Emphasis will be placed upon the lives of Elizabethans - their likes and dislikes, superstitions and social order as they pertained to this golden age of the theatre. Individualized writing projects will be critiqued by peers and instructor to facilitate revision. Presents six classic American plays with the expectations family and society place on individuals. Students will view, analyze, discuss, and write on the literary components and substance of these plays. A major theme is followed through important works of fiction, poetry, and drama.
Themes vary depending on the instructor and the quarter in which it is offered.
Students will evaluate the centrol role women have played in the development of literature by reading personal accounts, stories, plays, and novels. Explore the changes women have undergone through time and the voices and contributions some outstanding women have made to fiction, poetry, and drama. They will analyze why women write, the times they write in, and the issues which concern them. Also discussed will be the efects society has on women and the ways women affect their individual and societal environments. Designed to provide the student with basic information regarding the composition of films with specific time and effort spent examining the elements of photography, editing, sound, acting, and more.