COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EVRIM ERSÖZ KOÇ

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This course concentrates on the selected American playwrights who have shaped contemporary American drama. The selected American dramatists intellectual and aesthetic positions will be analysed within both the social contexts of American history and the movements and changes in theatrical conventions.

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

Required Sources:
Selected plays
Recommended Sources:
Brockett, Oscar G. The Essential Theatre. 5th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Pub., 1991.
Esslin, Martin. An Anatomy of Drama. New York: Hill and Wang, 1976.
Aronson, Arnold. American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History. London: Routledge, 2007.
Marranca, Bonnie, ed. Plays for the End of the Century. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1996.
Saddik, Annette J. Contemporary American Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, text analysis, class discussions, visual presentations

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students are expected to
1. have critical perspectives on the major issues discussed in the lectures
2. think analytically
3. refer to the primary texts in order to support their arguments.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Students are expected to
1. attend 70% of the course schedule.
2. participate to in-class discussions
3. come to the classes having read the assigned text.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

evrim.ersoz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes