EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

20

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 8

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

Not available to First Year students.

Planned timetable

4.00 pm

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Dr M C Augustine

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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

This module is designed to provide an introduction to a small number of representative plays from the Renaissance period to the twentieth century. Special emphasis will be laid upon conditions of production and reception: the literary, political and theatre-historical contexts in which these plays were first created and those in which they are now received. At the same time the distinctive nature of the theatrical medium will be stressed, and students will be encouraged to develop a flexible critical response that will take proper account of the hybrid nature of plays both as texts and as performances.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

NO PRE-REQUISITES WHEN TAKEN AS A 'STAND ALONE' MODULE, BUT EN2004 IS NOT AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS IN THEIR FIRST YEAR

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

Re-assessment

3-hour Written Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

3 lectures and 1 tutorial, and 2 optional consultative hours.

Scheduled learning hours

43

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

157

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Display a good reading knowledge of the module set-texts and a good general knowledge of the theatrical and cultural contexts in which these plays were composed and were (and are) performed.
  • Place these works within a more general critical and theoretical context.
  • Contribute, in both seminars and essays, to a critical discussion of the set-texts.
  • Display an awareness of the implications of studying works of art that exist both as ('unstable') texts and as (still more unstable) performances.
  • Display an enhanced understanding of performance and be able to describe and analyse the potentially problematic relationships that link performance and texts.