Drama and Theatre Option

This list comprises 2017-18 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 2017-18 can be found here: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2017-2018-undergraduate-courses

Please verify the terms in which courses are offered (Fall or Winter) on the Department of English website: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2017-2018-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)
322: Theories of the Text (Winter)
352: Theories of Difference (Winter)

Courses in Theatre History:

312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Winter)
313: Contemporary Aboriginal Theatre (Fall)
314: 20C Drama (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
370: Theatre History – the Long 18C (Winter)
371: 19C US Popular Entertainments (Fall)
390: The Private and the Public (Fall)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
430: Theatrical Adaptations of Shakespeare from 17C to Present (Fall)
486: Theatre History After 1900 – History of Costume (Fall)
516: Contemporary Approaches to Shakespeare (Winter)
586: Transvestism and the Performance of Gender on the Eighteenth-Century Stage (Winter)

Courses in Drama and Theatre Before 1900:

312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
370: Theatre History – the Long 18C (Winter)
371: 19C US Popular Entertainments (Fall)
390: The Private and the Public (Fall)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
430: Theatrical Adaptations of Shakespeare from 17C to Present (Fall)
516: Contemporary Approaches to Shakespeare (Winter)
586: Transvestism and the Performance of Gender on the Eighteenth-Century Stage (Winter)

400-level:

390: The Private and the Public (Fall – this will count)
395: Community and Politically-Engaged Theatre (Winter – this will count)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
430: Theatrical Adaptations of Shakespeare from 17C to Present (Fall)
458: Theories of Text and Performance (Fall)
486: Theatre History After 1900 – History of Costume (Fall)

Canadian Component:

313: Canadian Drama: Contemporary Aborginial Theatre (Fall)
328: Development of Canadian Poetry (Winter)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry (Fall)
395: Contemporary Canadian Community- and Politically-Engaged Theatre
409: Leonard Cohen (Winter)
410: Ondaatje and Atwood (Fall)
419: Purdy and McKay (Winter)
441: History of Canadian Cuisine (Fall)
527: Canadian Modernism (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)
376: Scene Study (Winter)
377: Costuming for the Theatre 2 (Winter)
466: Directing for the Theatre (Fall & Winter)

Shakespeare:

315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
516: Contemporary Approaches to Shakespeare (Winter)

Courses with a Theoretical Component:

354: Sexuality and Representation: Queer Screens (Winter)
390: The Private and the Public (Fall)
395: Contemporary Canadian Community- and Politically-Engaged Theatre
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
458: Theories of Text and Performance 1 (Fall)
516: Contemporary Approaches to Shakespeare (Winter)

Additional courses:

312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Winter)
313: Contemporary Aboriginal Theatre (Fall)
314: 20C Drama (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
370: Theatre History – the Long 18C (Winter)
371: 19C US Popular Entertainments (Fall)
390: The Private and the Public (Fall)
395: Community and Politically-Engaged Theatre (Winter)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
430: Theatrical Adaptations of Shakespeare from 17C to Present (Fall)
486: Theatre History After 1900 – History of Costume (Fall)
516: Contemporary Approaches to Shakespeare (Winter)
586: Transvestism and the Performance of Gender on the Eighteenth-Century Stage (Winter)