Dundalk Institute of Technology Programmes and Modules - CULT H1021

Module Details

Module Code:	CULT H1021
Full Title:	Ireland 1921-98: Modernity and Tradition
Valid From::	Semester 1 - 2019/20 ( June 2019 )
Language of Instruction:	English

Duration:	1 Semester

Credits::	5

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Departments:	Unknown

Module Description:	no description provided

Module Learning Outcome
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
#	Module Learning Outcome Description
MLO1	Distinguish the main forces, people and events in shaping 20th century Irish history.
MLO2	Debate in a reasoned and well-informed historical discourse about the relationship between social, economic, political and cultural change and the meaning of tradition and modernity in 20th century Ireland.
MLO3	Analyse the dynamic of traditional and modern values within independent Ireland and Northern Ireland.
MLO4	Assess the consequences of changes in ideas about tradition and modernity on Irish men, women and children.
MLO5	Appraise the dominant concepts of cultural identity and relate these to concepts of tradition and modernity in Ireland.

Pre-requisite learning
Module Recommendations This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named DkIT module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
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Module Indicative Content

Module summary

Concepts of tradition and of modernity have been a powerful influence on the course of Irish history in the 20th century. This module will use these concepts to explore the course of recent Irish history and to assess their impact on the lives of the men, women and children of Ireland, north and south.

Module content will include

• The Irish revolution. • Making an “Irish” Ireland. • Land and Industry. • Northern Ireland and the British State 1920-39. • The experience of world war. • The crisis of tradition in independent Ireland in the 1950s • Northern Ireland and the British State 1945-63. • Modernising Ireland: Lemass and O’Neill compared. • The 1960s and the modernisation of Ireland. • Religion and the resurgence of tradition. • Debates in the south: marriage, sex, women. • Debates in the north: identity, politics, war. • Being European.

Assessment Breakdown	%
Module Assessment
Course Work	100.00%

Module Special Regulation

Assessments

Full-time

Course Work

Assessment Type	Essay	% of Total Mark	50
Marks Out Of	0	Pass Mark	0
Timing	n/a	Learning Outcome	4,5
Duration in minutes	0
Assessment Description Research and write an essay, based on original online resources and secondary reading, analyzing forces of tradition and modernity to a title that will be supplied; approx. 1500 words

Assessment Type	Class Test	% of Total Mark	50
Marks Out Of	0	Pass Mark	0
Timing	n/a	Learning Outcome	1,2,3
Duration in minutes	0
Assessment Description Students will submit an e-portfolio of an analysis of Three of the texts considered and discussed in tutorial and class, each text to be accompanied by a research bibliography; approx. 1500 words

No Project

No Practical

No Final Examination

Part-time