Module Specifications 

* The following modules are 5 or 10 credit modules. A 5 credit module usually represents a one semester course unit with 2 one hour lectures per week for 12 weeks with 125 hours (including independent learning time) allocated to the unit in all. A 10 credit (linked) module represents a two semester course unit with 2 one hour lectures for 24 weeks with 200 hours allocated to the unit in all.

*Note that this implies a 10 credit course is 2 semesters long i.e. it cannot be completed in one semester.

Theology Modules Include:

Scripture
Introduction to Old and New Testaments; The Prophets; The Synoptics; The Johannine and Pauline Writings.
Systematic Theology
Faith, Revelation, Creation, Eschatology; Christology; Rite and Worship; Sacraments of Initiation; Church History; The Trinitarian God; Church and World Religions.
Pastoral Theology
Pastoral Education
Moral Theology
Principles of Moral Theology ; Life, Death, Sexuality; Justice; Truth; Work and Ecology; Religion and Science.
Additional Intensive Modules
Von Balthasar and Rahner; Feminist Theology; Pastoral Theology; Liturgy.

Philosophy Modules
  Historical Introduction 
Logic and Philosophical Anthropology & Logic and
Psychological Anthropology
Philosophy of Religion
Theory of Knowledge 
Metaphysics 
Ethics 
Contemporary Philosophy 

Psychology Modules
  General Psychology & History of Psychology 
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology: Social and Applied Psychology 
Social Psychology: Family and Relationships
& Physiological Psychology
Psychology of Religion & Abnormal Psychology 

Spirituality
Historical Perspectives
Special Studies
Creation Spirituality 
Contemporary Models of Spirituality & Celtic Spirituality
Psychology and Religion & Pastoral Applications of
Spirituality

English Modules

American Short Story; Children’s Literature; Irish Short Story; Introduction to Drama and Cinema; Reading Poetic Forms; Critical and Cultural Theory; 16^th Century Drama; 16^th / 17^th Century Poetry; The Rise of the Novel; Romanticism; Gothic Literature; 19^th & 20^th Century Novel; Victorianism; Colonial/ Postcolonial Writing; Modernism; Reading the Middle Ages; Modern Drama; 20^th Century American Literature; Anglo-Irish Poetry; Contemporary British and Irish Fiction; Classical Translations.