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 Literature pathway will explore texts ranging from the Old English, medieval and early modern periods to the nineteenth and through to the twenty-first century. These texts extend across national boundaries and regions, from British to Irish to American to World Literature, and cover multiple genres. You will explore literary production, and learn about the value of literature by analysing how fiction, poetry and drama are inspired, shaped, released and received in particular historical and cultural contexts, and understanding how the meanings of literary texts change and renew across different times and places.
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The Single Honours English programme is aimed at students who love reading, who value literature and appreciate its fundamental role in shaping society and the individual. This programme aims to attract students who wish to specialise in a single subject and who wish to deepen and refine their critical engagement with a wide variety of English-language texts and cultures from the early middle-ages to the present. By concentrating on a single subject, students are educated in the history of literary and cultural production, in current theoretical methods and approaches, and in a wide range of generic, historical and national literatures. Through innovative teaching, learning, and assessment methods, we promote our core values – independence, creativity, collaboration, critical reflection, cultural engagement, and social and political consciousness. Lecture, seminar, workshop, and small group work are at the core of our teaching. In these supportive learning environments students and their lecturer/tutor come together in the spirit of mutual inquiry, reflection, discussion, and debate. Work is assessed by a variety of methods including exam, essay, reflective journals, presentations, worksheets, portfolios, creative writing, individual and group projects. Together these diverse modes of assessment foster the development of a range of important qualities and proficiencies. We work to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, resources and inspiration useful for a range of professions and beneficial for life, and to produce graduates capable of fulfilling their highest potential as critically-minded and creative citizens. The challenges, experiences and opportunities provided in this educational environment prepare students for a variety of different workplaces.
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 choose two option modules (10 credits). Students should then choose an additional Arts and Humanities subject (10 credits) and 1 elective module (5 credits).
It is recommended that students spread their credit workload evenly between Autumn and Spring.
Students will be pre-registered to 6 x core modules (5 credits). Students should choose 4 x option modules (5 credits) plus 2 x general electives (5 credits). Students are encouraged to register for other courses available in the School, or in related subjects.
Stage 3 students who remain in UCD for the full year should take four x 10 credit Level 3 option modules (two to be taken in the autumn trimester and two to be taken in the spring trimester) and two Level 3 x 5 credit option modules. Students may select minimum two electives (Level 1 or 2) (5 credits), one offering per trimester OR alternatively students may select option modules (Level 1 or 2) (5 credits) to replace the electives.
Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose at least two 10 credit English modules and one 5 credit English module for one trimester.
Students should register to the core modules ENG30970 Dissertation Research Methods (5 credits, autumn) and ENG32460 Dissertation (15 credits, spring). Students should register to 2 x 10 credit option modules and 1 x 5 credit option module in the autumn trimester. Students should register to 1 x 10 credit option module and 1 x 5 credit option module in the spring trimester.
Students can register to Level 1/2 option modules (5 credits) x 2 or choose 2 x 5 credit elective mdoules.
| 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 |
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