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Courses
Courses
Choosing a course is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make! View our courses and see what our students and lecturers have to say about the courses you are interested in at the links below.
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University Life
University Life
Each year more than 4,000 choose University of Galway as their University of choice. Find out what life at University of Galway is all about here.
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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
Since 1845, University of Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
University of Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
University of Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni & Friends
Alumni & Friends
There are 128,000 University of Galway alumni worldwide. Stay connected to your alumni community! Join our social networks and update your details online.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At University of Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Accessibility & LanguagePersonalised Student Journey
Personalised Student Pathways
Pillar one of Designing Futures works with students to design their future through the creation of a personalised skills pathway.
This was be achieved by:
Student Success Coaching
Creating personalised skills pathways with the support of Student Success Coaches across the Colleges of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Students, Science and Engineering and Business, Public Policy and Law using Stanford’s Designing For Life methodology.
Student Success Coaching offers a supportive space for students, encouraging them to learn more about themselves, gain clarity on their goals and decide on actions to move forward towards achieving them. Students can work with a coach, 1:1 or in or small group session.
Student Success Coaches encourage and support students to take an active, intentional role in ‘designing their lives’ to achieve their unique academic, personal and life goals during their time at University of Galway.
Contact successcoach@universityofgalway.ie to book a coaching session.
Transdisciplinary Modules
Creating transdisciplinary elective modules that enhance students’ professional skills, designed by experts from across the university and with input from our enterprise partners.
As part of the Designing Futures programme we developed Transdisciplinary Modules (TDMs) that serve both teaching and student learning goals. A transdisciplinary approach aims to promote student-centred modules that help develop new and exciting knowledge and learning outcomes, eliciting a holistic approach to teaching and learning. A TDM incorporates a novel assessment element that seeks to enable a practical application and/or experiential component (ideally a project-based assessment).
This strategy is one that cultivates students as active agents and emphasises the value of their coursework to their future lives, underlining more clearly the competencies and transversal skills, (communication, collaboration, empathy, interpersonal skills, teamwork etc.), that will stand to them beyond the university setting, as well as disciplinary expertise.
Current modules and contact details:
| BI3103 | Career Development and Employability Skills | careers@universityofgalway.ie |
| BSS2103 | Introduction to Sustainability 1 | geography@universityofgalway.ie |
| BSS2104 | Introduction to Sustainability 2 | geography@universityofgalway.ie |
| MG3113 | Megatrends 1 | management@universityofgalway.ie |
| MG3115 | Megatrends 2 | management@universityofgalway.ie |
| MG3117 | Intercultural Encounters | management@universityofgalway.ie |
| PH2108 | Scaling Big Ideas | physics@universityofgalway.ie |
| PH2111 | Makerspace Creative Technologies 1 | physics@universityofgalway.ie |
| PH2112 | Makerspace Creative Technologies 2 | physics@universityofgalway.ie |
| PS3108 | Design Thinking | psychology@universityofgalway.ie |
| PS3123 | "Sástacht Saol” Exploring Wellbeing | psychology@universityofgalway.ie |
| SP3211 | Empathy in Action | sopsas@universityofgalway.ie |
| PS3109 | Vertically Integrated Projects 1 S1 | psychology@universityofgalway.ie |
Vertically Integrated Projects
‘Vertically Integrated Projects’ or VIPs (VIPs) are interdisciplinary research projects that recruit undergraduate students from a range of disciplines to work on discrete research outputs relevant to the project. VIPs have been rolled out in over 40 universities worldwide and they build the research impact of the VIP PIs and the employability and research awareness of the student members.
Students earn credits and can participate in multiple semesters, with returning students taking on additional leadership/project responsibilities. "Vertically Integrated" refers to VIP team compositions, which can include undergraduate, postgraduate (taught) and research students in addition to University staff. In 2022, University of Galway became a member of the VIP Consortium led by Georgia Institute of Technology.
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