Drama Courses
With the exceptions below, all descriptions of Drama courses available
are given in the appropriate course description section. The only
interdisciplinary drama courses offered are described below.
2021 INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
This course introduces students to conventions, forms, and devices
of drama as they emerge under, and respond to, specific theatrical
and cultural conditions.
Prereq: English 1001 or permission
of the Department.
Note: Credit cannot be received for English/ Drama
2200 and English/Drama 2021. This course is cross-listed
as English 2021 and may be taken as three
credits in either discipline.
3001 DRAMATIC THEORY
This course studies ways in which theatre practitioners have understood
their art and the ways in which it reflects their world. Among topics
to be explored are theories of representation, performance theory,
tragic theory, comic theory, Naturalism, Expressionism, and Political Theatre.
Prereq: English/Drama 2021
Note: Credit cannot be received for both Drama 3000 and from 3001.
3051 ACTING AND DIRECTING
This course exposes students to theory and practice of acting and
directing, exploring the spatial and temporal means by which actors
and directors interpret a script on the stage. The class will study
the themes, structure, rhythms, subtext, and visual dimensions of
three or four dramatic texts, culminating in the production of one
of them. The course is offered once every second year, in an alternating
rotation with 3061.
Prereq: English/Drama 2021 or permission of the instructor.
Note: Credit cannot be received for both Drama 3050 and Drama 3051.
3061 PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION
This course introduces students to the means by which dramatic texts
are given life in time and space on the stage. Principles and methods
of set design and construction, costuming, lighting and sound design,
and stage and theatre management are all explored, with special attention
to three or four dramatic texts, one of which will receive production.
The course is offered once every second year, in an alternating rotation
with Drama 3051.
Prereq: English/Drama 2021 or permission of the instructor.
Note: Credit cannot be received for both Drama 3050 and Drama 3061.
4011 SPECIAL TOPICS IN THEATRICAL INTERPRETATION I
This course consists of a project in acting, directing, writing, or design,
proposed by a student and approved by a committee of those teaching in the
Drama Programme, and supervised on an individual basis by a member of
faculty teaching in the programme. Its practical results will be supported
by written and/or visual materials as appropriate.
Prereq or co-req: Drama 3051 or 3061 or French 3151
and 3161 and permission of the Director of Drama.
4021 SPECIAL TOPICS IN THEATRICAL INTERPRETATION II
This course is for students who have received credit for Drama 4011
above, but wish to pursue a second independent project in acting,
directing, writing, or design, to be approved by a committee of those
teaching in the Drama Programme, and supervised on an individual basis
by a member of faculty teaching in the programme. Its practical results
will be supported by written and/or visual materials as appropriate.
Prereq or co-req: Drama 4011, 3051 (or French 3151
and 3161), Drama 3061, and permission of the Deirector of Drama.
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