Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Lecturer Oktay EMRE

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Knowing romantic, naturalist, symbolist and realistic effects in dramatic literary.
2) To know romantic, naturalist, symbolist and realist playwrights
3) To know to interact dramatic art with late XVIII. century, XIX. century and early XX. century's other art movements.
4) To know changing of play's form during XVIII, XIX and early XIX. centuries.
5) Developing behaviour of analytic reading

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Program Competencies

Learning Outcomes

High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

1) Play Analysis III Passing the course with a grade of CC and over:

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

XX. Century American playwrights; O’Neill and Williams; XX. Century Europe, the art of drama; Epic Theatre and Brecht; grotesque and Durrenmatt; examination of texts of the theater of the absurd: Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and theirs plays.

Weekly Schedule

1) Federico Garcia Lorca and The House of Bernarda Alba
2) Jean Paul Sartre and the Existential Theatre. The Respectful Prostitute.
3) Tennessee Williams and American Drama.
4) Arthur Miller and American Drama.
5) Arnold Wesker-The Kitchen.
6) John Osborne-The Anger and Kitchen Sink.
7) Albert Camus's plays and Existentialism.
8) Brecht and Epic Theatre.
9) Brecht's plays.
10) Existentialism and Absurd Theatre.
11) Ionesco plays and Absurd Theatre.
12) Beckett ve Absürd Theatre.
13) Beckett's Plays.
14) Peter Turrini,Friedrich Dürrenmatt; Epik and Absürd Theatre.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	30%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	70%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)