ENGL& 114 Introduction to Drama (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 202 - CCN
Course Description
Explores historical and contemporary literary works and techniques in the study of drama, emphasizing diversity in content and expression through form.
Course Content
Dramatic literature as a literary genre
Formal elements of dramatic works (e.g. performativity, audience, staging, plot, etc.)
Dramatic elements (e.g. dialogue, stage direction, costuming, etc.)
Textual analysis
Critical approaches to the study of dramatic literature
Historical, literary, and social-political contexts of dramatic literature and its reception
Ethical research skills for literary study
Rhetorical reception
Reading and writing and their relationship to identity and performativity”
Student Outcomes
- Examine how writers use dramatic form and structure for a variety of rhetorical purposes.
- Compare dramatic literature and their historical, socio-political, and critical contexts.
- Apply various literary critical approaches to dramatic literature.
- Use ethical research skills to support textual interpretations of dramatic literature.
- Analyze dramatic literature, related criticism, and their contexts to develop argument-based written projects.
- Reflect on how readers’ and writers’ identities and performances shape divergent rhetorical understandings of dramatic literature.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
1 Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
2. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions
3. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary
4. Group discussions and classroom activities
5. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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