DRAMA 201: World Drama I (2008)

I will be handing out the assignment sheet in class today, and we’ll be discussing it. You can also access the sheet as a PDF document on the Assignments page.

One of your classmates enquired about the content and format of the final exam; here is my response:

The exam will draw on knowledge from all parts of the course. You’ll be asked to directly discuss the play texts, as they are the things that structure our semester, and your answers will benefit (significantly) from lectures, group discussions, and the assignments you’ve completed. It’s my belief that we learn in a variety of ways – one of those ways is through my lectures, but the points that come up in discussion are just as significant. For example, if I plan to talk about , e.g., the slave character in The Frogs, but someone else raises this point in class and we discuss it, then I will skip that part of my lecture because we’ve already covered it!

The format is not yet determined, but in all likeliness it will be composed of short- and long-answer questions that you have to answer in full-sentence and/or mini-essay format. Before classes end, I will make the format explicit, by listing how many parts the exams is composed of, and the format for questions in each part.

Class groups have now been listed on the Performance Schedule page to your right —>

Hi all-

A few of the readings in the course package are also available online (same versions as ones in package). Luckily, The Frogs is one of them. Visit the ‘Required Texts’ page for links to online versions of some plays in the reader. As I mentioned yesterday, there are online versions of many other plays available, but it is always preferable to read the version I have indicated on the website. The content of jokes in The Frogs, for instance, varies widely depending on the translation, so if we are discussing a joke in class, and you’ve read another version, you might wonder if you fell asleep during your reading…

Hi everyone, welcome to the first day of DRAM 201.

This website is your weekly resource for the course. In the effort to move towards a paperless classroom, I will not be handing out a paper syllabus; instead you can find all the information about the class here.

Periodically, I will post items of interest on this main page. I recommend checking it before you come to class, as I will also include reminders, pointers on assignments, etc.

Welcome to DRAM201!

It’s good to see you here, although I expect meeting in person will be more rewarding!

The page you are now looking at (home page) is the ‘blog’ for the course. Periodically I will post interesting tidbits, or enhanced instructions, or departmental announcements on this page. You can reply to these posts through the ‘comment’ function, and even generate discussions here with other classmates. All posts on this page are tagged with different category names, so you can also access past quotes by category, or by the month in which they were posted (archive).

To the right you will also see a list of ‘pages’. Right now there is only an ‘About’ page which gives the basic coordinates of the course. By the time the course starts (and even earlier if I’m speedy), there will be pages listing assignments, required readings, weekly topics, etc. Check back in late August, but for now, thanks for stopping by (keener).

See you in September,
Natalie