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課程名稱	(中) 戲劇導讀(二)(2041)
	(Eng.) Introduction to Drama (II)
開課單位	外文系
課程類別	選修	學分	3	授課教師	謝心怡
選課單位	外文系 / 學士班	授課使用語言	英文	英文/EMI	N	開課學期	1122
課程簡述	"Introduction to Drama (II)" is a one-semester course, open to second-year (and above) undergraduates who are interested in both the historical and literary development of Western drama, theatre, and play in the twentieth century. In addition to Harold Pinter as one of the most influential and contemporary British dramatists who ever caught up with the European trend of ‘the theatre of the absurd’ fashionable in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, this course mainly focuses on the modern American playwrights, including female and black writers, from World War I to the last two decades of the twentieth century. Contemporary issues such as warfare, economic depression, domestic conflicts, personal and social disappointment, racial discrimination, gender problems, and the lost of social status and cultural identity prevailed in the theatrical world of the period. Susan Glaspell, Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, David Rabe, Marsha Norman, and August Wilson, writing in relation to realism, naturalism, expressionism, impressionism, and absurdism, all contributed to the development of modern American drama, theatre, and play.
先修課程名稱						課程含自主學習	N

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With reference to some fundamental knowledge of genres, theories, and social issues, this course will guide the students to act as an audience as well as a reader to approach the assigned tragedies, comedies, or something in between by discussing their characters and languages, themes and plots, forms and structures, types and styles, settings and contexts, and other dramaturgy and theatrical elements. Besides the textbook, some selected articles, together with relevant videos and DVDs of certain films, TV dramas, and theatrical productions, may serve as supplementary teaching materials. Although this weekly course will be conducted in a series of topical discussions that have been allocated to each of the selected plays before the first lecture, students are all welcome to provide any comments, feedbacks, and suggestions regarding the discussed works in other directions.

1.外語能力

2.專業知識能力

專題探討/製作

習作

討論

講授

書面報告

出席狀況

口頭報告

作業

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授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共18週)

週次	授課內容
第1週	A. General Introduction & Course Orientation B. Grouping (Ps. A more detailed version of syllabus will be introduced in class and uploaded to iLearning when the new semester commences.)
第2週	Holiday
第3週	A. The history of early American drama, theatre, and plays B. Trifles (1917)—Susan Glaspell C. Discussion: significant trifles vs. trifle significance
第4週	A. Desire under the Elms (1924))—Eugene O’Nell B. Discussion: Greek tragedy vs. modern naturalistic tragedy
第5週	A. Desire under the Elms (1924))—Eugene O’Nell B. Discussion: Greek tragedy vs. modern naturalistic tragedy
第6週	A. The Glass Menagerie (1944)—Tennessee Williams B. Discussion: a mixture of the past and the present without the future
第7週	Holiday
第8週	A. The Glass Menagerie (1944)—Tennessee Williams B. Discussion: a mixture of the past and the present without the future
第9週	Midterm Project Presentation
第10週	A. Death of a Salesman (1949)—Arthur Miller B. Discussion: the father-son relationship vs. a social and family misfit
第11週	A. Death of a Salesman (1949)—Arthur Miller B. Discussion: the father-son relationship vs. a social and family misfit
第12週	A. A Raisin in the Sun (1959)—Lorraine Hansberry B. Discussion: “black drama”
第13週	A. A Raisin in the Sun (1959)—Lorraine Hansberry B. Discussion: “black drama”
第14週	A. Sticks and Bones (1971)—David Rabe B. Discussion: warfare and domesticity
第15週	A. Sticks and Bones (1971)—David Rabe B. Discussion: warfare and domesticity
第16週	A. Marsha Norman’s ’Night, Mother (1983) B. Discussion: female characters, the mother-daughter relationship, and the meaning of life C. Final Project Preparation
第17週	Final Project Presentation
第18週	Final Result (Online)

學習評量方式

I. Attendance, Class Participation, and Pop Tasks 40%
II. Midterm Project 30%
III. Final Project and Progress Review 30%

教科書＆參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)

1. Jordan Y. Miller, The Heath Introduction to Drama, 5th ed., (Lexinton: Heath, 1996).(or, any online editions of selected plays, ex. Amazon Kindle or Google Books).
2. Some supplementary materials will be available on iLearning.

課程教材（教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址）

NCHU iLearning (https://lms2020.nchu.edu.tw/)

課程輔導時間

15:00-17:00, Tuesday

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