|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
7.50 Credits
EN 3425 Jonathan Swift: In His Age and Ours at Trinity College; The different topics covered on the syllabus are: Swift and Autobiography, Swift and the Idea of Literature, Swift and Literary Authority, Swift and Authori(ali)ty, Swift and the Ladies, Swift and Women, Swift and Ireland, Swift and the World, and Constructing Swift. It is a year-long senior-level class, and therefore students spend between one and three weeks on each of those topics.
-
3.00 Credits
ENG 20400 Critical Theory at UCD; This module introduces students to the key theoretical debates and issues in the humanities, particularly pertaining to the study of language and literature. It demands careful reading of theoretical texts and close attention to a series of difficult concepts, but in return this module repays students' efforts by providing an indispensable grounding in the foundational vocabularies and conceptual tools of the most exciting and progressive areas of contemporary critical and cultural studies.
-
1.50 Credits
This seminar will offer students the opportunity to acquire a detailed and intimate reading knowledge of Joyce's masterpiece, his "comic epic poem in prose" centred on the sights, sounds and smells of Dublin on June 16, 1904. Students will be encouraged to develop and follow their own interests; but there will be certain minimal secondary requirements and at least a nodding acquaintance with some of the multifarious Joyces that have emerged over the years - Homeric Joyce, psychoanalytic Joyce, feminist Joyce, postcolonial Joyce. But the primary emphasis will be on the reading of Joyce's text and what we as interpreters bring to it, individually and collectively. Essential Text: The Student's Annotated "Ulysses", ed. Declan Kiberd (Penguin)
-
3.00 Credits
ENGL 30610 The Modernist Novel at UCD; This module examines the history and form of the modernist novel in England. It introduces students to the study of modernism as a set of aesthetic practices, and to teh study of the novel in England in relation to its specific social, cultural and political contexts.
-
3.00 Credits
"ENG 20440 Reading the Story of Ireland: Irish Literature in English at UCD; In this module students will engage with Irish writing in English. In class we will consider a number of approaches to the study of Irish literature, broadly structured around three core ideas / themes: the condition of cultural `in-betweenness, recurrent notions of national revival, and the relationship between gender and nation. Drawing widely on post-colonial, feminist and cultural materialist critical methodologies, the module will encourage students to think about alternative ways of configuring `the story of Ireland'. On completion of this module students should be able to: 1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of a wide range of the individual texts on this course 2. Situate the literary writing on this course in its national, historical, social and political contexts. 3. Make comparisons and contrasts between texts from the different Irish writers studied Hrs/Semester"
-
3.00 Credits
Taught as IRFL10010 "Introduction to Folklore" at host institution. This is an introductory course, which defines and describes folklore, and explains the sources and methods that are used in folklore studies. Oral and material aspects of folklore will be explained, and illustrations will be provided to show that folklore consists of varying combinations of these. A basic introduction will be given to the genres of storytelling, and to the ethnology of traditional and contemporary Ireland. Iinternational systems of classification of the elements of folklore will be demonstrated, and the various theoretical approaches will be discussed.
-
3.00 - 7.50 Credits
EN 3433 Irish Women's Writings at Trinity College; This course provides an opportunity to explore the work of Irish women writers who have only begun to emerge from the shadow of their male counterparts. Focusing on the artist and female creativity, the course will also look at such themes as, among others, the family, the mother-daughter relationship, nationalism, masculinity, romance, education. Examining forms as well as theme, we will look at novels, short stories, and some poetry as we try to reach a conclusion on whether there is a distinctive tradition of Irish women's writings.
-
3.00 Credits
ENG 30490 Reading Joyce at UCD; This seminar is both an introduction and a comprehensive survey of Joyce's oeuvre. We will explore the proposition that all of Joyce's books together constitute one integral and coherent work. With close readings of the text, the seminar will focus on consistent themes and issues in Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake; such as: the relationship between an ostensibly realistic surface narrative and its symbolic form as well as the foundational role of language in history, politics, society and art."
-
3.00 Credits
The goal of this course is to provide students concentrating in film and television with a chance to investigate some of the most significant issues in contemporary media study. The topics vary each semester but might include the effects of globalization on media production and consumption, the impact of new media technologies, other new critical approaches. Each student will write a substantial research paper that will be developed over the semester in close consultation with the instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
In a communications world dominated by visual culture, television has become society's primary storyteller. Stories are packaged and presented for our consumption in scripted dramas and sitcoms, unscripted reality shows and docudramas, news broadcasts and sporting events, and even commercials and promos. Through exploring the structures, methods, meanings, and impacts of television's various narrative forms, this course will consider how the medium of television enables creators and viewers to tap into the fundamental cultural practice of storytelling. Across the semester, students will read theories of narratology and assessments of television's narrative techniques, screen a variety of narrative examples (chiefly from American television, though some non-American television might be screened), and write their own critical analyses of television's storytelling practices.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Cookies Policy |
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|