UCD School of English, Drama & Film

Scoil an Bhéarla, na Drámaíochta agus na Scannánaíochta UCD

Erasmus and International Students

The School of English, Drama and Film welcomes Erasmus students and we look forward to meeting you at our Orientation Meeting on Friday 9 September in J208 (time to be confirmed). We advise visiting students to take the following combination of courses to best benefit from what we can offer at the School and to ensure that visiting students experience English at undergraduate level in the same way as our programme students.

Students taking one semester only should register for

Two Level 2 modules
One Level 3 module (provided they have a background in English Literature from their home institution, i.e. have completed the equivalent of two level 1 modules and two level 2 modules)

One Level 1 module
Two Level 2 modules (if they do not have a background in English Literature from their home institution)

Students here for two semesters should register for

Three or Four Level 2 modules
Two Level 3 modules (provided they have a background in English Literature from their home institution, i.e. have completed the equivalent of two level 1 modules and two level 2 modules)

Two Level 1 modules
Three or Four Level 2 modules (if they do not have a background in English Literature from their home institution)

MODULE OFFERINGS 2011-2012

(Please note: modules may be changed or withdrawn before registration in mid-august should unforseen issues arise)

LEVEL 1

(Recommended For Erasmus Students Only)

Semester 1

Semester 2

ENG10090

Coming of Age Narratives

Dr S. Deckard

ENG10030

Literary Genre

Dr R. Callan

LEVEL 2

SEMESTER	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORD.
1	ENG20410	Reading the Middle Ages	Prof. A. Flectcher
	ENG20440	Reading the Story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English	Dr PJ Mathews
	ENG20490	Romanticism	Dr M. O’Connell
	ENG20250	Twentieth-Century Drama: From Naturalism to Postmodernity	Prof. T. Roche

2	ENG20400	Critical Theory	Dr J. Brannigan
	ENG20450	Renaissance Literature: Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare	Dr N. McAreavey
	ENG20430	Modern American Literature	Dr M. Stuart and Dr F. Sweeney
	ENG20460	From Victorian to Modern Literature, 1830-1914	Dr F. Dillane

Registration for Level 3 Seminars can ONLY take place at the Erasmus/International Orientation Meeting in the School of English on Friday 9 September in J208 (time to be confirmed). All students are advised that Level 3 Seminars are designed for students in the final year of a Degree in English/Irish/American Literature and that only those students with an equivalent level of experience in the area of English Literature/Literary Study would benefit from these courses.

As places are limited on all Level 3 Seminars, students are asked to come to the Orientation Meeting with a choice of three Level 3 Seminars/Lectures from the lists below. You will then be registered for one of your choices (per semester).

Further advice will be offered at the Orientation Meeting.

Level 3 List A (Pre-1900)
SEMESTER	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
1/2	ENG30050	Women Representing Women in the 19^th century	Dr M. O’Connell
1/2	ENG31030	Romanticism in Context	Dr L. Colgan
1 only	ENG30150	Medieval Celluloid	Prof. A. Fletcher
1 only	ENG30180	The Art and Practice of Stagecraft	Prof. F. McGuinness
1/2	ENG30350	Paradise Lost	Prof. D. Clarke
1/2	ENG30400	Talking Animals	Dr N. Pattwell
2 only	ENG30130	Literature, Technology and Modernisation	Prof. N. Daly
1/2	ENG31040	The Other Mary Shelley	Dr M. O’Connell
1 only	ENG30640	Shakespeare from Stage to Screen	Dr J. Grogan
1 only	ENG30620	The Poetry of W.B Yeats: Imagining Ireland	Dr L. Collins
2 only	ENG30660	Literature and Science in the 19^th century	Dr F. Dillane
1/2	ENG30690	Sonnets: Mostly Shakespeare	Prof. D. Clarke
1 only	ENG30720	Shakespeare, Marlowe and the East	Dr J. Grogan
2 only	ENG30740	Gothic and Gothick	Prof. A. Fletcher
1 only	ENG30730	J.M. Synge and the Ireland of his time	Dr PJ Mathews
1/2	ENG30750	Readings in English Poetry, 1550-1850	Prof. A. Fletcher
1/2	ENG30760	Early American Writing	Dr R. Callan
2 only	ENG30770	Fin-de-siècle	Prof. N. Daly
1/2	ENG30780	Shakespeare in Context	Dr N. McAreavey
1/2	ENG30790	Women Writing in the Late Middle Ages	Dr N. Pattwell
1/2	ENG30800	Reading Wordsworth	Dr L. Colgan

Level 3 List B (post-1900)
SEMESTER	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
1 only	ENG30080	Contemporary Historical Fiction	Dr F. Dillane
1/2	ENG30100	Canadian Fiction in English	Dr R. Callan
1 only	ENG30140	Seamus Heaney and Modern Irish Poetry	Dr C. Clutterbuck
1 only	ENG30190	Staging the Celtic Tiger	Dr P.J. Mathews
1 only	ENG30200	The Drama of Brian Friel	Prof. T. Roche
2 only	ENG30210	Modern American Poetry and Poetics	Dr N. Williams
1 only	ENG30390	Contemporary Irish Writing	Dr A. Legaretta
1 only	ENG30450	Theatres of War	Dr E. Pine
2 only	ENG30480	Reading Gender and Sexuality	Dr A. Mulhall
1/2	ENG30490	Reading Joyce	Dr L. Crispi
1/2	ENG30520	Reading Ulysses	Dr L. Crispi
2 only	ENG31010	Post-Colonial Ecocriticism	Dr S. Deckard
1/2	ENG30590	Post-War American Fiction	Dr Ron Callan
2 only	ENG30610	The Modernist Novel	Dr J. Brannigan
2 only	ENG31020	Memory and the Irish Stage	Dr E. Pine
2 only	ENG30810	American Literature between the Wars	Dr N. Williams
1/2	ENG30820	The Theatre of Martin McDonagh	Dr E. Jordan
1/2	ENG30840	Irish Women’s Poetry: History and Her Story	Dr C. Clutterbuck
2 only	ENG30850	War Stories: British Fictions of World War Two	Dr J. Brannigan
1 only	ENG30530	Post-Colonial Literature	Dr S. Deckard
1/2	ENG30880	Beckett and Twentieth-century Drama	Dr C. Kilcoyne
1 only	ENG30890	Caribbean Literature	Dr F. Sweeney
2 only	ENG30900	The Plays of Frank McGuinness	Prof. T Roche
1/2	ENG31000	Irish Women’s Writing	Prof. A. Fogarty
1/2	ENG30920	Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in Britain and America	Dr M. Stuart
1/2	ENG30930	The Short Story	Dr K. O’Keefe
1/2	ENG30960	Contemporary American Writing	tbc
2 only	IRST30100	Irish Gothic	Prof. G. Meaney
2 only	IRST30120	Memory and Identity in Irish Literature	Dr A. Mulhall

LEVEL 3 List C Please note: These are stand-alone lecture modules. They do not have Small Group Teaching attached. They are taught by one-hour lecture per week and assessed by end-of-term two-hour exam. There is no mid-term or continuous assessment
SEMESTER	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
1 only	ENG30700	Other Worlds in Medieval Literature	Prof. M. Clayton
1 only	ENG30710	Literature and Ecology	Dr S. Deckard
2 only	ENG30650	Gender, Sexuality and Culture: Adaptation, Transition, Transmission	Prof. D. Clarke
2 only	ENG30830	Modern Poetry: Texts and Contexts	Dr L. Collins

Additional Information and Advice

English modules are categorised by LEVEL. The level indicates the degree of difficulty of the module, including expectations about the amount of independent learning you need to do for the module and the degree of specialisation of the module.
The module level is clear from the code. All English literature modules have the prefix ‘ENG’, and the first number after the prefix indicates the level. For example ‘Critical Theory’ is coded ENG20400 – a Level 2 module; ‘Reading Gender and Sexuality’ is coded ENG30480, indicating a Level 3 module.

Level 2 modules are taught by one-hour lecture and one-hour of Small Group Teaching per week.
These Level 2 modules provide you with a broad understanding of texts and contexts in relation to specific literary periods, literary genres and/or national cultures.
Level 3 modules build upon the 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 at least two level 2 modules or their equivalent in your home institution.
Level 3 modules are taught by either a one-hour seminar (Option List A and B above) or a one-hour lecture per week (Option List C)
Level 3 modules demand a sophisticated understanding of literary periods, texts and contexts, more advanced writing skills, more nuanced critical and analytical thinking skills and for these reasons we strongly advise that you do not register for Level 3 modules until you have completed two Level 2 modules or their equivalent at your home institution.

Please note: Space in Level 3 seminars (Level 3 List A & List B above) is limited. Students will only be registered to these courses following a meeting with the School of English at the beginning of term. You will be advised of the time and location of this meeting during the Orientation Week and you must attend this meeting if you wish to take any of these courses.