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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
SSB 2003	TEXT ANALYSIS-ROMANTICISM AND SYMBOLISM	COMPULSORY	2	0	0	2

Offered By

Department of Performing Arts

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR UĞUR AKINCI

Offered to

Dramatic Writing and Dramaturgy
Performance Arts
Stage Design
Play Writing - Dramaturgy

Course Objective

Introduction of the basic genres and the characteristics of the writers of XVIIth and XVIIIth century theater history (as Classicism Tragedy / Romanticism / George Büchner / Symbolism), parallel to the basic concepts of the art of drama to the student; and also the comprehension and skill gaining in using those orally and verbally.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	To evaluate the characteristics of the content and the form of a stage play text according to a specific genre,
2	To conceal the author text relation,
3	To establish bridges between the text and the era characteristics,
4	To develop the skill to find examples to specific concepts that are used for surveying a stage text,
5	To make comparisons between different interpretations and opinions,
6	To express the ideas both orally and verbally.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

SSS 4002 - contemporary directors II

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	XVIIth Century Theater and Classic Movement (Jean Racine)
2	Studying the characteristics of the Classic Movement in the tragedy of Phèdre
3	Basic indicators of Romantic theater
4	Studying the plays Haydutlar and Hernani on Romanticism basis
5	Studying the plays Haydutlar and Hernani on Romanticism basis
6	Studying George Büchner as a unique writer and his play Woyzeck
7	Studying George Büchner as a unique writer and his play Woyzeck
8	Midterm Exam I
9	Percept of Symbolic theater and Maurice Maeterlinck's play writing
10	Interieur
11	L'intruse
12	First traces of the realistic theatre perception
13	An evaluation on Gogol and his play The Inspector General/ The government Inspector
14	Final Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Nutku, Özdemir; Dünya Tiyatrosu Tarihi 1. Cilt, Remzi Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1985.
Şener, Sevda; Dünden Bugüne Tiyatro Düşüncesi, Dost Kitabevi, Ankara, 1998
Şener, Sevda; Yaşamın Kırılma Noktasında Dram Sanatı, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul, 1997.
Stenier, George; Tragedyanın Ölümü, Çev. Burç Idem Dinçel, Türkiye Iş Bankası Yayınları, Istanbul, 2011.
Brockett, Oscar; Tiyatro Tarihi, Çev: Sevinç Sokullu, Selda B. Öndül, Semih Çelenk, Tülin Sağlam, Sibel Dinçel, Beliz Güçbilmez. Dost Kitabevi, Ankara 2002.
Türk Dili-Yazın Akımları Özel Sayısı, S. 349, Ankara Üniversitesi Basımevi, 1981
Barthes, Roland; Racine Üstüne, Çev: Sema Rifat, Cogito-Tragedya, S.54, YKY, Istanbul 2008.
Hauser, Arnold; Sanatın Toplumsal Tarihi, Çev: Yıldız Gölönü, Remzi Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1984.
Çapan, Cevat; Değişen Tiyatro, Metis Yay, Istanbul, 1992.
Fischer, Ernst; Sanatın Gerekliliği, Çev: Cevat Çapan, E Yay, Istanbul, 1980.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The main method in the lectures is the discussions to help the students understand the characteristics covered, after the lecturer states the context and form characteristics of a stage play text.
These discussions, aim to lead the students to create new and unique ideas and comparisons between different ones as well as the new information taken lately.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	FIN	FINAL EXAM
3	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4	RST	RESIT
5	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The comprahension of the genre, literary movement and author of the play, characteristics of those, are the base in the exam evaluations.
Another significant part is to prove this characteristics with examples from the plays and capacity to make comparisons.
As the basis of the evaluation consists of the written exams, it is very important for students to use a very fluent, rich and correct language to express the ideas and thoughts.

Assessment Criteria

The matters about assesment described above, are also the assesment criteria of the course.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students are responsible for the reading of the sources about stage play texts as well as the play texts to be held in the class in advance.
Students are to fulfil the personal responsibilities without delays, about any kind of given research and paper in the program of the course.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ugur.akinci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)