IDENTIFYING DATA 2016_17
Subject (*) TEATRE ANGLÈS Code 12274214
Study programme
Grau d'Anglès (2009)
 Cycle 1r
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
6 Optativa 1Q
Teaching Modality by working group Teaching language, timetables and exam dates
Department Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
Coordinator
LAMARCA MARGALEF, JORGE
 E-mail jordi.lamarca@urv.cat
Lecturers
LAMARCA MARGALEF, JORGE
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General description and relevant information The aims of this course is: a) to examine representative works of drama; b) to learn the principal techiniques for analyzing, understanding, evaluating and enjoying a play both as a literary construct and spectacle; and c) to improve the student´s ability to read critically and pleasurably.

Competències
Type A Code Competences Specific
 A5 Dominar la llengua anglesa des d’un punt de vista teòric i pràctic i expressar-s’hi oralment i per escrit de manera fluida i precisa.
 A6 Analitzar les obres més rellevants de la literatura en llengua anglesa en els seus diversos entorns culturals.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

Resultats d'aprenentage
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 A5 Mostra un maneig de la llengua anglesa (de forma oral i/o escrita) en contextos diversos a un nivell superior.
 A6 Adquireix la capacitat d’establir la relació entre forma i contingut a les obres d’autors en llengua anglesa.
Analitza i comenta textos literaris de forma oral i/o escrita.
Coneix els principals moviments literaris i la seva inserció en els diversos contextos culturals i històrics.
Type B Code Learning outcomes
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Continguts
Topic Sub-topic
The Nature of Theatre Drama and theatre
Text and performance
Elements of a play
Introduction to English Drama Medieval Drama
Renaissance and Restauration
Modern English Drama
Twentieth Ceentury English Drama Realism and Humour
Commedy of Manners and Social Content
J. P. P Priestley, An Inspector Calls
Realism and Absurd
H. Pinter, The Birthday Party
Introduction to American Drama Early Tweentieth-Century Drama
Realism and lyricism
Tennessee Willimas, A Street Car Named Desire.
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Edward Albee, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Ethnic Theatre
Race, gender and society
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Planificació
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
 Hours outside the classroom
 (**) Total hours
Activitats Introductòries
1 1 2
Resolució de problemes, exercicis a l'aula ordinària
A5
A6
 26 53 79
Sessió Magistral
A6
 29 20 49
Treballs
A5
A6
 1 6 7
Seminaris
A5
 1 6 7
Atenció personalitzada
2 4 6
 
 
(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Metodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Activitats Introductòries A session at least will be devoted to explain the aim of the course, objectives, methodology, etc.
Resolució de problemes, exercicis a l'aula ordinària To focus on specific topics and how to develop them.
Sessió Magistral To provide general and specific information.
Treballs To narrow down topics and write about them.
Seminaris To focus on subtopics and how to present them.
Atenció personalitzada Personal meeting at my office in order to clarify academic points.

Atenció personalitzada
Description
There will be office hours. Students should take benefit of them in order to ask questions, querries, discuss details of the syllabus and content of the course.

Avaluació
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Resolució de problemes, exercicis a l'aula ordinària
A5
A6
 Exercises to be written in class 60%
Treballs
A5
A6
 Assignments 30%
Others  

Class attendance and participation

10%
 
Other comments and second exam session

The students who do not reach the 50% of the above-mentioned requirements will have a scheduled second chance, as well as those who have not opted to go through the continuos assessment (for further details see the course syllabus). This second chance will be the same for all students ( both those who failed the continuous assessment and those who opted for the final class exercise), and will consist in a final class exercisel of 20 questions (100%). These questions will be based on the units included in the syllabus (short definitions of concepts, identifications of names, titles, characters, short contextualizations of excertps from the texts analyzed ...).

Fonts d'informació

Bàsica Montgomery, Martin et alia , Ways of Reading , 2000, Routledge
Oscar Wilde , The Importance of Being Earnest, 2000, Penguin
Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, 2000, Methuen
Tennessee Williams, A Street Car Named Desire, 2000, Penguin
Lorraine Hansberyy, A Raisin in The Sun, 2012, A Signet Book
David Lane, Contemporary British Drama, 2010, Edinburgh University Press
Kenneth Pickering, Studying Modern Drama, Second Edition, Palgrave MacMillan
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Edward Albee, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 2010, Penguin Books



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