�Elective Modules 2026��Dates + Times:�22nd January – 23rd April 2026�Thursdays from 2pm to 5pm��
NOTE:
Only NCAD Fine Art students (who are NOT participating in D8 Neighbourhood Residencies) can choose the IADT electives.
The electives are not available to the Design students.
�Elective Modules 2026��Dates + Times:�22nd January – 23rd April 2026�Thursdays from 2pm to 5pm��
Elective Module Aims
Elective Module Learning Outcomes
How will you be assessed?
Assessment could include:
Creating Digital Maps with Cyril Connolly (On Campus)�
Ways to Research; The Art of Collecting, Looking, Recording and Changing Focus Kathleen Moroney (Online + 1 field trip)
In this elective , students will:
Image credit: Orhan Pamuk.
Applied Psychology for everyone with Hannah Barton and AP Team (On Campus)
This taster in psychology sets out to allow students to look at psychological theories, conduct experiments, do personality tests and see how psychology can be applied to any course.
It is a hands-on approach to learning psychology.
It will introduce different topics such as personality, intelligence, perception, memory, groups and group dynamics, the self and identity, developmental psychology and sport and health psychology.
�Introduction to video production with Timm Jeschawitz (Online)
Introduction to Comics with Michael Connerty (On Campus)
You will have the opportunity to create original works of sequential graphic narrative throughout the module.��We will examine ‘how comics work’ by focusing on elements, for example, the representation of time, space, sound, narrative, and characterisation. ��You will be introduced to some of the critical literature on comics, and we will evaluate a wide variety of works created by specific artists. ��The module allows you to encounter key events in the history and development of comics in the U.S. and the U.K. and consider comics’ relationship to other arts and media.
Life drawing with Shane Cullen (On Campus)
Digital Imaging with Adrian Heffernan and Seán Kelly (On Campus)
Introduction to Performance Art with Ciarán O’Keeffe (On campus)
How to Sculpt an Ear & Eye with Paul Mc Donnell (Online)
Module Aims
You will learn the following:
An Introduction to free|slow|deep art writing �with Dr Jessica Foley (On campus)
“When writing is treated in all of its fullness… it engages ethics and a sense of risk and responsibility. It becomes consequential, dramatic, dangerous, demanding, rewarding, and capable of changing self and others.” Deborah Brandt
Curious Bodies is an elective that will expand your understanding of reading and writing through embodied engagement with art in context and through generative experiments with different forms of writing and moving image.
You will enlarge your understanding of writing as a powerful and playful creative process of analysis, translation and transformation that can bring us closer to our own experience of the world and to the worlds of others.
The module will involve field trips, seminars and workshops that will allow us to explore how art and writing can be powerful ways of making meaning, critiquing culture and forming community.
Along the way, we will explore theories and practices of:
Free Writing | Slow-Looking | Deep Listening
As well as keeping a reflective journal throughout the module, we will create zines and moving image sentences in response to our encounters with art and our experiments in writing together.
On campus, occasionally online, and field trips to art venues across Co. Dublin.
Designing Japan: Creativity Across Disciplines with Stefan Pax Berrios (Online)
Designing Japan invites students from all disciplines to explore Japan’s unique mix of tradition, innovation, and creativity - from anime and architecture to technology, fashion, everyday life and toilets. Each week dives into a new aspect of Japanese culture and by the end, you’ll link something you’ve discovered in this elective to your own area of study - turning inspiration into creative insight.
Generative Design with Joachim Pietsch (On Campus)
Web Design with Grainne Carroll (On campus)
Co-Design with Children with Dr John Greaney (On Campus)
Learn how to create engaging and relevant educational content to support learning
In person module
Working in teams
Same children who did last year’s yr1 module
Codesign storyboards relevant to their lives
Three classes on Wed mornings 9am for school visits (spaced fortnightly)
Thurs afternoons create interactive content (e.g. storyboards, books, games) that brings the children’s ideas to life
Module will run till the end of March (total number of sessions same as other modules)
Electronics for Climate Creatives with Dr Sivakumar Ramachandran (Ganesh)�(On Campus)
Yes judgment with Elaine Mc Devitt (Online/On Campus blend)
An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Critical Thinking and Creative Assessment
What makes something creative, effective, or good?
Explore how to establish meaningful criteria for assessment, tackle questions of taste and bias, and examine the risks of censorship and conformity. From redefining "good design" to applying 1950s censorship standards to modern films, this module is a deep dive into the art and science of judgment.
Through a mix of interactive lectures, group discussions, and class projects, ‘Yes judgement' is your chance to sharpen critical thinking skills, collaborate across disciplines, and rethink what it means to evaluate creativity.
Delivered both in person and online (TBC)
Worldbuilding in the Metaverse with Rob Griffin