Current Undergraduate Courses

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. 

2025-2026 Courses

Faculty of Arts & Science Calendar: Full course descriptions, along with detailed requirements regarding required course-work for each program. 

Timetable Builder: Schedule – including undergraduate course times, locations, and instructors – enrolment controls, and spots available. Search "DRM" in the department field then search for courses. 

Faculty of Arts & Science Dates & Deadlines: Academic dates include enrolment dates, drop deadlines, exam periods, petition deadlines and more.

Courses are divided into five groups:

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 are due on August 1st. See our four Studio Entry courses for more information.

Students may need to 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.

2025/26
DRM200Y1 Y Performance IApplication Guidelines
DRM202H1 F Directing I | Application Guidelines
DRM228H1 S Playwriting I
DRM254H1 F Design & Production I
DRM300Y1 Y  Performance IIApply online
DRM301H1 F Voice & Movement I: Movement
DRM302H1 S Directing IIApplication Guidelines
DRM328H1 S Playwriting IIApplication Guidelines
DRM354H1 S Design IIApplication Guidelines
DRM355H1 S Production II
DRM375H1 S Topics in Studio PracticeClown
DRM377H1 S Topics in Studio Practice | Vocal Presence in Performance

CAPSTONES Application Guidelines

DRM400H1 F Advanced Performance
DRM402H1 F Advanced DirectingApplication Guidelines
DRM403Y1 Y Mainstage Performance | Application Guidelines
DRM413H1 S Advanced Voice & Movement: Movement
DRM428H1 S Advanced PlaywritingApplication Guidelines  
DRM455H1 F Advanced Production
DRM480Y1 Y Internships: Performance and Cultural Arts Organizations

Not offered in 2025/26
DRM224H1 Robots, Automata & Avatars 
DRM311H1 Voice & Movement II
DRM368H1 Devised Theatre
DRM454H1 F Advanced Design
CRE276H1 Writing for the Stage and Screen

Be sure to check the Faculty of Arts & Science Calendar or contact the departments prior to enrolment if you are unsure you meet their prerequisites.

Offered in 2025/26:  

CAR321H1 S Caribbean Visual Arts, Social Media and Performance (previously NEW321H1)
CDN307H1 S Asian Cultures in Canada
CDN385H1 F Re-Imagining Canada: Creative Visions of Our Past, Present, and Futures  
CHC367H1 F Christianity, Literature, and Theatre  (previously SMC367H1)
CLA382H1 S Tragedy
CRE273H1 S The Body: An Exercise (previously VIC273H1)
CRE470H1 F Soundscapes (previously VIC470H1)
ENG220H1 F & S Introduction to Shakespeare
ENG320H1 F Shakespeare I: Early Plays and Poems (NEW)
ENG330H1 F Medieval Drama
ENG331H1 S Drama 1485-1603
ENG335H1 F Drama 1603-1642
ENG340H1 F Modern Drama
ENG341H1 S Post-Modern Drama
FRE326H1 F Contemporary French Literature (NEW to Group C)
GRK351H1 F Greek Drama I
GRK451H1 F Greek Drama II
INS300Y1 Y  Worldviews, Indigenous Knowledges, and Oral Tradition
LAT351H1 F Latin Drama I
LAT451H1 F Latin Drama II
MUS215H1 S Performing Arts of East Asia
REN347H1 S Studies in Renaissance Performance (previously VIC347H1)
SLA342H1 S Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture: From Jesters to Meyerhold
SPA387H1 F Latin American Performative Expression

Not offered in 2025-26

CLA383H1 Comedy
CRE375H1 History of Creativity 
DTS412H1 The Diasporic Imagination
EAS263H1 Classical Japanese Literature
EAS375H1 Postwar Japan: Crisis, Apocalypse 
ENG337H1 Drama, 1660-1800
ENG373H1 Topics in Pre-1800 British Literature: Obscure Shakespeare (only this sub-topic)
ENG352H1 Canadian Drama
FAH405H1 Understanding Dionysos: The God of Wine, Theatre and the Afterlife
FIN320H1 The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience (NEW to Group C)
FRE319H1 Laughter and Thought in French Renaissance Literature
GRK352H1 Greek Tragedy I
GRK452H1 Greek Tragedy II
INS302H1 Indigenous Representation in the Mass Media and Society
INS341H1 North American Indigenous Theatre
ITA390H1 The Comedia dell’Arte
ITA410H1 Masterpieces of Modern Drama
LCT304H1 Praxis and Performance (previously VIC304H1)
MUS206H1 The World of Opera
MUS209H1 Performing Arts of South Asia
MUS315H1 North American Vernacular Music
MUS340H1 20th Century Music for Theatre
SDS478H1 Queer Musics

SLA367H1  Chekhov
SLA405H1  On the Waves of the Avant-garde and Beyond: Czech Literature of the 20th Century
SLA406H1  Transgressions: Drama, Theatre, Performance
SPA384H1  Avant-Garde Movements in Spanish America
TEP320H1 Representing Science on Stage (different faculty: Applied Science & Engineering)

UNI102H1  Performing the City I (counts as Other)
UNI106H1  Performing the City II (counts as Other)
UNI197H1 Hamilton: Musical and History (counts as Other)

Third and fourth year Drama Major or Specialist students may apply for an independent study by following the CDTPS Independent Study Policy.

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 (not offered in 2025-26)
DRM288H1 Introduction to Communications (Summer only)
DRM299Y1  Research Opportunity Program (not offered in 2025-26)
DRM390Y1  Independent Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
DRM391H1  Independent Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
DRM399Y1  Research Opportunity Program  (not offered in 2025-26)
DRM485H1  Senior Seminar in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Senior Seminar: Thesis (not offered in 2025-26)
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.