Understanding Shakespeare: Plays and Sonnets

Singapore University of Social Sciences

Understanding Shakespeare: Plays and Sonnets (ELT211)

Applications Open: 01 April 2022

Applications Close: 15 June 2022

Next Available Intake: July 2022

Course Types: Modular Undergraduate Course

Language: English

Duration: 6 months

Fees: $1378 View More Details on Fees

Area of Interest: Linguistics and Languages

Schemes: Alumni Continuing Education (ACE)

Funding: To be confirmed

School/Department: School of Humanities & Behavioural Sciences

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Synopsis

Understanding Shakespeare: Plays and Sonnets will examine three Shakespeare plays—Richard III, Macbeth, and The Tempest—as well as a selection of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. The course focuses on making the language and themes clear to a modern reader. The relevance of the plays’ and sonnets’ issues in the twenty-first century will also be explored.

Level: 2
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: Every semester
E-Learning: BLENDED - Learning is done MAINLY online using interactive study materials in Canvas. Students receive guidance and support from online instructors via discussion forums and emails. This is supplemented with SOME face-to-face sessions. If the course has an exam component, this will be administered on-campus.

Topics

Introduction to Shakespeare’s Plays
Richard III
Macbeth
The Tempest
“Problems” and Performance
The Sonnets

Learning Outcome

Discuss Shakespearean conventions of writing in the plays
Explain the structure of the Shakespearean sonnet
Analyse Shakespeare’s language and dramatic conventions
Examine the thematic concerns in the plays and the sonnets
Demonstrate the role of the cultural, historical, and political conditions of the production of these plays
Determine the relevance of the plays and sonnets in the twenty-first century