Drama Program: Courses

Please contact the Drama and Dance department with any inquiries regarding the following course offerings at 617-627-3524.

Course Listings:
Fall 2009 | Summer 2009 | Spring 2009 | Summer 2008 | Fall 2008 | Spring 2008 | Fall 2007

Undergraduate Course Descriptions:

DR 1	Comedy and Tragedy: An Introduction to Drama
DR 4	Modern Drama
DR 10	Acting I: Introduction to Acting
DR 11	Introduction to Physical Theatre
DR 12	Acting II
DR 15	Makeup Design and Application
DR 16	Costume Technology
DR 17	Theatre Technology
DR 18	Lighting Design I
DR 20	Stage Engineering
DR 21	Computer-Assisted Design: 3-D Modeling
DR 22	Art of Multimedia
DR 25	Stage Management
DR 27	Public Speaking
DR 28	Voice and Speech for the Actor
DR 29	Scene Painting
DR 30	Acting Shakespeare
DR 33	The American Musical
DR 43	Gay and Lesbian Theatre
DR 46	International Women Film Directors
DR 48	African American Theater & Film
DR 49	Asian-American Theatre and Film
DR 50/ ILVS 50	Intro to Film Studies
DR 53/ CLS 55	Greek and Roman Tragedy
DR 54/ CLS 56	Greek and Roman Comedy
DR 57/ GER 57	Bertolt Brecht
DR 60	Shakespeare on Film
DR 62	Hollywood Comedy
DR 65	Sport as Performance
DR 68	Twentieth Century Chinese Theatre
DR 72	Imagining the Holocaust on Stage and Screen
DR 77	Screenwriting I
DR 80	Practicum in Acting
DR 81	Practicum in Production
DR 91T	Movement for Theater
DR 93, 94	Special Topics
DR 94-01	Acting for Directors
DR 94-02	Cabaret
DR 94-03	Armed Staged Combat

Undergraduate and Graduate Course Descriptions:

Graduate Course Descriptions:
(open to qualified undergraduates with consent of instructor)
While each faculty member has specific areas of specialization, course offerings remain diverse, encompassing a wide range of theater history and theory. Recent graduate seminars include:

The Department offers two to three graduate seminars per term, and also encourages students to pursue individually scheduled directed readings, as well as related courses in other departments such as History, English, Foreign Languages, Philosophy, and Anthropology, or by special arrangement (with no extra cost) at Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis, Northeastern, and Radcliffe Women's Studies Consortium, and the Tufts Summer School.