Announcing a new intake to the interdisciplinary, cross-institutional PhD
programme between NUI, Galway and Mary Immaculate College, University of
Limerick.
This full time programme will provide students with a PhD following four
years of thesis-orientated research and taught modules. (In effect, the
programme offers a combined taught masters and doctoral degree.) Students
will be registered at one or other of the host institutions but will attend
classes provided by both. Over the four years, the programme will provide
students with access to the expertise of a range of scholars within each
institution, as they develop their research ideas and enhance their research
skills. The programme draws on two main contemporary approaches to
philosophical aesthetics and culture – the Anglo-American analytic
tradition, and that of Continental Philosophy. These two approaches rarely
intersect. In consequence, their respective strengths are exercised in
isolation, and often in contexts that fail to engage directly with theory
and practice in the arts, and the broader cultural issues in which they are
embedded. This new research programme overcomes these divisions at all
levels. Indeed, by blending expertise from the two institutions, the
programme explores the philosophy of art and culture in an intellectually
enriched setting. The programme is also able to give equal emphasis to
visual art and literature, and to offer special strength in phenomenological
and hermeneutical approaches.
What modules will I take? The programme has the great advantage of allowing
students to combine subject-specific philosophy courses, related academic
studies, and generic skills modules, from those on offer at BOTH
institutions. Students will take a number of core and optional modules from
the following:
• Phenomenology of Art and Culture (NUI, Galway)
• Arts Community Internship (NUI, Galway)
• History and Philosophy of Pictorial Space (NUI, Galway)
• Modernity and Knowledge (NUI, Galway)
• Philosophy and the Subject (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
• Literary Aesthetics (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
• Introduction to Hermeneutics (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
• Arts and Cultures of Display: Museums, Galleries, Curating (University of
Limerick)
Assessment
Performance will be evaluated on the basis of a successful pass on all
taught modules and a substantial research thesis. The examination of the
thesis will include an oral examination by the External and Internal
Examiners at the end of the programme.
All applications for NUI, Galway must be made online, via the Postgraduate
Applications Centre, www.pac.ie
For applications to Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, please
see contact details below.
Applicants to NUI, Galway will be eligible to apply to the Galway Doctoral
Research Scholarship Scheme. Assistantships will be available for applicants
to Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, on a competitive basis.
Professor Paul Crowther: paul.crowther@nuigalway.ie
Dr Tsarina Doyle: tsarina.doyle@nuigalway.ie
Philosophy
School of Humanities
National University of Ireland, Galway
T +353 (0)91 495473
F +353 (0)91 494554