Customized Programs for Groups |
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ICH can
also develop special programs for colleges and other organizations wishing to send groups
abroad for regular terms or shorter periods. We can create a credit bearing or non-credit
program especially for your group for a weekend, week or term. ICH will develop a complete
program tailored to your group and length of stay, including vacation culture and activity
tours for alumni groups or joint courses developed with your own faculty. |
Past joint programs have included a course on Famine and Emigration which made use of primary
sources available in the Kerry County Library, a course on Irish
Gothic Literature which included three days in Dublin studying the
architecture and drama of the period, and a four-week course on Modern
Irish Literature, Poetry and Language which included a week touring
Yeats country. Programs under development are an in-depth course on Modern
Irish History and a fine arts course on the Creative
Response to Irish Mythology.
Vacation tours have included Traditions of
Ireland, Castles and Cathedrals,
The Country Way, and Golfing the Kingdom:The 'Nines' of Kerry.
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Fees for these types of programs are individually determined and vary depending
upon length of stay, amount of ICH faculty involvement and the number of day and overnight
trips desired.
ICH Irish Studies Minor Program
ICH has designed a Minor in Irish Studies, presently in the curriculum of
Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA, which is unique in that it is undertaken as a
semester abroad. This interdisciplinary program offers students the opportunity to study
the intellectual and historical traditions of Ireland as an important and topical
discipline in its own right. Through exposure to Irish literature, history, social
science, the arts and the built and natural environments, students explore the strands
that combine to create the character of the people. ICH will work with individual Partner
colleges that wish to include the Minor in Irish Studies in their own offerings, and to
modify the program, if necessary, to satisfy the requirements for a minor in accordance
with their own college’s guidelines.
The Irish Studies Minor program aims to:
- broaden students’ understanding of a culture different from their own through
first-hand experience, encouraging them to become more aware global citizens,
- develop a keen awareness and understanding of the traditions, experiences and
characteristics of Ireland through an interdisciplinary study of its history, language,
literature, arts and natural environment, and
- formulate knowledgeable opinions and arguments on Irish literature, culture, history and
social science both verbally and in written form.
For further information about Customized Programs, please email us.  |
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