Advice for Incoming Stage 3 and 4 Students of English Introduction: ENGLISH Stage 2 and 3

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1 Advice for Incoming Stage 3 and 4 Students of English This document is also relevant for students returning from a year abroad as part of the BA International Programme (Stage 4) (For students taking English as a Joint Major subject) (Updated July 2016) NB: Before you begin, you should visit our School module map, which is an interactive guide through the Programme and modules on offer in the School: also read the Registration Checklist for Students of English, and checkhttp:// For an explanation of other terms e.g. pre-requisites, or the difference between Level and Stage, please visit this site: This advice document is still provisional. Please check the UCD College of Arts and Humanities homepage on a regular basis to confirm the dates and information contained in this document. You need to make informed choices about your modules for In this short document we give you advice about how to make those choices and put them into effect. Please print it out, read it and the Registration Checklist for English, Drama and Film carefully, and follow up with questions to the School if you are not clear about the advice. You will also find the guide to registration useful: Introduction: ENGLISH Stage 2 and 3 Last year, the BA and BSocSc programmes implemented a three stage degree programme to replace the two-stage programme. Your Arts degree is taught in three stages (or years); you must accumulate 60 credits at each stage to complete your degree. If you are a returning BA International student, you are a Stage 4 student, but the information for Stage 3 applies to you also. All English modules have the prefix ENG, and the first number after the prefix indicates the Level. For example Critical Theory is coded ENG a Level 2 module, usually taken at Stage 2 (second year of your degree); Reading Gender and Sexuality is coded ENG30480, indicating a Level 3 module, normally taken at Stage 3 (third year of your degree). Each module in English is worth 5 credits At this point, you should have accumulated the required number of credits at Stage 2: 25 Level 2 credits in English 25 Level2 credits in your other subject 10 elective credits. To complete your degree, you will now have to take the required number of modules at Stage 3 (25 Level 3 credits in each subject) and 10 elective credits. You must ensure that you have at least 40 credits atlevel 3 or above(across all modules and subjects) and 180 credits over the three years, before you can graduate. In this document, we are concerned only with English modules. Please read all the advice documents, before registration begins. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are degree compliant, but we are here to help. Should you have any difficulties, please contact the School Director of Teaching and Learning mailto:niamh.pattwell@ucd.ie

2 Progressing from Stage 2 to Stage3 Your Level 2 modules from were based on literary periods for the most part (Medieval literature, Renaissance literature, Eighteenth-, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century literature) and national literatures (Irish, American, and British), and provided you with a broad understanding of texts and contexts in relation to these specific periods and topics. ENG20400 Critical Theory introduced you to key theoretical debates about approaches to literature and culture. This knowledge will now enable you to make informed choices about your modules at Stage 3. In choosing from among the School s extensive list of specialized Level 3 English modules, you may opt to concentrate your expertise in an area introduced in a particular Level 2 English module already taken, or to spread more widely your engagement with literature and its associated contexts and forms, or both. Level3modules build upon the knowledge and skills acquired at Stage 2. They are taught by seminars which are small, specialised classes (approx 25 students) that involve one class hour per week. These intensive seminars offer the opportunity for detailed exploration and analysis of topics and texts in a focused, small-group setting. (See below for seminar listings). You also have the option of taking team-taught modules. These modules usually involve two-hours contact per week and are generally (though not exclusively) assessed via an exam. The modules are structured around thematic or genre-based approaches to texts. They are ENG31140 The Body in Pain in Irish Culture (list B; semester 1) and ENG31110 Other Worlds (list A; semester 2), ENG31420 Reading Digital (list B; semester 2), and ENG31430 The Modern City in Literature (list B; semester 2). Choosing your Level 3 English modules: Options, Limitations, Balance. The School offers a wide selection of Level 3 modules across a broad range of subjects and themes based on staff research interests and expertise to best help you to develop your knowledge and skills and to prepare those of you considering further study at postgraduate level. In order to ensure the best learning experience, the School continues to run most of these modules as small group seminars. This means that places on each module are limited. Demand for different modules also varies from year to year, and therefore some modules fill up more quickly than others. Please remember: you are all guaranteed places in our Level 3 modules, but you are not guaranteed a place in your chosen module. During the summer, we advise you to think carefully about your possible Level 3 modules, visit the module map through the module descriptors (course details, recommended prior knowledge, assessment details, learning outcomes etc.) as soon as they are available on Horizons and on our School website (June) and consult recommended reading lists (available on the School website early July). Seehttp:// for course information. When you are considering registering for your Level 3 modules, we suggest that you draw up a list of your top10-12 preferences if you are taking joint honours, and top preferences if you are taking a major in English. Veryfew students get all of their top 5 or 6 preferred modules and a list that is any shorter than this will probably mean you will be disappointed. Making out a longer list also helps you to broaden your horizons by considering a wider variety of options. Remember too that most (though not all) modules run in both semesters, so if you cannot register for a particular module in semester 1, there may still be places available on it in semester 2. Pressure for places on semester 1 modules is also normally higher, so following our strong recommendation that you divide your modules equally between semesters and do not front load modules in semester one, will mean you have a greater range of options available to you. Be prepared to adjust your choice as you think further about your interests in the light of the modules available. Please recognize that you are very unlikely to get all the modules you want, but that such

3 flexibility in your approach to choosing modules is far more likely to facilitate a satisfactory outcome in the long run. Openness and readiness to make connections can be developed best through taking courses beyond those one had originally planned. It is up to you to go online to secure a place in your preferred modules or in associated modules, as soon as your (pre-booked) registration start time begins in mid-august (see below). You are asked to consult the School s Registration Checklist in order to familiarize yourself with the School s role during the registration period, especially regarding the conditions under which you may contact the School directly for help at that time (these constraints are necessary because of the size of the School, where approximately 1,300 undergraduates register for English as a subject pathway or degree subject in August and early September of each year). Help will be available to those who need it, as signalled in this checklist. Your practical preparation for the upcoming Registration period: Please read theonline guideto registration first. It explains everything that you need to know about the various steps to registration. There are a number of key dates to the registration process: 1. Incoming Stage 3 and 4 students of English should log on to SIS Web from pm on 10 th August 2016 to 10:00am on the 11 th of August in order to book their registration start time. 2. From the 18th of August,you may begin your online module registration once registration opens for incoming Stage 3 Arts students. When registering for your Stage 3 English programme modules, please ensure that you have met the Stage 2 Core requirements. These will be visible in the module descriptors of your choice. See page 6 of the How to Register Online booklet (link above) for useful tips on the registration process. Please note, during the registration period proper from the 18 th august onwards:when you decide on your modules based on the information on Horizons and on our School website and on the guidelines given here, we strongly advise you NOT to drop and swap modules. Gather information, make your choice and stick to it. Most of our Level3 modules have only approximately 18 places per offering. There are more than 400 students taking English at Stage 3 in , not including Visiting Students, BA International students and elective students, so there is tough competition for places on the modules. The ONLY way to get a place in a seminar is online registration; Special Registration Circumstances, in which the School may be contacted for help with registration, are detailed in the Registration Checklist(also sent out to you) and in the Registration Policy for Students of English. Note : dates given here are provisional: please check regularly with UCD Registration: [ and with the College of Arts and Humanities Programmes Officehttp:// confirm dates for booking your registration start time and the registration dates themselves.

4 The rest of this document includes a list of the Level 3 English modules on offer in the School. Please give particular attention to the requirements in relation to Lists A and B, which is provided on p. 9 below. For more information on any of the modules see:

5 Level 3 English Modules, Day Degree (provisional and subject to change) Level 3 Options List A SEMES TER OFFERINGS CODE TITLE CO-ORDINATOR 1 only 1 ENG30180 The Art and Prof. F. McGuinness Practice of Stagecraft 1/2 2 ENG30350 Paradise Lost Prof. D. Clarke 2 only 2 ENG30400 Talking Animals Dr. N. Pattwell 1 only 1 ENG30620 The Poetry of Dr. L. Collins W.B Yeats: Imagining Ireland 2 only 2 ENG31440 Shakespeare s Dr J. Grogan Globe 2 only 2 ENG30660 Literature and Dr. F. Dillane Science in the 19 th century 1/2 2 ENG30730 J.M. Synge and Dr. P.J. Mathews the Ireland of his time 2 2 ENG30770 Fin-de-siècle Prof. N. Daly 2 only 1 ENG30780 Shakespeare in Dr. N. McAreavey Context 2 only 1 ENG31110* Other Worlds in Dr. N. Pattwell Medieval and Renaissance Literature 1/2 2 ENG31120 Regency Writing Dr. M. O Connell 1 only 1 ENG31140* The Body in Pain in Irish Culture Dr. F. Dillane 2 only 1 ENG31200 Renaissance Dr. N. McAreavey Revenge Tragedy 1/2 2 ENG31300 Austen s Peers Dr. M. O Connell 1/2 2 ENG31320 Telling Time in Dr. R. Stephenson Old English 1 only 1 ENG31350 A Book of Kings Dr. N. Pattwell 1/2 2 ENG31640 Architecture and Narrative: The Dr. K. Fama

6 Production of America, /2 2 ENG31600 Making the Eighteenthcentury Self 1/2 2 ENG31580 Romanticism, Rights and Revolution Dr. L. Cogan (Please note, for admin purposes only Prof. D. Clarke will appear temporarily as MC) Dr. L. Cogan (Please note, for admin purposes only Prof. D. Clarke will appear temporarily as MC)

7 Level 3 Options List B SEMESTER Offerings CODE TITLE CO-ORDINATOR 1 only 2 ENG30080 Contemporary Historical Dr. F. Dillane Fiction 2 1 ENG30140 Seamus Heaney and Dr.C. Clutterbuck Modern Irish Poetry 1/2 2 ENG31410 Sexuality and the State Dr. C. O Brien in Irish Drama and Culture 1/2 2 ENG30210 Modern American Poetry Dr. N. Williams and Poetics 2 only 2 ENG30450 Theatres of Change Dr. E. Pine 1 only 2 ENG30480 Reading Gender and Dr. A. Mulhall Sexuality 1/2 2 ENG30490 Reading Joyce Dr. L. Crispi 1/2 2 ENG30520 Reading Ulysses Dr. L. Crispi 1/2 2 ENG30810 American Literature Dr. N. Williams between the Wars 1/2 2 ENG30820 The Theatre of Martin Dr. E. Jordan McDonagh 2 1 ENG30920 Detecting Fictions: the Dr. M. Stuart Crime Novel in Britain, America and Ireland 1/2 2 ENG31000 Irish Women s Writing Prof. A. Fogarty 1 only 2 ENG31020 Memory and the Irish Stage Dr. E. Pine 1 only 2 ENG31130 Literary Studies and Digital Humanities 1 only 1 ENG31150 Contemporary Irish Women s Poetry: Naming Other Worlds 1/2 2 ENG31190 Literature, Modernity, and the Sea 1 only 1 ENG31230 Monsters of the Market: Zombs, Vamps and World Literature 1/2 2 IRST30020 Gender, Culture and Society in Ireland Prof. M. Kelleher Dr. Catriona Clutterbuck Prof. J. Brannigan Dr S. Deckard Dr. E. Radley 1/2 2 ENG31330 Reading Beckett Prof. A. Fogarty 2 only 2 ENG31340 Popular Fiction in Britain, Prof. N. Daly only 2 ENG31360 Irish Fiction after 2005 Prof. M. Kelleher 1/2 2 ENG31400 Masculinities and Manhood in Dr. C. O Brien 7

8 Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture 2 only 1 ENG31420* Reading Digital: Texts Dr. E. Pine and Challenges in the Digital Humanities 2 only 1 ENG 31430* The Modern City in Dr. L. Crispi Literature 1/2 2 ENG31450 Reading the Irish Revival Dr. P.J. Mathews 2 ENG31470 Sexuality and American Dr. K. Fama 1/2 Literary Modernism, ENG31490 The New Irish Writing: Dr. A. Mulhall politics, aesthetics & protest 2 2 ENG31500 Nation, Genre and Prof. G. Meaney Gender: Monsters, Deceit and Detectives in Fiction 1/2 2 ENG31520 Creative Writing Mr. J. Ryan 2 2 ENG Irish Gothic Dr. E. Radley 2 1 ENG31620 Identity in Canadian Fiction 2 1 ENG31560 Contemporary Quebec Theatre Asterisked modules in Lists A & B are team-taught modules. Prof. Linda Morra (D. Clarke) Dr. Jane Koustas (D. Clarke) LEVEL 3 SINGLE HONOURS CORES ONLY SEMESTER OFFERINGS CODE TITLE CO-ORDINATOR 2 only 1 ENG31390 Modernism and Women s Fiction Prof.J. Brannigan 2 only 1 ENG30560 Dissertation Dr.C. Clutterbuck 1 only 1 ENG30570 World Literature in English 1 only 1 ENG31480 Advanced Medieval English 1 only 1 ENG30970 Dissertation Research Methods Dr. S. Deckard Dr R. Stephenson Dr. C. Clutterbuck 8

9 ELECTIVES ONLY SEMESTER OFFERINGS CODE TITLE CO-ORDINATOR 1 only 1 ENG20510 Creative Writing K Mr. J. Ryan 1 only 1 ENG31070 Creative Writing L Mr. J. Ryan 2 only 1 ENG31370 Poetry Workshop Mr. J. Ryan 2 only 1 ENG31380 Poetry Workshop Mr. J. Ryan 1/2 2 ENG31510 Travel Writing Mr. J. Ryan IRISH STUDIES MODULES SEMESTER OFFERINGS CODE TITLE CO-ORDINATOR 2 only 1 IRST10020 Introduction to Irish Cultural Studies 1 only 1 IRST20010 Place, People and Identities Dr. C. O Brien Dr. E. Radley Please note that students are welcome to take Irish Studies modules as part of their Stage 3 modules, but be advised that these two modules are Level 1 and 2 modules, not Level 3 modules. We wish to remind you, again, that you need to take 40 credits at Level 3 modules across all subjects and 25 credits at Level 3 in English modules in order to be degree compliant. 9

10 REGULATIONS FOR ENGLISH JOINT MAJOR STUDENTS RULE: You need to take 25 credits at Level 3 At Stage 3, you should select: Two modules from Level 3 Option List C Two modules from Level 3 Option List D One other module from Option Lists C or D ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Full information on our modules will be available on Horizons and Readings Lists for modules will be available on the School website from June. The Module Map with links to module descriptors and audio or video recordings is also useful: Please also read the Undergraduate Student Registration Checklist. This document is based on the School s Registration Policy, which is available on the School Website. If, having fully read this document and the Checklist, you require any further advice on making your choices, please contact: Dr Niamh Pattwell, (niamh.pattwell@ucd.ie) Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning, UCD School of English, Drama and Film. 10

THE APPROVED LIST OF HUMANITIES-SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSES FOR ENGINEERING DEGREES

THE APPROVED LIST OF HUMANITIES-SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSES FOR ENGINEERING DEGREES Each student program of study must contain a minimum of 21 credit hours of course work in general education and must be chosen