ELIT415 Shakespeare
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| Course Code | Course Title | Weekly Hours* | ECTS | Weekly Class Schedule | ||||||
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| ELIT415 | Shakespeare | 2 | 1 | 6 | Tuesday 9.00 - 11.50 | |||||
| Prerequisite | Senior Standing | It is a prerequisite to | None |
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| Lecturer | Vesna Suljić | Office Hours / Room / Phone | Wednesday: 9:00-12:00 Thursday: 13:00-16:00 |
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| vsuljic@ius.edu.ba | ||||||||||
| Assistant | Assistant E-mail | |||||||||
| Course Objectives | This course introduces students to William Shakespeare as a poet and as a playwright. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the historical context and characteristics of the drama in Shakespeare's times and to identify the reasons for Shakespeare's global popularity in the 21st century. This course will narrow its scope on reading selective material from the vast Shakespeare's output and on seeing a performance of a play either recorded, or a live one. The aim of the course is also to identify the ways in which reading and analyzing plays and theatrical performances can contribute to the students’ perception of social, gender, economic or political problems and their understanding how these issues are presented in the text and performed to the audiences. | |||||||||
| Textbook | - The Course Reader prepared by V. Suljic - An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing – Tenth Edition – by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioa (Part 3 – Drama), Pearson, 2007 | |||||||||
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| Learning Outcomes | After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: | |||||||||
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| Teaching Methods | The course is student-centered and student-production-oriented. The course outline gives space and opportunities to students with different skills and learning styles to study and express their views through writing, speaking, acting or other forms of communication. The professor will be initiating subjects through short lectures, deliver certain topics, guide class activities, monitor continuous progress of the students, determine texts and plays to be studied, and distribute topics for debate/discussion/presentations. Some general introductory information about the development of drama and theatrical production as well as basic information about the conventions of the play is included in the Course Reader; other handouts/articles/video or audio material will be provided when necessary. | |||||||||
| Teaching Method Delivery | Face-to-face | Teaching Method Delivery Notes | ||||||||
| WEEK | TOPIC | REFERENCE | ||||||||
| Week 1 | Introduction: the Course outline; Shakespeare's biography; Shakespeare the poet | The Course Reader Chapters 1 & 2 | ||||||||
| Week 2 | Analysis of a sonnet; Shakespeare and the historical context of his work and plays; Characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays | The Course Reader Chapters 3-7; RSC video | ||||||||
| Week 3 | Shakespeare and literary criticism; Shakespeare's language; rhetorical devices; Shakespeare's plays | The Course Reader , Chapters 8 - 10 | ||||||||
| Week 4 | The Merchant of Venice: sources for the play; the structure/ plot/sub-plots summary; characterization | The Course Reader Chapter 11 | ||||||||
| Week 5 | The Merchant of Venice: the structure (plot/sub-plots); the settings; rhetorical devices; themes (mercy; love); Assignment (prejudice and social injustice; gender roles; money and usury; anti-semitism) | Scene analysis (Shylock's speech; Portia's speech) | ||||||||
| Week 6 | The Merchant of Venice: watching the play; Assignment due | Aberystwyth Wales Theatre Production May 2017 | ||||||||
| Week 7 | Quiz #1; Internationalisation of Shakespeare; films and books inspired by his works; Much Ado About Nothing (comedy) | The Course Reader Chapter 14; video materials | ||||||||
| Week 8 | MID-TERM EXAM | |||||||||
| Week 9 | History play/tragedy: Julius Caesar: sources, historical references; biography; Shakespeare and politics; structure of the play; plot summary, settings characterization; | Scene analysis (Act I,2; Act II,1; Act II,2; Act III,1) | ||||||||
| Week 10 | Julius Caesar: characterization; themes: power / loyalty; the power of rhetoric | Scene analysis (Act III,2 Brutus' speech; Antony's speech) | ||||||||
| Week 11 | Quiz #2; Macbeth - A story of power and greed; Different productions of Macbeth | video materials | ||||||||
| Week 12 | The Tempest: structure, setting, the plot summary; comic sub-plots; characterization; comic characters; | The Course Reader ; | ||||||||
| Week 13 | The Tempest: Themes; language; imagery; theatrical production | Scene Analysis (Act I,1; Act II,2) | ||||||||
| Week 14 | Revision; Acting a scene | |||||||||
| Week 15 | Revision; Preparation for final exams | |||||||||
| Assessment Methods and Criteria | Evaluation Tool | Quantity | Weight | Alignment with LOs |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 | 3,4,5 | |
| Semester Evaluation Components | ||||
| Homework and in-class participation | 1 | 10 | 1,2,3,5 | |
| In-term exam | 1 | 20 | 3,4 | |
| Quiz | 2 | 20 | 1,2 | |
| Assignment | 1 | 10 | 3,4,5 | |
| *** ECTS Credit Calculation *** | ||||
| Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | |||
| Lecture hours | 3 | 14 | 42 | Home study | 3 | 14 | 42 | |||
| Quizes | 3 | 2 | 6 | Assignment | 4 | 1 | 4 | |||
| In-term exam study | 10 | 2 | 20 | Final Exam Study | 10 | 3 | 30 | |||
| Homework | 1 | 6 | 6 | |||||||
| Total Workload Hours = | 150 | |||||||||
| *T= Teaching, P= Practice | ECTS Credit = | 6 | ||||||||
| Course Academic Quality Assurance: Semester Student Survey | Last Update Date: 08/04/2024 | |||||||||