- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
Our goal is to provide you with a skill set that will enable you to critically engage with the most up-to-date analysis of the changing worlds of work, the forecasting of economic futures, the development of policy in the field of labour market activation and unemployment alleviation. You will also acquire the skills necessary to design, conduct, write up and communicate evidence-based reports on work, labour market and employment related issues. Uniquely this programme offers you:
Internship opportunities on a competitive basis
Access to leading academics with international reputations in the fields of political economy and labour market analysis
Creative problem-solving approach to dissertation work with input from academics and practitioners
International field trip built into the study programme
Entry Requirements
BA in Sociology or cognate discipline with 2.2 or higher, or international equivalent. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
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
- ANALYTICAL REASONING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- QUALITATIVE METHODS
- RESEARCH METHODS ADVANCED SEMINAR
- WORK: FUTURE AND TRENDS
- LABOUR MARKET POLICY
- THESIS
- ECONOMETRICS 1
- LABOUR ECONOMICS
- POLITICAL ECONOMY
Course Location
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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