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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
SSB 3003	TEXT ANALYSIS -EPIC	COMPULSORY	2	0	0	2

Offered By

Department of Performing Arts

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HÜLYA NUTKU

Offered to

Performance Arts
Stage Design
Play Writing-Dramaturgy

Course Objective

Aim is to rewiev on absurd theater tendency of XX century, and politic theater and Brecht s epic theater apprehension emerged afterwards; and the created works will be evaluated for the century survey .

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Being informed about the Epic theater theory,
2	Being informed about Bertolt Brecht,
3	Understanding the epic theatre s philosophy in the sample plays surveyed with the knowledge mentioned,
4	Understanding the features of an epic theater piece,
5	Being informed about examples of Epic (non-imitating) and dialetic in Turkish theater

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

TEM 4041 - Interpreting Contempopary Art I

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	World War I and II, politic theater emerged, Erwin Piscator and Meyerhold; general briefing
2	Epic Theater and Bertolt Brecht s Epic theater theory
3	Brecht s play: Señora Carrar's Rifles	This must be the play to survey for the reason that it is the first text example to the change from Epic to dramatic, a very interesting one.
4	Brecht s play: Mother Courage and Her Children	After discussion of the logic of war and commerce, Mother Carrar and Mother Courage are to be compared.
5	Brecht s play: The Good Person of Szechwan	The Gods are looking for good person on earth.
6	Brecht is play: The Caucasian Chalk Circle	An example of a play that tooks the story within a Chinese Tale.
7	Brecht s play: The Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui	Hitler arises within the character of Arturo Ui
8	Brecht s play: The Three-penny Opera	A musical play thet s happening among the beggars
9	Brecht s play: The Good Soldier vejk	History of the naive Soldier vejk during the World War
10	What is the Dialectic theater Brecht s last level dialectic theater tendency will be held. Details on symmetric equilibrum play writing will be tought.
11	Brecht s dialektic theater example, the play Life of Galileo
12	Turkish Theater s most important diyalectic theater example Sermet Çağan s Ayak Bacak Fabrikası play	Our Theater s masterpiece in dialectic theater
13	From the master of the open style Vasıf Öngören, the play Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur, and Haldun Taner s Sersem Kocanın Kurnaz Karısı and Turgut Özakman s Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi	All three plays are read and discussed in the class, not epic but unique approach of our theater the open style is studied.
14	Midterm and general evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Erwin Piscator Politik Tiyatro kitabı
Meyerhold (çeviri Ali Berktay) Mitos Boyut Yayınları
Özdemir Nutku Epik Tiyatro
Özdemir Nutku Türkiyede Brecht kitabı
Choosen plays by Brecht
Brecht Literature ( Book about Brecht s epic theater and the books written by Brecht)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

As the Learning And Teaching Strategy, first the concept of Politic Theater, and Piscator who wrote a refence book about the subject, and the successors Meyerhold ve Brecht s theater will be discussed. Then Epic theater theory s founder, writer, director and lecturer Bertolt Brecht and his works will be studied. Richness of the literature of Brecht, vast plays and the images will be enough to understand epic.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	FIN	FINAL EXAM
3	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4	RST	RESIT
5	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Class and exam attendance is required; as well as the presentation. Presentation groups of 2 or 3 people must be careful about materials, research, reaching the visual stuff, language in class presentation , reaching the sources, evaluating the critics/rewievs, pictures or DVD format material to enrich the presentation and debates brought to class finally.

Assessment Criteria

Normally, assesment criteria consists of attendance, participation, entering the exams, at the same time presentation in the classes, reading the plays, knowing the text well, dramaturgic survey,information in play structure, the era the writer lived and the other works written. Knowledge in differences between epic theater and dramatic one is the criteria.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Dersin policy is to distribute the epic theater theory, to show the style called open and non-imitative plays logic; to suggest the logic having dramatic moments but epic as a whole. The rule is structured onto both surveying of the epic texts and the students learning of the theory with the texts. Presentation, attendancei participation, critic point of wiev, attending to exams are the rules.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours