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
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 | ||
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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.
