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“In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis”: A Guided Tour of Literary Dublin
June 23, 2025 – July 13, 2025
Program Director: Professor Colleen Jaurretche, UCLA Department of English
Visit UCLA Study Abroad to register and learn more at our upcoming info session:
Info Session: Summer Travel Study in Dublin
Monday, March 10 at 4:00 pm
Kaplan Hall 250
Using the city of Dublin as your locus, students in this course will read a variety of major works written by Dublin writers. A grounding in Dublin geography, urban study, and history will prepare students to consider various dimensions of Irish experience in the twentieth-century, from its status as a country under British rule through its fight for independence, and ultimate autonomy.
Program Courses
All students will enroll in two required courses while attending the program, for a total of 10 credits:
- English 119 – “In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis”: Literary Dublin
- English 182F – James Joyce Seminar
Course Descriptions
- English 119: “In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis”: Literary DublinUsing the city of Dublin as your locus, students in this course will read a variety of major works written by Dublin writers. A grounding in Dublin geography, urban study, and history will prepare students to consider various dimensions of Irish experience in the twentieth-century, from its status as a country under British rule through its fight for independence, and ultimate autonomy.Requirements: attendance at all walks and excursions for the 2025 Travel Study program. Course assessment will be based on participation in conversations, as well as two essays: One short essay on your experience walking the route of three consecutive chapters of Ulysses, and one longer essay (7 -8 pp) on the connection between one of our assigned texts and an historical or geographical feature of Dublin and environs.
- English 182F: James Joyce SeminarIn this course, you will read Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and representative sections of Finnnegans Wake. As Ulysses is the pivotal novel of the twentieth-century (as well as a supreme depiction of Dublin), the greater portion of the program will be given over to its exploration. Our conversations will range from Joyce’s vision of the role of the artist in society to considerations of the ways in which his work engages textual, gender, postcolonial, ecological, historical, and philosophical subjects and writers. Discussion will be based upon readings of his work as well as our excursions in and around Dublin. Toward the end of our course we will read a bit of Finnegans Wake, with an eye to introducing strategies for interpretation of Joyce’s most obscure text. A special feature of this seminar is the overlapping readings with English 119 on Literary Dublin, which contextualize Joyce’s work as well as show the direction of modern literature in the wake of his achievements.
Requirements: attendance at all walks and excursions for the 2025 Travel Study program. Course assessment will be based on participation in conversations, as well as one 20-page essay.
Syllabus & Grading
- Syllabus and program itinerary are subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.
- Syllabus will be available to program participants in the spring quarter.
- All courses must be taken for a letter grade. Please refer to the course syllabus for grading details and contact your Faculty Director with any course-related questions.
Textbooks
Required texts will be announced during Spring quarter. Students are responsible for purchasing their own textbooks.