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The Master's in Media Studies at MIC is an innovative programme that offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of contemporary media topics at an advanced level. These include streams in Film Studies, Audio Studies & Cultural Studies. All courses are taught by experienced researchers with practical knowledge of the industry and the small group sessions facilitate collaborative learning, both theoretical and practical.
Discover the Medical Centre at MIC Limerick which provides a triage service for students on-campus, offering a private and confidential service on weekdays during term time. A GP service with a local practice is available for MIC Thurles students.
Beginning with a dedicated Professional Masters in Education (PME) virtual session on Tuesday, 26 March (6-6.45pm) Dr Margaret Nohilly, Programme Coordinator, will answer all your questions about this two-year, full-time Level 9 professional teacher education programme designed to qualify graduates as primary teachers. Separately, on Wednesday, 10 April (6pm-6.45pm) experts from MIC’s Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education and Research & Graduate School will host a session on the College’s wide range of taught and research-based postgraduate programmes, fees, funding supports and application processes.
The MIC Ability Pathways (MAP) Project aims to provide a pathway to meaningful community engagement for people with intellectual disability, in an inclusive third level environment which has an established history of educational excellence and community inclusion. The project aims to provide education, training and meaningful employment opportunities for people with an intellectual disability who are committed to lifelong learning.
A Mary Immaculate College (MIC) academic has been awarded €300,000 in funding to lead the Irish stage of a European project aiming to boost the transformation towards a climate neutral, sustainable, productive and competitive ‘Blue Economy’.
MIC academic Dr Anne Dolan has been awarded New Foundations funding by the Irish Research Council (IRC) to support her research and work in promoting climate change in teacher education at post-primary level.
A Mary Immaculate College (MIC) academic has been jointly awarded the John Coolahan SCoTENS Award for 2023 in recognition of her research into the experiences of non-religious teachers in Post-Primary schools. Dr Catherine Stapleton, Lecturer in Education at MIC, Thurles is co-author of the ‘Non-Religious Teachers in Schools with a Religious Ethos in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland: Experiences of Recruitment and Promotion Processes’ report, alongside Dr James Nelson from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB).
Mary Immaculate College (MIC) academic, Dr Ailbhe Kenny, has been awarded a highly prestigious Irish Research Council (IRC) Starting Laureate Award. Under the scheme, announced today (Monday) by Minister for Further & Higher Education, Simon Harris TD, Dr Kenny is awarded €400,000 to conduct a four-year project investigating the role music plays within intercultural school encounters for children and young people from an asylum seeking or refugee background.
A new book from MIC academic Dr Eóin Flannery explores how leading literary voices in contemporary Irish writing engaged with the events of Ireland’s turn-of-the-century economic ‘boom’ and the demise of the Celtic Tiger, and how they have portrayed the widespread and contrasting aftermaths. Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction is a fascinating analysis of the work of writers such as Donal Ryan, Anne Haverty, Claire Kilroy, Dermot Bolger, Deirdre Madden, Chris Binchy, Peter Cunningham, Justin Quinn, and Paul Murray.