MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA AND THEATRE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2020 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critique representative plays from 1900 to the present. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explore these plays within historical and current cultural and theatrical contexts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Graduate 5. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate and pursue an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critique representative plays from 1900 to the present. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explore these plays within historical and current cultural and theatrical contexts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Graduate 5. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate and pursue an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate