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Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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Course content
The Freshman years
In the Junior Freshman (first) year you will take all four
subjects: economics (introduction to economics, mathematics
and statistics), philosophy (central problems in philosophy,
history of philosophy), political science (introduction to political
science) and sociology (introduction to sociology). In the
Senior Freshman (second) year you choose to continue three
of the subjects and could, for example, take modules ranging
from economic principles, to the history of philosophy to West
European politics, to an introduction to social research.
The Sophister years
In the Junior Sophister (third) year you take two of the four
subjects and in the Senior Sophister (fourth) year you may take
either two subjects or choose to specialise in only one. Students
pursuing the equivalent of single honor programmes in their final
year will be able to pursue an undergraduate dissertation, and
all fourth year modules have elements of project work intended
to help develop research skills and the skills of independent
enquiry.
PPES at a glance
Year 2 (6 modules)
Year 3 (6 modules)
Year 4 (4 modules if you select
Political science, Economics or
Sociology. Please consult the
Philosophy handbook for Philosophy
requirements)
Philosophy
n
Logic & philosophy of
science
n
History of philosophy
n
Political philosophy
n
Topics in ancient philosophy
n
Topics in psychological
philosophy
n
Topics in analytic philosophy
n
Moral philosophy
n
Philosophy of religion
n
Logic and philosophy
n
Topics in Continental
philosophy
n
Ancient philosophy
n
Ethics
n
Phenomenology
n
Psychology/philosophy
n
Metaphysics
n
Philosophy of language
n
Epistemology
n
Post Kantian philosophy
n
Philosophy dissertation
n
General paper
Political
science
n
History of political thought
n
International relations
n
Comparative politics
n
Research methods
n
Irish politics
n
Government and politics of the
USA
n
Democracy and development
n
European Union Politics
n
Research seminar
n
Contemporary political theories
n
Political parties
n
Issues in contemporary politics
n
Contemporary international relations
n
African politics
n
Comparative political reform
n
The politics of inequality
Economics
n
Intermediate economics
n
Mathematics and statistical
methods
n
Economic analysis
n
Money and banking
n
The European economy
n
Economics of less developed
countries
n
Investment analysis
n
Economics of policy issues
n
Industrial economics
n
Mathematical economics
n
Econometrics
n
Economic theory
n
Economics of financial markets
n
Transport economics
n
International economics
n
Quantitative methods
n
Monetary thought and policy
n
Economic and legal aspects of
competition
n
Economics dissertation
Sociology
n
Gender, culture and society
n
European societies
n
Introduction to social
research
n
Social theory and social
inequality
n
Race, ethnicity and identity
n
Globalisation and development
n
Researching society
n
Economic sociology of Europe
n
Conflict studies
n
Popular culture and digital lives
n
Migration
n
Dissertation
The table ‘PPES at a glance’ (see above) gives you a sense of the richness and diversity of modules that are available within PPES in
the second, third and fourth years.