New Courses in Maynooth University

BA in Creative Writing and English - MH111

Degree Overview - this is a new degree - beginning in September 2025. Points will not be known until the Round 1 offers in August 2025.
The BA in Creative Writing and English offers you the opportunity to develop critical and creative skills within one programme, which is innovative not only for its integration of two intertwined subjects, but for its industry links and its teaching practices.
As a student of Creative Writing and English, you will learn:
>how to develop your creative writing (fiction/poetry/ memoir/creative non-fiction) through intensive workshops;
>the practicalities of creative literary industries;
>about the development of literary genres and practices;
>about the conditions that shape literature  from history and geography to questions of gender, race, sexuality, and class.

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Criminology - MH504

Degree Overview - this is a new degree - beginning in September 2025. Points will not be known until the Round 1 offers in August 2025.
>Criminology can be described as the study of crime, criminal behaviour and society's reaction to it. This three-year degree programme allows students to study criminology in depth, equipping you with the skills to examine criminal behaviour and understand what drives it.
>Maynooth University is one of only two universities in the Republic of Ireland offering the opportunity to study Criminology as a single major.
>This is a unique interdisciplinary programme offering perspectives from sociology, psychology and anthropology, as well as law.
>Faculty include leading international experts in the field with research interests in prisons, policing, restorative justice, gender, ethnicity, human trafficking, terrorism and mental health.
>In first year, students acquire a thorough theoretical understanding of crime, both in an international and Irish context. This is built on in second and third year when students take core modules in subjects such as prisons and policing as well as optional modules in line with their interests.

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