History
University of Limerick
Key Information
Campus location
Limerick, Ireland
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Introduction
History
The historians at UL are acknowledged scholars in their fields of research, and are committed to student-centred learning; they offer exciting and innovative modules throughout the four years of study. The history programme at UL will enable you to develop critical and analytical skills through an appreciation of primary sources, historiography and key events and changes, as well as through the study of the social, cultural and historical contexts in which change was produced. You will learn about source analysis, the processes informing history writing from the fifteenth century to the contemporary world. You can choose electives to suit your own interests, in Irish, European, American, and Middle Eastern/Mediterranean history; you can focus on political, social, cultural, urban, and gendered approaches to history.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
Semester 1
Doing History: past, present and practice
Semester 2
Games of Thrones: Gender, Power and Identity, Ireland and the Wider World, 1500-1950
Year 2
Semester 3
Students select 2:
- Nasty and Brutish: Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1700
- From the Prophet to ISIS: the Middle East and Europe: ancient to modern
- Making Ireland British: Early Modern Ireland, 1436-1750
- Imagining Ireland: from early Modern to Modern
Semester 4
Cooperative Education Placement
Year 3
Semester 5
External Academic Placement
Semester 6
Students select 2
- Contesting the past: writing history
- New Heaven, New Earth: power and belief in the Europen Reformation 1517-1618
- Absolutes and Revolutionaries: Europe in the age of Enlightenment 1688-1815
- Patriots to Parnell: Ireland, 1750-1891
Year 4
Semester 7
Empires, nations and Union: Europe, 1848-1992
Semester 8
Culture and anarchy: Ireland in the twentieth century
Program Outcome
NFQ Level 8 major Award Honours Bachelor Degree
- MA History
- MA History of Family
- MA Local History
- MA Journalism
- MA in Public History & Cultural Heritage
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
- Professional administration/management
- International/European organizations
- Archivist/Museum curator/Librarian
- Development and research in voluntary organizations/NGOs
- Public service, nationally or locally
- Research and teaching at third level
- Teacher (Professional Master of Education required)