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Overview

This is Ireland

Undergraduate students can enroll in Irish Studies courses through the Department of English. Although we do not currently offer a major or minor in Irish Studies, students can build a concentration on a topic related to Irish literature within the English major or minor.

Several of our students have written award-winning papers for the Schuchard Prize awarded to the best paper, project, or honor's thesis created on the basis of primary source material from the Rose Library. Undergraduate students may also study abroad in Ireland in affiliated programs at Queen’s University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, or University College Galway.

Please refer to the Emory University course atlas for current course offerings. You can search by keyword (e.g. Irish), faculty member (e.g. Geraldine Higgins), or by department (English).

Our undergraduate course offerings vary by semester. Previous undergraduate course offerings have included a 100-level course on British and Irish female authors in the contemporary moment, a 100-level course on haunted Ireland, 200-level poetics courses on British and Irish poetry, a 200-level course on mapping Ireland in the work of authors such as James Joyce and Elizabeth Bowen, 300-level courses surveying the major literary movements within the Irish canon, and 400-level courses on major Irish authors such as Seamus Heaney and W.B. Yeats.

View the Course Atlas 

All Undergraduate students taking classes in the English Dept. are eligible to enter for the Schuchard Prize for the best paper, project, or honor's thesis created on the basis of primary source material from the Rose Library.

The prize awards $750 for first-place, $500 for second-place, and a $250 honorable mention reserved for a first-year student.

The Schuchard Prize was established through the Betsy and Wayne Rackoff Fund and named in honor of Dr. Wayne Rackoff's (75C) archival mentor, Ronald Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of English.

The Education Abroad Office offers study abroad opportunties in Ireland. These programs bring to life the history, literature, politics, and culture of the country you have been studying in your classes at Emory.

Please follow the links below for more information:

Photo: Undergraduate students participating in Professor Geraldine Higgins' Freshman Seminar "Imagining Ireland."