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Listed below is a selection of interesting modules with first year elective places available. The full list will be available on the Electives page in SISWeb when online module registration opens for you. 

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Last updated: Wednesday 10 December 2025.

Module Code Module Title
AH10150 (opens in a new window)The Modern World
AH10270 (opens in a new window)Introduction to European Art 2
ANSC10010 (opens in a new window)Intro to Animal Science
ARCH10050 (opens in a new window)Intro archaeology of Ireland
ARCH10150 (opens in a new window)Anthropology: an introduction
BIOL10070 (opens in a new window)Biology for the Modern World
BIOL10160 (opens in a new window)Life Sciences in Space
BMGT10060 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Management
BMGT10140 (opens in a new window)Business Plan
BMGT10150 (opens in a new window)Project Management
BSEN10010 (opens in a new window)Biosys Eng Design Challenge
CHN10010 (opens in a new window)Chinese for Beginners
COMP10060 (opens in a new window)Computer Sci for Engineers I
CPSC10010 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Crop Science
CVEN10050 (opens in a new window)Challenges in Civil Eng
DSCY10040 (opens in a new window)Childhood
DSCY10050 (opens in a new window)War: Ancient and modern
DSCY10060 (opens in a new window)Energy Climate Change & Policy
DSCY10070 (opens in a new window)Materials in Society
DSCY10120 Contagion & Control
DSCY10160 (opens in a new window)Refugee Displacement
DSCY10180 (opens in a new window)Intercultural Encounters
ECON10040 (opens in a new window)Economics and Sustainability
ECON10720 (opens in a new window)Microeconomics for Business
EDUC10280 (opens in a new window)Why Trust Science?
EDUC10300 (opens in a new window)Public Engagement with Science
EDUC10310 (opens in a new window)Gaisce - The President's Award
EDUC10340 (opens in a new window)Contemp Irish Women's Writing
EEEN10020 (opens in a new window)Robotics Design Project
ENG10020 (opens in a new window)Children's Literature
ENG10030 (opens in a new window)Literary Genre
ENVP10010 (opens in a new window)Environment Change & Policy
FDSC10010 (opens in a new window)Food Diet and Health
FDSC10030 (opens in a new window)Our Food, Our Planet
FR10070 (opens in a new window)French Grammar & Expression
GEOG10080 (opens in a new window)Dynamic Earth
GEOG10100 (opens in a new window)People, Places, Regions
GEOL10040 (opens in a new window)Earth, Environment and Society
GEOL10050 (opens in a new window)Earth and Humanity
GEOL10060 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Earth Sciences
GEOL10070 (opens in a new window)Understanding Earth Systems
GEOL20110 (opens in a new window)Global Environmental Change
GEOL20240 (opens in a new window)Medical Geology
GER10020 (opens in a new window)German Language I b
GER10150 (opens in a new window)German History on Screen
GRC10130 (opens in a new window)Ancient Rome: An Introduction
GRC10140 (opens in a new window)Classical Myth: An Intro
HIS10310 Ireland's English Centuries
HIS10320 (opens in a new window)The Making of Modern Ireland
HIS10440 (opens in a new window)The United States, 1776-1991
HIS10460 Animal Histories
HORT10040 (opens in a new window)Sustainable Horticulture
HUM10030 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Arts
IA20010 (opens in a new window)Creativity & Innovation
IA20020 (opens in a new window)Essentials of Entrepreneurship
IA20060 (opens in a new window)Social Entrepreneurship
IA20090 (opens in a new window)Design Your Life
IA20100 (opens in a new window)Innovation for Sustainability
IA20160 (opens in a new window)Creativity & Innovation (OL)
IA20170 (opens in a new window)Essentials of Entrepren (OL)
IA20190 (opens in a new window)Design Thinking (OL)
IA20200 (opens in a new window)Design Your Life (OL)
IA20210 (opens in a new window)Innovation Sustainability (OL)
IA20220 (opens in a new window)Virtual Reality Future Skills
IR10040 (opens in a new window)Teanga na Gaeilge I
IR10050 (opens in a new window)Irish for Beginners
IS10060 (opens in a new window)Digital Technology
ITAL10110 (opens in a new window)Italy
ITAL10120 (opens in a new window)Dante's Inferno
LANG10010 (opens in a new window)Italian Gen Purp 1
LANG10020 (opens in a new window)Chinese Gen Purp 1
LANG10080 (opens in a new window)Arabic Gen Purp 1
LANG10100 (opens in a new window)German Gen Purp 1
LANG10150 (opens in a new window)Polish Gen Purp 1
LANG10170 (opens in a new window)French Gen Purp 1
LANG10210 (opens in a new window)Japanese L & C 1
LANG10220 (opens in a new window)Russian Gen Purp 1
LANG10230 (opens in a new window)Spanish Gen Purp 1
LANG10380 (opens in a new window)Swahili Gen Purp 1
LANG10640 (opens in a new window)Irish Sign Language 1
LANG10650 (opens in a new window)Intro to English Lang Teaching
LANG10660 (opens in a new window)Korean for General Purposes 1
LANG20400 (opens in a new window)Spanish Gen Purp 4
LANG20440 (opens in a new window)French Gen Purp 5
LANG20450 (opens in a new window)German Gen Purp 5
LANG20470 (opens in a new window)Spanish Gen Purp 5
LAW10260 (opens in a new window)Criminal Procedure
LAW10440 (opens in a new window)Law in Europe
LAW10450 (opens in a new window)Law and Courts
LING10050 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Linguistics
MATH10320 (opens in a new window)Mathematical Analysis
MIS10040 (opens in a new window)Web Design and Analytics
MUS10220 (opens in a new window)Popular Music
MUS10240 (opens in a new window)Music in Ireland
MUS20350 (opens in a new window)Symphony Orchestra Spring 26
MUS20780 (opens in a new window)Philharmonic Choir Spring 26
PERS10020 (opens in a new window)Fundamentals of S & C Online
PERS20030 (opens in a new window)Sort your life out and thrive
PHIL10020 (opens in a new window)Mind, Language and Meaning
PHIL10030 (opens in a new window)Intro to Modern Philosophy
PHIL10040 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Ethics
PHIL10100 (opens in a new window)Existentialism and Humanism
PHPS10010 (opens in a new window)Student Health & Wellbeing
PHTY20280 (opens in a new window)Born to Run
PHYC10200 (opens in a new window)Conceptual Physics
POL10120 (opens in a new window)Found in Global Dev
PORT10090 (opens in a new window)Film and Fiction
PSY10040 (opens in a new window)Psychology of Perception
PSY10050 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Psychology
PSY10090 (opens in a new window)Intro to Applied Psychology
PSY10140 (opens in a new window)Mind and Brain
SOC10060 (opens in a new window)Ireland in Perspective
SOC10070 (opens in a new window)Sociological Analysis
SPAN10180 (opens in a new window)Barcelona
SPOL10020 (opens in a new window)Contemp Irish Welfare State
SPOL18130 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Social Work
SSJ10020 (opens in a new window)Global Justice
SSJ10060 (opens in a new window)Inequality in Irish Society
STAT10050 (opens in a new window)Practical Statistics
STAT10060 (opens in a new window)Statistical Modelling
VET20180 (opens in a new window)Introduction to one health

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