Graduate Taught (level 9 nfq, credits 30)
The syllabus is designed to provide participants with a detailed knowledge of all aspects of the law relating to employment both individual and collective.
This 30 credit Course consists of a series of 12 lectures in Semester One including a Distinguished Guest Lecture and a series of a further 12 lectures in Semester Two including a group project. Students will be required to complete a dissertation by the end of Semester One. There will also be a one-hour end of year examination to be held in May.
Who should apply?
Part Time option suitable for:
Domestic(EEA) applicants: Yes
International (Non EEA) applicants currently residing outside of the EEA Region. No
Vision & Value Statements
The programme equips students with a detailed knowledge and understanding of all aspects of the law relating to employment, both individual and collective. These are career-enhancing not just for practising lawyers but also for trade union and employer association official, personnel and human resources managers and industrial relations practitioners.
Graduates of the programme will enhance their competence in a wide range of profession and occupations, by adding relevant knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to employment law. The understanding of employment law acquired is relevant to their contribution as citizens in a wide range of areas.
Through small group teaching, activity based learning and simulations, students will develop a set of procedural, analytical and communication skills relevant to the practice of employment law (but also transferable to other contexts), on a foundation of understanding of its legal framework.
To these ends, the programme uses teaching, learning and assessment approaches such as small group teaching, academic writing and summative examination assessments.
It includes the formation of a contract of employment, employment rights and duties, dismissal, employment equality, industrial action, workplace privacy, bullying, stress at work and freedom of association.
Programme Outcomes
demonstrate specialised knowledge and understanding of Irish and/or European Employment Law
apply their knowledge and understanding of the law and their problem-solving abilities in diverse environments.
use knowledge of substantive law to critique arguments as to whether and how the law studied is in need of reform.
integrate source material from a variety of disciplinary areas to reach reasoned decisions about the relative status of competing claims to knowledge.
unpack complex legal arguments and to render intelligible to a non-specialist audience, key disciplinary insights.
apply their knowledge and understanding of the law and their problem-solving abilities in diverse environments.
demonstrate specialised knowledge and understanding of Irish and/or European Employment Law
integrate source material from a variety of disciplinary areas to reach reasoned decisions about the relative status of competing claims to knowledge.
unpack complex legal arguments and to render intelligible to a non-specialist audience, key disciplinary insights.
use knowledge of substantive law to critique arguments as to whether and how the law studied is in need of reform.