BA Hons Arts English

at University College Cork

Modules

All modules 5 credits unless otherwise stated.
 

Year 1 Modules:

• EN1002 Literature and Society: Medieval to Renaissance 
• EN1003 Introduction to Modern Literature
• EN1004 Theories: Literature, Film, Drama and Theatre Studies

Year 2 Modules:
 

Core

Critical Skills Seminar;  Old English Language
 

Electives

The Canterbury Tales;  Seventeenth Century Literature;  Eighteenth Century Literature;  American Cinema;  Romance and Realism;  Nineteenth Century American Literature;  Drama: Medieval and Renaissance;  Women and Literature;  Introduction to Shakespearean Drama;  Inventing Modern Drama;  Colony and Nation:  Irish Literature before 1900
 

Year 3*/4 Modules:
 

Core

Critical Skills
 

Electives

Of Monsters and Men: Old and Early English Literature;  European Cinema;   Twentieth-Century American Literature;  Critical Theory;   Romance: Medieval to Renaissance;  Romantic Literature;  Victorian Literature;  Contemporary Irish Writing;  Contemporary Literature and Culture;  The Irish Literary Revival and Irish Modernism;  Contemporary Theatre;  Studies in Shakespeare;  Modernism
 

*BA International students spend third year studying in an approved foreign university in a country of the student's major language or subject.  They will return to complete their final year in UCC in year 4.
 

Non-EU Candidates
Non-EU candidates are expected to have educational qualifications of a standard equivalent to the Irish Leaving Certificate. In addition, where such candidates are non-native speakers of the English language they must satisfy the university of their competency in the English language.
 

Minimum Requirements and Accepted English Language Tests & ExaminationsThe minimum English language entry requirements for admission onto a postgraduate programme at UCC are outlined below. These requirements are for postgraduate applicants whose first language is not English. If Gaeilge (Irish) is your first language these requirements do not apply to you.There are a small number of programmes with a higher minimum English language entry requirement and we list these below under Programmes with a Higher Minimum English Language Requirement.IELTS*  
 

• 6.5 Overall
• 6.0 Individual Skills (academic version)
   

TOEFL iBT  

• 90 Overall
• Listening 20
• Reading 19
• Speaking 21
• Writing 20

The fees for BA Hons Arts English may vary from €20,000 to €35,000 anually for tuition fees. The fee's prices may get higher for international students.

English is a flexible and attractive degree and provides a wide range of transferable skills. The courses you will study impart skills that can help you achieve success in such professions as journalism, teaching, publishing, theatre, public relations, public affairs, arts management, marketing, law and information sciences.
 

Such skills include:

• the ability to think independently, and to make an effective argument
• the capacity to gather, investigate and assess research materials
• an aptitude for organising material in a logical and coherent way
• the ability to derive conclusions based on research
• developing a clear and effective writing style: a key foundation for almost all careers.
   

A degree in English also supports and sustains a lifelong relationship with books and with literature, and equips you to become a critical thinker, an elegant writer and a creative person.