Course Number: EN203
Course Title: Introduction to Drama

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

General

1. Define and identify the different periods of theatre history.
2. Define, identify, and analyze a selection of plays using basic theatre terminology associated with the different types of theatre.
3. Define, identify, and apply dramatic literary critical theory and methods.
4. Identify historical, cultural, and biographical contexts for selected plays and their authors.
5. Write a short play, act out and/or do dramatic readings from scenes of selected plays, and apply theatrical production techniques
    learned.

Specific

1.1 Identify and discuss the origins and development of drama.
1.2 Identify and discuss the following theatre periods: Greek, Medieval, Elizabethan, Italian Commedia dell'arte, Spanish Golden Age,
     French Neoclassicism, 19th Century Romanticism, Modern European, British and American. Post-modernist Theatre, and
     Non-Western Theatre.
1.3 Study plays and dramatic productions from a wide range of world cultures and identify performance styles.
2.1 Identify and use theatre terminology to describe such terms as tragedy, comedy, tragic-comedy, farce, voice, movement, style,
     and plot.
3.1 Identify and define different theatre genres, styles and theatre spaces.
3.2 Analyze and discuss the principles of dramatic structure and theatre criticism.
3.3 Identify and apply basic elements of playwriting: plot, character, setting, point of view, tone, mood, and theme.
4.1 Identify and discuss relevant historical, cultural and contextual information, as well as dramatists' biographical data for the
     selected plays in the course.
5.1 Employ voice and movement skills learned in the course.
5.2 Conduct a small theatre production in either or a combination of dramatic readings, scenes from different full-length plays, or an
     original one-act play, and critique the dramatic performance of classmates.
5.3 Identify and describe elements of production, including lighting, publicity, management (box office), sets, props, and sound
     effects.