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Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code:

ELL009

Course Name:

Tragedy and Comedy

Semester:

Fall
Spring

Course Credits:

ECTS

Language of instruction:

English

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Departmental Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Face to face

Course Coordinator:

Araş. Gör. BURAK ASLAN

Course Lecturer(s):

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:	This course provides a historical survey of European drama starting from the Classical period and concluding with the end of the 19th century. The aim of the course is to make students critically engage with major trends, movements and forms observed in European drama by studying representative texts of Antiquity, Renaissance and Restoration periods.
Course Content:	This course provides a historical survey of European drama starting from the Classical period and concluding with the end of the 19th century. The aim of the course is to make students critically engage with major trends, movements and forms observed in European drama by studying representative texts of Antiquity, Renaissance and Restoration periods.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) discuss the fundamental aspects of tragedy and comedy within a historical context,
2) analyze the classical dramatic forms and how these forms are transmuted in modern drama,
3) interpret the dramatic texts with reference to dramatic types and techniques developed in the modern period.

Course Flow Plan

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Development of Classical Tragedy
2)	Sophocles, Oedipus the King (429 B.C.E.)
3)	Renaissance Drama; Shakespeare, Hamlet
4)	Development of Classical Comedy
5)	Classical Comedy; Aristophanes, Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.)
6)	Renaissance Comedy; Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night?s Dream (1605)
7)	Midterm Examination
8)	Development of Modern European Drama
9)	Developments in Realism: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House (1879)
10)	Anti-Realism; Luigi Pirandello, from "On Humor" (1908); Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922, 1925)
11)	Epic Drama; Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)
12)	Absurd Drama: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952)
13)	Postmodern Drama: Introduction
14)	Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968)

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Aristophanes. Lysistrata and Other Plays. Penguin, 2003.
Beckett, Samuel, et al. Waiting for Godot. Grove P, 2011.
Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and Her Children. London, 1990.
Ibsen, Henrik. Doll's House. Methuen, 1994.
Jacobus, Lee A. The Bedford Introduction to Drama. Bedford, 2017.
Pirandello, Luigi. Three Plays: the Rules of the Game. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Henry IV. Methuen, 1996.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Penguin Books, 2015.
Sophocles. Oedipus the King. Passerino Editore, 2017.
Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Faber and Faber, 2000.

References:

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2	3
Program Outcomes
1) Uses academic English language skills effectively.
2) Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail.
3) Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.
4) Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics.	3	3	3
5) Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.
6) Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way.
7) Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features.
8) Evaluates the history of world civilization from the cultural and historical perspective.
9) To be able to translate English to Turkish and Turkish to English in different text types.
10) Apply contemporary teaching methods and techniques related to teaching English as a foreign language.
11) Develops course materials related to teaching English as a foreign language.
12) Uses a second foreign language at B1 General Level at least according to the European Language Portfolio criterion.
13) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of European Computer Driving License.
14) Applies basic research methods and theories of social sciences.
15) Takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Average	3 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Uses academic English language skills effectively.	3
2)	Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail.
3)	Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.
4)	Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics.	3
5)	Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.
6)	Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way.
7)	Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features.
8)	Evaluates the history of world civilization from the cultural and historical perspective.
9)	To be able to translate English to Turkish and Turkish to English in different text types.
10)	Apply contemporary teaching methods and techniques related to teaching English as a foreign language.
11)	Develops course materials related to teaching English as a foreign language.
12)	Uses a second foreign language at B1 General Level at least according to the European Language Portfolio criterion.
13)	Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of European Computer Driving License.
14)	Applies basic research methods and theories of social sciences.
15)	Takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups.

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 50
Final	1	% 50
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities	Number of Activities	Preparation for the Activity	Spent for the Activity Itself	Completing the Activity Requirements	Workload
Course Hours	14	0	3		42
Study Hours Out of Class	16	0	5		80
Midterms	1	0	2		2
Final	1	0	2		2
Total Workload					126