- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 2 to 6 Years
Course details
The programme will provide the students with a professional training in academic research in Philosophy, and thus enables them to contribute to national and international scholarship and to interdisciplinary co-operation. The department aims to provide students with the opportunity to work independently under the supervision of members of staff who will provide detailed feedback and advice on the achieved works. The Department of Philosophy wishes to provide a high quality research experience and output, with integrated taught support for all students enrolled on the structured PhD programme. As part of this process, students on this programme will have acquired the philosophical methods that enable them to pursue studies and research independently according to their personal interests in the field. They will also be able to engage at an appropriate level with other professional scholars.
Entry Requirements
Candidates for research degrees will normally be expected to have a Second Class Honours Grade 1 primary degree in Philosophy, or a Second Class Honours MA degree with some qualification in philosophy.
Language Requirements:
Research students are expected to have some knowledge of the language of the author or authors, whose work they intend to research. 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
- INTRODUCTORY GREEK 1
- INTRODUCTORY LATIN 1
- INTRODUCTORY LATIN 2
- INTRODUCTORY GREEK 2
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- GRUNDKURS SPRACHE 1
- DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH PRESENTATION 1
- METHODS IN PHENOMENOLOGY
- THE EARLY PHILOSOPHY OF EDITH STEIN
- READING MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
- PHILOSOPHICAL SEMINAR
- READING AQUINAS
- GRUNDKURS SPRACHE 2
- GRUNDKURS SPRACHE 3
- GRUNDKURS SPRACHE 4
- NIETZSCHE AND HIS LEGACY
- NEW POLITICS IN THE RENAISSANCE: MACHIAVELLI
- ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS (CONFERENCE PRESENTATION)
- ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS (PUBLICATION)
- SEMINAR SERIES
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY MODULE
- FINDING INFORMATION FOR YOUR THESIS
- ACADEMIC WRITING MODULE
- POSTGRADUATE WORKGROUP PRESENTATION
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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