Independent Colleges - Diploma and Degree Courses in Dublin

Psychoanalysis and Film: Couching Pleasures

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This intriguing six-week course explores through specific films the exciting and provocative psychoanalytic contributions that the psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan have made to our contemporary cultural and social understanding and representations of desire, sexuality and culture.

Covering important and diverse themes such as the unconscious, dreams, sexuality, the mirror and the gaze, drive and desire, anxiety and fantasy, this course is open to anyone with an interest in film, psychoanalysis and cultural theory. The only requirement is an open mind! Films include The Matrix, Inception, Alien, Eyes Wide Shut, Bad Education, Wizard of Oz, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Breaking the Waves, Hidden, (Cachet), Bitter Moon and Donnie Darko.

Start Date

18th April 20

Wit and Wisdom in the Literature of the Irish Revival

staff — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:34:46 +0000

This interesting 10 –week seminar series will introduce and examine some of the key literary works written in the period of the Irish Revival. We will read W B Yeats’s plays and poetry, short stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners, and sections from Ulysses. We will also read Synge’s Riders to the Sea, Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock and Elizabeth Bowen’s important novel The Last September.

Not only was the Irish Revival one of the most productive periods in the history of Irish literature written in English, it also helped shape some of the vital questions surrounding Irishness and Irish identity which are still central to literary, cultural and political debates.

Start Date

16th April 2012

Awarding Body

Independent College Dublin

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Child Psychotherapy for Parents: Parenting that Works

staff — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:57:59 +0000

This illuminating and dynamic course 6 week diploma is designed for parents who wish to understand the various processes, conscious and unconscious, that underpin their relationships with their children and vice versa. As a method of psychological help, psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be of enormous value to parents and is based on the theory that early relationships and childhood experiences of love, loss, sexuality and death establish patterns in the mind which have enduring effects and are the source of later conflicts that can block emotional and cognitive development.

Co-taught by two widely experienced and practicing clinicians in the field of child and adolescent psychotherapy, these unique seminars are interactive and discursive and apply modern psychoanalytic theory with case examples to the contemporary parenting experience, with a view to giving parents tools to better understand the emotional and psychological functioning of their children.

Start Date

18th April 2012

Awarding Body

Introduction to Eating Disorders: Dispelling Myths

staff — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:48:23 +0000

Understanding the main types of eating disorders, Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, EDNOS, binge eating disorder
Understanding causation and underlying risk factors
Historical perspectives
Theoretical perspectives including psychoanalytic, addiction, and psycho-social models
Understanding the recovery process, including relapse
Treatment pathways and options for people with eating disorders

The role of support and understanding the role of support from family

Philosophy & The Modern World

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This new and fascinating course is designed as a practical and accessible introduction to contemporary critical thinking for those who are interested in philosophy and wish to examine key concepts and big ideas through the lens of the contemporary world and pressing current events. This introduction to key philosophical concepts focuses on topics such as life, death, ethics, love, revolution, money, the body, the subject, mourning, war, time, happiness, kindness, sexuality, violence, community, democracy, belief, choice, freedom, responsibility, gender, power, globalization, neoliberalism, ecology, animals, objects, consumerism, crisis, among others. This course aims to encourage us to think about the world around us, our ways of being in that world, and alternatives to our contemporary condition of crisis.

Start Date

14th April 2012

Awarding Body

Independent College Dublin

Contact Details

T: + 353 1 672 5058

Email:diplomas@independentcolleges.ie

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3rd Annual I.F.P.P Psychoanalysis and Film Festival

staff — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:36:55 +0000

3rd Annual I.F.P.P./A.P.P.I. Psychoanalysis & Film Festival takes place on Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th February 2012. Choice of 9 films, €5 per film. To register contact: cowens@connect.ie

Masterclass in Online Journalism with Henry McDonald

staff — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:59:46 +0000

Overview

This one-day masterclass for journalists and other media professionals is designed to show you how to make the most of the internet for yourself and your employer. Covering live-blogging, social media, multimedia and more, the masterclass takes your skills and experience into the online world, showing you how to raise your profile, exploit the interactivity of the web and broaden your audiences.

Who is this course for?

Journalists and media workers who know how to report and write, but want to expand their knowledge and use of web-based tools and distribution platforms.

Meet the Lecturer

The masterclass is taught by Henry McDonald, Ireland Editor for The Observer & The Guardian. He will outline how the Guardian’s renowned “Live Blog” works and how reporters &correspondents feed into this developing source of breaking news. Using his own experience he will also demonstrate how social media tools such as Twittter can enable journalists to seek out stories or search for people to comment on them. In addition Henry will explain the changing demands on journalists such as the need for podcasting, audio packages and even television reports.

Henry is a former correspondent with the BBC, The Sunday Times, Evening Press, and Irish News and has extensive experience in print, radio and television journalism. He is the author of seven books.

Start Date

30th March

Contact Details

Diploma in E-Book Publishing

staff — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:40:13 +0000

Who are BeCreative

BeCreative Media Group are a multimedia company based in Dublin that:

Creates editorial and advertorial content for print and digital media such as The Sunday Independent, Irish Independent, The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today.
Creates and manages digital social network campaigns.
Assists in the creation and promotion of work including publishing EBooks on numerous platforms such as Amazon, Apple’s iBookstore and Sony

Open Evenings

staff — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:24:10 +0000

Independent College Dublin Upcoming Open Evenings 2012

Come and find out more about your area of interest!

*Wednesday February 1st, 2012 5-7pm

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If you have any further questions please contact

Niamh Doolan

Admissions Office

T: +353 1 635 1184

admissions@independentcolleges.ie