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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
SSB 4003	TEXT ANALYSIS -MODERN	COMPULSORY	2	0	0	2

Offered By

Department of Performing Arts

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YASEMIN SEVIM SALMAN

Offered to

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

Course Objective

This course is a last year course to meet XX century modern texts of the selected writers. The writers that are not among the century s epic and absurd texts,the era, conditions leading to the era, and the other works of the writer, comperative dramaturgy problems, whether they are staged of not, if staged what kind of critic reviews were written in newspapers, are all explored with the help of visual material. Analyzes are active because presenting students and the rest of the class participates.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Meeting the concepts of Modern and Modernism,
2	Learning about Modernism perception and its basic philosophy,
3	Being informed about what is contemporary,
4	Having developed skills in interpretation and creativity,
5	Having been equipped to evaluate and discuss the sample plays are all expected.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

SSB 3004 - Text Analysis-Absurd

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	What is Modernity What is a modern text Are the contemporary and the modern the same Is being Modern means suiting the contemporary time	Modernism is based on an understanding about the logical and informational solution; a related comments on era s philosophy is given.
2	Friedrich Dürrenmatt s play The Physicists and the responsibility of scientists	The science turns into a danger within the wrong mind s hands.
3	Peter Weiss - The Investigation and the significance of the documentary theater.	Depression caused by World War II are uttered by the witnesses of the era
4	Siegfried Lenz play zeit der schuldlosen. zeit der schuldigen	Being guilty or not guilty, depends on the order people living within; this is evaluated according to the period s policies.
5	Georg Tabori s play, My Fight	Tabori, the writer considered Brecht s successor, gives a chance to self questioning against the monster of our own creation.
6	Thomas Bernhard s play Heldenplatz	A not living professor/ protagonist/character helps question the era.
7	Breaking the Code, a play by Hugh Whitemore	A play on code beaker scientist Alan Turing s life.
8	Esther Vilar s Speer	Hitler s creator Speer meets an actor in an invitation in East Berlin, in confrontation play.
9	Duşan Kovaçevic s play the Professional	A writer who cannot write anymore, lives in the Eastern Bloc faces a civil detective cob who has been following him for 17 years
10	Ilan Hatsor - Masked	Three brothers with the Israeli and Palestinian issue of Usufructary (play Intifada) confronting eachother and the system in the play.
11	True West - The Curse of the Starving Class - Buried Child by Sam Shepard	This three frames the erosion of the values and American Dream / Nightmare according to the wirter.
12	Tom Stoppard Indian Ink	A love story in a colony of England, in India.
13	Duşan Kovaçevic Life in Tight Shoes	Media and worker relation based play.
14	As well as a general evaluation, another week is chosen for the Midterm.	Students are responsible for all of the plays mentioned in the classes.

Recomended or Required Reading

Plays mentioned below and other plays by the same authors
Books about the mentioned games, news in the press
Printed books and reviews on modernism
Internet data and reviews and criticism articles in print media and journals
Books on World War II, encyclopedic informations
Resources on science, scientist, scientific morality, law, the concepts of crime and guilt, the American dream.
(I cannot provide basic resources because each game varies according to its theme)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

After gathering the information (about the era of the writer, writer s comments on the play, research of the library books and mags internet sources on the play) and the visual material needed, the student presents a paper of research/report containing the terms and concepts in theater according to the frame of the rules to survey a play.

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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assesment model: %40 midterm and %60 final exam. On the other hand the presentation done once a semester is also obliged. Accordingly the library, internet, visual sources usage and research report of all helps instructor to evaluate the work just like perticipation and attribution of the class, attendance.

Assessment Criteria

Presentation is also prepared as a research report paper as the student. Presentation day opens to a discussion with the participation and criticisim. Visual elements are within the presentation (fragments of play/acting, pictures from the play, pictures of the author). Qulity of the presentation, student s observation and capability within the year - in both midterm and final exams, about the play, knowledge about the writer, interpretation and creativity are all used.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The course policy and the rules are based on knowing modern and contemporary writers held, and gathering the information on the themes they use, their techniques of writing, and accordingly reading the sources related to those themes, and discussions. The rule structure is to read the text, participation, sharing sources information, evaluating the critics, success in presentations and success in the exam.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yasemin.sevim@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

no office hours

Work Placement(s)