BA Humanities English, European & World Literatures (AYS2)

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.

The English, European and World Literatures pathway develops an in-depth understanding and a questioning of the literary and intellectual legacies of European languages, including English. Students will look at the ways in which these literatures have impacted, and continue to impact, beyond their countries of origin as well as the relationship between writing and place, examine how other cultures respond to key/global issues, and assess how languages encode and challenge cultural identities. Students will read English and one of the modern languages (French/Spanish/Italian/German).

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This programme develops an in-depth understanding and a questioning of the literary and intellectual legacies of European languages, including English, and the ways in which these languages and literatures have migrated and mutated across the world. The pathway offers the opportunity to examine literature from the middle ages to the contemporary period, from the anglophone world to continental Europe to the broader French-speaking and Spanish-speaking worlds, through a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, from gender studies to postcolonialism to eco-criticism, and allows students to assess the role of literature in encoding and challenging cultural identities.


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.

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Web: www.ucd.ie/ahss

Module ID Module Title Trimester Credits
Stage 4 Core Modules
     
SPAN30010 Spanish Language III a Autumn 5
EEWL30010 Extended Research Essay Spring 10
SPAN30020 Spanish Language III b Spring 5
Stage 4 Core Modules
     
Stage 4 Options - D)MIN2OF:
SPANISH OPTIONS
Students must take at least TWO of the following options.
You may also choose extra modules from the list below instead of one or both of your elective modules.
     
SPAN30070 Latin American Literature II: To the Boom and Beyond Autumn 5
SPAN30200 Surrealism in Spain and Mexico Spring 5
SPAN30230 Historical Memory in Spain: 21st Century Narrative and Film Spring 5
SPAN30280 Women's Life Writing in Spain Spring 5
Stage 4 Options - D)MIN2OF:
SPANISH OPTIONS
Students must take at least TWO of the following options.
You may also choose extra modules from the list below instead of one or both of your elective modules.
     
Stage 4 Options - E)MIN2OF:
ENGLISH LITERATURE OPTIONS
Choose TWO 10 credit option modules from this list.
You may also choose an extra 10 credit module from the list below instead of both of your elective modules.
      
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
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
ENG32490 Seventeenth-Century Women: Texts, Lives, Documents Autumn 10
ENG32560 Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness 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
ENG31940 Global Science Fiction 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
ENG32180 Poetry in Performance Spring 10
ENG32220 Popular Fiction in Britain Spring 10
ENG32290 Reading Ulysses Spring 10
Stage 4 Options - E)MIN2OF:
ENGLISH LITERATURE OPTIONS
Choose TWO 10 credit option modules from this list.
You may also choose an extra 10 credit module from the list below instead of both of your elective modules.
      
See the UCD Assessment website for further details

Module Weighting Info  
  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

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