ENG 232 Modern Drama

Students will study drama and modernity using a history-of-ideas approach. Works by Ibsen, Shaw, Chekhov, Pirandello, Hellman, Glaspell, Williams, O’Neill, Brecht, Beckett, and Breuer will illustrate developments in dramatic history from nineteenth-century realism to the Theater of the Absurd and postmodernism. Technical discussions will focus on genre and stagecraft. ART, LIT, WI

ENG 230 Film Analysis and History

Students will analyze film using the elements of mise en scène. Technical discussions of film production and reception are supported by in-class screening of movies by such directors as Keaton, Welles, Hawks, Ford, Hitchcock, De Sica, Kazan, Lee, and Scott. Discussion topics include film history, genres, and criticism. ART, WI