Course listings

Listed below are the study abroad course offerings up to fall 2013. Further courses will be added as the semesters approach.

Summer 2013

Program Schedule: Monday-Friday, 9am-1pm, with the exception of site visits.

Program A Eight Weeks

Residence Center check-in: Friday, 17 May 2013
Orientation Program: Saturday 18 May and Sunday 19 May 2013
Classes begin: Monday, 20 May 2013
Residence Center Check Out: Sunday 14 July 2013

Program B Four Weeks

Residence Center Check-In:  Friday, 17 May 2013
Orientation Program:  Saturday 18 May and Sunday 19 May 2013
Classes begin: Monday, 20 May 2013
Residence Center Check Out: Saturday 15 June 2013               

Program C Four Weeks

Residence Center check-in: Sunday, 16 June 2013
Orientation Program Sunday, 16 June 2013
Classes begin: Monday, 17 June 2013
Residence check-out: Sunday, 14 July 2013

Performing Arts Program Four Weeks *New*

Residence Center Check-In:  Friday, 17 May 2013
Orientation Program:  Saturday 18 May and Sunday 19 May 2013
Classes begin: Monday, 20 May 2013
Residence Center Check Out: Saturday 15 June 2013

Please note the following course registration requirements:
Program A 12 credits 4 courses
Program B  6 credits 2 courses
Program C 6 credits 2 courses
Performing Arts 6 credits 1 course

Course Group I Program A and B (select one course)

BUS392 International business

An overview of the unique problems faced by firms engaging in international activities; the importance of understanding the foreign economic, social, political, cultural, and legal environment; the mechanics of importing and exporting; joint ventures, franchising, and subsidiaries; international dimensions of management, marketing, and accounting; international financial management; the special problems of multinational corporations; recent problems of the international economic system; country-risk analysis; and the increasing use of counter-trade.

ENG212 Anglo-Irish Writers

A survey of prominent Anglo-Irish writers, including:  Shaw, Joyce, Wilde, Beckett, O’Casey, Swift and Synge.  Students will become familiar with a representative sample of twentieth-century Irish literary works, including short story and drama.  Literary criticism related to these works will also be covered. General education course 

HPS400*      History Seminar: Themes in Irish History

This course examines selected themes and developments in Irish history from prehistoric times to the present.  The objective is to develop an understanding of the course of Irish history and its place in the wider European historic experience.  Class sessions are conducted in a lecture and discussion format.  Student participation requires full and punctual attendance, taking of lecture notes, completion of required reading, involvement in class discussions, and completion of assigned reports on various themes with presentation to the rest of the class.  Field trips will explore historically relevant aspects of Ireland’s capital. General education course

Course Group II Program A and B (select one course)

HUM320* Irish cultural studies

An exploration of aspects of historical and contemporary manifestations of Irish culture. Topics include plays, storytelling, movies, media and literature in Ireland; Irish music from traditional to U2; contemporary Irish architecture and design; socialising and entertainment; fashion, taste and materialism in the era of the Celtic Tiger and the recession. The course makes extensive use through field trips of the cultural amenities of Ireland’s vibrant capital city, Dublin. General education course

LIB402  Oscar Wilde and his circle

Studies the social circle and literary works of Oscar Wilde, the most influential Anglo-Irish writer of the late Victorian era.  A bohemian, wit, and conversationalist, Wilde inspired a culturally vibrant social environment in Dublin, London, and Paris, whose legacy has lasted until the present day.  Wilde’s artistic achievements in the realm of poetry, fiction, drama, the art of conversation, and literary criticism will be considered in the context of late nineteenth-century aesthetic movement, Irish nationalism, Anglo-Irish colonial relations, the emerging celebrity culture, early Modernism, and Victorian attitudes towards homosexuality.  

General education course

Course Group III  Program A and C (select one course) 

ENG321 Dubliners: writing the Irish short story

This courses focus on introducing students to the basics of short story writing, with special reference to the context of Ireland’s capital city. With a combination of reading examples from seminal short story writers, critical work, class-based writing exercises and field trips to sites of literary interest around Dublin, students will learn the form and mechanics of the short story while also working toward developing their own short prose piece. Their first draft will be work-shopped in class, in which constructive criticism and feedback will be given. The final polished pieces of 2,500 words will be submitted for assessment and, possibly, submitted for publication to literary magazines or websites around Ireland. 

General education course

LIB400  Irish nationalism

Examines the notion of Irish national identity in the context of Irish history, British colonialism, Irish insurgence and struggle for political independence as reflected in historical documents, literature, art, religious life and social experience.  A historical introduction to the problem of Irish nationalism will include the search for cultural and linguistic identity of the Irish in their opposition to the Norman and English rule.  The course will then focus on the subsequent struggles between Irish Home Rule and Unionism with England, on the Easter Rising of 1916 and the civil war, the Partition, to conclude with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the apparently successful alignment of Ireland with the European Union.

General education course

Course Group IV Program A and C (select one course) 

LIB206 Cinema and society

Examines the process in which cinematic narratives, both fictional and documentary, reflect human interactions, conflict and cooperation in a social environment.  The particular problems for analysis will include cinematic representations of family life, local community, work place, class tensions, multiculturalism, poverty and crime. General education course

IB308 Sustainable business

This course will look how creative and sustainable business can tackle environmental and resource problems such as air pollution, climate change, ozone depletion, food supply problems, depleting stocks of fish, fossil fuels, and fresh water. We will review national and international government agencies initiatives such as eco-taxes, recycling policies, environmental taxation, regulations such as the Kyoto Protocol and eco-business opportunities. In this course we will study the main components of sustainable business practices includes sustainable economic theories, modern business practices, cost savings from recycling, reducing power consumption and reusing inputs.  

Performing Arts Course  

PA421 Performing the Irish play

This is a four week, 6 credit, summer program offered in an intensive format (four hours minimum a day, five days a week). Students work under the supervision and guidance of instructors from American College Dublin's BFA in Performing Arts program to develop from scratch and perform in a number of culminating showcases an adaptation of a work from the Irish theatrical canon. Students are assessed according to the quality of their engagement and output in all aspects of the process: initial analysis and adaptation of the script, direction and staging, production, management and marketing, rehearsal and final performance, whether in a lead or support role. Apart from individual contributions, students are evaluated according to their part in supporting the collective functioning and performance levels of the ensemble. Applicants for the program will be required to make themselves available for a brief skype audition and interview; the audition is a prepared monologue (no more than 3 minutes long) from an Irish play first performed after 1850 and the interview is a short discussion of the applicant's background and aspirations. Generally, applicants are expected to be performing arts majors, though applicants with relevant experience or a background in a cognate discipline will also be considered.

Fall Semester 2013

(16 September – 17 December 2013)

Residence Center Check-in:  Friday, 13 September 2013

Study Abroad Orientation: Sat, 14 September – Sun, 15 September 2013
Classes begin: Monday, 16 September 2013
College Closed (no classes): 28 October 2013
Final Day of Class: Friday, 6 December 2013
Final Exams: 9-17 Dec 2013 (inclusive: exclding Sun, 15 Dec)
Residence Center Checkout: Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Students should choose four (12 credits) or five (15 credits) courses from the selection below.   

Please note that courses will not run unless 6 students are registered.
All students MUST book their return flights after 6:30 pm, Tuesday, 17 December 2013

• AF300 Management accounting 1
• AF301 Corporate finance 1
• AF302 HRM  
• AF303 Accounting 3
• AF304 Business law 2
• AF400  Financial reporting
• AF401  Strategic MIS
• AF402  Auditing
• AF403  Taxation 2
• AF404  International investment strategies
• AF409  Internship
• LIB200 Academic communication
• LIB201  War and peace in the modern world
• LIB202 Western arts
• LIB203 The digital revolution
• LIB204 Imagination and storytelling
• LIB300 Shakespeare
• LIB301 Contemporary China
• LIB302 Irish migration
• LIB303 Romanticism
• LIB304 Representations of sexualities
• HUM320 Irish cultural studies
• IB200 Introduction to management
• IB201 Microeconomics
• IB202 Accounting 1
• IB203 Principles of marketing
• IB204 Introduction to computers
• IB300 Managerial accounting  
• IB301 Corporate finance  
• IB302 Networks and databases  
• IB303 International marketing
• IB304 International law  
• IB400 Entrepreneurship  
• IB401 International finance
• IB402 International HRM
• IB403 Operations management 
• IB405 International business ethics
• IB410 Internship
• PA200 Introduction to the performing arts 

*Study tours are offered at an additional cost.

Classes and dates are subject to amendment.