IDENTIFYING DATA 2019_20
Subject (*) ENGLISH THEATRE Code 12274214
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009)
 Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
6 Optional 1Q
Language
Anglès
Department English and German Studies
Coordinator
POPA-PETRAR , PETRONIA
 E-mail petronia.popa-petrar@urv.cat
Lecturers
POPA-PETRAR , PETRONIA
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General description and relevant information The aims of this course are. ) To examine representative works of drama; b) To learn the principal techniques for analyizing, understanding, evaluating and enjoying a play both as a literary construc and spectacle; and c) To improve the student´s ability to read critically and pleasurably

Competences
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

Learning outcomes
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

Contents
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 Century English Drama George Bernard Shaw, comedy and social criticism
Oscar Wilde, aestheticism and the critique of convention: “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Modernist poetic drama: T.S. Eliot
The angry decade: John Osborne and the return to realism
From the existential to the absurd: Harold Pinter, “The Caretaker.” Samuel Beckett.
Postmodernist experiments: Tom Stoppard, “Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.”

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
 Hours outside the classroom
 (**) Total hours
Introductory activities
1 1 2
Problem solving, exercises in the classroom
A5
A6
 26 53 79
Lecture
A6
 29 20 49
Assignments
A5
A6
 1 6 7
Seminars
A5
 1 6 7
Personal attention
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.

Methodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities A session at least will be devoted to explain the aim of the course, objectives, methodology, etc.
Problem solving, exercises in the classroom To focus on specific topics and how to develop them.
Lecture To provide general and specific information.
Assignments To narrow down topics and write about them.
Seminars To focus on subtopics and how to present them.
Personal attention Personal meeting at my office in order to clarify academic points.

Personalized attention
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.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Problem solving, exercises in the classroom
A5
A6
 Exercises to be written in class 40%
Assignments
A5
A6
 Assignments 40%
Others  

Class participation

20%
 
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 ...).

Sources of information

Basic
  • Fortier, Mark, Theory/Theatre: An Introduction, 2002, Routledge
  • Montgomery, Martin et alia , Ways of Reading , 2000, Routledge
  • Lane, David, Contemporary British Drama, 2010, Edinburgh University Press
  • Pickering, Kenneth, Studying Modern Drama, Second Edition, Palgrave MacMillan
  • Shepherd, Simon, and Mick Wallis, Drama/Theatre/Performance, 2004, Routledge
  • Pinter, Harold, “The Caretaker”
  • Stoppard, Tom, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
  • Wilde, Oscar, “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Complementary


Recommendations

Subjects that continue the syllabus
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE/12274121


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