Among the specific goals students are expected to achieve in this course are the following:

          * Become acquainted with the characteristics of plays from different periods

          * Identify and analyze the dramatic techniques and themes specific to different periods

          * Learn how to write insightful papers with academic awareness

          * Develop strategies in critical and analytical reading, reading between the lines, and  inference making,       

          * Become acquainted with cultural, social and historical characteristics of different periods of Britain

          *Improve their linguistic and cultural competence