UCD School of English, Drama & Film

Scoil an Bhéarla, na Drámaíochta agus na Scannánaíochta UCD

English at Stage 2: A Guide to Minor, Joint Major, and 30 Credit Major Students

Undergraduate English Offerings 2011-2012

Advice for Incoming 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

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.
Stage 2 English modules are categorised by LEVEL. The level indicates the degree of difficulty of the module, including the amount of independent learning required, and the degree of specialisation of the module.
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 ENG 30480, indicating a Level 3 module.
ALL Level 2 and Level 3 MODULES ARE WORTH 5 CREDITS.
Over the two years which you will normally spend in Stage 2, you must take both Level 2 and Level 3 modules. You are strongly advised to take all of your Level 2 modules first (during 2011-2012). We recommend that you do not attempt Level 3 modules until 2012-2013, when you have completed all of your Level 2 modules.

Important Information

You need to make informed choices about your modules. In this short document we give you advice about how to make those choices so that you know what to do to prepare for registration and what to do when registration begins in August. Please print out this document and read it carefully, as well as the Registration Checklist for English. Please follow up with questions to the School if you are not clear about the advice here (see below for contact details). You will find fuller descriptions for modules on Horizons and readings lists are available on the School website. See http://www.ucd.ie/students/course_search.htm for detailed course information.
To secure a place in English as a degree subject, you must nominate English as a Stage 2 Subject Choice by a specified date, usually during the July before you enter Stage 2 (see below for details on how to nominate English, in Registration Part 1).
By nominating English in July, you will ensure that you are registered automatically for the two Level 2 Core English modules which you must take in your incoming year at Stage 2 (usually your second year of study), and which are pre-requisites for (your later) Level 3 study in English: these two Core modules are ‘Critical Theory’ and ‘Reading the Middle Ages’. In other words, without having taken both ‘Critical Theory’ and ‘Reading the Middle Ages’ at Level 2, you will not be able register for modules at Level 3 the following year, or to graduate subsequently in English.
Finally: Make sure you REGISTER ON TIME so that you get the modules that you want to study and so that you do them in the sequence that will best benefit your learning. The BA Programme Office will be in touch with you by email about the day registration begins. Please act on that email.

The Two-Part Process of Summer 2011 Registration to Stage 2 English

Note 1: dates here are provisional: please check regularly with the College of Arts and Celtic Studies Programmes Office http://www.ucd.ie/acshs/ to confirm registration dates.

Note 2: Registration Part 1 as described below applies to students of the BA Omnibus (DN500). It does not apply to students of the BA English with Drama (DN512), the BA English with Film (DN513), or the BA English (DN511), as these students have already decided what they will major in; these students must, however, complete Registration Part 2.

Note 3: Incoming BAMA Liberal Arts (DN516) Stage 2 students intending to take English as a subject, should complete and return a Registration Form, available at http://www.ucd.ie/acshs/registration11_stage2libartsform.pdf, before Thursday 21^st July 2011; please check BA Programme Office http://www.ucd.ie/acshs/ for further details.

In Registration Part 1 you will pick the two subjects that you will take to degree level (one of these being English). Some weeks later you will return to the registration process in Registration Part 2 and choose your modules in English for the next two semesters.

Registration Part 1 (registration to English as a degree subject) must be completed between 9.30 am on Thursday 21 July and 5.00 pm on Tuesday 26 July 2011.

If you do not act between the dates indicated, you may find that you cannot take English.

How to choose your subjects

. Access online registration in the normal way http://www.ucd.ie/students/registration.html .

. Access Module Registration.

. Choose the ‘Subject/Stream’ Tab (at the top of the page).

. On this page the Subjects available to you (based on your Stage 1 results) will be shown.

. Select the Subjects you wish to register for.

. Please note that if you select a Joint Major in one subject you must select a Joint Major

in the other. If you select a Major in one subject you must select a Minor in the other,

and vice versa.

Registration Part 2 (registration for modules) will be available on 19 August and it is important that you act quickly on or after that date.

If you have completed Part 1, you will find that you have been pre-registered to your Level 2

core modules when you begin Part 2 on 19 August. If you have not completed Part 1, you will not be pre-registered to anything, and risk not being able to take English to degree level.

PATHWAYS FOR YOUR DEGREE IN ENGLISH AT STAGE 2

This is important: we strongly advise you to take all of your Level 2 modules before you take your Level 3 modules for the following reasons:

Level 2 modules are more generalised courses taught by one-hour lecture and one-hour SGT per week. This supported teaching structure will help to ease your transition between Stage 1 and Stage 2 by providing more hands-on guided learning.
These Level 2 modules are based on literary periods and national literatures for the most part and will provide you with a broad understanding of cultural, social, political and historical contexts which will enable you to make an informed choice about the more specialised modules you decide to take at Level 3 in 2012-2013.
Level 3 modules build upon knowledge and skills acquired at Level 2, and thus are more challenging than Level 2 modules. You are therefore likely to perform better in Level 3 modules once you have completed all of your Level 2 English 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

IMPORTANT REGULATION

ALL STUDENTS MUST TAKE THESE TWO CORE MODULES.
WE ADVISE THAT YOU REGISTER FOR THESE CORE MODULES AS SOON AS YOU CAN IN AUGUST (Note: if you have nominated English on your Stage 2 Subject Choice Form in July, you should be registered automatically for these two core modules: when registration opens, please check that your registration to these two required modules is complete).

Once you register for the two core modules, you can then make up the rest of your Level 2 credits by selecting from the two option lists below:

Level 2 Option List A
Semester	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
1 only	ENG20440	Irish Literature in English: Reading the Story of Ireland	Dr P.J. Matthews
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
Semester	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
1 only	ENG20450	Renaissance Literature: Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare	Dr N. McAreavey
2 only	ENG20430	Modern American Literature	Dr M. Stuart
2 only	ENG20460	From Victorian to Modern Literature	Dr F. Dillane

You should be familiar with the basic outline of Renaissance, eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature from Literature in Context 1 and 2 and you should now be in a position to make a more informed choice about the areas you would like to follow up.
If you were interested in the Romantic period, for instance, you now have the chance to study specific texts from that period in ‘ENG20490: Romanticism’ and so on.
These modules are not taught by enquiry-based learning methods and all have set primary texts (like Children’s Literature and Literary Genres from Stage 1).

REGULATIONS FOR ENGLISH 60-CREDIT MAJOR STUDENTS ONLY

RULE: You need to take 30 Level 2 credits in English

At Level 2, you should select:

both Core modules
two modules from Level 2 Option List A
two modules from Level 2 Option List B

Once you have completed your choice of Level 2 English modules (usually at the end of your first year of Stage 2), in August 2012 you should go on to select your Level 3 modules (again, you will need 30 Level 3 credits to graduate as a 60-Credit Major English student).

REGULATIONS FOR ENGLISH JOINT MAJOR STUDENTS ONLY

RULE: You must take 25 Level 2 credits in English

At Level 2, you should select:

both Core modules
one module from Level 2 Option List A
one module from Level 2 Option List B
one other module from Option List A or Option List B

Once you have completed your choice of Level 2 English modules (usually at the end of your first year of Stage 2), you should go on to select your Level 3 modules in August 2012 (again, you will need 25 Level 3 credits to graduate with a joint major in English).

REGULATIONS FOR ENGLISH MINOR STUDENTS ONLY

RULE: You must take 20 Level 2 credits

At Level 2, you should select:

both Core modules
one module from Level 2 Option List A
one module from Level 2 Option List

Once you have completed your choice of Level 2 English modules (usually at the end of your first year of Stage 2), you should go on to select your Level 3 modules (again, you will need 20 Level 3 credits to graduate as an English minor).

Progressing from Level 2 to Level 3

Level 3 modules in English are more difficult and more specialized than our Level 2 modules, and build upon knowledge and skills acquired in Level 2 courses. Level 2 modules are designed to ease the transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2, and they are taught by one lecture and one Workshop (Small Group Teaching) session per week, offering more contact time and learning support than Level 3 modules, which are taught by either a one-hour seminar or a one-hour lecture per week.

Level 3 modules demand a sophisticated understanding of literary periods, texts and contexts, more advanced writing skills, and more nuanced critical and analytical thinking skills. For these reasons we strongly advise that you do not register for Level 3 modules until you have completed your Level 2 modules. Therefore, though the way in which the univeristy system presents Stage 2 means that the Level 3 modules will appear as registration options for you in August, you will not be able to take these modules until you have completed Level 2 modules.

RULE: YOU ARE REQUIRED to have taken AT LEAST TWO Level 2 modules before you can register for any Level 3 module from List C or List D. YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED to complete ALL of the required number of Level 2 modules before you take any modules at Level 3. Since Level 3 modules build upon knowledge and skills acquired at Level 2, you are likely to struggle with these modules if you have not completed the appropriate number of credits in English modules at Level 2.

See below for a list of Level 3 English Options available in 2011-12:

LEVEL 3 MODULES, 2011-12 (Provisional):

We strongly advise that you DO NOT register for these modules until you have completed your Level 2 modules. We are listing these modules for you here so that you can better plan the final two years of your degree.

	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	tbc
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

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 the middle of July.

Please also read the Registration Checklist for Students of English. 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.