The English with Drama Studies programme is aimed at students who are interested in engaging with the study of literature, theatre and performance in theory and practice.  By studying Drama with English will expand their critical engagement with a wide variety of literary and performance texts and cultures, and will deepen their understanding of the fundamental roles literature, theatre and performance play in shaping societies. Students are educated in the history and practices of writing, theatre and performance, in current theoretical methods and approaches, and in a wide range of generic, historical and national traditions.  Our core values, as they are with other programmes within our school, are independence, creativity, collaboration, critical reflection, cultural engagement, and social and political consciousness. Students develop these attributes through innovative teaching, learning and assessment methods.  Lecture, seminar, workshop and small group work are at the core of our teaching practices. In these supportive learning environments students and staff come together in the spirit of mutual inquiry, reflection, experiment, discussion, debate and respect.  Work is assessed by a variety of methods including exams, essays, presentations, portfolios, creative writing, performance analyses, which together 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. Such graduates are 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 - Engage as critical readers and viewers of literature drama, theatre, and performance more generally
2 - Be conversant in literary and theatrical conventions and production in specific time periods and cultures, and able to situate texts and performances within appropriate thematic, critical, historic and cultural contexts
3 - Express a nuanced understanding of form, genre and media, and possess the ability to connect ideas across different periods and cultures
4 - Refine sophisticated skills in textual and performance analysis, and highly attentive to the tensions and ambiguity of texts and language
5 - Ilusatrate a command of literary, dramatic and performance language, and able to apply this knowledge to the analysis of texts in a range of genres, styles, and media
6 - Communicate 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 - Have confidence in own critical judgements, which are informed by appropriate academic and theoretical skills
8 - Approach and respond to complex issues, with the capacity to transfer skills and ideas from one intellectual sphere to another
9 - Appreciate the value and radical transformative potential of literature, theatre and the arts, and be enthusiastic advocates for the subject disciplines in wider society
10 - Grasp the importance of literature and the theatre in a society, and possess an ongoing desire to explore the rich variety of literary, performance and cultural productions
11 - Carry out research effectively, to identify gaps in knowledge and locate and evaluate appropriate sources of information (including online resources, databases, digital tools)
12 - Undertake graduate studies in a range of Humanities fields/disciplines

English with Drama will develop your knowledge of theatre and performance through academic and practical work. It will also hone and enhance your research and writing skills. By developing your presentation, performance, analysis and teamwork skills you can pursue careers including:

Theatre (writers, directors, actors, designers, administrators)

Journalism & broadcasting

Research & administration

Education

Advertising and Public Relations

Tourism
Master’s programmes are offered in specialised areas of literary and drama studies (www.ucd.ie/englishanddrama/graduatestudies/). PhD options are also available.

Students must register to the Stage 4 core modules in Drama Studies (10 credits) and then take a further 10 credits in Drama Studies. Students must take 3 x 10 credit modules in English.

Module ID	Module Title	Trimester	Credits
Stage 4 Core Modules
DRAM30320	Performance Across the Globe	Autumn	5
DRAM30100	Contemporary Theatre & Performance	Spring	5
Stage 4 Core Modules
Stage 4 Options - B)3OF: Students must take 3x10 credit modules.
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
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
ENG32500	Fiction and Financial Crises	Spring	10
ENG32640	Girlhood in 21stC American YA	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 - B)3OF: Students must take 3x10 credit modules.
Stage 4 Options - C)MIN1OF: Students must select 10 credits from the Drama option list.
DRAM30130	Independent Project	Spring	10
DRAM30200	Queer Theatre & Performance	Spring	10
Stage 4 Options - C)MIN1OF: Students must select 10 credits from the Drama option list.

		Award		GPA
Programme	Module Weightings	Rule Description	Description
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