of Irish cosmological speculation;
- Analyse the role of Irish saints’ Lives in contemporary society.
