School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Comedy and Tragedy in Drama
  • Unit Code

    ENG3185
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

Description

In this unit students employ a range of critical and theoretical approaches to analyse plays, from the ancient to the contemporary. Focusing on the theme of revenge, from Euripides, through Shakespeare, to contemporary Aboriginal examples, students investigate what constitutes the tragic and comedic across time, place, and culture.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Select and apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to the written plays.
  2. Relate the principal elements of comedy and tragedy from ancient to modern times to the written plays.
  3. Relate the written plays to appropriate social, historical and cultural contexts.
  4. Discuss how elements of comedy and tragedy have been combined to form hybrid genres.

Unit Content

  1. A range of critical and theoretical approaches.
  2. Conflicting theories regarding the form and content of tragedy and comedy.
  3. Performance theories.
  4. Tragedies and Comedies and the contextual knowledge related to social, historical, and cultural issues, from ancient Greece until the present.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayResearch Essay35%
PresentationGroup and individual participation25%
ExaminationExamination and quizzes40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Comedy and Tragedy in Drama
  • Unit Code

    ENG3185
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

Description

In this unit students employ a range of critical and theoretical approaches to analyse plays, from the ancient to the contemporary. Focusing on the theme of revenge, from Euripides, through Shakespeare, to contemporary Aboriginal examples, students investigate what constitutes the tragic and comedic across time, place, and culture.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Select and apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to the written plays.
  2. Relate the principal elements of comedy and tragedy from ancient to modern times to the written plays.
  3. Relate the written plays to appropriate social, historical and cultural contexts.
  4. Discuss how elements of comedy and tragedy have been combined to form hybrid genres.

Unit Content

  1. A range of critical and theoretical approaches.
  2. Conflicting theories regarding the form and content of tragedy and comedy.
  3. Performance theories.
  4. Tragedies and Comedies and the contextual knowledge related to social, historical, and cultural issues, from ancient Greece until the present.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayResearch Essay35%
PresentationGroup and individual participation25%
ExaminationExamination and quizzes40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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