TH 511 - Theatre Literature, Theory and Criticism II

• Read, study and analyze plays, scholarly criticism and theory and be able to find similarities, differences, themes, essential ideas through application of various critical schools of thought.
• Develop an informed and original response to a play that synthesizes research.
• Practice the research, analysis and writing skills in preparation for future thesis course work.
• Develop an opinion that the can be substantiated through citation of theories and ideas.
• Expand student thinking to incorporate new paradigms of thinking.
• Find the essential meaning from complex and dense scholarly writing by culling through reading and noting key ideas.