Drama Specialist, Major, and Minor programs are designed to be flexible, so that students can select courses from a range of disciplines that inform the study and practice of theatre. In all drama courses, class size is limited to ensure individual instruction.
2019-2020 Courses
View the 2019-2020 CDTPS undergraduate course timetable (TBA).
Faculty of Arts & Science Calendar: Full course descriptions, along with detailed requirements regarding required course-work for each program.
Arts and Science Timetable: Schedule – including undergraduate course times, locations, and instructors – enrolment controls, and spots available. Search "DRM" in the department field then search for courses.
Courses are divided into five groups:
1st year: 1 FCE from:
DRM100Y1 – Introduction to Acting and Performance (not offered in 2018-19)
DRM101Y1 – Introduction to Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
UNI102Y1 – Performing the City
2nd year: 1 FCE from:
DRM220Y1 – Comparative Theatre Histories
DRM230Y1 – Concepts of Twentieth-Century Theatre
Summer 2019 Courses
DRM387H1 F - Call 45: Re-stor(y)ing Treaty Relationships
DRM386H1 S – Theatre Criticism: Writing about the Toronto Fringe & Summerworks Festival - Sign up here by June 10th
2019/20
DRM331H1 F – Dramaturgy
DRM366H1 S– Canadian Theatre
DRM385H1 F – Special Topics in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Performing Sport: The Athlete, The Artist
DRM386H1 S – Special Topics in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Dance and Politics
DRM387H1 F – Special Topics in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Experimental Music-Theatre
DRM388H1 S – Special Topics in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Burlesque Theory, History, and Practice
DRM487H1 S – Senior Seminar in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Livestreaming with (DDL)2: Artistic and Professional Explorations of a Digital Media Challenge
DRM488H1 F – Senior Seminar in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Black Playwrights
Not offered in 2019/20
DRM303H1 – Theories of Acting
DRM342H1 – The Contemporary Avant-Garde
DRM362H1 – Theatre and the World
DRM363H1 – Story-ing the Possible: Talking Treaties, Rehearsing (Re) conciliation
JDC410H1 – Art and Politics: Bertolt Brecht, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson
JIA400H1 Y – Architecture of Creativity: Interdisciplinary Practice
Acceptance into Studio Group B courses is based on an audition and/or interview after applying online by March 10th. Many Studio Group B courses require the submission of portfolio materials. Second round applications for DRM200Y1, DRM228H1 and DRM254Y1 are due August 3rd. See our four Studio Entry courses for more information.
Students must apply each year for acceptance into the next level of studio classes.
Note: Students taking a studio course (Group B) are required to take an academic co-requisite from Foundations or any course from Group A. Students who enroll in more than 2 Studio Topics courses before the Priority period ends will be removed from excess classes via Acorn/ROSI.
DRM200Y1 – Performance I | Application Guidelines
DRM202H1 F – Directing I | Application Guidelines
DRM228H1 S – Playwriting I | Application Guidelines
DRM254H1 F – Design & Production I | Application Guidelines
DRM300Y1 – Performance II | Apply online
DRM302H1 S – Directing II | Application Guidelines
DRM328H1 S – Playwriting II | Application Guidelines
DRM354H1 S – Design II | Application Guidelines
DRM368H1 S - Devised Theatre
DRM375H1 F – Special Topics in Studio Practice | Voice, Character and Dialect
DRM378H1 F – Special Topics in Studio Practice | Movement & Somatics
CAPSTONES Application Guidelines
DRM400Y1 – Advanced Performance: Devised Theatre | Application Guidelines (not offered in 2019-20)
DRM401H1 – Advanced Concepts in Voice
DRM402H1 – Advanced Directing | Application Guidelines
DRM403Y1 – Advanced Performance: Mainstage | Application Guidelines
DRM411H1Y – Advanced Concepts in Movement
DRM428H1 – Advanced Playwriting | Application Guidelines
DRM454Y1 – Advanced Production & Design
DRM485H1 F – Senior Seminar in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Senior Seminar: Thesis | Application Guidelines
Be sure to check the 2018-19 Faculty of Arts & Science Calendar or contact the departments prior to enrolment.
Consult undergraduate drama to request a Group C course count towards a Group A.
APS320H1 – Representing Science on Stage (different faculty – engineering)
CLA382H1-F – Tragedy
CLA383H1-F – Comedy
ENG220H1-F/-S – Introduction to Shakespeare
ENG330H1-F – Medieval Drama
ENG331H1-S – Drama 1485-1603
ENG337H1-S – Drama, 1660-1800
ENG340H1-F – Modern Drama
ENG341H1-S – Post-Modern Drama
GRK352H1-S – Greek Tragedy I
GRK452H1-S – Greek Tragedy II
INS300Y1-Y – Worldviews, Indigenous Knowledges, and Oral Tradition
MUS215H1-F – Performing Arts of East Asia
SLA342H1-F – Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture: From Jesters to Meyerhold
VIC304H1-F – Praxis and Performance
VIC347H1-F – Studies in Renaissance Performance
Not offered in 2018-19
EAS263H1 - Classical Japanese Literature
ENG320Y1 – Shakespeare
ENG335H1 – Drama 1603-1642
ENG352H1 – Canadian Drama
FRE319H1 Laughter and Thought in French Renaissance Literature
GRK351H1 – Greek Comedy I
INS302H1 – Indigenous Representation in the Mass Media and Society
INS341H1 – North American Indigenous Theatre
ITA315Y1 – Italian Theatre: Text and Performance
ITA390H1 – The Comedia dell’Arte
ITA410H1 – Masterpieces of Modern Drama
LAT351H1 - Latin Drama I
LAT451H1 - Latin Drama II
MUS206H1 – The World of Opera
MUS209H1 – Performing Arts of South Asia
MUS340H1 – 20th Century Music for Theatre
NEW321H1 - Caribbean Visual Arts, Social Media and Performance
SLA230H1 - Golems and Robots on Stage and Screen
SLA267H1 – Great Plays in Great Performances
SLA367H1 – Chekhov
SLA405H1 – On the Waves of the Avant-garde and Beyond: Czech Literature of the 20th Century
SLA406H1 – Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance
SLA475H1 – Modern Czech Drama
SLA405H1 – On the Waves of the Avant-garde and Beyond: Czech Literature of the 20th Century
SLA406H1 – Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance
SLA475H1 – Modern Czech Drama
SLA496H1 – Prague School Semiotics of Drama, Theatre and Cinema in Contemporary Context
SMC367H1 - Christianity, Literature, and Theatre
SPA384H1 - Avant-Garde Movements in Spanish America
SPA387H1 - Latin American Performative Expression
VIC273H1 - The Body: An Exercise
VIC470H1 - Soundscapes
Third and fourth year Drama Major or Specialist students may apply for an independent study by following the following steps:
- Approach a permanent faculty member at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies with a proposal. See the calendar for a list of eligible faculty supervisors.
- Should the faculty member agree to supervise, the Independent Study Form must be completed and signed.
Topics in Drama courses can count towards different Group Requirements depending on the content, which varies from year to year. Please check with Colleen Osborn prior to graduation.
DRM286H1 – Special Topics in Drama: Introduction to Communications (Summer 2019)
DRM299Y1 – Research Opportunity Program
DRM387H1 – Special Topics in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
DRM390Y1 – Independent Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
DRM391H1 – Independent Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
DRM399Y1 – Research Opportunity Program
DRM485H1 F – Senior Seminar in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Senior Seminar: Thesis | Application Guidelines
DRM490Y1 – Independent Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
DRM491H1 – Independent Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
See all application guidelines for select CDTPS courses.