DR 202 Theatre Topics
Study of drama, theatre, criticism, and culture through focus on selected problems, issues, or periods. Topics and faculty for each term announced in advance. Recent topics have included theatre architecture; critical approaches to drama from Freud to feminism; plays of political, social, and personal expression; the role of the director in pre-modern, modern, and post-modern eras; and plays since World War II. Open as humanities electives. Drama concentrators must take a total of three theatre topics courses, one of which must be 305 (see below). Courses may involve costs of attending professional theatre productions.