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.
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 three core modules. Students should then choose the two core language modules of the language they are studying, two option modules from English, and three option literature / culture modules from the language they are studying. Students may also be interested in taking modules from the Recommended box below.
It is recommended that students spread their credit workload evenly between Trimester 1 and Trimester 2.
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 |