English with Drama (ENS2)

Undergraduate (Level 8 NFQ, Credits 180)
Academic Year 2024/2025

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Duration:: 3 Year(s)
Next Intake:: 2024/2025 September
Country Specific Entry Requirements:: Visit the UCD Global Undergraduate Entry Requirements webpage.

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Study English with Drama at UCD if you are an enthusiastic reader, talker and writer, and love literature and drama. Strengthen your understanding of narrative, dramatic and poetic forms. Enlarge your critical vocabulary and historical awareness.

If you are interested in the theatre arts, as well as questions of origin, transmission and interpretation of dramatic texts, then this subject combination is for you. It allows you to consider drama in all of its aspects, from writing, direction and production right through to performance and its interpretation. Explore how the study of literature and drama 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

In English, students will study themes, theories and contexts of literature from around the world, and from Anglo-Saxon to contemporary times.

In Drama, students will develop the tools they need to analyse dramatic texts, especially in performance, from Classical Greek plays to contemporary Irish theatre.

Students attend lectures, tutorials and workshops, as well as participating in group work and undertaking independent study.

Assessment is through end-of-semester written examinations and continuous assessment, such as written assignments, presentations and group projects. In third year, students are taught through small group seminars and practice-based modules, which are predominantly assessed via an end-of semester written assignment and project work.

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 4 Core Modules
DRAM30320	Performance Across the Globe	Autumn	5
DRAM30100	Contemporary Theatre & Performance	Spring	5
Stage 4 Core Modules
Stage 4 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
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
ENG32670	Dark Romanticism	Autumn	10
ENG32780	Presenting Tennessee Williams	Autumn	10
ENG31930	Irish Fiction After 2010	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32180	Poetry in Performance	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
DRAM30130	Independent Project	Spring	10
DRAM30200	Queer Theatre & Performance	Spring	10
ENG31940	Global Science Fiction	Spring	10
ENG31990	Reading Gender and Sexuality	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
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

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

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.

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

The following entry route(s) are available:

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