HUMA 303 - Drama’s Influence on the Modern Age (1900-present)

3 credit hours
This course will constitute a wide-ranging study of plays by authors often credited with the making of modernist and avant-garde drama. The class will approach these plays from a variety of thematic, historical, and sociological vantages. Students will examine works by a variety of playwrights, including Tennessee Williams, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Beckett. These writings reflect various social, political, and cultural leanings of different periods over the last 100 years. Emphasis is placed on the summation of man as he has come to sense himself in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Course Delivery Methods: BLD, WEB, ONL