Expand+Enrolment & General Information
Students are encouraged to enrol as early as possible. If you enrol late, the class may be full or may have been cancelled due to low numbers.

You can enrol in person (at the Access and Lifelong Learning Centre i...

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Students are encouraged to enrol as early as possible. If you enrol late, the class may be full or may have been cancelled due to low numbers.

You can enrol in person (at the Access and Lifelong Learning Centre in the James Joyce Library Building), Monday - Friday 9.00am - 1.00pm and 2.00pm - 5.00pm.

Enrol by credit or debit car over the phone (01) 716 7123 or online www.ucd.ie/all/study

The course below will be available for Spring, and will be listed in more detail in our Spring programme. You can book for either term from August 8th 2017.

Cancellations
Lifelong Learning courses are offered subject to sufficient numbers. Where there are insufficient registrations, the course will be withdrawn.

Expand+Introduction
Our Lifelong Learning courses cover a range of topics from Art History through to History, Literature, Philosophy and Writing. The courses are open to all and provide a chance to explore a subject without concerns about assessment. Thes...

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Our Lifelong Learning courses cover a range of topics from Art History through to History, Literature, Philosophy and Writing. The courses are open to all and provide a chance to explore a subject without concerns about assessment. These courses are part of a long tradition in University College Dublin (UCD), and follow the legacy of the university’s founder Cardinal John Henry Newman, who wished to make higher level education accessible to a broad sweep of Irish people.

Today, UCD remains committed to widening participation in higher education, in all its forms, whether to accredited formal learning programmes or informal open learning provision. We believe the rich intellectual resources of the university should be available to all. Our commitment is reaffirmed when we hear the important role learning plays in enhancing people’s lives, whether through providing intellectual stimulus and new friendships, or as an opportunity to sample a topic before further study.

The programme is developed in collaboration with tutors, UCD schools and the broader UCD community. Student feedback informs the type of courses we offer and the style of teaching promoted. Student evaluations have indicated that learning is enhanced through discussion, group work and participative approaches, and by getting out and about to learn on the move. Many of our courses now include field trips or gallery visits, which bring course material to life and provide a social learning opportunity. Further course details are available online at www.ucd.ie/all/study.

We hope you find a course that suits your interests!

Your Tutors
UCD Access and Lifelong Learning is privileged to work with a highly expert and committed group of tutors who are recruited not just on the basis of their subject expertise, but also for their demonstrated interest in adult learning. You can read about your tutor’s qualifications and areas of expertise online where we have included a short tutor biography alongside the course information.

Reading & Booklists
Booklists are available online alongside course descriptions. For the majority of courses, the booklist contains suggested reading for those interested in investigating the subject further. Your tutor can guide you as to which reading might be most suitable.

Booklists for literature students are more critical as classes are based on particular set texts. We recommend that initially you acquire just the first text listed as the list will be discussed with your tutor in class.

Expand+This course is tailor-made to facilitate emerging writers, those with on-going projects, as well as published authors. The aim of the 8 sessions is to assist writers to realise their writing ambitions and potential by finding and using their skills t...

Hide-This course is tailor-made to facilitate emerging writers, those with on-going projects, as well as published authors. The aim of the 8 sessions is to assist writers to realise their writing ambitions and potential by finding and using their skills to create fiction for today’s literary market. Focus is on creating page-turning characters and locations to enhance story line, concurrent with analysing the works of today’s successful authors. Sessions are arranged to allow time for writing, and constructive individual and group analysis of participant’s work.

Writing powerful, bestselling fiction for today’s market is an acquired skill with focus on creating page-turning characters, atmospheric locations that enhance story line, best methods of research and era identification and interpretation as well as strong plot lines and gripping themes. Dynamic characters are a vital component of any story. Within the pages of fiction they need to unfold gradually and develop and change throughout the plot. Fictional characters thrive when backed by story-enhancing locations, in depth interpretation of era, good writing practice, etc. This 8-session course ensures the creations of powerful fictional characters, visual locations, in-depth awareness of era, etc. The purpose of this course is to assist writers at all levels of writing to find and use their story-telling skills to best advantage. The sessions are tailor-made to appeal to emerging writers, writers already working on projects and published writers. The only requirement for attendance is a love of words and an interest in writing fiction. Primary concentration is focussed on optimum ways of researching and creating dynamic characters, optimum locations and era along with narrative and dialogue to best advantage , concurrent with analysing the works of today’s successful authors.