This degree programme is designed for highly motivated students interested in developing their profile as creative writers by drawing specifically upon the rich literary heritage in English from Anglo-Saxon to the contemporary moments. Students will be educated 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. We promote our core values – independence, creativity, collaboration, critical reflection, cultural engagement, and social and political consciousness – through innovative teaching, learning and assessment methods. Lecture, seminar, workshop and small group work are at the core of our teaching. One of the unique features of the specific approach to the teaching of creative writing in the School is the emphasis on the relationship between becoming an alert, astute, engaged critical reader of texts, and learning the craft of writing. This programme will enable students to develop skills and competence in a range of forms and genres of writing, including traditional formats (novel, short story, poetry, drama) but also in genre fiction, travel writing, creative non-fiction, experimental poetry and so on. The creative element of the programme will be taught through small workshops, and all students will be required to submit a final portfolio of creative work in their final year.

1 - Situate a text within appropriate thematic, critical, historic and cultural contexts, and to interrogate it in the light of current critical debates and their own ideas
2 - Apply in-depth knowledge of literary production in a wide range of specific time periods and cultures, and capable of identifying aesthetic innovations and trends
3 - Contextualise their own creative work within the writing traditions that precede and surround them.
4 - Demonstrate an extensive command of literary terminology, and the ability to apply this knowledge to the analysis of texts in a range of genres and media
5 - Demonstrate critical, technical and creative understanding of the art and craft of writing and of their own creative process.
6 - Expand strategies for creative expression.
7 - Illustrate refined and sophisticated skills in detailed textual analysis and close reading, and highly attentive to the tensions and ambiguity of texts and language
8 - Express nuanced understanding of form, genre and mode, and an ability to connect ideas across different periods and cultures from the early middle ages to the present
9 - Communicate ideas and concepts with clarity, precision, depth and style, while demonstrating an awareness of genre (e.g. essay, reflective journal, oral presentation), modes of argument, rhetorical skills, and audience
10 - Inform scholarship by appropriate academic and theoretical skills
11 - Apply creative, innovative and independent thinking in approach and response to complex issues, with a significant capacity to transfer skills and ideas from one intellectual sphere to another
12 - Generate a lifelong commitment to the value of reading with an ongoing desire to explore the rich variety of literary and cultural production and cultural history
13 - Articulate the value and radical transformative potential of, creative writing, literature and literary studies, and become an enthusiastic advocate for the discipline in wider society
14 - Carry out effective research, and be able to identify gaps in knowledge and locate and evaluate appropriate sources of information, and having completed independently an extended research project.

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 select two option modules. Students should then choose 1 additional Arts & 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 are registered to 4 x core modules. Students should choose minimum 2 option modules in the Autumn trimester and minimum 2 module in the Spring trimester plus 2 x 5 credit electives.

Stage 3 Credits: 50 Option / 10 Elective: a total of 60 for the year.

If students are not going abroad or taking an internship, they must take at least 10 credits in Creative Writing in each trimester, (that is, 10 credits in the autumn trimester and 10 credits in the spring trimester). Students should choose 3 x 10 credit English option modules. Students should choose 2 x 5 credit electives.

Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose a balance of modules across the subjects in their pathway for one trimester.

Module ID	Module Title	Trimester	Credits
Stage 1 Core Modules
CRWT10010	Creative Writing 1	Autumn	5
ENG10120	How to Read Poetry	Autumn	5
ENG10130	Contemporary Irish Writing	Autumn	5
ENG10230	Reading World Literature	Autumn	5
CRWT10020	Creative Writing 2	Spring	5
ENG10030	Literary Genre: the Art of Criticism and the Craft of Writing	Spring	5
ENG10220	Literature and Crisis	Spring	5
Stage 1 Core Modules
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN2OF: Please select a minimum of 2 of the following option modules.
ENG10250	Horror Literature	Autumn	5
ENG10020	Children's Literature	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
ENG10180	Comics and Fantasy	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
ENG10080	Writing the Body	Spring	5
ENG10190	Imagining Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Studies	Spring	5
ENG10240	Speculative Fiction: Gothic, Science Fiction and the Apocalypse	Spring	5
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN2OF: Please select a minimum of 2 of the following option modules.
Stage 1 Options - Subject / Streams
Spanish Beginners
Spanish Non-Beginners
Film Studies
French
Greek & Roman Civilization
German Beginners
German Non-Beginners
History
Irish Studies
Music (BA Humanities)
Drama Studies
Stage 1 Options - Subject / Streams
Stage 2 Core Modules
CRWT20020	Intermediate Creative Writing	Autumn	10
ENG20400	Critical Theory	Autumn	5
CRWT20060	Intermediate Creat. Writing 2	Spring	10
HUM20050	Primary Source Research in the Humanities B: Exploring UCD Cultural Heritage Collections	Spring	5
Stage 2 Core Modules
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN4OF: Students should take at least 4 modules from the following list. It is recommended that students spread their credit workload evenly between Autumn and Spring.
CRWT20050	Writing Fiction	Autumn	5
ENG20440	Reading the story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English	Autumn	5
ENG20460	From Victorian to Modern Literature, 1830-1914	Autumn	5
CRWT20040	Writing Poetry	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
CRWT20030	Teen & YA Literature	Spring	5
ENG20250	Twentieth-Century Drama: From Naturalism to Postmodernism	Spring	5
ENG20410	Reading Medieval Literature	Spring	5
ENG20430	Modern American Literature	Spring	5
ENG20490	Romanticism	Spring	5
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN4OF: Students should take at least 4 modules from the following list. It is recommended that students spread their credit workload evenly between Autumn and Spring.
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 2 x 10 credit Creative Writing modules, one in the autumn trimester and one in the spring trimester. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose an even spread of modules from their pathway subjects for one trimester.
CRWT30080	Advanced Fiction Workshop I	Autumn	10
CRWT30120	Literary Editorship I	Autumn	10
CRWT30230	Experimental Poetry	Autumn	10
CRWT30100	Advanced Poetry Workshop II	Spring	10
CRWT30110	Advanced Fiction Workshop II	Spring	10
CRWT30130	Literary Editorship II	Spring	10
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 2 x 10 credit Creative Writing modules, one in the autumn trimester and one in the spring trimester. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose an even spread of modules from their pathway subjects for one trimester.
Stage 3 Options - B)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 3 x 10 credit English option modules. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose an even spread of modules from their pathway subjects for one trimester.
ENG31920	War Fiction 1870–1930: Imagined Wars and the Experience of War	Autumn	10
ENG31940	Global Science Fiction	Autumn	10
ENG31950	Architecture and Narrative	Autumn	10
ENG31960	Apocalyse Then: Old Eng. Lit.	Autumn	10
ENG32020	Detecting Fictions: the Crime Novel in America, Britain and Ireland	Autumn	10
ENG32050	Reading Joyce	Autumn	10
ENG32080	Social Networks in Fiction: from Jane Austen to Conan Doyle	Autumn	10
ENG32090	Masculinities and Manhood in Irish Writing and Culture	Autumn	10
ENG32100	Fin-de-Siecle	Autumn	10
ENG32110	Literature and Science	Autumn	10
ENG32230	Reading Beckett	Autumn	10
ENG32240	Chaucer in Context	Autumn	10
ENG32390	A Book of Kings	Autumn	10
ENG32400	Gender & Sexuality in 18th C	Autumn	10
ENG32470	Climate Change&Canadian North	Autumn	10
ENG32490	Seventeenth-Century Women: Texts, Lives, Documents	Autumn	10
ENG32560	Writing Black: African American Literature and Racial Consciousness	Autumn	10
ENG32580	Theatres of War	Autumn	10
ENG32610	Contemporary Irish Writing	Autumn	10
ENG31980	Jane Austen and her Peers	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32160	Reading the Irish Revival	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32180	Poetry in Performance	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG32270	Post-War US Fiction	Autumn and Spring (separate)	10
ENG31900	Yeats and the Arts	Spring	10
ENG31930	Irish Fiction After 2010	Spring	10
ENG31990	Reading Gender and Sexuality	Spring	10
ENG32000	Contemp. Irish Women's Poetry	Spring	10
ENG32070	Medieval Celluloid	Spring	10
ENG32130	Irish Gothic	Spring	10
ENG32200	Sexuality & American Modernism	Spring	10
ENG32220	Popular Fiction in Britain	Spring	10
ENG32250	Irish Women's Writing	Spring	10
ENG32290	Reading Ulysses	Spring	10
ENG32340	The Modern Short Story and Personal Essay: Critical and Creative Approaches	Spring	10
ENG32380	Sexuality and the State in Irish Drama and Culture	Spring	10
ENG32420	Romanticism Rights & Revolutio	Spring	10
ENG32500	Fiction and Financial Crises	Spring	10
ENG32590	Memory and Testimony in Performance	Spring	10
ENG32600	Creative Non-Fiction	Spring	10
Stage 3 Options - B)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 should choose 3 x 10 credit English option modules. Any students on a trimester exchange or internship in stage 3 should choose an even spread of modules from their pathway subjects for one trimester.
Stage 3 Options - C)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 may choose 2 x 5 credit general electives or 2 x 5 credit extra programme options from this list.
ENG10250	Horror Literature	Autumn	5
ENG10020	Children's Literature	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
ENG10180	Comics and Fantasy	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
ENG10190	Imagining Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Studies	Spring	5
ENG10240	Speculative Fiction: Gothic, Science Fiction and the Apocalypse	Spring	5
Stage 3 Options - C)MIN0OF: Students who remain in UCD for the full year in stage 3 may choose 2 x 5 credit general electives or 2 x 5 credit extra programme options from this list.
Stage 3 Options - D)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 - D)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.

		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