The English programme is aimed at students who love reading, who value literature and appreciate its fundamental role in shaping society and the individual; it attracts students who wish to deepen and refine their critical engagement with a wide variety of English-language texts and cultures.  We educate students in the history of literary and cultural production, in current theoretical methods and approaches, and in a wide range of generic, historical and national literatures.  We promote our core values – independence, creativity, collaboration, critical reflection, cultural engagement, and social and political consciousness – through innovative teaching, learning and assessment methods.  The seminar, workshop and small group work are at the core of our teaching; in these supportive learning environments students and their lecturer/tutor come together in the spirit of mutual inquiry, reflection, discussion and debate.  Work is assessed by a variety of methods including exam, essay, reflective journals, presentations, worksheets, portfolios, creative writing, individual and group projects. Together these modes of assessment foster the development of a range of important qualities and proficiencies.  We work to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, resources and inspiration useful for a range of professions and beneficial for life, and to produce graduates capable of fulfilling their highest potential as critically-minded and creative citizens.  The challenges, experiences and opportunities provided in this educational environment prepare students for a variety of different workplaces.

1 - Situate a text within appropriate thematic, critical, historic and cultural contexts, and to interrogate it in the light of current critical debates
2 - Illustrate In-depth knowledge of literary production in specific time periods and cultures, and identify aesthetic innovations and trends
3 - Express nuanced understanding of form, genre and mode, and an ability to connect ideas across different periods and cultures
4 - Apply refined and sophisticated skills in detailed textual analysis and close reading, and highly attentive to the tensions and ambiguity of texts and language
5 - Apply ann extensive range of literary terminology to the analysis of texts in a range of genres and media
6 - Write with clarity, precision, depth and style, while demonstrating an awareness of genre (e.g. essay, reflective journal, oral presentation), modes of argument, rhetorical skills, and audience
7 - Possess confidence in their own critical judgments, informed by appropriate academic and theoretical skills
8 - Demonstrate a capacity for Innovative, independent thinking that is creative in approach and response to complex issues
9 - Articulate the value and radical transformative potential of literature and literary studies, and become an enthusiastic advocate for the discipline in wider society
10 - Foster a lifelong commitment to the value of reading with an ongoing desire to explore the rich variety of literary and cultural production and cultural history
11 - Research effectively, identify gaps in knowledge and locate and evaluate appropriate sources of information (including online resources, databases, digital tools)
12 - Advance to Postgraduate studies will all the necessary critical, writing and research skills

At Stage Two, students must take BOTH Level Two core modules (15 credits). Students must make up 10 Level Two option credits in English and should select 2 x 5 credit option modules. Students can choose to take further modules in English as substitutions for elective credits.

At Stage Three, students must take 2 x 10 credit modules from Option List A and 1 x 5 credit modules from Option List B.

At Stage Four, students should take 2 x 10 credit modules from Option List A and 1 x 5 credit module from Option List B

Module ID	Module Title	Trimester	Credits
Stage 2 Core Modules
ENG20780	Critical Theory	Autumn	10
ENG20410	Reading Medieval Literature	Spring	5
Stage 2 Core Modules
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN2OF: Students should choose 2 option modules.
ENG20440	Reading the story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English	Autumn	5
ENG20450	Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare: Renaissance Literature	Autumn	5
ENG20490	Romanticism	Autumn	5
ENG20430	Modern American Literature	Spring	5
ENG20790	Global 19th C. Literature	Spring	5
ENG20800	Global Eco-Literature	Spring	5
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN2OF: Students should choose 2 option modules.
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN2OF: Students should choose 2 x 10 credit modules. Students may take additional modules from the list below in place of electives
ENG31950	Architecture and Narrative	Autumn	10
ENG31960	Apocalypse Then: Old Eng. Lit.	Autumn	10
ENG31980	Women and the Novel in Romantic-era Britain	Autumn	10
ENG31990	Reading Gender and Sexuality	Autumn	10
ENG32030	Theatre of Martin McDonagh	Autumn	10
ENG32050	Reading Joyce	Autumn	10
ENG32060	Talking Animals	Autumn	10
ENG32070	Medieval Celluloid	Autumn	10
ENG32100	Fin-de-Siecle	Autumn	10
ENG32110	Literature and Science	Autumn	10
ENG32340	The Modern Short Story: Critical and Creative Approaches	Autumn	10
ENG32380	Sexuality and the State in Irish Drama and Culture	Autumn	10
ENG32490	Seventeenth-Century Women: Texts, Lives, Documents	Autumn	10
ENG32560	Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness	Autumn	10
ENG32780	Presenting Tennessee Williams	Autumn	10
ENG31930	Irish Fiction After 2010	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32270	Pursuits of Happiness: Fictions of America Since 1945	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32600	Creative Non-Fiction	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32670	Dark Romanticism	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32690	Writing Habits	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
CRWT30240	Making Comics	Spring	10
DRAM30200	Queer Theatre & Performance	Spring	10
ENG31940	Global Science Fiction	Spring	10
ENG32000	Contemp. Irish Women's Poetry	Spring	10
ENG32020	Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in America, Britain and Ireland	Spring	10
ENG32080	Social Networks in Fiction: from Jane Austen to Conan Doyle	Spring	10
ENG32090	Masculinities and Manhood in Irish Writing and Culture	Spring	10
ENG32130	Irish Gothic	Spring	10
ENG32180	Poetry in Performance	Spring	10
ENG32200	Sexuality & American Modernism	Spring	10
ENG32220	Popular Fiction in Britain	Spring	10
ENG32290	Reading Ulysses	Spring	10
ENG32500	Fiction and Financial Crises	Spring	10
ENG32640	Girlhood in 21stC American YA	Spring	10
ENG32680	Global Renaissance	Spring	10
ENG32760	Life Writing: Text and Self	Spring	10
ENG32790	Shakespeare in Film&Television	Spring	10
ENG32800	Wasted Wor(l)ds	Spring	10
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN2OF: Students should choose 2 x 10 credit modules. Students may take additional modules from the list below in place of electives
Stage 3 Options - B)MIN1OF: Students should choose 1 x 5 credit module. Students may take additional modules from the list below in place of electives.
ENG32510	Writing Dublin	Autumn	5
ENG32520	Ugly Feelings	Autumn	5
ENG32740	King Arthur: History & Romance	Autumn	5
ENG31780	Contemporary European Crime Fiction	Spring	5
ENG32300	Making Shakespeare	Spring	5
Stage 3 Options - B)MIN1OF: Students should choose 1 x 5 credit module. Students may take additional modules from the list below in place of electives.
Stage 4 Options - A)MIN2OF: Students should choose 2 x 10 credit modules. Students may take additional modules from the list below in place of electives
ENG31950	Architecture and Narrative	Autumn	10
ENG31960	Apocalypse Then: Old Eng. Lit.	Autumn	10
ENG31980	Women and the Novel in Romantic-era Britain	Autumn	10
ENG31990	Reading Gender and Sexuality	Autumn	10
ENG32030	Theatre of Martin McDonagh	Autumn	10
ENG32050	Reading Joyce	Autumn	10
ENG32060	Talking Animals	Autumn	10
ENG32070	Medieval Celluloid	Autumn	10
ENG32100	Fin-de-Siecle	Autumn	10
ENG32110	Literature and Science	Autumn	10
ENG32340	The Modern Short Story: Critical and Creative Approaches	Autumn	10
ENG32380	Sexuality and the State in Irish Drama and Culture	Autumn	10
ENG32490	Seventeenth-Century Women: Texts, Lives, Documents	Autumn	10
ENG32560	Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness	Autumn	10
ENG32780	Presenting Tennessee Williams	Autumn	10
ENG31930	Irish Fiction After 2010	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32270	Pursuits of Happiness: Fictions of America Since 1945	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32600	Creative Non-Fiction	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32670	Dark Romanticism	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32690	Writing Habits	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
CRWT30240	Making Comics	Spring	10
DRAM30200	Queer Theatre & Performance	Spring	10
ENG31940	Global Science Fiction	Spring	10
ENG32000	Contemp. Irish Women's Poetry	Spring	10
ENG32020	Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in America, Britain and Ireland	Spring	10
ENG32080	Social Networks in Fiction: from Jane Austen to Conan Doyle	Spring	10
ENG32090	Masculinities and Manhood in Irish Writing and Culture	Spring	10
ENG32130	Irish Gothic	Spring	10
ENG32180	Poetry in Performance	Spring	10
ENG32200	Sexuality & American Modernism	Spring	10
ENG32220	Popular Fiction in Britain	Spring	10
ENG32290	Reading Ulysses	Spring	10
ENG32500	Fiction and Financial Crises	Spring	10
ENG32640	Girlhood in 21stC American YA	Spring	10
ENG32680	Global Renaissance	Spring	10
ENG32760	Life Writing: Text and Self	Spring	10
ENG32790	Shakespeare in Film&Television	Spring	10
ENG32800	Wasted Wor(l)ds	Spring	10
Stage 4 Options - A)MIN2OF: Students should choose 2 x 10 credit modules. Students may take additional modules from the list below in place of electives
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN1OF: Students should choose 1 x 5 credit module. Students may take additional modules from the list below in place of electives.
ENG32510	Writing Dublin	Autumn	5
ENG32520	Ugly Feelings	Autumn	5
ENG32740	King Arthur: History & Romance	Autumn	5
ENG31780	Contemporary European Crime Fiction	Spring	5
ENG32300	Making Shakespeare	Spring	5
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN1OF: Students should choose 1 x 5 credit module. Students may take additional modules from the list below in place of electives.

		Award		GPA
Programme	Module Weightings	Rule Description	Description
BHACS014	Stage 3 - 50.00% Stage 2 - 50.00%	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
BHACS001	Stage 3 - 50.00% Stage 2 - 50.00%	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
BHACS023	Stage 3 - 70.00% Stage 2 - 30.00%	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
BHACS027	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