BA Humanities English, European & World Literatures (AYS2)

The BA Humanities is an innovative, interdisciplinary four-year programme that combines multiple subjects to provide coherence and depth to student learning within nine carefully structured pathways. Taught by expert academics in the Arts and Humanities, the BA Humanities programme offers both intensive training in particular disciplines and unique skill sets that are developed by bringing together subjects that and relate closely to each other. Students will gain essential life and employment skills, including critical, analytical and creative thinking, and expert communications, while learning how to be adaptable and flexible in preparation for employment in a dynamic work environment.

The English, European and World Literatures pathway develops an in-depth understanding and a questioning of the literary and intellectual legacies of European languages, including English. Students will look at the ways in which these literatures have impacted, and continue to impact, beyond their countries of origin as well as the relationship between writing and place, examine how other cultures respond to key/global issues, and assess how languages encode and challenge cultural identities. Students will read English and one of the modern languages (French/Spanish/Italian/German).

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This programme develops an in-depth understanding and a questioning of the literary and intellectual legacies of European languages, including English, and the ways in which these languages and literatures have migrated and mutated across the world. The pathway offers the opportunity to examine literature from the middle ages to the contemporary period, from the anglophone world to continental Europe to the broader French-speaking and Spanish-speaking worlds, through a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, from gender studies to postcolonialism to eco-criticism, and allows students to assess the role of literature in encoding and challenging cultural identities.


1 - Use skills of inquiry, research, critical thinking, and problem solving to pursue and evaluate knowledge.
2 - Evaluate ideas, challenge assumptions and develop creative solutions to problems including through the independent pursuit of knowledge and making connections between different disciplinary approaches and methods.
3 - Demonstrate effective communication, digital expertise, collaboration and leadership skills to convert decisions and commitments into action.
4 - Understand the ethical implications of ideas, communications, and actions including demonstrated awareness of the historical and cultural construction of knowledge systems and traditions.
5 - Understand the relevance and contribution of the Humanities to contemporary society and cultural practice including an ability to articulate the links between past and present as well as the influence of the past on shaping community and societal structures and beliefs.
6 - Articulate advocacy of human, social and cultural values with a propensity towards and awareness of the value of life-long learning, an understanding of how to learn, including an appreciation of the complexity of ideas, of societies, cultures and language.

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Tel: +353 1 716 8321/8102
Web: www.ucd.ie/ahss

Stage 4

To complete stage 4, students must take the following:




*two core language modules (2x5credits)


*two language module options (2x5credits)


*the core modules EEWL30010 and ENG32310


*15 credits of English options (1x 10credit module + 1x 5credit option)





Any students returning from exchange and who were affected by the disruption to exchanges in 2020/21 should seek registration advice from the Arts and Humanities College Office Team

Module ID Module Title Trimester Credits
Stage 4 Core Modules
     
EEWL30010 Extended Research Essay Spring 10
ENG32310 Climate and Environment in Global Literature Spring 5
Stage 4 Core Modules
     
Stage 4 Options - *A)MIN0OF:
Students taking Italian as their language must take the following 2 modules (10 credits) at stage 4. Both modules are core and must be completed.
     
ITAL30070 Italian Language III a Autumn 5
ITAL30080 Italian Language III b Spring 5
Stage 4 Options - *A)MIN0OF:
Students taking Italian as their language must take the following 2 modules (10 credits) at stage 4. Both modules are core and must be completed.
     
Stage 4 Options - *A1)MINOF:
Students taking Italian as their language must take two of the following options.
All students are strongly advised to balance their workload evenly across both trimesters. This means you should pick 30 credits in autumn (Trimester 1) and 30 credits in spring (Trimester 2)
      
ITAL30110 Selected Twentieth-Century Italian Women Writers Autumn 5
ITAL30200 The Story of Italian 2: Modern Age and Today Spring 5
ITAL30260 Politics and Morals in Renaissance Italy Spring 5
Stage 4 Options - *A1)MINOF:
Students taking Italian as their language must take two of the following options.
All students are strongly advised to balance their workload evenly across both trimesters. This means you should pick 30 credits in autumn (Trimester 1) and 30 credits in spring (Trimester 2)
      
Stage 4 Options - A)MIN1OF:
Students should choose one 10 credit module from this list.
All students are strongly advised to balance their workload evenly across both trimesters. This means you should pick 30 credits in autumn (Trimester 1) and 30 credits in spring (Trimester 2)
     
ENG31950 Architecture and Narrative Autumn 10
ENG31960 Apocalyse Then: Old Eng. Lit. Autumn 10
ENG31990 Reading Gender and Sexuality Autumn 10
ENG32070 Medieval Celluloid Autumn 10
ENG32090 Masculinities and Manhood in Irish Writing and Culture Autumn 10
ENG32100 Fin-de-Siecle Autumn 10
ENG32230 Reading Beckett Autumn 10
ENG32340 The Modern Short Story: Critical and Creative Approaches Autumn 10
ENG32490 Seventeenth-Century Women: Texts, Lives, Documents Autumn 10
ENG32600 Creative Non-Fiction Autumn 10
ENG31930 Irish Fiction After 2010 Autumn and Spring (separate) 10
ENG31980 Jane Austen and her Peers Autumn and Spring (separate) 10
ENG32020 Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in America, Britain and Ireland Autumn and Spring (separate) 10
ENG32180 Poetry in Performance Autumn and Spring (separate) 10
ENG32560 Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness Autumn and Spring (separate) 10
ENG31900 Yeats and the Arts Spring 10
ENG31940 Global Science Fiction Spring 10
ENG32000 Contemp. Irish Women's Poetry Spring 10
ENG32080 Social Networks in Fiction: from Jane Austen to Conan Doyle Spring 10
ENG32110 Literature and Science Spring 10
ENG32130 Irish Gothic Spring 10
ENG32220 Popular Fiction in Britain Spring 10
ENG32240 Chaucer in Context Spring 10
ENG32270 Post-War US Fiction Spring 10
ENG32290 Reading Ulysses Spring 10
ENG32380 Sexuality and the State in Irish Drama and Culture Spring 10
ENG32390 A Book of Kings Spring 10
ENG32590 Memory and Testimony in Performance Spring 10
Stage 4 Options - A)MIN1OF:
Students should choose one 10 credit module from this list.
All students are strongly advised to balance their workload evenly across both trimesters. This means you should pick 30 credits in autumn (Trimester 1) and 30 credits in spring (Trimester 2)
     
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN1OF:
Students should choose 1 x 5 credit module.
All students are strongly advised to balance their workload evenly across both trimesters. This means you should pick 30 credits in autumn (Trimester 1) and 30 credits in spring (Trimester 2)
     
ENG31110 Other Worlds in Medieval and Renaissance Literature Autumn 5
ENG32300 Making Shakespeare Autumn 5
ENG32520 Ugly Feelings Autumn 5
ENG31780 Contemporary European Crime Fiction Spring 5
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN1OF:
Students should choose 1 x 5 credit module.
All students are strongly advised to balance their workload evenly across both trimesters. This means you should pick 30 credits in autumn (Trimester 1) and 30 credits in spring (Trimester 2)
     
See the UCD Assessment website for further details

Module Weighting Info  
  Award GPA
Programme Module Weightings Rule Description Description >= <=
BHACS024 Stage 4 - 50.00%
Stage 3 - 30.00%
Stage 2 - 20.00%
 Standard Honours Award First Class Honours

3.68

4.20
Second Class Honours, Grade 1

3.08

3.67
Second Class Honours, Grade 2

2.48

3.07
Pass

2.00

2.47

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