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Learn how the library at MIC has a wide collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias. Many of them are held in the Reference Area on the ground floor but some are shelved in the main library beside the relevant subject. Please note when using the library catalogue to search the different spellings of encyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedias, dictionaries will give different results.
EndNote is a bibliographic management tool. It allows you to create your own database of references which you can then search, edit and format automatically in different output styles for bibliographies. Endnote can also be used to connect directly to Library Catalogues including the MIC catalogue. MIC has a site licence for EndNote and all staff and students are permitted to install a copy of the software on college-owned machines. Downloading EndNote X9 can only be done on campus.
The BA in English Language and Literature (International) aims to foster critically aware and digitally-skilled graduates who are highly adept at creating and interpreting texts and content. The programme will enhance literary and professional knowledge of English by focusing on the core features of language and linguistics, as well as the core literary texts, genres and theories. Graduates will have expertise spanning the language system (vocabulary, grammar, phonology and discourse), digital analysis and content creation tools, as well as a thorough understanding of English literature across a range of eras, literary and cultural theories and genres.
The BA in English Language and Literature aims to foster critically aware and digitally-skilled graduates who are highly adept at creating and interpreting texts and content. The programme will enhance literary and professional knowledge of English by focusing on the core features of language and linguistics, as well as the core literary texts, genres and theories. Graduates will have expertise spanning the language system (vocabulary, grammar, phonology and discourse), digital analysis and content creation tools, as well as a thorough understanding of English literature across a range of eras, literary and cultural theories and genres.
Visit this page to learn how English can be taken as part of the MIC Arts Degree as a joint honours combination. English at MIC covers a wide range of topics including modern drama, 20th century literature, literary interpretation, neoclassical literature, Irish poetry & prose, romantic literature, Elizabethan-Jacobean theatre & literary modernism.
Welcome to the Department of English Language and Literature here at Mary Immaculate College. In deciding to study this subject, you are joining a community of teachers, academics, scholars and researchers who are publishing to an international standard in their chosen areas of the discipline.
If applicants come from a non-English speaking country, they are required to meet the minimum English language requirements to study at MIC. Learn more.
Discover Mary Immaculate College programmes that develop enterprise and entrepreneurial skills across all educational levels and the outreach initiatives that support this work.
Mary Immaculate College has a tradition of making connections with nearby communities. Discover how MIC achieves this through a variety of outreach initiatives and events—organised and led by staff, students and our Director of Enterprise and Community Engagement, Dr Maeve Liston.
The office of Enterprise and Community Engagement (E&CE) enables and connects the MIC community of staff and students with wider society through innovative partnerships that make a difference. These partnerships increase the range of campus facilities available for social, cultural and municipal engagement by our community. Inspire and empower future generations through our educational outreach work that is designed and delivered in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders. Working with and supporting communities on collaborative initiatives that make a significant educational, social and cultural impact in Limerick City, as well as regionally, nationally and internationally.
Each year, Mary Immaculate College awards up to 50 Undergraduate Entrance Scholarships, valued at €2,000 each, on the basis of results obtained in the Irish Leaving Certificate Examination. The scholarships are tenable only in MIC for the First Year of a full-time primary degree programme to be undertaken at MIC, in the academic year following the Leaving Certificate Examination on which the award is based.
The MA/M Sc in Environment, Society and Culture focuses on the interplay between natural environment and human society, and covers a range of advanced topics across human and physical geography, drawing heavily on MIC staff research expertise. This programme is highly flexible, for instance allowing students to choose, principally via their dissertation research, whether to pursue an Arts or Science Master’s qualification.
The MIC EDII Office is a College service that exists to embed an ethos and practice of equality, diversity, inclusion and interculturalism (EDII) at Mary Immaculate College-underpinned by a whole institutional approach with the staff and student community, and external partners. The mission and strategy of the EDII Office is aligned and guided by the MIC Strategic Plan.
