ENGL 102

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Intro to Drama

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Credit: 3 hours.

Explores such topics as the history of dramatic form, the major dramatic genres, the dramatic traditions of various cultures, and key terms used in the analysis of dramatic works. Reading plays from the ancient Greeks to the contemporary theatre, students will be taught skills in close reading and literary interpretation. Students will consider the importance of performance, considering how meanings might be represented through visual and aural means.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 102 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32287	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	Armory	Perry, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: This is an introduction to drama as a form of literature, and we will read and discuss a selection of major plays from the European tradition that begins with the ancient Greeks: we will start with Euripides’s Medea (431 BCE) and wind up in our contemporary world. Plays are good to think with: they are short enough to hold in mind, but they usually tell stories that are complexly social in nature and that reflect (at least implicitly) the values and concerns of the societies for which they are produced. Also, because plays are scripts for a communal event, thinking about them always involves thinking about cultural contexts. In addition to learning how to read and think about a set of weird, interesting, and important plays by a variety of writers, students should come away from this class with the following: a sense of how (and maybe even why) different forms of comedy work; an understanding of how tragedy as a genre has evolved; a richer sense of the different ways that different cultures imagine the social function of drama; a strong and well-informed understanding of how different kinds of theater spaces and presentational styles relate to and enable different kinds of stories; a concrete sense of the myriad cultural contexts that inform any play as text and as performance script; and a general, comparative framework for understanding theater history as history.