Contemporary English Drama
General Information
Estimated learning time
Recommendations
Competences / Learning outcomes
Learning objectives
Teaching blocks
Teaching methods and general organization
Official assessment of learning outcomes
Reading and study resources
General Information
| Course unit name | Contemporary English Drama |
| Course unit code | 362735 |
| Academic year | 2024/2025 |
| Coordinator | Clara Escoda Agusti |
| Department | Department of Modern Languages, Modern Literature and English Studies |
| Credits | 6 |
| Single program | No definit |
Estimated learning time
| Activities | Type of training | Hours | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face-to-face and/or online activities | 46 | ||
| - Lecture with practical component | Face-to-face | 46 | |
| Supervised project | 50 | ||
| Independent learning | 54 |
Recommendations
— This is an optional course for students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures. An advanced level of English is required.
— This is one of the three courses on theatre that are taught in the Bachelor’s Degree in English Studies.
— Students are expected to revise their English language production.
— Any form of plagiarism for assessed activities will be penalized.
Competences / Learning outcomes to be gained during study
- Commitment to ethical practice (critical and self-critical capabilities/capacity to demonstrate attitudes consistent with accepted notions of ethical practice).
- Capacity for learning and responsibility (capacity for analysis and synthesis, to adopt global perspectives and to apply the knowledge acquired/capacity to take decisions and adapt to new situations).
- Ability to work in a team (capacity to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project/capacity to work in cross-disciplinary and multicultural teams).
- Creative and entrepreneurial skills (capacity to conceive, design and manage projects/capacity to research and integrate new knowledge and approaches).
- Ability to work individually or as part of a team.
- Rhetorical skills (in mother tongue and English) for effective communication and argumentation with the academic community and the general public.
- Ability to use bibliographical resources and ICTs as learning and communication tools.
- Capacity to work actively and successfully in an academic environment in which English is the primary language.
- Knowledge of English-speaking writers from different eras and cultural backgrounds.
- Knowledge of Anglophone literary criticism and intellectual paradigms.
Teaching blocks
1 Critical and theoretical paradigms: absurd, radical and postdramatic theatre
2 British drama during the second half of the twentieth century
3 An analysis of four important plays staged between the end of World War Two and the 1990s
Teaching methods and general organization
The general methodology combines theoretical and practical learning, through lectures and practical applied activities which may include guided debates, group work, oral presentations, written assignments and research tasks.
Official assessment of learning outcomes
Continuous assessment
Students are evaluated using continuous assessment.
— Class work: four different class activities that will take place throughout the semester: 20% of the final mark; including linguistic accuracy.
— Two written examinations, 50& of the final mark each; linguistic accuracy will be taken into account.
To pass the course, the students need to have submitted the two written examinations. The lecturer will also take into consideration the standard of students’ spelling, vocabulary and grammar in any task subject to assessment.
Students who cannot follow the continuous assessment procedure may request single assessment provided they do so by the deadline established in the Faculty’s exam calendar.
The one-off assessment consists of two written examinations, 50% of the final mark each. Details on the nature of these written tasks will be established in the course programme.
Repeat assessment
In the re-evaluation test, which will take place on the date assigned by the Faculty, students who have opted for continuous assessment will have the opportunity to retake, at the teacher’s discretion, the exams, tests, or other assessment activities that they have not passed in the previous sitting.