TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	3
SEMESTER	Sixth Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Assistant Professor Gül Varlı Karaarslan
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) discuss the fundamental aspects of tragedy and comedy within a historical context, 2) analyze the classical dramatic forms and how these forms are transmuted in modern drama, 3) interpret the dramatic texts with reference to dramatic types and techniques developed in the modern period.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION	This course provides a historical survey of European drama starting from the Classical period and concluding with the end of the 19th century. The aim of the course is to make students critically engage with major trends, movements and forms observed in European drama by studying representative texts of Antiquity, Renaissance and Restoration periods.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Origins of Drama, Development of Classical Tragedy 2nd Week Aristotle, from Poetics, Sophocles, Oedipus the King (429 B.C.) 3rd Week Medieval Drama: Introduction, Anonymous, Everyman, QUIZ I 4th Week Renaissance Drama: Development of a Shakespearean Tragedy, Hamlet 5th Week Elements of Classical Comedy 6th Week Renaissance Drama: Development of a Shakespearean Comedy, The Twelfth Night, QUIZ II 7th Week The ?Great Age? of French Drama: Moliere, Tartuffe (1669) 8th Week Midterm 9th Week Bayram Break 10th Week Development of Modern European Drama 11th Week Development of Realism, Henrik Ibsen?s A Doll?s House (1879) 12th Week No class 13th Week Anti-Realism and Epic Drama of Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children (1939) 14th Week Absurd Drama: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952), QUIZ III 15th Week Postmodern Drama: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1968)
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Aristophanes. Lysistrata and Other Plays. Penguin, 2003. Beckett, Samuel, et al. Waiting for Godot. Grove P, 2011. Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and Her Children. London, 1990. Ibsen, Henrik. Doll's House. Methuen, 1994. Jacobus, Lee A. The Bedford Introduction to Drama. Bedford, 2017. Pirandello, Luigi. Three Plays: the Rules of the Game. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Henry IV. Methuen, 1996. Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Simon and Schuster, 2004. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Penguin Books, 2015. Sophocles. Oedipus the King. Passerino Editore, 2017. Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Faber and Faber, 2000.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 1 15 Quiz 2 10 Attendance 1 5 Total(%) 60 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 2 2 Preparation for Quiz 2 3 6 Individual or group work 14 4 56 Preparation for Final exam 1 6 6 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 4 4 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 2 2 Homework 1 4 4 Quiz 2 1 2 Total Workload 124 Total Workload / 30 4,13 ECTS Credits of the Course 4
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No