UCD School of English, Drama & Film

Scoil an Bhéarla, na Drámaíochta agus na Scannánaíochta UCD

Welcome to the School of English, Drama and Film, with Irish Studies and Creative Writing, at UCD.

The School has a longstanding relationship with Junior Year Abroad (JYA) Students and welcomes your contribution to academic and student life here in UCD. Our JYA programme offers students the opportunity to study literature alongside existing students through a combination of modules of levels 2 and 3 modules.

You will find information on the courses on offer to English Literature JYA students in 2008-2009 under Guidelines. Further information on the School’s teaching, research, staff and events can be found on this website (see links on the left).

Further information on UCD’s JYA and Study Abroad programmes can be accessed here.

If you have any queries regarding JYA programmes in the School of English, Drama and Film contact Dr Jane Grogan or Dr Maria Stuart.

We hope you enjoy your time in the School.

Information for JYA Students: English at UCD 2009-10

The School advises all JYA students to take 2 Core (or Co-core) Lecture Modules and 1 Seminar Module per semester (see below for lists of courses in each). Each module = 5 credits, giving JYA students 15 credits per semester.

Module Registration:

JYA students may contact the JYA Office, UCD for information about registration for Core Lecture Modules. It is important to note however, that registration for all Seminar Modules will only take place after arrival at the School of English in September 2009/January 2010. On no account can a student register for a Seminar in advance of arrival. Places are limited for seminars and incoming JYA students will have an Orientation Meeting in the School of English at 2pm on Thursday 3rd September 2009 (semester 1; room J208) or (for students arriving in Semester 2) in the afternoon of Thursday 14th January 2010 . The time and location of Seminar Registration will be given at this Orientation Meeting, so it is imperative that students atten d. As places are limited, students are asked to compile their first three Seminar Module preferences and bring these to Seminar Registration.

ENGLISH AT STAGE 2 : MODULE OFFERINGS 2009-2010

(Please note: modules may be changed or withdrawn should

unforseen issues arise)

CORE/CO-CORE LECTURE MODULES

These modules comprise 1 lecture and 1 tutorial per week. JYA students are advised to take 2 Lecture Modules per semester (2 x 5 credits). You may choose from those listed below (or from the Lecture Modules in List C).

SEMESTER	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORD.
Semester 1	ENG20450	Critical Theory	Dr J. Brannigan
	ENG20440	Reading the Story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English	Dr PJ Mathews
	ENG20450	Renaissance Literature: Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare	Dr N. McAreavey
	ENG20490	Romanticism	Dr M. O’Connell

Semester 2	ENG20410	Reading Medieval Literature	Prof. A. Fletcher
	ENG20250	Twentieth-Century Drama: From Naturalism to Postmodernity	Prof. T. Roche
	ENG20430	Modern American Literature	Dr N. Williams
	ENG20460	From Victorian to Modern Literature, 1830-1914	Dr F. Dillane

Seminar Modules: List A JYA students are advised to take 1 seminar module (from list a or b) per semester. Each seminar = 5 credits. Students register for seminars at a school registration session after arrival at the school of english, drama and film in september 2009/january 2010. Students may not register for these courses in advance of arrival.
SEMESTER	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
1/2	ENG30050	Women Representing Women in the 19^th century	Dr M. O’Connell
1/2	ENG30070	Romanticism and Postmodernism	Dr P. Fermanis
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
1 only	ENG30470	Earliest English Writing	Prof. M. Clayton
1/2	ENG30600	The Writings of Mary Shelley	Dr M. O’Connell
2 only	ENG30640	Shakespeare from Stage to Screen	Dr J. Grogan
1/2	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
1/2	ENG30740	Gothic and Gothick	Prof. A. Fletcher
1/2	ENG30750	Readings in English Poetry, 1550-1850	Mr B. Donnelly
1/2	ENG30760	Early American Writing	Dr R. Callan
1/2	ENG30770	Fin-de-siècle	Prof. N. Daly
2 only	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 P. Fermanis

Seminar Modules: List B
SEMESTER	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
1/2	ENG30080	The Contemporary Historical Novel	Dr F. Dillane
1/2	ENG30100	Canadian Fiction in English	Dr R. Callan
1/2	ENG30140	Seamus Heaney and Modern Irish Poetry	Mr B. Donnelly
1/2	ENG30170	Joyce’s Ulysses	tbc
1/2	ENG30190	Staging the Celtic Tiger	Dr PJ Mathews
1 only	ENG30200	The Drama of Brian Friel	Prof. T. Roche
1/2	ENG30210	Modern American Poetry and Poetics	Dr N. Williams
1/2	ENG30380	African-American Writing	Dr M. Stuart
1/2	ENG30390	Contemporary Irish Writing	tbc
1/2	ENG30450	Theatres of War	Dr E. Pine
1 only	ENG30480	Reading Gender and Sexuality	Dr A. Mulhall
1/2	ENG30490	Reading Joyce	Dr L. Crispi
2 only	ENG30500	The Plays of Harold Pinter	Prof. T. Roche
1/2	ENG30520	Reading Ulysses	Dr L. Crispi
1/2	ENG30530	Post-Colonial Literature	Dr S. Deckard
1/2	ENG30540	Mapping Theatre and Change	Dr E. Jordan
1/2	ENG30590	Post-War American Fiction	tbc
1/2	ENG30610	The Modernist Novel	Dr J. Brannigan
2 only	ENG30620	The Poetry of W.B Yeats: Imagining Ireland	Dr L. Collins
1/2	ENG30670	Sex, Politics and the Irish Stage	Dr E. Pine
1 only	ENG30680	“A Far Cry from Africa”: The Politics of Difference in 20th century US and Caribbean Writing	Dr F. Sweeney
1/2	ENG30730	J.M. Synge and the Ireland of his time	Dr PJ Mathews
1/2	ENG30810	American Literature between the Wars	Dr N. Williams
1 only	ENG30820	The Theatre of Martin McDonagh	Dr E. Jordan
1/2	ENG30840	Irish Women’s Poetry: History and Her Story	Dr C. Clutterbuck
1/2	ENG30850	War Stories: British Fictions of World War Two	Dr J. Brannigan

Lecture Module 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

JYA STUDENTS MAY ALSO CHOOSE FROM MODULES IN IRISH STUDIES, FILM STUDIES AND AMERICAN STUDIES. INFORMATION AND CONTACT DETAILS ARE POSTED ON THE SCHOOL WEBSITE.

THOSE INTERESTED IN CREATIVE WRITING MODULES SHOULD ASK FOR INFORMATION AT THE ORIENTATION MEETING IN SEPTEMBER.

DR MARIA STUART (JYA LIAISON OFFICER)

DR JANE GROGAN (JYA LIAISON OFFICER)

Additional Information and Advice

JYA STUDENTS MAY ALSO CHOOSE FROM MODULES IN IRISH STUDIES, FILM STUDIES AND AMERICAN STUDIES. INFORMATION, WITH CONTACT DETAILS, IS POSTED ON THE WEBSITE FOR THE SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, DRAMA, FILM AND AMERICAN STUDIES.

THOSE INTERESTED IN CREATIVE WRITING MODULES SHOULD ASK FOR INFORMATION AT THE ORIENTATION MEETING IN SEPTEMBER.

DR MARIA STUART

DR JANE GROGAN