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Single Honours English: Undergraduate Modules

 

 

• Your Level 2 modules from 2011-12 were based on literary periods for the most part (Old English, Medieval literature, Renaissance literature, Eighteenth-, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century literature) and national literatures (Irish, American and British) and provided you with a broad understanding of texts and contexts in relation to these specific periods and topics. 'Critical Theory' introduced you to key theoretical debates about approaches to literature and culture. This knowledge will now enable you to make informed choices about your modules at Level 3. In choosing from among the School's extensive list of specialized Level 3 English modules, you may opt to concentrate your expertise in an area introduced in a particular Level 2 English module already taken, or to spread more widely your engagement with literature and its associated contexts and forms, or both.
• Level 3 modules build upon the knowledge and skills acquired at Level 2. Along with your five Single Honours core modules, most of these modules are taught by seminars. Level 3 seminars from Lists C and D (see below) involve one class hour per week (see seminar lists below). You also have the option of doing some of your modules by lecture only. These involve a one-hour lecture per week. There are no Workshops (Small Group Teaching sessions) attached to these lecture-only modules. (See Level 3 Option List E below). These lecture-only modules are structured around thematic or genre-based approaches to texts and may also be of interest if you prefer to have a mix of seminars and lectures in your timetable.

 

Choosing your Level 3 English modules: Options, Limitations, Balance.

• The School offers a very wide selection of modules at Level 3 across a broad range of subjects and themes based on staff research interests and expertise to best help you to develop your knowledge and skills and to prepare those of you considering further study at postgraduate level. All modules offered at Level 3 are special subjects taught by experts in this area. In order to ensure the best learning experience, the School continues to run most of these modules as small group seminars.
• Almost 400 students from various programmes will take English Level 3 option seminars this year. This means that places on each seminar module are limited. Demand for different modules also varies from year to year, and therefore some modules fill up more quickly than others. Please remember: you are all guaranteed places in our Level 3 modules, but you are not guaranteed a place in your chosen module.
• During the summer, we advise you to think carefully about your possible Level 3 modules, read through the module descriptions (course details, recommended prior knowledge, assessment details, learning outcomes etc.) as soon as they are available on Horizons and on our School website (June) and consult recommended reading lists (available on the School website early July). See http://www.ucd.ie/students/course_search.htm for course information.
• In order to help you choose your Level 3 modules we have attached a module map to chart possible pathways through our module offerings (see attached document ‘Module Map’).   If, for example, you are particularly interested in Shakespeare and want to take the module ‘Shakespeare in Context’ at Level 3, you may also wish to follow the dark blue boxes to select other modules on Shakespeare at Level 3, such as ‘Shakespeare, Marlowe and the East’, or a module on another Renaissance writer, John Milton (see ‘Paradise Lost’ module) all of which build upon what you will have learned in the Level 2 module, ‘Renaissance Literature: Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare’. Alternatively, if you are particularly interested in Irish literature: since you have taken ‘Reading the Story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English’, you should have a good understanding of the context of Irish writing to prepare you for similar modules at Level 3 (coloured light green), such as ‘Reading Joyce’ or ‘Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry: Naming Other Worlds’. On the other hand you may wish to pursue modules that favour one genre over another (e.g. drama or fiction or poetry modules) or modules that address specific topics over a range of literary periods (e.g. modules that focus on gender or the gothic or war writing or the post-colonial). You are offered a wide range of choices to suit your interests and to build on your expertise.
• As indicated already, you may choose your preferred Level 3 English modules on the basis of your interest in a particular period, national literature, genre or medium, theoretical approach, specified major author, socio-cultural context, major literary trope or any combination of these. But remember that most of the Level 3 English modules listed below, occupy at least two of the above-named categories at the same time. The School’s module map for 2012-13 offers only one useful snapshot of how this coming year’s Level 3 modules may be grouped: many other ways of combining these same modules are possible. Be inventive: make up your own Level 3 English module map from the available modules, in accordance with your own interests!
• When you are considering your level 3 modules, we suggest that you draw up a list of your top 10-12 choices. Very few students get all of their top 5 or 6 choices and a list that is any shorter than this will probably mean you will be disappointed.
• Making out a longer list also helps you to broaden your horizons by considering a wider variety of options. Remember too that most (though not all) modules run in both semester 1 and semester 2, so if you cannot register for a particular module in semester 1, there may still be places available on it in semester 2. Pressure for places on semester 1 modules is also normally higher, so following our strong recommendation that you divide your modules equally between semesters and do not front load modules in semester one, will mean you have a greater range of options available to you.
• When prioritising a module on such a list, we suggest that you consider carefully the other possible English modules which might fulfil your interests as stimulated by that module, and keep this list of associated modules carefully in mind, being prepared to adjust your choices as you think further about your interests in the light of the modules available. Please recognize that you are very unlikely to get all the modules you want, but that such flexibility in your approach to choosing modules is far more likely to facilitate a satisfactory outcome in the long run. Part of the particular challenge of Level 3 English is the opening of one’s academic interest to ideas, approaches and material with which one is not familiar as well as the making of connections across a wide variety of such aspects of learning. This openness and readiness to make connections is often developed through taking courses beyond those one had originally planned: colleagues in this School can testify that future life-long critical passions can begin in courses we hadn’t anticipated taking!
• It is up to you to go online to secure a place in your preferred modules or in associated modules, as soon as your (pre-booked) registration start time begins in mid-August.
• You are asked to consult the School’s Registration Checklist in order to familiarize yourself with the School’s role during the registration period.

 

Your Programme Requirements as a Continuing Stage Two Single Honours student:

 

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

Level 3 Options List B
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
1/2	2	ENG30190	Staging the Celtic Tiger	Dr PJ Mathews
2 only	2	ENG30200	The Drama of Brian Friel	Prof. T. Roche
1/2	2	ENG30210	Modern American Poetry and Poetics	Dr N. Williams
2 only	2	ENG30390	Contemporary Irish Writing	Prof. M. Kelleher
1 only	2	ENG30450	Theatres of War	Dr E. Pine
1 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
1 only	2	ENG31010	Post-Colonial Ecocriticism	Dr S. Deckard
1/2	2	ENG30590	Post-War American Fiction	Dr. R. Callan
1/2	2	ENG30610	The Modernist Novel	Dr J. Brannigan
2 only	2	ENG31020	Memory and the Irish Stage	Dr E. Pine
1/2	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	ENG30850	War Stories: British Fictions of World War Two	Dr J. Brannigan
1/2	2	ENG30880	Beckett and Twentieth-Century Drama	tbc
2 only	2	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	tbc
1/2	2	ENG30960	Contemporary American Writing	tbc
1/2	2	ENG31000	Irish Women’s Writing	Prof. A.  Fogarty
2 only	2	ENG31130	Literary Studies and Digital Humanities	Prof. M. Kelleher
1 only	2	ENG31150	Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry: Naming Other Worlds	Dr Catriona Clutterbuck
1 only	2	ENG31180	Literature of the Americas	tbc
1 only	2	IRST20020	Gender, Culture and Society in Ireland	Dr E. Radley
2 only	2	IRST30100	Irish Gothic	Dr E. Radley
2 only	2	IRST30120	Memory and Identity in Irish Literature	Dr A. Mulhall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LEVEL 3 Option List C
SEMESTER	OFFERINGS	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
1 only	1	ENG30830	Modern Poetry: Texts and Contexts	Dr L. Collins
2 only	1	ENG30650	Gender, Sexuality and Culture: Adaptation, Transition, Transmission	Prof. D. Clarke
2 only	1	ENG31110	Other Worlds in Medieval and Renaissance Literature	Prof. M. Clayton
1 only	1	ENG31140	The Body in Pain in Irish Culture	Dr F. Dillane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To summarise (for Level 3):

Core seminar modules x 5               = 25 credits

Option seminars x 5                         = 25 credits

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

 

 

• Directors of Teaching and Learning: Dr. Porscha Fermanis and Dr. Caitriona Clutterbuck
• Link to Blackboard
• IXs / Re-sit / Repeat Arrangements for Semester One, 2012-13 (Autumn 2012)
• School Guidelines on Applying for Extenuating Circumstances - November 2012      
• School Guidelines on Submission and Late Submission of Assessments 
• SAFE ASSIGN - Student Instructions 
• Policy on Penalties for Not Completing Dual Submission of Assessments 
• Essay Advice Checklist (July 2012) 
• Plagiarism Policy - Information for Students 
• MLA Style Sheet - A Brief Introduction  
• Requirements for the 'Works Cited' section of Assessments 
• Online Resources for Academic Writing