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 with Creative Writing pathway will study the work of a wide range of writers, focusing on how they create their works and also explore a range of narrating voices by reading texts selected to illustrate this range. Students will learn how characters are constructed, how to handle dialogue, how to manage time and sequencing and many other elements of the craft of writing, which will be generally helpful and occasionally inspiring in your own writing along with an introduction to contemporary developments in literature by considering the work of a number of Irish writers, who will address the class and provide valuable insight into the writing process.
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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.
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 take 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. Students should choose minimum 2 option modules in the Autumn trimester and minimum 2 module in the Spring trimester 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, (that is, 10 credits in the autumn trimester and 10 credits in the spring trimester). Students should choose 3 x 10 credit English option modules. Students should choose 2 x 5 credit electives.
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.
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Students may take the Critical Dissertation (two modules): ENG30970 Dissertation Research Methods (5 credits; Autumn) and ENG32460 Dissertation (15 Credits; Spring)
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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 |
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CRWT10010 | 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 | 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 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. |
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ENG10170 | Contemporary Dystopian Fiction | Autumn | 5 |
ENG10020 | Children's Literature | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 5 |
ENG10180 | Comics and Fantasy | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 5 |
ENG10080 | Writing the Body | 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. |
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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 | |||
CRWT20020 | Intermediate Creative Writing | Autumn | 10 |
ENG20400 | Critical Theory | Autumn | 5 |
CRWT20060 | Intermediate Creat. Writing 2 | Spring | 10 |
HUM20050 | Primary Source Research in the Humanities B: Exploring UCD Cultural Heritage Collections | Spring | 5 |
CRWT20050 | Writing Fiction | Autumn | 5 |
ENG20430 | Modern American Literature | 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 |
ENG20250 | Twentieth-Century Drama: From Naturalism to Postmodernism | Spring | 5 |
ENG20410 | Reading Medieval Literature | Spring | 5 |
ENG20460 | From Victorian to Modern Literature, 1830-1914 | Spring | 5 |
ENG20490 | Romanticism | 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. |
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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. |
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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 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. |
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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 |
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. |
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ENG31950 | Architecture and Narrative | Autumn | 10 |
ENG31960 | Apocalyse Then: Old Eng. Lit. | Autumn | 10 |
ENG31990 | Reading Gender and Sexuality | 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 | Theatres of War | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32600 | Creative Non-Fiction | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32640 | Girlhood in 21stC American YA | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32650 | Global Short Stories | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32690 | Writing Habits | Autumn | 10 |
ENG31930 | Irish Fiction After 2010 | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG31980 | Jane Austen and her Peers | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32020 | Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in America, Britain and Ireland | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32180 | Poetry in Performance | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32560 | Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness | 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 |
ENG32000 | Contemp. Irish Women's Poetry | Spring | 10 |
ENG32080 | Social Networks in Fiction: from Jane Austen to Conan Doyle | Spring | 10 |
ENG32110 | Literature and Science | Spring | 10 |
ENG32130 | Irish Gothic | Spring | 10 |
ENG32220 | Popular Fiction in Britain | Spring | 10 |
ENG32250 | Irish Women's Writing | Spring | 10 |
ENG32270 | Post-War US Fiction | Spring | 10 |
ENG32290 | Reading Ulysses | Spring | 10 |
ENG32380 | Sexuality and the State in Irish Drama and Culture | Spring | 10 |
ENG32390 | A Book of Kings | Spring | 10 |
ENG32590 | Memory and Testimony in Performance | Spring | 10 |
ENG32700 | Dublin Gothic | Spring | 10 |
ENG32720 | Feminist Theory | Spring | 10 |
ENG32730 | Literature of Migration | Spring | 10 |
HUM30020 | Internship-Autumn (Humanities) | Autumn | 30 |
HUM30030 | Internship- Spring (Humanities) | Spring | 30 |
HUM30040 | Created Spaces&Imagined Places | Spring | 5 |
CRWT30220 | Dissertation (Creative) | 2 Trimester duration (Aut-Spr) | 20 |
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 |
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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 |
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CRWT30160 | Special Topics Workshop I | Autumn | 10 |
CRWT30230 | Experimental Poetry | Autumn | 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 he Creative Dissertation or the Critical Dissertation option should choose 40 credits from the English Options below. |
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ENG31110 | Other Worlds in Medieval and Renaissance Literature | Autumn | 5 |
ENG31950 | Architecture and Narrative | Autumn | 10 |
ENG31960 | Apocalyse Then: Old Eng. Lit. | Autumn | 10 |
ENG31990 | Reading Gender and Sexuality | 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 |
ENG32300 | Making Shakespeare | Autumn | 5 |
ENG32340 | The Modern Short Story: Critical and Creative Approaches | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32490 | Seventeenth-Century Women: Texts, Lives, Documents | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32520 | Ugly Feelings | Autumn | 5 |
ENG32580 | Theatres of War | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32600 | Creative Non-Fiction | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32640 | Girlhood in 21stC American YA | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32650 | Global Short Stories | Autumn | 10 |
ENG32690 | Writing Habits | Autumn | 10 |
ENG31930 | Irish Fiction After 2010 | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG31980 | Jane Austen and her Peers | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32020 | Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in America, Britain and Ireland | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32180 | Poetry in Performance | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32560 | Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
ENG32670 | Dark Romanticism | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 10 |
CRWT30150 | Writing the Environment | Spring | 10 |
ENG31780 | Contemporary European Crime Fiction | Spring | 5 |
ENG31900 | Yeats and the Arts | Spring | 10 |
ENG31940 | Global Science Fiction | Spring | 10 |
ENG32000 | Contemp. Irish Women's Poetry | Spring | 10 |
ENG32080 | Social Networks in Fiction: from Jane Austen to Conan Doyle | Spring | 10 |
ENG32110 | Literature and Science | Spring | 10 |
ENG32130 | Irish Gothic | Spring | 10 |
ENG32220 | Popular Fiction in Britain | Spring | 10 |
ENG32250 | Irish Women's Writing | Spring | 10 |
ENG32270 | Post-War US Fiction | Spring | 10 |
ENG32290 | Reading Ulysses | Spring | 10 |
ENG32310 | Climate and Environment in Global Literature | Spring | 5 |
ENG32380 | Sexuality and the State in Irish Drama and Culture | Spring | 10 |
ENG32390 | A Book of Kings | Spring | 10 |
ENG32510 | Writing Dublin | Spring | 5 |
ENG32590 | Memory and Testimony in Performance | Spring | 10 |
ENG32700 | Dublin Gothic | Spring | 10 |
ENG32720 | Feminist Theory | Spring | 10 |
ENG32730 | Literature of Migration | 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 he Creative Dissertation or the Critical Dissertation option should choose 40 credits from the English Options below. |
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 |