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Courses
Courses
Choosing a course is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make! View our courses and see what our students and lecturers have to say about the courses you are interested in at the links below.
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University Life
University Life
Each year more than 4,000 choose University of Galway as their University of choice. Find out what life at University of Galway is all about here.
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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
Since 1845, University of Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
University of Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
University of Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni & Friends
Alumni & Friends
There are 128,000 University of Galway alumni worldwide. Stay connected to your alumni community! Join our social networks and update your details online.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At University of Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Page Customisations
Interactive Page Customisation Demo
The University of Galway page layouts allow some custom behaviour by entering certain keywords into the Page Customisation Keywords field in a section's Metadata tab. This is often used to turn a site's homepage into widescreen, or make a 1-page site with no left-menu.
This page is intended to let you see what options are available to you and how they would look. So feel free to click on things to see what they do - at any point you can undo all your changes by clicking the 'reset' button.
Common Page Customisations
Homepage Pre-sets
Here are some standard Home Page Customisations. Select any one to see what it looks like:
One-Page Site Pre-sets
Here are some standard 1-Page Site Customisations Select any one to see what it looks like:
Landing Page Pre-sets
Landing pages are pages your visitors find links to on other sites (e.g. google). They are not necessarily your home page but they are the first page the visitor sees when they 'land' on your site:
Landing Page Image Options
You can choose between 6 header images in your landing and discipline pages. Click an image, below to apply it to this page:
Advanced users can upload their own image to use and make their landing page use it by copying a piece of code we supply and making a small change to it so it references their image. For full information, see our Landing Page Example Page
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Widescreen Considerations
You've chosen a wide-screen (i.e. no left navigation bar) option, so there are some things to think about:
1. You need to have alternate site navigation
If this is not a 1-page site, then you need to put content in your page to replace the now-hidden left navigation bar.
The easiest and quickest way to do this is to add a 'Widescreen Navigation' content type to the page. It will automatically build a 2-column button menu, containing everything your side-nav would show. See the training examples page for an example of this.
The next easiest (and quickest) way is to create an icon link to each of your sub pages. There are 35 icons to choose from so you may well find something that works for you.
If you want to use custom images for your menu links, you can create one link per image with 2-column promo image boxes and 3-column promo image boxes, or Landing page boxes. For 2 links per image, use widescreen promo image boxes (2 Columns), or its 3-column variant.
2. Consider a banner image
Unless you've chosen a landing page (which uses an image in the header), your page may benefit from a full-width image (that is usually also a link) at the top of the page. There are 4 content types to allow you to do this: Widescreen Landing Page Hero Carousel, Home Page Hero Image Carousel, Promo Box Large, and College Page Hero Image.
Add a Tag Line
A tag line can be added underneath the page title. This looks especially good on Landing Pages and one-page sites but can work on home pages too.
Suppress Inherited Content
Sometimes your page inherits content that you want to appear on other pages but not this one. On any page, you can suppress this inherited content:
or Use Your Own Combination of Features
Find your own combination of keywords to use. Here are all the options available. Please note: Some of these options contradict others, so sometimes certain options appear to do nothing. Also, the order in which you apply options may sometimes change the results:
Sidebar Options
Sidebars normally appear on the right hand side of the page, but you can choose to:
Different Colours
You can select the colour of your Sidebar content boxes. Your options are:
You can try it out in here - simply click any of the above colours to see what they look like.
Downloads
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Undergraduate Prospectus 2020 PDF (18.4 MB)
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Postgraduate Prospectus 2020 PDF (20.6 MB)
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Adult Learning Prospectus PDF (3.4 MB)
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Undergraduate Prospectus 2019 PDF (16MB)
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A Level Quick Guide 2020 pdf (2 MB)
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Quick Guide to Courses 2020 PDF (2.4 MB)
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Junior Prospectus 2019 PDF (20.8 MB)
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QQI / FETAC Pathways Guide PDF (45MB)