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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:

ELL305

Course Name:

English Drama

Semester:

Fall

Course Credits:

ECTS

Language of instruction:

English

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Compulsory Courses

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:

Dr. Öğr. Üy. LEYLA SAVSAR

Course Lecturer(s):

Dr. Öğr. Üy. HATİCE YURTTAŞ
Dr. Öğr. Üy. MASOUMEH SEYYEDREZAEI

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:	This course aims to familiarize the students with concepts and writers such as Theater plays, theories and methods of theater criticism, theater terminology, types and periods of theater, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, George Farquhar, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oscar Wilde.
Course Content:	Theater plays, theories and methods of theater criticism, theater terminology, types and periods of theater, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, George Farquhar, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oscar Wilde.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) To be able to use terminology in the analysis of dramatic works
2) To know the main elements of dramatic works closely and to describe them in various dramatic works
3) To have deep knowledge about different dramatic examples and to be able to list different types of drama.
4) To be able to use contemporary analytical concepts and tools in reading dramatic works

Course Flow Plan

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	INTRODUCTION	-Intro to the characteristics of British drama • Syllabus review
2)	Discussion of Dramatic Authorship & Theater Companies & Stages	Read intro & chapters 1-2 from Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion Write a short opinion 300-400 word paragraph on dramatic authorship then and now. What has changed in terms of playwriting over the past hundred years? What shaped English drama?
3)	Early Tudor Drama Humanism	Read chapter 3 from Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion Read Richard Edwards’ Damon & Pythias (first English play to have complex plot)
4)	Tragedy	Read chapter 5 from Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion Read the first English tragedy: Thomas Sackville’s Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex DUE: Staging analysis # 1 (topic list posted on Edmodo)
5)	Reformation	Read chapter 9 from Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion Read Dr. Faustus
6)	Hamlet and Humanism	Read chapter 11 from Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion Read Hamlet DUE: Reading response # 2
7)	MIDTERM EXAM (in class essay question)
8)	Modern/Modernist Drama 1956 Stage Revolution	Read Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” and Arnold Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley” and “Roots”
9)	Absurd Drama	Read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
10)	Theater of Violence	Read Edward Bond’s “Saved” and “Lear”] DUE: Reading response # 3
11)	Comedy	Read Alan Ayckbourn’s “How the Other Half Lives” and “Bedroom Farce”
12)	Adaptations	Read Tom Stoppard’ s “Rosencrantz and Goldenstein are Dead” and “Travesties”]
13)	Feminist Drama	Read Caryl Churchill’s “Top Girls” and Martin McDonagh’ s “Beauty Queen of Leenane” Read Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
14)	Gender & Race in Drama	Read chapter 25 from Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion Read The Island Princess
15)	FINAL REVIEW (RE-CAP)	- Fishbowl Debate DUE: Reading response # 4
16)	FINAL EXAM

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	• Sullivan, Garret et al. Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion (2005). • See plays on weekly schedule.
References:	• Putt, Samuel Gorley. Golden Age of English Drama: The Enjoyment of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Rowman and Littlefiled 1981). • Happe, Peter. English Drama Before Shakespeare (1st edition, Routledge 1999).

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4
Program Outcomes
1) Uses academic English language skills effectively.	3	3	3	3
2) Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail.	2	2	2	2
3) Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.	2	2	2	2
4) Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics.	3	3	3	3
5) Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.	3	3	3	3
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.				3
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.	2
3)	Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.	2
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.	3
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
Attendance	1	% 10
Quizzes	1	% 10
Presentation	1	% 10
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 40
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	13	39
Study Hours Out of Class	16	80
Midterms	1	2
Final	1	2
Total Workload		123