TAPS at Brown University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. TAPS 0100Playwriting I
  2. LITR 0110CPlaywriting I (TAPS 0100)
  3. TAPS 0200Playwriting II

A suggested order for the 31 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate TAPS coursework.

• TAPS 0200Playwriting IIopens 1 course (0.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate TAPS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 31 TAPS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 207 more TAPS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in TAPS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at TAPS 1500N

  1. LITR 0110CPlaywriting I (TAPS 0100)
  2. TAPS 0200Playwriting II
  3. TAPS 1500NAdvanced Undergraduate Playwriting: Experiments in Time

• 2 courses deep, ending at TAPS 0360

  1. TAPS 0930CThe Actor's Instrument: Stage Movement for Actors and Directors
  2. TAPS 0360Viewpoints Technique: The Moving Body in Relation to Time, Space, and Ensemble

• 2 courses deep, ending at TAPS 0930A

  1. TAPS 0230Acting
  2. TAPS 0930AThe Actor's Instrument: Voice and Speech

• 2 courses deep, ending at TAPS 1248

  1. TAPS 0310Beginning Modern Dance
  2. TAPS 1248Intermediate Contemporary Dance

Grade medians

Teaching in Spring 2027

Instructors on TAPS sections in Spring 2027, from the registrar's schedule.

• A. Brazil
• Alexander Eizenberg
• Alexander Haynes
• Amber Hawk Swanson
• Barbara Reo
• Barbara Tannenbaum
• Constance Crawford
• Ivan Ramos
• J Dellecave
• Jayna Brown
• Julia Jarcho
• Kym Moore
• Leon Hilton
• M. Rosenak
• Patricia Seto-Weiss
• Patricia Ybarra
• R. Cesario
• Rebecca Gibel
• Renee Fitzgerald
• Sarah dAngelo
• Shura Baryshnikov
• Sydney Skybetter
• Timothy Hett

Clubs & organizations

Groups the university lists under this department.

• Attitude Dance Company
• Ballroom Dance Team, Brown
• DAEBAK Kpop Dance Association
• Ensemble Theatre at Brown
• Fusion Dance Company
• imPulse Dance Company
• Lion Dance, Brown University
• Molì Dance Company
• OJA! Modern African Dance
• Something on the Green

Clubs students here join

Department events

TAPS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Brown campus feed.