Bachelor of Arts

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Drama

Unit Set Code

MJ-A000031 (major)

MN-A000031 (minor)


Campuses

Burwood (Melbourne)


Overview

The Drama program helps you build physical, creative and intellectual capacities through practice-based learning and collaborative performance creation. You will develop your creative voice and the technical skills required to create new stories, to relate to others, to problem solve, and communicate ideas confidently through speech and other physical and visual modes of expression. In the studio setting, you will explore a combination of acting, improvisation and devising theory and practice along with different performance styles and processes, theatre history, text studies and digital theatre crafts. You will have the opportunity to work on individual and group creative projects where you will gain a comprehensive knowledge of ensemble creation and production management.


Career outcome

You may find employment in independent theatre companies, community theatre, drama associations, drama education, film and television production, performing arts centres and for further postgraduate study.


Units

  • To complete a Major sequence in Drama select eight (8) credit points as outlined below;
  • To complete a Minor sequence in Drama select any four (4) units or four (4) credit points from below, including a minimum of one (1) credit point at level one, and no more than one (1) credit point at level 3

Complete the following 2 units from level 1:

ACP103Acting Studio

ACP109Improvisation in Drama and Performance

Complete the following 3 units from level 2:

ACP207Dramatic Plot, Story, Character and Theme for Performance

ACP208Theatre and Creative Technologies

ACA210Creative Studio 2A (2 credit points)

Complete the following 2 units from level 3:

ACA309Creative Careers and Contexts

ACA397Exhibition and Performance


 

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