SURVEY: THEORIES OF DRAMA

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities 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: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critique major theories of theatre from 500 BCE to the present day. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explore the influences of these theories upon playwriting and modes of theatrical production. 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: Both Grad & Undergrad 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 major theories of theatre from 500 BCE to the present day. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explore the influences of these theories upon playwriting and modes of theatrical production. 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: Both Grad & Undergrad 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