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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 Study Abroad Students and welcomes your contribution to academic and student life here in UCD. Our Study Abroad  programme offers students the opportunity to study English  literature alongside UCD students through a combination of modules of levels 2 and 3 modules.

 

You will find information on the courses on offer to Study Abroad students in 2010-2011. Further information on the School’s teaching, research, staff and events can be found on this website (see links on the left).

 

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

 

We look forward to meeting you enjoy your time in the School.

Information for Study Abroad Students: English at UCD 2011-12

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 below is worth 5 credits.  English majors may chose up to 3 modules in English, which will consist of 2 Core lecture modules and 1 Option Seminar module, as long as they present themselves as an English major to the Centre for Study Abroad on submitting their preferred modules to us for registration (the CSA will check this on their transcripts or confirm wit the home institution if it is not clear from the transcript that they are indeed an English major).

 

Arts students who are not English students may select up to two Core Lecture modules only (subject to availability).  Non-English majors will not be permitted to take Level 3 Option Seminar modules.

 

Registration for Level 3 Option Seminar modules (English majors only) will take place after arrival at School of English, Drama and Film, on the Friday before the commencement of the new semester (details to follow).  It is not possible to register for an Option Seminar through the Study Abroad Office in advance of arrival at the School of English.

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 may choose up to 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. English majors may 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 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 19th-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 19th 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. 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.

  

DR MARIA STUART (STUDY ABROAD LIAISON OFFICER)

DR JANE GROGAN ( STUDY ABROAD LIAISON OFFICER)

 

Additional Information and Advice

 

STUDY ABROAD  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.