This new degree combines the study of Communications with English to address current demands for expertise across a wide variety of employment opportunities. The programme emphasises the importance of English for effective communication, tracing its use through a variety of genres, including literary texts, newspaper, advertising and media discourse and the discourse of law. Students are offered the chance to learn a range of skills from a wide variety of academic disciplines and perspectives, including modules on communication skills, criminal law, critical thinking, Irish literature, creative writing, TEFL, media and communications law, sociology and content design. This disciplinary mix helps students acquire the diverse range of skills needed to thrive in today’s employment landscape, including skills in critical thinking and evaluation, research, information gathering and dissemination, content creation, expertise in oral and written communication and problem-solving. This degree programme will prepare graduates for a variety of career opportunities and provides them with the required undergraduate subjects and skills to pursue a Masters to teach English at second level and as a foreign language as well as to contribute to strategic communications within the public and private sector, all types of media and the creative industries.