Fine Art Photography, Film, Video
The Photography, Film, Video BA (Honours) in Fine Art, provides students with a comprehensive skillset, founded on the principles of traditional photographic, moving image and lens based media processes, as they apply and are relevant to the rapidly advancing field of contemporary digital media, post-photographic, and post-internet discourses.
Fine Art Print Contemporary Practice
The Print Contemporary Practice (PCP) course has been developed with the needs of the student as core to the delivery of this fine art specialisation. The PCP workshop is housed on the ground level of the LSAD campus and has large spacious facilities dedicating to a wide range of printmaking processes. This provides a professional working space for students to develop a complex range of skills in printmaking, which is an ever expanding, and multi-faceted discipline.
To maintain a high level of expertise and compete with the worldwide changes and trends in printmaking as a practice the main aim of the programme is to study printmaking and all its related components at the forefront of research in this area. Students are provided with comprehensive workshops, lectures and tutorials in these areas, which establish an environment that encourages experiential learning and critical thinking through active engagement in the processes.
Fine Art Sculpture & Combined Media
This course offers students the opportunity to develop and experiment using sculptural techniques and media. Individual studio practice is developed through taught workshops in sculpture techniques combined with a range of studio based multi-media experimentation. Students develop a strong sculptural skill-set, but also become expert within the broader field of cultural production such as curation, public art, commissions, exhibition and cultural event planning, professional promotion and developing education workshops.
Game Art & Design
The B.Sc. (Honours) in Game Art & Design targets the creative needs of the games industry by producing graduates who can develop high quality game content, design game levels and work with industry leading content creation tools, scripting languages and game engines.
In addition to developing students’ artistic skills, students of the programme acquire the skills to produce compelling game content for various gaming applications and platforms. The graduates of this programme possess a well-developed understanding of both the creative and technical processes involved in producing game content.
The programme is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to work in the games industry as games artists, content creators and designers. The programme embodies the multidisciplinary nature of the games sector and seeks to address the demand for game art and design skills both nationally and internationally.
Graphic Design and Communication
This award winning course focuses on the study of graphic design and all its related disciplines. The course offers a high level of experiential learning through studio projects, talks, workshops and online activities. Students get the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to work creatively in the field of graphic design; through application of original thought to a given problem; to be open to new ideas; to be able demonstrate a range of skills; to be willing to involve themselves in the many and varied practices within graphic design communication.
Interior Design
This studio-based programme consists of modules that are primarily assessed through design projects, coursework and assignments.
Programme content is concerned with the study of interiors through analysis, research and intervention. Through understanding the needs of the client, respecting the existing situation, and researching the specialised area, it allows the student to respond with relevant, innovative and creative solutions.
The programme uses the design project as the central vehicle for learning and aims to stimulate and provoke imaginative responses to the reuse of interior spaces. Projects address domestic, commercial, hospitality, community, social and user-specific interior briefs.
The first year starts with core foundation skills facilitating exploration and allowing students to develop a body of knowledge on approaches to interior spaces. As the programme progresses, students engage in live projects with community and charity organisations where they work with a reallife client and situation. Collaborative and
group work is used extensively alongside individual studio practice. Field trips, locally, nationally and internationally run in conjunction with visiting lectures from designers in practice and industry, ensuring engagement and understanding of best practice and current trends in interior design.
Social Care Work
This programme emphasises the professional and personal development required to work in this challenging field. Social Care Work is the professional provision of care, protection, support, welfare and advocacy for vulnerable or dependent people individually or in groups. As an applied profession, this programme requires students to undertake two episodes of professional placement. Typically, a social care worker is employed working with those who have physical or learning difficulties, disabilities, young people at risk, children who have been neglected or abused, family support services, addiction services, homeless services, elderly people, and in settings as diverse as residential care, day care, and community based services. Graduates find employment opportunities with the HSE, TUSLA, statutory and voluntary organisations and community-based agencies.
Business Studies with Sports Management
This course is perfect for people with a passion for sport and who would like to work in an exciting, dynamic and global industry. Students will develop their leadership skills and gain an understanding of governance and sports development, marketing, sponsorship, finance, law, event management, economics, public relations and human resource management.
Students of this course will also be able to develop networks with many of our contacts within Sports Partnerships, GAA, Camogie Association, FAI, Limerick FC, Munster Rugby, Thomond Park stadium, the Irish Sports Council and Coaching Ireland.
Human Nutrition & Dietetics
Dietitians apply knowledge of food, nutrition and other disciplines such as biochemistry, physiology and social science to promote health, prevent disease and help to manage illness.
This course offers you an integrated training in the science of nutrition and dietetics, and its applications to human health and well-being both at the individual and community level.
This joint TU Dublin/TCD BSc course is the only such degree course in the Republic of Ireland. Students are registered in TU Dublin and TCD.
The broad aim of the course is to produce graduates who are competent to practice at entry level as a dietitian or public health nutritionist or work as a nutrition expert in the industrial and/or private sector.
You’ll learn how to apply core science knowledge to dietetics and human nutrition, and will develop scientific and analytical skills. To ensure capacity for evidence-based practice, there’s a strong emphasis on developing problem-solving skills, and the ability to review and critically evaluate scientific data and information and to undertake research and development in dietetics and nutrition. You’ll benefit greatly from work placements in Years 1, 2 and 4.
Mechatronic Engineering
Mechatronic engineering combines mechanical engineering, electronic and computer engineering and software design to create intelligent machines, such as ‘intelligent’ robots and safer cars.
Are you curious, imaginative, active and inventive? Do you like problem-solving? The mix in this course of electronic, electrical, computer, robotics and mechanical will offer you lots of opportunities to thrive. Graduates can pursue careers in many fields, from pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and heavy industry to electronics and automation. You’ll study a wide range of subjects, from Algebra and Geometry, Engineering and Electrical Science, Mechanics and Computer-Aided Design to Instrumentation, Design Methodology, Automation and Computer Networks.
In Year 4, you’ll study advanced subjects such as Control Systems, Software Engineering and Industrial Robotics, and complete a Design Project.
You’ll spend 50% of the course time doing hands-on practical assignments, tutorials and project work in well-resourced, state-of-the-art laboratories and workshops.
