This module aims to introduce students to a range of global majority writers and to gain an understanding of diverse performance and theatre practices in relation to global contexts, as well as exploring and applying critical theory relating to both text and context.

(LO1) Students will acquire analytical skills and vocabulary appropriate to university-level work and be able to use them appropriately in relation to a range of sources from different historical periods and diverse cultural and social contexts.

(LO2) Students will demonstrate the ability to construct and support argument in written or spoken forms suitable for academic work and be able to participate constructively in group discussions.

(LO3) Students will demonstrate awareness of cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of literature and language use.

(LO4) Students will demonstrate the ability to write well-constructed prose, reflecting appropriate scholarly knowledge and independent response within a sustained argument.

(LO5) Students will demonstrate knowledge of one or more specific literary historical periods and the language and genres associated with it/them.

(LO6) Students will demonstrate the ability to demonstrate research and evaluative skills that support wider literary or linguistic analysis, criticism, and/or data collection.

(LO7) Students will demonstrate knowledge of diverse theatre and performance practices in a global context.

(S1) Students will gain the ability to analyse and interpret sophisticated texts closely and critically.

(S2) Students will gain the ability to construct and support argument in both written and spoken forms.

(S3) Students will gain the ability to write with appropriate subject knowledge, using appropriate approaches and terminology.

(S4) Students will gain the ability to identify and assess relevant information and data, and argue independently in response.

(S5) Students will gain the ability to critically evaluate research materials.

(S6) Students will gain the ability to undertake independent research, and to develop a sense of research attitude.

(S7) Students will gain the ability to relate page to stage in both spoken and written discussion.

The syllabus may typically include a range of dramatic texts by global majority writers, including but not limited to: playwrights of African, North African, South Asian, South East Asian, East Asian, Caribbean, Latinx, Middle eastern, Native American, Native Australian, Pacific Islanders, Roma and Traveller heritage or diaspora. Students will consider the historical and philosophical bases of theatre and performance practices from different parts of the world. They will explore both contemporary and historical productions in the context of their specific performance traditions and cultural settings.

Both key and suggested library resources will be accessible through the module reading list and other key learning resources will be available through Canvas. Students will be expected to complete independent reading in preparation for taught sessions.

This module will be taught by 1 x weekly 1-hour tutorial with small group and 2 x weekly 1-hour workshop with whole cohort (F2F or online, as appropriate).

Schedule directed student hours: 3 hours weekly for 11 weeks = 33 hours
Unscheduled directed student hours: 267 hours
Attendance recorded: Yes
Description of how self-directed learning hours may be used: To complete required reading for each week’s workshop and tutorial and to supplement this required reading with relevant secondary reading.