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29 Master's degrees offered by the university

Development Practice
The Development Practice programme of Trinity College Dublin is a world leading and uniquely innovative programme that blends science and social science to further international development. It is part of a global network with a Secretariat at the Earth Institute, Columbia University in New York (and was the only programme to receive seed funding in Europe in the first round).
Psychoanalytic Studies
The Psychoanalytic Studies programme of Trinity College Dublin offers graduates a thorough introduction to the history, theory and applications in clinical work and in the wider culture of psychoanalysis from Freud to modern writers in this broad field.
International History
The International History programme of Trinity College Dublin offers students the chance to pursue historical research outside the boundaries of the nation state. Students will be trained in transnational, comparative, and international approaches to history and have the opportunity to study foreign languages, cultures, and societies.
Economic Policy
The Economic Policy programme of Trinity College Dublin provides students with a comprehensive grounding in the contemporary aspects of economic policy design and implementation and will equip them with the ability to engage confidently in evidence-based economic policy making. It equips students with the knowledge and understanding required to thrive in policy related careers.
Middle East in a Global Context
Middle East in a Global Context is offered by Trinity College Dublin. The M.Phil. in Middle East in a Global Context is an online course in the study of the Middle East, its histories, cultures, politics, and language.
Digital Humanities and Culture
Digital Humanities and Culture is offered by Trinity College Dublin. Many of the biggest questions in our world today can only be answered by drawing on knowledge of both culture and technology.
Mental Health - Child, Adolescent and Family
Mental Health - Child, Adolescent and Family from Trinity College Dublin course is designed to enhance the participants’ knowledge and skills in child, adolescent and family mental health.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Trinity College Dublin is designed for individuals who are interested in working within a psychoanalytic framework.
Psychology - Psychology Conversion Course
The Psychology - Psychology Conversion Course programme of Trinity College Dublin provides a pre-professional qualification in psychology and confers eligibility for graduate membership of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI).
Structural and Geotechnical Engineering
The MSc in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin is a specialist course aimed at Engineering graduates who wish to pursue a career at the top level of Structural Engineering or Geotechnical Engineering.
Applied Intercultural Communications
Applied Intercultural Communications is offered by Trinity College Dublin. The significance of the increase in global mobility is unquestionable. In many workplaces, cultural diversity is currently the norm.
International Politics
The objective of the International Politics programme of Trinity College Dublin is to develop students' knowledge of international politics with a comprehensive empirical approach to understanding many prominent problems in contemporary world politics, especially topics where domestic and international politics cannot be understood in isolation from each other.
Social Policy and Practice (Online)
The Social Policy and Practice (Online) course at Trinity College Dublin aims to provide graduates from all disciplines with the opportunity to develop their understanding of the role that social policies play in developing functioning and just societies.
Gender and Women's Studies
The Gender and Women's Studies programme of Trinity College Dublin provides a critical understanding of the current scholarship on the position and representation of gender in society.
Modern Irish History
The Modern Irish History programme of Trinity College Dublin introduces well-qualified Humanities or Social Sciences graduates to research in modern Irish history, to the problems currently addressed by historians and to the methods they apply to study of the subject.
Irish Writing
The Irish Writing programme of Trinity College Dublin offers an exploration of Irish writing in English from the late seventeenth century to the present. Trinity has educated many important writers, from Jonathan Swift to Samuel Beckett to Eavan Boland to Anne Enright.
International Peace Studies
The International Peace Studies programme of Trinity College Dublin examines the sources of war and armed conflict and suggests methods of preventing and resolving them through processes of peacemaking and peacebuilding.
Chinese Studies
Chinese Studies is a multidisciplinary field of study, drawing upon and integrating disciplines such as History, Linguistics, Politics, Social Policy, Cultural Studies and Translation Studies. The Chinese Studies programme of Trinity College Dublin focuses on China today and China over the last century.
Comparative Social Change
The Comparative Social Change programme of Trinity College Dublin is offered jointly by the Department of Sociology and the School of Sociology at University College Dublin to develop students’ knowledge of the main currents of social change today, the social, cultural and economic forces which are driving them and the different forms they take across states.
Economics
The objective of the Economics programme of Trinity College Dublin is to provide well-qualified graduates in economics and related disciplines with the training required to work as economists in the public, private and non-profit sectors or to enter Ph.D. programmes in economics.