Drama and Theatre Option

This list comprises 2019-20 courses in the Department of English that will 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 2019-20. 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 initialed approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.

Courses are listed below by the Drama and Theatre program requirements they fulfil.

The online Faculty of Arts course catalogue for 2019-20 can be found here: http://www.mcgill.ca/study/2019-2020

Please verify the terms in which courses are offered (Fall or Winter) on the Department of English website: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2019-2020-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:

318: Theory of English Studies 2 – Socio-Historical Approaches (Fall)
322: Theories of the Text (Fall)
346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Winter)
352: Theories of Difference (Fall)

Courses in Theatre History:

308: English Renaissance Drama (Winter)
313: Quebec Theatre (Fall)
314: 20C Drama (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
371: Studies in Drama – US Popular Entertainments in the 19C (Winter)
390: Political and Cultural Theory – Private/Public (Fall)
416: Studies in Shakespeare (Winter)
430: Studies in Drama – Latin American Theatre (Winter)
486: Special Topics in Theatre History after 1900 (Fall)

Courses in Drama and Theatre Before 1900:

308: English Renaissance Drama (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
371: Studies in Drama – US Popular Entertainments in the 19C (Winter)
390: Political and Cultural Theory – Private/Public (Fall)
416: Studies in Shakespeare (Winter)

400-level:

390: Political and Cultural Theory – Private/Public (Fall) this will count
459: Theories of Text and Performance – Theatre and Feeling (Fall)
486: Theatre History After 1900 – History of Costume (Fall)
566: Special Studies in Drama (Winter)

Canadian Component:

313: Québec Theatre (Fall)

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)
375: Interpretation of Dramatic Text (Fall and Winter)
377: Costuming for the Theatre 2 (Winter)
431: Studies in Drama - Stage & Production Management for Performance (Winter)
466: Directing for Theatre (Fall and Winter)

Shakespeare:

315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
416: Shakespeare (Winter)

Courses with a Theoretical Component:

390: The Private and the Public (Fall)
416: Shakespeare and Transformation (Winter)
459: Theories of Text and Performance 2 – Theatre and Feeling (Fall)
566: Special Studies in Drama (Winter)

Additional courses:

All of the above courses can count as additional courses on the audit sheet if they are not fulfilling another particular requirement.