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.
Students on the English Literature pathway will explore texts ranging from the Old English, medieval and early modern periods to the nineteenth and through to the twenty-first century. These texts extend across national boundaries and regions, from British to Irish to American to World Literature, and cover multiple genres. You will explore literary production, and learn about the value of literature by analysing how fiction, poetry and drama are inspired, shaped, released and received in particular historical and cultural contexts, and understanding how the meanings of literary texts change and renew across different times and places.
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The Single Honours English programme is aimed at students who love reading, who value literature and appreciate its fundamental role in shaping society and the individual. This programme aims to attract students who wish to specialise in a single subject and who wish to deepen and refine their critical engagement with a wide variety of English-language texts and cultures from the early middle-ages to the present. By concentrating on a single subject, students are educated 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. Through innovative teaching, learning, and assessment methods, we promote our core values – independence, creativity, collaboration, critical reflection, cultural engagement, and social and political consciousness. Lecture, 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 diverse 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.
Our English graduates have found employment in: Journalism, Arts Management, Public Relations, Business and Finance, Publishing, Law, Politics, Policymaking, Teaching, Heritage, Management Consultancy, Tourism, Marketing, Humanities Research, and many other areas.
Graduates are prepared for the wide range of MA Programmes in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film, as well as opportunities for MPhil and PhD study.
See www.ucd.ie/englishdramafilm/study/postgraduate for more detail.
UCD Arts & Humanities Programme Office,
Newman Building,
Belfield,
Dublin 4
Tel: +353 1 716 8321/8102
Web: www.ucd.ie/ahss
Students are pre-registered to 6 core modules (30 credits) and should choose three option modules (15 credits). Students should then choose an additional Arts and Humanities subject (10 credits) and 1 elective module (5 credits). Stage 1 elective modules are chosen and taken in the Spring trimester.
It is recommended that students spread their credit workload evenly between Autumn and Spring.
Students will be pre-registered to 6 x core modules (total 35 credits). Students must also choose 3 x option modules (total 15 credits) as part of their programme. Students must also take 10 credits of electives at Stage 2, and are encouraged to register for other modules available in the School of English Drama and Film.
Stage 3 students who remain in UCD for the full year should take four x 10 credit Level 3 option modules (two to be taken in the autumn trimester and two to be taken in the spring trimester) and two Level 3 x 5 credit option modules.
Students may choose further modules in English as substitutions for elective credits.
Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose at least two 10 credit English modules and one 5 credit English module for one trimester.
Students should register to the core modules ENG30970 Dissertation Research Methods (5 credits, autumn) and ENG32460 Dissertation (15 credits, spring). Students should choose two 10 credit option modules in Autumn and one 10 credit module in Spring, as well as two 5 credit electives.
Module ID | Module Title | Trimester | Credits |
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ENG10120 | How to Read Poetry | Autumn | 5 |
ENG10130 | Contemporary Irish Writing | Autumn | 5 |
ENG10230 | Reading World Literature | Autumn | 5 |
ENG10030 | Literary Genre: the Art of Criticism and the Craft of Writing | Spring | 5 |
ENG10080 | Writing the Body | Spring | 5 |
ENG10220 | Literature and Crisis | Spring | 5 |
Stage 1 Options - B)MIN3OF: Choose a minimum of 3 modules from the following 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 1 elective modules are chosen and taken in the Spring trimester. |
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CRWT10010 | The Craft of Creative Writing 1 | Autumn | 5 |
ENG10020 | Children's Literature | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 5 |
ENG10180 | Comics and Fantasy | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 5 |
CRWT10020 | The Craft of Creative Writing 2 | Spring | 5 |
ENG10170 | Contemporary Dystopian Fiction | Spring | 5 |
ENG10250 | Horror Literature | Spring | 5 |
Stage 1 Options - B)MIN3OF: Choose a minimum of 3 modules from the following 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 1 elective modules are chosen and taken in the Spring trimester. |
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Spanish Beginners | |||
Spanish Non-Beginners | |||
Film Studies | |||
French | |||
Greek & Roman Civilization | |||
German Beginners | |||
German Non-Beginners | |||
History | |||
Irish Studies | |||
Music (BA Humanities) | |||
Drama Studies | |||
ENG20230 | Reading Old English I | Autumn | 5 |
ENG20450 | Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare: Renaissance Literature | Autumn | 5 |
ENG20780 | Critical Theory | Autumn | 10 |
HUM20040 | Primary Source Research in the Humanities A: Exploring UCD Cultural Heritage Collections | Autumn | 5 |
ENG20410 | Reading Medieval Literature | Spring | 5 |
ENG20770 | Advanced Old & Middle English | Spring | 5 |
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN3OF: Students must choose a minimum of 3 option modules from this list. 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) Students may choose additional option modules from the list below in place of electives. |
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ENG20250 | Modern Drama: From Naturalism to Postmodernism | Autumn | 5 |
ENG20440 | Reading the story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English | Autumn | 5 |
ENG20430 | Modern American Literature | Spring | 5 |
ENG20460 | From Victorian to Modern Literature, 1830-1914 | Spring | 5 |
ENG20490 | Romanticism | Spring | 5 |
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN3OF: Students must choose a minimum of 3 option modules from this list. 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) Students may choose additional option modules from the list below in place of electives. |
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Stage 2 Options - C)MIN0OF: This a College of Arts and Humanities module, it is the equivalent of an elective. You can take it instead of taking one of your Stage 2 electives. Please make sure that you have selected the correct number of programme options from the list above. This is not one of your required options. It is recommended in particular if you are considering applying for an internship option next year. |
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HUM20030 | Career Readiness (Humanities) | Spring | 5 |
Stage 2 Options - C)MIN0OF: This a College of Arts and Humanities module, it is the equivalent of an elective. You can take it instead of taking one of your Stage 2 electives. Please make sure that you have selected the correct number of programme options from the list above. This is not one of your required options. It is recommended in particular if you are considering applying for an internship option next year. |
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Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 2 x 5 credit Level 3 option modules from this list, 1 in the autumn trimester and 1 in the spring trimester. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose at least one 5 credit English module for one trimester. Students may choose additional option modules from the list below in place of electives. |
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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 |
ENG32310 | Climate and Environment in Global Literature | Spring | 5 |
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 2 x 5 credit Level 3 option modules from this list, 1 in the autumn trimester and 1 in the spring trimester. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose at least one 5 credit English module for one trimester. Students may choose additional option modules from the list below in place of electives. |
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Stage 3 Options - C)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 4 x 10 credit option modules, 2 in the autumn trimester and 2 in the spring trimester. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose at least two 10 credit English modules for one trimester. |
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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 |
ENG32050 | Reading Joyce | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32060 | Talking Animals | 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 |
ENG32580 | Staging Conflict and Human Rights | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32600 | Creative Non-Fiction | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32690 | Writing Habits | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32720 | Feminist Theory | Autumn | 10 |
ENG31930 | Irish Fiction After 2010 | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32020 | Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in America, Britain and Ireland | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32110 | Literature and Science | 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 |
ENG32670 | Dark Romanticism | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
CRWT30150 | Writing the Environment | Spring | 10 |
CRWT30240 | Making Comics | Spring | 10 |
ENG31900 | Yeats and the Arts | Spring | 10 |
ENG31940 | Global Science Fiction | Spring | 10 |
ENG32080 | Social Networks in Fiction: from Jane Austen to Conan Doyle | Spring | 10 |
ENG32130 | Irish Gothic | Spring | 10 |
ENG32200 | Sexuality & American Modernism | Spring | 10 |
ENG32220 | Popular Fiction in Britain | Spring | 10 |
ENG32250 | Irish Women's Writing | Spring | 10 |
ENG32290 | Reading Ulysses | Spring | 10 |
ENG32380 | Sexuality and the State in Irish Drama and Culture | Spring | 10 |
ENG32500 | Fiction and Financial Crises | Spring | 10 |
ENG32590 | Memory and Testimony in Performance | Spring | 10 |
ENG32640 | Girlhood in 21stC American YA | Spring | 10 |
ENG32680 | Global Renaissance | Spring | 10 |
ENG32730 | Literature of Migration | Spring | 10 |
ENG32750 | Resources,Environment,Climate | Spring | 10 |
ENG32760 | Life Writing: Text and Self | Spring | 10 |
ENG32770 | Shakespearean Comedies | Spring | 10 |
Stage 3 Options - C)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 4 x 10 credit option modules, 2 in the autumn trimester and 2 in the spring trimester. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose at least two 10 credit English modules for one trimester. |
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HUM30020 | Internship-Autumn (Humanities) | Autumn | 30 |
HUM30030 | Internship- Spring (Humanities) | Spring | 30 |
HUM30050 | Professional Communication Workshop | Spring | 5 |
ENG30970 | Dissertation Research Methods | Autumn | 5 |
ENG32460 | Dissertation | Spring | 15 |
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 |
ENG32050 | Reading Joyce | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32060 | Talking Animals | 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 |
ENG32560 | Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32580 | Staging Conflict and Human Rights | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32600 | Creative Non-Fiction | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32690 | Writing Habits | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32720 | Feminist Theory | Autumn | 10 |
ENG31930 | Irish Fiction After 2010 | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32020 | Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in America, Britain and Ireland | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32110 | Literature and Science | 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 |
ENG32670 | Dark Romanticism | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
CRWT30150 | Writing the Environment | Spring | 10 |
ENG31900 | Yeats and the Arts | Spring | 10 |
ENG31940 | Global Science Fiction | Spring | 10 |
ENG32080 | Social Networks in Fiction: from Jane Austen to Conan Doyle | Spring | 10 |
ENG32130 | Irish Gothic | Spring | 10 |
ENG32200 | Sexuality & American Modernism | Spring | 10 |
ENG32220 | Popular Fiction in Britain | Spring | 10 |
ENG32250 | Irish Women's Writing | Spring | 10 |
ENG32290 | Reading Ulysses | Spring | 10 |
ENG32380 | Sexuality and the State in Irish Drama and Culture | Spring | 10 |
ENG32500 | Fiction and Financial Crises | Spring | 10 |
ENG32590 | Memory and Testimony in Performance | Spring | 10 |
ENG32640 | Girlhood in 21stC American YA | Spring | 10 |
ENG32680 | Global Renaissance | Spring | 10 |
ENG32730 | Literature of Migration | Spring | 10 |
ENG32750 | Resources,Environment,Climate | Spring | 10 |
ENG32760 | Life Writing: Text and Self | Spring | 10 |
ENG32770 | Shakespearean Comedies | Spring | 10 |
HUM30050 | Professional Communication Workshop | Spring | 5 |
Award | GPA | ||||
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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 |
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Second Class Honours, Grade 2 | 2.48 |
3.07 |
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Pass | 2.00 |
2.47 |