Drama Program: Courses
Please contact the Drama and Dance department with any inquiries regarding the following course offerings at 617-627-3524.
Course Listings:
Summer 2008 |
Fall 2008
(pdf)| 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 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 33 | The American Musical |
| DR 42 | Women in the American Theater |
| 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 54 | Greek and Roman Comedy |
| DR 55 | Introduction to Greek Drama I |
| DR 56 | Introduction to Greek Drama II |
| DR 57/ GER 57 |
Bertolt Brecht |
| DR 60 | Shakespeare on Film |
| DR 61 | Film in India |
| DR 62 | Hollywood Comedy |
| 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:
| DR 100 | Acting III |
| DR 112 | Advanced Acting Workshop |
| DR 117 | Evolution of Fashion |
| DR 118 | Lighting Design II |
| DR 119 | History of Style and Décor |
| DR 125 | Scene Design |
| DR 126 | Costume Design |
| DR 129 | Design Portfolio and Rendering |
| DR 132/ GER 132 |
Documentary Drama |
| DR 137 | Theater and Society: Prehistory to the Renaissance |
| DR 138 | Theater and Society: The Renaissance to Modern Drama |
| DR 141 | The American Theater |
| DR 143 | Gay & Lesbian Theater & Film |
| DR 147 | Playwriting |
| DR 148 | African American Theater & Film |
| DR 155 | Directing I |
| DR 156 | Directing II |
| DR 160 | Shakespeare on Film |
| DR 175 | History of U.S. Film to 1933 |
| DR 178 | Screenwriting II |
| DR 183, 184 | Practicum in Design |
| DR 185, 186 | Practicum in Directing |
| DR 187 | Teaching through Drama & Improv |
| DR 193, 194 | Special Topics (Topics include Asian-American Theatre and Film, Public Speaking, International Women Directors, Fundamentals of Theatrical Design) |
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:
| DR 220 | Intro to Graduate Studies |
| DR 235 | Moliere |
| DR 0236-A | Encountering Asian Theatre |
| DR 0238-A | Theatre Iconography |
| DR 240 | History of American Popular Entertainment |
| DR 249 | History of Directing |
| DR 251 | Pre-Revolutionary Russian Theater |
| DR 252 | Post-Revolutionary Russian Theater |
| DR 254 | Domestic Tragedy: Women and Violence in Theatre |
| DR 255 | Nineteenth-Century American Theatre |
| DR 261 | Dramatic Theory and Criticism |
| DR 0262-A | Dramatic Theory and Criticism |
| DR | Commedia dell'Arte |
| DR | History of Shakespeare Production I |
| DR | Ibsen and Strindberg |
| DR | Performance Theory |
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.