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 2010-2011 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 2010-11

Provisional Module Choices in English for Junior Year Abroad students 2010/11

The following is a (provisional) list of the modules that will be on offer to you in 2010/2011, with details of the co-ordinators and module codes, as well as the semester in which the module is offered. With these details, you will be able to find full course details on the UCD website, to help you make your choices: http://www.ucd.ie/students/course_search.htm

Please note that while some modules are available in both semester 1 and semester 2, many (including the core modules) are only on offer during one particular semester.

Every module listed here is worth 5 credits, and during your semester at UCD, you will take 15 credits worth of modules with us. Because our JYA programme guarantees you a commensurate and representative experience to that of our own students, your 15 credits MUST be comprised of two core modules and one option module, as shown below.

NB: In order to complete your registration, it is essential that you attend our orientation meeting on the Thursday before the first week of each semester, so you MUST ensure that you are here in Dublin by that point.

We look forward to meeting you in 2010/11.

Dr Maria Stuart and Dr Jane Grogan

JYA Officers in the School of English, Drama and Film

Registration: your choices

(Please note: modules may be changed or withdrawn should

unforeseen issues arise)

1. You must choose TWO of the following Core modules, from the selection on offer in the semester in which you will be at UCD. The Study Abroad office will help you to pre-register for your two Core modules. Core modules comprise one lecture and one small-group tutorial per week.

Stage 2 Cores
Semester	Code	Title	Co-ordinator
1 only	ENG20400	Critical Theory	Dr J. Brannigan
1 only	ENG20440	Irish Literature in English: Reading the Story of Ireland	Dr P.J. Matthews
1 only	ENG20450	Renaissance Literature: Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare	Dr N. McAreavey
1 only	ENG20490	Romanticism	Dr M. O’Connell
2 only	ENG20250	Twentieth-Century Drama: From Naturalism to Postmodernity	Prof T. Roche
2 only	ENG20430	Modern American Literature	Dr M. Stuart
2 only	ENG20460	From Victorian to Modern Literature	Dr F. Dillane
2 only	ENG20410	Reading Medieval Literature	Prof. A. Fletcher

2. Next you MUST choose ONE option module from List A (taught by small-group seminar) or List B (taught by stand-alone lecture). Students may ONLY register for Option modules after they arrive at UCD. Registration details for Option seminars will be announced at the School of English Orientation Meeting and will take place on the Friday before the semester begins in the office of Dr Stuart or Dr Grogan, School of English. Students are advised that, due to class size, places are limited on all Option seminars and students should come to the Orientation Meeting with a list of their first three choices. It is NOT possible to register for Option seminars through the Study Abroad Office in advance of arrival at the School of English.

Stage 2 Option List A (level 3)
SEMESTER	CODE	TITLE		CO-ORDINATOR
1/2	ENG30050	Women Representing Women in 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
1 only	ENG30620	The Poetry of W.B Yeats: Imagining Ireland		Dr L. Collins
2 only	ENG30640	Shakespeare from Stage to Screen		Dr J. Grogan
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
1/2	ENG30730	J.M. Synge and the Ireland of his time		Dr PJ Mathews
2 only	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
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 P. Fermanis
1/2	ENG30940	Literatures of Empire		tbc
1/2	ENG30980	Nineteenth-century Children’s Literature		Dr S Cahill
1/2	ENG30990	The Child and the World		Prof D Kiberd
1 only	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	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	ENG30390		Contemporary Irish Writing		tbc
1 only	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
1/2	ENG30520		Reading Ulysses		Dr L. Crispi
1/2	ENG30530		Post-Colonial Literature		Dr S. Deckard
1/2	ENG30590		Post-War American Fiction		tbc
1/2	ENG30610		The Modernist Novel		Dr J. Brannigan
2 only	ENG30670		Sex, Politics and the Irish Stage		Dr E. Pine
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
1/2	ENG30880		Beckett and Twentieth-century Drama		tbc
1 only	ENG30890		Caribbean Literature		Dr F. Sweeney
2 only	ENG30900		The Plays of Frank McGuinness		Prof. T Roche
1/2	ENG30920		Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in Britain, America and Scandinavia		Dr M. Stuart
1/2	ENG30930		The Short Story		tbc
1/2	ENG30960		Contemporary American Writing		tbc
1/2	IRST30100		Irish Gothic		Dr E. Radley
2 only	IRST30120		Memory and Identity in Irish Literature		Dr A. Mulhall

Stage 2 Option List B (Level 3)
SEMESTER	CODE	TITLE	CO-ORDINATOR
1 only	ENG30830	Modern Poetry: Texts and Contexts	Dr C. Clutterbuck
1 only	ENG30710	Literature and Ecology	Dr S. Deckard
2 only	ENG30650	Gender, Sexuality and Culture: Adaptation, Transition, Transmission	Prof. D. Clarke
2 only	ENG30700	Other Worlds in Medieval Literature	Prof. M. Clayton

NB: We also offer selected modules in Creative Writing, Irish Studies, Drama, and Film, which may be substituted for your English Option choice. You will be able to enquire about these possibilities at the Orientation meeting.

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