Course details

CREOLE is an innovative two-year Anthropology degree (120 ECTS), funded under the EU SOCRATES Programme, in which students are required to spend two of the four semesters at one or more European partner institutions:

  • Universität Wien (Austria)
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
  • Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
  • Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia)
  • Stockholms Universitet (Sweden)

This unique international Master’s degree allows the opportunity to study and analyse multiple complex societies, and to deal with cultural persity, transnationalism, visual and popular culture. The programme’s main language is English. Proficiency in the language of the proposed partner institution (French, German, Spanish, Swedish, or Slovenian) is desirable.

Entry Requirements

  • BA degree (2.2 or higher) in Anthropology or cognate discipline, or a recognised international equivalent.
  • Minimum English language requirements
  • IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
  • TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
  • TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
  • PTE (Pearson): 62

Module

Year 1

  • INDEPENDENT READING COURSE
  • INDEPENDENT READING COURSE
  • CREOLE TEACHER EXCHANGE
  • DESIGNING RESEARCH IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  • KNOWLEDGE, POWER, INSTITUTIONS
  • ADVANCED SPECIALITIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY: THE USE OF LINGUISTIC DATA IN SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: IDEOLOGIES AND METHODOLOGIES
  • ETHICS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
  • THEORY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE IV
  • INNOVATION STRATEGY
  • INTERNATIONAL CREOLE INTENSIVE PROGRAMME
  • THEORY & ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE II
  • ETHNOGRAPHY WINTER SCHOOL
  • THEORY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE I
  • THEORY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE III
  • INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY & DEVELOPMENT
  • TOPICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT - PART I
  • TOPICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT - PART II
  • TOPICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT - PART III
  • SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
  • PEOPLE, MARKETS AND DESIGN

Year 2

  • CREOLE YEAR 2 SEMESTER 2 ABROAD
  • CREOLE YEAR 2 SEMESTER 1 ABROAD
  • THESIS RESEARCH 4
  • THESIS RESEARCH 3
  • THESIS RESEARCH 2
  • THESIS RESEARCH 1
  • INTERNATIONAL CREOLE INTENSIVE PROGRAMME
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Maynooth University

This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.

Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.

  • In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
  • Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.  
  • Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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