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- Effective Term:
- Spring 2017 through Summer 2021
- Course Number:
- ENG 105Z
- Course Title:
- Introduction to Literature (Plays)
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Engage, through dramatic works, unfamiliar and diverse cultures, experiences, and points of view.
- Articulate ways in which the works of drama contribute to self-understanding.
- Recognize the text as a product of a particular culture and historical moment and its relationship to different art forms.
- Recognize the role of form and how it influences meaning by identifying the variety of stylistic choices that authors make within given forms.
- Evaluate various interpretations of plays and their validity through reading, writing and speaking, and through individual and group responses, and analyze the support/evidence for a particular interpretation.
- Conduct research to find materials appropriate to use for literary analysis, using MLA conventions to document primary and secondary sources in written response to a literary text.
Integrative Learning
Students completing an associate degree at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Acknowledge the possibility of multiple interpretations of a text; Articulate various possible interpretations of a text; Recognize that not all interpretations of a text are equally valid. Assessment tools may include responses to study questions; evaluation of small and full-group discussion; in-class and out-of-class writing exams and essays; and reviews of plays. Performance of scenes from plays may also be included as an assessment task.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes, Concepts, and Issues:
- tragedy
- comedy
- romance
- satire
- allegory
- morality play
- revenge tragedy
- tragicomedy
- comedy of manners
- commedia dell'arte
- myth
- Aristotle's definition of tragedy
- Tragic Hero
- Classical Drama
- Elizabethan/ Renaissance Drama
- Restoration Drama
- Realism
- Modernism
- Theater of the Absurd
- postmodernism
- monologue
- dialogue
- soliloquy
- staging
- stage directions
- setting
- scenes
- acts
- plot
- climax
- characters
- protagonist
- antagonist
- antihero
- theme
- chorus
- odes
- prologue
- epilogue
- strophe/ antistrophe
- choragos
- blank verse
- free verse
- iambic pentameter
- couplet
- prose verse
- irony
- symbolism
- images
- conceits
- diction
- tone
- intertexuality
- structuralism/ post-structuralism
- feminist criticism
- Marxist criticism
- new criticism/ formalism
- psychoanalytic theory and criticism
Competencies and Skills:
- analysis
- writing about drama
- understanding drama through various contexts, such as social, historical, artistic convention, intertextual, playwright's vision
- critical interpretation of dramatic performance on video or live theater
- critical reading of reviews
- speaking and listening reflectively
- small-group collaboration