# Course List ## expand\_more This page was last updated on June 9, 2026. 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. ## 2026 - 2027 Courses for TDM Credit [Click here to view a PDF version of this information.](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/2026-06/AY26-27%20TDM%20Course%20List-F6.pdf "Fall 2026-Spring 2027 Course List") Please consult the [Harvard Course Catalog search page](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH&SearchReqJSON=%7B%22ExcludeBracketed%22:true,%22Exclude300%22:false,%22SaveRecent%22:true,%22Facets%22:%5B%5D,%22PageNumber%22:%221%22,%22SortOrder%22:%5B%22SCORE%22%5D,%22TopN%22:%22%22,%22PageSize%22:%22%22,%22SearchText%22:%22(ACAD_ORG:%5C%22DRAM%5C%22)%22%7D) for the latest course information. Open all sections Close all sections ### Production Studios expand\_more (open to all; fulfills [Production Studio requirement](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/requirements) for concentrators) ***Fall 2026*** - TDM 90CR: Dance Production Studio: Contact Improvisation (Laura Quinton) ***Spring 2027*** - TDM90BR: Theatrical Production Studio (James Stanley) ### Either Critical or Practical expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - GENED 1050: Act Natural (David Levine) ***Spring 2027*** - TDM 138H: Hamlet, Act 1 (David Levine) - TDM 194S: Shows and No Shows (Stew) ### Critical expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - TDM 194: The Making of a Musical: The Creative Process (Ryan McKittrick and Diane Paulus) - TDM 196SS: The Singer-Songwriter: Intimacy, Parasociality, and the Confessional (Katelyn Hearfield) - AFRAMER 146X: A Black History of Electronic Dance Music (george aumoithe) - COMPLIT 101: Translating, Retelling, Performing, Illustrating (Spencer Lee-Lenfield) - ENGLISH 121S: Shakespeare from Beginning to End (Stephen Greenblatt) - ENGLISH 189VG: Video Game Storytelling (Vidyan Ravinthiran) - ENGLISH 90CL: Comic Literature through the Ages (Daniel Donoghue) - ENGLISH 90IK: Ibsen and Chekhov (Derek Miller) - FYSEMR 34V: Broadway Musicals: History, Race, and Performance (Carol Oja) - GERMAN 117: Sound, Story, Studio: German Radio Play (Lisa Parkes) - HIST & LIT 90HO: New York Modern (Chloe Hawkey) - SLAVIC 132: Russia’s Golden Age: Literature, Arts, and Culture (Julie Buckler) - SLAVIC 187: Soviet Musical Imaginaries (Maria Sonevystsky) ***Spring 2027*** - TDM 141BD: Boston Goes Dancing (Laura Quinton) - TDM 167MV: “Video Killed the Radio Star”: the History and Analysis of Music Videos (Katelyn Hearfield) - COMPLIT 156: Songmaking and the Idea of Lyric (Gregory Nagy) - MUSIC 20: Opera (Carolyn Abbate) - WOMGEN 1113: Gender and Performance (Robin Bernstein) ### Practical expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - 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 134AD: The Actor/Director Collaboration (Brisa Areli Muñoz) - TDM 136TC: Bodies/Spaces/Things: Theater Creation Lab (Kate Brehm) - TDM 143: Gaga Movement (Ana Harmon) - TDM 150VT: Visual Thinking and Creation for Theatermakers (Jeff Adelberg) - TDM 155AI: Media Production in the Age of AI (Marlon Kuzmick) - TDM 157PL: Backstage Blueprint: Operational Strategy & Production Leadership in Theater (Timothey Sullivan) - TDM 167SC/MMH 712: Dramatic Writing for Social Change (Ricardo Perez-Gonzalez) - TDM 169S: Singer + Song = Story (Stew) - TDM/ENGLISH CKR: Introduction to Playwriting: Workshop (Sam Marks) - AFVS 158BCR: Sensory Ethnography 3 (Lucien Castaing-Taylor) - AFVS 63: Introduction to Time-Based Media (Karthik Pandian) - ENGLISH CMWD: The Writer Directs: A Script to Screen Workshop (Musa Syeed) - ENGLISH CTV: Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop (Sam Marks) - FYSEMR 35N: The Art & Craft of Acting (Remo Airaldi) ***Spring 2027*** - TDM 112R: Advanced Acting (Marcus Stern) - TDM 115: Acting Shakespeare (Remo Airaldi) - TDM 119B: Voice, Text, and the Performer (Erika Bailey) - TDM 122GM: Generative Movement (Pete Simpson) - TDM 130R: Directing (Marcus Stern) - TDM 135B: Puppet Theater: Designing and Directing Visual Storytelling (Kate Brehm) - TDM 154: Designing with Light (Jeff Adelberg) - TDM 174B: Creative Producing: How to Resource Artistic Vision (Evan O'Brient) - TDM 181M: Intersections: Theater, Democracy and Civic Practice (Dayron Miles) - TDM/ENGLISH CAMR: Advanced Playwriting: Workshop (Sam Marks) - AFVS 158AR: Sensory Ethnography 1 (Lucien Castaing-Taylor) - AFVS 158BR: Sensory Ethnography 2 (Lucien Castaing-Taylor) - ENGLISH 179Y: Introduction to Dramatic Writing (Sam Marks and Musa Syeed) ### Tutorials (Concentrators Only) expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - TDM 98: Junior Tutorial (James Stanley) - TDM 99A: Senior Tutorial (Laura Quinton) ***Spring 2027*** - TDM 97: Sophomore Tutorial (Derek Miller) - TDM 99B: Senior Tutorial (Laura Quinton) ### Design/Technical expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - TDM 150VT: Visual Thinking and Creation for Theatermakers (Jeff Adelberg) - TDM 155AI: Media Production in the Age of AI (Marlon Kuzmik) - TDM 157PL: Backstage Blueprint: Operational Strategy & Production Leadership in Theater (Timothey Sullivan) ***Spring 2027*** - TDM 154: Designing with Light (Jeff Adelberg) - TDM 174B: Creative Producing: How to Resource Artistic Vision (Evan O'Brient) ### Theater expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - ENGLISH 121S: Shakespeare from Beginning to End (Stephen Greenblatt) - ENGLISH 90CL: Comic Literature through the Ages (Daniel Donoghue) - ENGLISH 90IK: Ibsen and Chekhov (Derek Miller) - ENGLISH CMWD: The Writer Directs: A Script to Screen Workshop (Musa Syeed) - ENGLISH CTV: Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop (Sam Marks) - FRSEMR 35N: The Art and Craft of Acting (Remo Airaldi) - FYSEMR 34V: Broadway Musicals: History, Race, and Performance (Carol Oja) - GENED 1050: Act Natural (David Levine) - SLAVIC 132: Russia’s Golden Age: Literature, Arts, and Culture (Julie Buckler) - 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 Storytelling and Acting (Pete Simpson) - TDM 134AD: Actor-Director Collaboration (Brisa Areli Muñoz) - TDM 136TC: Bodies/Spaces/Things: Theater Creation Lab (Kate Brehm) - TDM 157PL: Backstage Blueprint: Operational Strategy & Production Leadership in Theater (Timothey Sullivan) - TDM 167SC/MMH 712: Dramatic Writing for Social Change (Ricardo Perez-Gonzalez) - TDM 169S: Singer + Song = Story (Stew) - TDM 194: Making of the Musical (Ryan McKittrick and Diane Paulus) - TDM/ENGLISH CKR: Introduction to Playwriting: Workshop (Sam Marks) ***Spring 2027*** - ENGLISH 179Y: Introduction to Dramatic Writing (Sam Marks and Musa Syeed) - MUSIC 20: Opera (Carolyn Abbate) - TDM 112R: Advanced Acting (Marcus Stern) - TDM 115: Acting Shakespeare (Remo Airaldi) - TDM 119B: Voice, Text, and The Performer (Erika Bailey) - TDM 122GM: Generative Movement (Pete Simpson) - TDM 130R: Directing (Marcus Stern) - TDM 135B: Puppet Theater: Designing and Directing Visual Storytelling (Kate Brehm) - TDM 138H: Hamlet, Act 1 (David Levine) - TDM 174B: Creative Producing: How to Resource Artistic Vision (Evan O'Brient) - TDM 181M: Intersections: Theater, Democracy and Civic Practice (Dayron Miles) - TDM 194S: Shows and No Shows (Stew) - TDM/ENGLISH CAMR: Advanced Playwriting: Workshop (Sam Marks) - WOMGEN 1113: Gender and Performance (Robin Bernstein) ### Dance expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - TDM 121MV: Physical Approaches to Storytelling and Acting (Pete Simpson) - TDM 136TC: Bodies/Spaces/Things: Theater Creation Lab (Kate Brehm) - TDM 143: Gaga Movement (Ana Harmon) ***Spring 2027*** - TDM 122GM: Generative Movement (Pete Simpson) - TDM 135B: Puppet Theater: Designing and Directing Visual Storytelling (Kate Brehm) - TDM 141BD: Boston Goes Dancing (Laura Quinton) ### Media expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - AFRAMER 146X: A Black History of Electronic Dance Music (george aumoithe) - AFVS 158BCR: Sensory Ethnography 3 (Lucien Castaing-Taylor) - AFVS 63: Introduction to Time-Based Media (Karthik Pandian) - ENGLISH CMWD: The Writer Directs: A Script to Screen Workshop (Musa Syeed) - ENGLISH CTV: Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop (Sam Marks) - ENGLISH 189VG: Video Game Storytelling (Vidyan Ravinthiran) - GERMAN 117: Sound, Story, Studio: German Radio Play (Lisa Parkes) - TDM 136TC: Bodies/Spaces/Things: Theater Creation Lab (Kate Brehm) - TDM 150VT: Visual Thinking and Creation for Theatermakers (Jeff Adelberg) - TDM 155AI: Media Production in the Age of AI (Marlon Kuzmik) - TDM 157PL: Backstage Blueprint: Operational Strategy & Production Leadership in Theater (Timothey Sullivan) - TDM 196SS: The Singer-Songwriter: Intimacy, Parasociality, and the Confessional (Katelyn Hearfield) ***Spring 2027*** - AFVS 158AR: Sensory Ethnography 1 (Lucien Castaing-Taylor) - AFVS 158BR: Sensory Ethnography 2 (Lucien Castaing-Taylor) - GENED 1072: Video Commune (Karthik Pandian) - TDM 135B: Puppet Theater: Designing and Directing Visual Storytelling (Kate Brehm) - TDM 154: Designing with Light (Jeff Adelberg) ### Non-Western/Non-Traditional expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - AFVS 158BCR: Sensory Ethnography 3 (Lucien Castaing-Taylor) - AFVS 63: Introduction to Time-Based Media (Karthik Pandian) - GENED 1050: Act Natural (David Levine) - GERMAN 117: Sound, Story, Studio: German Radio Play (Lisa Parkes) - TDM 143: Gaga Movement (Ana Harmon) - TDM 169S: Singer + Song = Story (Stew) ***Spring 2027*** - AFVS 158AR: Sensory Ethnography 1 (Lucien Castaing-Taylor) - AFVS 158BR: Sensory Ethnography 2 (Lucien Castaing-Taylor) - GENED 1072: Video Commune (Karthik Pandian) - TDM 181M: Intersections: Theater, Democracy and Civic Practice (Dayron Miles) - TDM 194S: Shows and No Shows (Stew) ### Pre-1900 expand\_more ***Fall 2026*** - ENGLISH 121S: Shakespeare from Beginning to End (Stephen Greenblatt) - ENGLISH 90CL: Comic Literature through the Ages (Daniel Donoghue) - ENGLISH 90IK: Ibsen and Chekhov (Derek Miller) - SLAVIC 132: Russia’s Golden Age: Literature, Arts, and Culture (Julie Buckler) ***Spring 2027*** - COMPLIT 112: Songmaking and the Idea of Lyric (Gregory Nagy) - MUSIC 20: Opera (Carolyn Abbate) - TDM 115: Acting Shakespeare (Remo Airaldi) - TDM 138H: Hamlet, Act 1 (David Levine) ### **FORMS** [TDM 91R Proposal Cover Sheet](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/file_url/1877) ### **PAST COURSE LISTS** [2025-2026 TDM Course List](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/2026-01/25-26%20Course%20List-F9.pdf "25-26 Course List (Updated 1/8)") [2024-2025 TDM Course List](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/2025-06/24-25%20Course%20List-F10.pdf "AY 24-25 Course List") [2023-2024 TDM Course List](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/file_url/1946) [2022-2023 TDM Course List](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/file_url/1898) [2021-2022 TDM Course List](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/file_url/1738) [2020-2021 TDM Course List](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/file_url/1252) [2019-2020 TDM Course List](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/file_url/1600)