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CRWT10010 - The Craft of Creative Writing 1 Autumn, Level 1, Credits 5 Creative Writing I is a foundational course in creative writing. Students will be introduced to the skills, and techniques of writing fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Weekly lectures will introduce students to canonical and contemporary texts, with emphasis on approache...
CRWT10020 - The Craft of Creative Writing 2 Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 Creative Writing II is an introductory course in creative writing, following on from the foundational module CWI. Students will be introduced to the skills, and techniques of writing fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. Lectures will introduce students to contemporary texts,...
CRWT10040 - Writers At Work Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 The course explores the various ways in which creative writers approach their work by looking at exemplary texts by canonical and contemporary authors in prose, poetry, and non-fiction. It analyses how a work progresses from initial concepts and research, through the revision of ...
DRAM10010 - Theatre Context and Conventions Autumn, Level 1, Credits 5 This module offers students the opportunity to develop their skills in reading dramatic texts from diverse periods in the European theatrical tradition, and to trace the development of theatre from the Greek classical period, through the Elizabethan and Restoration periods, and i...
DRAM10030 - Theatre Matters Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 Theatre Matters is an introductory module, offering a number of starting points for the study of drama, theatre and performance at university level. The first and most important starting point is the title of the module, which is framed as a question: does theatre matter? In a wo...
DRAM10060 - Collaborative Practice: Introduction to Physical Theatre Autumn and Spring (separate), Level 1, Credits 5 This module introduces students to diverse practices of physical theatre and the role of the body in performance contexts. Students learn rudimentary skills in physicalising performance. The module is taught as a series of intense workshops over five sessions and each session is...
DRAM10080 - Theatre & Activism Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 This module investigates how theatre and activism intersect, analysing the efficacy of activism on the stage and the performative elements of activism when it is off the stage. Establishing a working definition of activism, students will read plays and reflect on their activist t...
EDF10010 - University Writing for Page, Stage and Screen Autumn, Level 1, Credits 5 This module is for students on the English, Drama and Film pathway only. It is designed to help first trimester first year students integrate the 3 subject areas and understand the meaning and the value of studying English, Drama, and Film together. Students will be asked to iden...
EDF10020 - Page, Stage & Screen II Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 This module is for students on the English, Drama and Film pathway only. It focuses on issues of adaptation, and considers the different meanings generated by the same texts in cinematic, theatrical, literary, and digital form. Through the study of a number of case studies in a r...
ENG10020 - Children's Literature Autumn and Spring (separate), Level 1, Credits 5 This module will explore a range of children’s literature by an eclectic set of writers from different cultural and historical contexts, surveying the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through a series of lectures, students will read a variety of different texts. By the end of ...
ENG10030 - Literary Genre: the Art of Criticism and the Craft of Writing Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 Literary genre is the first (and maybe even the most important) element of understanding a text of any kind. In every kind of writing, it is genre that governs and shapes language, style, form, address and the engagement with the literary tradition; in deciding how to write abou...
ENG10120 - How to Read Poetry Autumn, Level 1, Credits 5 This Level 1 seminar-style course aims to introduce beginning students to the mechanics of reading poetry. It is unashamedly rooted in close reading, and each session will be focused on two or three key poems. In each class, we will develop a full, detailed, analysis of the chose...
ENG10130 - Contemporary Irish Writing Autumn, Level 1, Credits 5 What distinguishes contemporary Irish writing? What are its chief thematic preoccupations and formal innovations? Who are its leading authors, what are their chosen subjects and who were their influences? How are contemporary Irish literary works received by their readers, nation...
ENG10170 - Contemporary Dystopian Fiction Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 This module will explore how the contemporary is represented through speculative, dystopian fiction and imagined futures. We will analyse key texts from the past 35 years in terms of their visions of the future, and the concerns they represent. This module will ask how dystopian ...
ENG10180 - Comics and Fantasy Autumn and Spring (separate), Level 1, Credits 5 Friedrich Nietzsche infamously declared that God is dead. Later, Carl Jung diagnosed the distinctive illness of the twentieth century as that of a godless age in search of meaning. The twentieth century witnessed a rejection of old, official myths (God, the immortal soul, the nat...
ENG10220 - Literature and Crisis Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 What good is literature in a crisis? Literature and Crisis introduces students to the key ways in which literature has engaged with urgent social, political and cultural crises throughout history, from medieval responses to the Black Death to contemporary novels of climate crisis...
ENG10230 - Reading World Literature Autumn, Level 1, Credits 5 “Texts have ways of existing that even in their most rarefied form are always enmeshed in circumstance, time, place, and society – in short, they are in the world, and hence worldly” – Edward Said. What does it mean to read literature as ‘worldly,’ and how do world-literary t...
ENG10250 - Horror Literature Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 Module Coordinator: Dr. Leanne Waters Contact: leanne.waters@ucd.ie Why do we love to be scared? What makes us want to seek out those things that go bump in the night? Horror is, on the one hand, an uncomfortable genre of physical pain, graphic gore, and nightmarish states. I...
ENG10270 - Banned in the USA Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 The First Amendment to the United States Bill of Rights allows individuals to speak, publish, read, and watch what they want, effectively forbidding governmental censorship of books, magazines, and newspapers as well as art, film, music, and online materials. Yet, since the 1980s...
FS10010 - Introduction to Film and Media Autumn, Level 1, Credits 5 The contemporary era is marked both by a proliferation of screens through which we access ‘content’, as well as fundamental and ongoing shifts in the media industries, largely driven by digital innovation. Given this context, this module aims to provide students with a scholarly ...
FS10020 - Introduction to Film and Media Theory Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 This module follows and builds on the formal analysis skills introduced in FS10010 Introduction to Film and Media. In Spring, students will be introduced to key theoretical ideas about film and media and a variety of approaches to interpreting and understanding film, television a...
FS10060 - Cinema Creatives Autumn, Level 1, Credits 5 Cinema Creatives: An Introduction to the Cinema Landscape in Ireland Over 12 weeks, this course will provide an immersive dive into contemporary Irish cinema culture and introductions to key creative forces within film production, while also exploring the areas such as exhibiti...
FS10070 - Doing Film History Spring, Level 1, Credits 5 This module introduces key moments in film history up to 1980. It covers major film movements (including German expressionism, Italian neorealism, the French new wave, and Third Cinema) and national cinemas including Hollywood cinema as well as cinemas from Europe, Asia, Africa, ...
HUM10040 - Academic Writing in Practice Autumn and Spring (separate), Level 1, Credits 5 Do you know how to go about writing an academic essay? Do you want to know how to develop a convincing argument and thesis statement? Are you keen to develop your research and writing skills? Do you want to learn to effectively use secondary sources? This module will use pract...