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This list comprises 2015-16 courses in other departments that might be accepted by your advisor for credit towards your Drama and Theatre program.
This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2015-16. Do not take these courses in a different year and assume that they will count towards your Drama and Theatre program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.
There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive Drama and Theatre program credit. If you feel you have identified a course with a strong Drama and Theatre methodology and/or list of readings, you must show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.
Courses are listed first by Drama and Theatre program requirements they fulfil and thereafter in alphabetical order by department.
The online Faculty of Arts course catalogue for 2016-17 can be found here: https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2016-2017
Please verify the terms in which courses are offered (Fall or Winter) on the Department of English website: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2016-2017-undergraduate-courses
Other ENGL courses than those listed here may sometimes fulfill the program requirements given below. If you note a course not listed that seems to fulfill a given requirement, please see an advisor.
Theory and Criticism:
317: Theory of English Studies 1: Philosophical Approaches (Winter)
318: Theory of English Studies 2: Sociohistorical Approaches (Fall)
319: Theory of English Studies 3 (Fall)
352: Theories of Difference (Winter)
Courses in Theatre History:
306: Theatre History, Medieval and Early Modern (Fall)
312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Winter)
314: 20C Drama (Winter)
371: 19C US Popular Entertainments (Fall)
485: David Garrick (Fall)
486: Special Topics in Theatre History—Costuming 1850-1979 (Fall)
Courses in Drama and Theatre Before 1900:
306: Theatre History, Medieval and Early Modern (Fall)
312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Shakespeare and Modernity (Fall)
371: 19C US Popular Entertainments (Fall)
459: Theories of Text and Performance II: Theatre and Feeling (Winter)
485: David Garrick (Fall)
400-level:
416: Theatre of Conversion
430: Brecht and Churchill (Fall)
431: Studies in Drama: Latin American Theatre (Winter)
458: Theories of Text and Performance 1
459: Theories of Text and Performance 2 (Winter)
460: Comedy (Fall)
465D: Theatre Lab (Fall & Winter)
467: Seminar in the Actress (Winter)
485: David Garrick (Fall)
Canadian Component:
313: Canadian Drama (Fall)
327: Canadian Prose (Fall)
333: Dev of Canadian Poetry (Winter)
410: Ondaatje and Atwood (Fall)
414: Asian-Canadian Literature (Fall)
441: History of Canadian Cuisine (Fall)
440: First Nations, Inuit Literature & Media
Performance Oriented Courses:
269: Introduction to Performance (Winter)
365: Costuming for the Theatre 1 (Fall)
367: Acting 2 (Fall)
368: Stage Scenery and Lighting 1 (Fall)
372: Stage Scenery and Lighting 2 (Winter)
377: Costuming for the Theatre 2 (Winter)
465D: Theatre Lab (Fall & Winter)
Shakespeare:
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Shakespeare and Modernity (Fall)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
Courses with a Theoretical Component:
390: Political and Cultural Theory (Winter)
458: Theories of Text and Performance 1 (Fall)
459: Theories of Text and Performance 2 (Winter)
460: Comedy (Fall)
489: Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory (Winter)
501: Theatre and Religion in Early Modern England
566: Queer Theatre in N. America
Additional courses:
306: Theatre History—Medieval to Early Modern (Fall)
312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Winter)
314: 20C Drama (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Shakespeare and Modernity
355: Poetics of Performance (Winter)
371: 19C US Popular Entertainments (Fall)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
430: Brecht and Churchill (Fall)
431: Latin American Theatre (Winter)
467: Seminar in the Actress (Winter)