Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
ENG2012021148Compulsory236
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
This course is designed to give an insight into the English drama from the Classical period to the Modern period.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Öğr. Gör. Güzin ÇOL
Learning Outcomes
1Student will be able to describe the history of English drama between Classical and Modern period.
2Students will be able to analyse the English Drama between Classical and Modern period in the historical and social context.
3Students will be able to define the dramatic movements and genres of the period.
4Students will be able to define the technical and thematic characteristics of English and Irish drama.
Mode of Delivery
Evening Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
It familiarizes students with the basic features, the literary terms and the history of drama through representative plays. Another goal of this course is to help students develop the analytical skills to think, speak and write critically about drama
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Definition of Drama and Classical Drama – Aristotle’s Poetics
2Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
3Drama in the Middle Ages: Everyman
4Elizabethan drama: Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
5Comedy of Humours - Ben Jonson's Volpone
6Restoration drama - Comedy of Manners: William Congreve's The Way of the World
7Midterm exam
8Victorian drama: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
9Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
10Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession
11Irish Folk Drama: John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World
12Epic theatre: Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children
13Modern Poetic Drama – T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral
14Final Exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Representative plays chosen by the lecturer
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
SUM0
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
SUM0
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
İngilizce
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination111
Attending Lectures14342
Individual Study for Mid term Examination14456
Individual Study for Final Examination14456
14228
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)184
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