UCD School of English, Drama & Film

Scoil an Bhéarla, na Drámaíochta agus na Scannánaíochta UCD

Single Honours English: Undergraduate Modules

Undergraduate English Offerings 2011-2012

NB: Please also read the Registration Checklist and Registration Policy

and check http://www.ucd.ie/students/registration/html

STAGE ONE (DN511 Single Honours)

Core Modules

ENG10050	Literature in Context 1 (Semester 1)
ENG10070	The Essay (Semester 1)
ENG10060	Literature in Context 2 (Semester 2)
ENG10080	Writing the Body (Semester 2)

In-programme Elective places:

There are protected places for single honours students in the following two modules so that you can take up to 30 credits in English at Stage One. The School recommends that Single Honours students register as in-programme elective students to the following:

ENG10090	Coming of Age Narratives (Semester 1)
ENG10030	Literary Genre (Semester 2)

Coming of Age Narratives

LEVEL TWO (DN055 Single Honours)

Stage 2 English (Level 2 Modules), 2011-2012

Day Degree

(provisional and subject to change)

Level 2 Core Modules

Level 2 Core Modules
Semester	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
1 only	ENG20410	Reading the Middle Ages	Prof. A. Fletcher
2 only	ENG20400	Critical Theory	Dr J. Brannigan

Level 2 Option List A (All core for Single Honours)
Semester	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
1 only	ENG20440	Irish Literature in English: Reading the Story of Ireland	Dr P.J. Mathews
1 only	ENG20250	Twentieth-Century Drama: From Naturalism to Postmodernity	Dr. E. Pine
1 only	ENG20490	Romanticism	Dr M. O’Connell

Level 2 Option List B (All core for Single Honours)
Semester	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
2 only	ENG20430	Modern American Literature	Dr M. Stuart
2 only	ENG20460	From Victorian to Modern Literature	Dr F. Dillane
2 only	ENG20450	Renaissance Literature: Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare	Dr N. McAreavey

Level 2 Single Honours Cores only
Semester	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
2 only	ENG20520	Renaissance Prose Fiction	Dr N. McAreavey
1 only	ENG20230	Reading Old English 1	Prof. M. Clayton

Level 2 Single Honours Electives
Semester	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
1 only	ENG20470	Ecopoetry	Dr L. Collins
2 only	ENG20290	English Novel	Dr. F. Dillane

2 only

ENG20450

Renaissance Literature: Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare

Dr N. McAreavey

LEVEL THREE: (DN055 Single Honours)

LEVEL THREE: (DN055 Single Major)

Single Subject Major English Stage 2 Year 3

In Year 3, you must take a Minimum of 50 Credits (ten 5-credit modules)

5 core seminar SSME modules
2 modules from List C
2 modules from List D
1 module from either List C and D or E.

1) You MUST register for ALL of the following SSME Core Modules:

Level 3 Single Honours Cores Only
Semester	Offerings	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
1 only	1	ENG30550	The City in Literature	Dr L. Crispi
1 + 2	1	ENG30970	Dissertation Research Methods 1+2	Dr L. Crispi
1 only	1	ENG30860	Reading Old English 2	Prof. M. Clayton
2 only	1	ENG30570	World Literature in English	Dr S. Deckard
2 only	1	ENG30560	Dissertation	Dr L. Crispi

2) You must register to FIVE of the following option modules: TWO from Option List C, TWO from Option List D, and ONE remaining from either C, D, or E

Level 3 Option List C
SEMESTER	OFFERINGs		CODE		TITLE		CO-ORDINATOR
1/2	2		ENG30050		Women Representing Women in the 19^th century		Dr M. O’Connell
1/2	2		ENG31030		Romanticism in Context		Dr Lucy Cogan
1 only	2		ENG30150		Medieval Celluloid		Prof. A. Fletcher
1 only	1		ENG30180		The Art and Practice of Stagecraft		Prof. F. McGuinness
1/2	2		ENG30350		Paradise Lost		Prof. D. Clarke
1/2	2		ENG30400		Talking Animals		Dr N. Pattwell
1/2	2		ENG31040		The Other Mary Shelley		Dr M. O’Connell
1 only	1		ENG30620		The Poetry of W.B Yeats: Imagining Ireland		Dr L. Collins
1 only	2		ENG30640		Shakespeare from Stage to Screen		Dr J. Grogan
2 only	2		ENG30660		Literature and Science in the 19^th century		Dr F. Dillane
1/2	2		ENG30690		Sonnets: Mostly Shakespeare		Prof. D. Clarke
1 only	2		ENG30720		Shakespeare, Marlowe and the East		Dr J. Grogan
1 only	2		ENG30730		J.M. Synge and the Ireland of his time		Dr PJ Mathews
2 only	2		ENG30740		Gothic and Gothick		Prof. A. Fletcher
1/2	2		ENG30750		Readings in English Poetry, 1550-1850		Prof A. Fletcher
1/2	2		ENG30760		Early American Writing		Dr R. Callan
2 only	2				Literature, Technology and Modernisation		Prof N. Daly
2 only	2		ENG30770		Fin-de-siècle		Prof. N. Daly
1/2	2		ENG30780		Shakespeare in Context		Dr N. McAreavey
1/2	2		ENG30790		Women Writing in the Late Middle Ages		Dr N. Pattwell
1/2	2		ENG30800		Reading Wordsworth		Dr Lucy Cogan
Option List D
SEMESTER	Offerings	CODE		TITLE		CO-ORDINATOR
1 only	2	ENG30080		The Contemporary Historical Novel		Dr F. Dillane
1/2	2	ENG30100		Canadian Fiction in English		Dr R. Callan
1 only	1	ENG30140		Seamus Heaney and Modern Irish Poetry		Dr.C. Clutterbuck
1 only	2	ENG30190		Staging the Celtic Tiger		Dr PJ Mathews
1 only	2	ENG30200		The Drama of Brian Friel		Prof. T. Roche
2	2	ENG30210		Modern American Poetry and Poetics		Dr N. Williams
1/2	2	ENG30390		Contemporary Irish Writing		Dr. Legaretta (1)
1 only	2	ENG30450		Theatres of War		Dr E. Pine
2 only	2	ENG30480		Reading Gender and Sexuality		Dr A. Mulhall
1/2	2	ENG30490		Reading Joyce		Dr L. Crispi
1/2	2	ENG30520		Reading Ulysses		Dr L. Crispi
2 only	1	ENG31010		Post-Colonial Ecocriticism		Dr S. Deckard
1 only	1	ENG30530		Post-Colonial Literature		Dr S Deckard
1/2	2	ENG30590		Post-War American Fiction		Dr. R. Callan
2 only	2	ENG30610		The Modernist Novel		Dr J. Brannigan
2 only	2	ENG31020		Memory and the Irish Stage		Dr E. Pine
2	2	ENG30810		American Literature between the Wars		Dr N. Williams
1/2	2	ENG30820		The Theatre of Martin McDonagh		Dr E. Jordan
1/2	2	ENG30840		Irish Women’s Poetry: History and Her Story		Dr C. Clutterbuck
2 only	2	ENG30850		War Stories: British Fictions of World War Two		Dr J. Brannigan
1/2	2	ENG30880		Beckett and Twentieth-century Drama		Dr. C. Kilcoyne
1	2	ENG30890		Caribbean Literature		Dr F. Sweeney
2 only	1	ENG30900		The Plays of Frank McGuinness		Prof. T Roche
1/2	2	ENG30920		Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in Britain, America and Scandinavia		Dr M. Stuart
1/2	2	ENG30930		The Short Story		Dr K O’Keefe
1/2	2	ENG30960		Contemporary American Writing		Offer to L. Lanigan
2 only	2	IRST30100		Irish Gothic		Prof. Gerardine Meaney
2 only	2	IRST30120		Memory and Identity in Irish Literature		Dr A. Mulhall


1/2	2	ENG 31000		Irish Women’s Writing		Prof Fogarty
1 only	2	IRST20020		Gender, Culture and Society in Ireland		Prof Gerardine Meaney

LEVEL 3 Option List E
SEMESTER	Offerings	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
2 only	1	ENG30830	Modern Poetry: Texts and Contexts	Dr L. Collins
1 only	1	ENG30710	Literature and Ecology	Dr S. Deckard
2 only	1	ENG30650	Gender, Sexuality and Culture: Adaptation, Transition, Transmission	Prof. D. Clarke
1 only	1	ENG30700	Other Worlds in Medieval Literature	Prof. M. Clayton

To summarise:

Core seminar modules x 5 = 25 credits

Option seminars x 5 = 25 credits

Electives (in English or in any other subject) x 2 = 10 credits