Introduction to
School of Humanities
The School of Humanities at GMIT aims to provide educational promote a culture that encourages innovative student work,
opportunities that lead to intellectual growth, enhanced cultural both in the development of students’ own discipline and
awareness, and the analytical and expository skills necessary for practice and in their contribution to critical discourse, while
personal and professional success in a changing environment. It providing them with a variety of transferable skills.
lays emphasis on the inter-relationship between the critical, the
creative and the practical, thus helping to develop students who The School has many links with industry and both the Religious
are able to express themselves creatively and self-critically in Studies and the BA in Film & Television programmes are run in
both theoretical and practical work. association with external bodies, the Western Theological
Institute and the Galway Film Centre. Graduates also have the
The priority of the school is to offer excellence in all its opportunity to pursue postgraduate study to doctoral level by
courses in a friendly, helpful learning environment, research within the School of Humanities.
enabling students to engage critically and creatively in a In addition to research postgraduate studies,
wide variety of academic and practice disciplines. the school also offers a taught postgraduate diploma and MSc
in Irish translation in association with Europus Teo and Údarás
As well as offering designated humanities and creative arts na Gaeltachta.
programmes in art & design, film & television, heritage and
religious studies, the School of Humanities provides service to As part of its ongoing commitment to lifelong learning,
the other schools in the Institute in the areas of Language – programmes in art and design and religious studies are offered
Gaeilge, French, German, Spanish - and communications. Some on a part-time basis, evenings or over one
of the suite of programmes being offered by the school, in day a week.
particular film and television and art and design, are delivered at
the Institute’s Cluain Mhuire campus. The school has a strong commitment to language teaching and
learning and recognises the importance of language acquisition
Many of the lecturers on humanities programmes are current for graduates in today’s multi-cultural environment. Therefore,
practitioners in their own fields and students benefit from there are many opportunities for study exchanges to colleges in
opportunities for engagement with them, and with practitioners France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary and
and theorists outside the Institute through the extensive guest- the Netherlands, as well
lecturer and field-trip programme. as to the USA.
Thus students and graduates of the school have gained a
reputation for high standards in their fields and have been
recipients of many national and international awards. Lecturers
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