This degree programme is designed for students interested in the multiple ways in which human expression, articulation and culture are encoded in different forms and media. It aims to equip students with the precise knowledge, history and critical vocabulary specific to each discrete discipline, but also to foster the ability to understand the complex and fascinating relationships between literature, drama and film/media by a focus on forms, genres, styles, themes and ideas as expressed across the full range of Anglophone cultural outputs. We educate students 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. A focus on excellent reading, writing and presentation skills, along with the development of the capacity to argue and contextualise will be fostered via a range of teaching formats (lecture, tutorial, seminar, research supervision), and through strong support of peer learning within the English, Drama, Film degree cohort. We promote our core values – independence, creativity, collaboration, critical reflection, cultural engagement, and social and political consciousness – as we deepen and widen students’ knowledge, engage them in critical debate, and interpretation, foster independent thought, creativity and the capacity to find innovative solutions to key critical, ethical and interpretive problems.

1 - Use skills of inquiry, research, critical thinking, and problem solving to pursue and evaluate knowledge.
2 - Evaluate ideas, challenge assumptions and develop creative solutions to problems including through the independent pursuit of knowledge and making connections between different disciplinary approaches and methods.
3 - Demonstrate effective communication, digital expertise, collaboration and leadership skills to convert decisions and commitments into action.
4 - Understand the ethical implications of ideas, communications, and actions including demonstrated awareness of the historical and cultural construction of knowledge systems and traditions
5 - Understand the relevance and contribution of the Humanities to contemporary society and cultural practice including an ability to articulate the links between past and present as well as the influence of the past on shaping community and societal structures and beliefs.
6 - Articulate advocacy of human, social and cultural values with a propensity towards and awareness of the value of life-long learning, an understanding of how to learn, including an appreciation of the complexity of ideas, of societies, cultures and language

Graduates work across a wide spectrum of areas such as journalism, broadcasting, cultural agencies and industries, research and administration, education, advertising and public relations.

Graduates are prepared for a wide range of MA, MPhil and PhD courses within the UCD School of English, Drama & Film.

See www.ucd.ie/englishdramafilm/study/postgraduate for more detail.

Students are pre-registered to 8 core modules (40 credits). Students should then choose 3 modules (15 credits) from the Option Modules list 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 core modules (35 credits), 3 in the Autumn trimester and 3 in the Spring trimester. Students must choose a minimum of 2 Film Studies option modules (10 credits), a minimum of 1 further option modules, and up to 10 credits of elective modules. Students may also choose to substitute option modules from the English, Drama and Film option lists in place of electives, subject to capacity.

For both Trimesters 1 & 2, students who are not away on either an Internship or Erasmus placements will make up their credit allocation (50 credits) by choosing from the current Stage 3 modules offered by the School of English, Drama and Film (10 credits remain for electives).


Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose 25 credits from the options below for one trimester (5 credits remain for electives).

Students may also choose further modules from the list below to substitute for elective credits.

Students should register to the two core modules ENG30970 Dissertation Research Methods (5 credits) and ENG32460 Dissertation (15 credits). In addition, students should choose a minimum of 30 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the list of options if they wish to take option modules in place of electives. If taking the maximum, ideally students should choose two 10 credit modules and one 5 credit module in the Autumn, and one 10 credit module and one 5 credit module in the Spring.

Module ID	Module Title	Trimester	Credits
Stage 1 Core Modules
DRAM10010	Theatre Context and Conventions	Autumn	5
EDF10010	University Writing for Page, Stage and Screen	Autumn	5
ENG10230	Reading World Literature	Autumn	5
FS10010	Introduction to Film and Media	Autumn	5
DRAM10030	Theatre Matters	Spring	5
EDF10020	Page, Stage & Screen II	Spring	5
ENG10220	Literature and Crisis	Spring	5
FS10020	Introduction to Film and Media Theory	Spring	5
Stage 1 Core Modules
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN3OF: Students should choose 3 option modules. It is recommended that students spread the credit workload evenly between the Autumn and Spring 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.
ENG10130	Contemporary Irish Writing	Autumn	5
FS10060	Cinema Creatives	Autumn	5
DRAM10060	Collaborative Practice: Introduction to Physical Theatre	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
ENG10020	Children's Literature	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
DRAM10080	Theatre & Activism	Spring	5
ENG10030	Literary Genre: the Art of Criticism and the Craft of Writing	Spring	5
ENG10250	Horror Literature	Spring	5
FS10070	Doing Film History	Spring	5
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN3OF: Students should choose 3 option modules. It is recommended that students spread the credit workload evenly between the Autumn and Spring 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.
Stage 2 Core Modules
DRAM20110	Contemporary Ireland On Stage	Autumn	5
EDF20010	Creativity	Autumn	5
ENG20780	Critical Theory	Autumn	10
DRAM20010	Performance in Everyday Life	Spring	5
ENG20410	Reading Medieval Literature	Spring	5
HUM20050	Primary Source Research in the Humanities B: Exploring UCD Cultural Heritage Collections	Spring	5
Stage 2 Core Modules
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN1OF: Students should choose at least one option module. Please ensure to balance your workload over the autumn and spring trimesters.
DRAM20170	Introduction to Acting	Autumn	5
DRAM20180	20thCentury AvantGarde Theatre	Autumn	5
DRAM20190	Playwriting	Autumn	5
DRAM20220	Documentary Theatre	Autumn	5
ENG20440	Reading the story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English	Autumn	5
ENG20450	Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare: Renaissance Literature	Autumn	5
ENG20490	Romanticism	Autumn	5
DRAM20030	Staging Performance: A Practical Approach	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
DRAM20200	Contemporary American Drama	Spring	5
DRAM20230	Ghosts and Monsters On Stage	Spring	5
ENG20430	Modern American Literature	Spring	5
ENG20790	Global 19th C. Literature	Spring	5
ENG20800	Global Eco-Literature	Spring	5
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN1OF: Students should choose at least one option module. Please ensure to balance your workload over the autumn and spring trimesters.
Stage 2 Options - B)MIN2OF: Students must choose a minimum of two (2) Film Studies modules. There are no set Film Studies core modules, but you are required to take at least 10 credits in this subject area. You may also choose further options from the Film Studies list to substitute for elective credits if you wish.
FS20160	Action Adventure Cinema - Genre:Action/Adventure	Autumn	5
FS20200	Horror	Autumn	5
FS20210	Women's Authorship in American Cinema	Autumn	5
FS20220	Everyday Experiences and Digital Media	Autumn	5
FS20140	Irish Cinema & TV	Spring	5
FS20150	Documentary and Society	Spring	5
FS20230	Race & Migration in Media	Spring	5
Stage 2 Options - B)MIN2OF: Students must choose a minimum of two (2) Film Studies modules. There are no set Film Studies core modules, but you are required to take at least 10 credits in this subject area. You may also choose further options from the Film Studies list to substitute for elective credits if you wish.
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 a balance of option modules across all 3 subjects to a total of 50 credits. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose a minimum of 25 credits or a maximum of 30 credits of modules for one trimester.
DRAM30310	Digital Theatre	Autumn	5
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
ENG32510	Writing Dublin	Autumn	5
ENG32520	Ugly Feelings	Autumn	5
ENG32560	Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness	Autumn	10
ENG32740	King Arthur: History & Romance	Autumn	5
ENG32780	Presenting Tennessee Williams	Autumn	10
FS30170	Whiteness,Ethnicity&US Culture	Autumn	10
FS30190	Animation	Autumn	10
FS30240	Digital Media Cultures	Autumn	5
FS30250	Feminist Media Studies	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
CRWT30240	Making Comics	Spring	10
DRAM30100	Contemporary Theatre & Performance	Spring	5
DRAM30130	Independent Project	Spring	10
DRAM30200	Queer Theatre & Performance	Spring	10
DRAM30280	Solo Performance	Spring	5
DRAM30300	Directing for the Stage	Spring	5
ENG31780	Contemporary European Crime Fiction	Spring	5
ENG31940	Global Science Fiction	Spring	10
ENG32000	Contemp. Irish Women's Poetry	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
ENG32300	Making Shakespeare	Spring	5
ENG32500	Fiction and Financial Crises	Spring	10
ENG32640	Girlhood in 21stC American YA	Spring	10
ENG32680	Global Renaissance	Spring	10
ENG32760	Life Writing: Text and Self	Spring	10
ENG32790	Shakespeare in Film&Television	Spring	10
ENG32800	Wasted Wor(l)ds	Spring	10
FS30180	Alternative&Independent Cinema	Spring	10
FS30230	Cinema and the City: New York	Spring	10
FS30280	Gender Activism and the Global South	Spring	10
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose a balance of option modules across all 3 subjects to a total of 50 credits. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose a minimum of 25 credits or a maximum of 30 credits of modules for one trimester.
Stage 3 Options - C)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 - C)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 - D)MIN0OF: This is an elective substitution module. You may select this module instead of one of your elective modules.
HUM30050	Writing for Life: employability skills for arts and humanities students	Spring	5
Stage 3 Options - D)MIN0OF: This is an elective substitution module. You may select this module instead of one of your elective modules.
Stage 4 Core Modules
ENG30970	Dissertation Research Methods	Autumn	5
ENG32460	Dissertation	Spring	15
Stage 4 Core Modules
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN30CR: Students in Stage 4 should choose a minimum of 30 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from this list. If taking the maximum, ideally this should entail 2 x 10 credit modules and 1 x 5 credit module in the Autumn, and 1 x 10 credit and 1 x 5 credit modules in the Spring.
DRAM30140	Performance Project	2 Trimester duration (Aut-Spr)	10
DRAM30310	Digital Theatre	Autumn	5
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
ENG32510	Writing Dublin	Autumn	5
ENG32520	Ugly Feelings	Autumn	5
ENG32560	Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness	Autumn	10
ENG32740	King Arthur: History & Romance	Autumn	5
ENG32780	Presenting Tennessee Williams	Autumn	10
FS30170	Whiteness,Ethnicity&US Culture	Autumn	10
FS30190	Animation	Autumn	10
FS30240	Digital Media Cultures	Autumn	5
FS30250	Feminist Media Studies	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
CRWT30240	Making Comics	Spring	10
DRAM30100	Contemporary Theatre & Performance	Spring	5
DRAM30200	Queer Theatre & Performance	Spring	10
DRAM30280	Solo Performance	Spring	5
DRAM30300	Directing for the Stage	Spring	5
ENG31780	Contemporary European Crime Fiction	Spring	5
ENG31940	Global Science Fiction	Spring	10
ENG32000	Contemp. Irish Women's Poetry	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
ENG32300	Making Shakespeare	Spring	5
ENG32500	Fiction and Financial Crises	Spring	10
ENG32640	Girlhood in 21stC American YA	Spring	10
ENG32680	Global Renaissance	Spring	10
ENG32760	Life Writing: Text and Self	Spring	10
ENG32790	Shakespeare in Film&Television	Spring	10
ENG32800	Wasted Wor(l)ds	Spring	10
FS30230	Cinema and the City: New York	Spring	10
FS30280	Gender Activism and the Global South	Spring	10
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN30CR: Students in Stage 4 should choose a minimum of 30 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from this list. If taking the maximum, ideally this should entail 2 x 10 credit modules and 1 x 5 credit module in the Autumn, and 1 x 10 credit and 1 x 5 credit modules in the Spring.
Stage 4 Options - C)MIN0OF: This is an elective substitution module. You may select this module instead of one of your elective modules.
HUM30050	Writing for Life: employability skills for arts and humanities students	Spring	5
Stage 4 Options - C)MIN0OF: This is an elective substitution module. You may select this module instead of one of your elective modules.

		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