AMERICAN DRAMA

AMER546

Course Code: AMER546
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

will be able to discuss various dramatic genres and the role of the audience through textual analysis,
will be able to discuss ideas and concerns characteristic of modernism in American drama and to focus on contemporary texts as a way of understanding the connections and discontinuities between modern and postmodern American drama.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

The course will be thematically built around such headings as Realist Drama, Expressionist Drama, Political Drama (including perspectives from ethnic, racial and gender positions), Absurd Drama, and the Postmodern Theater, and will include a wide selection of American dramatists from O'Neill to Kushner.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction: Origins of American Drama
2^nd Week	European Traditions and American Drama
3^rd Week	Experimental Drama in the Early Twentieth Century
4^th Week	American Drama 1920-30
5^th Week	American Drama of the 1930s: The Development of a Political Voice
6^th Week	Student Presentations
7^th Week	Student Presentations
8^th Week	The 1940s: The Second World War and the Communist 'Threat'
9^th Week	New Forms of American Drama: Expressionism and the Theater of the Absurd
10^th Week	New Forms of American Drama: Expressionism and the Theater of the Absurd
11^th Week	American Drama of the Late Twentieth Century
12^th Week	American Drama of the Late Twentieth Century
13^th Week	Student Presentations
14^th Week	Student Presentations

Recommended or Required Reading

Adler, Thomas P. American Drama 1940-60: A Critical History. New York: Twayne, 1994.

Bigsby, C. W. E. A Critical Introduction to American Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

---, Contemporary American Playwrights. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

---, Modern American Drama 1945-90. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.

Cohn, Ruby. Modern American Dramatists 1960-90. New York: St. Martin's , 1991.

Wilmeth, Don. The Cambridge History of American Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1998.

Arnold, Aronson. American Avant-Garde Theater: A History. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Black American Poets and Dramatists. New York: Chelsea, 1994.

Geis, Deborah R. Postmodern Theatric(k)s: Monologue in Contemporary American Drama. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.

Hay, Samuel A. African-American Theatre: A Historical and Critical Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

Ramirez, Elizabeth C. Chicanos/Latinas in American Theater: A History of Performance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000.

Reynolds, Clay. Stage Left: The Development of American Social Drama in the 30s. New York: Whiston, 1986.

Schlueter, June. Modern American Drama: The Female Canon. Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 1990.

Sinfield, Alan. Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in The Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Project	1	30
Attendance	1	10
Presentation of Article	2	20
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	5	70
Preparation for Final exam	1	10	10
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework
Project	1	60	60
Article Presentation	2	25	50
Weekly Articles and Resource Research	14	5	70
Total Work Load			305
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.16
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2
K1	X	X
K2
K3	X	X
K4	X	X
K5	X	X
K6	X	X
K7
K8
K9
K10	X	X
K11	X	X
K12
K13