Section I: Modern Problems Week 1-2[I]: Introduction to the Syllabus [II]: Writing your responses to the questions in the space provided on the sheet. [III]: In the Arts and the Worlds: An Opening DialogueLecture: "'The Storyteller': Theatre and Community"Reading: Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller, in Course Reader I Week 3-4: Lecture:"Dramatic Art and Its Modern Crisis: Human Community without Humans?"Reading: Chapters 1, 2, 3 of Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle, in Course Reader I Week 5: Lecture: "Amid Simulacra: Artistic Reality?"Reading: Jean Baudrillard, The Procession of Simulacra and the Orders of Simulacra, in Course Reader ILecture:"Truth and Power: Governmentality and Human Creativity" Reading: Foucault, The Eye of Power, Truth and Power, Docile Bodies, Preface to The History of Sexuality, in Course Reader II Section II: Modern Stories Week 6: Case ILecture: "Ibsen and His A Doll's House" Reading: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House January 31 (Wed)Continuing Lecture:"Tropes of Home: Modern Drama and Its Central Questions"Week 7: Case IILecture: "Brecht and His Mother Courage and Her Children" Reading: Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her ChildrenContinuing Lecture:"Modern Theatre and Global Wars"Week 8-9: Case IIILecture: "Pirandello and His Six Characters in Search for Author" Reading: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search for AuthorContinuing Lecture:"At Home in the World?--the Subject Question"Week 10: Case IVLecture:"Suspended Homes: Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the Turning Point in Modern Theatre"Reading: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for GodotWeek 11-12: Case V Lecture:"Soyinka and His Death and King's Horseman" Reading: Wole Soyinka, Death and King's HorsemanContinuing Lecture:"The Question of 'Other' People's Homes: New Times"Section III: Acts of ImaginationWeek 13-14: Lecture:"Of Other Spaces: Environmental Events and Live Performance [I]"Reading: Michel Foucault, Questions on Geography, Of Other Spaces, in Course Reader II Lecture:"Poetics of Space: Environmental Events and Live Performance [II]"Reading: Gaston Bachelard, House and Universe, The Dialectics of Outside and Inside; and Kern Stephen, The Nature of Time, The Nature of Space in Course Reader II Week 15March 12 (Mon) & March 14 (Wed)Students' Presentation and Performance:Theme:"Stories of Homes, Performances of Spaces" Seven Groups, each group has 10 minutes.Week 16-17:Review: Comparative PerspectivesFinal Take-Home Exams Due

Students are required to compose one 2.5 page long paper, typed, double space, which is due on Week 5 or Week 15. *Students can choose to write and hand their papers in either on Week 5 or Week 15. *Two lists of topics are provided on Week 4 and Week 7 respectively, serving as guidance for students to choose their topics. *Students are encouraged to make appointment with TA Mr. Cha (by e-mail) to discuss their choice of topics.Seven Students-Study-Groups are established in the first class of Week 1 (January 8), each group with two elected Students-Group-Leaders. There are two in-class mini-symposia on Week 10, where Students-Study-Groups present their analytical works based on their projects, and conduct Q&A Sessions with the other four/three Students-Study-Group members. Students-Group-Leaders are responsible for organizing and leading their groups to prepare their mini-symposium presentations, and will receive due recognition in the form of extra credit. Innovative forms for the presentations at the mini-symposia are most strongly encouraged. A "Guideline" for Students-Study-Groups activity and Mini-Symposia will be provided on Week 2. A final take-home exam is due on the final day of the class at 4:00pm. Three questions for the take-home exam are provided in the last class on March 14; students should choose one question to respond with a 2.5 page long written text including bibliography.

30% Class Participation, Concentration, Contribution, and Students-Study-Group Activity.30% Reading Diary 20% Mini-Symposium Presentation20% One Take-home Exam

• Course Reader Part I(Chapt 1,2,3 from Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle; "The Precession of Simulacra" from Jean Baudrillard, Simulations; Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller" from Illuminations)Course Reader Part II("Questions on Geography,""The Eye of Power," "Of Other Spaces" from Michel Foucault, Knowledge and Power; "Truth and Power," "Docile Bodies," "Preface to The History of Sexualtiy" from Foucault Reader; "House and Universe,""The Dialectics of Outside and Inside" from Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space; "The Nature of Time," "The Nature of Space" from Kern Stephen, The Culture of Time and Space).Plays:Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House George B. Shaw, Major BabaraBertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search for AuthorSamuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Caryl Churchill, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire Wole Soyinka, Death and King's HorsemanFriel Translations