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Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
MODERN/CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN DRAMA I	AKE419	7. Semester	3 + 0	3.0	6.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	English
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors	Nisa Harika GÜZEL KÖŞKER
Assistants
Goals	The course is for fourth-year students. This course focuses on playwrights who helped shape the American stage in the first half of the 20th Century. We will study representative dramatists from each period and a range of dramatic styles with specific emphasis on modern drama. We will discuss the content and the form of the plays as they define American drama and American identity. Although analysis of dramatic texts will be our main focus, we will also pay attention to the theatrical, cultural, and historical contexts.
Course Content	This course analyzes the 20th Century American Drama. AKE 419 20th-Century American Drama is devoted to the study of twentieth-century American theatre and drama from Eugene O'Neill to David Mamet. The course also focuses on principles of dramatic structure, including the interpretation of structural elements of major dramatic forms and styles in relation to stage presentation and film, and reading and analysis of representative plays. Innovations in the modern drama and the intersection between the theatre and other disciplines (psychoanalysis, social criticism, etc.) are studied throughout the course.
Learning Outcomes	1) Evaluating the course of American Literature and drama since its beginning. 2) Evaluating the course of American Literature and drama since its beginning. 3) It gives information about various literary and art movements in the first half of the 20th century. 4) Evaluating the course of American Literature and drama since its beginning.