A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: 3 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (8) 4. Course general Description: The course introduces students to forms, attitudes, techniques, and styles of modern playwrights through selected plays. The peculiar themes of the modern world (restlessness, tension, discontent, anxiety etc.) along with the modern technology and its presence in these plays will have special attention. The selected plays will also reflect the spirit of the age and show that the making of modern drama is the consequence of an immense collaborative activity, not the product of a single playwright, institution, or nation. The course will explore the emergence of modern drama as the complex and dynamic expression of cumulative artistic experience that include both the West and the East. The list of playwrights includes major figures like Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O’Neil, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett etc.