This degree programme is designed for highly motivated students interested in developing their profile as creative writers by drawing specifically upon the rich literary heritage in English from Anglo-Saxon to the contemporary moments. Students will be educated in the history of literary, dramatic, media and cultural production, in current theoretical methods and approaches, and in a wide range of historical and national literatures, genres and media. We promote our core values – independence, creativity, collaboration, critical reflection, cultural engagement, and social and political consciousness – through innovative teaching, learning and assessment methods. Lecture, seminar, workshop and small group work are at the core of our teaching. One of the unique features of the specific approach to the teaching of creative writing in the School is the emphasis on the relationship between becoming an alert, astute, engaged critical reader of texts, and learning the craft of writing. This programme will enable students to develop skills and competence in a range of forms and genres of writing, including traditional formats (novel, short story, poetry, drama) but also in genre fiction, travel writing, creative non-fiction, experimental poetry and so on. The creative element of the programme will be taught through small workshops, and all students will be required to submit a final portfolio of creative work in their final year.

1 - Situate a text within appropriate thematic, critical, historic and cultural contexts, and to interrogate it in the light of current critical debates and their own ideas
2 - Apply in-depth knowledge of literary production in a wide range of specific time periods and cultures, and capable of identifying aesthetic innovations and trends
3 - Contextualise their own creative work within the writing traditions that precede and surround them.
4 - Demonstrate an extensive command of literary terminology, and the ability to apply this knowledge to the analysis of texts in a range of genres and media
5 - Demonstrate critical, technical and creative understanding of the art and craft of writing and of their own creative process.
6 - Expand strategies for creative expression.
7 - Illustrate refined and sophisticated skills in detailed textual analysis and close reading, and highly attentive to the tensions and ambiguity of texts and language
8 - Express nuanced understanding of form, genre and mode, and an ability to connect ideas across different periods and cultures from the early middle ages to the present
9 - Communicate ideas and concepts 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
10 - Inform scholarship by appropriate academic and theoretical skills
11 - Apply creative, innovative and independent thinking in approach and response to complex issues, with a significant capacity to transfer skills and ideas from one intellectual sphere to another
12 - Generate 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
13 - Articulate the value and radical transformative potential of, creative writing, literature and literary studies, and become an enthusiastic advocate for the discipline in wider society
14 - Carry out effective research, and be able to identify gaps in knowledge and locate and evaluate appropriate sources of information, and having completed independently an extended research project.

Writer, editor, literary agents and critics, content creator, copywriters, broadcaster/journalist, public relations, business, law, politics, teaching, management consultancy, humanities research and many others.

UCD English, Drama and Film offer a wide range of postgraduate courses, including the MA and MFA in Creative Writing.

See www.ucd.ie/englishdramafilm/study/ for more details.

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 7 core modules (35 credits) and should select two option modules. Students should then choose 1 additional Arts & 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 are registered to 4 x core modules (35 credits). Students should choose 3 option modules (15 credits) plus 2 x 5 credit electives.

Stage 3 Credits: 50 Option / 10 Elective: a total of 60 for the year.

If students are not going abroad or taking an internship, they must take at least 10 credits in Creative Writing in each trimester from Option List A (that is, 10 credits in the autumn trimester and 10 credits in the spring trimester). Students should choose 30 credits from English option modules from Option List B. Students may take further modules in English or Creative Writing as substitutions for elective credits.

Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose a balance of modules across the subjects in their pathway for one trimester.

Stage 4 Credits: 50 Option/10 Elective = a total of 60 credits for the year.

Please read the following information carefully re Stage 4 programme options:


Students may take CRWT30220 Creative Writing Dissertation (20 Credits), to be taught over two trimesters. Students must have a GPA of 3.0 or higher.


OR


Students may take the Critical Dissertation (two modules): ENG30970 Dissertation Research Methods (5 credits; Autumn) and ENG32460 Dissertation (15 Credits; Spring)


OR


Students must take at least 10 credits of Creative Writing in the Autumn Trimester.




Students must take their remaining credits from the option modules in English and Creative Writing.





Students cannot do both the Creative Writing Dissertation and the Critical Dissertation.

Module ID	Module Title	Trimester	Credits
Stage 1 Core Modules
CRWT10010	The Craft of Creative Writing 1	Autumn	5
ENG10120	How to Read Poetry	Autumn	5
ENG10130	Contemporary Irish Writing	Autumn	5
ENG10230	Reading World Literature	Autumn	5
CRWT10020	The Craft of Creative Writing 2	Spring	5
ENG10030	Literary Genre: the Art of Criticism and the Craft of Writing	Spring	5
ENG10220	Literature and Crisis	Spring	5
Stage 1 Core Modules
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN2OF: Please select a minimum of 2 of the following option modules. 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 take in the Spring trimester.
ENG10020	Children's Literature	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
ENG10180	Comics and Fantasy	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
ENG10080	Writing the Body	Spring	5
ENG10170	Contemporary Dystopian Fiction	Spring	5
ENG10250	Horror Literature	Spring	5
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN2OF: Please select a minimum of 2 of the following option modules. 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 take in the Spring trimester.
Stage 1 Options - Subject / Streams
Spanish Beginners
Spanish Non-Beginners
Film Studies
French
Greek & Roman Civilization
German Beginners
German Non-Beginners
History
Irish Studies
Music (BA Humanities)
Drama Studies
Stage 1 Options - Subject / Streams
Stage 2 Core Modules
CRWT20020	Intermediate Creative Writing	Autumn	10
ENG20780	Critical Theory	Autumn	10
CRWT20060	Intermediate Creat. Writing 2	Spring	10
HUM20050	Primary Source Research in the Humanities B: Exploring UCD Cultural Heritage Collections	Spring	5
Stage 2 Core Modules
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN3OF: Students should take at least 3 modules from the following list. It is recommended that students spread their credit workload evenly between Autumn and Spring.
CRWT20050	Writing Fiction	Autumn	5
ENG20250	Modern Drama: From Naturalism to Postmodernism	Autumn	5
ENG20440	Reading the story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English	Autumn	5
CRWT20040	Writing Poetry	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
CRWT20030	Teen & YA Literature	Spring	5
ENG20410	Reading Medieval Literature	Spring	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 should take at least 3 modules from the following list. It is recommended that students spread their credit workload evenly between Autumn and Spring.
Stage 2 Options - C)MIN0OF: This is a College of Arts and Humanities module. It is the equivalent of an elective. You may 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.
HUM20030	Career Readiness (Humanities)	Spring	5
Stage 2 Options - C)MIN0OF: This is a College of Arts and Humanities module. It is the equivalent of an elective. You may 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.
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 2 x 10 credit Creative Writing modules, one in the autumn trimester and one in the spring trimester. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose an even spread of modules from their pathway subjects for one trimester.
CRWT30080	Advanced Fiction Workshop I	Autumn	10
CRWT30120	Literary Editorship I	Autumn	10
CRWT30230	Experimental Poetry	Autumn	10
CRWT30100	Advanced Poetry Workshop	Spring	10
CRWT30110	Advanced Fiction Workshop II	Spring	10
CRWT30130	Literary Editorship II	Spring	10
CRWT30150	Writing the Environment	Spring	10
CRWT30240	Making Comics	Spring	10
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 2 x 10 credit Creative Writing modules, one in the autumn trimester and one in the spring trimester. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose an even spread of modules from their pathway subjects for one trimester.
Stage 3 Options - B)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 3 x 10 credit English option modules. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose an even spread of modules from their pathway subjects for one trimester.
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
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
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
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
ENG32710	Culture of the1641 Rebellion	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 - B)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 3 x 10 credit English option modules. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose an even spread of modules from their pathway subjects for one trimester.
Stage 3 Options - D)MIN0OF: Students who have been offered a College sourced internship, or self-sourced their own internship with approval from the Programme Board should register to the internship module in the appropriate trimester.
HUM30020	Internship-Autumn (Humanities)	Autumn	30
HUM30030	Internship- Spring (Humanities)	Spring	30
Stage 3 Options - D)MIN0OF: Students who have been offered a College sourced internship, or self-sourced their own internship with approval from the Programme Board should register to the internship module in the appropriate trimester.
Stage 3 Options - E)MIN0OF: You may select this module as one of your elective modules. General Elective modules can also be chosen on the Electives Tab
HUM30050	Professional Communication Workshop	Spring	5
Stage 3 Options - E)MIN0OF: You may select this module as one of your elective modules. General Elective modules can also be chosen on the Electives Tab
Stage 4 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students must obtain permission from the pathway coordinator to register for this module. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required to be eligible for this module. Students must choose between the Creative Dissertation, the Critical Dissertation, or additional option modules.
CRWT30220	Dissertation (Creative)	2 Trimester duration (Aut-Spr)	20
Stage 4 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students must obtain permission from the pathway coordinator to register for this module. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required to be eligible for this module. Students must choose between the Creative Dissertation, the Critical Dissertation, or additional option modules.
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN0OF: Students must obtain permission from the pathway coordinator to register for this module. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required to be eligible for this module. Students must choose between the Creative Dissertation, the Critical Dissertation, or additional option modules. ENG30970 must be taken in addition to ENG32460 for the Critical Dissertation Option
ENG30970	Dissertation Research Methods	Autumn	5
ENG32460	Dissertation	Spring	15
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN0OF: Students must obtain permission from the pathway coordinator to register for this module. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required to be eligible for this module. Students must choose between the Creative Dissertation, the Critical Dissertation, or additional option modules. ENG30970 must be taken in addition to ENG32460 for the Critical Dissertation Option
Stage 4 Options - B1)MIN1OF: Students must choose a 10 credit Creative Writing module.
CRWT30120	Literary Editorship I	Autumn	10
CRWT30160	Special Topics Workshop I	Autumn	10
CRWT30230	Experimental Poetry	Autumn	10
CRWT30150	Writing the Environment	Spring	10
Stage 4 Options - B1)MIN1OF: Students must choose a 10 credit Creative Writing module.
Stage 4 Options - C)MIN2OF: Students who are either taking the Creative Dissertation or the Critical Dissertation option should choose 20 credits from the English Options below. Students who are NOT taking the Creative Dissertation or the Critical Dissertation option should choose 40 credits from the English Options below.
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
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
ENG32510	Writing Dublin	Autumn	5
ENG32520	Ugly Feelings	Autumn	5
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
ENG32740	King Arthur: History & Romance	Autumn	5
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
CRWT30130	Literary Editorship II	Spring	10
CRWT30240	Making Comics	Spring	10
ENG31780	Contemporary European Crime Fiction	Spring	5
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
ENG32220	Popular Fiction in Britain	Spring	10
ENG32250	Irish Women's Writing	Spring	10
ENG32290	Reading Ulysses	Spring	10
ENG32300	Making Shakespeare	Spring	5
ENG32310	Climate and Environment in Global Literature	Spring	5
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
ENG32710	Culture of the1641 Rebellion	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 4 Options - C)MIN2OF: Students who are either taking the Creative Dissertation or the Critical Dissertation option should choose 20 credits from the English Options below. Students who are NOT taking the Creative Dissertation or the Critical Dissertation option should choose 40 credits from the English Options below.
Stage 4 Options - D)MIN0OF: You may select this module as one of your elective modules. General Elective modules can also be chosen on the Electives Tab
HUM30050	Professional Communication Workshop	Spring	5
Stage 4 Options - D)MIN0OF: You may select this module as one of your elective modules. General Elective modules can also be chosen on the Electives Tab

		Award		GPA
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
			Second Class Honours, Grade 2	2.48	3.07
			Pass	2.00	2.47