Program Overview

University Program Information

The University College Cork offers various programs for students, including undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

Study Options

• Undergraduate Study
  • BA in History
  • Certificate in Arts
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• Postgraduate Study
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  • MA in International Relations
  • MA in Local History
  • MA in Strategic Studies
  • PhD
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Research in History

• Cork Studies in Irish Revolution
  • The Cause of Labour: 1913 and Beyond
  • The Home Rule Crisis
• Research Seminar Series
• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
• Conferences
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PhD Programme in Digital Arts and Humanities

University College Cork invites applications for 5 four-year funded doctoral studentships on selected topics with the structured PhD programme in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH).

Programme Structure

Candidates will complete core, training and career development modules, including main modules shared across the consortium and others institutionally-based. The overall aim of the taught modules are threefold:

1. to introduce students to the history and theoretical issues in digital arts/humanities;
2. to provide the skills needed to apply advanced computational and information management paradigms to humanities/arts research;
3. to provide an enabling framework for students to develop generic and transferable skills to carry out their final research projects/dissertations.

Year 1

Year 1 of the four-year programme includes core and optional graduate education modules delivered in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Maynooth. These modules provide a grounding in essential research skills and transferable skills together with access to specialist topics.

Years 2 and 3

In years 2 and 3 work on PhD research projects is supplemented with access to elective modules. Year 3 features practical placements in industry, academic research environments or cultural institutions.

Digital Arts and Humanities

The ever-evolving developments in computing and their performative and analytical implications have brought about a quantum leap in arts and humanities research and practice. Digital Arts and Humanities is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention at the intersection of computing and information management with the arts and humanities.

Programme Aim

The DAH Structured PhD programme will create the research platform, the structures, partnerships and innovation models by which fourth-level researchers can engage with a wide range of stakeholders in order to contribute to the developing digital arts and humanities community world-wide, as participants and as leaders.

University College Cork

University College Cork has a strong track record in Digital Humanities and has been a pioneer in the development of digital tools for language study and historiography. The College of Arts (CACSSS) has particular strengths in European and Irish history, Renaissance Studies, English language and literature, Music and musicology, among others.