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Listed below is a selection of interesting module choices that have first year elective places available.

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Updated 11 January 2024

Module Code Module Title
ANSC10010 (opens in a new window)Intro to Animal Science
BIOL10070 (opens in a new window)Biology for the Modern World
BIOL10160 (opens in a new window)Life Sciences in Space
BMGT10130 (opens in a new window)Mastering University Learning
CCI10040 (opens in a new window)Video Games:Hist/Tech/Culture
CHN10010 (opens in a new window)Chinese Language Experience I
CPSC10010 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Crop Science
CVEN10050 (opens in a new window)Intro to Civil & Envir 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
DSCY10080 (opens in a new window)Gateways to Japan
DSCY10100 (opens in a new window)Storytelling
DSCY10120 (opens in a new window)Contagion & Control
DSCY10130 (opens in a new window)Understanding Homelessness
DSCY10150 (opens in a new window)Hope
DSCY10160 (opens in a new window)Refugee Displacement
ECON10040 (opens in a new window)Economics and Sustainability
ECON10720 (opens in a new window)Microeconomics for Business
EDUC10220 (opens in a new window)Edu for a sustainable future
ENG10020 (opens in a new window)Children's Literature
ENVP10010 (opens in a new window)Environment Change & Policy
FDSC10010 (opens in a new window)Food Diet and Health
FR10070 (opens in a new window)French Grammar & Expression
FR10140 (opens in a new window)Paris
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
GEOL20110 (opens in a new window)Global Environmental Change
GEOL20230 (opens in a new window)History of life on Earth
GEOL20240 (opens in a new window)Medical Geology
GER10020 (opens in a new window)German Language I b
HORT10030 (opens in a new window)Plant-based Diets
IA20010 (opens in a new window)Creativity & Innovation
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
IA20110 (opens in a new window)Global Innovation Challenges
IA20160 (opens in a new window)Creativity & Innovation (OL)
IA20170 (opens in a new window)Essentials of Entrepren (OL)
IA20180 (opens in a new window)Social Entrepreneurship (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
IR10190 (opens in a new window)An Ghaeilge Acadúil
ITAL10080 (opens in a new window)Making Italy
ITAL10110 (opens in a new window)Italy
LANG10010 (opens in a new window)Italian Gen Purp 1
LANG10100 (opens in a new window)German Gen Purp 1
LANG10150 (opens in a new window)Polish Gen Purp 1
LANG10230 (opens in a new window)Spanish Gen Purp 1
LANG20440 (opens in a new window)French for General Purposes 4
LANG20470 (opens in a new window)Spanish General Purposes 4
LING10010 (opens in a new window)Language Use and Communication
MUS10120 (opens in a new window)Music, Culture and Society
MUS10220 (opens in a new window)Popular Music
MUS20250 (opens in a new window)UCD Philharmonic Choir 4
MUS20270 (opens in a new window)UCD Symphony Orchestra 4
MUS20610 (opens in a new window)Music in Ireland
PERS10020 (opens in a new window)Fundamentals of S & C Online
PHIL10020 (opens in a new window)Intro to Probs of Philosophy
PHIL10030 (opens in a new window)Intro to Modern Philosophy
PHIL10040 (opens in a new window)Introduction to Ethics
PHIL10070 (opens in a new window)The First Philosophers
PHIL10100 (opens in a new window)Existentialism and Humanism
PHPS10010 (opens in a new window)Student Health & Wellbeing
PHYC10200 (opens in a new window)Conceptual Physics
PORT10090 (opens in a new window)Film and Fiction
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
SPOL10020 (opens in a new window)Contemp Irish Welfare State
SSJ10060 (opens in a new window)Inequality in Irish Society
STAT10050 (opens in a new window)Practical Statistics

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