BCL Law With Politics

SPIRe Tutors & Teaching Assistants Directory, Autumn 2022-23

Tutors and Teaching Assistants are allocated to the following modules. 

• POL10160 Foundations of Contemporary Politics
• POL20020 Comparative Politics
• POL20050 Research Methods in Political Science

• POL10120 Foundations in Global Development
• DEV20130 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
• POL20060  Law, Politics and Human Rights

For queries related to administrative matters including tutorial registration, please contact the SPIRe School Office at spire@ucd.ie.

	Austin Bicknell POL20020		Abbie O’Leary POL20020
	Diana Cenusa POL10160		Jelena Radakovic POL20020 Head Tutor
	Michael Coleman POL20060 Teaching Assistant		Coral Richardson DEV20130 Teaching Assistant
	Marcus Dupuy POL10160		Cian Saunders POL10160
	Sarah King POL20050		Redmond Scales POL10160 Head Tutor
	Daniel Lovett POL20050		Carl Smith POL10120 Teaching Assistant
	Natalie Macartney POL10160		Ella Switzer POL10160
	Michaela McCormack POL20020		Conor Twomey POL20050
	Ines Meyer POL20020		Valentina van Drooge POL10160
	Paula Montano Parrales POL20050 Head Tutor		Katherene Welsh POL10160
			Dino Wildi POL20020

Applications for Advanced Seminar in Politics 23-24

The Advanced Seminar in Politics 1 (POL30860) and 2 (POL30870) is a year-long course where staff members of the School of Politics and International Relations introduce students to cutting edge research in the field. During the second half of the course, students write a minor thesis, under the supervision of a staff member in the school. The module has limited capacity and entry is competitive. Registration for this course is done manually.

To be eligible to take this course, you must be a final year student in 2023-24, who has completed Core Level 2 Politics modules. Students with a GPA of 3.60 and above (across all modules or across SPIRe modules only) will be eligible for consideration.

The deadline for submission is Wednesday 28th June 2023. You must include grades in your application that will be released on 23rd of June. 

Google Application Form (Log onto UCD Connect Required)

Examinations Feedback

If you wish to check your grade for each exam question, come to Room G314 Newman Building, Politics Admin Office between 10am and 4pm. (Closed for lunch between 1-2pm)

If you wish to review your script, send a request to spire@ucd.ie one  working days in advance.

Please include the following information.

• Student number
• Full name
• Module code and name

If you wish to review your script with your lecturer:

1. Make an appointment with him/her by sending an email. (See here for staff details)  
2. Also send an email to spire@ucd.ie so that the admin staff members will prepare your script before the appointment. Please indicate your student number, full name and the module code/name.

The BCL Law with Politics degree seeks to equip students with:

• Knowledge of fundamental legal concepts and principles

• Understanding of law in its broader political and social context

• Ability to analyse law and to engage in legal reasoning

• Critical awareness of the overlapping concerns of political and legal theory particularly in the areas of law and morality, rights, constitutionalism, democracy, justice, and legitimacy

• Competence in the methods of political science (Irish politics, comparative politics, international relations, the European Union) and political theory

• Research skills within the fields of Law and Politics.

The degree has a modular and semesterised format with the Law and Politics subjects distributed over the four years of the programme. The ratio of 2/3 Law to 1/3 Politics will allow all the core Law subjects to be covered in full along with those required by the professional legal bodies. The curriculum for the degree in both subjects includes compulsory core modules and a choice of optional modules.