UCD Second Year English

epiphony

Hey, guys.

I have just decided to do a major in English and Minor in Psychology next year and was wondering if any of you second year English students could help?

I have pretty much picked the modules I am going to do, but would appreciate any advice on which ones to avoid/consider because registration isn't until August.

Also, I would really appreciate it if anyone could post maybe the booklist for some of the modules? Money is quite tight and I would need to start saving now to buy them and considering damn UCD don't release them until we actually start, I could really do with spreading the cost over a couple of weeks rather than just one.

Anyway, here are the modules I am thinking about choosing:

Critical Theory (this is a core module)
Renaissance Literature
Romanticism
Reading Medieval Literature (core module)
20th Century Drama
Modern American Literature
Romanticism and Postmodernism
Early American Writing
The Child and the World
Detecting Fictions: The Crime Novel
The Short Story
Contemporary American Writing

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Estragon

The reading lists are already available.

http://www.ucd.ie/englishanddrama/undergraduatestudies/english/modulereadinglists/modernamericanliterature/leveltworeadinglists0910/

Mardy Bum

If you are going into second year consider avoiding level 3 modules eg Crime Novel, Child and the World. There are plenty of level 2 to choose from. Level 3 are much more difficult than level 2 and the level 2 modules are there to provide the basis for level 3.

Estragon

Also, have a look at this page if you haven't read it already.

http://www.ucd.ie/englishanddrama/undergraduatestudies/english/stagetwo/leveltwo/

Brimmy

20th Century Drama was quite good when I did it 2 years ago. The book was the Wadsworth Anthology of Drama (my copy is sitting right beside me now) and contains a lot of plays that you might end up using in 3rd year or even for a Masters like I am the moment. It was about 50 euro too but considering each play by itself costs about 10-12 euro it's probably one of the cheaper courses book wise.

My class was compulsory though so it might have changed somewhat.

For Medieval it's essentially the Riversid Chaucer which you should have already after first year because you're going to need it in 3rd year. That's about 30 euro if I remember correctly. You can get cheap copies of each in the SU bookshop though in good nick usually.