Undergraduate Students

Courses of Instruction

As a student in the DAN School, you can take a variety of courses in Drama, Music, Music Theatre, or Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Courses at Queen's have a subject code and a number. The Subject codes for DAN School courses are as follows:

  • DRAM=Drama courses
  • MUSC=Music courses
  • MUTH=Music Theatre courses or courses that are related to Music and Drama
  • MAPP=Media and Performance Practice courses
  • ENIN=Entrepreneurship and Innovation courses

The number refers to the level of the course. For example, DRAM 100 is our first-year Drama course, and MUTH 104 is an Introductory Music course.

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Selecting Courses

The full list of courses offered at the DAN School is in the Arts and Science course calendar. The DAN School offers a subset of these courses each year. Current students enrol in courses through SOLUS, which you can find at my.queensu.ca. The list of courses being offered at the DAN School for the 2023-24 academic year can be found here.

Some courses will have a prerequisite. Prerequisite requirements outline the prior knowledge and experience that you need, in part, to be successful in the course. The prerequisites for some courses are the completion of a successful audition.

You can find detailed enrolment and audition information in the future undergraduates section. If you feel that you have prior knowledge from your non-course experiences, please email the course instructor and outline your prior experience to ask for special permission to enrol in the class. Or email Undergraduate Advising for more information.

 

 

 

Courses for the 2024 Summer Term

We offer a wide variety of course options for undergraduate students. Courses for the upcoming 2024-25 year will be posted here once available.

Over the span of this course, we will explore the origins and trajectories of western popular music, from the late 1800s to the present. We will listen to and watch music and video clips, browse websites, and read our very comprehensive text, all using a critical theory lens to help us focus our thinking. By the end of our course, students should be able to discuss the history of western popular music fluently and be able to apply some critical analysis to this very, very broad topic. The course is a fine starting point for aspiring musicologists, and is a compelling interest course for everyone else. Offered through Arts and Science Online.

Prerequisite: None.  

 

Students will examine four aspects of creativity – the creative person, process, product, and press – to increase the degree to which they recognize and nurture their own creative potential. Supported by interdisciplinary research and theory, students will assess the increasing importance of creativity skills in the 21st century. Through interactive lectures, experiential learning activities, written assignments and e-presentations, students will explore and execute on a range of foundational concepts in creativity studies. In the process learners will expand and enhance their creative capacities & confidence!

The course will include a range of creativity exercises and methods for helping to generate new ideas through “left and right brain” thinking. By practicing divergent and convergent ideation methods, students will learn how to combine, critique, and improve on their ideas. The assignments are designed to teach students how to communicate about creative concepts online and face-to-face through digital platforms and information design tools, to procure deliverables including slide presentations, multimedia stories, and visual research compositions. 

There are no face-to-face meetings or exams, no group work, and no synchronous lectures in this course. Webinars are optional, and always recorded for on-demand viewing later. Office hour consultations are online, mobile-optimized, and available most days, including weekends, and several evenings each week. 

Offered through Arts and Science Online.

Prequisite: None