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The Drama and Theatre option tries to place its subject in as broad a social and philosophical context as possible. The Drama and Theatre program is not designed to provide professional theatre training. The aim is rather to encourage students to explore the subject as a liberal arts discipline.
For the most up-to-date information on Department requirements and detailed course descriptions, please see the English Department Handbook at .
9 credits to be taken in the first two terms of the program
English (Arts) : An introduction to dramatic literature, text analysis, textual and performance theory, and theatre history.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Oberer, Karen (Fall)
English (Arts) : The focus of this course is on the actor as communicator, and on those things (material, physical, and textual) which are inescapably central to the theatrical performance.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Selkirk, Myrna Wyatt; Truchanowicz, Elizabeth (Winter)
English (Arts) : This course, normally taken in tandem with ENGL 230, examines and tests theories of acting, directing, and design through scene work and practical exercises.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Carney, Sean (Fall)
27 credits selected as described below.
3 credits from a list of performance-oriented courses:
English (Arts) : Introduction to costume-making for the theatre, covering fabrics, textiles and costume decoration.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Bradley, Catherine A (Fall)
English (Arts) : The actor as analyzer of scripts and characters; textual analysis, practice in character development through improvisations, mask work and physical training.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : An introduction to the technical aspects of stage settings and theatrical lighting.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Roche, Keith B (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Roche, Keith B (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of the dramatic text as literature, and as a basis for theatre production. Emphasis on character and character development, on structure and motivational units, and on the visualization of the play in performance.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Salter, Denis (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Selkirk, Myrna Wyatt (Fall)
English (Arts) : Advanced topics in costume-making for the theatre, including millinery, dyeing, costume breakdown, and silk painting techniques.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Bradley, Catherine A (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : The direction of a theatrical performance: preparation, casting, rehearsal, and performance are the areas of concentration.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Selkirk, Myrna Wyatt (Fall)
English (Arts) : See ENGL 466D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Selkirk, Myrna Wyatt (Winter)
English (Arts) : Advanced training in acting involving study of some of the major European and North American acting theories and practices.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
3 credits from a list of Drama and/or Theatre courses with a Canadian component:
English (Arts) : Dramatic forms and theatrical practices in Canada from beginnings to the present day.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Neilson, Patrick (Winter)
English (Arts) : Advanced study focused on a period or issue in Canadian drama and/or theatre history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
3 credits from a list of theory or criticism courses:
English (Arts) : Philosophical approaches.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Hensley, David C (Fall)
English (Arts) : Socio-Historical approaches.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Issues in interpretation: authorship, performance, reception.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A course focusing on textuality (as opposed to, say, intentionality and interpretation) and on how specific effects are made - how texts work and produce meaning, including rhetoric and form.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Writing, printing, distribution, marketing, and placement within canon-making institutions; the influence of material forms of production and transmission on the creation and reception of literature, film, and theatre.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Mole, Thomas (Winter)
English (Arts) : Introduction to a selection of theories that have influenced thinking about difference across the humanities and social sciences, including gender, sexuality, race, class and hierarchical structures, language, religion, ethnicity, and personal identity.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
3 credits from a list of courses in theatre history:
English (Arts) : A survey of the dramatic forms and theatrical practices of late medieval and early modern theatre.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Neilson, Patrick (Fall)
English (Arts) : A study of selected representative works in modern drama and theatre.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Carney, Sean (Winter)
English (Arts) : A survey of dramatic forms and genres and theatrical practices from the Restoration through the 18th century to the Romantic period.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Ritchie, Fiona (Winter)
English (Arts) : History of predominantly Western theatre practices from circa 1830 to the present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Winter)
English (Arts) : Advanced study focused on a period or issue in Theatre history.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Salter, Denis (Winter)
English (Arts) : A research seminar on selected topics in theatre history and theatre historiography.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Neilson, Patrick (Fall)
English (Arts) : A research seminar on selected topics in theatre history and theatre historiography.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Bradley, Catherine A (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Fall)
English (Arts) : .
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
3 credits from a list of courses in Drama and Theatre before 1900:
English (Arts) : A survey of the dramatic forms and theatrical practices of late medieval and early modern theatre.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Neilson, Patrick (Fall)
English (Arts) : A survey of dramatic forms and genres and theatrical practices from the Restoration through the 18th century to the Romantic period.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Ritchie, Fiona (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Winter)
English (Arts) : A research seminar on selected topics in theatre history and theatre historiography.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Neilson, Patrick (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Fall)
English (Arts) : .
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
12 additional credits from the option's offerings.
This category includes all the courses listed above except required courses, as well as the courses listed below.
Note: Any English course not on the lists specifically for the Drama and Theatre option - such as unlisted courses in Cultural Studies - may not count towards the Drama and Theatre program. Please consult a departmental advisor for guidance on course choices.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Ritchie, Fiona (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Carney, Sean (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : .
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Students are normally permitted to count 6 credits from other departments toward their English programs. In exceptional circumstances, an adviser, approached by a student with strong academic grounds for including a third such course, may grant permission, to a maximum of 9 extra-departmental credits, and must so indicate in advance by signing the departmental program Audit Sheet.
This list comprises courses in other departments that might be accepted by an adviser for credit towards the student's Drama and Theatre program. This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2010-2011.
There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which a student could receive Drama and Theatre program credit. A student who has identified a course not noted below, should show their program adviser the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor's initialled approval of the course on their program audit sheet. The Department requires a complete signed audit sheet in the student's file in Arts 155 in order to process the file for graduation.
Included in the list are courses taught in languages other than English and courses that have pre-requisites.
*Note: The courses in the list below with an asterisk ("*") have an historical dimension and may count toward this program requirement. Other courses could count toward the "option's offerings" component of the program.
Asian Language & Literature : Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course looks at cultural production in premodern and modern Japan. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Hispanic Studies (Arts) : Satirical drama and theatre of social protest. Literatura comprometida. GarcÃa Lorca and Casona; Buero Vallejo, Sastre, Olmo, Muñiz, Arrabal and others.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte".
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Music-Arts Faculty : A survey of opera from c.1600 to the present. Opera as ritual, opera as spectacle, opera as catharsis, opera as business, opera and its literary models. The continuing relevance of the operatic experience today.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Lawton, Richard (Winter)
Philosophy : An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Deslauriers, Marguerite (Fall)
Psychology : Perception is the organization of sensory input into a representation of the environment. Topics include: survey of sensory coding mechanisms (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory), object recognition, spatial localization, perceptual constancies and higher level influences.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Zangenehpour, Shahin (Fall) Zangenehpour, Shahin (Winter) Zangenehpour, Shahin (Summer)