UCD School of English, Drama & Film

Scoil an Bhéarla, na Drámaíochta agus na Scannánaíochta UCD

Level 3 English: A Guide to Minor, Joint Major, and 30 Credit Major Students

Advice for Continuing Stage 2 Students of English 2011-12

(For students taking English as a 60-Credit Major, as a Joint Major, or as a Minor Subject)

NB: Please also read the Registration Checklist and Registration Policy

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

Introduction: ENGLISH Stage 2, Year 2

Your Arts degree is taught in two stages (Stage 1 and Stage 2), and you must accumulate 60 credits at Stage 1 and 120 credits at Stage 2 to complete your degree.
The module level is clear from the code. All English modules have the prefix ‘ENG’, and the first number after the prefix indicates the level. For example ‘Critical Theory’ is coded ENG20420 – a Level 2 module; ‘Reading Gender and Sexuality’ is coded ENG30480, indicating a Level 3 module.
Each module in English is worth 5 credits
At this point most of you will have accumulated the required number of Level 2 credits. To complete your degree, you will now have to take a number of LEVEL 3 modules. See below for details about what you need to do as a Minor, Joint Major or 60-Credit Major student.

Important Information

Registration for final year English students opens on Wednesday, 17^th August 2011 (this date remains provisional: please check the BA Programmes Office homepage, http://www.ucd.ie/acshs/ and http://www.ucd.ie/students/registration.html on a regular basis to confirm).

It is vitally important that you get online and register as soon as you can when registration opens.

You need to make informed choices about your modules for 2011-12. In this short document we give you advice about how to make those choices. Please print it out, read it and the Registration Checklist for English carefully, and follow up with questions to the School if you are not clear about the advice.

We advise you to think carefully about your 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 (mid-July) and consult recommended reading lists (available on the School website early July). See http://www.ucd.ie/students/course_search.htm for course information.

When you decide on your modules based on the information on Horizons and on our School website and on the guidelines given here, we strongly advise you NOT to drop and swap modules. Gather information, make your choice and stick to it. Most of our Level 3 modules have only approximately 14 places per offering. There are more than 350 students taking English at Level 3 in 2011-12, not including Visiting Students, BA International students and elective students, so there is tough competition for places on the modules.

We offer 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. But please remember: You are all guaranteed places in our modules, but you are not necessarily guaranteed a place in your chosen area. It is up to you to go online to secure a place in you chosen module as soon as registration opens.

The ONLY way to get a place in a seminar is online registration; Special Registration Circumstances, in which the School may be contacted for help with registration, are detailed in the Registration Checklist (also sent out to you) and in the Registration Policy for Students of English.

Progressing from Level 2 to Level 3

Your Level 2 modules from 2010-11 were based on literary periods for the most part (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.

Level 3 modules build upon the knowledge and skills acquired at Level 2. They are taught by seminars which are small, specialised classes (approx 20 students) that involve one class hour per week. These intensive seminars offer the opportunity for detailed exploration and analysis of topics and texts in a focussed, small-group setting. (See below for seminar listings).

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.

Note: ‘Critical Theory’ and ‘Reading the Middle Ages’ are Core modules at Level 2, and are pre-requisite modules for Level 3 English: without having taken these two courses, you cannot register for Level 3 modules.

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 can see that it will have been in your interests to have taken the Level 2 module, ‘Renaissance Literature: Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare’ to equip you with the skills required to study Shakespeare at a higher level. You may also decide 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. Alternatively, if you are particularly interested in Irish literature, and you’ve 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 ‘Irish Women’s Poetry: History and Her Story’. Alternatively 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 have a wide range of choices to suit your interests and to build on your expertise.

The rest of this document includes a list of the modules we offer at Stage 2, Level 3 with guidance on how you should make your choices depending on whether you are a Minor, Joint Major, or 60-Credit Major student.

	Level 3 Options List C (Seminar modules focusing substantially on pre-1900 material and contexts)
SEMESTER	OFFERINGS	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
1/2	2	ENG 30050	Women Representing Women in the 19^th century	Dr M. O’Connell
1/2	2	ENG 31030	Romanticism in Context	Dr. L. Cogan
1 only	2	ENG 30150	Medieval Celluloid	Prof. A. Fletcher
1 only	1	ENG 30180	The Art and Practice of Stagecraft	Prof. F. McGuinness
1/2	2	ENG 30350	Paradise Lost	Prof. D. Clarke
1/2	2	ENG 30400	Talking Animals	Dr N. Pattwell
1/2	2	ENG 31040	The Other Mary Shelley	Dr M. O’Connell
1 only	1	ENG 30620	The Poetry of W.B Yeats: Imagining Ireland	Dr L. Collins
1 only	2	ENG 30640	Shakespeare from Stage to Screen	Dr J. Grogan
2 only	2	ENG 30660	Literature and Science in the 19^th century	Dr F. Dillane
1/2	2	ENG 30690	Sonnets:Mostly Shakespeare	Prof. D. Clarke
1 only	2	ENG 30720	Shakespeare, Marlowe and the East	Dr J. Grogan
1 only	2	ENG 30730	J.M. Synge and the Ireland of his time	Dr PJ Mathews
2 only	2	ENG 30740	Gothic and Gothick	Prof. A. Fletcher
1/2	2	ENG 30750	Readings in English Poetry, 1550-1850	Prof A. Fletcher
1/2	2	ENG 30760	Early American Writing	Dr R. Callan
2 only	2	ENG 30130	Literature, Technology and Modernisation	Prof. N. Daly
2 only	2	ENG 30770	Fin-de-siècle	Prof. N. Daly
1/2	2	ENG 30780	Shakespeare in Context	Dr N. McAreavey
1/2	2	ENG 30790	Women Writing in the Late Middle Ages	Dr N. Pattwell
1/2	2	ENG 30800	Reading Wordsworth	Dr. L. Cogan

Level 3 Options List D (Seminar modules focusing substantially on post-1900 material and contexts)
SEMESTER	Offerings	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
1 only	2	ENG 30080	The Contemporary Historical Novel	Dr F. Dillane
1/2	2	ENG 30100	Canadian Fiction in English	Dr R. Callan
1 only	1	ENG 30140	Seamus Heaney and Modern Irish Poetry	Dr.C. Clutterbuck
1 only	2	ENG 30190	Staging the Celtic Tiger	Dr PJ Mathews
1 only	2	ENG 30200	The Drama of Brian Friel	Prof. T. Roche
2 only	2	ENG 30210	Modern American Poetry and Poetics	Dr N. Williams
1 only	2	ENG 30390	Contemporary Irish Writing	Dr. A. Legaretta
1 only	2	ENG 30450	Theatres of War	Dr E. Pine
2 only	2	ENG 30480	Reading Gender and Sexuality	Dr A. Mulhall
1/2	2	ENG 30490	Reading Joyce	Dr L. Crispi
1/2	2	ENG 30520	Reading Ulysses	Dr L. Crispi
2 only	2	ENG 31010	Post-Colonial Ecocriticism	Dr S. Deckard
1 only	1	ENG 30530	Post-Colonial Literature	Dr S. Deckard
1/2	2	ENG 30590	Post-War American Fiction	Dr. R. Callan
2 only	2	ENG 30610	The Modernist Novel	Dr J. Brannigan
2 only	2	ENG 31020	Memory and the Irish Stage	Dr E. Pine
2 only	2	ENG 30810	American Literature between the Wars	Dr N. Williams
1/2	2	ENG 30820	The Theatre of Martin McDonagh	Dr E. Jordan
1/2	2	ENG 30840	Irish Women’s Poetry: History and Her Story	Dr C. Clutterbuck
2 only	2	ENG 30850	War Stories: British Fictions of World War Two	Dr J. Brannigan
1/2	2	ENG 30880	Beckett and Twentieth-Century Drama	Dr. C. Kilcoyne
1	2	ENG 30890	Caribbean Literature	Dr F. Sweeney
2 only	1	ENG 30900	The Plays of Frank McGuinness	Prof. T. Roche
1/2	2	ENG 30920	Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in Britain, America and Scandinavia	Dr M. Stuart
1/2	2	ENG 30930	The Short Story	Dr. K. O’Keefe
1/2	2	ENG 30960	Contemporary American Writing	Dr. L. Lanigan
2 only	2	IRST 30100	Irish Gothic	Prof. G. Meaney
2 only	2	IRST 30120	Memory and Identity in Irish Literature	Dr A. Mulhall
1/2	2	ENG 31000	Irish Women’s Writing	Prof. A. Fogarty
1 only	2	IRST 20020	Gender, Culture and Society in Ireland	Prof. G. Meaney

LEVEL 3 Option List E (Stand-Alone Lecture Modules)
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

REGULATIONS FOR ENGLISH 60-CREDIT MAJOR STUDENTS ONLY

RULE: You need to take 30 Level 3 credits

At Level 3, you should select:

Two modules from Level 3 Option List C
Two modules from Level 3 Option List D
Two other modules from Options Lists C, D or E

REGULATIONS FOR ENGLISH JOINT MAJOR STUDENTS ONLY

RULE: You need to take 25 Level 3 credits

At Level 3, you should select:

Two modules from Level 3 Option List C
Two modules from Level 3 Option List D
One other module from Options Lists C, D or E

REGULATIONS FOR ENGLISH MINOR STUDENTS ONLY

RULE: You need to take 20 Level 3 credits

At Level 3, you should select:

One module from Level 3 Option List C
One modules from Level 3 Option List D
Two other modules from Options Lists C, D or E

Electives Only
Semester	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
1/2	ENG20510	Creative Writing K	Mr J. Ryan
1/2	ENG30870	Creative Writing L	Mr J. Ryan

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Full information on our modules will be available on Horizons and Readings Lists for modules will be available on the School website from early July.

Please also read the Undergraduate Student Registration Checklist. This document is based on the School’s Registration Policy, which is available on the School Website.

If, having fully read this document and the Checklist, you require any further advice on making your choices, please contact either:

Dr Fionnghuala Sweeney (fionnghuala.sweeney@ucd.ie), or Dr Catriona Clutterbuck (catriona.clutterbuck@ucd.ie), Directors of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning, UCD School of English, Drama and Film.