Courses Available
Courses for Teachers
A number of one-day courses for teachers and student teachers are available by arrangement. These are of two types:
One-Day Familiarisation courses for Folk Park Learning Programmes. Meet the education officers to hear about the aims of the programme, its links with the curriculum, preparatory materials and suggestions, follow-up ideas, with opportunities to experience some of the pupil activities. A minimum of 10 participants is required for most sessions. Please contact us at least one month in advance of your requested date.
- An introduction to the Folk Park's education service
- Rural Life in Victorian Times
- Shopping in Victorian Times
- Two Centuries of Emigration
- Rural Ireland and the Impact of the Great Famine
- The American Frontier
- Maths Across the Ocean
- Home Economics at the Folk Park
- Cross Community Contact at the Park
Specialist Emigration courses offered by the Centre for Migration Studies at the Folk Park. 'Tailor-made' courses vary in length and are suitable for various levels of adult education. The main themes are:
- Using the CMS Library and Sources on the Emigration Database
- Irish Migration since 1600
- Emigration from your local area
- Migration and Citizenship (Please ask for a full programme)
Centre for Migration Studies courses
May 2009 marked the end of the teaching of the MSSc in Irish Migration Studies (in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast) in its recent format. Given the very positive outcome of the review of the course carried out by Queens University Belfast in the Spring of 2008, it has been agreed that a new course more particularly focussed on family migration history, directed particularly at adult learners and taught at the Centre for Migration Studies will be prepared for 2010-11.
From January 2010 Dr Fitzgerald from the Centre will offer a twelve week module on Irish Migration History as part of the Queens University’s School of History’s MA programme. Although this module will be taught on a weekly basis on the Queen’s campus, students will also visit and use the resources of Centre for Migration Studies and the Ulster American Folk Park.
The Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School
This annual autumn school brings together experts in the field of literature and emigration and takes place annually in October at the Folk Park.
Ulster-American Heritage Symposium
The Ulster-American Heritage Symposium is hosted every four years by CMS. The next Symposium at the Folk Park is in summer 2012.