Course List

This page was last updated on March 27, 2024. All courses counting towards Theater, Dance & Media course requirements appear on these pages.

For all courses and enrollment procedures, please visit Canvas Course websites for more details.

2024-2025 COURSES FOR TDM CREDIT

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Beginning March 27, please consult the Harvard Course Catalog search page for the latest course information. (open in incognito tab, or login with HarvardKey)

PRODUCTION STUDIO (open to all; fulfills Production Studio requirement for concentrators)

Fall 2024
TDM 90AR: Theatrical Production Studio: Black Girl Nerd

Spring 2024
TDM 90BR: Theatrical Production Studio (Stew)
TDM 90DR: Dance Production Studio

EITHER CRITICAL OR PRACTICAL

Fall 2024

TDM 182CD: Dance Composition: Community Engaged Dance Making (Sydnie Mosley)

Spring 2025

TDM 131: Directing Lab (Shira Milikowsky)
TDM 161: Live Art from the Archives (James Stanley)
GENED 1050: Act Natural (David Levine)

CRITICAL

Fall 2024

TDM 105: Introduction to Dramaturgy (Ryan McKittrick)
TDM 150: Directorial Concepts and Set Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries (Julia Smeliansky)
TDM 173BF: Black Feminist Theory in Media and Performance (Shamell Bell)
TDM 174PO: Performing the Orient (Phil Chan)
TDM 187B: Collective Protocols as Socially Engaged Art (Tania Bruguera)
AFVS 175: Introduction to Media Theories (Antonio Somaini)
ENGLISH 121S: Shakespeare from Beginning to End: A survey of works, both plays and poems, across his whole career (Stephen Greenblatt)
FYSEMR 65P: Anton Chekhov: Stories, Plays, Productions, Films (Julie Buckler)
HIST-LIT 90FU: British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa (Laura Quinton)
SLAVIC 132: Russia's Golden Age: Literature, Arts, and Culture (Julie Buckler)
SLAVIC 186: Russian Drama on Page and Stage (Daria Khitrova)

Spring 2025

TDM 181M: Intersections: Theater, Democracy and Civic Practice (Dayron Miles)
GERMAN 65R: German Drama and Theater
GERMAN 192: Artificial Intelligences: Body, Art, and Technology in Modern Germany
GREEK 106: Playing with Tragedy: Sophocles' Electra and Euripdes' Orestes

PRACTICAL

Fall 2024

TDM 109: Beginning Acting Through Scene Study and Monologue Work (Marcus Stern)
TDM 119: Introduction to Voice and Speech (Erika Bailey)
TDM 120: What’s so Funny?: Introduction to Improvisational Comedy (Remo Airaldi)
TDM 121MV:
Physical Approaches to Acting and Storytelling (Pete Simpson)
TDM 128MT: Mask Theater (Kate Brehm)
FYSEMR 35N: The Art & Craft of Acting (Remo Airaldi)

TDM 130R: Directing (Marcus Stern)

TDM 146CF: Wild Caribbean Futurisms (Fana Fraser)

TDM 154: Designing with Light (Jeff Adelberg)
TDM 155: Foundations in Production Technology (Andrew Gitchel)
TDM 158A: Introduction to Costume Design (Dede Ayite)

TDM 164H: Playwriting: Ritual Practice and Curious Worlds (Phillip Howze)
TDM 166H: TV Writers Room (Phillip Howze)
ENGLISH CTV: Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop (Sam Marks)

TDM 169S: Singer + Song = Story (Stew)

TDM 172B: Performing Outside the Theater (Tania Bruguera)

TDM 181B: Street Dance Activism: Co-choreographic Praxis as Activism (Shamell Bell)

AFVS 158CR/ANTHRO 1836CR: Sensory Ethnography 3 (Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)

Spring 2025

TDM 110: Foundations in Acting: Pathways (Johnny Kuntz)
TDM 112R: Advanced Acting: Contemporary Texts (Marcus Stern)
TDM 115: Acting Shakespeare (Remo Airaldi)
TDM 119B:
Voice, Text, and the Performer (Erika Bailey)

TDM 122GM: Generative Movement (Pete Simpson)
TDM 135B: Puppet Theater (Kate Brehm)

TDM 144BU: Transformation, Materiality, and the Body (Ximena Garnica)
TDM 148P: Koteba: Bamana Performative Traditions (Jeffrey Page)

TDM 154B: Stage Lighting Studio (Jeff Adelberg)
TDM 162DC: Performance and its Documentation (Matt Wolff)

TDM 165H: Playwriting: intersecting Americas (Phillip Howze)
FYSEMR 64Q: Fun with Writing...or Writing for Weirdos (Phillip Howze)

TDM 182B: Black Arts Movement to #blacklivesmatter (Shamell Bell)
TDM 183B: Collective Freedom Dreaming: Engaged Pedagogy and Radicalism (Shamell Bell)

AFVS 158AR/ANTHRO 1836BR: Sensory Ethnography 1 / Sensory Ethnography 2 (Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)

CONCENTRATORS ONLY

Fall 2024
TDM 91R: Supervised Reading and Research
TDM 98: Junior Tutorial (James Stanley)
TDM 99A/B: Senior Tutorial: Senior Thesis Project

Spring 2025
TDM 97: Sophomore Tutorial (TBA)
TDM 99A/B: Senior Tutorial: Senior Thesis Project

2023-2024 COURSES FOR TDM CREDIT

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PRODUCTION STUDIO (open to all; fulfills Production Studio requirement for concentrators)

Fall 2023
TDM 90AR: TDM Production Studio: Cells (Sam Marks, Morgan Green)

Spring 2024
TDM 90BR: Staging Fierce Comedy (Paul Lazar)
TDM 90DR: Harvard Dance Project (LROD)

EITHER CRITICAL OR PRACTICAL

Fall 2023

TDM 147WC: Dance & Technology: Womxn Choreographers & Intermedia (LROD)
TDM 172B: Performing Outside the Theater (Tania Bruguera)


GENED 1050: Act Natural (David Levine)

Spring 2024

TDM 125X/ENGLISH 90PR: Performing Criticism (David Levine)
AFVS 355R: Advanced Critical Media Practice (Tania Bruguera)
FYSEMR 34V: Broadway Musicals: History, Race, and Performance (Carol Oja)

CRITICAL

Fall 2023

TDM 150: Directorial Concepts and Set Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries (Julia Smeliansky)
TDM 163M/ENGLISH 90PW: Every Play Ever Written (Derek Miller)
TDM 172K/ENGLISH 90AH: Asian American Theater and Performance (Ju Yon Kim)
TDM 180L: Before and Beyond Angels: The AIDS epidemic in live arts, culture and protest (Debra Levine)
TDM 181AM: Theater and Migration: Building Belonging through Participatory Public Arts (Brisa Areli Muñoz)
TDM 187B: Collective Protocols as Social Space (Tania Bruguera)
TDM 194: The Making of a Musical (Ryan McKittrick & Diane Paulus)
AFRAMER 120X: African American Theatre (Robin Bernstein, Glenda Carpio)
AFVS 279: Atmospheric Projections: Media as Environment (Giuliana Bruno)
ENGLISH 90GS: Global Shakespeare (Leah Whittington)
GREEK 129: Dionysus and Greek Tragedy: Euripides' Bacchae (Naomi Weiss)

Spring 2024

TDM 121K/SLAVIC 121: Ballet, Past and Present (Daria Khitrova)
TDM 168K: Contemporary Mixed Media Theater Production in Asia (Cecilia Kim)
TDM 172L: Contemporary Global Performance (Debra Levine)
TDM 181M: Intersections: Theater, Democracy and Civic Practice (Dayron Miles)

TDM 194S: The Show-Tune Canon & the No-Show Songbook (Stew)
AFVS 355R: Advanced Critical Media Practice (Tania Bruguera)
ANTHRO 2847: Ethnographic and Critical Media Studies Approaches to Digital Media (E. Gabriella Coleman)
CHNSLIT 235: Theater and Theatricality in Early Modern China (Thomas Kelly)
COMPLIT 166: Jews, Humor, and the Politics of Laughter (Saul Zaritt)
EAFM 111: East Asian Media Studies (Alexander Zahlten)
ENGLISH 90ID: U.S. Immigrant Drama (Maria de Simone)
ENGLISH 90RQ: Bold Bodies: Race in Feminist & Queer Performance (Maria de Simone)
ENGLISH 124SG: Sex, Gender, and Shakespeare (Alan Niles)
GENED 1113: Race, Gender, and Performance (Robin Bernstein)
GENED 1168: Tragedy Today (Naomi Weiss)
HIST-LIT 93AC: Vanishing Arts: Watching, Researching, and Writing about Performance (Laura Quinton)
MUSIC 20: Opera (Carolyn Abbate)

PRACTICAL

Fall 2023

TDM 109: Beginning Acting Through Scene Study and Monologue Work (Marcus Stern)
TDM 119: Introduction to Voice and Speech (Erika Bailey)
TDM 120: What’s so Funny?: Introduction to Improvisational Comedy (Remo Airaldi)
TDM 122B: Physical Theater – Ensemble Devising (Kate Brehm)
TDM 132W: When Directing Isn’t Enough (Stevie Walker-Webb)

TDM 143: GAGA Movement (Ana Harmon)
TDM 143P: Jazz Dance Fundamentals (Jeffrey Page)
TDM 145S: Embodiment: Contemporary Dance Choreography & Boston Dance Theater (Jessie Jeanne Stinnett)

TDM 154: Designing with Light (Jeff Adelberg)
TDM 156G: Production Process for Live Performance (Andrew Gitchel)
TDM 158B: Foundations in Design: Costume Design II (Dede Ayite)

TDM CKR: Introduction to Playwriting: Workshop (Sam Marks)
TDM 164H: Playwriting: Ritual Practice and Curious Worlds (Phillip Howze)

TDM 169S: Singer + Song = Story (Stew)

AFVS 63: Introduction to Time-Based Media (Karthik Pandian)
AFVS 158CR/ANTHRO 1836CR: Sensory Ethnography 3 (Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
AFVS 264: Advanced Projects in Time-Based Media (Karthik Pandian)
FYSEMR 35N: The Art & Craft of Acting (Remo Airaldi)
MMH 709: 
Dramatic Writing as a Tool for Social Change (Ricardo Pérez González)

Spring 2024

TDM 112R: Advanced Acting: Contemporary Texts (Marcus Stern)
TDM 118: Acting Alone: The Monologue (Remo Airaldi)
TDM 119B:
Voice, Text, and the Performer (Erika Bailey)
TDM 121MV:
Physical Approaches to Acting and Storytelling (Pete Simpson)
TDM 129B: Performing Puppetry (Kate Brehm)

TDM 130R: Directing (Marcus Stern)

TDM 144B: Uncovering Form: Uncovering bodily forms through the modular lenses of flesh, memory, site, history (Sidra Bell)
TDM 148P: Koteba: Bamana Performative Traditions (Jeffrey Page)
TDM 149: Latine Movement: Embodied Intersections of Latin Dance, Music, and Communal Practice (LROD)

TDM 151: Foundations in Design: Scenography 1 (Dede Ayite)
TDM 154B: Stage Lighting Studio (Jeff Adelberg)

TDM 166H: TV Writers Room (Phillip Howze)
ENGLISH CHSK: Playwriting Workshop: Writing Plays in the 21st Century (Heidi Schreck)
TDM 168B: Podcast: Uploading the Present (Tania Bruguera)

TDM 174B: Creative Producing: How to Resource Artistic Vision (Mark Lunsford)

AFVS 158AR/ANTHRO 1836BR: Sensory Ethnography 1 / Sensory Ethnography 2 (Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
ENGLISH CHSK: Playwriting Workshop: Writing Plays in the 21st Century (Heidi Schreck)
FYSEMR 64Q: Fun with Writing...or Writing for Weirdos (Phillip Howze)
MUSIC 164R: Compositional Studies (Yvette Jackson)

MUSIC 187R: Opera Workshop (Matthew Aucoin)

CONCENTRATORS ONLY

Fall 2023
TDM 91R: Supervised Reading and Research (Debra Levine)
TDM 98: Junior Tutorial (James Stanley)
TDM 98: Junior Tutorial (Phillip Howze)
TDM 99A/B: Senior Tutorial: Senior Thesis Project (James Stanley)

Spring 2024
TDM 97: Sophomore Tutorial (Derek Miller)
TDM 98: Junior Tutorial (Debra Levine)
TDM 99A/B: Senior Tutorial: Senior Thesis Project (James Stanley)

FORMS

TDM 91R Proposal Cover Sheet

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