Drama and Theatre Option

This list comprises 2020-21 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 2020-21. 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 2020-21 can be found here: http://www.mcgill.ca/study/2020-2021

Please verify the terms in which courses are offered (Fall or Winter) on the Department of English website: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2020-2021-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 – Socio-Historical Approaches (Fall)
319: Cultural Theory Now (Winter)
322: Theories of the Text (Winter)
346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Fall)

Courses in Theatre History:

308: English Renaissance Drama 1 (Winter)
312: Victorian and Edwardian Theatre (Winter)
313: Canadian Drama and Theatre: Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Theatre (Winter)
314: 20C Drama: Realism and its Discontents (Winter)
345: Literature and Society: Is Shakespeare Modern? (Fall)
371: Studies in Drama – 19th to 21st Centuries: 19C US Popular Entertainments (Winter)
390: Political and Cultural Theory: The Private and the Public (Winter)
413: Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre: Contemporary Canadian Political and Community-Engaged Theatre (Winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Transformation (Fall)
431: Studies in Drama: Black Theatre and Drama (Winter)
486: Special Topics in Theatre History: History of Costume, 1800-1969 (Fall)
512: Contemporary Studies in Literature and Culture: Contemporary British Theatre (Fall)
566: Special Studies in Drama: The Trans* Eighteenth Century (Fall)

Courses in Drama and Theatre Before 1900:

308: English Renaissance Drama 1 (Winter)
312: Victorian and Edwardian Theatre (Winter)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Fall)
371: Studies in Drama – 19th to 21st Centuries: 19C US Popular Entertainments (Winter)
390: Political and Cultural Theory: The Private and the Public (Winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Transformation (Fall)
566: Special Studies in Drama: The Trans* Eighteenth Century (Fall)

400-level:

390: Political and Cultural Theory: The Private and the Public (Winter)
413: Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre: Contemporary Canadian Political and Community-Engaged Theatre (Winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Transformation (Fall)
431: Studies in Drama: Black Theatre and Drama (Winter)
459: Theories of Text and Performance 2: The Actress – Theory/History/Practice (Fall)
486: Special Topics in Theatre History: History of Costume, 1800-1969 (Fall)
512: Contemporary Studies in Literature and Culture: Contemporary British Theatre (Fall)
516: Shakespeare: Performing the World – Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Winter)
566: Special Studies in Drama: The Trans* Eighteenth Century (Fall)

Canadian Component:

313: Canadian Drama and Theatre: Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Theatre (Winter)
413: Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre: Contemporary Canadian Political and Community-Engaged Theatre (Winter)

Performance Oriented Courses:

269: Introduction to Performance (Winter)
365: Costuming for the Theatre 1 (Fall)
368: Stage Scenery and Lighting 1 (Fall)
372: Stage Scenery and Lighting 2 (Winter)
377: Costuming for the Theatre 2 (Winter)
465: Theatre Laboratory (Fall and Winter)
469: Acting 3 (Fall)

Shakespeare:

345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Fall)
385: Topics in Literature and Film – Shakespeare on Film (Winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Transformation (Fall)
516: Shakespeare: Performing the World – Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Winter)

Courses with a Theoretical Component:

390: Political and Cultural Theory: The Private and the Public (Winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Transformation (Fall)
459: Theories of Text and Performance 2: The Actress – Theory/History/Practice (Fall)
566: Special Studies in Drama: The Trans* Eighteenth Century (Fall)

Additional courses:

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