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English (ENS1)

Undergraduate (Level 8 NFQ, Credits 180)
Academic Year 2024/2025
Study Abroad
Duration:
3 Year(s)
Next Intake:
2024/2025 September
Country Specific Entry Requirements:
Visit the UCD Global Undergraduate Entry Requirements webpage.

Curricular information is subject to change.

Study English at UCD if you are an enthusiastic reader, talker and writer, and love literature. Strengthen your understanding of narrative, poetic and dramatic forms. Enlarge your critical vocabulary and historical awareness. Explore how the study of literature intersects with questions of gender, politics and cultural theory. Learn how to research a topic, evaluate evidence and present your ideas in a cogent, elegant fashion. Become a creative and dynamic critic yourself!

About this Course

Below is a list of all modules offered for this degree in the current academic year. Click on the module to discover what you will learn in the module, how you will learn and assessment feedback profile amongst other information.

Incoming Stage 1 undergraduates can usually select an Elective in the Spring Trimester. Most continuing undergraduate students can select up to two Elective modules (10 Credits) per stage. There is also the possibility to take up to 10 extra Elective credits.

Module ID Module Title Trimester Credits
Stage 3 Core Modules
     
ENG30970 Dissertation Research Methods Autumn

5

ENG32460 Dissertation Spring

15

Stage 3 Core Modules
     
Stage 3 Options
     
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

ENG32510 Writing Dublin Autumn

5

ENG32520 Ugly Feelings Autumn

5

ENG32560 Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness Autumn

10

ENG32670 Dark Romanticism 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

ENG32690 Writing Habits Autumn and Spring (separate)

10

ENG31780 Contemporary European Crime Fiction Spring

5

ENG31940 Global Science Fiction 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

ENG32300 Making Shakespeare Spring

5

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

You may apply to study abroad for either a trimester or a year through the Erasmus programme or on a non-EU exchange. UCD has over 200 Erasmus partners in Europe and an increasing number of non-EU exchange agreements with universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and elsewhere.

Opportunities may include:

  • Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
  • Université Sorbonne Paris IV, France
  • University of Turin, Italy
  • University of Verona, Italy
  • University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • University of Barcelona, Spain
  • University of British Columbia, Canada
  • University of Miami, USA
  • University of Otago, New Zealand

The year abroad takes place when you have accumulated at least 110 credits and satisfied any subject prerequisites, adding a fourth year to the BA programme and turning it into a BA International.

See our UCD Global exchanges page for more information

Graduates in English have found employment as writers and dramatists, and in areas including:
 

  • Journalism and broadcasting
  • Research and administration
  • Civil Service
  • Education
  • Business
  • Advertising and Public Relations
  • Tourism


The UCD School of English, Drama and Film also offers a wide range of master's programmes and opportunities for PhD study.
One year full time MA programmes include:

  • Creative Writing
  • Drama & Performance Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Gender, Sexuality & Culture
  • Irish Literature & Culture
  • Literature & Culture
  • Theatre Practice
  • Writing for Stage & Screen

The following advice is for Non-EU applicants. For Irish/EU/UK students, please apply via MyUCD.

The following entry route(s) are available:
 

Applications are not open for this Course

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English (ENS1)

Undergraduate (Level 8 NFQ, Credits 180)