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Faculties & Departments
Department of Anthropology
“CREOLE – Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes”: A Joint Masters Degree
CREOLE is an innovative two-year degree, funded under the EU SOCRATES Programme, where students are required to spend two of the four semesters at European Partner institutions. At present, there are five participating universities: Universität Wien (Austria), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France), the Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia), the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Ireland) and Stockholms Universitet (Sweden). The list of participating institutions will increase in the coming years.
Entry Requirements
Students must have at least a Second Class Honours Grade II (2.2.) in Anthropology or cognate discipline to be considered for any of our postgraduate programmes. Second-class honours degree (11 or 2.2) in Anthropology or cognate discipline. Competence in a foreign language, while not required, is a benefit.
Applicants must be proficient in English, with proficiency in the language of the proposed partner institution (either French, German, Spanish, Swedish, or Slovenian) desirable. Further, applicants are encouraged to learn at least one other local language while attending the host institution.
At the successful completion of a minor thesis MA, students may also be encouraged to submit a proposal for a Ph.D.
Course Content
The course as a whole is thematically oriented toward Anthropology as a comparative enterprise, while developing the theoretical and methodological tools necessary to successfully pursue anthropological research either at Maynooth or another institution. The course comprises Anthropological Theory & Ethnographic Practice, composed of four half-semester modules. Along with a guest lecturer series and our Departmental Seminar, titled The Comparitave Context I and II, students must choose two modules, titled Anthropological Topics at Maynooth (ATAMs), per semester, one of which, titled Creole as a Model for Culture, is required of all CREOLE students. Moving through the course, CREOLE students, in consultation with the Postgraduate Director, must concentrate on two out of three thematic areas: New Identities, Material Culture and Consumption, and Visual & Popular Culture. CREOLE students also sit in a student-centred Research Presentation Seminar, where issues of proposal writing, funding of research, research ethics, access issues, and methodologies are discussed. Students without previous experience in anthropology may also be required to sit extra courses from our undergraduate curriculum. During the summer, all CREOLE M.A. students will come together for a two-week long Intensive Programme with established researchers and academics from around Europe.
Further Course Information
CREOLE Joint MA| Cultural Difference and Transnational Process General Structure:
Every student must pass through a combination of required and elective components. Elective components must be drawn from 2 of the 3 CREOLE/ 120 ECTS (See part A below).
The Modules
A—CREOLE Thematic Pillar Modules
Two modules are compulsory.
Students may select 2 out of 3 concentrations:
- New Identities
- Material Culture & Consumption
- Visual Culture/Popular Culture/Regional Studies.
B—CREOLE Erasmus| Thesis Pillar Modules
All three modules are compulsory.
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Erasmus
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Thesis 1
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Thesis 2
C—General Building Block Modules (compulsory)
- General Anthropology
- General Anthropology or Service Module
The Programme
To be selected among, but different to, Module A:
- New Identities
- Material Culture & Consumption
- Visual Culture/Popular Culture