2nd Year English

pixie68

I would love if anyone could give me any advice regarding 2nd Year English. While I got a respectable mark in 1st Year, it required much more time and effort than my other subjects and I'm wondering if I should continue it into 2nd Year. I am aware that every subject is likely to be more difficult in 2nd Year and that ultimately I need to make the decision myself but I'm torn between wanting to do English and being petrified at the thought of it! Any current or former English students got any words of wisdom?

Seren_

The one piece of advice I would give is to keep on top of the readings from the start. It makes everything so much easier. The dept send out the reading lists before the semester begins so you can get a start on reading the texts before starting back. Then if you can manage reading maybe 1 or 2 bits of secondary material each week for each module as well you will be flying! If you're interested in studying English then don't let the workload scare you; yes there's a lot to do, but it's manageable.

pixie68

Thanks for replying, I have the reading list so better get cracking!

CaoimH_in

Englush RUUUUUULLLLS!

Ms. Koi

I loved English!! Reading the books in advance is the best advice, that and reading the secondary material. It's a great course and I found it really enjoyable!

Jonah42

I'm going into 3rd year English as part of a double honours. Haven't read a full book yet but still managing ok, so I'm sure you'll be fine

Charlene_92

I took a year out last year and am returning to 2nd year to study English and Sociology. If anyone has the reading list, could you post it here of PM it to me please? I still have the one from last year but not sure if it changed.

Also, I know Arts students can choose to major/minor in their two subjects. I really want to major in English and concentrate on it more so than Sociology. When can you decide to do this? Is it 2nd or 3rd year?

Oscars Well.

Charlene_92 wrote: »

I took a year out last year and am returning to 2nd year to study English and Sociology. If anyone has the reading list, could you post it here of PM it to me please? I still have the one from last year but not sure if it changed.

SEMESTER ONE:

EN252 Renaissance to Restoration

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus;

Shakespeare, The Tempest.

John Milton, Paradise Lost



EN253 Enlightenment to Romanticism

Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy

William Wordsworth, The Prelude

Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater



SEMESTER TWO

EN255: Critical Theory and Research II

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Vintage paperback edition)



EN256 Victorian Poetry to Modernism

Tennyson: “Ulysses”, “The Lady of Shalott”, “Locksley Hall”; “The Lotus-Eaters”. “The Epic/Morte D’Arthur”; extracts from In Memoriam, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh; Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”, Fra Lippo Lippi”, “The Bishop Orders His Tomb”, Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”; “The Scholar-Gypsy”. Christina Rossetti: “Goblin Market”. [Norton Anthology of Eng. Lit., (8th edition) Vol 2,]

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles



EN251: World Literature I

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself

Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince Related by Herself

Charlene_92

Thanks so much! You're a lifesaver