UG Prospectus 2025

138 Bachelor of Arts : Joint Honours Modules on offer in each Bachelor of Arts: Joint Honours subject English Why is this subject forme? Stories are fundamental to humanity, connecting individuals and communities, dreams and realities. They allowus to imagineways of living that wemay never experience in real life. Studying English Literature provides youwith the skills to think creatively and intelligently about this complex but thrilling phenomenon. Youwill explore and enjoy the diversity of interpretative approaches available to you as a reader of literature, becoming knowledgeable about the interplay of texts and traditions, and confident in your critical independence. Youwill engagewith awide range of literature and become familiar with the vital characteristics and contexts of drama, poetry, filmand fiction. Youwill have the opportunity to take classes in creativewriting. Youwill study style and substance: what literature describes, and also how it does it. From the origins of tragedy and comedy in Ancient Greece through Shakespeare and Joyce to the hybrid texts, digital poems and video games of the 21st century, literature is a story that has no end in sight. WhatWill I Study? Year 1 Introduction to Fiction: Short Story and Novel | English Study Skills, Creativity, and Theoretical Contexts | Genre: The Tragedy-Comedy Complex | Poetry: How andWhy to Read It | Modern European andAmericanDrama | Literature and Value: WhatMakes Great Books Great Year 2 Shakespeare and the English Renaissance | Gender and Sexuality | Romanticism: Innocence and Experience | Creative Writing | 19th Century Literature | Modernismand Postmodernism | Empire Writing and Postcolonial Literatures | CreativeWriting Fundamentals: Craft and Technique | Children’s Literature Across Time and Space Optional StudyAbroad / INTRA Final Year Research Seminar | Poetry in Public | IrishWriting: Then andNow, Local and Global | Staging Ireland: AHistory of Irish Theatre | Here beDragons Children’s and YoungAdults Literature | Advanced CreativeWriting FutureCareer English offers access tomany areas of employment. Our graduates have gone on to pursue careers in journalism, public service, creativewriting, public relations, media, research, law, communications, publishing, management consultancy, arts administration, politics, heritage and tourismas well as in teaching. Gaeilge Cén fáth a bhfeilfeadh an t-ábhar seo domsa? Agus tú ag déanamh staidéir ar an nGaeilge inDCU foghlaimeoidh tú réimse scileanna i dtimpeallacht nuálach dhinimiciúil. Léachtóirí agus taighdeoirí tiomanta fuinniúla a bhfuil an-taithí acu a bheidh i mbun teagaisc. Daoine iad a bhfuil an dúspéis acu sa litríocht, i léann an chultúir, agus san aistriúchán mar uirlisí oideachasúla chomhmaith. Beidh tú in ann do chuid scileanna praiticiúla teanga a fhorbairt agus do stór eolais a leathnúmaidir leis an nGaeilge féin agus lena litríocht, cultúr agus traidisiún. Cuirfear béimsna seimineáir theanga ar éisteacht, labhairt, léamh agus scríobh naGaeilge. Gheobhaidh tú cleachtadh ar an teanga snamodúil éagsúla freisin, is é sin ó bheith ag éisteacht leGaeilge, ag léamh téacsanna, agus ag scríobh aistí. Déanfaidh tú forbairt ar do chumas anailíse agus critice trí bheith ag plé le téacsanna agus le hacmhainní éagsúla, acmhainnI ar líne inameasc. Why is this subject forme? Youwill exploremany aspects of the Irish language in an innovative and dynamic environment. Youwill be taught by experienced, committed and enthusiastic lecturers and researchers, who embrace areas such as literature, cultural studies, literature and translation as instructional tools. The Irish-languagemodules offered on this coursewill allow you to develop your practical language skills and to broaden your knowledge of the Irish language and its literature, culture and traditions. The variousmodules on offer will also help you to enhance your language competence. Thesemodules will focus primarily on improving analytical and critical skills, on increasing familiarity with sources of information and onworks of reference about Irish. Youwill further develop the research andwriting techniques that are necessary for further study or for positions where Irish is used in theworkplace. Cé na hábhair staidéir a bheidh agam? Bliain 1 Cúrsa Teanga 1 | AnNuafhilíocht agus na hAmhráin | Scéal naGaeilge | An Scéalaíocht Thraidisiúnta agus anGearrscéal Bliain 2 Modúil Roghnacha san Áireamh Cúrsa Teanga 2 | An Béaloideas | AnNuafhilíocht 2 | Aistriúchán agus Eagarthóireacht | Litríocht an 17ú agus an 18ú haois | Ainmeolaíocht naGaeilge | Teangeolaíocht naGaeilge Staidéar Thar Lár/INTRA Bliain 3 Modúil Roghnacha san Áireamh Cúrsa Teanga 3 | An Cúrsa Taighde | Athbheochan agus Athnuachan | Nuaphrós naGaeilge | An tSochtheangeolaíocht | An Téarmeolaíocht agus an Fhoclóireacht