Dramatic Arts Programs (BA)

For current contact information and a list of faculty and administration related to this program, please visit Dramatic Arts.

To reach your academic advisor, please visit Find Your Advisor - Academic Advising

All Dramatic Arts degree offerings integrate theory and practice to provide students with a broad educational base combining research, practice, and creative development. Pedagogical practices and performance, design, and technical skills are theorized and integrated with critical thinking, theatre history, dramaturgy and dramatic literature.

The Department of Dramatic Arts offers a BA Honours in Dramatic Arts. For honours students, Concentrations are available in Performance, Design and Production, and Theatre Creation. The Department also offers a four-year (20 credit) BA with Major Dramatic Arts degree and a three-year BA Pass degree. A Minor in Dramatic Arts is offered for non-DART majors.

The Department of Dramatics Arts offers a six-year Concurrent BA in Dramatic Arts (Honours)/BEd Intermediate/Senior program. Additionally, students in the Concurrent BA Educational Studies (Honours)/BEd Junior/Intermediate, the Concurrent BA Integrated Studies (Honours)/BEd Junior/Intermediate, and the Concurrent BA Interactive Art & Science (Honours)/BEd Junior/Intermediate program can also declare a teachable subject in Dramatic Arts. Students in other Concurrent BEd Intermediate/Senior programs can also declare Dramatic Arts as a second teachable subject.

Each year the department produces two Mainstage departmental productions, a student festival of one-act plays, and a collaboratively developed student production, in addition to other public performance outcomes, giving students numerous opportunities to engage in performance, production, design, and creative roles.

Program Notes

1. All DART majors must complete at least one-half credit in a collaborative theatre creation course, ie. at least one half-credit from DART 3F90 , DART 3F96 , DART 3F97 , DART 3P90 , DART 3P96 , DART 3P97 or DART 4D56 . In order to complete five credits in Year 4, students who complete one-half credit from list must complete elective credits; those who complete one full credit from list must complete 2.5 elective credits; those who complete one and one-half credits from list must complete 2 elective credits.
2. A maximum of 1.5 PROJECT course credits may be counted towards DART Honours, DART Major, DART PASS, and Concurrent Education requirements. These courses include: DART 4D56 , DART 3F96 , DART 3F97 , DART 3P90 , DART 3P96 , DART 3P97 . PROJECT courses may not be counted towards second teachable requirements.
3. Students taking a Junior/Intermediate first teachable or an Intermediate/Senior second  teachable in DART should follow the recommended course sequence: DART 1F50 ; DART 1F40 ; one of DART 2P95 , or DART 2P97 ; and one-half DART credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above.
4. In 20 credit degree programs a maximum of eight credits may be numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99; at least three credits must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above; at least three credits must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above; and the remaining credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above.
   
   In 15 credit degree programs a maximum of eight credits may be numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99; at least three credits must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above; and the remaining credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above.
   
   In some circumstances, in order to meet university degree and program requirements, more than 15 or 20 credits may be taken.