COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Department of Performing Arts

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BANU AYTEN AKIN

Offered to

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

Course Objective

XX century: politic theater and Brecht's epic theater apprehension emerged afterwards; and the created works will be evaluated for the century survey .

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Erwin Piscator, Politik Tiyatro
Meyerhold, (çeviri Ali Berktay) Mitos Boyut Yayınları
Özdemir Nutku, Epik Tiyatro
Özdemir Nutku, Türkiyede Brecht
Choosen plays by Brecht
Brecht Literature ( Book about Brecht's epic theater and the books written by Brecht)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

As the Learning And Teaching Strategy, first the concept of Politic Theater, and Piscator who wrote a refence book about the subject, and the successors Meyerhold ve Brecht's theater will be discussed. Then Epic theater theories founder, writer, director and lecturer Bertolt Brecht and his works will be studied. Richness of the literature of Brecht, vast plays and the images will be enough to understand epic.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Class and exam attendance is required; as well as the presentation. Presentation groups of 2 or 3 people must be careful about materials, research, reaching the visual stuff, language in class presentation , reaching the sources, evaluating the critics/rewievs, pictures or DVD format material to enrich the presentation and debates brought to class finally.

Assessment Criteria

Normally, assesment criteria consists of attendance, participation, entering the exams, at the same time presentation in the classes, reading the plays, knowing the text well, dramaturgic survey,information in play structure, the era the writer lived and the other works written. Knowledge in differences between epic theater and dramatic one is the criteria.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

policy is to distribute the epic theater theory, to show the style called open and non-imitative plays logic; to suggest the logic having dramatic moments but epic as a whole. The rule is structured onto both surveying of the epic texts and the students learning of the theory with the texts. Presentation, attendancei participation, critic point of wiev, attending to exams are the rules.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

banu.akin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 17.00-18.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes