Qualifications in Economics, Geography, History, or Sociology can be helpful. What it brings to these subjects is an understanding of how we came to live as we now do. The subject has been consistently recognised as one of the University's research strengths, with research in Irish and British history enjoying a particularly high reputation.
Teaching also receives consistently high ratings from students.
The Emergence of the Post-Industrial World. Thereafter a range of systematic and thematic modules is offered from which students choose the appropriate number. Rather its prime value lies in the intellectual training it gives and the historical insights it provides into the problems of the contemporary world. Our graduates go into a wide range of occupations in the private and public sectors. For example, over the last decade students have found employment as accountants, social workers, teachers, researchers, managers of retail stores, insurance officials, civil servants, local government officers, sales managers, transport managers and journalists.