Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
BRITISH DRAMA: 20TH CENTURY	UİNG1306	6. 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
Assistants
Goals	The course aims at acquainting the students with the techniques of realistic drama as well as giving them an insight into the position of English drama in the 20th century.
Course Content	This course is to study the plays of playwrights who wrote in the earlier years of the twentieth century
Learning Outcomes	1) Students can explain the basic concepts related to drama. 2) Students summarize the historical development of drama as a literary genre. 3) Students gain the skills to read and analyse the plays. 4) Students analyse the development, changes and features of Contemporary English Theatre. 5) Students analyse the stages and distinctive ltierary and structural features of contemporary English drama. 6) Students analyse the historical, political, cultural, sociological and economic events in relation to the plays analysed. 7) Students learn the certain literary theories on drama. 8) Students contribute to their written and oral skills related to drama.

Week	Topics	Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques	Study Materials
1. Week	Background discussion of drama / English Drama
2. Week	Background discussion of drama from Shakespeare to the playwrights f the 20th century
3. Week	Introduction of Bernard Shaw’s drama
4. Week	Reading and discussion of Arms and the Man
5. Week	Reading and discussion of Arms and the Man
6. Week	Introduction to Irish Drama
7. Week	Reading and discussion of Riders of the Sea
8. Week	Reading and discussion of Riders of the Sea
9. Week	Reading and discussion of Shadow of a Gunman
10. Week	Reading and discussion of Shadow of a Gunman
11. Week	Introduction to Post-War English Drama
12. Week	Discussion Absurdist Drama/ Introduction to Samuel Becket’s Theatre
13. Week	A study of the differences of opinion among the writers who wrote to reform the outside world
14. Week	Reading and discussion of Waiting for Godot

Recommended Sources

Bernard Shaw. Arms and the Man

Christopher Innes. Modern British Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

J.M.Synge. Riders to the Sea

Samuel Becket: Waiting For Godot

Sean O’Casey. Shadow of a Gunman

*DK = Course's Contrubution.

	0	1	2	3	4	5
Level of contribution	None	Very Low	Low	Fair	High	Very High

Event	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week)	14	3	42
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening)	14	3	42
Homework	5	10	50
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)	2	6	12
Seminar	12	1	12
Midterm Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam	1	3	3
Final Exam	1	2	2
Time to prepare for Final Exam	1	6	6
	1	1	1
	1	2	2
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course			30