The three-year course that can take you anywhere! Students develop excellent communication and critical thinking and writing skills. Students explore poetry, drama, novels and short stories, cinema, TV, and new and emerging forms of screen/digital media. This course develops critical thinking, communication, and analytical skills through reading and debate, as well as critical and creative engagement with various forms of text and contemporary critical and cultural theories.
This course meets the requirements of the Teaching Council for teaching English at post-primary level.
In first year, modules cover 18th-century literature, poetry, American literature, and theatre. Learn media studies, media history, and media theory fundamentals. Explore youth culture, politics and public cultures, and contemporary critical theory.
In second year, you will study 19th-century literature, Irish literature, popular fiction, global modernist literature, world systems, writing for multiple media platforms, critical theory, and cultural identities.
In your final year, undertake a project that showcases writing and research skills. Complete modules relating to censorship, contemporary literature, posthumanism, and technology cultures. Choose to specialise in fields relating to gothic and horror, the short story, law and literature, or folklore.
The Erasmus+ Programme provides many exciting opportunities. Students on this course spend Erasmus semesters in Spain, Germany or France.
Graduates forge careers in the media, cultural and creative industries. Many work in journalism, publishing, marketing, copywriting, advertising, PR, radio, film production, television, teaching, broadcasting, and in human rights and advocacy.
Graduates of this course are eligible to apply for a range of Masters courses including the Professional Masters of Education, MA in Literature and Publishing, MA in Journalism and Digital Communications, MA in Broadcast Production, MA in Anglo-Irish Literature & Drama, M.Phil. in Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies, and MA in Cultural Studies as well as other fields of graduate scholarship including: literature, philosophy, law, sociology, sustainability, governance, politics, and equality studies.